Thank you, OCR, for staying awesome

[kitty]

I feel the need to write this rant/thank you letter for many reasons. Recently I've been becoming more and more aggravated by the degenerative nature of that is the internet. I can't play games without being called "fegot" or a myriad of other slurs. Racism is rampant. Hate is everywhere. Mature people, gamers or not, are becoming an even rarer sight than before.

Websites that I don't care to name are ruining everything for pretty much everyone. I used to go to these sites; one day I just realized how douchey the people who go there actually are. I used to troll occasionally but now I realize I was just being a stupid immature teenager. And even though I did troll I find myself confused about why others and myself contribute nothing but meme spamming and shit just to piss other people off.

I've been coming to OCR for six years, ever since my sister had me listen to DJP's Pachelbel's Ganon. Some blame immaturity on age. As DJP noted a few days ago, this site is pretty much made up of teenage boys. Exactly the same crowd everyone else on the internet. This site has grown, not degenerate into a mindless shithole of asshats. And for that, I thank you OCR.

[Tensei]

Amen to that. In a way I'm kinda happy that these forums have stayed relatively small because I know most frequent posters by name, so at the risk of sounding corny, it feels like one big family, especially compared to bigger forums I frequent. Even the drama and troll posts feel nicer here. :3

Keep on truckin' OCR

[Brandon Strader]

Some people, and i'm not going to name any names, but it's someone who posted in this thread.... is mean to me.

But I agree OCR is pretty cool place.

[Iggy Koopa]

kittykar, how could you be mean to Brandon?

[Skrypnyk]

i'm not gonna name any names, but someone who posted in this thread is being watched by the FBI

[Tensei]

I'm not gonna name any names, but someone who posted in this thread is trying to stir up IRC-related drama on the forums in like the least appropriate thread for it.

[Gollgagh]

I'm not gonna name any names, but who's up for waffles pretzels?

[Cyril the Wolf]

I'm not gonna name any names but...

Hey kittykar.

Thanks for enjoying the place!

[Sir_Snooze]

I'm not gonna name any names, but a lot of people here haven't named names yet for all that other named business.

Also, yeah - OCR kicks ass.

[Benjamin Briggs]

on this topic: it took me a long time to realize it, but deleting unmod was just about the best thing to ever happen to this community

fact is it was scaring people away from ocremix and that's never a good thing

[EC2151]

No thanks necessary. Jus' doin' my job.

[DarkeSword]

No thanks necessary. Jus' doin' my job.

Uh huh.

[Abadoss]

on this topic: it took me a long time to realize it, but deleting unmod was just about the best thing to ever happen to this community

fact is it was scaring people away from ocremix and that's never a good thing

That's treading some dangerous ground there...

Anyway, yeah, OCR rocks! It's hard to believe I've been here eight years (with an additional year of lurking). Thanks for all the music and fun!

[Gario]

I can't say how much I've appreciated this site, considering it pretty much outlines exactly what I've believed about video game music most my life. The community adds, rather than detracts, from this, which is pretty amazing.

I'm looking forward to what it'll bring in the next few years, peeps - see ya there!

[Charlie's Angel]

I mostly just pop in from time to time when i'm bored and need something surreal to perk my day up, but i do like this site.

[The Coop]

I AM going to name names, but I'll do so in a text and color that can only be viewed with the special OCR decoder cursor that will be going on sale this upcoming November. Be sure to keep an eye out for the official announcement.

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... and those are just the ones who were there at the beginning.

[Abadoss]

I AM going to name names, but I'll do so in a text and color that can only be viewed with the special OCR decoder cursor that will be going on sale this upcoming November. Be sure to keep an eye out for the official announcement.

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... and those are just the ones who were there at the beginning.

SPOILER: Nice optical illusion Coop. No one would think that there are only four repeating blue bars...

[kitty]

kittykar, how could you be mean to Brandon?

Because all those named Brandon must die a most painful death!

[djpretzel]

I read the topic title and instantly thought "You stay classy, San Diego!"

Seriously, it's been a badass ten years. It's downright flooring to think of how much has changed, and 2010 should continue to be quite transformative, hopefully all for the better

[Charlie's Angel]

I've actually been watching Anchorman for an hour now.

[Kizyr]

on this topic: it took me a long time to realize it, but deleting unmod was just about the best thing to ever happen to this community

fact is it was scaring people away from ocremix and that's never a good thing

Unmod and some of the threads in PPR are what kept me from posting for several years. Mostly ignoring PPR has really helped {^^}. KF

[The Author]

That's treading some dangerous ground there...

He's kinda right though. Unmod had its upsides and its downsides, but as the site grew, the bad started outweighing the good. Meh, I guess if we'd been smarter back then, Unmod would have changed and avoided deletion, but meh, internet drama is not worth getting angry about.

[Gollgagh]

I no longer hold any grudge for the loss of unmod since I have remod which is a far better community than anything I ever saw in unmod (which I say as an '05er).

Most of the cool cats either came to remod or stayed here and all the asshats either calmed down or left entirely.

[Halt]

The last forum I frequented, the name not important. Was full of nothing but asshats and trolls.

I came to OCR sometime in 2008, found the FF7 album and after that, I hung around here for a while, met some cool people. Heard about MAGFest. I can honestly say, when I came to these forums I never thought I would be seeing some of you in-person. It never crossed my mind.

I mean, not only do some of us come from all across the nation to hangout and have fun. Theres some that come across the sea to do the very same.

But it kinda is like a family, if you think of all the cons, and meetups as reunions. Hah.

[Arcana]

The only thing I miss about Unmod was the traffic - it was nice being able to come to the site and see something new every time you visited.

Now it's not as populated but it's also not as noisy. Even PPR is more active nowadays and although it gets ugly sometimes most threads reach a critical point when people stop treating it seriously and it ends up imploding.

It's nice to see a community where 90% of people post with proper spelling and grammar, and where most of the people will encourage people to think and do research for themselves.