The Gamer's Quarter

[Perseus]

Really? I am shocked, and amazed! Also, I've never been to the #ic irc. I don't even know what server it's on.

[Shapermc]

[Boo]

[Swimmy]

[Six]

[Boo]

[Fred]

[Malons]

Hi, my name's Adam, and I joined here a while ago, but never posted. I read a lot of the posts though. After a while I just thought screw and now I've posted three times. Yay?

Anyway, amongst my group of friends I'm considered "the geek" as I play video games, table-top games, Dungeons and Dragons, read comic books, fantasy literature, and anything by HP Lovecraft. I listen to mainly Death and Black Metal (and all related subgenres). I'm 16 and have no job!

Yeah, I'm not sure what all to put in an introduction. Haha.

[Harveyjames]

[Max Cola]

Hi. I just joined like two minutes ago. I like video games (durr) and drinking soda. I named myself after a can of name brand soda, you know. I also like drinking chocolate milk, and stroking my nonexistant beard while making humming noises.

I like to play mostly adventure games and platformers, so it makes sense that Psychonauts is one of my favorite games. I also really dig stuff like Shadow of the Colossus and ICO, and from the looks of it you folks dig those games too. Let's be friends!
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The only girl I've ever loved was born with roses in her eyes. But then they buried her alive, one evening 1945, with just her sister at her side, and only weeks before the guns all came and rained on everyone...

[dessgeega]

chocolate milk is great. (i drink the soy kind.)

welcome!
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[Max Cola]

Soymilk is very delicious. I prefer vanilla to chocolate soymilk, but chocolate is good in just about any context!
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The only girl I've ever loved was born with roses in her eyes. But then they buried her alive, one evening 1945, with just her sister at her side, and only weeks before the guns all came and rained on everyone...

[Bulkor]

Hi. I probably should've done this earlier.

As of just a few weeks ago I'm a game translator. Prior to that I was just really interested n Japanese and video games and the attached nerd culture.

I wrote something about killing God in jRPGs that I think is maybe going in the next issue.

[extrabastardformula]

I go by the handle of extrabastardformula when I'm on gaming forums. It's a holdover from my youth as a goth.

Nowadays I play emulated stuff of any kind I can get my hands on, and console styled freeware titles on my PC. I do have an X-Box for console goodness, though that too is going to be put to emulation use and stocked with Neo Geo roms at the earliest convenience.

By day I'm a cook, and on weekends I volunteer at the local organic produce co-op. I consider myself to be a fighter against hunger, and I understand the irony that comes from selling expensive food to rich folks while at the same time decalring that noone should have to pay to not be hungry.

In the past I was more active in taking food out to the streets, but the past five months have been really rough for getting out there with healthy vegan grub to those in need. Once my economic situation gets more on track I hope to do that harder.

Note that I am not personally a vegan, but something of a flexitarian with strong freegan tendencies. Much like Ness from Earthbound I will eat a hamburger I find in a trash can to ragain health.

Anyway, I love 2d fighting games, and for 3d I pretty much only really enjoy brawlers instead of typical 3d fighters, Bushido Blade being the main exception.

And I enjoy Jet Set Radio Future very much despite what I can recognize as some very glaring faults.

[dessgeega]

food not bombs?

good to have you aboard.
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[Shapermc]

As Cooking Mama would say "Make food, not war"

Welcome aboard.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

[extrabastardformula]

Indeed, Food not Bombs. I take it you are familiar with them?

[dessgeega]

hells yeah i am.

actually, one of my best friends dates one of the ladies who runs food not bombs in philadelphia. the neighbors keep trying to evict them because of all the food gone bad.
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[Shapermc]

Hello everyone! I'm posting from my ney phone to test it out.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

[ryan]

[purplechair]

[Koyetay]

Hi all.

I took a hiking trip a few months ago. When I got back, I found DPS to be dead. I posted as x3nocide over there. Came over here and found I had an old account I'd forgotten about.

So yeah. What happened to Don't Press Start? Marco get bored?

[simplicio]

I imagine an avalanche of strategy guides.

Send in the whiskey! (and the dogs)

[Crazy Bacon Lips]

Well you know I'm just a down-to-earth guy who's a bit tired of SBDN.

I did Food Not Bombs like three or four times, but for some reason I stopped. Perhaps because I realized I was TRYING to be indie? I don't know.

[dessgeega]

crazy bacon, your avatar is huge but excellent.
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[Joe]

hey. most of you know me, and i've been posting on TGQ for a while, so i think i'm only posting in this thread as a formality

i like the positive vibe and good discussion here, as opposed to that forum. maybe it's the white background?

i hope i will be to your standards, TGQ.
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[Intentionally Wrong]

[Crazy Bacon Lips]

At least keep posting in the Axe, Vinc!

[dessgeega]

it's a smaller forum and the vibe is, consequently, much more amicable. i think the white background has a subtle effect too: a black background is a lot more intense.

anyway, joe's good people.
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[Koyetay]

I don't know, a black background can be easy on the eyes in a dark room. DPS had a black background and I always found it to be a friendly place.

Anyhoo, I'm glad TGQ is small and friendly.

[Joe]

[dongle]

sup joe glad to see you here

i enjoy sb but it's really, really anti-social

[Crazy Bacon Lips]

[fish]

new guy!

so... hi.
my name is Phil Fish, i am a designer.
by day i work as a level designer for some big montreal studio, no, not that one, not anymore.
and by night im an awesome indie/artsy/fartsy game designer/artist.
about a year ago i co-founded the kokoromi collective with fellow designer Heather Kelley, and later on Damien Di Fede, our coder.
back in november we organised this great big dance party/game jam thing called GAMMA 01. we invited a bunch of developer friends to make games from scratch around the idea of using the live music from the party to generate game-stuff.
we had a bunch of Djs, and a band playing all night while the 7 games that got submited all played on giant projector screens around the venue. all the games used the live music feed to do shit. it was organised with the Montreal International Game Summit, so the place was packed and the free booze was flowing. much dancing, gaming, schmoozing and drinking was had by all.

right now were working on this series of small games called DISCOGRAPHY. we like to think of it as "our bit-generations". except its all rythm games, but we're researching alternative interfaces/game designs. in other words, we're making a bunch of rythm games that arent gonna be about hitting the right burron when the note hits the line.
we're trying to find other ways to let a player know what button to press when.

on a non-game note, i am a huge nerd about a number of things.
i watch a shit-ton of downloaded TV, read a bunch of comic books, and listen to lots of music, go to shows, etc etc. you know, the usual.

that was a long intro.

lets be friends.
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you cant spell selfish without fish

[dessgeega]

hello!

gamma 01 was nifty. were the games ever released? i want to play goatscape and pretend it's by jeff minter.
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[fish]

some of them were.
we kinda droped the ball about that.
our website is a joke right now.
a sad sad joke with no punchline.
but we're working on that.

Glee is somewhere in there.
but in all seriousness, all those games were a lot more fun in their "natural environment".
and i prolly shouldt say this but goatscape was so so.
you have a 360 now, just wait for space giraffe. rumor says you will soon.
i have big balls and cosmo crash were totally awesome tho.

we're working on the next gamma right now.
its gonna be something else tho.
no audio thingamagics.
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[Six]

hey fish.

i actually volunteered at MIGS, but i couldn't make it to GAMMA 01. i still regret missing it!

[fish]

oh nose!

well, they'll be another one.
and you can come this time.
volunteer or not.

oh, and yeah, its gonna be with MIGS again.
same deal.
no arcadia this time tho.
arcadia can bite my ass.
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you cant spell selfish without fish

[Six]

Yeah, Arcadia was really terrible last year. I think I ended up spending more time in line waiting to get in (and waiting to leave!) than I did checking out the floor. I didn't even know there were conferences or panels going on - it was really poorly organized.

At least the first time it wasn't crowded and the performances were part of the main event, so it felt like it was worth it.

[Patrick Alexander]

Oh, there's one of these topics, is there?

G'day, I'm Patrick; I'm a cartoonist. I used to write about videogames for a living. I called Psychonauts the best game ever made, and they put that quote on the box of the Australian PS2 version, which felt a bit odd because I might not have said it about the PS2 version.

Right now, my job is teaching English. But soon, it will be writing about videogames again!

Plus teaching English on the side for MONEY UP!

I made a videogame last year -- a music-based scrolling shooter starring a retarded bee. It's called Chu-Chi, it's deeply flawed, and it's here. I think you might like it.

I lurk on these forums more than any other forums. Except now I post. I like it here and I'm happy to be joining in.

If you want to see my comics and things, please visit my website.

I am very good-looking.

[Shapermc]

[dessgeega]

:(

EDIT: wait, what?
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[helicopterp]

[Patrick Alexander]

[ryan]

[Shapermc]

[Patrick Alexander]

[Shapermc]

[sediment]

what a beautiful story of generosity and sharing.

My name's Chris Balser. Past ego searches on me have turned up a crappy artist and a yoga instructor in Baltimore. I am not a yoga instructor.

I have a subsite on deviantart that I no longer post to or maintain, really, but only because I haven't bothered scanning any new material.

I am very slightly autistic. This has led to me honing over the years a Social Weapon: a sense of humour few other people (ie, generally nongamers) understand or find amusing.

In my spare time I like to play video games. I like older games and some newer games, but mostly older games. Until very recently I was never a big fan of 3D, and even still generally prefer lovingly-crafted sprite-based or text-based games.

I also play a lot of tabletop roleplay games, and until recently have consistently been engaged in some MMORPG or another. Currently my fiancee and I fire up Lunia very rarely. We're waiting for Age of Conan and taking a break from "that' style of game in general.

I hold an esteemed position rife with fortune and fame with Domino's, as a local deliverer of pizza. In Iowa City, IA. I attend the University of Iowa and a local community college (because it's cheaper) and am aspiring to acquire dual degrees in physics and art.

Given sufficient funding and scientific progress I would put my brain in a robot body.

I have a cat, and live with my fiancee and her sister and their eleven cats and three dogs.

I like to make Crawl characters based on my manager at Domino's. His name is Du. His managerial password is dudu. He's a funny guy.

Also, I am typically either very late or very early to discover things that I then love. In this case, I am the former.
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[Harveyjames]