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[The Take Out Bandit]

How do I love Gaming Age Forums? Let me count the ways.

1. Fairly involved gaming discussion. Sure it took some years to get to this point, and there are still some stalwarts, and the dread Junior Members; but for the most part the conversation is all very 2005.

I can't stand visiting other forums and discussing games when folks inject comments like, "This game would have looked better on the Xbox because of bump mapping."

People still spew lines of shit about jaggies and Bump Mapping?! OMGWTF

2. Ignore List. It rocks because it helps to filter out any of the dingle berries in my first reason why GAF rocks. Perhaps I enjoy the forum because I'm able to filter out the noise from certain users who are too bitter to just talk games.

3. There's always breaking news and info. Who really needs a gaming website when inevitably everything will be posted, linked to, or shared on GAF? The forum also has a nice number of folks who work for those things you read while pinching off a loaf, or as the eloquent Sir Timothy Esquire Lewis VIII TL put it - "Taking the Browns to the superbowl", so you're privy to gaming news before it hits print and other industry dirt.

Okay, I guess I can only think of three reasons (Four if you count bishoptl's Browns cracks); but they're three very good reasons and a big part of why GAF is a mainstay for my on-line nerd addiction.

GAF rocks almost as much as Shantae.

 

[sly]

Change your avatar; GAF would be a better place without it! :lol What is it BTW? Looks like a pink chameleon sticking its tongue out from its eye. :lol

 

[Do The Mario]

Have I told you lately that I love you?

P.S your avatar scares me.

 

[Oxymoron]

Change your avatar; GAF would be a better place without it! :lol What is it BTW? Looks like a pink chameleon sticking its tongue out from its eye. :lol

I believe it may be a man eating poo poo.

 

[fennec fox]

Bad things about GAF
1. Too many Nintendroids
2. Too many cat lovers
3. Certain people's gross-out avatars

Good things about GAF
1. MAF
2. Drinky
3. :lol

 

[Dr_Cogent]

1. Fairly involved gaming discussion. Sure it took some years to get to this point, and there are still some stalwarts, and the dread Junior Members; but for the most part the conversation is all very 2005.

Well, everyone is a newbie at some point or another.

 

[belgurdo]

Bad things about GAF
1. Too many Nintendroids
2. Too many cat lovers
3. Certain people's gross-out avatars

Adding "4. Too many people who talk about games instead of play them" to list

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

Fennec fox, I just noticed your avatar and it's awesome.. A few weeks back I actually thought up the name Nintenferrets as well while playing with my ferret.. good stuff.. :lol

 

[Rorschach]

Well, everyone is a newbie at some point or another.

I think it's obvious he meant ths shitty jr members. Also, I don't think he can see your post because you're probably on his ignore list, anyway.

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

Well, everyone is a newbie at some point or another.

It appears everyone has forgotten about that. It's like in high school where at some point the Juniors/Seniors have forgotten they were once Freshmen.

 

[Musashi Wins!]

Bad things about GAF
1. Too many Nintendroids
2. Too many cat lovers
3. Certain people's gross-out avatars

Good things about GAF
1. MAF
2. Drinky
3. :lol

Good list. Ferrets seem to enliven the mind. I'm going to have to buy Whiplash now.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

I don't think he can see your post because you're probably on his ignore list, anyway.

YOU WIN A NO-PRIZE!

Junior Member status is temporary, being a f@cking moron is terminal.

For the last time - It's Ernest Borgnine, RESPECT!

 

[Dr_Cogent]

I think it's obvious he meant ths shitty jr members. Also, I don't think he can see your post because you're probably on his ignore list, anyway.

Yipee for him :lol

 

[sprsk]

Good things about GAF

1. OT
2. Gaming News


Bad things(this is mostly about the gaming forum)

1. SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN GAMING FORUM SPIN!
2. Some of the dumbest arguments\counter arguments ive ever read.
3. The personal experience > logical reasoning
4. ad hominem, straw men, so on and so forth.

 

[aoi tsuki]

The gaming forum's has it's moments, but it just the higher-brow version of a lot of other forums out there. A DS vs. PSP thread? Time to break out the sales charts, anecdotal evidence, and insider info, and engage in a pointless debate that's slightly different from the one before it!

The OT's where it's at.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

OT is okay when there's nothing going on with the gaming news, but I find it's a slightly more civil version of Opa Age for the most part. Just lots on inane banter, and a subsection of Cult of Personality jousting contests between the OT forum attention whores. Y'know?

I primarily come here to geek out on game news. To discuss politics, movies, and comic books, I stay up to all hours of the morning at Sea Manky's house then get kicked out.

 

[evilromero]

Hmmm. I probably enjoyed GAF more as a discussion forum years ago. But now, just as back then, it's about the news.

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

Good list. Ferrets seem to enliven the mind. I'm going to have to buy Whiplash now.

I hadn't realized there were ferrets in Whiplash. I will now buy that game... if I find it for $3.

 

[sprsk]

OT is okay when there's nothing going on with the gaming news, but I find it's a slightly more civil version of Opa Age for the most part. Just lots on inane banter, and a subsection of Cult of Personality jousting contests between the OT forum attention whores. Y'know?

I primarily come here to geek out on game news. To discuss politics, movies, and comic books, I stay up to all hours of the morning at Sea Manky's house then get kicked out.

Well, the ot has more people that actually know something more than "I know what i know who are you to challenge me" which automatically makes it better than the gaming forum.

 

[Musashi Wins!]

I hadn't realized there were ferrets in Whiplash. I will now buy that game... if I find it for $3.

I don't think there are. I think it's just powered by "ferret spirit" and that is why fennec championed it for so long. We'll see.

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

I don't think there are. I think it's just powered by "ferret spirit" and that is why fennec championed it for so long. We'll see.

Well whoever made Whiplash just lost a potential sale! I probably wouldn't have bought it anyways, though, so..

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

Ehhhh. . . that's a tough call. I've witnessed more than a few instances of the time tested, "THIS IS THE INTERNET AND YOU HAVE TO RESPECT MY UNINFORMED OPINION" in the threads I've perused in OT as well.

This just leads back to that saying. . .

"Wherever you go, there you are again."

Or however the hell it goes.

 

[Dr_Cogent]

It appears everyone has forgotten about that. It's like in high school where at some point the Juniors/Seniors have forgotten they were once Freshmen.

It's basically an elitist attitude for the most part.

 

[Kiriku]

Bad things about GAF
1. Too many Nintendroids
2. Too many cat lovers
3. Certain people's gross-out avatars

Good things about GAF
1. MAF
2. Drinky
3. :lol

I don't approve of bad thing #2!!

 

[fennec fox]

I hadn't realized there were ferrets in Whiplash. I will now buy that game... if I find it for $3.

Spanx is a long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata) and therefore related to ferrets (Mustela furo).

He also makes very ferrety sounds.

Oh what joy for all gaming girls and boys!

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Ignore lists are for pussies !

 

[Brandon F]

I don't have a lot of 'gamer' friends these days, and for many years GAF has provided me that VERY NECESSARY outlet for this hobby we are all very passionate about.

Saves my peers the trouble of pointing a gun to their head everytime I want to gush about stuff like the PSP or that thing I did to a boss in God of War..and then the women afterwards.

 

[Chiggs]

...and the dread Junior Members

RAAAWWWRRRR! I AM INTERNET VETERAN!

 

[Ninja Scooter]

im the straw the stirs the GAF drink.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

RAAAWWWRRRR! I AM INTERNET VETERAN!

It's less to do with being an old coot, and more to do with being an old coot that isn't interested in some douchebag coming in here spouting off about the virtues of bump mapping, free on-line play, or whatever other wanky entry level rhetoric the folks that have been sitting here getting fat have heard already.

Wait - F'ING N00B! I'll put the eKibosh on j00! :lol

im the straw the stirs the GAF drink.

I thought you were the shrimping straw in Orin's bunghole.