MikeyG suggested I post this just so you all understand where I was coming from in leaving and maybe in the hopes that you'd understand me better.
About 2 years ago when I first started coming to stripcreator, I was a pretty pathetic, shallow, naive kid who had ideals that he couldn't stand for, opinions that were offensive and unrefined, and a manner that pissed off everyone on the board. Perhaps the same way I do now, but then it was for different reasons.
2 years ago we had itsclark, Dexx, ladyj, chicka, boorite, bunner, andydougan, gabe billings, wirthling, fuzzyman, drexle, kaufman, kajun, Bigevildan, crabby, and lara7 all routinely making intelligent yet funny posts. It was a very different time. The reason I pissed them off was because I was just plain stupid half the time, and made childish comments that exposed my lack of self-esteem. I got severely bashed by a lot of regs, and with pretty good reasons. However, as time went on I feel like I got a lot better, and managed to carve out a niche for myself here.
Slowly, all these regs disappeared and began to leave, taking with them the comic and adult sophistication that made stripcreator a proactive and, albeit crude, but good, a worthwhile community with plenty of positive interaction. I couldn't use any of these words to describe stripcreator today. Except for crude.
At any rate, I stayed because I really enjoyed talking with bunner and boorite, and even some of the more promising newer members, such as MikeyG, choad, chooby, and kitty, even though they were all initially disgusted by my now-permanent, consistent cloak of fundamentalist conservatism. But even the good times had with these grew more and more infrequent and instead all i seemed to see was a select group of posters berating me and flaming me in a unified manner. True, I dished out plenty, but most of it was in jest and I felt like every insult I gave was either justified or at least halfway comedic. What I took for it was retarded and childish.
So, seeing as the ends did not justify the means anymore, I truly stopped participating on the board, irrelevant as it is. And irrelevant as it all was, I did grow and learn alot from some of you, and managed to really break out of the cliche image others now have of me. I am still homeschooled, was sheltered, and believe alot of staunch, traditional things. However, I'm no longer unsure about my opinions, offput with expressing them, nervous about other people, disturbed with the idea of speaking in public, or anti social. I've grown past the site, and from what I can tell, there's nothing left it has to offer.
I just thought you'd like the closure.
