As of today, I am officially severing my ties with what was once known as the "NES community".

Put simply, the whole ensemble has been overrun by morons who get off on vulgar, immature, and ad hominem humor. It has reached the point that I simply no longer wish to be associated with these buffoons.

Most of this stems from an announcement made a few weeks ago in which I essentially "came out", stating that I was a furry. (For those who don't know, a furry is a person who adopts an animalistic alter-ego.)

Now, if you've been following this site for any period of time, you'll know that this has been the case for well over 3 years. Only now, I made the actual affiliation to the group. I don't behvae any differently than I did before I made this announcement; only people have an extra word to describe me.

Of course, the people on the NES board I frequent took this opportunity to somehow link me with having sexual relationships with animals, which is absolutely wrong, obscene, and slanderous. I tried to keep things in order, but the brats on the board continued their vitriol. When I finally snapped and spouted off at one of them, I lost my mod powers on the board, and since then they have had free reign.

Today, I have had enough. I have grown just as tired of them as they have of me, and I am finally granting their wish: I will no longer be posting on any other NES board, and I encourage any other NES fan who agrees with me to do the same, and let these hubs of immaturity and arrogance burn to the ground like Sodom and Gomorrah.

When I entered the community back in 1997, the NES scene was filled with intelligent, well-spoken, and creative people, who revered the NES and respected the others who enjoyed it. Over the years, though, this pocket of the web has been poisoned by the Gen-X rudeness and "Fuck the world" attitude that we as NES webmasters were fighting so hard to rebel against. Sadly, it appears, the new generation has won out, and the ideals of the old scene are now tattered shreds left behind in a neglected corner of what has now become a wasteland of crass humor, personal attacks, and outright apathy for the console.

This is not to say that I won't still play my NES. I will still do so, and I'll still write reviews, and I'll still update my Video Game Lair with the same fervor and respect for the system that I had when I started. But today, I will no longer consider myself a part of this dying community.

-Loog