Guess the motif + hello to old (and new) Swedish stgfans :)
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Eyvah_Ehyeh
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Guess the motif + hello to old (and new) Swedish stgfans :)
Thought I'd take a picture before the motif falls off entirely, and thought I'd use it as an opportunity to put a smile one someone's face, whilst also reaching out to old members of the Swedish shmup community STGFAN which was a thing maybe, hm, 2002-2008...? Well, at least *I* didn't stay around for much longer than 2007ish. Anyone still here from those days? javel? MNK? egret? brandbil? Kennyman666? Etc. I was called Undantaget at the forums, and my tag was A7A/AVA.
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KennyMan666
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Re: Guess the motif + hello to old (and new) Swedish stgfans
Oh hey it's you.
I remember that shirt pattern. Wish I had been able to get one at the time.
I remember that shirt pattern. Wish I had been able to get one at the time.
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Eyvah_Ehyeh
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Re: Guess the motif + hello to old (and new) Swedish stgfans
Well, if it makes you feel any better, longevity isn't the best thing about this pattern, seeing as how I haven't been wearing it much and it started peeling many a year ago. Has no-one else (here) made any t-shirts with bullet patterns?
Re: Guess the motif + hello to old (and new) Swedish stgfans
Hi, I think we met briefly at sven666's shmup meet in Gothenburg once. I was sad to see STGFAN go, but it was really a ghost town in the end.
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Eyvah_Ehyeh
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I can't put a face to your name, but I do seem to remember you were one of the later members, and yes, I was at ONE meeting at Svens so that's probably where we met. Good on ya for staying.
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Starfighter
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Re: Guess the motif + hello to old (and new) Swedish stgfans
I was only a part of STGFAN towards the end, but I do remember you! If I'm not mistaken I bought Nights into dreams + Christmas nights from you at the train station in Malmö.
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Dragoforce
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I believe Lowemark got into long distance running instead of shmups/stgfan some 7-8 years ago. He was the last owner of stgfan.
I've met you all losers at least once.
I've met you all losers at least once.
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I really enjoyed Stgfan, miss it quite a bit, but yes it was inevitable. Too niche for Sweden, and around 2008-2010 the genre was at it lowest, I think.
There were barely any new games to talk about.
A few things could have been done differently to extend it a few years, but really virtually all Swedish forums died as modern social media arose so it was just a matter of time.
It was a quite a thing -- that around those years there were, say, 20 dedicated Swedish gaming forums
(e.g., stg, fighter, square enix, arcade, vintage, NES, each gaming magazine had their own forum, and a couple of collector forums).
...and now they are replaced by social media groups inhabited by zombies.
We did place second a couple of times on the STGT and that was a very cool thing.
Edit: I like that you still have stgfan in your signature though Dragoforce!
There were barely any new games to talk about.
A few things could have been done differently to extend it a few years, but really virtually all Swedish forums died as modern social media arose so it was just a matter of time.
It was a quite a thing -- that around those years there were, say, 20 dedicated Swedish gaming forums
(e.g., stg, fighter, square enix, arcade, vintage, NES, each gaming magazine had their own forum, and a couple of collector forums).
...and now they are replaced by social media groups inhabited by zombies.
We did place second a couple of times on the STGT and that was a very cool thing.
Edit: I like that you still have stgfan in your signature though Dragoforce!
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Obiwanshinobi
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Re: Guess the motif + hello to old (and new) Swedish stgfans
Could this be due to roughly all Swedish internet users understanding English (hardly a rule of thumb, world-wide), or - maybe - forums as a thing lose popularity globally? (I wouldn't know.) If so, I like it like that, it has to be said. The parts of these forums I visit now and then seem to barely see all that much action anymore, and it's about as much as I can take, these days.DMC wrote:A few things could have been done differently to extend it a few years, but really virtually all Swedish forums died as modern social media arose so it was just a matter of time.
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Re: Guess the motif + hello to old (and new) Swedish stgfans
I guess it was mainly a global thing.
As we all know, killing time was increasingly done browsing around youtube/facebook/etc and chatting with friends--instead of writing long posts to strangers at discussion forums.
I remember many of those old forums struggled with spam bots & trolls, and had hosts that have left the forums but still retained the website.
So most forums struggled to obtain new members.
And I think the typical demographic was 15-25 years old around the early 2000s, and 10 years later most of these people had started families/jobs and simply had less time.
I think the German, French, and Italian forums had similar decreases in actiivity around 2010? Since Sweden is smaller, it makes sense the Swedish forums were more vulnerable.
But I agree with you, we're used to English rather than Swedish internet contents, so some stg enthusiasts just sufficed with shmups.com.
As we all know, killing time was increasingly done browsing around youtube/facebook/etc and chatting with friends--instead of writing long posts to strangers at discussion forums.
I remember many of those old forums struggled with spam bots & trolls, and had hosts that have left the forums but still retained the website.
So most forums struggled to obtain new members.
And I think the typical demographic was 15-25 years old around the early 2000s, and 10 years later most of these people had started families/jobs and simply had less time.
I think the German, French, and Italian forums had similar decreases in actiivity around 2010? Since Sweden is smaller, it makes sense the Swedish forums were more vulnerable.
But I agree with you, we're used to English rather than Swedish internet contents, so some stg enthusiasts just sufficed with shmups.com.
Re: Guess the motif + hello to old (and new) Swedish stgfans
I still lurk here for news and entertaining discussions, I was kallbrand at stgfan. Never been much of a poster anywhere.
This is very true too I think, I'm one of those people. I still buy, collect and play stuff, but not like back in those days.DMC wrote:And I think the typical demographic was 15-25 years old around the early 2000s, and 10 years later most of these people had started families/jobs and simply had less time.
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