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Originally Posted by JudgeBread
Hello!
My name is Tommy Reinking and I'm a freelance games journalist. I learned of the SubSim genre of games and the community on a podcast, and was surprised that I had never heard of it before. I've been exploring the site for a bit, and this community and site is fascinating! It's not often you find a website from the 90's still running and with an active community! I'd love to ask some questions to the community to learn more about you all. I was given permission to post here by Neal Stevens.
If you could all be so kind, I have a few questions! Feel free to answer as many or as few as you'd like.
1) How long have you been a member of the SubSim community here at the site?
2) What is it about the site that keeps you a member?
3) What is it about this website that has allowed it to survive for nearly three decades while other video game websites have died out?
4) Are there other places (Discord, Reddit, other social media) where you go to for the SubSim community?
5) If you're a member who's been here for years or decades, what are some of your favorite memories of being a member of the SubSim community/site from the 90's, 2000's, or 2010's?
6) Anything else you'd like to say about the website or community or anything you think is important?
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer these questions!
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1) Joined in 2004, was active for a few years, then went into lurking mode due to the ever-increasing work load. Returned to the surface in 2021 and have been around ever since.
2) Mostly the forums. Most modern social media are much to fast for my liking, topics are changed way too quickly. The classical forums are much slower in that regard, especially here where the amount of users is comparatively small.
Oh, and I also use any chance to hone and improve my skills in English - I'm not a native speaker.
3) A relatively niché category in the wide field of video games. This category only draws a small amount of players, and simulation players usually have to show much more patience than most "gamers" are willing to invest into games. That doesn't mean that players in general don't have the patience - they just aren't willing to be patient (which is absolutely OK - playing video games is free time).
4) Not really. I'm active in a general gaming forum, but while there are players of simulations they are only a small group.
5) As I have only recently returned, with most of my activity coming from the past four years there's nothing I can mention here.
6) We -the users- might not agree on everything, and discussions about certain topics can become quite heated, but the vast majority of people here are decent.