Opening a thread for those who want to celebrate their attendance on the forum, as well as those who want to let us know that they need to take a break.
So, uh… I have a lot of explaining to do. I joined an SSBU team (I’m DangerNoodle :] ). I’ve been practicing. 5-10 hours a day (besides school and HW). I won’t be as active anymore. This is kinda abrupt, but… bye, for now.
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You didn’t explain that much, honestly. But, bye, I guess…
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hi, i still exist!
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As you could probably tell, I’m currently posting a little slower than I was. I’m still planning on posting stuff to makecode though
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Awh, byebye! Good luck with SSBU! I almost one a competition once. (By a wierd technicallity. I actually have never played the game until then XD)
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Safe to say I haven’t been as active as before these last few months
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I cried writing this but, I think it’s time.
I’M LEAVING MAKECODE. And the forum.
I may drop a reply or two every now and then, but it’s official. I had a blast making games, chatting, competing, but there’s only so much a high schooler can take. Ever since I started coding in 6th grade, my mood has been shifting. In elementary school, I used to be the happy, positive guy that always gave off a cheerful aura. Now my mental health and self-esteem aren’t doing well, and I’m 50% sure I have Depression, even though I haven’t been checked out yet. The stress of school, fitting in, and my future hit me hard, and now I’m “the guy who sits alone doing stuff on his computer”.
I always had a passion for entertaining people. Thus, I fell in love with game development. I always pushed myself with MakeCode to make GIANT PROJECTS like Pixel Smash, Mono, Cybershift, and other stuff to entertain the people. Then I’d post the games here. It would always make me smile seeing how many good things people were saying about my game, as well as things I could do better. Now, I feel overshadowed by “Post your games here” topics, random replies, and random & pointless arguments breaking out in EVERY. DANG. TOPIC. like this:
and games made with ZERO EFFORT. I feel like I’m one of the ONLY REMAINING PEOPLE who make CONSISTENT HIGH-QUALITY games on this site. @Taser summed up how I feel perfectly here:
I simply CANNOT TAKE THIS ANYMORE. This place used to be so fun to be on! Now every time I log in, I WANT TO SCREAM. SO BADLY. EVEN IF I’M IN THE MIDDLE OF CLASS. I tried. SO HARD. TO TRY TO BALANCE THIS PLACE BY MAKING COLLABORATION GAMES SO ADVANCED THEY CRASH THE EDITOR. B
but now I know…One person alone can’t save this entire site.
You may be wondering: “What’s going to happen to PIXEL SMASH?”…The truth is…I don’t completely know. I’m still going to mess around in the editor & make smaller projects & check on the forum from time to time so I MIGHT update Pixel Smash? I don’t know. All I know is, I can’t just abandon the largest topic on this site.
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I…also have something I want to get off my chest…
I…@PixelDoodle… Joined Underaged. I was 12. (Which explains why I’ve been here for 2 years and I’m only 14.) I even posted a few games. I just…Didn’t know that I had to be over 13 Until a few months AFTER I made my account. I just…laid low. Nobody noticed. I am very sorry @moderators. I hope you all can forgive me.
Well…goodbye everybody…@PixelDoodle…Out.
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I did too. I was never caught, but I did. You have nothing to be ashamed of. Nice knowing ya, @PixelDoodle. You will always be in all of our hearts.
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Nooooooooo 
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Sigh I knew this would happened… see ya later…
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Pixel Doodle, my fake rival… you will be thoroughly missed. Your contributions are immesurable and your affect on my own life has been bigger than you could ever imagine.
Good luck with high school, and I really hope you can work through your issues! About every single freshman I know (well, known) including myself has had had mental health struggles. It just comes with time, and eventually, it will go. (But that’s a really long eventually, so double good luck!)
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bro I couldn’t read this post… but I knew what it said…
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I put all my heart, soul and courage to write this reply. I spent 45 minutes typing everything out…Then got it grammar checked…just for it to be taken down for a stupid reason…
I…don’t know what to say…I don’t know what to feel…I…I’m done…
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Someone was probably mad that they were quoted as a bad example
Anyways, It’s sad to see you go but your reasons are totally understandable. I was supposed to leave a while ago but I kinda forgot about that lol
The forum was once a very great and creative place, but now it is pretty bad,
about 95% of posts these days are:
- collabs where nothing gets done
- collabs where the creator wants everyone else to do the work
- off topic comments
- comments that didn’t have to be shared and are useless to the conversation
- questions that could be easily searched up on google
- people asking for bigger screen size, more buttons, more colors, etc.
- useless arguments
not to mention that most new users these days
- don’t usually share projects or anything code related
- make a comment on pretty much every topic they see
- answer somebody’s question with “I don’t know”
- ask to be in everyone’s collabs
- revive old topics
if any of these things apply to you, please understand that I am not trying to be rude, and maybe think a bit harder before you post. Speaking of which, here are some tips for making an on-topic post:
- if you have to put “(sentence)” at the end then you probably don’t need to share it
- make sure it is about makecode arcade (or whatever makecode editor the topic is about)
- this is a kinda professional microsoft forum, not really a place to chat
- your post has to get approved by some guy from the makecode team so before you post it imagine what @richard would think about it (hi mods!)
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Uh… revealing your age is against community guidelines…
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Fair point. (Huh. Editing the post worked. I thought it said within 10 minutes.)
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Huh. Well I guess if it made it past editing, maybe the age mention isn’t a problem?
(Kinda makes the leaving a bit more anticlimactic still having you bouncing around X3)
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Yea, I never meant to attack anybody. I forgot to write “I don’t want to be mean but:”
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