Also gotta salute everyone who was here from the beginning. Drinky, MAF, Cheebs, Himuro, White Man/TVC, Nintex, Mupepe, Shake...everyone. Salute to our greatest villains, losers, and shit posters. BlackStallion, Makaveli, Wilco.
2006 brehs...nearly two decades ago. That's insane to think about. Many of us were in college or high school. Kids. Now we're older, some of us have our own kids or wives or girlfriends. Being an adult, not having to deal with school and doing adult shit is fun but man...I used to space my classes out specifically so I could waste hours in the computer lab on campus. Get home, hop on The Bore (and GAF). Play some WoW. Head out, walk down the block to Dominos, come back with a pizza. Watch some movies with my roommates. Hop back on The Bore. Play WoW or StarCraft and boom it's already 3AM and I'm still fucking around on the computer. 
I was just thinking...remember when some of you losers tried to doxx me and send Deathly Hallows spoilers to me, after I briefly left the forum to avoid spoilers.
Remember when I met Cheebs in real life, and later saw him get in the back seat of his mom's car despite there being no one sitting shot gun.
Remember when Demi lost his legs. 
We doing this? I guess we're doing this.
The Bore probably won't make it into my memoirs, but this place has made me such a better person than I would be otherwise. Between the support and freedom to experiment with who I want to be, this place was kinda special. Sorry to get cheesy.
When Wrath invited me in 2011, even though I didn't know what would happen with GAF I had a feeling I was gonna get perma'd soon. Instead of letting that happen, I felt so comfortable here I just stopped posting cold turkey. From a pathetic 200+ posts a day to 0. I felt kinda proud about that.
I started posting here way too much but it felt more manageable. The dopamine hits of replies (and later, likes) was more spread out.
This place had a reputation before I joined and I knew what I was getting into. The first few years I gladly accepted being the Nintendo punching bag. Eventually, I grew, and the board grew, and I felt a lot more comfortable here.
I remember posting about landing a job in Boston half a year after I joined. I couldn't legally drink and I didn't even have a driver's license. I was so scared. This place really helped put me at ease -- this is the most "adult" board I've been apart of, both the XXX kind and the sagely-advice kind. Meeting ShoNuff (and a friend from my own personal forum) at PAX East 2012 was the first time I ever connected my online life to my "real life."
Meeting Sho Nuff was fun. Basically walked up to the booth and started chatting with the demo guy, trying to discern if he was Sho out of the three guys there. After hearing about the game and learning more about it, I figured it was a 70/30 shot.
"So I have to say, I think this game really really really sucks." Confusion on his face.
"I wouldn't even post about it on The Bore."
It dawns on him 
More expert IRL trolls probably could have done more but I got my moment in.
Sho, it was fun talking with you! I don't know if I'll be able to play the game when it comes out, maybe on Windows 8 but I'm trying to switch to Linux... Aside from that I'm not a huuuuuge TBS fan. Sounds like you have a great buzz going though (two E3s running come later this year I'm sure.)
Before my sisters, before my parents, before any other online community, The Bore was the first place I came out as gay. In the leadup to this I had been joining in with The Bore's signature homoeroticism (which was far more intense 10 years ago, maybe we just got too old lol) when Wrath made a joke about me being gay. I said "fuck it" and basically said "Yeah so what?" The acceptance I got here directly led to my coming out on Facebook later that year, and my parents a few years after that.
My coming out pic from FB. 
The beard is an October thing I always do, sorry.
When bebpo first started talking about "Bore-Con" in early 2014 I was like, "Pfft yeah like I'd ever do something like that." Two years later I was booking my flight to Vegas to meet bebps and Kara. That was a pretty huge moment in my life honestly. I had flown twice before, both to California for business-y reasons and Vegas was something entirely different. I was so scared flying out there by myself… I've gone back to Vegas every September since then (except for 2020). It's now something I look forward to every year, and it wouldn't have happened without this place.
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The three of us talking about the Sega Saturn at a fancy restaurant while drinking absinthe for an hour then fending off some rando drug dealer at Planet Hollywood’s hotel bar at 3am is still my top Bore-Con memory. A close second is leaving the Stratosphere to get weed two blocks away with my sis, CatsCatsCats and shosta and the neighborhood had no street lights but people were chilling on the lawn like it was the afternoon, eyeing us as we walked through. That might have been the night I kicked bebpo’s half-asleep ass at Mario Kart after which shosta, at 4am and after having consumed much drink and edibles, said “I have to go to my job in 2 hours do you think I’ll be OK??” To which my sister flatly replied, “Nope.”
This is all to say nothing of the links, news articles, and media this place exposed me to that I never would have found otherwise. For better or worse.
I always had the impression demi never liked me very much so for the last couple years I've been pretty cold towards him, but mea culpa demi: I don't have anything against you and I hope you live your best life.
Thanks guys.
-Andrew
