In short, why did you first visit the Massassi Temple forums, why did you continue to visit the forums, and why do you visit the forums now?
For me, as I imagine is the case for a lot of older members, I joined the forums because I had an interest in Jedi Knight, both in seeing everything people had to say and make about it as well as harboring hopes of making my own level or what-have-you. To date, I never did learn enough of the technical know-how of level-editing to successfully even make, well, a room. I had a similar experience with editing HL1 I believe. Making a level of some sort of still something I'd like to do one day.
Shortly after joining, what became the original Never-ending Story Thread and Saga of the 3rd War started up, and I got hooked into writing for interactive stories. Since then, I visited the forums primarily to write on the Interactive Story Board, though I continued to hold interest in the JK community and the growing non-JK related discussions. I've gotten caught up in futile arguments when we once had a Religion Discussion board, talked about random current events I wouldn't have otherwise given much thought towards, and likely many other things that are escaping my memory right now. I'm also a little proud to have gathered the community at times later on to play forum games that I made.
These days, as it has been for quite a whole, I probably visit the forums more out of habit than anything else. Of course, I still visit primarily for the ISB, though it's remained primarily NeS-dominated for probably a decade now. I still enjoy seeing the occasional screenshot of something JK-related posted in the showcase, and I still enjoy reading thoughts on current events and the like even if they've become a bit predictable. I've tried sometimes to find other online communities to join, and none ever really kept me wanting to come back the way Massassi does. I have no good explanation for it either.
For me, as I imagine is the case for a lot of older members, I joined the forums because I had an interest in Jedi Knight, both in seeing everything people had to say and make about it as well as harboring hopes of making my own level or what-have-you. To date, I never did learn enough of the technical know-how of level-editing to successfully even make, well, a room. I had a similar experience with editing HL1 I believe. Making a level of some sort of still something I'd like to do one day.
Shortly after joining, what became the original Never-ending Story Thread and Saga of the 3rd War started up, and I got hooked into writing for interactive stories. Since then, I visited the forums primarily to write on the Interactive Story Board, though I continued to hold interest in the JK community and the growing non-JK related discussions. I've gotten caught up in futile arguments when we once had a Religion Discussion board, talked about random current events I wouldn't have otherwise given much thought towards, and likely many other things that are escaping my memory right now. I'm also a little proud to have gathered the community at times later on to play forum games that I made.
These days, as it has been for quite a whole, I probably visit the forums more out of habit than anything else. Of course, I still visit primarily for the ISB, though it's remained primarily NeS-dominated for probably a decade now. I still enjoy seeing the occasional screenshot of something JK-related posted in the showcase, and I still enjoy reading thoughts on current events and the like even if they've become a bit predictable. I've tried sometimes to find other online communities to join, and none ever really kept me wanting to come back the way Massassi does. I have no good explanation for it either.
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