Longest Speech by Sporlo Ever- a MUST READ (haha:P

[Sporlo]

Well, it's been 11 days since I last logged in and 19 since I last posted. I'm sorry to say that I've ALMOST lost all interest in the forums. A few factors have contributed to that.
First, as a few of you may know (or remember ), my MBG and MBP BOTH are non-playable. I COULD take an old copy of MBG from my desktop computer and use that and then use the install assistant thing for MBP, but it said it works best when the files are unmessed around with, which they aren't, and me, being the perfectionist-only-when-I-want-to-be-and-only-for-certain-occasions, decided it'd be best to use this installer only on a newly downloaded version from GarageGames. Unfortunately, I didn't buy my copy from them. Now you may have started to think that all this is completely useless. Because it is. I could very easily have used my desktop version and then manually installed MBP, or said what the heck and go ahead and use the installer. I'm thinking NOTHING would've gone wrong with 99.99999999992342358992935932599% confidence. However, me being me, I waited, which has contributed to my overall MBF/G/P interest decline.

Second, MBO doesn't work for me, because I have the BETTER computer . That sucks. REALLY bad. Not a very big contributing factor, but one all the same. What's worse is that a lot of my friends play MBO a lot, and like, they get to play Matan all the time! I'm so jealous. But yea.

Third, I finally got Guitar Hero III. As a few of you have seen from being subscribed to me, I've put up 2 GH3 videos. (I'll update my video thread in a bit, as always not expecting anyone to reply). Also, as many of you also know, Super Smash Bros. Brawl has finally been released in the USA. I still don't have it, but I regret just asking my mom if we can go out and get it, as my dad's gone till Thursday night.
Oh yea, I forgot to mention I'm addicted to GH3. My record is 3.5 hours straight, and 4 hours in a single day.

Fourth, school life is like... really interesting and mixed up and strange and bad and good and busy and lazy and boring and exciting and happy and sad and all kinds of stuff. I got enough stuff to live with at school and home, the MBF just doesn't have that kind of importance that it used to.

Ok, I'll tell you why I think I think this. I guess before, when the forums first started up, it was really cool to be a part of this community. It was pretty small too. Everyone knew me and I knew everyone else. This fact has changed... like... very little to not at all. However, I used to check the forums SOOO much. I was probably addicted to it for a little while last year. It was just so cool. It was the first time I had really made like... stranger internet friends. But then, after a while, things just got... I guess I'll say repetitive. I was wasting so much time just sitting here looking around the boards, reading them, waiting for a new post. As the forum grew more and more and at a faster rate, I found there would be LOTS of missed posts and such if I was gone for any amount of time. This is so like... self-degrading or whatever, well I mean just saying this about myself, I'm not even sure if this is true, and since none of you know me personally (except Skiiz, that's why I kind of wish he never visited here anymore, which he doesn't, but he checks like once every two months or so). So then I think I might've been stressing out over the forums. That just sounds so wrong and not neccessary. That's not what you're supposed to do. It's really my personality that made me want to make sure I've read EVERY POST and know exactly what's going on all the time. I made SOOO many posts and shouts complaining about have "thousands of posts" to read after being on vacation or something. I was also surprised at how often others were on here as well. I was convinced that they were utterly addicted. As was I basically for some time. And I was also surprised at how much people could come here and still have so much other stuff going on in their lives. (I've lost what I've been trying to say, so bear with me...). Oh! I remembered now. Ok. Well, since I've made these kinds of friendships with you marblers, I was very interested in what was going on. I wanted to be a part of that all. And then all these new members started to join, and the daily post count started to go through the roof, and suddenly, there's sooo much going on in a single day, that it just slowly started to seem less interesting. It's weird, because it seems like the number of posts was huge and growing, yet the actual events, and disccusions and marble related stuff or non-marble related stuff seemed to decrease. It just felt like a huge jumble of conversations. And then with all the new people, I would know them less, and a lot of the big posters from the beginning started to slow down or just leave (a good example is Moshe), kinda what's happening to me now. Or exactly what's happening to me now.
UGH!!! I just can't stop rambling. I need to work on that: staying on topic and condensing ("Brevity is the soul of wit" ~Polonius ).

Well, before this huge long speech, I was talking about reasons why I've been absent so much from the forums.
I thought it'd be a simple three sentence or so post, but I guess not.

Thanks to anyone who's actually read all the way through, I know it's kinda rough. And finally, I remember my thought I meant to add: Now, I've realized that really, of everything, I don't have to be a part of this community. I know I'm missing stuff, but finally, I'm OK with that. I have life at home that's plenty. I've got my friends here and that's all I need. It's GREAT to be here at the forums and keep up with the business (whoa, I meant to write "busy-ness" but I just realized that's exactly what business is! That's so weird), but I don't NEED to. I KNOW I'm missing out on SOOOO much FUN, but that's ok, because there's so much other stuff I can do as well. And so much stuff I'm already doing, that I can do, and I did do, etc.

So this is basically saying don't expect me like at all. I will check here maybe every few weeks, but I probably won't actually read anything.

Now here's to how stubborn I am. I MAY attempt to catch up on forum life in the summer. Now the fact that I even SAID that just shows how freaking stubborn I am. After all that long speech saying whatever the heck I was saying, I SAY I may come back here all read up and ready to have fun with the community again. Wow. What I say has a coming-true rate of about 3.14%, so yea.




Well, that's me. That's what's been happenin'. Yeah. So, happy marblin and if you actually read everything and this just seems like a bunch of blasphemy, so be it but who cares but you who think that.

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that hyphen was my 7,153rd character. I sure do type a lot.
Since right now I seem to be having problems with just ENDING this thing, I'll make a formal closing:

From your fellow Marbler,
Sporlo

[Imperial]

Well another great marbler will go again. I will really miss you.
But btw I really want you to come back!

[Mkbul]

Bye Sporlo, i just DONT KNOW how much members we will lost. That i know it is that u was a really - Fum member.
So bye and try to visit as soon as possible.

[Andrew]

That sucks, I wish you could stay. You were always a great member of the community and very contributive.

[Pablo]

Well frankly, Sporlo, this won't be a huge change from the past few months, because we haven't seen much of you. But you have the understand, these forums are about knowing the PEOPLE, not so much playing the games. You don't have to read every single post to be a member of the community; you don't even have to post here. As long as we know you and care about you (as the above posts show), you are a member of the community. We'd love to have you "stay," and hopefully you will see that your MBG, MBP, GH3, time constraints, and MBO problems will never stop you from being a part of the community, active or not.

[Aaron Y]

Bye I will miss you I have join not to long ago and I have not seen you post alot but you are nice bye I will miss you greatly bye.

[Lonestar]

Sporlo, that post was exactly every opinion I've had on my own membership of the forums over the course of the last year and a half I've been here. There was a time when we all knew each other, the spam board was full of the Noglingy Forjent (I bet 7/8 of our current active members don't even know what that is), MSN was only just being discovered and new members were welcomed by the entire community. I lost track of when it was exactly that the community grew out of it's former proportions, but I would very much like to go back to the times when it was just around 10 active members, and it could be said that we were all close friends.
Ever since I joined I've always like you, so I'll speak for myself and everyone when I say I'll miss you.

Well if your mind is made up (or maybe it isn't... you might be back in summer ), I guess I'll be seeing you.
Lonestar

[Aayrl]

I personally have not been inducted into former conversations with you, Sporlo.

Your posts however does reflect a considerate amount of your style, and I for one have enjoyed reading your posts and thoughts. (This being the first reply directly to you in one of your blogs).

I may not of known everyone here for two years, But I have known everyone here based on their actions over the past two years.

You are obviously a fun and kind-centered guy and have earned the respect of many other members. I for one am sorry to see another great member of the forums dissipate from their visits.

It's one of those things everyone has; they'll find a habit, this being Marble Blast, find some trendy friends, have fun for a while, and then of course return to find a new subject that interest them.

I personally can say i've entered and exited many worlds and forums with awesome experiences, only to know that entering a new place will eventually have an end; Especially on the internet.

[This list includes 5 years of Everquest, 1 year of the EQPlayers forums, 1 year of the EQMajestic forums, 1 year of the Neverwinter Nights forums, 3 years of Gamer Disclaimer, 4 years of my own BEGCC Forums, 3 years of World of Warcraft, 3 Years of a WoW guild, 6 months of another guild, ~4-6 months here on these forms]

You will find many fun places on the internet and on the gaming web. These will captivate your mind for a fun year or so, and then you will move on to something more fun. That's the thing with games, you can beat them, mod them, add on to them, and it will eventually end up dull.

Its the same with the forums, IMO. You'll find it to be of interest, you'll get to know people, have a blast talking about life, and eventually move on to another section of the web.

I have one final statement to add; Whatever friends you may have discovered here, even if I am not considered one of them, you will have for the rest of your life. Remain contact with them and be sure to pop onto the old forums once in a while with a friendly "Hello" post. You'd be surprised how many overwhelming replies you'd get (Such as this very post). If you truely believe the Marble Blast forums are no longer on your priority list, please remember that all of the community members here will remember you for who you were and how you influenced the forums over the past year or so you've been a member of it.

Thanks for reading the novel.
-Aayrl

[Perishingflames]

Yeah I sure do miss the good ol' days. 'Twas such a closely knit community, and I liked that a lot.

Well, although I can't say I'll miss you as I haven't seen you in so long, it has been a great pleasure having you here, and our times together were great. I wish the best to you!

-Perishingflames