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Pirate Jet posted:I like Games this year more than I did last year. I was pretty skeptical of the shitposter thunderdome but it actually seems to have made most of the participants either calm down or outright go away so maybe I didn't know what I was talking about. uck u
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Aug 15, 2015 01:25
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Games is ok, some threads have become unreadable but the rules are super loose so whatever. Someone already said it but SA is extremely insular and really self loathing so you're not gonna draw anyone. There really should be some kinda medium between the gbs 2.0 posting and old games but i can't really figure out a solution just point out it's a problem. As for the thunderdome thing I didn't really care most of the people from there were Imp Zone regulars as far as I knew so I didn't really have any investment in watching it or caring about it but it's at least an attempt to get people together
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Aug 15, 2015 02:11
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these forums need a loving mobile version badly. i understand the forums coding is a decade plus long comedy of errors and idiocy, but its sometimes a pain in the dick to browse on phone. neogaf is a cesspool 99% of the time, but their mobile version is equal if not better than the desktop version for browsing. and if there actually is a mobile version, welp 
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Aug 15, 2015 02:15
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abagofcheetos posted:these forums need a loving mobile version badly. i understand the forums coding is a decade plus long comedy of errors and idiocy, but its sometimes a pain in the dick to browse on phone. neogaf is a cesspool 99% of the time, but their mobile version is equal if not better than the desktop version for browsing. there's an app that's decent enough i grabbed on my phone, i think it's just called Awful? someone probably knows more about it than me I'm sure.
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Aug 15, 2015 02:18
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abagofcheetos posted:these forums need a loving mobile version badly. i understand the forums coding is a decade plus long comedy of errors and idiocy, but its sometimes a pain in the dick to browse on phone. neogaf is a cesspool 99% of the time, but their mobile version is equal if not better than the desktop version for browsing. The awful app works well for me
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Aug 15, 2015 02:18
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hmm ill have to check it out. i remember there being a browser plugin for the site YEARS ago, but i think drama killed it so i didnt expect any other efforts
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Aug 15, 2015 02:21
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Yeah, Awful Betamax is pretty good. It messes up sometimes, but I haven't seen it happen very much and it gives you a lot of bandwidth-saving options for people on 4G, international, or limited plans.
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Aug 15, 2015 02:45
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It's 2:31 am and I need to game but I'm tired.
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Aug 15, 2015 07:31
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I would like to see more empty quoting in the games sub forum that is my only real feedback thanks for moderating
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Aug 15, 2015 07:44
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Kelp Plankton posted:I would like to see more empty quoting in the games sub forum that is my only real feedback thanks for moderating
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Aug 15, 2015 07:50
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Aug 15, 2015 10:27
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This is a good sub forum simply because the mods don't do dumb things to remind us they have mod powers all of the time. Thank
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Aug 15, 2015 13:12
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Honestly I've never had any gripe with any threads in games. Most of them work just fine, they really only get lovely when the game is lovely or when the thread was poo poo to begin with, in which case who cares? Most of the actual interesting games have people seriously talking about them which is kind of ideal, I think? There's also fun threads like the awful mods thread where lax posting rules helps make it fun because it's mostly laughing at stuff. Thunderdome was pretty good also.
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Aug 15, 2015 14:34
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Kelp Plankton posted:I would like to see more empty quoting in the games sub forum that is my only real feedback thanks for moderating
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Aug 15, 2015 16:33
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Games has been running with almost no real issues except for the one where you can't post in certain threads without running the risk of getting stalked by the mentally ill. Stricter moderation very likely wouldn't fix this either anyway.
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Aug 15, 2015 21:15
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I don't get why some people are so adverse to seeing posts more than a paragraph long but I think the forum is in a good place overall right now.
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Aug 16, 2015 05:29
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Internet Kraken posted:I don't get why some people are so adverse to seeing posts more than a paragraph long but I think the forum is in a good place overall right now.
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Aug 16, 2015 05:52
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Internet Kraken posted:I don't get why some people are so adverse to seeing posts more than a paragraph long but I think the forum is in a good place overall right now. why make many word when few word do
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Aug 16, 2015 05:53
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Internet Kraken posted:I don't get why some people are so adverse to seeing posts more than a paragraph long but I think the forum is in a good place overall right now. I have a learning disability
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Aug 16, 2015 05:58
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No Such Thing posted:why make many word when few word do Sometimes to explain something well you need to type more than usual, that's all. Endorph posted:see, there are good big posts and bad big posts, but a bad big post is a thousand times worse than a bad small post, because there are a lot more words Fair enough.
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Aug 16, 2015 06:02
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You won't like me when I'm longposting
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Aug 16, 2015 06:47
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For a few years now, Games to me has been the Vita thread, the Fallout New Vegas thread, and anything XCOM. Other threads do not exist, largely because my Vita is my only gaming device; I read the Fallout and XCOM threads out of fond remembrance. One time I read the Pillars of Eternity thread but that was only to complain about how long it took for me to receive my physical copy (I received it late July because I am on an island--the internet is not reliable enough to download anything, and the other month we ran out of rice for several weeks). Of course the game doesn't work on my machine, but that's perhaps my fault as one of my laptops is rather old and the other lacks a disk drive. Perhaps in a year or so I will get the chance to enjoy it. Overall I feel like Games is one of the healthier sections of SA. Ever since GBS became FYAD-lite it's the only part of SA I frequent with any regularity, save for occasionally checking Ask/Tell for something interesting (there often isn't). It makes me feel connected to the world outside my island. One time a goon even sent me some games (Killzone and Uncharted), so there's that. On a few occasions I have read the Game Developers thread, which I have found to be unintentionally comedic as game developers take their jobs very, very seriously. It's actually a good thing for someone to care about their work, of course, but here in the Federated States of Micronesia one can become easily frustrated at how little foreign presences care about the place. These days I have more respect for game developers than I do the UN, IOM, the embassies of several nations, and a plethora of NGOs that seem to excel at causing abject and profound harm. Meanwhile, nobody knows or cares because let's face it: do *you* know where the Federated States of Micronesia is? So it's really nice to read about people who have passion for what they do. It makes me wonder if sometime I ought to work in the field. If nothing else, I appreciate how SA still has some degree of discussion and passion. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but I'm not aware of another site that offers what SA does. SA provided me a means of venting about Natural Doctrine, which is either the love of my life or as abusive and bad for me as my former fiance, and for that I am grateful.
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NineBreaker posted:For a few years now, Games to me has been the Vita thread, the Fallout New Vegas thread, and anything XCOM. Other threads do not exist, largely because my Vita is my only gaming device; I read the Fallout and XCOM threads out of fond remembrance. One time I read the Pillars of Eternity thread but that was only to complain about how long it took for me to receive my physical copy (I received it late July because I am on an island--the internet is not reliable enough to download anything, and the other month we ran out of rice for several weeks). Of course the game doesn't work on my machine, but that's perhaps my fault as one of my laptops is rather old and the other lacks a disk drive. Perhaps in a year or so I will get the chance to enjoy it. awful
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The Vita thread's mostly cool, the Steam thread is nice most of the time even if you can skip most of it and miss nothing and I don't mind the weird little community in the shark tank thread, well except for Stux. Ban Stux.
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Great Joe posted:The Vita thread's mostly cool, the Steam thread is nice most of the time even if you can skip most of it and miss nothing and I don't mind the weird little community in the shark tank thread, well except for Stux. I agree with everything in this post.
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Aug 16, 2015 12:44
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Healbot posted:I agree with everything in this post.
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Great Joe posted:Ban Stux.
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Games is pretty good lately! With the exception of the Chat threads repeatedly devolving into shitposters arguing with each other. Which is quite an acceptable loss. We mostly need more good games to be released (Q3/4, I'm looking at you) to talk about. Stagnation of the forum is less of an issue because in a lot of ways major releases have slowed and stagnated.
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Aug 16, 2015 16:11
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Jon Do posted:Games is pretty good lately! With the exception of the Chat threads repeatedly devolving into shitposters arguing with each other. Which is quite an acceptable loss. It's gonna be a little slow up until November, and then it's gonna get nuts
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Aug 16, 2015 16:19
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No Such Thing posted:It's gonna be a little slow up until November, and then it's gonna get nuts mgs5's in like two weeks and then mario maker's two weeks after that. welcome to the future
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Fungah! posted:mgs5's in like two weeks and then mario maker's two weeks after that. welcome to the future well, yea but that's compared to november's Fallout 4, Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront, and Xcom 2 and then JC3 and Xenoblade the first week of december, and then there's 'smaller' titles like Anno, Need for speed, and trackmania.
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No Such Thing posted:well, yea but that's compared to november's Fallout 4, Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront, and Xcom 2 and then JC3 and Xenoblade the first week of december, and then there's 'smaller' titles like Anno, Need for speed, and trackmania. There is a pretty good chance that at least half of those games are going to be not good. I'm probably going to buy them all anyways though.
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Aug 16, 2015 19:47
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No Such Thing posted:well, yea but that's compared to november's Fallout 4, Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront, and Xcom 2 and then JC3 and Xenoblade the first week of december, and then there's 'smaller' titles like Anno, Need for speed, and trackmania. They compare favorably.
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Aug 16, 2015 19:58
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I agree, MGS V and mario maker are probably both better than anything on the list, but nov/dec is just dense and will make me into a poor.
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Aug 16, 2015 20:16
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Aug 16, 2015 21:25
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Probably with the Giant Bomb community, though I haven't played any games they were active in and we weren't.
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Ryoga posted:Games has been running with almost no real issues except for the one where you can't post in certain threads without running the risk of getting stalked by the mentally ill. Stricter moderation very likely wouldn't fix this either anyway. do you have examples of this because this is the first i've heard of this issue
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