damn, the last post is about a week old. anyway, i'm back from almost a year-long hiatus. Admittedly I spent way too much time on this forum for a year in 2014/5, so I feel obliged to give a status update. I took a hiatus this year because I told myself I needed to study for my big exams, and they ended last week. I've finally returned now. in the end, i don't think my hiatus from this site helped my to study and focus. The internet is a big place, and a lot happened this year. 2016 had so much going on, it's a shame I couldn't share it here.
But I think taking a break from this forum was pretty much a good decision. I'd consider myself a little older now. I think I needed to ground myself more in the real world, and I was way too impressionable to stay in such an insular place tbh. As Paulo Coelho once said, you can only accept a truth once you have completely rejected it or something like that. It was better that I left and come back to apforums with a mindset that wasn't 90% influenced by apforums. I still had free time, so I was on the internet anyway, just elsewhere. I've become a real fan of Digibro, as an example.
I'm back now, and I hope the level of quality in my posts will be better as result. (feedback is welcome) At the same time, unfortunately, it seems that I will also be posting and visiting less. I hope that apforums isn't dropping in activity this year, but I'm way busier now. I can't do stupid things like read old naruto threads anymore.
On a much lighter note, one of things I did while off the forums was read HxH all over again. I've re-realized what it means to me, and what I like about it. I now consider it the best manga ever made. I discovered that many of the meme complaints people have over here about this series are completely false and don't matter whatsoever.