I'm not sure I should be posting this, but hey, why not? Though it doesn't feel like a good choice for a first blog post. Anyway, as the title suggests, I'm in a bit of a quandary. Hearing some opinions about it might be nice.
I'm not a frequent user of Temp. Well, pretty frequent actually, but just lurking and reading, not feeling any great motivation to participate. I have felt like participating sometimes, but the feeling doesn't last long. I'm content to use content or responding in my head to what people are saying in forums. A while ago... this account was made in 2014, that's not a while ago anymore, whoops (my sense of time is a little shot)... I made this account to ask questions about hardmodding my new 3DS XL. Which I managed to do successfully but I've never been able to test if NAND dumping actually worked, because I don't have the proper SD card reader. Some time after that, I forgot the login details. Both the password and which email this account was registered to. Which I discovered two days ago, yay. So here I am logging in again, after successfully resetting the password.
I created an account only in the last few years but have been visiting since around 2005, when the KXploit for PSP came out for firmware 1.50. Good times. Maybe I've visited before than, but it was just another site then. After making an account and asking my questions, I kind of wanted to participate and contribute by making custom 3DS themes. I even started on one. But that all kinda fell by the wayside. Fast forward to now though and for the past several months, I've thought of swearing GBATemp off. Maybe the odd visitation for news or instructions, but definitely avoiding the forums and not making or logging into any account. The reason being that there's a certain toxicity here. A misfortune that a great amount of the userbase here intersects with certain other sites. Especially drawn out by recent-ish politcal developments the world over. The same feeling as Smealum when he remarked, by means of a picture, "Even when you're not expecting anything, you're still disappointed." Or similar enough to that. Then Aurora Wright took off. Even Crystal/Lilith, though she came back. I lost respect for some users I respected or even admired. And while I knew, given the kind of tinkerers here, that a style of users would be here, I had no idea how many.
So there it is. I don't know whether to stay or go. I'm inclined to be a mostly non-user on principle, but I'm conflicted. Not that I imagine anyone really cares, given that I'm just some random user, but maybe some people would be interested in throwing in their two cents. I'm particularly curious why some users, who are probably somewhat bothered by the same, stay and participate.
PS. Not to mention I don't really like my user name, but there's not really any way of changing it without creating a new account.
PPS. Sorry for the stuffy way of writing, I can't really help it while uncomfortable and nervous.
I'm not a frequent user of Temp. Well, pretty frequent actually, but just lurking and reading, not feeling any great motivation to participate. I have felt like participating sometimes, but the feeling doesn't last long. I'm content to use content or responding in my head to what people are saying in forums. A while ago... this account was made in 2014, that's not a while ago anymore, whoops (my sense of time is a little shot)... I made this account to ask questions about hardmodding my new 3DS XL. Which I managed to do successfully but I've never been able to test if NAND dumping actually worked, because I don't have the proper SD card reader. Some time after that, I forgot the login details. Both the password and which email this account was registered to. Which I discovered two days ago, yay. So here I am logging in again, after successfully resetting the password.
I created an account only in the last few years but have been visiting since around 2005, when the KXploit for PSP came out for firmware 1.50. Good times. Maybe I've visited before than, but it was just another site then. After making an account and asking my questions, I kind of wanted to participate and contribute by making custom 3DS themes. I even started on one. But that all kinda fell by the wayside. Fast forward to now though and for the past several months, I've thought of swearing GBATemp off. Maybe the odd visitation for news or instructions, but definitely avoiding the forums and not making or logging into any account. The reason being that there's a certain toxicity here. A misfortune that a great amount of the userbase here intersects with certain other sites. Especially drawn out by recent-ish politcal developments the world over. The same feeling as Smealum when he remarked, by means of a picture, "Even when you're not expecting anything, you're still disappointed." Or similar enough to that. Then Aurora Wright took off. Even Crystal/Lilith, though she came back. I lost respect for some users I respected or even admired. And while I knew, given the kind of tinkerers here, that a style of users would be here, I had no idea how many.
So there it is. I don't know whether to stay or go. I'm inclined to be a mostly non-user on principle, but I'm conflicted. Not that I imagine anyone really cares, given that I'm just some random user, but maybe some people would be interested in throwing in their two cents. I'm particularly curious why some users, who are probably somewhat bothered by the same, stay and participate.
PS. Not to mention I don't really like my user name, but there's not really any way of changing it without creating a new account.
PPS. Sorry for the stuffy way of writing, I can't really help it while uncomfortable and nervous.