The community has always been what kept me around. I've left repeatedly for long periods of time in the 9 years or so since I joined, but I keep coming back. Not even a blackbelt yet.
I spent most of high school being a really annoying forumite, and met a lot of cool people here and had a lot of good times. I still remember way back, playing some minecraft on a server owned by a toribash forum guy named evetS. Still have the world, occasionally go in and look around our empty snowglobe base...
Honestly, my current stint here is probably in part due to some stress with life and getting older. It's kinda nice being back here, nostalgia and all that, even if everyone I used to know is long dead.
and I missed out on being a member of the Item Forgers, hoping to join them and see what cool things I can do for our toris.