Hail 40oz!

I too pledge allegiance and welcome our new db overlord. Hail 40, making Doom great again!

btw, mad props to kontra kommando who started this forum. I'm kinda riding on the coattails of his idea. If I started a forum today it probably wouldn't be as active as Doomer Boards currently is and I'd probably give up. I need you guys more than you need me.

lol, you may be dissappointed, but maybe not. Hear me out.

I do plan on inviting more people from doomworld to come here. It's likely that there are many people at doomworld who would have no interest in a place like this, and that's ok. I don't hate doomworld or anything. I just don't agree with how the leadership is conducted there. They don't like arguments, debates, trolls, radical ideologies, or angry tone of speech, and I understand that. But to resist it, they arbitrarily stop if from happening by locking threads and banning members from their community. I don't believe this is a healthy way to provoke a fun and happy environment, especially when Doomers don't seem to have any other community to go to. Sometimes it feels like my posts are unwanted, and I have to carefully word my speech in such a way that it couldn't possibly hurt anyone's feelings. That's always been a very exhausting and unnatural way for me to communicate. Sometimes I just want to say what I want to say, and get the point across in the most direct way possible without risking losing my ability to participate in the group.

My goals for this forum are to operate on a different set of rules where people are encouraged to be themselves. What are you excited for? What pisses you off? What do you love? What do you think is cool? I want to know who you are, and I don't want to stifle communication so that you can be what people want you to be. Your individual personality is important. We have our own beliefs and preferences, and having the opportunity to discuss them with each other without the consequences of being denied the right to speak is extremely important. So yes, that means you can talk about religion and politics and society. You can troll people, you can joke about sensitive topics. Wage war with your ideas!

We're just people who are united together under the flag of Doom.

yo that 40 dude is such a fucking asshole i mean jeez

im kidding that 40 dude is such a fucking nice guy and good pick for forum bus driver. He's a pragmatic dude who has the right mindset for something like this. Looking forward to some heated debates™ just like the ones we used to see often on DW, though maybe just a tad less vitriolic.

The king is dead, long live the king!

Trace, you've said some shit I strongly disagree with, much of the time for reasons pertaining to morality, but you've always made such a clear effort to be diplomatic and genuinely not try to be an asshole and I think the effort and cordiality alone deserve better treatment than what you've been given. Maybe intent doesn't matter to some people, but it does to me.