Re: ULMF has a Wikia page?
Reading that article, I felt an odd sensation of nostalgia. I hardly remember the first forum. And the second, I think I remember Aika's old avatar, where Kirby was being tentacle raped...
(Yo, personal backstory ahead, beware those who don't care, for complaint will be greeted with a painful end, where I will saw you in half with a herring.)
I never really kept up with member relationships. And I don't believe I posted into the double digits ever at all. So when the first forum fell, I felt a strange feeling of loss when I found it had vanished from existence. I enjoyed the different takes on DTT, the Run or Rape version comes to mind, which I read, mostly giggling rather than fapping, at the enemies that the girls were forced to defeat. And I felt I understood a bit about Aika during my time lurking, and watching him. Yes, I admit I took a liking to Aika's personality during my time as a lurker. He seemed to have a well balanced ratio of a good humor and a cool attitude, so he quickly became a name I enjoyed seeing.
When the first forum fell apart, I don't really recall why, but I kept checking via google, for some kind of sign of the community's revival. Obviously, I found it. Although, I still didn't feel the need to become a member, and join the others in the forum. Lurking still suited me well enough. It was only after when the next forum was made(our current home), did the urge to join, and become a member overcame me.
I don't remember when I lost my 'crush' for Aika's manliness, I hardly find the desire to approach him and speak with him, but a part of me does still like him for his cool personality. Instead, during my first attempt ever at being GM, I felt a connection with a very special slut named ToxicShock. And perhaps he, I, the same. As well as taking a liking to Loli Defense Force, who I believe was called something else in the other forums. Course, while Toxic would respond appropriately, or comically to any of the pointless conversations we'd have, especially after our 'marriage,' Loli hardly spoke with me at all in comparison, and still hardly talks with me, no matter how much I encourage the exchange of words. Despite that, a side of her personality that revealed itself during my limited experience in a role play with her, was something that I took to liking almost immediately.
Speaking of my first experience GM'ing, AWMBI, in my mind, was a learning experience that was intended to fail in the end. I had no idea what I was supposed to do, yet I wanted to make something complicated. Some criticized it for it's incompletion, and imperfection, most Arguments made around the system. And others around the fact that things weren't going the way they would have liked. And from a certain point, things became a little separated from the people that liked what I was doing, and the people that didn't. Unfortunately for me, most of the people that were upset were upset by something that couldn't be undone, and simply sought to spend their time harassing me because of it. Granted, it was a learning experience, and while many of their words, I still don't agree with to this moment, I still learned from my mistakes I made with them. I've learned better how to be cautious with those I'm playing with, for fear of the same incident from before repeating itself.
Moreover, I learned that there was no way in hell I was going to run a game based on numbers, and stats. People obsess with that shit, and I found it can sometimes destroy the roleplay itself in favor of the gameplay system in effect. Which, from that realization, birthed my latest RP, Monster Girl Island. I wanted to GM again, but I wanted to do it right, because I knew I could. So, I made the idea without the stats, and mostly without numbers, and simply made a universe composed of monster women that really, really want to rape you, for the effect of creating an experience that was hopefully both fun to me, and to others.