I've been a member since late 2011 and... Jeez... going on 6 years of RPing almost exclusively on one site. -And frankly this is the only online community that I'm a member of, with the exception of Facebook groups. It's, as some other members have said, a home-away-from-home. It's a place I can come to chat with like-minded people and do some writing. 

The spammers and bots and attacksers suck - whenever the Guild would go away for a time, it felt as though there was a void that needed to be filled. From that I started playing Dungeons and Dragons with some friends at college, but it's not the same as an in-depth roleplay where you're not restricted by the confines of verbal conveyance. I've also done LARP, but it, again, is not the same. 

The spam forum, while it is a cesspool that should be contained, is where most of the chatting and general dickery happens and I've enjoyed my time there... well sorta.

I realize that there's no way I can convey what the guild means to me with a single post, so I'll go for a gif instead. 

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