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Hey.  Name's Lightning Rider.  I've been looking for an active metal forum with a lot of great discussion, and believe it or not, the journey's been a rough one.  The first three were slow as snailshit and the last one was full of jokers who didn't care about staying on topic.  I can get better discussions on Reddit than that place (for the time being).  I'm hoping my journey has come to an end.  And if not, I'll record a sad post-metal album about how no one loves metal anymore :P

Oh, and apparently, there's a warning against rick-rolling, so there go my plans.  So instead, I'll post an incredible cover of a song from a baby show.

 

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I don't know man, not trying to dox you or anything but I have my suspicions that's probably not your real name.

We have plenty of good discussion here but some of us, myself for one, do have trouble caring about staying on topic. I hope this won't be a problem for you. The mods do their best to keep us in line but we're an unruly bunch.

So could you tell us what kind of metal you're hoping to discuss? 

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38 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Don't know if you've found it yet on your own, but up at the top of the page there is an 'activity' tab which will display all the most recent forum posts in descending order. I find it helpful in navigating this place especially if you want to see what everyone's currently talking about.

Matter of fact, I DID catch that, and I'm gonna be using it pretty often.

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Saw someone who I didn’t know had posted in loads of threads and logged in to ban them, saw these posts were all genuine, rethought my life, said “Welcome’ then logged out again.

p.s. GG is obsessed that with Activity button.  He’s like a guy caught in a boobies storm reaching up and somehow catching dicks without that button to guide him.

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18 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Saw someone who I didn’t know had posted in loads of threads and logged in to ban them, saw these posts were all genuine, rethought my life, said “Welcome’ then logged out again.

p.s. GG is obsessed that with Activity button.  He’s like a guy caught in a boobies storm reaching up and somehow catching dicks without that button to guide him.

Well, now that we're acquainted, no need to ban me for overposting. :P

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