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  1. reading about an old internet community (an MMO), still kicking after 16 years with a lot of the same people still hanging out
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      and then in the comments section there's some people being all "hey, if you're into this, come play, we're friendly, it's fun"
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        and then there's someone going "the fucking owners are ruining this, this is why everyone has left and is part of this splinter community"
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          and then there's someone arguing against them and then they're saying "you can only say this because we're not on <official forum>"
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            and like, honestly the thing has brought tears to my eyes, the life and humanity and ever present just /human/ dynamics. people, eh?
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              (i remember walking along the canal and going "i wonder what it'd be like to live on a canal boat" and stopped and looked it up online ...
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                ... and 5 minutes later was reading about the bitter animosity between continuous cruisers and people with London moorings)
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                    & -- I miss SE, the backwater neglected internet community I spent so much time on when I was younger! even though it was (is?) terrible.