And before the day ends, we have another
Weekly Question for y'all!
What was your favorite moment on Famiboards? It could be a specific thread, an event, or a particular interaction you had. For our new members, use this week to make some memories worth sharing!
As for mine, I have a few moments in mind:
- Segaboards, the April Fool's Day 2023 gag. I really wanted to play up the character of the Mario fanboy stuck in a Sega loving universe where everyone else was none the wiser, and the staff was really supportive of the gag. I am very much looking forward to whatever is done for next year's gag.
- Running the Super Mario All-Stars Celebration Event. I find that the badge events we run are super cool ways to play new games or replay old favorites, and I was honored to design an event for my favorite series in celebration of all the Mario stuff going on this year. I have more ideas for future events and I'd love to keep hosting them, even after I end my moderation duties.
- Making @Suswave laugh so hard that they spit their drink out, leading to them making a "Spit Winner" badge which, to this day, I include as part of all of my Famiboards icons in some way.
I hope all of the new folks can find Famiboards to be a place where you can make these kinds of memories!
oooooh I loved Segaboards. As an actual unironic fan of Sega (and of Chao~), it really made my day/week/howeverlongIleftiton.
Also, related to Sega: I did get a kick out of everyone's reactions when I changed my avatar to Tails for the week or two surrounding the release of Sonic the Moviehog 2. It was a surprise to see how much people had begun to associate me with my Sonic plushie (which is why I Sonicized my Wohoy and put him on the same background)
but it was also fun because there was a lot of negativity online surrounding the casting of Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Tails, and I wanted to sport my sweet yellow boi as a way to show support for Colleen, her work as Tails, and how generous it was for the studio to bring her into a cast that was full of Hollywood actors.
Another thing I enjoyed was being present for and participating in the testing of new Famifeatures such as the profile customizations in the Super Market. Still sporting the badge for that!
Also one of my favorite goofy memories was way back before Famicoins were something that could be earned/spent, they were just a holdover from
an April Fools joke I mean a totally real thing that happened where Wario took over Famiboards and tried to commoditize it. We all had a set number of Famicoins that were just
there, and bellydrum offered to allow us to trade or donate them around so we could all have chosen amounts on display as a joke. But there was a finite amount of coins in the program, so when
@Suswave wanted a specific number (that was meaningful to them) and there weren't enough coins to go around anymore, I asked if I could donate enough to Sus that my account would go into a negative number. The program actually allowed it, and I was then "in Famicoin debt," which I said a few times was my commentary on the American student loan crisis.
Also I know
other users are gonna say this too but it was incredible that Fami managed to get up and running right in time for the countdown to Metroid Dread. That was an amazing time to be part of a Nintendo community. Also holy cow, happy 2nd birthday to Metroid Dread!!
(it's still the 8th in my neck of the woods)
Edit: I just realized two of my "favorite moments" are either about or adjacent to the elaborate April Fools jokes Fami has done and I wanna say I appreciate those
so much yall. Many thanks for the work that goes into those, I know it ain't simple.
I'm not saying who!
