The Gamer's Quarter

TheRumblefish · . Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 258 Location: Florida

Just came here myself as well. I've enjoyed every issue since the first. It certainly has brought me to a new level of awareness in many different subjects. I love all kinds of games. There is just to many to name, but my love all started back on the NES, and evolved through the times much like everyone else. I am a sucker for Resident Evil, and probably always will be.

That's about it. Glad to be here.

Persona-sama · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject:

TheRumblefish · . Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 258 Location: Florida

Alc · . Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 109 Location: UK

Ran across the quarter while browsing videogame studies stuff, purchased what was available on the spot - great to see it's published in the real world, I love supporting that kind of thing. Had a look at this forum and it seemed to be populated by a nice bunch talking about interesting topics so thought I'd stick around for a while.

Mr. Mechanical · Friendly Stranger Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 1276

Welcome aboard, everyone!

seryogin · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:13 pm Post subject:

That's one arse-kicking avatar, Alc.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Mr. Apol · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:49 am Post subject:

Well, I'm on insertcredit as Apollyon and I've been reading the Gamer's Quarter so I decided to drop by here. The community is smaller and the discussion more intelligent. I'm more comfortable in this sort of setting.
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Wilkes · milky wilkie Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 256

Did anyone ever notice I never posted on the intro thread on insert credit?

I always thought that was terribly rebellious of me. I mean, I have a pretty deep background that I'm not sharing! You all must think I'm quite enigmatic???

and handsome.

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:59 pm Post subject:

do you have a secret past?
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

Requesting Wilkes be given title "Full of Secrets".

Hey Wilkes.

sawtooth · . Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 419

sup wilkes

indeed you are a mysterious person, what with hiding behind your mask of lies and all.

Wilkes · milky wilkie Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 256

sup dark steve, sawtooth and dess.

is this place very nice? I think I should like to spend some more time here.

Good Title! I do have secrets... Though, only mildly interesting ones that I'll keep for now.

The other day, I learned there's a video of me talking to Nubuo Uematsu on IGN and I'm totally not kidding.

sawtooth · . Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 419

It's a wonderful place!

stick around for awhile!

a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

my name is anna, and i like videogames. though i read about them far more than i play them, which i suppose is a large reason that i am here.

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject:

Persona-sama · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject:

a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:12 am Post subject:

Persona-sama · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:16 am Post subject:

a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:27 am Post subject:

yeah, my last girlfriend can probably attest to my shortcomings in the field of love-teaching. that's a story for another thread though!
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a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

kids, don't drink and post.. i narrowly averted being quite embarrasing last night!

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject:

a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

dessgeega · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:08 am Post subject:

i am particularly gifted in that i do not need to drink to embarrass myself.
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Ross Lv.20 · . Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Alvin, Texas

Hi. I'm Ben. This forum looks good, but you should try Game Lair (www.gamelair.com). It's good too. Nice to meet y'all!

OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

Wow. I'm almost 40 posts in and I haven't introduced myself yet.

I'm Rex III. I've been playing games for almost 15 years of my life (I turn 17 in two months), I'm a student filmmaker, and I write about gaming and Snakes on a Plane for my school's newspaper (they don't let me write serious articles anymore because the last time I did I almost got lynched by our school's student council, was accused of being insensitive towards children in Third World countries, and a bunch of freshmen and my friend Bryce tried to turn me into some kind of revolutionary). I found this site through Insert Credit a few months ago.

I think I'm a MySpace addict as well.

Ross Lv.20 · . Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Alvin, Texas

Seriously, go to Game Lair! It's cool!

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:16 am Post subject:

seriously, you guys.
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OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

Seriously?

SuperWes · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:26 am Post subject:

I seriously went there!

Don't bother.

-Wes
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:43 am Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:50 am Post subject:

okay, i have to admit i'm actually starting to enjoy the site.
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OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

The editorial about the Nintendo Revolution made me giggle.

dessgeega · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:41 am Post subject:

the preview of the revolution is even better.

like, it's actually great, unless it's not tongue-in-cheek, in which case it is horrifying.
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Ross Lv.20 · . Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Alvin, Texas

Thank you, dessgeega. The site just started about a month ago. Don't knock it untill it gets old enough to have a good following. And don't threaten me!

OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

dessgeega · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:48 am Post subject:

OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

I say we all write a bunch of stories like that Revolution preview but wtih more typos and submit them all under some name like "Captinl337Halo" or "PwnageTidus".

Rated · . Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 5

OK I'm the webmaster of game lair, maybe our content isn't up to scratch, but we didn't expect a bunch a nerds to study through every word.

This forum looks like a 85 year old pensioner missed the toilet seat and shite all over the screen.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Rated · . Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 5

- Did i know Ross was advertising game lair? no i didn't, i saw this site bringing traffic to game lair so i checked it out.

Here i am reading this bullshit about game lairs content, i am not the best at English writing and i admit it, i concentrate on design (were obviously the opposite)

i brought u two posts, and a member, u might rank higher in Google for extra content.

Gotta go work out now, to maintain my 'big strong man appearance'

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Jiminy Christmas.

I'm perplexed by people who write things and then say "Well, I didn't expect people to actually look at what we're writing". Why'd you write it in the first place then? Seems like a better metaphor for explosive diarrhea to me.

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:52 pm Post subject:

given that most of his writing looks like this:

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I will admit that the best thing about the site is the layout. So good job on that Rated. You should work for a place that has better content, it is a shame that while the layout is good the reader return rate will be low.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:19 pm Post subject:

because we must be heard.

\there's this silver mt. zion song called "hang on to each other" - a nice acapella + organ piece in the vein of this new weird america musical zeitgeist.

it's the lovey dovey comedown soundtrack to parts of your life where you're coming back from some sort of peak experience and just want to take one more frame of trust before you step back into the 8mm clusterfuck that is real life. yeah, you just wanna hug the world; nothing but lovelovelove ripping through your brain; 30 seconds after that time you came and thought you'd died; yeah, man, sometimes it's ok to cry about every little bit of you that's pitysick.

then you see internet strife, and you wonder "why?"

but not:
- "why are people so hateful?"
- "why can we not get along?"
- "how can we live with such pointless strife and misery?"

or even:
- "why do people form vaguely tribal associations with certain brands, and then pursue altercations with other branded tribes?"
- "how much of this is caused by online shills?"
- "can the next frontier of stealth marketing and r+d really be so fucking boring?"

rather you wonder about those times where you trusted the world, where you forgave unconditionally, where you could love without borders. and you realize something about this is just not quite right.

we have lost our inner monologue.

we have cast it out into the world and now neither god nor margaret is available to take our call.

in a supermarket on henry st. i watched a woman look over three brands of canned beats before picking up her phone. she asked the person on the other end questions about beats. this turned into a continuation of an argument about something or other. and we all got to hear it because no one wants to keep that inside voice inside any more.

shine the spotlight on me. on me!

and every time that light goes dark we lash out again, just for a brief, bright spot. we don't just get "does not play well with others" tattooed on our permanent record, because we simply do not play at all.

and why should we? isn't everyone a superstar? aren't our pains worth cooing over?

we spend our days grooming them in preparation for a wake that never begins.

isn't exceptionalism dead, buried in the waste of a thousand voices crying blood libels against the masculine, the aggressive, the creative, the insane? of course we are still monkeys, dressed in ridiculous rags, and no one can deny the ape inside; but the drive to posess, to own oneself and one's surroundings, is shunted into the imaginary.

and so we hallucinate the internet.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject:

OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730