Rory

1.) They joined OB during the golden age, and subsequently claim responsibility for its success when it was largely beyond their control anyway
2.) They think that the music tastes of the younger generations are largely shit 
3.) They're tribal and hold opinions largely only popular inside their own group e.g no discord
4.) They're dismissive of the contributions made by successive waves of members
5.) They frequently refer to the good old days
6.) They have an INCREDIBLE sense of entitlement
7.) They are politically sharp elbowed, and kick off about anything they don't like
8.) They formulated most of their views during the golden age and don't give a shit if these views are extremely out of date
9.) Usually they're really arrogant and overbearing in their beliefs, often unwilling to listen to the other side
10.) Often balding
11.) Statistically more likely to back Brexit (well we had one leave voter, probably more than any other group. Ty mintlou)
12.) They actually have kids 
13.) Frequently go for inappropriately young girls
14.) Get angry af when they hear that Discord offers the same functionality as the chatbox. Pic related

I can't remember a dip in activity the last time the shout box was a thing, if anything it drew more traffic into the forums/website.

I mean, I'm just gonna say it. This situation is blindly obvious, and I'm shocked that it gets discussed so frequently considering we actually have quite a lot of smart people in this community. Hopefully this will clear up the situation from how I see it. And TBH, this is mostly aimed towards the hardcore OG guys.
Many members and regulars (no, not solely the usual suspects) love to complain about one or several of the following things:
1) OB isn't growing.
2) OB isn't finding the right game so won't progress.
3) If OB is attempting to progress in a certain area/way - they will complain that it's wrong way of doing it.
4) The leadership is inadequate.
5) OB SHOULD NOT progress, because it's perfect the way it is with the old school member base and a teamspeak (???)
 
Many love to complain, but do nothing about it. And no, writing a 1,000 word post on the forums on this topic does not mean you are attempting to do something good for OB. As far as I can see (no offence to past and current mods) there are only about 5 people who have put a good amount of work into this community in the last 2-3 years - Wist, Unseen and Sir_Conor being 3 of those. I am not attempting to take the moral high ground, I've been guilty of this in the past - right now I don't really put any effort in, but I don't complain either. Watching from afar I've come to see it's such a dickish thing to do, these people (for free - and even out of their own pockets) put in mad hours into trying to spearhead new servers, set up new landing pages, transition to a free discord which represents teamspeak as closely as possible for you guys, and all you do is haul hate, lol.
 
The split in this community seems to me to be:
1) Those who will only ever go into the OG channel and no where else, and will - quite literally - refuse to play with other people in this community because they don't feel comfortable doing so - at an extreme end, some of you even have about 15+ members in this community blocked/muted. The former is a fairly low number, because there are a few guys who spend a lot of time in the OG channel but are regularly open to playing things like cs mixes, league gathers, pubg games etc with other people in the lower down channels. If you don't have to think twice, you know you're one of these.
2) Literally everybody else.
 
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with this - you're free to talk to who you want. But it confuses me, there is no effort made with the extensive community at all. If this is the case, which it is, because there are some people who live in the OG channel that I haven't had a conversation with in like 2 years - why not just go to your own teamspeak? You aren't a fan of the new member base, you no longer like the games that OB attempts to try. Maybe you don't have to, but quite frankly, some of the stuff you guys say is pretty annoying. When I was quite high up in about a 1-2 years ago (in member terms) as in I was having long chats with Unseen/Conor about OB every day and hosting every other event - it was quite frankly pathetic seeing some of you post negative comments on here about things you were completely clueless about, about the effort that these people put in and the reasoning behind decisions that were made. I remember I actually used to laugh that some of you would post on member apps 'not sure who you are, would like to see you a bit more around before i give my +1' LMFAO. Of course you don't have a fucking clue who they are, the rest of us did because we actually played the servers with them, other games with them, or talked to them. Are they not integrated unless they go into that one channel? I remember that was actually a statement made by someone once.
But that moves on to communication - and here I will partially agree with you. The high council should and could be more communicative in decisions/plans/the state of OB. But TBH - what does Conor owe to you? It's like you think you're all part of some exclusive group, and you get annoyed if new, young people come along. Maybe that's changed - I don't really know how you welcome people in there anymore. If I do visit the OG channel I usually just mute myself within about 20 minutes, because it's just the same people making the same noises and jokes over and over again.
 
By all means continue doing what you're doing, complaining etc - but summarising this, thought I'd let you know that there's literally like 15-16 year olds who have messaged me in the past finding it bewildering with how some of you guys, 10 years their senior, act on teamspeak and comment on the forums. Discord hasn't gone ahead because of how much some of you raged and begged for it not to happen. Maybe you don't want OB to progress - and that's fine, but you need to see the other POV that some people do, we want more members, more servers. Maybe it's time to buy that teamspeak?
Anyway, feel free to bitch about me now amongst yourselves and this will probably seclude myself further from that channel. A new whatsapp group because you're scared of 'eyes'? Is this a year 6 playground or are we 20+ year old men? To quote Unseen 'no one gives a shit what is typed in there'
3 year rant build up over

So what you're saying @Wist is that it is my turn?
 
Pass me the keys, it's my go to fix this godforsaken community.
 
1 honor = 1 agree

I can't remember a dip in activity the last time the shout box was a thing, if anything it drew more traffic into the forums/website.

Wasn't Unseen offered co owner and then declined?
I agree with what you're saying and we are probably on the same wavelength about this stuff but it's not like Conor didn't offer Unseen that opportunity.
Other than Unseen I can't really think of another who would have suited owner of OB but then again I don't know most of the community as well as I used to.

I've been doing lots of woodcutting recently. I'm probably going to take a break but it was a good skill to train, especially on mobile because it's pretty afk.

After like 11 years, I' decided to man up and do Jad.
 
2nd attempt ?
This means more than it should. I'm not crying, it's raining.

 
 
 

This is the one true GOAT topping.
Take notes. 

With all the talk of jailbreak memories, SlayerX has resorted to desperate measures and decided to wait out JB's possible return on TS.

Just one of the few videos I disinterestedly and quickly made of the old jailbreak server here. Ignore the mc at the beginning, since it's unrelated. 
 
Honestly, it was times like these that made me stick around. RIP I guess.
I'm so tired of communities I kind of stick around at dying. I have to find new places, and so many new places are just awful. No sense of community. Outbreak jb was the bee's knees - I mean even on the forums it was fantastic. 

Just created a Discord thread for all important information and rules should get an idea on most of the stuff we have on it if you haven't been on it yet. Next we'll be doing a vote to pick which VOIP we end up going to which should be coming some time next week.
Want to do it after the next Minecraft Update, since the next update Aquatic is meant to add a ton of so should be interesting to try it out together.
Probably August if there interest in people playing.
Yeah when CSGO 2 comes out.
No idea, need to ask Kai who gone on holiday. It may have been cancelled given that only about 5 people signed up thought I'm not 100% sure.
Probably if we ever find a weird game that works for us to actually make a server on it though its finding that something special. At the same time at the moment were a Gaming Community where people come on to play various of other games whatever peaks our interests which I honestly don't really mind too much, I've been playing ton's of borderlands with Cheesy recently gonna play Pre sequel on Monday if anyone wants to join.  
Becoming a Tit... Twitch Streamer, have donation perks like access to Private Instagram and Snapchat after that you'll get loads of money for better Internets.  
When you post as "Crybaby Mintlou" It's genuinely makes me want to do the opposite.
Landing page needs to be fixed, as people suggested if you just go straight to forums everything will load quicker. 
 We going to Chester on Sunday then? xoxo

Anyone could answer this probably but still.
Is the website slower to load these days? It takes me a good 3-5 seconds to get the page up initially and another similar amount of time to get through the splash page. 
Not having this problem with any other website and it's the same for both my phone and on PC.

@Rory something kinda similar to that yenk track u liked 
 
 

I'm on call for another 3 weeks because of NI Water implementing a hosepipe ban.
Changed my mind about the sun - fuck that shit bring back the rain.

This is the most /r/hmm I've ever seen. 

It's a completely free community platform which has drag and drop config for everything. I'm sure OB has had this live for several months now, when it really shouldn't take more than a few hours. 
The excuses are bizarre. 

Just to let you know, I try to flush at least 1 wet wipe down the toilet a day. Most days it’s 4 or 5, but at least 1 a day.

It's so fucking good
Sunshine = Happy me

Gotta admit I talked shit in that other thread but I went through his library and I was really suprised - Wont change my opinion on him as a person but I cant seem to stop listening to his shit so he must have been doing something right.
 

Gotta admit I talked shit in that other thread but I went through his library and I was really suprised - Wont change my opinion on him as a person but I cant seem to stop listening to his shit so he must have been doing something right.
 

3 weeks away from bringing it home

“You need to tell me the truth right now or I’ll kill you and this jit.” She said that “jit” was slang for the unborn child.
He then started elbowing, head-butting, and punching her. He strangled her until she almost passed out. He took her to the bathroom and demanded one last time that she tell him everything or he would kill her in the bathtub. She couldn’t even recognize her face in the mirror—it looked “distorted”—and her left eye was completely shut and “leaking blood.” She was losing vision. She vomited

Maybe I'm missing something but why does this keep getting referred to as his ''Past'' like this shit happened a decade ago.
 
Last October, prosecutors charged him with aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and witness-tampering.

Maybe I'm missing something but why does this keep getting referred to as his ''Past'' like this shit happened a decade ago.
 
Last October, prosecutors charged him with aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, domestic battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and witness-tampering.