god, I can't believe how much of a part of my life smashboards used to be, it's such a shame it's died since the acquisition over half a decade ago. Still remember my first day joining, I had just turned 13 and could finally make an account without my parent's permission cause BOOYAH teenager! and then I found the smashboards arena, and started making friends, I didn't have brawl back then though, so I was just talking a little, got it just a bit later and finally started playing, made more friends, and started really getting into internet culture. My parent's hated it, but whatever, I started getting into games more and more, got into league of legends, which I still play to this day, and started looking into other games like warframe or wings of thunder, eventually, though, the site went down and all us folks in the arena needed a new arena to work in; so I made one, the Skype arena, before discord existed, before teamspeak was popular, we had a place to go, but it too fell. I always wondered if it was that I'm not that good of a friend, or that I was bad at managing things and keeping order, but I realize nowadays that it was almost entirely the fact that time moves on, people change, and hobbies have to be left to the wayside in favor of our more adult plans, while we all may move apart and lose contact, I hope we all lost contact with nothing but good memories of our distant, now silent, friends.
