Hello there.

So yeah, lets get this discussion under way. Do you feel like you fit into gaming world? If so, why or why not?


I think I've only really felt that I've started to fit in here in the past year, I think it's mainly to do with the fact that I wasn't really all that active on IRC or the forums until this year and I think IRL I'd be alot different to the majority of the members (not a geek huhuhuhu).
I remember when I first joined and when someone talked to me IRC, sent me a pm or quoted a post I made I thought it was a really big deal haha, even when I started talking to SB on msn and he laughed at one of my jokes I was like....holy....shit ahahah.
Also Gaming World is alot more 'grown up' than alot of other forums, I think maybe you find it hard to begin with but now days I kinda find it intolerable to go to places where everyone is being so nice to idiots that it reads like they are fighting off the urge to kiss or something.


Hopefully could be a pretty insightful discussion, it would even be cool if we got some key points down at the end and they were stickied for noobs or whatever. (Dreams are free right??)

I remember when I first joined and when someone talked to me IRC, sent me a pm or quoted a post I made I thought it was a really big deal

I am still like this. If someone quotes me or writes me something here or in IRC I'm always like "HOLY SHIT YES, GW HAS NOTICED ME!!! ​".

It never... gets... old...

As for fitting in: Just insult people without seeming petty or bitter. That's the best way to get the ball rolling. And then after a while, gradually become chiller and chiller... yeah...

Eh, you ask a lot of unusual questions Afura...which is good.

To fit into GW, learn internet etiquette then do the exact opposite.

Also, what Feldschlacht IV said.

I'm quite new, but I'd say no.  I don't have the time to thoroughly go through the forums and interact.  It appears that that generally is required in order to fit in here.

Thinking someone is dumb and not being afraid to voice an opinion on it is not being eltist. There is a difference between thinking you are better than ANYONE and thinking that something is dumb.

Over the course of ten years this has been the number one compliant about GW and it rings true every single time.

I bet the majority are people who gw didn't like because they were shitty posters. HOW ELTIST

Man, I really don't want to see this topic turn into an argument about elitism, so if that's where this is going, try not to take it there!

Also, I don't know where I fit in, but I feel like I must at this point.  Years ago, when I first became a mod and started hanging out on IRC a lot and generally made my GW DEBUT as a person of interest and not just some random idiot who posted from time to time, I felt like I fitted in quite a bit.  Like, into the IN GROUP the maybe the OUT GROUP or really, whatever you wanted to call that entire clique.  But uh, idk, I eventually sort of came to be pretty disenchanted with a lot of those people, and since then I haven't really felt like I fit in at all.  It feels like GW doesn't have much room for individual personalities if they don't somehow reconcile themselves with larger groups.  Like, I felt like as soon as I stopped being a part of all that, I immediately lost whatever relevance I had, but maybe that was just the case with me.  It doesn't really bother me much at all, but yeah.

So yeah I guess the answer is no, I don't, but I used to!  I look at people like, idk, ASE or Adeline now and see people who sort of FIT INTO the community, and even though I post a lot and I guess I'm pretty involved in the community, it still seems like I'm looking in on things from the inside, and it didn't used to.  Maybe it's just because being involved in the community as a whole doesn't necessarily mean you're involved with the people.  The difference between then and now is that I think I used to have quite a bit of NET FRIENDSHIPS or whatever forged from GW, and now there are maybe one or two people from here I even bother to talk to anymore.  IRC is a huge component, I think, and I didn't really realize that until right now!  Before I got really active on it, I was more or less just white noise, and since I stopped being active, I've more or less reverted to being white noise, and I've felt more and more out of touch with the community and TRENDS and HUMOR and POPULAR IDEAS and all the things that define the site as a collective and not just a bunch of individuals who happen to be together.

It sort of makes me feel a little bit WISTFUL, because I liked the way I used to feel about GW and how I thought it felt about me, but I guess that's what it is to go through phases!

I think we need to bridge the gap.

Man this is really not that funny anymore at all.