The Gamer's Quarter

Sushi d · Moderator Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 239

meh, I'll continue ghosting at what ever direction you guys would like to go. i am also willing to help out with the reconstruction efforts if need be. i miss watching fools bicker amongst themselves because with all that inanity, a piece of genius always shows itself.

but yeah, it would be best to set up a team of decent writers to keep posting forum happenings and important gaming news that is close to the forum's spirit. you know, like if certain members accomplish something cool and deserve a shout out for it or like special news for certain games we love.

the question is.. who is capable of watching over the forums so obsessively?

i like the 'user submitted articles' thing one of you mentioned. it would be nice.
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D-A-I-S · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 123

I think we should all leave this subject alone for a while, go to bed or something. I won't say why, but I suspect it's giving me a headache because of it.

Or maybe it's just me.

Rud13 · . Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 130

Wait no. Please Project One Coin is amazing.

Someone please buy that domain now I will pay pall you the money for it tonight ,I:m at a public computer at the moment.

www.projectonecoin.com

It fits the idea of insert credit forums. It:s an idea of the community as a whole. I wish I had words to express how much I like it.

Rud13 · . Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 130

Persona-sama · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:17 am Post subject:

Man, the site should be named "A BEAUTIFUL WONDERLAND" because it's actually just our playplace to hang out anyway.

Maybe we should deck it out with a Dragon Quest-style bar motif, complete with 8-bit graphics.
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Boo · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 60

lonelygames.net
lonelyforums.net
lonelycredit.net
lonelywhatever...
project one coin, a beautiful wonderland, etc

select button sounds really dull. The select button never defines a decision, it usually swap from one option to the other and never clearly state a choice.

extralife · . Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 233

Also, can someone that's in contact with Brandon ask him to have a front page story on IC explaining that the old forums were relocated, so that any stranglers can find us?

Hot Stott Bot · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 366 Location: Boston

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Kipple · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 21

extralife · . Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 233

FUCK YOU PEOPLE I MEANT STRAGGLERS ::CRY::

Sync Swim · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 19

Whatever happenend to, Leon Trotsky?
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Joe · . Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 179

Oh.

Glad I went through the effort of getting those forums into shape. A gesture of good-will from me! A rare thing to waste.

Eh.
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Mr. Business · . Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 35

I feel like the forums should have a frontpage of some kind. What that frontpage would be, I don't know, but a frontpage is an integral part of attracting new blood.

As for a color-scheme, let's avoid white-backgrounds, for the love of god. Black is a good background color, though as far as text-color is concerned I'm not coming up with any great brainstorms. I hate to say it, but IC's color scheme is probably one of the snazziest ones that I have ever seen. Then again, emulating that probably wouldn't suit the prevailing tabula rasa attitude.

I'd be all about preserving at least a couple of threads. I'd hate to think that "the Killer7 line" is dead and gone forever. Also, the old FWK threads might be worth preserving, even if they are technically an IC forums schtick.

beige · . Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 38

selectbutton is kind of dull.

ForumAxe.Com 4 Lyfe!

Also, hi, I'm an IC refugee.

Hot Stott Bot · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 366 Location: Boston

Sorry vinny, but 2ps-IC currently has the most IC-official support. ;_;

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Joe · . Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 179

Rud13 · . Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 130

Oh joe we appreciate it a lot! If I was in America I:d totally come to your new years eve party.

The more I think about this the more it could be something really special. I love the idea of setting up articles written by the posters. As to the exact nature on it, I:ll hold off.

Can someone change the poll to reflect the real options? As I see them now its

selectbutton.net
projectonecoin.com
forumaxe.com

Again Project One Coin sounds like the best one to me. It refers to an amazing time for the forums, and implies that we are all working together for something. What that something is, is well for us to decide. Blogs? Reviews? Podcasts? Video game Development? Hi Tim week? FKW?

Where I can see the downfall of a site devoted specificly to a forum, that has more or less been what IC has the past few years. Forum Axe showed that we all enjoy hearing about others lives. Setting up this sort of huge community that is by the community will stablize itself. The probably 100 main regulars of IC forums managed to bounce and talk and find things to talk about no matter what the status of the main page was.

In short, I think we can make this work.

Rud13 · . Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 130

beige · . Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 38

Too bad axeeffect.com is taken.

THE AXE EFFECT is the internationally recognized name for the increased attention AXE-wearing males receive from eager, and attractive, female pursuers

Sorry. I had to put that out there.

Also it better accept larger avatars. Poor Worf isn't the same anymore.

Hot Stott Bot · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 366 Location: Boston

Democracy can be dangerous my friend. I'm not so sure about that... I'm not sure what else to do either.

FortNinety · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:03 am Post subject:

No offense Joe, but I think the fact that you sorta acted like a jerk to a lot of folks back at the IC is a prime reason why many of us aren't really to jazzed wit your Axe 2. Just saying.

Anyway, I also don't like the Select Button name. Its okay, just a bit limp...

I also vote for ForumAxe.com

Joe · . Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 179

Yeah, I wouldn't expect much out of this other than a phpBB. Guess that will do the job, though. Shouldn't get too grandiose with yer plans until you get a base, you know?

As for any malice, Fort90, I've been quite pleasent here, as well as abstaining from the majority of the recent drama, and I am going out of my way to do a service for the community. I'm trying to say I'm sorry, you dig? There's more than one reason that I'm telling people not to call me vinculum gate.
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FortNinety · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:06 am Post subject:

Intentionally Wrong · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:08 am Post subject:

Okay. Hi. I guess the forums got invaded? I rarely ventured out of Real Bout Forum Fury, or whatever the 'games' section was, so I missed everything and just thought we were experiencing technical difficulties.

Anyway. I vote for the front page BEING the forums.

I'm brushing my teeth now, but I'll explain my rationale in a moment. Suffice it to say that I'm against the new version of the old forums from having any unnecessary appendages. But my case will have to wait for like five minutes.

FortNinety · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:08 am Post subject:

Joe · . Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 179

FortNinety · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:14 am Post subject:

Also, stick with the black with white type. It's pretty! And virtually every forum is white with black type.

John · . Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 20 Location: Southend Jinx

guys fascinating!

perhaps we should stop bitching about the words and aesthetics of a gaming website!

the fact of the matter is that we are all friends. we may not see eye to eye, but god knows we find some semblance of common ground regarding taste.

there are many fine gaming sites! hell! we are squatting upon one of them!

if this fine (forum) community decided to find its own voice and identity, then i see little other than great good to come of it. i often find myself surrounded by brilliant minds (concerning games, lo we all might be measured), but we need a voice.

perhaps our voice no longer shares proper tone and octave with brandon's. not a bad thing, but certainly a different thing.

perhaps it is time for us to find our own way!

sour, oftentimes... but hopeful!

perhaps it is time to become one unto our own! nary a collective, but an identity of conflict and internal rectification! indeed, we be right before deciding unto our own that we may well be wrong!

forthwith in the greatest argument, the greatest debate, may the most forward of truths rise!

...

about games.

hell guys and gals! i tried.

love you all anyways, though. ;)

Hot Stott Bot · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 366 Location: Boston

hi winker?

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:16 am Post subject:

FortNinety · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:16 am Post subject:

John · . Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 20 Location: Southend Jinx

sorry guys i am kinda drunk.

i guess my identity is not so much shadowed now, eh? :)

dongle · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 290

archives are important. there have been plenty of times where i've played an important game that i had previously missed and i've found wonderful discussion about it via the search.

and, well, i just got a wii so i can finally play my copy of killer 7 and um yeah i think i'd get lynched if i started a new topic on that game.

gutomatic · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Curitiba, Brazil

I kinda liked select button. It's similar to IC, but not a ripoff.

Anyway, here's a very simple and small banner I just made in fucking MS Paint, as my Photoshop is screwed:

If anyone likes the nes2 style feel free to improve it

Hot Stott Bot · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 366 Location: Boston

Sushi d · Moderator Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 239

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:28 am Post subject:

I guess that makes the small amount of preparation I did for FKW '07 was all in vain.
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duckzero · . Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 8 Location: Where THEY live.

Yeah, I'm an IC refugee, but yeah, I like the IC forums. Besides my buddy Mike, I can't talk about video games with many people, so yeah, IC is great!

Now, would i like to turn IC into a set of articles or something of the sort. Maybe that would work, well assuming that the articles themselves are discussion worthy. So, I guess every article would have to be polarizing of sorts.

Intentionally Wrong · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:47 am Post subject:

Hello! I am Intentionally Wrong!

The thing about the Insert Credit Hivemind is that it is big. Not huge, maybe, just--I think the forums are bigger than most people who are involved with them realize.

I mean, I ignored half the threads in the Games forum. I posted like six times in the Development forum when it opened, and then exiled myself until I finished my IC-IF competition submission. I never even went into the Axe, if I could help it. I'd go into the General forum and see people posting I'd never seen before--and they were regulars! They had a higher post count and join date than I did! The culture was completely different.

Obviously, a community cannot survive a shipwreck like this without changing its nature, but I don't think any one person in this community can claim even to understand it in its entirety. (Although I'll add that if anybody's going to be the forum's steward for the time being, Mr. Toups is the best choice, from my perspective.) In which case, I think the best approach for representing the collected interests of the community is just to represent the community itself. You can make an argument that a summarized front page with current goings-on and such is an appropriate way to do that, but why bother? And more importantly, who's going to go to the effort?

I visit two forums. Insert Credit's forum is the larger forum; it's also a lot faster. The conversation moves on if you don't pay close attention. It's also a little bit dumber, just because it's so big; so many personalities and histories are crammed together that flamewars are pretty common. Things like this weekend happen. Whatever.

The other place I visit is called The Seven Deadly Forums. It is a self-contained forum. (Not really--it's the forum from some guy's personal site. But isn't that kind of worse?) The moderators don't do anything to stop flamewars and chaos. If anything, they like to aggravate the problem--right now every post in the Wrath forum is attributed to the same person. Even so, the forum thrives. New posters arrive, and we're still not sure why. Often, we'd just as soon they didn't, so we can enjoy ourselves in peace.

The only reason I linked the site is to show you that being self-contained can work. (And, still, we wouldn't be self-contained. You know places like Gamer's Quarter and LPN and such would have link buttons.) If anything, I think it's the only appropriate move for us.

And I don't give a fuck what color the text is. I can always have my browser override it.

Hot Stott Bot · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 366 Location: Boston

Intentionally Wrong is so right now that I think about it.

You know, I've actually gotten multiple PMs and e-mails in my time from all kinds of interesting people who read the forums who never even post!

So, you know, the community even extends way beyond the active posters...

Trying to pretend any one of us really understands the forums and making decisions based on that understanding might be a bit foolish...

Quick Shot II Turbo · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 23 Location: harry potter

extralife · . Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 233

FKW will continue to soldier on, come hell or high water.

JamesE · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:46 am Post subject:

Ebrey · . Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 38

IC already covers the game news, and Gamers Quarter covers the in depth video game articles. Which is why I think non-game related articles by personalities like tollmaster, patsy, and dhex would be awesome. If someone identified with the new forum more than TGQ they could write a gaming article for the new site... it's just that the perspective of the new site would be "articulate people interested in a lot of things, including video games" where's IC's is "people interested in obscure Japanese games" and TGQ's is "people who like intense video game analysis"

Admittedly, that's just my perspective. But it seems like a logical way of distinguishing the three sites without really splitting the community (because people can be registered at TGQ and neo IC while making comments at IC Classic).

Slonie · . Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 141

wankerwitson · . Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 199

Guys I promise to be a good moderator for you all.
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extralife · . Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 233

winker fuck you ::rebellion::