darkSpyro

Dead serious question.

Has it affected you positively? Has it affected you negatively? Do you love and cherish the memories it gave you? Did you just get a few laughs from it? Did you meet the love of your life? Would your life have been better without it? Could you have lived without it?

How has it affected your life?

I met a bunch of friends and we stayed in contact forever and nothing bad ever happened

Yeah, it's been pretty alright. Tons of regrets, but what life experience doesn't have some.

I met one of my closest friends on here, so all in all I’d say it’s been positive!

I made (hopefully) lifelong friends here and have been making more the past year!

darkspyro ruined my life on more then 1 occasion i met some of the worst people ever on here the people at certain points in time reminded me how terrible of a person that i am in a pileup with other boards and chatrooms Alex still hasn t asked me out yet despite our secret relationship i know at least 2 people have claimed they want me to be gone and or dead then no one even remembered me including people who called me "They RE BEst FriendEDeD" my illuminati agent constantly reports **** talking to me and i probably have wasted too much time posting legitimately well thought out topics in stuff and nonsense ......................................................hmmmmm overall i would say PRETTY DAMN GOOD CONSIDERING....

constant regret and hatred but i met a lot of cool p[eople and my best friend so it balances out really

Thank you for posting, everybody! ^_^

Anyone else wanna share their thoughts??

i'd say overall good considering my goal when joining the site.

i joined around 2018 wanting to get better at interacting with people over the internet. i'd been aware of this place for some time, but never considered the fact that i could actually join a social media site. i think i used ds keep track of spyro news and as a resource for walkthroughs. before i joined, i'd had pretty much no connections online and irl. i wanted to try to fix that.

i get the sense i still keep my distance from people, but the site was just my first step in a long process. for that, i'm grateful. i'd say i've definitely learned a couple of things -- even in my awkward way of going about it. from what i remember, it was still kind of quiet here in 2018, which i think helped me in the long-run because big groups can be pretty overwhelming. that being said, i'd love to see more people join the site in order to help it keep going.

my time here has been much shorter than everyone else's. if i'd joined much earlier, it's pretty likely my answer would be different. even in 2018, my understanding of the world was still pretty poisoned, so although i wish i'd figured things out sooner, my interactions here may not have been too good.

Thank y'all. Any more takers??

8-12 years ago browsing here kept my depression in check enough that I didn't quit life.

without darkspyro dot net i would have never started smokeing meth and murdering people and killing them. thanks for all the help through the years

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I made (hopefully) lifelong friends here and have been making more the past year!

omega ****ing oof. it’s really funny to see people call you rex when you kept claiming you had different real names years ago

whoa there pal! hey champ! your dad and i are real proud of you buddy, youve been real consistent out on the field and you get great grades, but we got a important lesson for you. it costs zero dollars to mind your own business and keep out of people’s personal lives on the internet. got that, sport? go get em, tiger! you got this!

darkSpyro...probably helped me shape some of my personality. I joined at a pretty young age, and there were so many people (good, bad, and troll-esque alike) that influenced who I am to this day. I've met a lot of really nice people, and some people who I wish I've never met for one reason or another. But overall, darkSpyro used to be a safe haven and a site to better my writing skills via roleplay. I probably would write more if I wasn't on my phone right now, but...I just wanted to say that darkSpyro is something I hold near and dear to my heart.

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you want real answers, you got some but here’s one from the other end, of course it’s from me, the ****ing whiner.

i’m just gonna say that this site genuinely contributed to me being a worse person and especially feeling worse/distrusting people, unironic congratulations to those of you it worked for, at least you’re grateful and i always get the short end of the stick wether i try or not.
it’s really interesting to think about this site and how much time i regret spending here and certain things about how i was treated here and who i left behind and who left me behind. i should have just ****posted and left. i should just have been able to let go but after all these years im stuck at home, im stuck with trauma, physical pains, tons of bull****. i think about how people who never even held a conversation or who stopped talking with me for literal years judged me, and the hypocrisy common here, and some of the disgusting stuff i know has happened here and continued for ages or got swept away. learned to keep distance from people and still slowly trying to forget this place entirely but it’s so unfair and sucks so much because it’s not what i deserved

i asked dark to superflag me but its clearly never happening lol

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I made (hopefully) lifelong friends here and have been making more the past year!

omega ****ing oof. it’s really funny to see people call you rex when you kept claiming you had different real names years ago

If you're thinking of Conor, that is indeed my real (middle) name that I go by IRL. Apparently, Mesuxelf said I lied about my name being Avery, which I admittedly don't remember doing, but if I did do so, I'm sorry for doing that.


As for Rex, over the past year, it's been my self-given/chosen name I want to change my first name to. As for that name, I was named after my grandfather, who I thought was the only person I shared it with, until 2016 when I found out it was also my uncle's first name (Prior to, we knew him as Mike) as well, and the means of finding out genuinely shook me. I won't go into details about what on here (I'm fine with explaining why, just not on a forum) but just know why I want to change it is a more than justified reason, I promise you. I also found out my grandpa wasn't the most loyal husband, which only added salt to the wound.


Long story short, because of two people I share my first name in my family, I've grown significantly uncomfortable with having it and intend to change it to Rex/Rexford in the future.


As for why I go by it, well, I figured if I change my first name, I might as well start being called it. Outside of people IRL (who don't know yet) pretty much all my friends call me it now. I can't be thankful enough for that.


Hopefully, this clears things up and makes sense. I literally just woke up and saw this.

This site helped foster a lot of creativity: I learned about RPing, which helped my writing improve immensely, and I also was inspired to draw and write a lot more. I loved connecting with people who held those same interests, and I loved being part of the S&N community back in the Chatzy/Survivor/etc. days. When I didn't have many irl friends who understood or supported me, online friends were amazing to have. I still have a good handful of those friends to this day! <3 All of that is stuff that has, without a doubt, shaped who I am as a person and I will never regret being a part of it.
However, there were people here who took advantage of the naïve young teenager I was. They socially isolated me and drove me away from the people who were nothing but good for me. They gave me anxieties and issues that still plague me and any relationships I try to have to this day, and I hate being so powerless and fearful. To this day I have a hard time making and maintaining my online friendships due to the paranoia.
So yeah, good and bad has come of my time here. The memories are so intwined with each other that they're impossible to separate. As much as I wished I could have avoided the bad things, they were inevitable considering the crowds I was in, and I would never want to give up the good things to make those go away anyhow.

I met a few cool people and the rest is negative.

But enough about me, what about you?

i was gonna post a serious run down but then i got depressed and decided not to so that s pretty descriptive

I met my buddies that I do black tar heroin with

it gives me nightmares

Well I suppose the main good thing it gave me is the needed social interaction I was really lacking irl. Because I was into so many niche things, struggling to communicate, and just overall stuck with some not very sociable people irl. Had I not joined this site, I'd still be mega socially awkward and not sure how to actually communicate better for my cognitive abilities to flourish. Basically I would be one of those massive lol cows on the net with the autism tag on it, had I not actually communicated and understood things.

Otherwise it really is getting my digital art to kick right off. The good friends I made that actually can understand things from my end (and let me know that what I said is mega ****ed for any reason. Making me go "aw **** didn't think of that" is decent because **** people just do not know). Getting me more into some media I thought was overrated or just lame. Just embracing the phrase "as long as no one is hurt we good" motto.

Huh. I'm shocked that a lot of the same people are here from when I was way more active. That's cool.

Anyway, these forums sorta taught me about the internet and how people are on it for the most part, since this was the first place I ever talked to anyone online. I was young and didn't know social stuff so that probably made it interesting. Maybe I still suck at it just as much, I dunno.

I don't exactly have a deep attachment to this place in particular anymore, but I am thankful for it for introducing me to people that I really care about a lot, and still think of as some of my closest friends. Even if we don't talk for a bit.