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14 Name: Anonymous : 2017-11-26 00:46
I think isolation, loneliness, and everything pertaining to it are interesting subjects to reason about, partly I'd say so because it feels like this set of topics is very accessible to almost everyone. Many of us, and I think anecdotal evidence might suggest an increasing estrangement and social isolation in "our" societies as a whole, are acquainted with these concepts in a very non-abstract and acute way, but often in different forms (think of a Lost in Translation kind of isolation versus something you'd expect to be experienced by a student,) leading to many instances of these situations of loneliness that might be more akin to each other than a first glance might convey.
I sometimes yearn to relive parts of my childhood where it felt as if communication was necessarily connected with everything I did; and in hindsight I think that I already started to find surrogates for communication back then when I was only around thirteen (seven years ago,) the time I first consciously experienced that the general means of communication started to diverge from my own. Animal Crossing, for the original Nintendo DS, is a game that basically boils down to communicating with others, at ease, and I loved it. Just thinking of it now fills my upper body with a warm feeling.
Projects like this textboard let me relive things I seldom experience anymore, despite of the artificial manner of this kind of communication, to which I am, as I've suggested, used to since my early youth. Textboards as my form of replacing something that's missing -- maybe I should use my programming skills to come up with something that combines the spatial aspects of a game with the communicative purity of textboards like this one. Till then I'll stick around here. Thank you, whoever created this board, and the people who fill it. You make me feel less lonely.

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