Hi everyone,
Boy have the years flown by! I first discovered emulation as a teenager in '96 or '97 (NESticle, Genecyst, ZSNES, and MAME), started Supermodel around 2003 as a freshman in college, and here I find myself in 2022 entering middle age and reminiscing about the good old days... of emulation! How meta 
Some old timers still stop by this forum occasionally so I wanted to post here and get a sense of where online people are hanging out these days? With nearly everything considered "retro" already emulated, it's only natural that the Scene has gradually slowed down and had its center of gravity shift. But it also seems that a lot of activity that would once have been centered around web pages and web forums has now moved to social media: Twitter, YouTube, and Discord, chiefly. The web itself feels smaller than ever. My daily circuit of non-social media sites to check can be counted on one hand. I'd like to rectify that.
For those of you still active in emulation / retro gaming / retro computing, how do you keep your finger on the pulse of things? What cool and obscure new communities have sprung up in the last few years? The last decade has seen some fantastic YouTube content. There's a surprisingly steady trickle of new Sega Genesis games. I follow a few retro computing channels (RMC and LGR). And of course, the Supermodel Forum is still active. Yet, I feel more disconnected than I'd like to be.
Hope to see some familiar names in the replies. And I hope everyone is safe and well after the past couple of years.
Nostalgically,
Bart
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