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Firstly, some context. I moved away from home just under a year ago. I wasn't quite Richard Whittington, who famously left for London with little more than a backpack, but I did leave most of my stuff at home. Namely, my desktop PC, that bastion from which a bespectacled teenager conducted many a vicious campaign. At one point he spent hours massing people as part of Omega, at another he somehow became a forum admin, and eventually he became one of those tiresome people who doesn't actually play the game but still hangs around the forums in the style of Statler and Waldorf.

Anyway, I'm back home for the weekend to do some family thing. I logged on my old PC, took a look at my favourites and decided to log back into the forums of that game I used to play. To cut a long story short, I've just spent an hour reading old SGW threads. From the COP/CIA war, to my ombudsman campaign thread (which is a classic by the way) to some classic old SLA threads featuring Esker.

This game was such a big part of my life for such a very long time and I had some great times here. I think it was here that I developed that caustic style of argument which became such an asset in my career and elsewhere. It was here, also, that I met some wonderful people with whom I still converse. It was so great, in it's hey day, that I almost wish everybody who played SGW would all just start some new game from scratch and we could do it all over again. ETL, Robe, Juan, Esker, Buck, Semper - just relive it all.

I'm going to conclude by thanking Jason. The same Jason with whom I bitterly disagreed about so much - but regardless of all that you made this game and I had terrific fun here. Is it dead? Dying? Gone?

Still, it was great whilst it lasted, wasn't it?

It's in a decline, but not gone yet.

Greg! You drunken fool, this game will never die and all your favourite people still skulk the forums, hidden but not forgotten.

It's funny I should come and read this; I was reminiscing about this game the other day and how much I missed the community of old and the role playing. I sincerely enjoyed the years I spent roaming these forums and the people from all over the world I spoke with on a regular basis, the days when you could still play the game without investing a fortune (of either time or $$) and still be competitive.

This game was with me from my GCSE's and all the way to my graduation from University and even a little after that (hell I still come back now and then even now, well over a decade since I first signed up). It got me to learn photoshop, it kept my creative writing going, it provided me with debates to keep my mind sharp, friends to talk me through my many years of insomnia and it helped me maintain a friendship which may well have echoed out long ago without this whole game to act as a mutual forum of activity. I will always remember my time here with fondness.

You make me sad Greg but I do feel the same way about this game.

I liked this game because I could come back from the pub drunk and then chat **Filtered**.

Jim wrote:I liked this game because I could come back from the pub drunk and then chat **Filtered**.

Yes, there was always that too.

hehe , i come online when i get sick and bored of sitting home every colpe of years , great to see you logging in even if it was in 2015