Yeah I missed you. I hate to say this because it I may lose some of the respect points I've been gaining around these boards but I will anyways.
A few mafia games ago, on Spak's crisis on Dual Earth's, I suddenly found myself staring at the list of players and thinking to myself, who are these people? What happened to everyone? Thatguy, Zach, Blackfootsteps, Nuclearspeed and Sir_Stabbalot. All of you had just disappeared. Even semi-regulars like S-U-P-E-R, Pale, oohhboy, MysticGohan and decoyman weren't around.
And I began to feel a bit old. Like a star athlete who looks around the room and realizes the team is rebuilding, has unloaded a lot of star talent and is going with youth and rookies. And as I got voted out, I began to wonder if maybe it was time to retire also. With the old crowd gone, was the game still the same? And then I played a heck of a game in Mario Kart Mafia, proved I'm still a star player and moved on to hosting to show 'em how its done.
Yet again, when hosting, I looked up a lot of the players I knew who had disappeared and sent them invites to get 'em back in the game. And when I looked at your account and saw you hadn't logged in for months, I thought you weren't coming back and sadly, didn't send the invite. Forgive me.
But suddenly, a renaissance has occured on these forums. anti-thatguy's back, animecyberrat is coming back, bad example Wandering has left forever and know you're back. I wonder if we'll see the return of Infernal Monkey who has been lying low for some time. I'd even take Couchmonkey who has also disappeared through the mists of the forums. Still, one gets the feelings things will only go up from here.