The days and years go by, but somethings remain the same

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:44 am

Abe Dandrell wrote:
WaWard: If you make a plan to resurect it, I garantee that it will fail.
And what makes you say that?

You're not the first 'oh i used to post at old school SG, then left, then came back and it's dead, I want to bring it back to life person and I will!' person. Needless to say, given that it's still dead, they have all failed, and so will you.

Brody · Post by **Brody** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 12:49 pm

THAT my friends is what leaders are made of.

Brody · Post by **Brody** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:32 pm

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:58 pm

Pikohn wrote:In any and everything I do I have faith...I will not lose cause this is not a game to me. I want to help my family let them see things they only dreamed of before its too late. So fuk you if you can't understand my motives.

Are we still talking about resurrecting SG here?

Cybernetic Empire · Post by **Cybernetic Empire** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:45 pm

Now THAT'S how you derail a fucking thread ladies and gentleman!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:00 pm

I like how these are the only threads that Rekki posts in, and he never seems to miss one

Patchingko · Post by **Patchingko** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:57 am

All the other threads are about SGUK, you tonce.

Cybernetic Empire · Post by **Cybernetic Empire** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:03 am

I can relate to SGUK!

Patchingko · Post by **Patchingko** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:05 am

I'll speak in a British accent if you will, guv'nor!

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:23 am

How does the family guy thread relate to SGUK?

And what about the 5564263 other topics?

There are a couple of SGUK threads for sure but not all of them...

Anyway, Rekki, me you and Abe need to organise an SGTokyo meet at some point!

My current visa won't let me leave China once I'm there but it will expire in mid-February normally so maybe we could organise something after that?

Golden week or something?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:10 pm

SGUK doesn't exist anymore, it's just that a lot of the current posters on SG are people from the UK

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:22 pm

SGLondong more like.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:31 pm

Alice and Rachel live in France.

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:47 pm

And I don't live in London.

Patchingko · Post by **Patchingko** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:53 pm

Since when are you guys a bunch of defensive nancies?

Besides, it's not like I only post in this kind of thread... I posted in that Venture Bros. thread, the "Things go fast" thread and the Uwe Boll thread and probably others. I just don't care about Family Guy or these other topics.

But seriously, it's just coincidence. I was talking to John on MSN and decided to see if SG still existed and it did so here I am!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:07 pm

I'm pretty sure SG is around forevAer

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:09 pm

SG is like the dead corpse we all like to beat up once in a while!

!

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 9:51 am

Patchingko wrote:I just don't care about Family Guy or these other topics.

Fair enough

Bring John back plz

Ward <3

Patchingko · Post by **Patchingko** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:39 am

WaWard wrote:SG is like the horrid, living undead corpse of doom we all like to beat up once in a while! !

fixed :frank

I need to get my old SquareRealms avatar up in here.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:57 am

You indeed do

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:39 pm

Patchingko wrote:
WaWard wrote:SG is like the horrid, living undead corpse of doom we all like to beat up once in a while! !
fixed :frank

I need to get my old SquareRealms avatar up in here.

Etch · Post by **Etch** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 4:05 am

Patchingko wrote:
WaWard wrote:SG is like the horrid, living undead corpse of doom we all like to beat up once in a while! !
fixed :frank

I need to get my old SquareRealms avatar up in here.

No plz.

Blue Nocturne · Post by **Blue Nocturne** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 8:41 am

I remember when I first came to SG or whatever the hell it was called before that. I was pretty much a fetus back then. Now I'm a lot more disgruntled about life. I remember Skull, Kat, Skoto, Kneepads, and a few more flunkies.

This place really is a ghost town now. Why not just shut this sucker down, I mean, doesn't it cost money to keep this old shack up and running?

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:46 am

SG actually changed our lives so we'll nuncAer let it die

If it wasn't for SG Chris/me/Joei wouldn't have met and lived together. <3

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:51 am

Calbrena wrote:SG actually changed our lives so we'll nuncAer let it die

If it wasn't for SG Chris/me/Joei wouldn't have met and lived together. <3

It makes more money than it costs tbh.
If you don't want to post here then don't, but it's none of your business to say it should be shut down.

Entr0pi3 · Post by **Entr0pi3** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:09 pm

Just because getting older made you bitter and angry doesn't mean everybody should repeat your mistakes/failures

Edit :

KEFKA wrote:This is sickening... You sound like chapters from a self-help booklet!

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:17 pm

I'm young and full of vitality.
And not once have I ever owned or operated a website, bar a brief stint as a staff reviewer on some kids gaming website years ago.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:26 pm

Was it Jumpstation? Everybody was staff there (though i resisted it

).

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:29 pm

No. Worse than that.

It was called FlamerGamer and existed on an old Freewebs account.

Since I was the only one who knew more than 3 HTML tags I was the one who did most of the work.

I never really took it seriously. It was a load of 14 year olds trying to write reviews, most of which were so poor that they've probably put Gamefaqs to shame.

I just used the place to do a bit of research into young gamer culture, as an article for my old college.

Basically, summed up, it was 'They know fuck all about games and how they're made'

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:42 pm

I used to write reviews, and people often said they liked them, but when I looked back on them my opinions of the games had changed and I felt a bit stupid

SG was supposed to have reviews, but nobody seems to care, so I don't bother.

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:44 pm

Yeah, it's an interesting thing isn't it.
I did a mahoosive review of FFX praising it from every direction about a month after I got the game.

But now I hate it.

When I was a regular on the Highbury Magazine games forum I raised an interesting question.
"Do you think the early console launch games that got 90% or more would get the same if released now?"

It was an interesting topic, basically about how our tastes change over time and how the way we see games evolves as developers get better with the system, since it's regarded that the best games are the consoles swan songs.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:54 pm

I could ahve written three TOTALLY different FFXII reviews this year.
It's really confusing that it might even be my game of the year, after all the hating

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:59 pm

Heh heh, I guess my point was right then. Our perceptions DO change.

Maybe I should make a proper article out of this, see if I can get into EDGE or GamesTM

I know a lot of staff members there. One sent me a promo of Killer 7 when it wasn't out yet!

Entr0pi3 · Post by **Entr0pi3** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:28 pm

[Random biographic tidbit]There is a small interview of me in some EDGE issue

(was an issue on female gamers or something. I was supposed to represent the hardcore female gamer demographics

Issue also featured interviews from female game developers and designers, female web gurus owning VG related website community things, etc.)[/Random biographic tidbit]

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:31 pm

Awesome

EDGE features are pretty boring now. Although I did like their guide to the Wii, since I hadn't payed an ounce of attention to it.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:15 pm

GamesTM is a really shit magazine full of nubs disguised as EDGE btw

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:21 pm

You want me to take that observation to the staff writers?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:24 pm

Yes. I've read some right bullshit in that magazine before.
They like playing up to the alternate opinion.

Yuka · Post by **Yuka** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:33 pm

Funniest GamesTM moment was when they didn't get any review code of Half Life 2 (no one did) so they were pretty much the only magazine that refused to review what was basically online trailers, pictures and hype.

Two years later a Lambda sign and a 9 appeared on the back page.

Since everyone everywhere reviewed it, they decided not to as they felt no one would care.

So, they got berated about it and gave in after two years

They've always been seen as a knock off of EDGE, which, though not truly unfair criticism, I've spoken and descushioned with the staff quite a bit and they're all decent people.

Journalism is a very icey career to be in.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:03 pm

They call Shenmue a retro game on a retro console.

Blue Nocturne · Post by **Blue Nocturne** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:29 am

It makes more money than it costs tbh.
If you don't want to post here then don't, but it's none of your business to say it should be shut down.

Relax, I didn't mean anything by it, I was just curious, I didn't think a website could make much if there weren't too many patrons.

When it comes to internet economics, I'm not just smart, I'm army smart.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:34 am

Well, as long as a few people (and mainly myself

) enjoyt it here, I'm keeping the place.
As Cal said, it holds too much personal importance to let go of.

Joei · Post by **Joei** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:33 pm

rekki, when are you going to come to london and make love to me? you cahd you.

Entr0pi3 · Post by **Entr0pi3** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:48 am

Blue Nocture wrote:When it comes to internet economics, I'm not just smart, I'm army smart.

"Army smart", uh? And what's that supposed to mean, exactly?

Something us "civilians" are too dumb to understand? *shrugs*

Clémenceau wrote:"Military Justice" is to Justice what "Military Music" is to Music

I sure hope for you it's not the same with "Military Smartness"

More seriously though, "a website should make more money than it costs" is not particularly military thinking. I could say it's being "engineer smart"or "scientist smart". But that would only be showing my professional bias. More objectively, it's just common sense *spoilAer*

Remember: just because the army happened to teach you what you know, doesn't mean it holds exclusive intellectual ownership over that knowledge/skills' set

Also, while I'm at it: you're still a fetus. Just a slightly bigger one. Still got a lot to learn, obviously. And it's the same for every single one of us. Be disgruntled now if you want, as it seems to be part of this (continuous) maturing/"growing older" process, but when you'll be done pouting and sulking, remember that there is a life even after that.

Bottom-line is: being disgruntled is counter-productive. Destruction is easier than construction. So pull yourself together, soldier! Life sucks? It's up to you to make it something better.
Location: Hell? Been there, done that, got the T-shirt *yawns*
(see, the next step after disgruntlement? boredom and patronizingness

)

Tzen · Post by **Tzen** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:14 am

Zell I missed you, hello

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:37 pm

Tzen.

Cybernetic Empire · Post by **Cybernetic Empire** » Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:45 pm

I remember the last time I posted here. Man that was great.

Edit: This is great too!

Edit 2: Tzen you spic. Make me a burrito and then take a picture of me while I eat it nude.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 8:53 am

Yup, pics plz

Cybernetic Empire · Post by **Cybernetic Empire** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:17 am

Cal, let's get married in Vegas!