It's been like 11 Actual Years! (Read 279 times)

[Bronxkidd / Jordan]

Okay so, Hi.
I used to go by Kotaro-Kun for a couple years amidst the height of my Weeb Phase.
Though I most often go by Bronxkidd nowadays as I had gone by since as early as 2006.
You can also call me Jordan, I've got no qualms with sharing my real name.
I'm not exactly here to be a frequent posting member and reconnect with old friends that I literally haven't interacted with in 11-12 years.
But I have been visiting this Forum occasionally just to take a look from time to time and see if LunyRed or some other people I was fond of ever returned.
I was after all, the sixth person to even join this forum.
Though I was never extremely active, I had some good friends here.
LunyRed especially I became friends with wayyyy back in 2008 when his primary fixation was Disgaea and he was just starting to get into Touhou
I think my Touhou Fixation rubbed off on him, and he himself got me super invested in the Disgaea Series of JRPGs.
I'll cut to the main point of me digging up my old lost email account to recover this even more lost forum account.
The founder of this Forum, LunyRed.
He hasn't been online since 2015.
But he's basically one of the most beloved and memorable people I knew during my earliest years on the internet and I chatted with him an awful lot between 2008-2010
Every once in a while, when I think of old friends I've long since lost.
I wish I could have held on to some method of getting in touch with him.
His Old YouTube Accounts are long gone.
I might have an Old Email Address of his saved in one of my old email Contact Lists.
Does anybody here still know him or remember how awesome he was?

Or maybe...LunyRed if you're still out there and would like to talk to your Little Brother Jordan.
Please get in touch with me <3

[Bronxkidd / Jordan]

I'll be occasionally visiting to see what's going on every once in a while.
Maybe even post if I find myself liking the ongoing social activity that I see around here.
But first and Foremost.
I'd just really like to throw out this SOS of sorts to see if my Pal Luny is still around.
I remember personal details about him that aren't listed on his profile, though I'll keep them to myself.
I wish there were some way for me to track him down and say "Hello"
Just see how he's doing and tell him about the Positive influence he made on my life just by being my friend all those Years Ago.

[Bronxkidd / Jordan]

...Oof please try to ignore some of the Immature "Legacy" Posts and attributes to my profile that reflect a much Younger and More Immature version of myself.
It's been a Wild Decade.

[Bronxkidd / Jordan]

Still pretty into Touhou.
I've got Various Physical Games, Figures, Posters and even some Manga.
But my Interests are a great deal more divided nowadays and the Height of my Touhou Fixation died down around the release of Touhou 13 - Ten Desires.
Though I've gotten a lot more invested since 2018 when I started going Full Weeb Again.

[spongelevator]

I'm afraid it's been... 11 years.

ok anyway
you'd be the second one around looking for lunyred huh
it's been maybe 7-8 months since last time in the "to any guests that comes here I guess" thread so I don't remember the details but the links of contact we came up with were
twitter.com/LunyRem
and myanimelist.net/profile/LunyRem

there was no 100% guaranteed confirmation that these were actually lunyred but he mentioned a MAL in one of his last posts (it seems this post and its thread are now gone) and the twitter matches up with it
last guy was satisfied with this answer so I'm guessing it's him

also lol chuck norris in the profile is still good even though it's a decade old joke
you are the original murasa basketball as well

[lazulum]

Don't worry about the "legacy" post, as another member from way back I appreciate the window back to a previous time. Gives me cause for retrospection and recollection as well.

Incidentally my peak of interest in Touhou was around Ten Desires as well. Good memories, I remember listening to VS's review of it on the podcast, playing it live at launch with an online group of pals, etc.


Allow me to share a sort of legacy post of my own I guess haha

SPOILER: Click to show

I have a bit of a different take on things, but I imagine our own experiences helped shaped our worldviews to be very different. I have nice memories of many people I have known online, but just about none I stay in regular contact with. I still remember the names and the times though (spoke a lot with Minogame here way back), I guess you could say it's sort of 'mono no aware'

When I first created this account it was after years of lurking and I barely posted. I used to be acutely introverted, directionless, and very socially awkward. It's hard to think that far back anymore, I've had quite an unexpected chain leading me to now.

I ended up in Japan, almost got married once, met many interesting people, was helped out many times and fortunately could help others. Five years ago around this time I was with a Siberian in a shoebox apartment pinning down a guy twice my size and getting kicked in the face throughout the early morning (3am-ish) to keep him from hurling himself into traffic (a fun story haha).

Those I've met online, and those places I frequent seem now a distant world I am far removed from.

Again we have different worldviews though and I can respect yours. It's just interesting to compare.

[Bronxkidd / Jordan]

Okay, so it's been a couple days since I last posted.
Just thought I should give an update on how things went with Tracking LunyRed Down.
As well as share my thoughts on using this Forum more in the future.
First off, I'd like to give a Huge Thanks to spongelevator for getting the Links to me within less than an hour of my first posting this Thread.

I really didn't expect such a fast response for a forum that has so few active members.
Using the links spongelevator provided, I quickly found Luny's YouTube channel and got in touch with him through the comments section on one of his videos.
He seemed quite cheerful when I gave a few details to refresh his memory of me and he was more than happy to get in touch over Discord.

Though we haven't had any actual conversations between little back and forth comments in the comments section of a few of his recent videos.
Looking forward to getting in touch over how we've both been this past decade and generally just getting reacquainted with each other with hopes of being Good Internet Buddies again~
He also added me as a friend on Nintendo Switch.
Speaking of Nintendo Switch.

If anybody is interested in seeing what the Creator of this Forum is up to today, beyond his Twitter and MyAnimeList Shenanigans.
Here is his YouTube Channel where he is most active with uploading content every single day.
LunyRem's Awesome YouTube Channel
His Channel is focused entirely around Super Mario Maker 2 Content.
Typically Playthroughs and Showcases of numerous unique Community Made Levels.
I've probably watched at least a dozen of his videos so far.

Although it's not really my kind of niche, I still enjoy watching my friend's content.
And I know He's Expressed that his Channel and the content he produces is very important to him.
I'm Hoping he can grow his channel to have thousands of subscribers some day and that he follows his dreams.

Anyway, thank you guys so much for helping me track him down so fast~
Don't really have much else to say on the matter.

[Bronxkidd / Jordan]

I just Thoroughly updated every aspect of my User Profile that I could.
Everything is updated to better fit the me I am today rather than the Silly Teenager I was 11 Years ago.
Though I'm still very silly, in many Delightful little ways <3
There's certainly a tinge of nostalgia to the dated aspects of my old Profile though.
So I made sure to take a Screen Capture before I changed everything.


I'd genuinely love to update other aspects of this Forum to wipe away some of the broken and dated aspects.
Mainly fix some of the Graphical stuff so that the Photobucket Watermarks will go away.
I've never really done anything in way of significant moderation or maintenance of a Forum before.
So I'm not sure I could even acquire such privileges.
But if I were to ever become an Admin here.
I'd make sure to nurture this Community as best as I can

I wonder if LunyRed's Account still has any actual power over this Forum since he originally created it.
I'm simply contemplating the thought of what I could do to tidy this place up a bit...

[lazulum]

That's cool
I don't even know how I'd update my own profile if I had decided to. Don't have any newer names I use.

Tidying up the place would be nice
The affiliate links should be updated as well

I'll reply to more later
About to slip out of consciousness

[spongelevator]

I think in the thread lunyred mentioned MAL he also said that by transferring admin status he would no longer be able to make any changes in the forum
though I may be remembering that wrong
DDdreamer has ability to make modifications

I dunno if anything could really be done as a way to revive a forum considering most dead/barely active ones moved to discord in their last posts and the only active english touhou forum I am aware of other than this is shrinemaiden
I thought eientei forum was just as active but I checked recently and there's been like 10 posts in the past 3 months with 3 of them being about joining a discord so appeal has certainly shifted and now we have this whole backyard to ourselves
only on forum can I forget to reply to post for one fourth of a year so I will choose it over public discord server
definitely there is some crust here though


I didn't even know what affiliate links was supposed to be when I first saw it lol
the tinypic pacman vs the megalogo photobucket

this used to say 2009-2015 so changes are definitely still possible 

photobucket lives on

[lazulum]

spongelevator
I think I remember something about that now that you mention it.
Yeah DDdreamer and any of the other mods who I could try to track down sometime have that ability

I think the level of activity here is fair for a modern forum. We seem to have around six users now who drop by. If we do start frequenting Discord I think that would be a quick end to activity. Although I'm usually on the run from place to place so I couldn't be active on one anyways.

I suppose the word is cozy. Lunatic Red feels quite cozy these days. And every so often there is a little surprise such as Bronx dropping in, or Moukou, etc.

Yeah I had some small presence on some of those affiliated sites, but most of them have been nuked or are long since dead.

Getting that copyright to 2021 may be the first step eh haha