Adventchildren.net is… totally gone

[X-SOLDIER]

I lurked on AC.net and continue to lurk here. The most active I've been with posting was with the release of FF7R, and even that wan't consistent.

I sure would like to be more involved with the community, but it takes me way too long to write something. I often second guess myself with thoughts like "does anyone really care what I think" or "I don't want to be a bother." And when I do feel strongly enough to post I'll easily spend an hour finding the right words and making sure it flows nicely.

Like this post alone was 30 mins lol.

Gosh, I relate to this so much - like if a post takes 15 minutes that's "fast" for me. For what it's worth, you're not alone!

Don't ever worry that it takes too long to write things or that you might wax & wane through consistency in your activity. A huge reason why I'm still around on the Forums & not on the Discord is that I can't keep pace with large-scale, real-time group conversations like that. I love that I can take up an inordinate amount of time to say big or little things, and that I can rewrite & revise things a billion times, and even after I post it, still know that there're things that I want to revise about them, but just chalk that up to the nature of communication.

It is always comforting knowing that other folks are the same way, and if it helps anyone lurk less or be more inclined to post from time-to-time, I'm all about that!




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[Rydeen]

Yup, I often take a while to write up posts as well, especially the longer ones. One may also notice that many of my posts are edited. I think many of us are perfectionists. I only sporadically appear on the DIscord, which makes me sad because a lot of cool members are only active on there now.

 

[Clear A]

Yeah so sad maite!!! So sad

 

[Draexin]

First post you guys!

I found this thread while searching for some old ACF stuff since I was feeling nostalgic and all
Maybe you remember me from the ACF days as a site staffer/news reporter. Man it's been so long since I've been involved in the FFVII community

Anyway, are some of the old Dutchies around here? I remember we used to have IRL meetings in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Scheveningen...

 

[Lestat]

Yopy is around still albeit as the invisible tentacled god of the forum nowadays.
Plenty of other acf children scattered around also.

 

[Ghost X]

Your name sounds familiar, but I'm old with dementia now.

 

[Shademp]

Welcome, Draexin! It is with a mix of pride and shame that I admit my documentation of ACF is detailed enough that I know your member ID.

During its lifespan ACF seems to have accumulated roughly 31500 member accounts (possibly more). No idea how many of these were just bots, duplicate accounts etc. Something around 5% of member profiles have been saved in the Wayback Machine but I only have a portion of these documented.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

@Draexin – What a blast from the past! I'm glad that this thread helped ya find your way around here.



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[Sprites]

I love when an old face shows up in these threads

 

[Lestat]

She says until the day summoner wolf makes an appearance XD

 

[Erotic Materia]

She says until the day summoner wolf makes an appearance XD

On one hand, I'm really glad I came into the FF7 forum game later than most, so I didn't have to experience all that noise firsthand.

On the other, I missed out on some solid popcorn eatin' ?

 

[Lestat]

I would say it was reminiscent of a car crash but that's sacred wolf's physics defying story.

 

[Sprites]

She says until the day summoner wolf makes an appearance XD

Well there is that.

 

[looneymoon]

Summoner Yuna predicted remake's ending.

Her and Seph are definitely banging on the astral plain right now.

 

[Lestat]

You forgot her and seph broke up and she then became engaged to the monster from cloverfield/sinfinity aka sacred wolf

 

[Cthulhu]

Hoi
What was your ACF username again?

 

[Lestat]

 

[Draexin]

Hoi
What was your ACF username again?

Hoi! Over there it was Draexin as well You were YopY right?

 

[Cthulhu]

Yarp, . I have to admit I don't really remember you, <_<. I was probably too distracted by DrAmAhZ, lol

 

[Rydeen]

Summoner Yuna predicted remake's ending.

Her and Seph are definitely banging on the astral plain right now.

Nah, Sephy was banging sephirothslave on the astral plane, not SY.

 

[Makoeyes987]

That was the strangest "A Rival Appears" moment of that forum's lifetime.

 

[Odysseus]

One of you guys needs to just make the AC.net retrospective already, I wanna hear about the shenanigans

 

[looneymoon]

I think that would be good TLS YouTube content.

I would but I was a pretty passive bystander to the fire, so I don't have much to add

 

[Lestat]

Fairly sure acf was the reason most of us drank as much as we used to XD

 

[Shademp]

Reading the signature of an ACF member in the Wayback Machine and part of it reads "(No, I'm not flaming)".

I have not heard the term "flaming" in practically a decade.

Flaming is the online act of posting insults, often laced with profanity or other offensive language on social networking sites. This term should not be confused with the term trolling, which is the act of someone going online, or in person, and causing discord.