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#1  Edited By tocool340
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Bad body odor is number 1. If we're talking physical, complete body mutilation is a complete turn off. I'm talking piercings and tattoo's all over the body, especially the face. I don't mind a little bit of ink or bling, but if it just dominates the the body, that would definitely turn me off...

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I have a couple gaming apparel shirts. N7 and a black Triforce t-shirt. But that's about it. I wouldn't mind getting more, but I'm not hardcore enough to commit all the way...

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@adrian1480 said:
@tocool340 said:
@adrian1480 said:

Site never recovered after Jeff got fired and the exodus began.

This site being dead is well earned by the penny pinchers who chose a buck over loyalty and the fanbase. Quite frankly, I'm not even sure how they keep the doors here open.

When it finally dies, it will be remembered...but not missed.

There were actually two other events that destroyed the site. Don't forget the April Fools massacre day where many long time users called it quits and when GS decided to revamp their entire website, only it had enough bugs to make even Big Rigs or Cyberpunk 2077 at launch look functional. I feel that was the final nail in the coffin...

I was already gone by then. Only started stopping by again very recently, and even then only a few times a month.

I'd like to hear more about that happening.

And I must say, if there's anything sadder than once good websites dying, it's seeing their animated corpses being controlled and overrun by right-wing chuds who -- knowing they can't post their trash on any still self-respecting website -- find themselves in places like this where the moderation is no longer allowed to treat them as they should be treated. The things the fly here would have been unheard of in 2004 -2006 when I was enjoying running our little corner of the community with the GUFU team. Now the caliber of contributor I see regularly only serves to remind me how far the site has fallen. (present company excluded)

I honestly don't remember a whole lot about when everything took place, but the April Fools massacre happened back around 2010 if I'm not mistaken where the mods and staff members here created a huge hoax by "banning" one of the moderators here, @spazzx625. That shit escalated into a huge vacuum of users and moderators getting banned once the "reasons" behind Spazz getting "banned" was leaked. Even after Gamespot announced it was all a joke and went out of their way to reverse the banning of certain users (Some didn't get unbanned as they unfortunately went too far in their rage), many long time users never returned. But hey, at least many of us got a nifty trophy/badge for the whole debacle:

"You've been spazzed!! You participated in an epic 2010 April Fools joke hosted in GameSpot's Off-Topic forum, involving two moderators spazzx625 & solidruss, whether you thought this prank rocked, or you thought it sucked rocks, you were still involved in the prank of the century! April Fools!"

As for the site redesign, I believe that happened around 2013, at least the first major overhaul. When they first implemented it, Gamespot was practically nonfunctional for roughly 3 months, showing that they never bothered testing it before making it live. Eventually, only the homepage managed to be somewhat functional, but the rest of the forums was still a mess. So once again, gamespot shot itself in the foot. I think the redesign was meant to make the site more mobile friendly. It was also around this time that they removed unions. So, by the time things started working and the site settled down, about half the community moved on, especially long time users...

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@adrian1480 said:

Site never recovered after Jeff got fired and the exodus began.

This site being dead is well earned by the penny pinchers who chose a buck over loyalty and the fanbase. Quite frankly, I'm not even sure how they keep the doors here open.

When it finally dies, it will be remembered...but not missed.

There were actually two other events that destroyed the site. Don't forget the April Fools massacre day where many long time users called it quits and when GS decided to revamp their entire website, only it had enough bugs to make even Big Rigs or Cyberpunk 2077 at launch look functional. I feel that was the final nail in the coffin...

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I can't believe that, in my age, I still get scared by video games. Here's all the games that had me hesitating to explore the next areas:

Ocarina of Time (I was 10 when I first played it. The atmosphere, creepy noise, and music in certain sections definitely had me halting my progress and noping over to the fishing hole instead)

Jet Force Gemini (Particularly an abandoned space station level which name I can't remember. Absolute dark corridors with monster noise being heard throughout? Yeah, took me a moment to get through this.)

Evil Within (Hmmm... playing in complete darkness with the stereo on and jumpscares throughout? Yep, I played this on edge the entire time. The one chapter with Ruvik especially had me freezing up)

REmake 1 (I was around 14 years old when I first played this game.)

RE2Make (Yeah, having Mr. X stalking you with other monsters wondering around made me afraid to leave safe rooms a great deal of the time. And again, playing it in stereo with graphical setting maxed out really set the mood)

Resident Evil 7 (I still haven't gotten passed the first section of the game lmao. Must've gotten 15 minutes in, turned it off, and never returned. I plan of taking it on soon though as I slowly get through my backlog)

SOMA (Another game I haven't finished, but did at least get far. Another very intense game heavy on the atmosphere.)

I'm positive there are 1 or 2 more but these are the ones that stick out in my mind....

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Jeepers Creepers first film. I still have the urge to watch in now and then. I just don't understand why the sequels fail to replicate it's success. The 2nd was decent, but the rest? *Sigh*...

Evil Dead 2. Absolute classic.

Cloverfield. Not sure if it's considered a true horror movie, but its definitely one of the best "found footage" movie I've ever seen.

IT. The original movie.

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The only thing that could've prevented this is having the shooter's guns confiscated the moment he checked into a mental institution. At that point, he would need to undergo a thorough mental examination for any hope of legally owning a firearm....

This shows there needs to be closer attention being paid to those gun owners who, at any point, is registered at any mental health facility. Especially if they're hearing voices. So in truth, this could've possibly been avoided. Or at the very least, made it difficult for the shooter to carry out his plan...

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Ghost n' Goblins

F-Zero GX (story mode on Very Hard)

Evil Within (Dat Akuma Mode)

Dead Cell (Which don't feel like it should be hard. But it constantly kicks my ass)

Nioh (The double boss fights are madness!)

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If "God" exist and happens to be an actual entity, "he's" a deadbeat to me. So I care about "his" existence about as much as "he" cares about ours...

My opinion on "God" if it exist was described best in Mass Effect: "A god — a real god — is a verb. Not some old man with magic powers. It's a force. It warps reality just by being there. It doesn't have to want to. It doesn't have to think about it. It just does." This is what I feel is the true essence behind God. It's not some cosmic being that picks up the newspaper to read about human tragedies and goes "oh well", then skips to the funny section. Or cares about giving independent fortune to certain people around the world because they get on their knees every night and pray for it. It operates like the sun. It's there (Maybe), but exist only to passively carry out its singular purpose while not caring about our existence....

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@blaznwiipspman1 said:

@LJS9502_basic: are you supporting jimB?? Lmao 🤣. I guess pigs do fly if hard left liberals back up far right conservatives.

Yeah, that happened more than once in this thread. I honestly had to do a double take on what I was looking at lmao....