Fredchuckdave

https://www.reddit.com/r/promos/comments/7784wh/hi_reddit_try_giant_bombs_7day_free_trial_today/

"Hi Reddit! Try Giant Bomb's 7-day free trial today. Chances are you haven't been banned there yet." A little bit anti present mod narrative perhaps (i.e. don't talk about where you've been banned before); but amusing regardless. I'm assuming no one but people who already visit GB will see the ad as per internet norm, alas.

Vinny's tantalizing gaze challenging the banned to come and try their hand.

Dekillsage > Fchamp, Battle for the Stones going to not have the best two Skullgirls Marvel players there, probably just going to ignore it till EVO.

Dark Eye, Ryan Vinny too strong.

@mostlysquares: Every forum is a collection of a certain set of opinions that tends to ignore or purge all opposing sets of opinions; that's just the modern internet paradigm (though it almost always happens with real life organizations, too); it's equally bad on either side.

@valeo: GB has always had reasonably diverse opinions (about games), just shrunk since forums are gradually dying and everything will be a subreddit instead. I've never seen a community of any kind that didn't have a strong political slant one way or the other; there's always a strong bias of some kind in that regard; often one that totally discounts any opposing view (doesn't seem like Gaf was any different in that regard).

@chaser324: Ah, thank you sir.

Escapist was a site I frequented like 7-8 years ago a bit; but mostly just for Yahtzee and Movie Bob (famously said Watchmen is a masterpiece); seemed like they had halfway decent video content but video game writing and video game people writing about movies writing is always pretty terrible (or overly academic in the case of Edge) so I just sort of zone out when it comes to that stuff. As far as forums I don't think they were ever particularly large; where GAF was kind of the last bastion of old school forum activity (that I never participated in) before Reddit takes over everything (and to be fair Reddit is basically just a super efficient forum if you ignore all the dogshit dog pictures and so on).

When's Something Awful going down?

Also what the hell is glixel?

Yahtzee escaped successfully

I like JRPG reading, short chunks of conversation back and forth; I don't like sluggish paragraphs a la modern versions of old Black Isle games. I do like Encyclopedias a lot if they're not longwinded; the Xenosaga 1 Encyclopedia is a big part of what made that game/trilogy/universe the best voiced story of all time right up until the Witcher 3 came out (which ironically has an excessively large encyclopedia).

I do like actually good longwinded writing (a la Joseph Conrad) in books of course but good luck finding a modern publisher that tries to facilitate that.