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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: XxNemesis29xX on December 30, 2008, 01:25:08 am
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I know it's a weird question to ask at a forum here at GW: What forum have you moved on to leaving behind GW? After all, the only way to answer the question is to still BE HERE at GW.
What I'm essentially asking is, for members who have been here a long time, did you guys have a change of interest, and left GW to join one more in line with your current hobby/passion? Did you do this, and then come BACK to GW? If so, what reason for did you leave, and why did you come back? Is there anyone who used to hold GW as their "primary" forum, but now visit it less often?
If you think you might leave soon, why?
I've actually left GW for a while, only checking the threads very occasionally. I used to be 100% Game and Demo when I worked on The Legend of the Philosopher's Stone, but the project is essentially dead, and the new thread that I have joined is its killer:
The Student Doctor Network!
Woo-hoo! I'm pre-med at UAB and it's that time to great ready for med. school. Since that's consumed my life, I have no more time for Rm2k3, and therefore, GW. I feel like I'm leaving a long time friend, but I'll be back here and there soon enough I'm sure!
So anyway, yeah, back to the questions!
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i tried posting on tabb since it's 10x better than gw ever will be, but it was too much effort. plus i am not funny at all ever so i would feel hideously inadequate.
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It isn't funny whoever keeps posting from Nemesis' account. I am asking to kindly stop. I know for a fact he is still in the hospital recovering from the car accident.
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It isn't funny whoever keeps posting from Nemesis' account. I am asking to kindly stop. I know for a fact he is still in the hospital recovering from the car accident.
woah, i did not hear about this!
IP matches litearc, but also brings up 13 pages of posts with this same IP (all 2005 or earlier) so I don't really know what to think.
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Bet you feel bad now!
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It isn't funny whoever keeps posting from Nemesis' account. I am asking to kindly stop. I know for a fact he is still in the hospital recovering from the car accident.
Wow strangeluv, I commend you for keeping your faith to this long time joke! Impressive!
And just because I feel compelled to even though strangeluv is just pulling a joke... this is real Nemesis! :welp:
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It's not a joke. I think it's disrespectful that his password somehow got leaked and different people have been posting topics even though he is in the hospital.
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strangeluv fyi if this is another one of your tremendously bad jokes i am going to tempban you
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wtf? serious?
how is that funny joke?
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like a year ago someone said WHERE'S NEMESIS and chef said HE GOT HIT BY A CAR and it was a fun little topic sl has chosen to reference for no reason.
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wasnt that froz
hit by a car....
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bb an strangleuv
Actually I sort of remember that topic and chef's post, that's really weird since I don't remember Nemesis at all.
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I've posted on GOGD for a while now, but I wouldn't call myself a prominent member or anything. it's a lot better than fyad, tabb, daf etc, let alone places like ipn or gw. I mean the people there are all like INTELLECTUAL GIANTS, and a lot funnier than anyone here could ever be. I'm barely even a white noise poster there, but some guys from my theatre troupe are p prominent! they aren't like atreides_0, Hazy, Conan the Barbeque etc but they are pretty well known.
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I sort of post on Something Awful. I guess that is sort of the logical extension of this forum's culture.
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what is GOGD? I googled but got like THE GOOD FORUM and stuff
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better yet, what are most of those forums
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...So who the fuck actually got into a car wreck and is in the fucking hospital? Wtf is going on here? And I think earl chip up there is the only one so far who has contriubted to this topic.
I've never had a reason to "leave" a forum. The only reason I have was loss of the Internet. I just occupy different forums at the same time. Why the hell do people only have to use one forum at a time?
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I've posted on GOGD for a while now, but I wouldn't call myself a prominent member or anything. it's a lot better than fyad, tabb, daf etc, let alone places like ipn or gw.
i agree but what about chb, gad, and thorb forums? how about wat and sup forums?
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don't even fucking mention gad.
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i got banned from gad :/
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dude gad is like what targ was supposed to be if it was youtubes instead of forums.
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complete with elitism heh
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i mean really:
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yeah man I'm not badmouthing gad. gburton, ooziefloozie, catpicture420, they fucking rule. but try posting there! christ they will ban REGULAR MEMBERS if their act get old or they're having a dryspell.
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well i just wasted emotion feeling bad for someone i don't know getting hit by a CAR THAT NEVER EXISTED!!!
i'm numb to the world now.
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I've posted on GOGD for a while now, but I wouldn't call myself a prominent member or anything. it's a lot better than fyad, tabb, daf etc, let alone places like ipn or gw. I mean the people there are all like INTELLECTUAL GIANTS, and a lot funnier than anyone here could ever be. I'm barely even a white noise poster there, but some guys from my theatre troupe are p prominent! they aren't like atreides_0, Hazy, Conan the Barbeque etc but they are pretty well known.
wow i remember all of those names. brings a tear to my eye, knowing that i had the chance to know them before they were big but i.. i never took it... well, i don't think i could go back now.
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what is gad? i had no idea catpicture420 and gburton were associated with anyone, i thought they were just crazy youtube people. i like them a lot man.
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Facepunch Studios. (Really has taken over my life on how active it is though, and has changed quite abit, even so they are alot of newfags that believe are btards from 4chan though, and get banned for saying memes).
RMXP.ORG
Lost-media.com(Lost tv show fansite)
4chan.org (I did it the for lulz).
thefuselage.com (Where you can actually chat with real actors and creators of the show Lost)
I don't know what else, too many to list.
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Isn't facepunch the Garry's Mod forums?
And isn't Garry's Mod SHOCKFULL of memes?
They'd have to ban everybody.
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Well, you can actually say nigger now. Try it. The ban words were removed, I think. But I'm not forcing you to register there.
Facepunch members including me, are strived on 4chan and Something Awful for humor. But actually create up new memes.
And even posting "some" memes will get you banned. Well, for some. If you post a shock site like 2girls1cup. Pwned.
It's not like they know everything about GamingW who is trying to be like SA itself, without paying for normal member subscription, but you have Premium Membership.
The forums have updated now, but it's look abit shit and hard to get used too. Don't go to OIFY. You'll figure it out. ;) If you want a forum that you can swear your ass off without getting a warning for it. Then whatever. You still get banned for being asshole to the mods and garry. Obviously. Whoever has account there, good luck. Many have alts. Everyone is obsessive with join dates. And how people who joined at 05 are better then 08ers and 09ers. Garry joined on 9/11. Which is a running joke at the site. Jews did it.
So you see that I have become obsessive. lol.
Even the word "nigger" and lemon party will get you "banhammered" for 7 days. It's annoying shit to them. Mikefoz was the oldest mod there, and banned himself for pissing in a ocean of piss. His reason.
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Listen to how proud he sounds of his internet lingo hahaha
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that's exactly what i was thinking how many internet words are you going to use?
also facepunch is terrible, don't you get banned if your posts aren't good enough? like it has a rating system but instead of being just hey rate this post it's hey rate this post and as a result this member and if you drop to low you can't post or something?
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Listen to how proud he sounds of his internet lingo hahaha
and he's also proud that he can say nigger on some forum (hint: when is this necessary)
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I don't get it. You can say nigger now, but saying nigger will get you banhammered?
So you can't say it then?
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woah, i did not hear about this!
IP matches litearc, but also brings up 13 pages of posts with this same IP (all 2005 or earlier) so I don't really know what to think.
you shouldn't take strangeluv so seriously
also litearc and nemesis are brothers
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hahaha i just read the op THE STUDENT DOCTOR NETWORK: FORUM OF THE FUTURE.
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i never left but i used to hang out at 4chan more and then started lurking at something awful which is like sophisticated 4chan (take a turd and put a top hat on it!) but yeah g-dub is my home.
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I have never read a complete sa thread and I've only viewed anything on the site like three times or some crap. Who here is trying to be like sa and why should they matter.
oh wait they don't
*creatin' memes
what the fuck is a meme
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gw is the only forum i visit, my life is gw. I'm gonna eat a sandwich and make a topic about it. bye.
Does meme stand for something? me me
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gw is the only forum i visit, my life is gw. I'm gonna eat a sandwich and make a topic about it. bye.
Does meme stand for something? me me
it's pronounced meem.
and it's an internet phenomena that's almost never funny and posted multiple times until people start reposting it. the ORLY owls, rickroll, I HEARD U LIKE MUDKIPS, sup/yo dawg i heard you like functions so i put a function in yo function so you can derive while you derive, BRO FIST, and cool story bro are all examples of memes.
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I mean if its an original image macro with words on it thing then yeah I guess some of them could be funny but really if anyone repeatedly did that they would get called a douche bag by me personally if not anyone else.
it seems to me like the kind of people you would run into on 4chan would be the same people that you'd meet on most of xbox live
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it seems to me like the kind of people you would run into on 4chan would be the same people that you'd meet on most of xbox live
12 year olds who call you nigger and threaten to kick your ass over the internet?
yeah. i've received elaborate emails before regarding this. shit where people put their address and they're like "hey you wanna rumble just ask for jake i'm 5'10" 200lbs bench 300 im whoop your ass and my dad whoop your ass too nigger"
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I lurked at 4chan for a week or so and I regret ever doing it. It was litereally the very week they found that "motivation poster" creation site that creates those gay images (usually of cats) with black border and bold text like LULZ or CANCHEESBUGGER or whatever them kids do. That shit was terrible.
GW's the only place for me really, I've tried other forums but they suck, and I have friends who only go on facebook or anime forums... so while I want to branch out, I wouldn't even know where to start!
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I lurk and participate in the civilized parts of 4chan and plus4chan.
You really need to filter through shit usually, but I like it there, It's a weird social experiment, and it can prove helpful at times.
I tried to lurk SA but It didn't last, I like their Let's Play though.
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i only really post here and drowned in sound, which is a music site full of english people who are usually people in an office posting whilst at work or students.
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I go to a scene forum.
I tell everyone how much I hate scene.
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it sounds like you are spending your time well!
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GW is my only home. <33
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I dont spend asmuch time on Computers as i used to,
And GW is filled with kids now so im not as inclined to post or hang out as much as i used to,
I occasionally read the odd thread and reply.
I am still working on afew projects on the side but they get very little attention as im normally or getting drunk.
I post on Something Awful and the hockey zombie forums. Hockey zombie because its unblocked at work.
SA cause someone bought me an account a while back.
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Eyes on Final Fantasy, then all my favourite members left (all the regulars in the FF1 subforum) so I stopped going.
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RPG Crisis forums, and the Official Playstation Forums (only to post on a certain megathread about bringing back PS2 backward compatibility on the PS3), and that's about it besides GamingW...
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I don't go to forums anymore. :<
Seriously, I'm barely ever on the interwebs.
(also: HELLO!)
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hey this is the only forum I actually frequent anymore. well done guys!
it's pronounced meem.
haha, really? i have always pronounced it 'mem' (as in même)
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I have to say SA and Facepunch are the most active sites I know though. 4chan as well. I actually ending coming here, for no reason, just to check things out, then saw love and war part 2, and downloaded it. Even so facepunch might be full of 13 year old boys like 4chan sprouting endless amounts of memes. I know that Mikefoz was like around 30 years old as a super moderator. Facepunch had the custom forums, now turned into social groups. Removed emoticons, things changed after that, and people bitched about bringing them back and made greasemonkey scripts for them.
Apparently, gmod 10 for half life 2 is dead to the community now, that the general discussion has taken them over. Who still uses gmod anyway?
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I got to 4chan, only on /g/, /v/, and /jp/ though, and the only one I visit on there regularly is /g/.
All the other boards are inactive, not for me, or full of 12 year olds (/b/ /r9k/)
Then again 4chan is full of idiots on every board.
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The only reason i have ever even considered going to facepunch is for the garrysmod mods.
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I am a goon :fogetshh:
I can't count how many times I've left and returned to GW. I'm sure because of that pretty much nobody here really knows me beyond my dumb teenager stage, where I had some pretty fucking retarded game ideas. :welp:
Back when it was around I frequented RPG Maker Database. It was a small community that occasionally had some major drama but I kinda liked it!
Oh and I hang around Destructoid occasionally.
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GW is the only forum I ever visit these days!
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GGZ
oh yeah, and places related to Graal, ancient middle school history. miss that game and the weird community tied to it.
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Hang around gamefaqs. Best part is just gamefaqs rather then the boards, since you keep hearing the same old questions.
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isn't the gamefaqs community well known for being all totally stupid.
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isn't the gamefaqs community well known for being all totally stupid.
Yep.
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Yeah, I used to post on both Suikosource and the gamefaqs community forums (admittedly we're going years back now), and unfortunately gamefaqs rarely gives you an enjoyable experience. I mean, if you're looking for help on a game then fine, but communitywise? Forgeddabootit!!!
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i post on some WoW forums from time to time but otherwise, GW only!!!!
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I haven't really moved onto any forums as they take up a lot of time. The closest thing to a forum I would say is that I read and post on reddit.com, but I rarely post so it's not really a replacement for a forum (My profile is http://www.reddit.com/user/truebosko/ as you can see, not really as active as I would be back here 4 years ago)
Most of my "slacking off" time is spent on IRC on irc.freenode.net, but I'm usually in #python or #django which I don't find a waste of time since I'm actively learning and helping others *shrug*
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and he's also proud that he can say nigger on some forum (hint: when is this necessary)
I don't think I said I was proud, even you think by my post I'm proud to say it, because I seem to be in a rush or something. As I'm a fast typer, or have idea what I'm talking about.
Another site is EncyclopediaDramatica.com a satire wiki site and offensive, if your looking for retarded humor, that isn't suppose to be taken seriously. Unless your goronchev.
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what is tabb google sucks
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http://www.tabbcertified.org/
headphonics is this where you are posting now
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I don't think I said I was proud, even you think by my post I'm proud to say it, because I seem to be in a rush or something. As I'm a fast typer, or have idea what I'm talking about.
Another site is EncyclopediaDramatica.com a satire wiki site and offensive, if your looking for retarded humor, that isn't suppose to be taken seriously. Unless your goronchev.
(encyclopediadramatica isn't satire, it's just internet)
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it's basically just what you get when 4chan and somethingawful make a bunch of articles about why they hate each other.
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benos, you're a fucking idiot
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http://www.tabbcertified.org/
headphonics is this where you are posting now
no thats not it and also i dont post there. i don't have the energy to and also i doubt i'm cool/funny enough so i just read it from time to time
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www.truthandbeautybombs.com
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Nowhere, really. Hell, I don't visit forums all that much anymore. I just tend to stick to Facebook, because people actually know me there.
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www.truthandbeautybombs.com
o thx
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lol i think jamicus joined there a few days ago
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I join every forum I see.
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psh those tabb guys don't seem that cool
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nope theyre awesome and powerup comics is the best thing. its like what i like about gw minus the myriad things i hate about gw
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Nowhere, really. Hell, I don't visit forums all that much anymore. I just tend to stick to Facebook, because people actually know me there.
True dat willyfoureyes
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that's the real tabb forum? that blows, I thought we were joking around.
edit, do you really wish gw would be more like this http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=e9891736ac993f8102ecf11a2565379e
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i dont know what that is or what you expect me to say but i dont read the entire forum and random topics i go to usually range from pretty good to really good depending on who posts. its a really pleasant experience for me when i visit from time to time. im not going to go down that entire forum and click through topics trying to find ones to convince you that its good or something because to be honest i can think of a lot of other things i'd rather do than bicker with you about this.
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forgehub.com
that's about it..
But I don't post really, I lurk.. GW and Toolkitzone.com are like the only forums I ever remained active in (1500 posts+)
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man it's got everything I like about gw minus all the shit I hate, like arguments, in-depth discussions, block posts, and black admins
--headphonics april 2009
j/p, j/k. it's just that I clicked through like 15 threads and they were all horrible topics you or a general mod would have said WELP and locked. it's just really odd to be like "it's way better than gw but takes too much effort" and then it turns out to be all random spammy shit, so I wondered if it was a joke even tho it's a real forum (GOGD is too btw) but you don't gotta explain or defend it I don't care.
btw it was a link to the general forum
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i wouldnt lock most of those threads, i'd just move them. also i meant the effort it takes to involve yourself in any established community.
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idk it looks dumb to me
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I did that shit and I got warned for it
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idk it looks dumb to me
this is funny because you make arguably the most immature posts here
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sorry man but i gotta agree with everyone else. it's like if one of the sa fyad lites was a whole forum. this does make it look better for casual reading but idk i saw this topic about tom waits and every post was just quotes and albums to get.
also it seems actually like MORE work to establish yourself there because everyone kind of posts the same.
definitely great webcomics though and a forum to PAL around in it seems. if gw ever blows up lets emigrate. just like fifteen people show up with their own subculture where'd they come from...
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i am reading the topic for saying hi and people are getting kind of disgruntled about jamicus and ase, i think they would reject the organ
if gw culture were an organ, which would it be? i was thinking the gall bladder but i don't know. spleen?
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this is funny because you make arguably the most immature posts here
:welp: why you gotta be a dick about it?
look how defensive you are getting over people not liking a forum you admire but never post on
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i'm not defensive at all i don't think, i mean it came off that way but there's no other way to say what i said. i like your posts but it's kind of funny seeing you be like THIS FORUM....IT LOOKS DUMB when look at your sig! if you think its dumb then i would agree because i think its kind of a silly forum but i like reading it more than gw because gw is really dumb too and not in the endearing way. it's just irritating and obnoxious vs this which is kind of relaxed PALLING AROUND like steel said which at this point is probably my fav forum thing.
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Forget I Asked
I do like that attitude actually, it's something I always sorta missed at GW. maybe not really MISSED but something I had noticed previously. why can't we do that? that's not a plea it's an actual question, what do you thinkis different.
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um
i think it's probably the basis of the forum! like, a lot of active posters here could probably blend in over there but we don't post like that here. even in p911/american magic, we may shitpost, but we dont post like that. but their forum began as a backing forum for webcomics and ours began as a semi-serious development community. maybe to be so laid back and pally you have to start as something nonserious
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Yeah I don't think TABB is very good so far it is not AWFUL but it's nothing really that smart or funny. I thought since it was an offshoot of qwantz the guys would be like, friendly soft-touch humour or whatever but some of the guys are jerks just like around these parts (like this 'trainwreck' character...whoah, simmer down bro...simmer on down. reminds me of a certain someone...guess who. guess who i'm saying about.).
I saw a topic start with "HEY NIGGERS" and nobody even said anything, among a bunch of other things. Plus there's the whole "heh this guy doesn't understand nobody says lol around here...get with the program..." which is just not the kind of thing I enjoy and I think it is very silly. I've dipped the toes into a couple of other topics and yeah it's either nothing too interesting or variously stupid and annoying. So far.
The whole lurk before you post business is crappy and embarassing for them. I think these guys think they've got some sort of comedic vernacular that is difficult to get a grasp on but I've got a secret message for them. I can't tell you what it is. PM me if you want to know what it is.
I dunno what I was expecting?
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fuck all yall.....
also are you saying he reminds you of me. if not i dont really care but if he does i'd have to look him up!!!
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lol did they really say HEY NIGGERS though
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Crud I can't find the topic but somebody did. This post might be edited shortly...
I'm not trying to get the old rag on TABB forums. I'm just being fair and balanced here.
edit:
found it:
so it's on, niggers
posted by Baron On The Laptop in his topic "my visa got approved!" in general. He doesn't seem to be some random dummy, either. Big topic, knows a bunch of people by real names, all the business. Just saying!!
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Don't be such a little tell-tale koon, jamie.
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they have filters up so people say niggers and fuck and whatever else but it comes out as person i admire and totally friggin' or something like that.
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Not for that. They've got them for fuck, shit and all that but not for nigger. Apparently, anyway, cos I saw it on my totally friggin' screen.
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man i hope thats not..........baron von swede. hes my fav person....please dont talk like that baron!!!
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slack grammatical style is just a thing that happens on forums man. weird.
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man i hope thats not..........baron von swede. hes my fav person....please dont talk like that baron!!!
nah, they're two separate people. there's a baron von swede and a baron on the laptop.
also, i'm pretty sure they fiter fuck to be "hug." I've seen "totally friggin" a lot too but idk what word(s) it replaces. "Fuckin" maybe?
yeah, i've had mixed experiences so far. there are a couple really cool topics and I like their "we dont warn for going offtopic" rule, but there are a shitload of really bad topics too. they don't seem to lock topics ever, no matter how horrible they are.
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slack grammatical style is just a thing that happens on forums man. weird.
yeah that term has always been kinda embarrassing.
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no it isn't.
how is that embarassing at all.
typing in lower caps with a lack of grammar- mature
slack grammatical style- how dare you...
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slack grammatical style
lack grammatical style
lacks grammatical style
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i like the term a lot. it brings fond memories
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you can go to gaia online and find people typing like that, it's not a special gw thing! tho it does remind me of impeal and his Shapeless Blob Part Two callout of ase or adeline, that's what's good about it.
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i mean, did anyone think it was ever a gw specific thing? people are lazy typists all over the internet! i just like the term because yeah, it reminds me of like MEKESSS et al being like ugh....you and your....lack of capitalization in the old days i guess. it's a very nostalgic term
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no i never did but it is kind of interesting how this happened as if anything it's a backward slide in coherency. i wonder if it means anything linguistically. the idea of expressing ideas simply over complex!
its interesting because i think all of us would condemn someone who decided to just 1984 their speech and was like "maudlin of the well doubleplusgood" but at the same time would cringe if someone started talking about how shit was mellfluous or something. forum speech probably affects us worse than we think I bet. I haven't had to do any actual writing in about a year though so what do I know.
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welp i think its due to different levels of speech probably. time was this was viewed as a FORMAL MESSAGEBOARD and a certain level of language was required to post and it was generally the level you would email your grandmother with + maybe more profanity but you know. i think as the general tone of the forum went from being kind of serious and semi-formal to hyper-relaxed (tho not on the same level as certain sa forums or tabb), the level of speech starting slipping backwards right alongside our standards. i think we would condemn both those things because they represent extremes; one is ridiculously relaxed and the other is irritatingly formal. both are annoying! i think we and most other good forums fall somewhere in between, although i guess that depends on the topic too. but i don't think our joke topics are ever that relaxed and our serious topics are definitely never that formal.
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what are you talking about I been speelling the best I cant his whole tiem
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my smartest/most pretentious literature-nerd friends all type in "slack" grammatical style. but then again so do a lot of dumbasses so.
i also think our forum differs a little from the more relaxed forums in that they usually have mostly really short one-liners while we still have a lot of people writing paragraphs all the time.
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benos, you're a fucking idiot
:cool: story bro.
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benos do you come back to gw every month or two just to bump this thread?
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1 month? that's all it takes. Though, I care not for rpg maker that much anymore, I'm not a active member, well, maybe I'm starting to get into it again, I suck.
Or is that the reason why I seem to be less active, because there are other forums I go too, sounds about right. Only in the rpg making era of my pc working, yes, I was active then.
But no one cares, what I do. I won't go further to cause e-drama.
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i'm not concerned with your activity just the fact that you seem to really like bumping this thread in particular
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I forgot about this place for months. Hey guys!
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*crickets*
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Hi drevean, welcome back. I used to play cricket too
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Oh, I think he meant the forums were so quiet you could hear the crickets. Like on a night that's really still. I don't know he might have been talking about the game of cricket though I'm not 100% sure.
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I'm kind of in-between-forums. I've been here @ GW inconsistently since 2004 I think. I've had multiple user names due to IRC chat bans hahaha. But that was a long time ago. I'm givng GW another chance. So I'm on GW and a small small forum called Gamelair. Both are <3
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i'm pretty sure that he meant that he was so happy about posting again at gaming world he wanted to chirp
like a cricket
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Oh, I think he meant the forums were so quiet you could hear the crickets. Like on a night that's really still. I don't know he might have been talking about the game of cricket though I'm not 100% sure.
I guess you could be right, sometimes on a quiet day I can hear the knock of leather against wood and calls for more cucumber sandwiches. Rarely at night unless it's drunkcricket though
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Other forums?
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I left GW to go to a tennis forum
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gamingworld fucking sucks
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GW is actually dying now
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oh that shepperd...
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I don't really go to forums. Except here. And even then I haven't been visiting as much as I used to. I used to frequent RPG2knet, GGZ, RPGi, Gormash's, and like, Vimm.net or something like that (a ROM site) like 5 times a day. NArrowed it down to just GW (aka all the others dont exist anymore(do they? too lazy to check))
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forgehub.com
Got sick of making rm2k3 games, needed something somewhat productive to do.. So start making Halo 3 maps..
hah