pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
What sites do you like to read regularly and why?
I used to have maybe 15 bookmarked at my peak and it would take 1-2 hours to get through them in the morning. Could easily burn through a day with nothing to show for myself as most were forums. These days it's here and one or two others. Glad to be not addicted to fb and news stuff anymore. That was a bad time. Forums have always been my mainstay looking back on it. Started with music production stuff. Kvr was the first, which was like a cute, innocent little town in vibe and scope. Eventually got onto gearslutz which was like the big bad city of production forums, but in comparison to other places its actually pretty well mannered. Kvr led to ihatemusic which was cool for discovering the outer limits of music. That was definitely a big step, discovering noise and AMM etc. I think the very first thread I read there was about the darkest music they knew, which on ihm was bound to be right on the outer edge. Think I discovered rudolph eb.er there and the whole schimpfluch thing. Fucking nuts. But ihm was a bit on the dry side in the end so I tapered off. One day someone made this same thread about favourite sites and a guy called ahpook with an ape of naples avatar led me to the scourge of the digital seas, hipinion (which I think I saw other_life mention she frequents) he did warn in his post that it might not be a good idea to open that door, but I did. maybe also got dissensus from that thread too. Hard to remember. It's been 10 years reading this place alone. Was always the one place I wished was more active. Now it is!
Never got into shit like reddit or 4chan or something awful. 4chan to this day still boggles my mind as to why anyone would want to spend any time on there. Reddit feels too memey and SA I read once or twice and felt like the tone was a bit lame and memey.
Man, looking back, I guess I did a lot of growing up on these things. Learned a lot about life and communication plus all the music and media. Maybe more than out in the real world...
Anyway, what're your sites? Feel free to add a potted history of your netlife too.
I used to have maybe 15 bookmarked at my peak and it would take 1-2 hours to get through them in the morning. Could easily burn through a day with nothing to show for myself as most were forums. These days it's here and one or two others. Glad to be not addicted to fb and news stuff anymore. That was a bad time. Forums have always been my mainstay looking back on it. Started with music production stuff. Kvr was the first, which was like a cute, innocent little town in vibe and scope. Eventually got onto gearslutz which was like the big bad city of production forums, but in comparison to other places its actually pretty well mannered. Kvr led to ihatemusic which was cool for discovering the outer limits of music. That was definitely a big step, discovering noise and AMM etc. I think the very first thread I read there was about the darkest music they knew, which on ihm was bound to be right on the outer edge. Think I discovered rudolph eb.er there and the whole schimpfluch thing. Fucking nuts. But ihm was a bit on the dry side in the end so I tapered off. One day someone made this same thread about favourite sites and a guy called ahpook with an ape of naples avatar led me to the scourge of the digital seas, hipinion (which I think I saw other_life mention she frequents) he did warn in his post that it might not be a good idea to open that door, but I did. maybe also got dissensus from that thread too. Hard to remember. It's been 10 years reading this place alone. Was always the one place I wished was more active. Now it is!
Never got into shit like reddit or 4chan or something awful. 4chan to this day still boggles my mind as to why anyone would want to spend any time on there. Reddit feels too memey and SA I read once or twice and felt like the tone was a bit lame and memey.
Man, looking back, I guess I did a lot of growing up on these things. Learned a lot about life and communication plus all the music and media. Maybe more than out in the real world...
Anyway, what're your sites? Feel free to add a potted history of your netlife too.
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