There's things I've posted on GF's forum that I don't look back on happily.

That butthurt thread was probably one of the worst threads I ever made.

I don't have many fond memories of MML/MG. The Mugen teams thing was pretty fun, but I remember a lot of gatekeeping and overall negativity on both those forums.

I also just don't like who I was at that time. I was kind of a petty jerk who always felt the need to throw shade just to spite certain people, and I would always put my own happiness aside to please people who probably didn't care at all about me.

I rekindled my interest in MUGEN once again after a long, 8 year hiatus. I am posting this because I was hoping to see familiar faces in this forum that used to be in the MUGEN Motherland and Genesis forum by Prinz and GF respectively.

Motherland and Genesis, huh? Ah, those were the days. I actually still operate on that team thing up to this day, though I don't join tournaments anymore.

I mostly spent time in the Motherland. I honestly didn't like most of the guys over at Genesis.

Never actually went to either of the two, but as a person who lurked across various MUGEN communities on and off for over 12 years, I naturally lurked at least one of those forums; that one being Genesis. I didn't like it at all, reeked of blatant circle jerking and, as previously mentioned, gatekeeping that only exasperates the previous problem.  Genesis was definitely a facet of old MUGEN elitism running rampant.

 I think it's one of those communities best left to die in the sands of history and I am sure GF202020 himself would prefer to keep it that way too.

I was mostly part of the Motherland than Genesis, but some of my friendships originated from the Motherland so I have a more fond memory from it. I'm part of still doing MUGEN teams, but i've retired from tournaments long time ago.

Genesis was just a borefest of circlejerking that I just lurked around and that's it.

Dude, those old days when the Youtube Mugen community was massive were definitely something. I never spent time on either of these two forums, but I remember the old drama very well. I do sort of lament the end of those forums when the wider mugen community was linked by old ass, bulletin board youtube, because that's when mugen had the biggest reach outside of salty bet (though both are very negative examples of the community!).

Some of us are still around in some place or another, and it's good to see darkflare, seadragon, mightykombat, and gill sticking around. I've been able to be in contact with some other people outside of the few times I pop by guild, but there's a lot of a people I wish I could get in contact with.

Bannana said, November 07, 2020, 11:45:29 am

Dude, those old days when the Youtube Mugen community was massive were definitely something. I never spent time on either of these two forums, but I remember the old drama very well. I do sort of lament the end of those forums when the wider mugen community was linked by old ass, bulletin board youtube, because that's when mugen had the biggest reach outside of salty bet (though both are very negative examples of the community!).

Some of us are still around in some place or another, and it's good to see darkflare, seadragon, mightykombat, and gill sticking around. I've been able to be in contact with some other people outside of the few times I pop by guild, but there's a lot of a people I wish I could get in contact with.

I very well much remember the drama we all had to deal with back in the day especially when it came to Mugen teams. I did remember that most people from the forums had Mugen teams who use the characters only for AI (Me included) and even I shook my head thinking about my old team looking back now. Many of us would also criticize each other of our teams whether it's postitive or negative. Don't get me wrong, I'm open to criticism and It's also very important to take note of feedback, but we all did feel at one point that we all want to make our Mugen teams as perfect and acurate as possible whether it's for the skill or the tournaments.

Like I said before, It's really cool that many of you are still around and If I had a chance, I would like to talk to them more even the ones who did kinda acted like a "jerk" in the past. And no worries, I have no animosity to anyone who had this type of attitude in the past and I have faith that everyone changed.