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No, this isn't an early Halloween thread. I'm just wondering what you all have been doing online, since GW fizzled out and died. Did you all go to other forums, social media, or anything like that? Or did you drop off the face of the bulletin board world, until now?
Personally, I started transitioning across to SomethingAwful in 2011 (courtesy of Tommy Boy, aka The One True Tommy) and have basically kept on doing what I've always done, except there instead of GW - i.e. making bad, sometimes rather corny posts about games and other fun things. Plus using plenty of
smilies, of course! 
I also joined FB a bit before that (maybe...2010?) but really, for the most part I consider social media to be quite garbage compared to forums. Memes and IM with friends are the only thing holding it together IMO.
Aside from that, hard to say. I've been in a bunch of Discord servers here and there over the years, plus I've joined other forums now and again - usually for a specific reason and then never again. So aside from SA being a 'GameWinners away from GameWinners' for me, I've had a distinctly GW-shaped hole in my online life. I do like how GW has always been pretty close-knit compared to other forums I've seen, even during our peak. The closest I've found to groups like PIMI is the Imp Zone on SA, but even then, it's not the same! GW is pretty one-of-a-kind!
Personally, I started transitioning across to SomethingAwful in 2011 (courtesy of Tommy Boy, aka The One True Tommy) and have basically kept on doing what I've always done, except there instead of GW - i.e. making bad, sometimes rather corny posts about games and other fun things. Plus using plenty of
smilies, of course! I also joined FB a bit before that (maybe...2010?) but really, for the most part I consider social media to be quite garbage compared to forums. Memes and IM with friends are the only thing holding it together IMO.
Aside from that, hard to say. I've been in a bunch of Discord servers here and there over the years, plus I've joined other forums now and again - usually for a specific reason and then never again. So aside from SA being a 'GameWinners away from GameWinners' for me, I've had a distinctly GW-shaped hole in my online life. I do like how GW has always been pretty close-knit compared to other forums I've seen, even during our peak. The closest I've found to groups like PIMI is the Imp Zone on SA, but even then, it's not the same! GW is pretty one-of-a-kind!
