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Author Topic: Random thoughts - On the Origins of "I Could Eat A Horse"  (Read 316373 times)

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Re: Random thoughts - On the Origins of "I Could Eat A Horse"
« Reply #2760 on: October 16, 2024, 06:40:15 am »

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Re: Random thoughts - On the Origins of "I Could Eat A Horse"
« Reply #2761 on: October 20, 2024, 06:59:04 pm »

So I've been feeling a lot more nostalgic this past year, two years, and I stumbled across a great definition in one of the books I'm reading:

A longing for the past, not because it was better, but because it was.

And damn if that doesn't hit the nail on the head.
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« Reply #2762 on: October 21, 2024, 04:23:16 pm »

So I've been feeling a lot more nostalgic this past year, two years, and I stumbled across a great definition in one of the books I'm reading:

A longing for the past, not because it was better, but because it was.

And damn if that doesn't hit the nail on the head.

Sounds a bit like a concept my people have called Hiraeth.

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Re: Random thoughts - On the Origins of "I Could Eat A Horse"
« Reply #2763 on: October 24, 2024, 09:49:15 pm »

Found out about Samuel Johnson, and that guy gets me.

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Re: Random thoughts - On the Origins of "I Could Eat A Horse"
« Reply #2764 on: January 03, 2025, 10:18:42 pm »



On the same vein as this post from a year back, here is a graph of the Bay12 Forums' post count between 2009 and 2024.

2008 and 2025 are excluded due to incomplete records. The number for 2012 is absent because the program Magma used is stupid. It is 1.047.632 posts.

So, first thoughts; The optimistic possibility did not come to pass. We lost about 42.5% of the post count from 2023 instead of the 20% that I proposed in my best case scenario. This, is bad. And realistic. I did say that we will realistically survive to the end of 2020's and not much beyond that.

By the current trajectory, we will post around ~25.000 in 2025 and ~15.000 in 2026. We will reach 2030 with a measily ~3000 posts, and finish it with a minuscule ~1600. Again, like we did last year, assuming less than 100 posts a year or a single post once every 3-4 days is when the forum dies, our end is in the year 2035... 10 years from now.

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« Reply #2765 on: January 04, 2025, 03:48:08 am »

It's disheartening to see the numbers get that low, but I'm not really sure what we can do to stop the decline. It probably wouldn't seem that bad except for the fact that it seems to be doing so quite fast.
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« Reply #2766 on: January 04, 2025, 04:05:39 am »

I'm just assuming that at some point people will realize that social media sucks and forums will become popular again. Then we'll have a while new problem, eh?
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Re: Random thoughts - On the Origins of "I Could Eat A Horse"
« Reply #2767 on: January 04, 2025, 08:46:40 am »

I don't think it could get that low, really? I mean I'm really not a prolific poster, and I post maybe on average 1 post a day.  So a mere 10 people like me is over 3600 a year, and 50 people like me is around 18k/year.

That said: quality over quantity, eh?


EDIT: a not entirely random contemplation, just avoiding a double-post.

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Re: Random thoughts - On the Origins of "I Could Eat A Horse"
« Reply #2768 on: January 05, 2025, 08:35:46 am »

It's disheartening to see the numbers get that low, but I'm not really sure what we can do to stop the decline. It probably wouldn't seem that bad except for the fact that it seems to be doing so quite fast.
Seems inevitable with stuff like discords getting more popular

Time will tell, and nothing lasts forever. I'd just be glad for what happened happening than try to yearn for eternity

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Re: Random thoughts - On the Origins of "I Could Eat A Horse"
« Reply #2769 on: January 05, 2025, 06:03:23 pm »

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It's not something I have - it's who I am.

I get to decide what language I get to use for myself.

I understand the point they are trying to make but, taken at face value, I think I have to disagree. If you are a member in society, you are not the sole arbiter of language use. In fact, language requires an agreement, not a dictate.

I also feel like it falls afoul of the idea that changing something's name changes what it is. Relabeling something physical doesn't change the physicality.  Saying that you don't have a condition but you "are" something... does it change how you interact with the world? Does it change your physical ability to perform a task?

I am wary of confusing ideas of physical labels with social stigma labels. That is - I appreciate that the <condition> label might result in some kind of social stigma and a change in label might reduce the stigma. But it's not a "universal" principle.

I dunno why, but the post just struck a nerve... not in its content, but in the tone behind it. I feel like it perpetuates self-first.
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Re: Random thoughts - On the Origins of "I Could Eat A Horse"
« Reply #2770 on: January 06, 2025, 11:42:30 am »

i can't say it does
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« Reply #2771 on: January 06, 2025, 11:38:33 pm »

It's disheartening to see the numbers get that low, but I'm not really sure what we can do to stop the decline. It probably wouldn't seem that bad except for the fact that it seems to be doing so quite fast.
Seems inevitable with stuff like discords getting more popular

Time will tell, and nothing lasts forever. I'd just be glad for what happened happening than try to yearn for eternity
Besides, even if the forum persists at a low level (Or has a resurgence), some day it'll stop being paid for for whatever reason.
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« Reply #2772 on: January 07, 2025, 03:32:32 am »

Should we start preparing for the end or do we hold off on that for a few years?
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« Reply #2773 on: January 07, 2025, 04:28:10 am »

Should we start preparing for the end or do we hold off on that for a few years?

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« Reply #2774 on: January 07, 2025, 10:47:44 am »

Should we start preparing for the end or do we hold off on that for a few years?
I am stocking on plump helmet wine for The End of Bays.
When the end of Bays come we pack the forum up in a viking barge and give it a proper sendoff, launching it into the magma sea
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