{"id":2021,"date":"2007-07-17T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T19:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2007\/07\/17\/goodbye-evil-avatar\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T13:30:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T19:30:18","slug":"goodbye-evil-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/goodbye-evil-avatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Evil Avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a member and regular poster at Evil Avatar<\/a> for some time now. I’ve always loved the site and a lot of the regular contributors. I think it’s just time to move on. I’ve been posting with less and less frequency lately. Now, I’ve simply hung it all up altogether.<\/p>\n

Nothing in particular made me decide to stop contributing to the community. I’m just sort of getting sick of the constant, negative, cyclical discussions that frequent the boards anymore. It’s always the same thing, every day, every week. Nothing ever changes, even as new details emerge that prove naysayers wrong. The negativity never ends. More than anything, I’m a bit turned off by the fact that it really has turned into nothing more than an Xbox fansite. The admins will never admit it, and it’s possible that it isn’t intentional. Maybe they’re too close to the site to actually see it occurring. But it’s obvious some days. If I owned a 360, I might not notice myself. As it is, it just constantly made me wonder why I continued to visit the site.<\/p>\n

And any discussion involving Nintendo quickly devolves into pathetic complaints and unfounded arguments. There are people there that so fervently support and defend Nintendo that they lack a degree of rationality. And on the other end of the spectrum, there are far too many people there that think Nintendo will point the gaming industry towards nothing but watered-down, brainless, casual games. Both sides are ridiculously over-represented in the community, and some days I felt as though I was the only person somewhere in between the two extremes.<\/p>\n

So, I rid myself of the community. I don’t plan on attempting to find another forum as an outlet for my thoughts. This blog will suffice. I plan to use the time I wasted on message boards for other endeavors, such as actually getting some work done. In the meantime, if you might like what EvAv<\/a> has to offer, by all means, I’m not suggesting people give it a miss. It really is a fantastic community, if you can find yourself a niche amongst the regular contributors. It’s finding that place amongst the flood of irrationality that’s the hard part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a member and regular poster at Evil Avatar for some time now. I’ve always loved the site and a lot of the regular contributors. I think it’s just time to move on. I’ve been posting with less and less frequency lately. Now, I’ve simply hung it all up altogether. Nothing in particular made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[93,398,493],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-community","tag-evil-avatar","tag-goodbye","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}