Speculation: And yet again...the Off-Topic Thread

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Oh yeah. I loved reformatting my hard drive every 3 months because of how volatile this place was.

Also definitely younger at heart than most here. There are some ornery old f***s on this forum. :laugh::laugh:
I'm younger than you. How dare you accuse me of being an ornery old f***? :laugh:

It hit me a while back that I'm turning 35 and have been arguing with MBH on various forums since ~2005. Or over half my life. Wow.
 
Ah, bonding over MBH. And some people say he has no redeeming qualities.
I forget what it was now, but he actually caused me to sign up here in 2010 because he made some argument I just couldn't let pass (shocking, I know).

I was browsing through one of our threads the other day and am amazed at how many Wings fans have been here over ten years. Not a lot of other teams have fanbases with as many longtime users as we do. We're all screennames on the net but I do feel in a way like we've gotten to all know each other well as we've spent a good chunk of our lives talking hockey and bonding over the Wings, for better or for worse.
 
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I forget what it was now, but he actually caused me to sign up here in 2010 because he made some argument I just couldn't let pass (shocking, I know).

I was browsing through one of our threads the other day and am amazed at how many Wings fans have been here over ten years. Not a lot of other teams have fanbases with as many longtime users as we do. We're all screennames on the net but I do feel in a way like we've gotten to all know each other well as we've spent a good chunk of our lives talking hockey and bonding over the Wings, for better or for worse.
How many of us ran the gauntlet of LGW and RWC before landing here?

o/
 
They always come back. Give it time.

Too true. So much hate for this place and the people, but they always return.

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Ok I think the St. Louis Blues should now be named the Louisiana Treble Clefs, hahaha.

If someone asked me to do that for like MLS or something I probably wouldn't be that hilarious.
 
How many of us ran the gauntlet of LGW and RWC before landing here?

o/
I was long-time RWC, up through the first few months of MBH's current iteration of it, never posted on LGW though. Was always jaster. Except for a short period where I was Johnny Ryall on I think the second iteration of RWC, started by heyfolks. I joined HF pretty early on but definitely had some long spells of absence while I was posting exclusively at RWC for stretches. After Matt died I became more of a consistent regular here than I had been.
 
Where has he been, haven't seen him in a while. I double checked and he's not on my ignore list :laugh:
There was a.... "mutual" separation recently, where he became very upset about some form or another of persecution he believed he was experiencing here. FabricDetails is right though, he'll be back. It's the circle of Red Wings message board life. He just needs a little time running around in his socks and shoes on a gym floor, teaching people how to play "defense" while railing against the woke mob and blowing off steam.
 
I was long-time RWC, up through the first few months of MBH's current iteration of it, never posted on LGW though. Was always jaster. Except for a short period where I was Johnny Ryall on I think the second iteration of RWC, started by heyfolks. I joined HF pretty early on but definitely had some long spells of absence while I was posting exclusively at RWC for stretches. After Matt died I became more of a consistent regular here than I had been.

Never once set foot on RWC. Or LGW. And kinda glad I didn’t, seeing just snippets of what go on there and the unhinged nature of some of it

Had my real first initial and last name for like 8 years and then I memed the Wings taking Cossa.

Real talk tho… sports leagues have been killing my interest because you seemingly have 40% of all of the leagues just not trying to win. Sure the players they have play hard or whatever…. But everyone is just steering so f***in hard into rebuilds where it kills your enthusiasm to know that “yep, Tigers are just gonna be f***in dogshit for 6 years”
 
Never once set foot on RWC. Or LGW. And kinda glad I didn’t, seeing just snippets of what go on there and the unhinged nature of some of it

Had my real first initial and last name for like 8 years and then I memed the Wings taking Cossa.

Real talk tho… sports leagues have been killing my interest because you seemingly have 40% of all of the leagues just not trying to win. Sure the players they have play hard or whatever…. But everyone is just steering so f***in hard into rebuilds where it kills your enthusiasm to know that “yep, Tigers are just gonna be f***in dogshit for 6 years”
RWC has always been more.... chaotic than HF, no doubt. At the original RWC there was an "off-topic" forum that frequently got at least a little out of hand, politics and religion being fully discussed, and ignorance was rampant. Matt would sometimes have to step in and clean it up. But a lot of posters simply stayed clear of that forum, and while the "Red Wings" forum was also largely un-moderated and would see a lot more insults than here, the hockey discussion was generally pretty good. After Matt died, several posters carried the RWC torch and hosted new versions, but it all definitely became more unhinged. I mean, the current version is run by MBH, soooooo, yeah.

I get your gripe about pro sports. I have similar gripes, mine having to do more directly with the sleazy business side of the whole thing. I've cut way back on my sports viewing the past 10 or so years. I still watch all things hockey, but all my other sports interested have subsided to varying degrees. It's just not as alluring as it was when I knew less about how the world works lol.
 
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How many of us ran the gauntlet of LGW and RWC before landing here?

o/
I was on LGW, ESPN, and the official DRW site. Recognize a few familiar faces over here. I was a booster over at LGW. Got asked to be a MOD on a few occasions. Always been Konnan511. Good times.
 

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