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I'm leaving the forum (mostly)

dullard

dullard

Elite Member
Its been a nice ten years. But everyone has a time to go and my time is mid-October. I'm not leaving completely (few people can), as I'll check in now and then. I do think however, that I will be quickly fading to a rare post burst once or twice a month rather than a several days per week.

New job, new life, new priorities.

I throughly enjoyed spending years in General Hardware, but kept being pulled harder and harder by Off Topic and P&N. The lure of odd and pointless debates was so strong here that I hardly go to the hardware forums any more. The times of near monthly Intel/AMD releases when they were neck-and-neck kept me rivited. So do elections and finance threads now. Posting here will certainly be a hard addiction to beat.

Thanks all!

Cue Sinatra singing "My Way".
 
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Be sure to stop by and visit! Good luck with the new job!

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I never understood this explanation. Why does a life change necessitate leaving? I never exactly prioritized this place or anything. If I'm busy, I don't nef. I could become president of the world and I wouldn't feel that somehow made it necessary for me to make the conscious decision to cut back on my forum time. I would be very busy, and reduced forum browsing might be the natural result of that, but no switch would flick in my mind dictating that I was henceforth limiting myself.

Oh well, you'll be back.
 
SlitheryDee said:
I never understood this explanation. Why does a life change necessitate leaving? I never exactly prioritized this place or anything. If I'm busy, I don't nef. I could become president of the world and I wouldn't feel that somehow made it necessary for me to make the conscious decision to cut back on my forum time. I would be very busy, and reduced forum browsing might be the natural result of that, but no switch would flick in my mind dictating that I was henceforth limiting myself.

Oh well, you'll be back.
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i never understood why people announce they are leaving as well. it's like when people announce they have ignored someone.

no one really cares except the person who is making these statements.
 
Thanks for being a good part of the forum all this years. Keep in touch whenever you can.

Take care,

SKORPI0 🙁:\
 
dullard said:
Its been a nice ten years. But everyone has a time to go and my time is mid-October. I'm not leaving completely (few people can), as I'll check in now and then. I do think however, that I will be quickly fading to a rare post burst once or twice a month rather than a several days per week.

New job, new life, new priorities.

I thoroughly enjoyed spending years in General Hardware, but kept being pulled harder and harder by Off Topic and P&N. The lure of odd and pointless debates was so strong here that I hardly go to the hardware forums any more. The times of near monthly Intel/AMD releases when they were neck-and-neck kept me riveted. So do elections and finance threads now. Posting here will certainly be a hard addiction to beat.

Thanks all!

Cue Sinatra singing "My Way".
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You're one of the few people I know on this forum that deserves their "elite" status.

You've provided very good financial advise and centrist/moderate(I believe some progressives call this to be "centrist bias") political views over the years.
You will surely be missed.
 
SlitheryDee said:
I never understood this explanation. Why does a life change necessitate leaving?

Oh well, you'll be back.
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I almost never post on evenings or weekends since I spend that time with my wife/friends. I almost always post during experiments / programing compiling at work. That gives me 1-5 minutes of down time repeatedly throughout the day without anything else to do (which is perfect amounts of time to read a post during one work pause, post on the next, and edit on a later pause). My new job won't have that. So, I just won't have my normal time to post and I'm probably not going to change my evenings/weekends around just to post.

I'll be back, but not in the way that I used to be here. Instead of 5 posts per day, I'm estimating it'll be closer to 5 posts per month, if that.
purbeast0 said:
i never understood why people announce they are leaving as well. it's like when people announce they have ignored someone.


no one really cares except the person who is making these statements.
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I keep wondering where is XYZ or see posts asking "What happened to ABC?" Here is my preemptive answer to those questions.
 
dullard said:
Its been a nice ten years. But everyone has a time to go and my time is mid-October. I'm not leaving completely (few people can), as I'll check in now and then. I do think however, that I will be quickly fading to a rare post burst once or twice a month rather than a several days per week.

New job, new life, new priorities.

I throughly enjoyed spending years in General Hardware, but kept being pulled harder and harder by Off Topic and P&N. The lure of odd and pointless debates was so strong here that I hardly go to the hardware forums any more. The times of near monthly Intel/AMD releases when they were neck-and-neck kept me rivited. So do elections and finance threads now. Posting here will certainly be a hard addiction to beat.

Thanks all!

Cue Sinatra singing "My Way".
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I can relate strongly to the bolded, and have taken several multi-year hiatus(plural of hiatus?) here as well.

Good luck on your future and "see you around".
 
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