Citizen kane

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bob.

woah didn't see that one comming

Skindred- SET IT OFF

well i signed up on 9-2-01. I had a pretty fun 9 days just dicking around and talking to people, then of course the shit hit the fan. I first got some respect for bashing dash for being a dick. Thats where i first came out as a patriot. Most people misinterperted the title. Over the months i let my athesistic liberal personality develope and come on the boards. i won the respect of Mach5 and a few other members after a while. i met jimmy and rockchick one year. Well i really never had much controversy except challenging dan on freedom of speech, which probally almost got me banned. I've had a few little scuffles with random dicks and others. I really have no idea who respects me, i know when i first came here i was accepted as a trouble maker but accepted none the less and told my ideas would be free and i could basically say what i wanted. Thats my eulogy so to speak.

Shut up, you fags. We're here to talk about Dent.

And now, my eulogy (no "he had a lot of nothing to say" jokes, please)....

Today is both sad and happy. I know if it weren't for Danimation I wouldn't be here, right now. I'd never have met the cool people I have. I would have basically zero interest in RCT or roller coasters. I would probably be off looking at porn, or whatever. Danimation was a once-proud website, once the crown jewel in the upper echelon of RollerCoaster Tycoon websites. The forums were a spectacular place. D-Net singlehandedly changed RCT on the web, if not started it to begin with. However, the eventual demise of the site was obvious, but I'm sure no one expected it to crash and burn like it did. Be it that inexplicable "D-Day", or the total removal of all things RCT, the site just plunged into the cesspool of idiocy we had before us today. Many of the mods turned the place into a formal forum, if ever a thing exists. (Here's looking at you, AirBoss!) The upper management went for a me-first attitude in running the place. Sure, it's their server, and they have the right to do whatever they want with the site, but Dan especially forgot what the idea was. Without the people, his site was just a waste of money and space. But, all suggestions were put to no use at all, and disregarded. It was all about Dan, and his wants. With the great majority of the forums clamoring for sports and books forums, Dan creates an RC forum, all about his own hobby...a hobby which has seen no more than 10 posts in the history of Danimation. This final middle-finger to the forumgoers is probably what it took to make everyone realize that Dan no longer gives a fuck, and is taking charge of the forum for his own personal use. Which is sad, because a message board is about as people-oriented as it gets on the Internet. If not for today's sudden, but not stunning, announcement, I predict that the majority of the members would just leave Dan to have his own little cobweb infested nowhere corner of the Web, so he could do whatever he wants. Seems Dan even made his own decision to do that, though.
I remember signing up for Danimation in August of 2000 or so, under the name Tyler24. I was an unassuming newbie, but I loved the place. So much conversation and social activity, let alone the stellar Spotlights that made Danimation the one and only place to be for excellent RCT work. The old 3-across Floorless brings back memories. Over the years I had changed aliases to Original Prankstah/Da Prankstah, but the forum always stayed the same of fun talk and awesome RCT work. I like to think I kinda contributed my own little slice to the giant D-Net pie, along with every one else...and this pie eventually became the best RCT site you could find. Then I had lost interest in RCT, as everyone else found their interest waning as well. I left, and I'm sure many others did too. I rejoined last fall to get ready for RCT2 under the name QOTSA-2002, expecting maybe a Danimation renaissance. But it wasn't the same, and only got worse and worse. The place just wasn't any fun anymore. The restrictions got to be too much. All hope was lost for this site by the beginning of 2003, and the eventual downfall could be seen coming by all of us, I'm sure.

Thank you, Danimator, for the fantastic site you first created that was the RCT Taj Mahal in its day.
No thanks, Danimator, for destroying the once proud castle that you created.
Thanks most all, to Danimation.com, for the friends, the times, the memories, good and bad.

Danimation will be missed.

Now then, let's eat some cake.

Viva la New Element. 

Uhh... what he said

seriously i loved D-net. The people the debates, it was fun to piss a random person off just because your opnion differs. Oh well i guess it will be back, here i get my own smiley though

-Dan

Oh well don't really care.