Post by Rainier Rucio on Jul 18, 2018 8:32:47 GMT -5
How many years later and we're still doing Spiderman Threads. Some things never change.
While I haven't been a (consistent) presence here since January-ish 2017 myself, and therefore can't speak to everything that happened since, I can still view traffic and activity statistics. For those curious about the web and SEO side of things: general traffic began to fall to the bleach-gotei.com domain in early 2013 from its peaks in very-late 2012. Activity on the board itself last saw a one-time monthly peak in September 2016, but had overall been in a downward trend since 2012 as well. In static numbers, this translates to about ~300 posts per day consistently in 2012 and then only for stretches afterwards.
The posting stats are actually pretty interesting when you get deeper into them, too. Prior to 2013 and especially in the last quarter of the year, posting at those rates was more equally spread out. Starting in 2013, it became far more concentrated on a handful of people. Even just ten people making 30 posts per day -- hardly difficult with such a wide range of boards to post in and multiple characters to use -- could create those sorts of numbers.
Going forward, the idea is that Bleach Gotei will be a private, tight-knit roleplaying community as opposed to an entirely public one. Think of it more like a big Dungeons and Dragons group. But instead of 4 or 5 people meeting and playing only in real-time, it'll be a somewhat larger team using a mix of the play-by-post and Dungeon Master-ran format. The idea here is that I have the server hardware, software platform, and the most popular Bleach RP forum domain name in the world; may as well continue to use it to do something fun!
Those who are interested in being part of that, please feel free to reach out to me via Discord at Serak#5132. I don't use it often these days, so don't expect an exceedingly fast response.
For those among us more interested in a public, play-by-post community, I can confidently recommend Sufficient Velocity at: forums.sufficientvelocity.com/
While I don't care much for roleplaying or the artistry of writing, and therefore don't participate myself, those that do will probably thoroughly enjoy it. At the time of this writing, they have nearly 900 member accounts currently logged in and active with total posts nearing eleven million. It isn't based around any single setting, fandom, or living world, so I'm sure that anyone who enjoys roleplaying, writing as an art, or simply bringing a character to life, can find something they want to do there.
Finally...To all of you who have shared this space with us over this last decade, to all of you who have enriched the lives of your thread partners by helping to create a beautiful, huge, deeply detailed setting...From Brianna, Justine, and Tony, we sincerely thank you for the amazing ride, and we hope you'll recall this adventure known as Bleach Gotei as fondly as we do.
your post fucking sucked until this word, but you managed to pull through after all
but yeah it's super nice to catch up with a few of the old faces
is chesh still mentally ill? is nazomi still an overweight, jobless cunt? all these things I couldn't make the effort of posting about before I can now ask freely
edit tbh I'm surprised the tranny hasn't offed himself yet but I find myself hoping TK has
edit2 I suppose with his bmi he technically is, albeit very fucking slowly
Last Edit: Jul 18, 2018 10:15:15 GMT -5 by Knowledge
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
Post by Cressida Schade on Jul 18, 2018 16:25:57 GMT -5
So long BG. Thanks for giving me an outlit to help cope with a mere fractions of my problems. Also since it's closing and Tova came back to say goodbye ... Can we get a Yaoi thread between Shun and Consequence?
like you (mostly) all left because people got your panties in a bundle but uh
all those people who caused those issues have been gone for a long, long while
You're still here though . . .
It's funny because your name is what the site turned out to be!
Motonabe Kai: Well let me be Titus for a second, "Y u no lol?" "Hey you, out there all alone..." Avatar by Cheesewoo. He does commissions! Flick him a PM on Deviantart.
Shout out to those who deserve some serious credit as the final hour strikes:
Adimus: You, Ai, and Aly made humans interesting enough for me to want to play them. So I did. And I must say in one moment of (well deserved) ego? I fucking rocked it. Thank you three as a whole for being there, for existing, and for the inspiration. Adi? We are still 100% on for that collab one day; let’s do it.
Naz: Hey, hey, Naz. Naaaz. Fuck you. Twice. For introducing me to this hellsite in the first place. And for giving me my writing back after so long. We had good times here. We had the literal worst times here. It really was SR again, in the end. Thanks for being my writing buddy and the asshole who fueled the first half of Sekai’s plot.
Tak: No real regrets bringing you here. I watched you grow exponentially as a writer and as a person. Shit got real and lessons were learned the hard way, and that part sucks, but was needed too. Thanks for being part of my motivation, and no regrets about the boot to the ribs. Just remember; I’m always in your corner.
Kenshou: Goddamn it I hate you and the universe is determined to make us meet RL eventually. Too many weird coincidences. Thanks for the laughs, the memes, and being awesome during the old LoL days and having fun tormenting my character. (And later on me during peak Vol 3 days. I 100% expect a ‘do you believe in destiny’ from you)
Arty: You fucking rock. Hands down. Fucking. Rock. It was an honor and an immense pleasure writing with you. Thank you for being the second major recurring catalyst in my character’s story and I am still beyond pleased with how well you have done since your departure.
Tits: You fucking nerd. You’re gr8. TAKE A HINT. We will find a place and write again Someday. Thanks for being real, being there, and being awesome during some shitty moments. And being a fucking crackfiend. /o/ \o\
Daisy: I fukkin set u up the bomb and #NoRegrets. You are fabulous and I am absolutely loving getting to know you as a person. Especially with you and Tak being so disgustingly cute when you play Mario Kart. My fucking sides at your salt. We will write someday too.
Toto: You fuckin thot where’d you vanish to? Thank you for being a big part of my story and for being the reason i did a lot of damage to my liver. Skank. I can’t listen to Flo Rida without thinking of you.
Jian: Bandiiiiit. Who knew our paths would cross again after Divvy? It was fun writing with you and you were a great deal of fun to game with as well!
Potato: Still your fault. ALL your fault. And it will continue to BE your fault until literally forever. Seeing you succeed makes me immensely happy; and you owe it all to your own hard work and efforts. Looking forward to buying you that drink/beer if you drop into town!
Chesh: Stay gorgeous. <3 You have done amazingly well and I am so proud of you.
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You guys, especially Naz, Tak, Toto, and Arty, should never stop writing. I take breaks, but I haven’t stopped either. Keep writing. Keep evolving. Keep moving forward. Get published you fuckwads, I need some new reading material even as I start putting my own out little by little.
Thank you to those above in particular who inspired me, sat down and did the dirty details of character development work, idea bouncing, and the endless nights of pterodactyl screeching into the void while I read shitty shitty ERP files that had me snort varying alcohols out my nose.
And thanks to those who rp’d with me as a whole. Maybe it wasn’t near as good for you as it was for me, but hey, them’s the breaks and we can’t score a 10 every time, now can we?
Fall Out Boy says it best; “Thanks for the memories.”
Ciao~
Kireon.
Oh. I guess if you wanna keep in touch, you can find me on Discord/get a message through. If not? Cool, good luck and have a successful, healthy life.
like you (mostly) all left because people got your panties in a bundle but uh
all those people who caused those issues have been gone for a long, long while
You're still here though . . .
It's funny because your name is what the site turned out to be! :D
imagine being a brainlet of such gargantuan proportions that you think a fan fiction RP site with over 10 years of activity is in any way, shape, or form a failure
imagine still being so fucking salty about getting your trash character utterly destroyed and legacy ruined on said fan fiction RP site that you return several years after the fact to make nonsensical comments in the thread announcing that the site has reached its natural conclusion and will be discontinued
It's funny because your name is what the site turned out to be!
imagine being a brainlet of such gargantuan proportions that you think a fan fiction RP site with over 10 years of activity is in any way, shape, or form a failure
imagine still being so fucking salty about getting your trash character utterly destroyed and legacy ruined on said fan fiction RP site that you return several years after the fact to make nonsensical comments in the thread announcing that the site has reached its natural conclusion and will be discontinued