Gamefaqs - An old gaming website that still exists somehow

[The Paleblood Vessel]

CE currently in a minor civil war on Hasan Piker shocking his dog, some are actually sensible and realize that it's fucked up, the other half is running complete damage control for Hasan and trotting out the usual lolcow argument that it's just the haters that are fucking with him and spinning anti Hasan propaganda to deplatform him. Let's be real, fucker can shoot a politician live on camera and twitch still wouldn't deplatform him.

 

[Laetiporus cincinnatus]

Discord outsourced their age verification info to some undisclosed company, which suffered a breach after only 3 months of servicing Discord, and leaked thousands of users' account information, many of which included full government IDs.
What do you think GameFAQs users would do after hearing this news? Discuss alternative communication clients? Mention that you can cheese the verification process with GMod ragdolls? Advocate for firebombing glownigger buildings over Discord's retardation? Seething at U.S. feds and wanting them to be sued over this, despite the federal government having nothing to do with state-level age verification laws? If you guessed any of the 2 latter options, congratulations!

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Let's be real, fucker can shoot a politician live on camera and twitch still wouldn't deplatform him.

Not only get deplatformed, but he would probably walk Scott free.

 

[TruthSeekingDaimon]

We have the usual leftoid insanity over Charlie Kirk

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/264562-playstation-5/81052470

 

[Sabrina]

It absolutely floors me how people give their real names to Discord.

I guess FB kind of normalized it and younger generations don't know anything better

 

[Laetiporus cincinnatus]

I'm guilty of sometimes clicking on these dogshit articles from "Game"Spot whenever they pop up on the GFAQs front page. In my defense, I just wanted to know what a SWANA is, but imagine my surprise when I scrolled down and noticed that the GameSpot janny forgot to disable user comments for this page. As far as I know, they ALWAYS and ONLY disable comments for articles that talk about Pmurt or identity politics instead of video games, and I can't remember the last time they let people rag on these Buzzfeed opinion pieces.

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[Blarmed&Dangerous]

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I'm guilty of sometimes clicking on these dogshit articles from "Game"Spot whenever they pop up on the GFAQs front page. In my defense, I just wanted to know what a SWANA is, but imagine my surprise when I scrolled down and noticed that the GameSpot janny forgot to disable user comments for this page. As far as I know, they ALWAYS and ONLY disable comments for articles that talk about Pmurt or identity politics instead of video games, and I can't remember the last time they let people rag on these Buzzfeed opinion pieces.

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(To save everyone time, it's "SouthWest Asians and North Africans," aka sand niggers)

 

[Jack Garland]

I remember getting $20 Amazon card once for writing a review that got voted review of the month. Lots of time spent in high school on good old GameFAGs.

 

[Sabrina]

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I'm guilty of sometimes clicking on these dogshit articles from "Game"Spot whenever they pop up on the GFAQs front page. In my defense, I just wanted to know what a SWANA is, but imagine my surprise when I scrolled down and noticed that the GameSpot janny forgot to disable user comments for this page. As far as I know, they ALWAYS and ONLY disable comments for articles that talk about Pmurt or identity politics instead of video games, and I can't remember the last time they let people rag on these Buzzfeed opinion pieces.


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"Solid Waste Association of North America" OMG I thought GFags were so bluepilled before

 

[Wesker]

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I'm guilty of sometimes clicking on these dogshit articles from "Game"Spot whenever they pop up on the GFAQs front page. In my defense, I just wanted to know what a SWANA is, but imagine my surprise when I scrolled down and noticed that the GameSpot janny forgot to disable user comments for this page. As far as I know, they ALWAYS and ONLY disable comments for articles that talk about Pmurt or identity politics instead of video games, and I can't remember the last time they let people rag on these Buzzfeed opinion pieces.

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It's astounding the amount of bloat out there in media of completely worthless writing jobs.

 

[Metamorpho]

Speaking of trannies. Popular nonbinary Youtuber GameChamp3000 used to frequent GameFAQ's Poll of the Day board. And, if you can believe it, was most know for being a pedophile. To be fair, though, that wasn't an uncommon past time for PotD regulars.

Here's a thread where they debate whether or not he's a good person for not wanting children because he knows he will rape them. lmao

Damn the 2nd link's dead, did anyone archive it?

 

[Sabrina]

Speaking of CyricZ (one of Alyssa Mercante's simps), he's white knighting the congress troon McBride over legal documents that she was born a male. I'm surprised he doesn't have a Kiwi Farms thread yet.
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God these guys would be in their 50s now. At least children don't use message boards anymore (literacy)

This reminds me of reading Usenet archives, almost, in which they're talking about MOTHER on Famicom (there's at least two in depth posts on this on Usenet, I'd say "look them up" if Google hadn't badly fucked the archive search), anime on laserdisc, and blazing fast 286 machines.

Ok. Look it up anyway. Found this: https://archive.org/details/mother-famicom-manual-only-hi-res-ozidual



The whole manual!!!

 

[Kheapathic]

I have an account from 2004 and haven’t looked at the boards in ages. Only started browsing them again recently. Trannies, trannies everywhere. What the fuck happened? When did this change start happening? I went in expecting the old 4chan-lite version of gamefaqs and instead got troons with pronouns in their bios and people getting banned for calling things woke. How does a population of less than 1% somehow manage to worm their way into positions of power on every goddamn website?

Been wondering... in the 2000s were there any sites that had moderation teams/policies as bad as GameFAQs? It feels like they were the progenitors of the modern-day douchey power tripping mods.

GameFaqs in the late 1990s into the early 2000s was a less edgy, but still chaotic wild west. Mods were a thing, but it was mainly for people who are obviously getting too retarded, mainly threats were actioned. Then sometime in the early to mid 2000s, GameFaqs merged with GameSpot and the big lie was nothing will change, and that was a huge fucking lie, I remember getting actioned because a common work around was to say something like "word rhymes with witch," but that was just as serious as a profanity violation. From there I can only relate common Internet points in history, the iPhone in 2006 giving a lot more normies access to The Internet as PCs were for nerds and laptops weren't as cheap yet. Then 2012 when the great progressive shit really started to get noticed, GamerGate in 2014, and then finally I might say the banning of porn on Tumblr. While people went there for plenty of other reasons, like their retarded progressive shit, the banning of porn seemed to cause Tumblr to cease being a containment zone.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

GameFaqs in the late 1990s into the early 2000s was a less edgy, but still chaotic wild west. Mods were a thing, but it was mainly for people who are obviously getting too retarded, mainly threats were actioned. Then sometime in the early to mid 2000s, GameFaqs merged with GameSpot and the big lie was nothing will change, and that was a huge fucking lie, I remember getting actioned because a common work around was to say something like "word rhymes with witch," but that was just as serious as a profanity violation. From there I can only relate common Internet points in history, the iPhone in 2006 giving a lot more normies access to The Internet as PCs were for nerds and laptops weren't as cheap yet. Then 2012 when the great progressive shit really started to get noticed, GamerGate in 2014, and then finally I might say the banning of porn on Tumblr. While people went there for plenty of other reasons, like their retarded progressive shit, the banning of porn seemed to cause Tumblr to cease being a containment zone.

Ah, I never even thought about the GameSpot merge being part of the issue. I think I largely ignored the boards prior to the merge, so I missed out on the pre-merge culture. That also explains why some of the stuff on CE that I've seen archived from the early 2000s was somewhat edgy.

 

[Soda Can]

I stuck to the contributor boards, which had it's own kind of drama going on. Front long time writers being caught plagiarizing content, to the review community schism, to psycho_penguin dying (and further drama when almost everyone was happy to be rid of him), to just general issues with how various incarnations of administration applied copyright rules while piling in forced features no one wanted.

 

[Kheapathic]

Ah, I never even thought about the GameSpot merge being part of the issue. I think I largely ignored the boards prior to the merge, so I missed out on the pre-merge culture. That also explains why some of the stuff on CE that I've seen archived from the early 2000s was somewhat edgy.

Pre-GameSpot merge it was a good site and you could shit talk without any action, and threads weren't really locked, which means the autism could flow. My best memory of this is the Zone of the Enders 2 board, there was a recurring thread called "Ken's Breasts" or some variation of, and all it would be is posters showing up and being like "Ken's breasts, gotta love them" and other inane shit. Threads would max out and auto-lock at 500 posts, and I remember we got into the 20s for thread continuation. The GameSpot merge killed a lot of the cultures the different boards had. Parasite Eve 2 was also a font of autism, as once the game had run its course, a lot of us really didn't leave, and just continued to talk about whatever, which eventually led to a poster saying something like "I took her virginity, I have the bloody sheet to prove it." Good times. Anyone who thinks it's better now is a liar, and most likely a tranny.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Ah, I never even thought about the GameSpot merge being part of the issue. I think I largely ignored the boards prior to the merge, so I missed out on the pre-merge culture. That also explains why some of the stuff on CE that I've seen archived from the early 2000s was somewhat edgy.

I wish I was a participant of GF back in those days. But I had other forums to shit post at in the early 2000s.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

God these guys would be in their 50s now.

That's a level of pathetic I can't even comprehend. I remember still being in high school and feeling that I'd aged out of GameFAQs culture.

 

[Blarmed&Dangerous]

God, remember abandoned boards? I don't know if it was like a formal rule or an informal policy or just something people did, but if there was a game that was more than a certain number of years old, and there hadn't been posts in it for a certain amount of time, users could claim it as an "abandoned board" and make it their own little clubhouse.

I remember stumbling on one of these for the PC RTS Ground Control. There were literally two other people on it and we became bros for a few years before losing touch. I would go through one Genesis, Saturn, etc games looking for these secret abandoned boards and the weird shit people were doing back then.

I wonder what the psi-ball people are to to now...

 

[Soda Can]

That behavior is actually how some otherwise forgotten titles ended up suddenly having guides. The unwritten and only somewhat enforced rule was you can't have off-topic discussion on the on-topic board for an active game. The mods eventually landed on the thinking that 'active' means 'does it have a guide'. If a game didn't have a guide, you'd see that and just click back to Google or something. If it does, you might click on other stuff and stumble on to two guys having off-topic discussion. So trolls would go hunting for 'claimed boards' and then write guides for the associated games to get them pushed out.

There was at least one guy on LUELinks who admitted to having a series of completely made up guides on games no one could really fact-check him on for that purpose.