Wowee Look its MFC complaining again

26 Jun, 2025

I probably just need to get this off my chest, but I do feel that getting pressed over a minor issue like this considering everything happening in the world might be a bit silly. Or perhaps even a bit "terminally online." However, I feel that putting my personal feelings out there in order to sort them out and deal with them might be the only way of handling this, especially if I decide that I still feel this way after a bit of thinking things over and, more importantly, sleeping.

So I, like quite a few users on the site, have generally been unhappy with the direction of MFC. I've said it several times on this site, and I'll continue to say it. But considering that more and more changes that are done despite community feedback keep getting added to everyone's dismay, I'm kind of wondering if I want to deactivate my current account, make a blank one, and just move on.

Basically, the issue that brings this feeling to the surface yet again is the fact that once more, they're trying to push users away from articles and to using the forums. This wouldn't be an issue if we didn't have users constantly playing mini moderator and causing a ton of articles to be forced into the forums that are tucked out of view, and therefore get no engagement. However, it's been made worse considering they decided to tuck articles out of view meaning that now... articles won't get nearly as much engagement. Which is an issue, because due to the general hostility of the community as of late, articles get less engagement and tend to be a hub for user fights more than anything it seems. It's bad enough you can't go into some entries for figures without seeing arguments but they're all over the forums and all over articles as well, and sometimes bleed onto the pictures. When you group that with the mini moderators, it just makes for a miserable time. So it's just a writhing cesspool that happens to have the only English database for figure collectors. The other databases are HPOI and a Russian one I believe? But like, in general, that's all we have.

I'm sure you're like "So, what's the issue then? If you don't like it, leave." And I guess while that's true, it gives a really conflicting feeling to just leave a site you've been on for 14 years. Like hell, to this day I regret deleting my old account solely because of not being able to access the images on it easily, even though I hated the name after a while. But it goes deeper than that. The part that really sucks is giving up having a general community. And yeah sure, sometimes I really do hate this community. But also like, I do still like seeing what people make. I like seeing the kits people are working on, the custom stuff people come up with, and the work people put into their displays. But as time goes on, we've gotten less and less reviews and just general articles or things to talk over. And this just feels like they're taking an aspect of the community away by trying to purposely obfuscating it by putting it out of the way so that people won't look at the articles and thus discourage people to use it more, all because the staff doesn't like articles all that much.

I understand that no matter what, the articles button will still be there. And, as some people did indeed point out, it's not really hard to click an extra button. But the issue here isn't that it's hard for me to click an extra button. It's the added hostility that the staff working on the sites has towards articles that comes with it. The vague terms of what should be an article. The fact that certain people help carry out this weird agenda to force things onto the forums. The fact that the forums themselves are annoying to navigate, along with the fact that they now dumped articles into that same system. The fact that only the top articles are promoted well under the pictures of the day, which is how the forums were handled, has proven to be bad for the forums and has not made people click on them. It's basically just going to result in less things that the community puts out and even more people getting annoyed and just not bothering with their articles. It doesn't help that stuff like reviews and loot just doesn't get hits in comparison to basic questions where everyone can chime in their 2 cents just outweigh a lot of that stuff, which has lead to most people not wanting to bother with this kind of content. Years ago you could get like some sort of engagement over reviews and now they're just for the most part, ignored in favor of low effort content made to bait engagement, which staff argues belongs on the forums, but then everyone gets discouraged because stuff gets moved and gets ignored when someone needs genuine help and then long form articles are just passed by because people can't get into fights or be The Guy With The Right Answer.

It's just frustrating. Like an overall bad time. I don't know how else to put it other than it sucks. And it's not just a "my articles aren't popular" thing, as I stopped writing articles that nobody's going to bother to read. It's a "this entire site is suffering from this and more and more people I've noticed just aren't writing anymore because nobody's bothering with their content."

Like, I don't know how to feel past annoyed. Annoyed that once again, the entire community of this site that remains grouped together to voice their disdain and we know nothing will change and more hostile choices towards the community will happen, and people will continue to leave.

Anyways, I'm seriously thinking of putting together either a listing or a webring for collectors. Because at the very least, we can have some sort of directory for those who collect merch who want our stuff to be seen. Because I'm not going to undertake the work of making a new site. That's too much for me and in all honesty, some figures are of content I don't want to touch with a 500 ft pole. That and I just don't have the time for more than a listing of people. But yeah, this is it. This is my solution to collectors who want to be in a community.

Either way, I'm sure the frustration will probably pass, but the desire to connect with other collectors will remain. Even if I'm not the best at connecting with people due to my own awkardness, the desire is still there.

Birthday

18 Jun, 2025

So yesterday was my birthday and I completely meant to make a post related to it, but after raid I was just feeling lazy to be quite honest. So I didn't.

Real talk though, I feel like when its people's birthdays they always make a big deal about it but I'm just here like "Well, I'll be happy if people just remember that it's my birthday without me telling them." I say, acknowledging I'm pretty ass with remembering birthdays. But that's why I keep people's birthdays written down in my phone notes.

Either way, I guess all I could really say is all I did was go out and have some boba and I had a sandwich. And I ran some errands. Ended up picking up 2 figures for a friend who let me review them but I also ended up getting a lip oil and the Nanoblocks Yugi. He was a bit of a struggle to put together.

Oh, and I suppose I used it as an excuse to draw myself a new discord icon. Decided to be lazy and not color it. I have a bunch of other art to get around to uploading, but I'll do that later. Other than that, I just raided that night. Saw the yans one last time because it was our final run of M6S. I will miss them.

Anyways, I should probably get around to finally finishing up these reviews so I can ship a lot of this out. But I'mma probably have so many more to do either way. Because well, I did order quite a few things. No word from GSC on those orders yet. Kinda sucks, but I suppose it's not the end of the world to have to wait.

The above picture is a friend's stuff. However, I did get some as well. I didn't take a lot of pictures yet, but here's Tataru since I finally found a place to put her.

That's really all I have to say. I've delayed putting stuff in here because I have so much stuff I'm reformatting. But at the current moment, I think I'm at the end of what I plan to add to the main site. Right now it's just the 2 art related pages (And let's be real, the commissions page is going to be the last thing I tackle), another premade that I've been meaning to get around to doing, a TCG post that is quite honestly already formatted so it just needs to be filled in, updating the Mabi sorter, and then the rest is all related to collection & the shrine that I honestly need to work on. Might join another few cliques & webrings though oops. And finish a bit more formatting that I haven't gotten around to. Well, I suppose I'll get to it soon enough. After dinner though.

Oh yeah and I'm also thinking of making Pikidiary for my doodles. Maybe. I'll also try to do another loot blog soon but I don't remember all I've bought. Kind of not a good sign, but at least it's mostly contained to my collecting hobby as I said it would be.