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GameFAQS (long rant)
Topic Started: Sep 23 2005, 07:40 PM (1,001 Views)
Banzo803
Tangela
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Well, I started pokemoning seriously at GF, but something has happened and GameFAQS isn't the same, heres my story:

Twas about 12 weeks back, i had about 20 Karma and my Term two holidays had started. I was excited, because every night before that i logged on reading funny and interesting topics, but was never able to partake because of my timezone (Australia, yo!), so I was excited once the holidays started. Pretty quickly, within two weeks, my post count went from 20 to 250. I was enjoying sprite topics, interesting discussions between people like Wyrlwynd and friends, Create-a-Pokemon Topics with talented spriters making their custom pogeys from bits of other pogeys. Pokemon Topaz was moving forward on this board and everyone was happy.

I felt like a 5 year old kid who just entered a place that held the young n00bs who were 5 and entertained the knowledgable adults who were 30. I soaked up information and had fun with my creative mind as well, this place was bliss. I spent 3 hours every morning, posting and learning until the day peopl knew and acknowledged me as a regular and helpful person on this board, like Spanky, who i thought (and still do) was great, funny and useful. I got annoyed by AUNAO and flamed his like the rest. I was happy, i was glad and i was slowly growing, to the point where my advice was first considered, to the point where drkr_Zen gave me my first "thanks" and to the point where i took part in Bugsy's tournemnt (Sdot) and to where i tried to help him create a new one.

Today, i still am a person who seeks to help people, who seeks to be acknowledged, I still admire people like AA, Ultima, pokemaniac, OFS and Spanky for unknowingly bringing me up, i am older now, i am wiser now and i don't have that 5 year old feeling still, and i don't have the same feeling i did when i first came here.

It is the Term3 holidays now, some 10 weeks later. I am now partaking in semi-intelligent discussins and arguments, i am now learning to (thanks to pokemaniac) tell people the truth, no matter how harsh it may be (Darth Aya/Charizard topic) and with modesty aside, i think i'm a pretty decent poster, but what saddens me is that on my first day on holidays, i log on at the peak time for discussion, but am disappointed. I see morons argueing against vets shamelessly, topics being deleted for no reason, i see n00bs giving false advice when a vet isn't aound to correct them, but most importantly, i see NOTHING that is remotely interesting, no intelligent talks between vets where n00bs don't interfere, i log on and i'm going back to replay Final Fantasy IX after ten minutes

GamefAQS is my home, and always will be, i was brought up here, i was taught here and will always have fond memories of this place (unless something horrible happens) but I don't enjoy this place as i used to, i don't see fun topics where you can laugh and then go to a serious topic where you can listen to some vets as they teach you. This place is now riddle with stupid ideas, questions which are in the FAQ or the stickied help topic, stupid remarks and other genrally idiotic things, and that my friends, is why i have created this topic. To bring back fond memories, to liven this up and hope to god that throughout my holidays, i m here again, and not in Smogon (not that's its bad, just not my cup of tea), or replayoing FF Games that i have finished multiple times. this is my attempt to bring happiness back.

I thank you for reading that if you did, discuss the good ol' days of GameFAQs and post your opinions of it.
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+Amazing Ampharos
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Remove mentions of myself and the new vets and put in names like Synre, blueshirt, and AJ and you pretty much have my story. Oh yeah, and remove the part about Australia and your crazy school holiday system(summer vacation rules!-while it lasts). I will miss the site, but it has progressively moved further and further down the path to its own demise. I don't see myself as abandoning gamefaqs; gamefaqs abandoned me.
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Remove the newer vets (and myself of course) and replace it with people who came after AA's time, but before Banzo's time and you will have my story :-p

Except I started out when the Ruby board was dieing, and quickly moved on to the Fire Red board.

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+Bugsy23
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I've been on GFaqs(or was) for like 3 months, so I dunno who was or wasn't there, although I knew a couple of the people there from NetBattle anyway.
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Ultima66
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You know my story, right?

Anyways, I started when the original rating center was big (Pokemaniac, GOlden Ursaring, Yameneko), and AA, Shadow, and SZ were the major vets.

And I'll leave a board when I'm not wanted, and that's just about every board sadly.
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*wants you*
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You're welcome here Ultima. Rent's only $13.37 a month. ;)
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Banzo803
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Just make sure you direct the cash to Banzo803 for tax reasons.
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petrie911
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I started at gfaqs when...wow, I think i was there around the same time as AA, as I remember Synre still being there. However, unlike AA, I never became a vet in any way :(. *sigh* it seems no one cared about me.
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Blkmage
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Heh, I don't remember when I joined. :(
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I had first gone to gfaqs as an underaged user (hey, it was only by a few months!) when I was having trouble with a Bomberman game. It was such an amazing site; GameFAQs was probably the one big thing that contributed to my myopia ;) I started visiting the Ruby board about a year after I had first made my account, and I still remember such names as Synre and primeape57. From that point on, I was in and out of Pokemon, and this past summer was when I really got into it. I went to the Emerald board and found a pretty cool message board, albeit one plagued by people requesting rates of their Lv23 teams. I immersed myself in blueshirt's Moveset Guide and Smogon's Pokedex and gradually got better at Pokemon, all the while procrastinating on summer reading. Bugsy's tournament was probably the highlight of the Emerald board.

Now, however, the gfaqs Emerald board has lost its charm, with abusive mods all over the place. Neither is there any community anymore, as the handful of competent players that once made the board fun are all gone. I still go there sometimes for old-times' sake, but the fact remains that the Emerald board will never again be the fun place it was once.
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It's sad but true.

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Replace weeks with years and Pokemon board with game boards in general and that's how it went with me. CJayC has made some really bad decisions over the past year or two. Although, unlike most of you guys, I have LUE to go to. LUE is basically the only good board left, and that's really saying a lot considering all this crap with the new mods that's going on.
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lol I missed the LUE signup by 3 days

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Neon Twilight: so gay
Neon Twilight: gayer than bbm and spanky sex gay
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Banzo803
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OFS isn't a vet so to say, but he is someone who posted alot and helped out n00bs, regardless that he helped them by pissing all over their ideas. The only time I saw Primeape57 was that do you guys listen to this Y2Josh_HK (or whatever) guy.
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petrie911
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I still go to gfaqs, but the only message boards I go to now are the SSBM and LoZ:TP boards. At least they haven't degenerated quite as badly as the Pokemon Emerald board.
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Banzo803
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What's LUEshi. Isn't it something like Yoshi with baby mario or something.

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Ultima66
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EDIT: Didn't post right, but look here:

lueshi.com
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Banzo803
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erm...yeah...looks interesting

*runs*
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gameFAQ used to be fun, but now with the game being out for so long, theres not alot more to discuss, the metagame(not modded) is pretty much set, and yeah people are mean there(modding NB) i believe i got on gameFAQ around the ruby and sapphire boards
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Sep 26 2005, 03:54 AM
gameFAQ used to be fun, but now with the game being out for so long, theres not alot more to discuss, the metagame(not modded) is pretty much set, and yeah people are mean there(modding NB) i believe i got on gameFAQ around the ruby and sapphire boards

Albeit as quite a pesky troll :P

Spanky
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Neon Twilight: so gay
Neon Twilight: gayer than bbm and spanky sex gay
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fight?
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Bring it bitch :unsure:

Spanky
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Neon Twilight: so gay
Neon Twilight: gayer than bbm and spanky sex gay
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petrie911
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I have the distinct feeling that this will be the only topic on this board...
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petrie911
Sep 25 2005, 05:05 PM
I still go to gfaqs, but the only message boards I go to now are the SSBM and LoZ:TP boards.  At least they haven't degenerated quite as badly as the Pokemon Emerald board.

o.O

As far as I'm concerned, the SSBM board is pretty much a massive ball of pure insanity (just ask TMK >.>)
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Wow I can really identify with Banzo, even if I did come much later. Still, talking with and battling Glen, Spanks and the likes was fun.

Man, it seems like so much time has passed... it seems forever ago I was a random who was okay at battling getting to know everybody...
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Gamefaqs sucks.

Bunch of sissy moderators with airtight anuses.
work in progress
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Banzo803
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<3 BBM.
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Nice 6-month bumping there twinks :P

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Neon Twilight: gayer than bbm and spanky sex gay
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SSBM board is incredibly crazy. Kirby cheat anyone?

When Glen got banned, I pretty much gave up on GameFAQs. Now that he's back, I still don't know where GameFAQs is going >_>
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