How Can I Be More Active/Known in GiantBomb?

Exceeding the popularity of the Bomb crew is tantamount to sacrilege. Tread lightly young one...

Have you not seen the rise of the independent? Have you not seen the people supporting their own champions? You are a remnant of the past! You are not infinite. Like all monarchs, you will either fall or fade into irrelevance. You are already dead.

Not sure. I guess post things that others will find interesting and memorable. Don't become white noise that people skip over. That tells you nothing of course but It is how I have got to remember people.

Follow every user on the site. Enough will follow back that it will seem like you're popular or something.

@truthtellah:

The independent only have a place because of how well the industry as a whole is doing. It is because of me that they are as great a force as they are.

Well, I am technically a zombie, but that comes with the position. You must be willing to die for your country to be a King, and the best way to see if you're willing is to actually die. Still a better system than your democracies, which redefine the ignorance of the masses as legitimate. You simply trusted your own collective idiocy over the wisdom of one. That is all.

Been wondering that for a long time too. Then again after 9000 posts I'd hope someone would recognize me here.

The trick really is to blog well and blog often, or just do something awesome that the community gets all excited for. I just don't have time or willpower to do any of that stuff.

@medalofmode: When you discover the secret to this, please let me know. I'm like a high post count without a personality attached.

Oh, so the podcast has a name now? Right on.

It's not worth it, at the end of the day it's just a forum.

@toowalrus: Haha, actually, that's one I'm doing with DuskVamp tomorrow, beforehand.

Your avatar picture is the most important thing online. I've used Kurtis Prinny since websites started to allow images for avatars. I've never seen anyone else use my avatar image on general websites and video game websites. I imagine a forum specifically for Disgaea would have a bunch of people using it, but that isn't seen outside those places.

Word, son.

Looks like he successfully made himself known.

If we take the wise words of Persona 4, popularity leads to intimacy. With some deductive reasoning like woah son, we can also say that intimacy leads to popularity. So, you're going to have to get real intimate on these forums.

I know I may be a bit late on this, but @wrighteous86 said:

Really? Awesome. I wasn't sure if you and @duskvamp were actually going to do this, but it still sounds like an interesting idea to me. My only question is where to get it.

And to answer the proper question: I dunno, hang around here, post interesting/salient/dumb stuff, maybe pick a fight or two, you'll get known quickly enough. Or don't care, like the majority of people tend to do, and you might just start to be recognised by osmosis.

At least with freedom people get the chance to choose. Videogames must decide their own fate.

Now, get on the train and accept that the day is lost for you but won for all videogames. If you truly care about them, you'll let them go. Don't worry, you still have a place around these parts, but we all decide for ourselves. :)

Be argumentative, uncompromising, and utterly obnoxious, all written in a way that makes it seem like your post was put through google translate. It also helps if you post in every thread about how terrible console games are and how the Total War series is amazing.

Alternatively, be a complete moron and post in every thread, and occasionally make really inane polls about the mundanities of life.

Alternatively, be that guy who defends and trumpets Nintendo at every opportunity. We haven't had those guys for a while...

Or, just don't be a shithead, post intelligently and eventually people will go "Oh, you're the guy who likes all the weird old games and Fire Emblem".

@zFUBARz

No, you're Batman.

Contribute to the community, eventualy, the more you write, the more you will develop a personality to your writing, then people will attach your attitude to your name, or if they are like me, you'r avatar (dont you fucking dare change that avatar)

Use more skill.

The first one is WhyAreYouCrouchingSpock and the second one is Jay444111, right? See, it totally works, their legacy still lives on even though they are long gone (but not forgotten.)

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The Hizane school of posting.

Go to the forums page every 6 hours and post in every topic on the first page, even if you don't know anything about the subject at hand. And with time, you'll get there.

Edit: Actually, that's a terrible advice. You shouldn't do that.

Don't remind me! I will never forgive @wrighteous86 .. how DARE he get a cute gamer girlfriend like @duskvamp on an internet forum, about video games.. the audacity is mind boggling!

Just be totally sick.

Stick to the shadows and be our invisible hero! That's what I do, I single-handedly stop the GB forums from imploding every other week.

Seeing the innocent smiles of all the avatars makes it all worth it though.

• Post long, boring wads of text about your life and your feelings.
• Ask for "girl advice" on the forums.
• Be way into anime.
• Defend everything the GB staff people do/say/write, except for Patrick.
• Throw a tantrum whenever Patrick is in a Quicklook.

You´ll fit right in!

If only I knew...

And what value does choice have?

Get banned...

Edit: Actually, don't get banned. That probably wont help. Just be yourself and comment.

Post picks of cute girls. People will think you are either awesome or weird. Mostly weird, but you will be noticed. *cough*

Have you suggested a game for the next Endurance Run yet?

Hack the site and reset everyone's post count to zero.

Be polite and respectful at all times........

EDIT: Bwaaaahahahha...

Touch her shoulder, fake your own de-wait this isn't that kind of thread?

Did you mean Hizang? Because I agree. I haven't seen him for a while though...

Hizang got banned. : (

Yes I meant Hizang. I hear he got banned or something but when asked others to elaborate on the matter no one did. Needless to say he's not posting anymore and quite frankly as much as I love to see threads like "what shoe do you put on first, left or right?" I think we're all much better for it.

@humanity: @cloudenvy: Whaaaa? When? I know he was a bit trollish and clogged up the forums with his inane forum topics about favourite *insert blank here* but he was our inane troll. No malice behind it. Looking on his profile last activity was 6 days ago? Although someone mentioning him being 'gone' is 20 days ago. Does a ban just work that you can't post anymore but still can get sub content? GB was kind of his life judging by his blog/forum posts, he spent a lot of time on here, I feel a tad sorry for him if true :(

@razielcuts: I would guess its just a forum ban, but that's purely speculation on my part. I know it's possible to be banned separately from the posting in the forums or editing the database

There is well known people on here?

Not anymore. Now it's a full ban.

Just Like that?

The middle girl kinda reminds me of an Asian Keira Knightly. Cute.

@penguindust said:

Nice throwback reference. I chuckled.

Nicole from Kara.

In videogames, choice is everything. It's what makes a videogame different from just a movie or book. Videogames don't just happen; they take real action that someone must choose to take. If you love them, you will let them be free. <3

@wrighteous86: seriously first time ive ever noticed you...

No, it isn't. Choice and interactivity are quite separate. The subversion of choice, influence and power are every bit as important to video games as are their presence. Would the deaths of Sigurd of Chalphy or Aeris Gainsborough have been more poignant if your decisions could have steered them away from such a terrible fate? For all the choice and freedom that Stocke is allowed, is he ever able to save Kiel? Where, pray tell, does freedom from the Slave Crown get Terra Branford? Remember that she did not wear the crown all her life, or even for the majority of her life; it was only put on quite recently within the terms of the narrative. In video games, choice is nothing.

Choice is everything, even if you choose to be part of a preset narrative. A videogame is but code unless you press x to progress the dialogue and take your next action. A lot may be predestined, but videogames allow you to be a part of it. Just like life. Videogames are an empowering medium that cannot tell a tale without your role in it.