Quite a number of years ago, I also used to post on Wrong Planet. They couldn't be bothered with all my posts whining about my support workers. Then one time I mentioned that my old neighbour got sent down for causing a stir. He's not a bad guy. He just gets fed up of being single and can become rather agitated by it. However, he endangered lives. I'm not going to go into a long story, but he got a jail term for throwing stuff onto the street from his top floor flat and the building we resided in has a bar downstairs where people can sit out the back and smoke, so yeah, he may have killed someone. They thought I was making excuses for him because he has ASD. So what if he has ASD? It's not that he's a bad guy that knowingly wants to hurt someone. He just went off the rails due to his stress. So I wasn't making excuses for how he behaved at all. I'm sure guys have done worse things and got off lightly. They implied that I was covering up for him, and one person said that was insulting because it suggests ASD personnel need not be punished for having ASD, when that was them putting words into my mouth. By that point, they had just branded me as a stalker because I made the same type of threads about my issues, when the rest of the topics got closed when people began to lose pity and turn against me. They had some sympathy at first. Sympathy from armchair psychologists eventually dries up on the Internet, though.
Video game forums are all but dead now. In 2003, there was no Facebook or Bebo, so using forums was the norm. I'm not sure when Myspace came about, but I never really used that. Although I did register on a lot of forums. If I joined a forum and I found it was dead or full of trolls, I'd go find another one with better users, even if it took me a while. Then just about all the forums gradually got so inactive, to the point where posting on them got to be kind of pointless. In recent years, I've had a hard time posting on forums and really getting a good sense of community out of most of them. People move on, after all. I'm still a member of several such survival horror gaming forums, but I feel like I'm talking to myself most of the time, because only a few people besides myself even still post on them, but I'm not usually replied to that often. Even when we do post, we usually just go on and on about how we miss the way the games were made 15 years ago, and when there's no news in months, we get so bored. Well, the message boards about Resident Evil may as well be dead anyway. Capcom have butchered that series with all their fake promises and other cash-grab drivel since around 2006. People on the forums used to have a neutral attitude about what other fans thought of the franchise, but I found that after so long, it was just fanboys always being fanboys by defending whatever bad decision Capcom made.
Games change. The staff within Konami don't even care about making console games anymore. After that Kojima guy left the company, they distanced themselves from all their top franchises and even referred to mobile gaming as the "future" of gaming. As laughable as that sounds, I realized recently that soon Resident Evil may meet a similar fate to Silent Hill. In general, though, social media is an eyesore. Then again, all good things must come to an end, but it's a shame that there's no way we will see a better conclusion. But I suppose fans would still moan that they miss the series even if that had happened. You can never have too much of a good thing, or can you?