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There was also a loss of many accounts circa 2006. I had originally joined the forums around 2002-2003, but my original account got lost or purged in one of those migrations, so I had to create a new one.
I remember watching Brad and Jeff on Gamespot back when they were young and nervous.
Much to my surprise, Blues News is still around. Lacks Carmack's regular .plan updates, "gone gold" lists, and many other mainstays of it's 90's and 00's content. But it's probably the most chill, if slightly late, gaming news aggregate I've seen.
And it dutifully avoids politics thank god.
What do you mean by that?
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All the evil things you think it's a dog whistle for I'm sure.
I think the only sites I was on back then was HappyPuppy.com and the 3DRealms forums.
Have you ever looked up what happened with the guy who ran HappyPuppy?
That's a fucking rabbit hole.
Needless, unwarranted hostility? Khoo posting on the boards? Ramius is an admin?
Y'all wanna play Jumanji?
2 reasons. I like to out passive aggression with active aggression. Also, if someone asks a shit-in-the-punch-bowl style "What does that mean?" question, it's easiest to just skip the dance and tell them exactly what they want to hear to end it.
Exactly. It's better to speedrun it.
I was giving you the benefit of the doubt and the opportunity to explain what you meant so I didn't make any uncharitable assumptions about you.
And that option is still on the table.
But if you would rather I mentally file you away as - at best, an unserious and uncritical thinker who does not care to engage in good-faith discussion, and at worst a literal fascist - do nothing but keep making these sorts of comments.
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A find these terms acceptable.
But also, not really anything to do with the topic of the thread!
The biggest discussion I've seen on this has been in this thread, most other places didn't seem to really care or acknowledge it, which seems to be the appropriate reaction in my opinion. I await more info, while being mildly disappointed that a lot of people still think of PA the same way they think of "Gamers," which also carries disappointing connotations I wish would change.
Unless they just like picking fights, which it seems like is probably the case here.
also kotaku just for quick snippets of info between work calls i suppose
This is mind-bending to me considering the content of this thread.
Like, I think maybe you got off at the wrong stop.
I think Mr. Kuchera was more about the mechanical aspects of games in any case, as was PA and most people who grew up playing primitive video games.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
To be honest, I focused more on the comics than the newsposts, and where they met in the middle generally stayed within the culture of games. I'm not going to comment on how actually political the content was - since I believe that this is really not the actual distinction being made on a semantic level - but the stuff I remember from Jerry's posts was when he went full ham on a silly idea with his prose, like the carrot cake post. When I think of a comic with social commentary, I think of chainsawsuit and things like it. If you have some PA comic and post examples, I'd love to reminisce.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
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