EDGE: "Meet NeoGAF, the hardcore community shaping the games media agenda"

What was Jeff Bell's apology?

I love reading stuff like this. I'm proud to be a GAFfer. I came here for it's NPDs and stayed for everything else. There's no other place on the internet as great or as good.
 
Orth made a topic about his girlfriend who like dolphin porn, he got scared and ran to the bathroom, but there he saw a possum, who scared the shit out of him. He came to GAF to ask for advice, so we told him to feed it pizza. He was out of food in his house, so Adam Orth went to his neighbor's house, a 49-year old Korean lady. And she didn't have any pizza. But she was hot and somehow they ended up having sex, and to make it up for the lack of pizza, she started buying him tons of stuff. But Adam discovered she was married. But the sex was so good she decided to let his old girlfriend go. The excuse? "I think vaginas are gross. I can't really approach them".

When Orth was showing of his new pickups in the Pick Up Thread, people got suspicious how the guy had so much money, and eventually they found out he was a Microsoft employee.

Wait a freaking second. THAT WAS HIM?!
 
Amazing/awesome a 7 figure sum was offered for it and it was rejected. I wonder whether the site would hold it's popularity/charm if say IGN owned it.
 
Well I am glad I am in the cool kids club now.

Hell if we are getting people fired why don't we zoom our sites on everyone involved in the process of Diablo 3 especially Jay Wilson.
 
Orth made a topic about his girlfriend who like dolphin porn, he got scared and ran to the bathroom, but there he saw a possum, who scared the shit out of him. He came to GAF to ask for advice, so we told him to feed it pizza. He was out of food in his house, so Adam Orth went to his neighbor's house, a 49-year old Korean lady. And she didn't have any pizza. But she was hot and somehow they ended up having sex, and to make it up for the lack of pizza, she started buying him tons of stuff. But Adam discovered she was married. But the sex was so good she decided to let his old girlfriend go. The excuse? "I think vaginas are gross. I can't really approach them".

When Orth was showing of his new pickups in the Pick Up Thread, people got suspicious how the guy had so much money, and eventually they found out he was a Microsoft employee.

haha i forgot about that dolphin porn shit.

I want to read an EDGE article about the various reasons they disagree with Evilore's assessment about the gaming press, because as far as I can tell it's almost undeniably true and there has been endless journalistic controversies due to this fact.
 
haha i forgot about that dolphin porn shit.

I want to read an EDGE article about the various reasons they disagree with Evilore's assessment about the gaming press, because as far as I can tell it's almost undeniably true and there has been endless journalistic controversies due to this fact.

Wait a sec...the dolphin porn shit was real??? I thought he was joking....LOL Can I please get links to these threads?
 
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=494253

I now have a Google search for "NeoGAF Dolphin Porn" in my browser history. But you're welcome.

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haha i forgot about that dolphin porn shit.

I want to read an EDGE article about the various reasons they disagree with Evilore's assessment about the gaming press, because as far as I can tell it's almost undeniably true and there has been endless journalistic controversies due to this fact.

EDGE may not want to talk about video games journalism - or journalism as a whole - ceding editorial control to PR firms, but several other people do.

"at the rate we're going...we may end up with a handful of actual independent online magazines and newspapers and a vast industry of corporate propaganda designed to look like the real thing."
 
No. Excuse me while I vomit.

I'm right there with you regarding corporate ownership. There's a reason I haven't taken the $5 mill, and it's not because I want to wait until I can moon Justin Bieber from my own Veyron ;b
 
I'm right there with you regarding corporate ownership. There's a reason I haven't taken the $5 mill, and it's not because I want to wait until I can moon Justin Bieber from my own Veyron ;b

More importantly, GAF would have become just another run of the mill average forum that litters the virtual streets of the internet.
 
I'm right there with you regarding corporate ownership. There's a reason I haven't taken the $5 mill, and it's not because I want to wait until I can moon Justin Bieber from my own Veyron ;b
it's really because you be makin more in the long run dontfrontdontfront
 
probably when all ign insiders jumped ship to neogaf.

I cant believe I once pay for those messageboards.

Yeah, I did for one year also. Have no idea why, and I've been a member here for a while. I'm just glad that my job doesn't block this place.
 
I'm right there with you regarding corporate ownership. There's a reason I haven't taken the $5 mill, and it's not because I want to wait until I can moon Justin Bieber from my own Veyron ;b
EviLore claims that his passions are travel and expanding his experiential base, but now I think we know his true motivations in life.
 
"Adam Orth’s apparent departure from Microsoft last night might just be NeoGAF’s defining moment, for better or worse."

No, it isn't.
The Bell incident was much higher.

A Master Ninja made this public, and Jeff Bell’s identity was confirmed through NeoGAF users’ detective work. “Jeff Bell had to make a public apology and quietly resigned soon after,” says Malka. “I later ran a ‘Contribution to Society’ NeoGAF charity drive in honour of the scandal.”
Detectives? Is that what we are calling the mods now? Shoddy journalism. The detectives were asking the questions but it was the mods who outed him.


That guy sure looks like evilore.

He is now 28, and tells us that he has turned down seven-figure offers from large corporations and gaming networks to buy his site.
You dun goofed. I would be out of here in a quick minute. Fuck u guys, would be posting from Barbados.

Edit: nvm, I know what 7 figure it was. $99,999.99 That's like 2-3 years.
 
Website loyalty / habit, exclusive features + editorials + reviews, and allegiance to site-specific forums will sustain gaming websites for the time being.

GAF is a crowdsourced journalism + investigation + discussion + content aggregate platform. Combine so many dedicated people willing to submit / analyze articles at a moment's notice and strict moderation and you have something no other dedicated game website can touch.

But that doesn't necessarily mean other game websites don't have a role in all of this. If GAF didn't content aggregate from other game sites at all, its quality would dip significantly. It's the holistic combination of all GAF's elements that make it such an enjoyable place to frequent.

That's why it's imperative that new threads don't post the entire topic in quotes. The original sources need their ad revenue, ESPECIALLY quality gaming editorials.




For every one person who replies to your post, hundreds of GAF members have scrutinized it and thousands of lurkers will look over it. GAF's design (only four major forums) promotes this. Comments aren't locked away under thousands of game-specific subforums but out in the open where everyone can critique it. It's quite exhilarating, honestly. Especially when you start to gain a name for yourself and get tagged + people recognize you.

Honestly, I find GAF to be the most public platform out of any major gaming site out there to voice your opinions. It's like a digital version of the Roman Forum.




Can't thank EviLore enough for promoting non-descript ads with no popups and no video content. I also love how the desktop version of the site stays relatively PC-centric and doesn't shoehorn itself into a bloated Web 2.0 tablet-esque version with a whole bunch of wasted space.


I love this post, I think it gets what GAF offers absolutely spot on.
 
Haha. That was a good read. And it was a pleasure seeing the face to the owner of this wonderful place.

This site is still my very favorite to browse everyday. I was sucked in by how amazing you guys are to quickly find every breaking or leaked info that goes on in the industry, and for the love of those GIFs! *Points to own user name*

I will always Believe in GAF.
 
I have to say that it takes a lot of guts to refuse such an amount of money. I would have taken that 5 mil and ran.

EvilLore seems like a pretty good dude.
 
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