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What a shocker.

Felt like this was inevitable after Chris was let go, but still sucks.

Thanks to everybody who kept it running all those years. When covid hit and I found myself stuck inside it was nice being able to bullshit with everybody like the old days. Writing a few blogs again like when I was back in college was a trip too.

Glad that (most? At least a lot of?) us were able to make the migration here. I hope this place lasts, but wherever this community ends up going I think I'm in it for the long haul (assuming I'm welcome 😅)

Appreciate the heads up, Occams.

Nothing to say at this point. I did everything I could for the site and for the community in every way I could. And I would have done it forever.

I’m glad we at least still see each other here. And the memories will stick around.

I was just lurking over there today for the first time in a min. Almost made a post even! Appreciate everyone who made the site what it was and as always, fuck the Gamurs Investment Parasite Group.

Long live Ctoid.

Still hasn't been working for me no matter what I try for like the last 2 months.

If anyone could save the page or something of my Bubble Bobble blog (it getting to the front page was a massive high for me) it would be much appreciated. Heck just shoot me the text.

Thank you for the heads up, Occams.

The internet archive seems to have this pretty well documented, so if anyone missed something or needs to check something, it should be there in good order. The Disqus comments are not going to work in most cases, but the posts should all be there. Which sucks because the comments were easily half of the content on Qtoid. Looking at an old instance, apparently there was a big redesign I had totally forgotten about to the Qtoid page.

Anyway...

I both understand and am quite sad to see it finally go. I think this was probably going to happen even without the exodus. I suppose having it shut down without us is easier than if it were shutting down with all of us still using it. I wish it could have been one of those things that kept going on forever, like one of those old internet things people can't believe is still up like the original Space Jam page, but that wasn't meant to be.

It's really nice that so many of us are here and on the Discord. What a weird thing this is we all share.

Man, less than a year ago, that was my primary social media, and just like that, it's over. Fuck Gamurs.

Man that just makes me really sad. I was there when it first started and it was honestly to me, a healthier version of twitter. I have a lot of fond memories of qtoid and it will be missed.

We gotta swarm it the last day and fuck shit up. Post some rude drawings. What are they gonna do, ban me?

End of an era, to be sure.

Huh. Someone probably could have told me.

Man, this sucks. Now I really have no reason to visit, and the DTOID I know is truly gone.

Appreciate the heads up. Even though its been expected for awhile, it's still sad news. Thank you to everyone for being awesome and welcoming the last few years.

I never in my life thought about the demise of Destructoid in the over decade of time I have been active on the site but here we are. So bleak, it’s crazy that this is where we are. Honestly dtoid pre-COVID was such a time in my life, especially as my main source of social media shitposting during Nintendo Directs and other livestreams… can’t believe we’re where we’re at.

Thanks for the report Occams.

I know it doesn't mean much given my time with the place, but I want to go on record and say that I stuck up for Qtoid and the Cblogs whenever I could. I actually really wanted to do more community soundboards and lean into that side of the site, but I wound up benching that for... obvious reasons.

I've said it before in a few places, but I wouldn't even be writing online if it weren't for the Cblogs. While I had my run of the RPG Maker community as a teenager, the Cblogs were the first place where I really put myself out there and felt a sense of community with us all being weird amateur game writers. I still have so many good memories of that time, I might write some words about it once I get some sleep.

I hope everyone is able to back up their work, since there was so much good that the community created at the time. I might go digging for some of my old backups as well.

Thanks Occams and wow that’s weird. I haven’t been there in ages but like a lot of people it was basically my social media for a time. I remember feeling massively gutted when Chris was fired as it felt like I couldn’t go on supporting the people running and profiting from the site, but didn’t know where else to go. I’m glad we found some shelter here, but it’s a massive shame that that community was broken up and people lost their dream job. There is nowhere else like what destructoid was.

Qtoid was a very special place, can't imagine what my life would be like without it.

At least a good chunk of you troublemakers migrated over here 😁

Self fulfilled prophecy at this point. I know I didn't migrate in fear of losing qtoid at some point (it was mostly that Chris' firing signaled how little interest Gamurs had in nurturing the place) but without the bulk of the community around it was to be expected. The site is the shell of what it used to be at this point. Destructoid is now Atari.
Anyhow, thanks Occams for the heads up. And thank Chris, Timothy, CJ, Zoey and all the others for all the time spent together on one of the wildest places the videogame webspace has ever had. Being here is not the same for me unfortunately. But I'm happy to still see you all around. Hugs my friends.

I'm not ready for this 😭

Sad. Qtoid (+ the weekend update page) WAS Dtoid

Dtoid has Qtoids?

How embarrassing.

Oh well. That sucks for many people.