City of Amnesia

And it feels good! I missed you guys. Wherever there's a dedicated anime forum, the people on it are going to be generally pleasant. This is my conclusion.

Several things kept me away for a couple of months. Now they're all finished. At this point, boy do I have plenty to post.

Welcome back R.Dan, glad to have you back!

Welcome back!

Please watch were you park your car as your car insurance may not cover damage caused by megadeuses.

(damn, it has been how long since I last typed that?)

Too damn long. These forums have gotten even more ghostly since my last active period. It's disappointing to me, especially coming back with hopes and intentions.

Many of my Internet acquaintances are just faceless, and most fade after just one year, but Big O will forever be linked to discovery. It would be crushing to lose the last of the acquaintances I associate with that. Though, perhaps that is just the feeling of losing old baggage from a previous form. Maybe it's mere nostalgia.

Where do you guys typically go, forum-wise? Is your Escaflowne community still active, Gaddes--er, I mean, Graham?

I've been over at the PSU forums. It's a Playstation centered site, and the people are swell.

I've also been going to No Mutants Allowed and RPG Codex a good bit as well. Both sites are the victim of Bethesda's smear tactics for voicing opposition to their overhyped and overrated McRPG's.

As for the Escaflowne community, It's still around, but pretty much under the radar.

I see. No anime ones. It's good that they PSU people are swell, as you say. I joined a Starcraft-centered forum a couple weeks ago, but the people there were sucky.

I've been thinking of joining something semi-big and obvious, like the ANN forum.

Does the Escaflowne community still have a website? If they still have a forum, I want to visit it. If they have old codgers still clinging to their fandom like us, then we must be similar.

I've though about joining ANN as well.


99% of the sites are small fan sites that haven't been updated in years and a quick forum search for a big Esca fansites turns up stuff like Fanfic.net and other small communities. Outside of CoA and the old Paradigm forums, I haven't been to to many Anime websites.  However back in the late 90's I joined numerous DBZ and Gundam sites.

O rly? Then perhaps we should. Like, today or tomorrow.

Yeah, I try and sign up later, but it's time to go kill some Nazi's in Silent Storm.

I'm not sure what to name myself. R. Daniel makes sense for this forum, because I feel relatively connected to you guys, and the whole Dorothy thing.

My DeviantArt name is Can't Stop the Robot, or rather, CantStoptheRobot. I think I'll go with something like that. Hyper-cute would be Cant Stop the Robop.

Do you have any opinion on this, and also, what will you be naming yourself?

Whenever I sign up, you'll know it's me, I'll either use Gaddes or Graham Aker.

I signed up as Can't Stop the Robot.

They have their forum options on a line of tabs, linking to other parts of their site. Rolling over this can cause unintentional opening up of some other junk. Also, every page is bordered by a huge ad for Gunslinger Girls. These things bother me.

The Community forum is blocked with no explanation as to what grants permission. I assume I have to make a post or something. Still, odd.

EDIT: You need to subscribe in order to turn off the ads and enter the Community forum.

Hmm... I'm beginning to wonder if the ANN forums are indeed the answer. Subscription is cheap, but...


The generically-named Anime-Forums.com seems better. In format and interface, (vBulletin), and in community composition, it reminds me of PCF, except with more people.

Blah, subscription to post in a the community forum? Weak.


Yeah, ANN usually has those huge ads, and they change every one and awhile. At least it's Gunslinger Girls, and not the creepy hell Higarushi boarder they had a few months ago.


lol, that doesn't take much sadly. I swear we keep losing people every few months.

NMA is the punchline to a joke nobody ever made

lol true Sharp. I couldn't join anyways as having an E Mail such as Yahoo or Gmail is a no no. Also welcome back Sharp.

Aside from this place I tend to frequent a few other forums.


First being Facepunch Studios. However, I would recommend that most people here avoid that place like the plague, as they're highly anti-anime (more like anti-Japan in general). Actually they're pretty much anti-everything except video games, and even in that regard they're somewhat anti-console as well as anti-several other things that are too numerous to count. Only go there if you like PC games and Garry's Mod, for discussions involving much else steer clear.
www.facepunch.com (http://www.facepunch.com)


I also recently started posting on Maidens of the Kaleidoscope, which is a Touhou forum. Oddly enough it's starting to feel like Paradigm-City in its non-hostile nature (and choice of color):
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum)

Another place I frequent is Hard-Light Productions, which is where most of the Freespace Open community is. If you like space-sim games or have an interest in programming, I recommend stopping by:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/ (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/)




I have the same username on all of them.

Dammit double post. >:(

*goes into triple post induced rage*

GODDAMMIT YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!!!  >:( >:( >:(

lol suuure Paul, act like you didn't intend for it to happen.

On a serious note, thanks for the info. Though now that I have a 9-5 job and a portfolio to fill, I don't have any time or interest to build a presence in other forums.

HongFire Anime Network is pretty swell. Even though they have a large section of the website devoted to erotic stuff, they still somehow have ~10% female users, and loads of users from every corner of the world speaking English, or whatever. You can enter a special language chat area if you wish, too.

A site like that really brings to fruition what the Internet can offer. For example, someone started asking what the Japanese must really think about Americans, and lo and behold, a handful of Japanese (and a Frenchman, two Mexicans, etc) all gave their opinions.