Grifter said:Who?
mosaic said:Didn't Jer "Blazphemy" Horwitz, one of the founders of Intelligent Gamer Online, end up becoming a lawyer?
g23 said:Please guys share the GAF irc info. I want to take part in intelligent discussion LIVE
Marty Chinn said:GTFO, this is about a much better channel, #vidgames!
ferricide said:not to mention synapse and m0. that was a fun little stupid childish rivalry. =)
Matt_C said:Heya, I am the infamous Matarick at #vidgames and I discovered this channel from an old Sandwich Island Pokémon guide that my dad gave me from his trip to the library.
I met up with shr00m (Brian Gray) who ran PSXNation at the time. With my amazing Gunstar Heroes review, I joined the gaming press scene in the summer of 2001. I was the bane of #vidgamesdue to my dorky obsession with all things Tokimeki Memorial, flirting with Yakksaddles' woman, and disclosing my sexual conquests on IRC.because ***-*** was no longer arround
I braved many kicks and temp bans and I do not regret the time spent on the IRC channel.
Alas, I am far away from the gaming industry at the moment due to my circumstances but from previous lineage; I came from a great place.
stewy said:I'm pretty sure that guide you're referring to was written by Mark MacDonald (aka togo)
ferricide said:so i don't have much to add. except to wonder why i hate GAF so ****ing much when it was, essentially, an evolution of #vidgames.
Well, also, as someone once elegantly pointed out, #vidgames was never a democracy. If someone came in and said something stupid, they were usually kicked out on the spot and banned for life. We made a lot of enemies that way, but we kept a clean ship as a result.Ravidrath said:Too many (stupid and unfriendly) people, bizarre collective sense of self-importance, amplified distortion, colossal unchecked hyperbole, etc. That's why.
All of those things existed in some form or another on #vidgames, but the real-time chat medium made it feel less anonymous and accidentally made people act like human beings more often. That was a conversation, and GAF is a time-lagged discussion.
MarkMacD said:Heha Togo...kinda has a nice ring to it.
Miss #vidgames but yeah, GAF has taken up that void for most of us I think. Was nice to have a -friendly- place for the latest gaming news and talk....
Ravidrath said:WTF, Gaz?
First, you can use my real name and put my nick in quotes.
Second, why do you have to mention Lizzie McGuire as the only game I've worked on? :\
Third, both of those two mysterious projects have been announced. May as well put those in.
Marty Chinn said:Ya, it's too bad it didn't survive long enough for online gaming to finally take off. It would have been great to easily arrange games in the middle of conversations. We got a small taste of it with the Dreamcast, but it could have been so much cooler to be playing with you guys now given how far online gaming is moving.
mosaic said:Hahaha... the mention of Oppressor reminds me that we forgot Brian "Osserman" Osserman... who I used to call Cervical Osserman. Ha!
And, lord, the very mention of the name Doug.... the Dougiest of them all, Doug "Castellan" Erickson
skip said:I fondly remember getting quakeworld games together. I don't fondly remember getting my ass kicked by che and rudds and IIID and mark and...
GG-Duo said:I found the following on my computer..
Raver Pants: http://w11.easy-share.com/642317.html
Titel Musik: http://w11.easy-share.com/642318.html
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Grifter said:I fondly remember you giving me your Starcraft key after I managed to lose mine. That was before you went Hollywood.
Drinky Crow said:Holy hell, Peter Bartholow? Man, I didn't know you hung around this shit hole. How you been, dode?
I refuse to acknowledge any association with #vidgames, especially since Gaz' topic didn't mention the USENET crowd and Kent Frechette.
(I'm Doug "Castellan" Erickson, from those days.)
Gazunta said:Baby Boy?!?!?! Holy shit, congrats man!!!! That's so friggin' cool! Details!
Yeah for some reason I keep equating Gamespot with Ziff. Didnt ziff own them at some point?
i can't think of a pithy response. oh, here's one: link to the containing news story so we can serve an ad kthxSaggyMonkey said:Christian Nutt in action... http://futurenet.vo.llnwd.net/o2/gamesradar/GR_TGS_WrapUp.mov
DaveT said:Oh well, my baby boy (6 weeks old as of yesterday!) is hungry, time to go change and take care of him!
rudds said:GameSpot was bought by ZDNet, which was spun off from Ziff Davis at one time. It was never actually owned by ZD as far as I know. More like a partnership.
Also, thanks for remembering me!
highspeeddub said:Anyway, my nick on #vidgames was coolguy. I had a great time on the channel. Many cool things went on there.
Good to hear everyone's doing well, even though vaporware (or was it vapourware? never got off the ground.