It's 2010 - Where are you when you aren't on Usenet?
Spalls Hurgenson
people to explain why they continued to linger on Usenet when there
were so many other options available to them. The responses to that
question were thoughtful and interesting if a bit predictible
(http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/browse_thread/thread/1e1087ba0019de3c/2aaf933a821c61a4)
Today I want to ask the antipodean question to the one I posed two
years past:: When you are not hanging out on Usenet, where elsewhere
on the Internet do you go to read and/or discuss computer games?
I ask partly out of simple curiousity, but also in interest in finding
out new websites.
Since I posed the question, I guess it's only fair I take the
initiative. Aside from a somewhat pointless personal blog, the primary
gaming-related website I visit is Blues News
http://www.bluesnews.com/. While little more than a link-site, it
points to so many interesting stories I make it a point to visit it
almost every day. I occassionally participate in the forums on some of
the more interesting topics.
Menawhile, while I mostly just lurk in the forums for Moby Games
http://www.mobygames.com/ I find the actual website a valuable
resource and enjoy contributing screenshots reviews and game
information to their database.
Finally, the venerable nerd hangout, Slashdot http://slashdot.org/;
while not dedicated to gaming, it does attract a number of PC gamer
habitues and the discussions are varied and always entertaining.
So, not a wide selection but it's all I have. So how about you? Other
than Usenet, what's your internet source of gaming news and
discussion?
Schrodinger
"Spalls Hurgenson" <spalls_h...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Thanks for the links. I only discuss and read about games here. As far as
other sources go, I occasionally get bits from StumbleUpon, as games are one
of my "interests".
I've tried online forums, but they are too full of 12 year old illiterates.
Nostromo
16:27:23 -0500, Anno Domini:
About the only couple forum sites I post to regularly about games are:
http://www.mmorpg.com
http://forums.ftireloaded.net
I do read *many* other game-related sites regularly though, depending on
articles & how I feel (Zero Punctuation is one of my faves for a laugh).
--
Nostromo
Michael Cecil
I use a RSS reader (greatnews) to monitor about a hundred sites. I
started using it because checking the 15 or so podcast sites manually
became tedious. Greatnews is old and buggy but I haven't found anything
else that works better (and I've tried them all). Most insist on doing
things their own way or are just too intrusive/proprietary.
I just use Firefox to view the 30 or so other sites I check on a daily
basis - mostly comics or wallpaper sites. Dump the bookmarks into a
folder on FF's toolbar and middle click that folder to open all the sites
in their own tabs.
I mostly leave scripting disabled and rarely look at the webforums on
sites though.
--
Michael Cecil
http://home.roadrunner.com/~macecil/
http://home.roadrunner.com/~safehex/
http://home.roadrunner.com/~macecil/hackingw7/
Mr Rob
<spalls_h...@verizon.net> wrote:
>Two years ago (to the day!) I posted a message in this group asking
>people to explain why they continued to linger on Usenet when there
>were so many other options available to them
>Today I want to ask the antipodean question to the one I posed two
>years past:: When you are not hanging out on Usenet, where elsewhere
>on the Internet do you go to read and/or discuss computer games?
>
>I ask partly out of simple curiousity, but also in interest in finding
>out new websites.
I tend to stick to sites that cover specific games. The only
exceptions are usually BluesNews and Ten Ton Hammer.
Otherwise you will find me reading and posting at any of these sites:
Hellgate: Revival http://www.hellgateaus.net/forum/
Borderlands http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/forumdisplay.php?f=71
Fallen Earth http://forums.fallenearth.com/fallenearth/
Planetside http://forums.station.sony.com/ps/forums/list.m
I spend more time on the Planetside forums than anywhere else.
--
Rob
Trimble Bracegirdle
(sic).
Mostly games.
I prefer it to specific Forums as it has Worldwide ( English Lang.) input.
I go to specific Forums for specific Info.
(\__/)
(='.'=)
(")_(") mouse
Nostromo
-0600, Anno Domini:
I leave 15-20 of my fave sites as open tabs on my main pc in FF which get
auto-refreshed every so many minutes. Can't you also get a RSS plugin for
FF?
--
Nostromo
Vincenzo Beretta
> illiterates.
Everybody today can fulfill his dream of becoming a 12 year old illiterate!
http://ssshotaru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslator.html
Morgan
> Two years ago (to the day!) I posted a message in this group asking
> people to explain why they continued to linger on Usenet when there
> were so many other options available to them. The responses to that
> question were thoughtful and interesting if a bit predictible
> (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/browse_thread/thread/1e1087ba0019de3c/2aaf933a821c61a4)
>
> Today I want to ask the antipodean question to the one I posed two
> years past:: When you are not hanging out on Usenet, where elsewhere
> on the Internet do you go to read and/or discuss computer games?
>
> I ask partly out of simple curiousity, but also in interest in finding
> out new websites.
The only real comparison that can be made is Usenet vs Web forums.
The two things I hate about Web forums are a cumbersome interface and
self-righteous moderators.
Schrodinger
"Vincenzo Beretta" <rec...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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WOW TAHTS GRAAT!111!! WTF LOL THX FOR DA LINK!!!1! OMG WTF
Cronos
<shrug>
fuck u translates to FUK U
Mr Rob
Oh don't remind me!
It's bad enough with all the "Your a looser" Counterstrike kids making
my eyes bleed. It's even worse on some forums with people insisting on
shortening certain words like "ne" "u" "ur" (that one really makes my
brain hurt) whilst completely defeating the object by adding in the
word "like" every fourth or fifth word of every sentence.
Don't even get me started on people that can't tell the difference
between "your" and "you're" and even worse, "than" and "then". The
majority of them cannot understand why the written word matters
immensely when communicating with other people.
We even have some prat in the UK who claims to be an "academic"
insisting that the English Dictionary needs to "evolve" and change its
spellings to reflect the way the people communicate via SMS and on the
Internet.
In recent years I have even had two application forms for jobs filled
in using "SMS txt spk". One of them was submitted by a 32 year old
man. Rightly or wrongly I didn't interview either of them.
--
Rob
W Spilman
"Mr Rob" <noemail...@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote in message
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I'd say rightly.
WS
Shawk
Seconded...
Schrodinger
"Mr Rob" <noemail...@jsjsaiiowppw.com> wrote in message
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Ide say writely. lol
Nostromo
Domini:
Depends, were u interviewing 4 an IT propeller head role? <BFG>
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Nostromo
Etal
Ditto. Plus having to register here, there and everywhere.
Forums hosted and owned by those who have a monetary interest to
allow only certain information, coupled with the ability to
censor the information they don't like. I don't understand why
people prefer partaking in discussions on forums like that.
Playing older games i look up information for those games when i
play them, if i feel the need. Or ask here.
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Nah-ah. I'm staying out of this. ... Now, here's my opinion.
Please followup in the newsgroup.
E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control.
Anssi Saari
> Two years ago (to the day!) I posted a message in this group asking
> people to explain why they continued to linger on Usenet when there
> were so many other options available to them.
I remember that. I came to the conclusion that Usenet is one place for
many things, web forums are many places for one thing. For everything
there exists at least a few or perhaps a few dozen web forums.
> Today I want to ask the antipodean question to the one I posed two
> years past:: When you are not hanging out on Usenet, where elsewhere
> on the Internet do you go to read and/or discuss computer games?
Here and there, whatever Google finds. It's become my frontend to web
forums. Don't post very often for that reason.
> Finally, the venerable nerd hangout, Slashdot http://slashdot.org/;
> while not dedicated to gaming, it does attract a number of PC gamer
> habitues and the discussions are varied and always entertaining.
I sometimes read Slashdot, but I've pretty much given up on the
comments.
Static Void
> http://www.bluesnews.com/
> http://www.mobygames.com/
> http://slashdot.org/
Since this thread has been completely derailed/highjacked I'm going to
try to contribute with a few of my favorite sites in general. Besides
those three already mentioned by Spalls I also like (in no particular
order):
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/
Their blurb: "RPS is about PC gaming � all of PC gaming, rather than
just one of the weird and wonderful niches most other PC-centric sites
confine themselves to. It�s written by four of Britain�s top games
journalists, and it aims to cover everything from the latest breaking
stories about the biggest releases to esoterica from the format�s
obscurest peninsulas."
Similar to RPS, it's basically Tom Chick's blog site (one of the few
game journos left in the business whose opinion I can still respect).
http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/index.php
Gaming forums, the only one left that I still visit regularly besides
Usenet. What makes it special is that you won't find teenagers flaming
each other or any of that bullshit here, most of the people there are
either in the gaming industry themselves or adults who have been gaming
for a long time. Good luck getting registered there though :^/
Not gaming specific but it does have several gaming sub-reddits as they
call it. Probably the only site I visit several times a day, I tremble
thinking about the number of hours I've spent at that joint over the
last few years.
Those are the main ones for me, but I also sometimes visit:
http://www.OctopusOverlords.com/
http://www.shacknews.com/
I hope that helps.
W Spilman
"Nostromo" <nos...@forme.org> wrote in message
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You have a point, but too many OMG's and LOL's would
still harpoon the applicant.
WS
Mr Rob
>You have a point, but too many OMG's and LOL's would
>still harpoon the applicant.
>WS
A couple of years ago we had a young lad in our Planetside outfit that
actually thought "LOL" was a word and used it repeatedly over
teamspeak.
My youngest brother is a year shy of 40 and he uses copious amounts of
"txt spk" in his emails and even in the shortest of SMS messages.
Quite frankly that makes me cringe but it does seem that it is
becoming the social norm now.
Apparently even young school teachers write emails in that style.
Presumably a written letter would get the same treatment. Both of my
young granddaughters (6 and 8 years old) are fluent in "txt spk" and
chat to me on MSN in that way.
Proof in my opinion that technology will dumb us all down in the end.
What was the name of that film made a few years back based on a future
US society that was completely bereft of intelligence? Was it called
"Idiocracy"?
--
Rob
Phat_Jethro aka Jethro[AGHL]
I've had my teenage son laughingly tell me that his friends on IM chat
ask him why he spells everything properly. When he 'chats' he actually
types everything correctly like he has been taught.
me beams :-)
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Jethro[AGHL] aka Phat_Jethro
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Phat_Jethro aka Jethro[AGHL]
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:01:37 -0500, "W Spilman" <w...@knows.com> wrote:
>
>
>> You have a point, but too many OMG's and LOL's would
>> still harpoon the applicant.
>> WS
>
> A couple of years ago we had a young lad in our Planetside outfit that
> actually thought "LOL" was a word and used it repeatedly over
> teamspeak.
>
> My youngest brother is a year shy of 40 and he uses copious amounts of
> "txt spk" in his emails and even in the shortest of SMS messages.
> Quite frankly that makes me cringe but it does seem that it is
> becoming the social norm now.
My bro-in-law who is only 10 years younger but a generation apart it
feels like. His QQ more pew-pew, nuub, LOLWTFBBQ, iPhone texting, WoW
playing makes it feel like decades apart.
I just shake my head.
>
> Apparently even young school teachers write emails in that style.
> Presumably a written letter would get the same treatment. Both of my
> young granddaughters (6 and 8 years old) are fluent in "txt spk" and
> chat to me on MSN in that way.
>
> Proof in my opinion that technology will dumb us all down in the end.
> What was the name of that film made a few years back based on a future
> US society that was completely bereft of intelligence? Was it called
> "Idiocracy"?
>
>
Yes Idiocracy. Silly movie but the premise behind it seems oh so possible.
I liked the start were the intellectual couple debate having a child and
the trailer trash red-neck has 15 kids running around from 3 different
'wimmin'. :-)
Antonio Huerta
wrote:> >> "Vincenzo Beretta" <reck...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
Good upbringing you gave to him ! However, this (i.e., proper
spelling) separates him from his peers, and the success in this world
equals getting to the top of a peer group.
noman
> Two years ago (to the day!) I posted a message in this group asking
> people to explain why they continued to linger on Usenet when there
> were so many other options available to them. The responses to that
> question were thoughtful and interesting if a bit predictible
> (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/browse_th
> read/thread/1e1087ba0019de3c/2aaf933a821c61a4)
>
> Today I want to ask the antipodean question to the one I posed two
> years past:: When you are not hanging out on Usenet, where elsewhere
> on the Internet do you go to read and/or discuss computer games?
>
> I ask partly out of simple curiousity, but also in interest in finding
> out new websites.
>
> Since I posed the question, I guess it's only fair I take the
> initiative.
> http://www.bluesnews.com/.
> http://www.mobygames.com/
> http://slashdot.org/;
I read http://www.bluesnews.com regularly and like the fact that it's
still primarily about PC gaming. Very rarely I leave comments there as
well, under my name. Great site.
For game reviews, http://www.eurogamer.net has generally well written
reviews. I have never posted a comment there. If you are interested in
technical aspects of gaming, then Digital Foundry at
http://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry is worth checking out too. I
posted the entire link, since it's very well hidden - so well in fact,
that I have never been able to go there from Eurogamer's main page.
For forum threads, I read and post at http://www.rage3d.com for PC
gaming and hardware threads and lurk at http://www.beyond3d.com and
http://www.quartertothree.com . Beyond3D forums are great for getting
lot of very in-depth technical information about PC hardware. It's
pretty much what comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video used to be ten or
fifteen years ago. QuarterToThree was originally started by Tom Chick
and Mark Asher, both of whom used to post here quite regularly. The
group mentality there gets out of hand very often (which to some degree
is true at all forums, and where usenet is always so much better) I
only find it interesting (for lurking) because of occasional posts or
two from game developers. It used to be that we could see Sid Meier,
Chris Taylor (Interplay), Brian Reynolds posting at csipga, but those
days are long gone. I also read and sometimes post at
http://www.octopusoverlords.com under my name. The site was set up
after http://www.gonegold.com (set up by Rich LaPorte) was dismantled.
I do miss Usenet of old, but then again I am thankful we still have
active participation here. I logged in to the news server after two
weeks and got 550 or so posts in csipga. During late 90s, we could have
this many postings in three or four days, but then 90% of those were
about BC3K :)
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Noman
Matt v3.3
> If you are interested in technical aspects of gaming, then Digital
> Foundry at http://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry is worth checking
> out too. I posted the entire link, since it's very well hidden -
Hey, nice site that one. I'am loving those time-lapse videos of the
day/night cycle of Assassins Creed 2. Awesome. And further down the
page one for Grand Theft Auto 4 - makes me look forward to playing
these games one day (although not at that speed! :-D )
Bookmarked. Thanks.
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};> Matt v3.3 <:{
Xocyll
the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>For game reviews, http://www.eurogamer.net has generally well written
>reviews. I have never posted a comment there. If you are interested in
>technical aspects of gaming, then Digital Foundry at
>http://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry is worth checking out too. I
>posted the entire link, since it's very well hidden - so well in fact,
>that I have never been able to go there from Eurogamer's main page.
Funny, I just went to the site and there's a link to the Digital Foundry
thing below the search box (white on orange label.)
Xocyll
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noman
> "noman" <no_...@zzzyahoo.yycom> looked up from reading the entrails
> of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>
> > For game reviews, http://www.eurogamer.net has generally well
> > written reviews. I have never posted a comment there. If you are
> > interested in technical aspects of gaming, then Digital Foundry at
> > http://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry is worth checking out too. I
> > posted the entire link, since it's very well hidden - so well in
> > fact, that I have never been able to go there from Eurogamer's main
> > page.
>
> Funny, I just went to the site and there's a link to the Digital
> Foundry thing below the search box (white on orange label.)
heh.. I don't know if I had always glossed over it, or was it just
added. Thanks!
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Noman