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"I think now I finally know why we as a forum are failing..."

For the past year I've been watching as myself and others suddenly decline in posting, having no real emotion to do so anymore... and now, it seems so clear. There is a reason to this.

WE ARE TAKING OURSELVES TOO SERIOUSLY.

For Gods sake. Who cares that the PS2 sucks, there are no decent games for it, or the Gamecube is for kids and the X-Box will fail? What the hell happened to a bunch of guys in a room laughing and poking fun at eachother?

We've got our heads so far up our own beliefs that we can't see that we're driving ourselves insane by not having any fun! We complain about the decline of the forums, and it's because of us, not anyone else!

If you come to these forums, then it's to have fun, and cheer yourself up. We make more effort to write about why the next generation of games will affect ourselves in the future than we would trying to entertain eachother. Topics are not sodding documentarys, they're entertainment, and it's so bloody obvious that this isn't happening it's driving me around the bend.

Hasn't it ever occured to you that the topics that get the most replies are simple topics all in good fun? Meka's longest topic in a while was one that was him laughing at a man who locked himself in a shed late at night while he was "browsing the web", while other excellent topics about his views on gaming and prices at the moment are ignored. No offense Meka, I'm just trying to prove a point.

We need to spend more effort on having fun, and less on writing "our point of view on today's society of gaming". What crap.

And before you all say "FUTURE OF GAMING", go back to last year here on the forums. The only topics that were about the future of gaming were mostly by newbies trying to win games, or the regulars in an offish mood. The rest of the topics was wondering where everyone is, and orginising game tournaments. Never took off, but were fun to do.

So why can't we do stuff like this any more? Why hasn't someone just come onto the forums, and asked if someone wants to play Unreal Tournament or something, like they used to?

Because we're so hooked onto making topics "epic", we've forgot what the fun of it is all about. I say we stop writing so much uninspiring tosh, and go back to basics.

This is why I demanded a caption contest, and I know why now. I still demand one.

I demand that we buy a multiplayer game and go play it together. Organise a day for us all to play. Once a month will do. Once every two months is fine... we just need to do it.

I demand that we spend more time doing fun things, discussing fun topics... sod what you think Sony will be doing in two years time, what did you do today? What game are you thinking of buying next? Tell us about a game we haven't heard of. Who remembers Road Rash? What would have happened if Nintendo made the first ever FPS?

I demand we at least do something. This isn't something you can just say: "Yeah, that's a good idea, let's ask Tony..." This is something we can do ourselves. Boring boring topics about the future... we should be looking to the now, and what the hell we can do in the meantime.

This is why I love the stories. It's just a bunch of us all doing something together, none of it is that serious... even though I do get carried away every now and again... :0)

So I ask you. Suggest stuff that will make the forums a more fun place to be! Polls, we could have polls.

More varied competitions, we don't need GADS to be award to them, we could just mess around. A competition for the best drawing of Mr Snuggly.

Quizes. I'm not saying stop writing that gaming topic and go make a quiz, I just think that people should try and make an effort to do something like this.

Come on! Ideas!

VenomByte wrote:
> Nah, the Ninty is the cult fan.

Nice mis-spelling of 'cult' there to get it through the filter... ;-)

Nah, the Ninty is the cult fan. He enjoys quality even in the less marketed products, much like the film 'Dusk till dawn'.

What you are describing, is the Sonyling. The media-influenced, image conscious, uneducated simpleton.

I apologise to those that are mentally challenged.
It was both rude and uncalled for, an easy target for playground humour.

I had no right or business suggesting that mentally-challenged people would automatically enjoy the Gaycube.
I have one of these special people right here, and will offer him the opportunity to defend my actions (hey, some of my best friends are special):

slknseg se setols\e g 22512 yw3y eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

There, so you can see.
Nintardo will be enjoyed by those that think the charts matter, those that actually cared whether Helen and Paul got together and those that think "The Fast and The Furious" is better than Gone in 60 Seconds, because there is less of all that talking in it.

Goatboy wrote:
> Nintardo


The combination/hybridisation of the words 'Nintendo' and 'retard' is both condescending and disgraceful.

You are implying that all Nintendo owners are retards, and that is supremely insulting.

To retards.

Nintardo

That is my deed for the day, I have given the world the phrase "Nintardo"

My work here is done.

doghnut monster wrote:
> Ah Fibble I remember this word from my
> earlier SR days. it's certainly a good word. Who invented it? wan't it artimage
> shanks?


NO! It's MY word, and I didn't give ANYONE permision to use it, not even the other me.

Your Honour wrote:
> Flibble.

Ah Fibble I remember this word from my earlier SR days. it's certainly a good word. Who invented it? wan't it artimage shanks?

Flibble.

I await patiently while pondering over if I should start my IT project that was supposed to be handed in two weeks ago.

That's true

I'm going to go for a smoke and think of a crap and meaningless topic to use to start a thread.

(no change there then)