Creativity has slowed down.

Man, am I the only one that feels like activity has gotten shitted on the last couple of years? Look at this forum.

-What da fuck happened in the flame forum? Nobody posts there anymore. And even if someone does, it has NOWHERE near the intensity or effort put behind it anymore.
-Zelaron melee shitted on itself.
-Member participation is down.
-The number of members itself is down.

Now compare that to yourself. Do you feel as productive now as you did 3 years ago? I sure don't. I'm sort of stuck in this "I can never have enough time to do anything!" mode of thinking and can't undertake any projects like getting into a flame war because I won't have enough time to even finish what I started. [Actually WHILE I WAS WRITING THAT SENTENCE I looked at the clock and said "shit! better hurry this up!"]

Now if some of you agree with me, then what the hell happened?

-Has George Bush's cabinet of evil managed to lull society back into the 1900s?
-Was there something in the food, water or air that gave us energy, or was something maybe introduced to slow us down? [Naturally occuring or not]
-Are people simply being pressured too much? Is it a natural result of all of us becoming older? I find this less likely because even our younger members have reduced their activity. Mj and Slaynish, for example. They would be around the same age I was when I started posting here.

While I'm on it... why has the production of both "good" [and addicting] video games and anime basically crawled to a stop? It's an odd coincidence that this coincides with the amount of posting that's been going on in this forum, and the stress I feel like I'm put under. Is originality and creativity in the world as a whole dropping dramatically?

I remember saying sometime in the past couple of years, maybe it was around the fall of 2003, that nothing new had been happening in games and anime and it was boring as hell. And still right now there has been no new game or anime to wow me or that I even really find worth playing. Sure there are some good games, but nothing that feels really amazing. Such as D2, Half-Life, or Starcraft.

The counterpoint to this arguement would probably be the advancement of technology. But even then it seems kind of... slowed down! In the past year or two the power of single-core processors just suddenly hit a wall they couldn't get over. "Well guys... we made it from 100 mhz to 4 GHz. Can't do anything more!" What da fuck? Now they've got dual core processors, and are planning on releasing 4 and 8 core processors as well. How is this originality or productive, really? "Let's slam as many fucking cores as we can into processors and we'll have a successful chip!" It reminds me of the razors with 4 or 5 blades. Man, I still use a 2 blade razor and it works better for me than the 3 bladed ones.

Where am I going with this? I don't know, I'm out of time.