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Just a coincidence, I'm sure.....🤔

People are so damn afraid of Trump.

So they finally did it. PG is gone and any political discussion is now back on OT. At least OT will get the traffic back up it needs.

Bad move.

The staff told me about this yesterday PG will be gone soon, but I didn't think it be today pulling the plug off that fast.

Yeah, does seem like a bad move. SW is a containment chamber for fanboy shit. PG a containment chamber for all that shit. These were good ideas.

Figure if anything, that'll just squash what little community OT was scraping by on.

Perfect timing.

With the news that dropped today, I expect a lot of discussion forums are getting the axe.

Fav movie based off a true story.

Don't even care if Dux was a fraud, worth it.

i've seen other forums cull sub forums that contain controversial (let's be diplomatic) opinions, or put them behind a paywall because advertisers refuse to be associated with that content, and they pay the bills. could be what's happened here

Yeah I know that dude Pyro on here said he overclocked his Switch with good results.

Tempting, but I don't play enough Switch games tbh. Just stick with emus for less performant games.

Well, shit I didn't even know Political forum over at GameFAQS is gone too! I rarely if ever go to GameFAQS and I know PG existed but someone told me it was gone and had to go see for myself. I guess GS really hates political content.

Edit: I almost forgot Fandom owns GS, guess that make sense all these changes.

From this

to this

What a Pokemon evolution.

I just finished Jedi Survivor and holy shit, what the hell was that story? That was the most regretful story experience I have had in a while. I am still in shock by the events that transpired. Zero interest in future games from the series. And that is not even considering the poor performance and shitty combat.

@Pedro: Sorry to hear that you didn't like it as much as I did. Beat it and doing my NG+ as we speak.

I thoroughly enjoyed the first one but this dropped the ball in everything except graphics. The production values of the environment and models is simply stellar.

They should kill system wars next too.

If system wars goes, I'd go as well. Can't imagine coming to Gamespot without system wars. The rest of the forums isn't good enough for me.

If they killed SW they would just be killing the site really.

@Macutchi: First PG, now this. society is collapsing.

@uninspiredcup: everything's falling apart man. morrisons have just stopped selling their reaper sauce too. and pete can fck right off

It's amazing what adding a pair of eye-brows does to a woman.

Also amazing is how 35 years later, windows search is still the worst thing ever.

@uninspiredcup: I used to date a Vietnamese chick that had eyebrows tattooed on her, no joke.

@ConanTheStoner: So rewatching again yesterday the thing find funny, Chong Li the big bad guy right? Suppose to fucking hate him.

In reality when watch the movie, actually does bugger all. The big dumb American guy just randomly points at him and threatens him. Literally just sitting there silently minding his own business wondering wtf is going on.

And then obv during the fight after getting a few shots in, just starts bouncing around like an idiot cheering himself.

Chong Li does absolutely nothing wrong. It's a revenge plot where the motivation for it was 2000% deserved it.

It is truly amazing that it is as bad as it is.

Everything about Windows sucks. I am surprised that Google Drive's search is light years ahead of Windows.

Anyone try Bum Simulator?

@SOedipus: Avoid that stuff. See gimmick games pop up on Steam all the time

There's a VR game where you go into bars and brawl with anyone you want. Better game, but not by much.

Just learned that PG forums were deleted. How long does SW has?🤣

@uninspiredcup:

Thinking about it, could edit the order of some shots, swap some music around, and Chong Li is the protag now lol.

Is funny. Like yeah, they let you know dudes a murderer in the ring. Then show it in one spot. But otherwise, some low key shit talk and intimidation. Not even as absurd as what's dished his way.

"But brick not hit back!" - oh no, what an asshole. 😴

When they do axe SW, doubt it'll just be this board. Probably just go when they nuke the forums completely. Only a matter of time really.

Then we'll all migrate to the comments section of an old CoD skins article and try to make it work as a forum. Gonna be great.

lol remember when people would find dead game specific boards and make them their own? Super Troll Island was where trolls would coordinate their dumb shit, good times.

Yea. They know it's a full contact underground fighting competition, illegal shit. And we don't actually see him being a murderer or cheating like a WWE villain with salt until later.

As far as they know, might have been a horrible accident as a result of the whole "full contact" thing.

Even when the American dude fights the guy in front of him (rando man), he's just acting like a complete fucking asshole to him and smashes his head in. Basically potentially murdered someone right there (but plot he's good)

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I love when Chong Li kills the guy, and the police, Forest Whitaker and co sitting 4 feet away (somehow getting in the event totally unexplained as it's underground illegal and super secret) and are like "oh dear, he died, that's a thing".

I sure hope he wins! We're still unsure about this, but we will allow it.

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Side note as well, love even to this day, they have not edited the ending text.

He's like some sort of super solider Solid Snake who's just so god dam important to the army.

@uninspiredcup:

The love of the Kumite won them over obviously. 😔🙏

Probably heard that banger soundtrack and decided it must be ok.

lol but yeah, true. Chong Li isn't really an asshole until the last fight iirc. Rest of the movie is more like yo, this guy just happens to be the best fighter here. And look at those pecs dance. Hate him plz.

For real tho, where would you guys go if this place is dust?

Donno. Not a fan of Discord though or Reddit. Hate Reddits design and the hearing people you interact with on the internet verbally speak is weird as ****. Champ sounds nice. That was straw that broke the camels back.

Yeah, can't hang on Reddit. Five minutes in there and my balls get itchy. Discord's cool if you keep it discerning, don't let in scoundrels.

There is no other options than reddit or wokera. I do wish gamefaqs had some kind of an SW section cuz that forum can be funny af.

Same. System Wars is the only reason why I still go to Gamespot. I would be very sad if it was removed from the site.

Yeah Discord def not the same as a forum feel. Most of the servers I've joined are just to lurk for info. When I'm on Champs server, exclusively voice chat for me. Which is a good time, get some of the best game discussions rolling with those dudes, play some MP, talk shit. Still no forum, just nice to chat it up with the old SW crew.

Reddit is also lurk for info.

Probably just hang it up on forums if this shuts down, really just here out of habit anyways. Was already gone a few years, if not for Covid, probably wouldn't have come back.

I know everyone shits on Era, rightfully so for the most part, but they actually have way the **** better game discussion in most cases. Look at one of our threads for a big release, then look at the corresponding thread there, wonder wtf we're even doing lol. And even lesser known gems that don't get a peep here actually get good discussion there.

Buuuut I don't want to deal with the zealot shit, and would kinda suck familiarizing myself with a whole new group.

GS has no other forums other than SW. There's a reason why they're all dead, while SW, even tho nowhere near as big as it was over a decade ago, its still active enough compared to most other gaming forums. Bet you that if GS invested into making this forum section look nice, and put System Wars on their front page, it could even be pretty popular cuz outside of twitter, there no such section anywhere lol.

@ConanTheStoner: Never been on Era, like haven't even gone there. Heard everyone woke as fck and that was enough to stay away.

@nod_calypse:

A well earned rep, yeah. When you see some of the shit people have gotten modded/banned for, it's like digging so deep to find ill intent where there's nothing. It's pretty crazy. And yes, plenty of their users are obnoxious in that way as well.

But hey, multiple things can be true. Should hear what the rest of the gaming sphere has always thought of everyone on SW. But there's always been cool peeps and fun times here all the same. Too easy to make a caricature out of an entire community.

There's cool users on era. And while that place gets absolutely wild about some dumb shit at times, the day to day game discussion is the best you'll find on a gaming forum these days. It's not all purple hair and pitchforks.

Yeah definitely. Gamespot needs to improve their forums again.

@ConanTheStoner: I'm sure there are cool peeps there. Always cool peeps everywhere if you look. Unfortunately the numbnuts outnumber them so much they're often hard to find.

Anyway, shit, I'd probably get banned over there the first day for saying women exist or some shit like that.

Think Resetera is probably the only forum voluntary left. Which is saying something, have absolutely 0 standards.

It probably is the case what Conan is saying where it's higher quality discussion, let's not kid ourselves here, we ain't exactly fucking Aristotle when it comes to games, but just the nature of that forum, the moderators, the people on it, I'd rather hang around the with the plebs than put up with their shit. If this forum went kaput be the last place migrate to.