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The time you spend on this site
I've been using this site quite heavily for a few years now, and don't really regret it much. It's been hellish fun sometimes, and sometimes just hell (probably at busiest times modding OOT when Astroglide wasn't around was the worst bits). I've made some decent friends I think, and some interesting enemies (that's probably a bit strong) but being thick-skinned and enjoying arguments, even the confrontation and upset has been kinda fun (especially when looked back on, not so much during).
I don't regret any of it. However, I think that some people actually feel kind of addicted and feel they spend too much time here. I was wondering, Loungers, how each of you feel about this site? Are you glad you found it, and has it been good or bad overall for you? How would you feel if it disappeared tomorrow? |
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Re: The time you spend on this site
I gotta say as a diehard RGP'r (Yes, THAT Tanya) I was always aloof and stuck up about coming on this site. I registered a while ago but only did that to post 1-2 at that time, then went away for a year or two.
So I decided to give it a chance just in the last 2-3 months and have find myself truly enjoying it. I wouldn't say "addicted" but I would say that I enjoy coming on to the site every hour or so (a little break from the work routine) and see what "new and exciting" posts have been added. LOL T |
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Re: The time you spend on this site
this place was invaluable when i was first learning to play and when i played a ton...that was like 4/5 years ago...i've met a bunch of posters, including my current roommates here, made some friends, met interesting people, have fun vegas trips etc...now that i don't play i mostly just read during work or when i have nothing to do...the solid threads are usually interesting reads cuz people here are often intelligent and the idiots are easy enough to skip over...do i regret it, definitely not, but i never took it really serious enough to the point where i have enemies or even a well known online persona...i keep it what it is, just a place to read and learn, i have no real investment in the site like some others seem to have...
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Re: The time you spend on this site
LOL everyone who responds has a custom title... anyway here's a real response from a real noob. Basically 2p2 is for me a refuge. Idiots get ridiculed, which never happens in my day to day life. In some ways this is a truly amazing community... I mean ANYONE can sign up completely anonymously. And yet despite that, the 2p2 community remains to this day not a cesspool or a circle jerk or a joke.
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Re: The time you spend on this site
My day:
Play three tourneys, hit refresh, respond, play three tourneys..... etc. Sometimes, I buy food or something. |
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Re: The time you spend on this site
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LOL everyone who responds has a custom title... [/ QUOTE ] [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] T |
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Re: The time you spend on this site
lately i haven't been on here nearly as much as i used to be and i'm ok with that
back in the day i was here all the time and i'm ok with that too the best part, i think, is the friendships i've made here that transcend tl;dr |
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Re: The time you spend on this site
I typically cycle through obsessions of one sort or another, so if it wasn't one thing it would be another. So I can't say I regret spending too much time in any one place, and I fully expect those places to change over time. I do regret that 2+2 often hasn't been what it could be, but then again, you have to balance that against the undeniable fact that it could also be so much worse, and so many places are.
If anything, I regret that my talent for hold-em seems to have a low ceiling. I never really got all that good at it, and I'm used to being able to accomplish things I put my mind to. That was especially surprising to me because I was able to count cards well in blackjack and also did quite well in seven-card stud. I'm better at my worst in 7-stud than I was at my best in hold'em. Oh well. So if there was a disappointing level of pay-off I got from the forums, it was on the poker side, and that blame can't be assigned to the forums themselves. |
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Re: The time you spend on this site
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I typically cycle through obsessions of one sort or another, so if it wasn't one thing it would be another. So I can't say I regret spending too much time in any one place, and I fully expect those places to change over time. I do regret that 2+2 often hasn't been what it could be, but then again, you have to balance that against the undeniable fact that it could also be so much worse, and so many places are. If anything, I regret that my talent for hold-em seems to have a low ceiling. I never really got all that good at it, and I'm used to being able to accomplish things I put my mind to. That was especially surprising to me because I was able to count cards well in blackjack and also did quite well in seven-card stud. I'm better at my worst in 7-stud than I was at my best in hold'em. Oh well. So if there was a disappointing level of pay-off I got from the forums, it was on the poker side, and that blame can't be assigned to the forums themselves. [/ QUOTE ] Perhaps you expected too much too fast from yourself. Are you sure you put in the hours? |
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Re: The time you spend on this site
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] I typically cycle through obsessions of one sort or another, so if it wasn't one thing it would be another. So I can't say I regret spending too much time in any one place, and I fully expect those places to change over time. I do regret that 2+2 often hasn't been what it could be, but then again, you have to balance that against the undeniable fact that it could also be so much worse, and so many places are. If anything, I regret that my talent for hold-em seems to have a low ceiling. I never really got all that good at it, and I'm used to being able to accomplish things I put my mind to. That was especially surprising to me because I was able to count cards well in blackjack and also did quite well in seven-card stud. I'm better at my worst in 7-stud than I was at my best in hold'em. Oh well. So if there was a disappointing level of pay-off I got from the forums, it was on the poker side, and that blame can't be assigned to the forums themselves. [/ QUOTE ] Perhaps you expected too much too fast from yourself. Are you sure you put in the hours? [/ QUOTE ] I'm not sure I put the necessary quality of attention into the hours as consistently as I should have, though I put in plenty of hours. I think I could have done better on my end. But maybe only theoretically. When I took up hold'em I was in some extremely bleak and stressful years on the job and in my life in general, and I was so stressed I had memory and concentration problems. For whatever level of ability I have, the hours and the quality of concentration I applied were not enough. For someone with greater natural ability, or perhaps for me in a better period, what I brought to the table then might have been enough. I do intend to try again in the future, though, and haven't sworn off the game or anything. I'm actually hoping that the U.S. reverses its legal moves on the online casinos, so one day it will be easy to get into it again from the comfort of home. |
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