If PC did not exist

[Palamon]

What would it be like for you if PC never existed? Would your life be different than it is now? And don't be overdramatic about it. Just don't.

 

[£]

I would go somewhere else with my dear companions and I'd probably find other cool people around I guess?

nah just kidding my life would be a shambles and I'd have a mental breakdown ofc

 

[Rogue planet]

The small amount of people I have met on this website have had a very big impact on my life, I definitely wouldn't be the same person I am today; and that's quite strange to think about.

Pokemon forum or not, it doesn't matter where you meet someone, it's how you click with them. If you see someone that seems cool, message them, you never know what great friends you can make unless you try.

 

[Nick]

The small amount of people I have met on this website have had a very big impact on my life, I definitely wouldn't be the same person I am today; and that's quite strange to think about.

Pokemon forum or not, it doesn't matter where you meet someone, it's how you click with them. If you see someone that seems cool, message them, you never know what great friends you can make unless you try.

^ Pretty much how I feel about it too.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

I likely would've went to Serebii after leaving BMGf and dealt with a brand new slew of manchildren and feminazis and general internet degenerates, as if the first wasn't enough for a juvenile like me then.

I also would've never started working on my own degenerate personality, since I would've never met Khilia or Geoff… That's a thought. I never would've met Khilia…

Why can't I imagine my life without her presence? Is my brain malfunctioning? :<

 

[Klippy]

I'd have missed out on some great friends (you know who you are) that I made while here and even missed the opportunity to meet Marz a few years ago when we traveled to San Francisco. My PC friends helped me through a tough time during high school and if I still went through that, I don't know how I would've gotten through it without those guys and gals. :)

I feel like PC improved some skills of mine, like writing and being able to handle some responsibility. It's pretty impressive that the site can make moderators out of kids/teens/(some adults) and have a functioning forum. Some young people can't handle the "power" that comes with moderating/admining, so it's good to see that too.

 

[Poki]

I'd die! PC is love. PC is life.

All jokes aside, I wouldn't have met some of my closest friends.

 

[Bellsprout]

I want to say better, but if I never found pc I never would of been determined to lose weight and I would of lost/traded? my virginity to someone else. Though most likely I would still be a fatty virgin.

I really hope one day I can meet my other pc friends and hopefully hit it off so I can actually feel good about having met people from here.

 

[Yato]

My life would be pretty different. PC is where I met some of my greatest friends, and it served as a catalyst for my getting into LiveJournal (now Dreamwidth) RPing, joining other Pokemon forums (which is how I met some of my other good friends), and trying to meet new people and get involved in communities. It's also the place where I caused or got involved in quite a bit of drama, which had a negative impact on me and how I viewed this forum for quite some time. However, I'm also thankful for those incidents, as they helped me mature and allowed me to become better at dealing with drama in general.

 

[srinator]

If PC or ps didn't exist I would probably be sleeping now and wasting by holidays by going out or doing something else like playing ps2 or watching TV or like accept my friends calls >>

 

[derozio]

wouldn't have met amazing people like abnegation, loki, signomi, fairy, lilith and other friends. some of whom I look upto and some who I consider better friends than my best friends irl - that means quite a lot. english would've been worse. would've been an internet n00b for a while longer. would've typ'd leik dis maybe???

oh, and would never have been as interested in photoshop and video editing in general either.

 

[Ultraviolence]

In all honesty, mine wouldn't be much different. Ask me this in 2009, I would reply differently. But now... I don't feel as connected to the people who came after 2010 & many of my old friends have gone. I guess the main thing pulling me back in all the time is the feeling of being in a community, even though I feel quite isolated, in all honesty

 

[Shining Raichu]

I want to say better, but if I never found pc I never would of been determined to lose weight and I would of lost/traded? my virginity to someone else. Though most likely I would still be a fatty virgin.

This is actually a really awesome concept for a pickup line - "Hey, do you wanna trade virginities?"

 

[Oryx]

Why can't I imagine my life without her presence? Is my brain malfunctioning? :<

we get it

Anyway I don't see my life as much different without PC. I've made some good friends on here but just the nature of how PC is has meant that it hasn't changed me much. I've enjoyed interacting with it a lot, but not in a life-changing way; I would have found another forum and another group of friends to enjoy myself with.

Not to say that it's because it's online; there's another forum I visit that has changed me a great deal over the years. It's just PC in particular.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

we get it

I'm dead serious, I literally can't do it. Something is in my brain preventing my imagination from thinking to that scope. I can imagine my past without her as that's from memory, but my head just splats when I want to think to that and I can't. :/

 

[Sammi]

I probably would've stayed on Serebii for 10 years instead. *shrugs*

PC was my life during most of my teenage years, so it'd be weird to think of how I would've turned out socially without it. I met some cool people on here and did some pretty stupid stuff, haha. I'm not much in the mood to speculate how it would've been.

Offline, my life would likely be the same. Same ol Sam, same ol mistakes.

 

[T The Manager]

Wouldn't be any different. Why? Cause I'd just have more time or my music engineering.

 

[Tsutarja]

I'd probably just go about my life on the internet in another way instead of coming to PC.

 

[Sonata]

I would probably have a real life. I would be going to a better college too because rom hacks always distracted me in school.

 

[Cherrim]

I'm gonna be that overdramatic person because you can't stop me!! As of next year, PC will have been a part of my life for over half of it. For half of my life, PC has been something I think about probably once a week, if not every day. (The every day part isn't as common anymore, but for the bulk of my time on PC I would visit everyday and usually have it open in a tab for most of my day.)

PC made me better at interacting with people, gave me some experience in a leadership role, made me much better at problem solving in groups... and I think on the whole it just brought me a lot of skills that I'm not sure I could have obtained elsewhere. I met a lot of people here whom I still talk to or keep up with today, too, even if one or both of us have long since stopped being active on PC.

Probably the biggest daily impact, though, is that I met my current roommate and, honestly, my best friend through PC. He ended up dating my closest high school friend and roommate (that he met through me) and moved up here to live with us a few years ago. They're moving to another province at the end of the summer but we've lived together for a few years and it's weird to think that I would never have met him and become such close friends with him if PC didn't exist, because otherwise there's no way we would have met IRL. (He lived in the southern US and me in Canada before he moved up here to attend the same university.)