Plans for the future of Gamingforce

While the sharing forums probably do comprise the bulk of our new membership I don't think they're members we necessarily want. When's the last time a great newbie came along and their first 20 posts were requests? Just leave front page links on each forum to the other, perhaps where the IRC notice is now:

Gamingforce Filez! Click here to pirate some sheet music!

Gamingforce Discussion! Click here to actually talk to human beings!

Honestly I don't know why attachments weren't disabled ages ago. Does anyone outside CH even use them? There are dozens of rapidshare clones out there for anyone too lazy to just get their own hosting.

(Oh, it turned out I had 3 total attachments adding up to less than 1MB; I deleted them hope it helps)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well, nobody's questioning that we should be rid of these people; it's more that there's a sense of guilt for passing the infection to what was once a noble URL. GF.com should perhaps be used for a better and more useful purpose, like serving as a mirror for furry webcomics or something

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Originally Posted by LeHah

Jesus Christ Pang. These people we're trying to get rid of are the goddamned small pox blankets of the internet. GFF is Fort Pitt. Just throw them out and let them smash against the fortifications while we laugh at how awful they are.

I'm not arguing with that; it just seems wasteful to turn our other holdings into a Hooverville out of some misguided pity.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

While obviously these decisions are down to whoever's paying the bills, I don't think it's unreasonable to be somewhat agitated at the notion that the board essentially exists at the pleasure of VGMdb (of all things), that the community is considered less important than an overblown card catalogue.

How did that even happen? VGMdb appears to be several months younger than this iteration of GFF so exactly at what point did it become "VGMdb's server"? Was there a big ceremony with handing over the keys to Squirrel and all that.

By all means you do whatever you have to, I just think it's a little underhanded that this has all suddenly come out now. "O hey, incidentally, Kaleb owns you guys."

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

Don't pin this on me, Pangalin. Miles is in charge of finances for both Gamingforce and VGMdb.

Yeah but it's no fun to pin things on him because he's always too busy making journal entries about my Japanese teacher!! to notice

edit: and then traveling to Japan

edit: to buy video games

edit: and making journal entries about buying video games in japan

edit: not even japan-exclusive games or anything

edit: just rpgs and shit

I was speaking idiomatically.

Yes, but you'll do this aligned-with-my-interests thing whether I insult you or not, because "my interests" are not even remotely the actual motivation.

so free

to fly

to spit on those below

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Blah would it make you happy if I issued a formal apology to Miles

because really now

really

FELIPE NO

Galbadia Hotel has been down for several months now, I believe.

The point, seanne, is that we are essentially throwing what will be the .com section of the board to the wolves to survive on its own merits. It has its purposes, yes, but it poses a threat to what are seen as more legitimate sections of the community. All these sharing threads and FTPs and attachments et al are unnecessary when bittorrent ummmm exists.

In the now unlikely-seeming event that they actually do give me some authority over Black Market GFF, the first and smartest thing to do would be to crack the fuck down on the nonstop public piracy. But that'll be hard to do. It's ingrained in some people. It's nearly impossible to shut down the behavior, so unfortunately bitches got to get on a boat to Australia.

Originally Posted by Bigblah

Oh by the way removing CH and My Stuff will also remove all their props

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Very well sir it seems that we have a deal

Originally Posted by Tails

Also not to be a dick or anything Pang but yeah Miles is a horrible weeaboo but what are his other options? Make entries about his daily life between working his ass off to pay for his place to live, school and this forum or interact with a community of assholes you have little in common with?

I'm not actually attacking Miles at all, he seems like a decent guy and while he's almost always MIA I know he has plenty of reasons for that. He's a busy guy. That's fine. I'm just saying it's useless to say "oh, that's Miles' responsibility" to a bitching user since when the hell is anyone going to have an opportunity to talk to Miles about a goddamn thing?

Squirrel et al might not strictly be in charge of anything but at least they are informed which is more than most of us can say.

I know Miles brushes off the weeaboo shit without even noticing, anyways

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Don't you guys have a place explicitly dedicated to having these internecine squabbles out of the public view?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Mersenne, even you must admit that your ability to read threads outside your preferred subforum is very much an exception to the rule. Board Support is essentially the lobby corkboard of the apartment building that is GFF, and it says a lot about a tenant that doesn't read the corkboard and needs to have every little piece of news tacked to his front door instead.

Moreover, even if every single person frequenting CH were to abruptly stop using attachments this very instant, it would not begin to resolve the legal questions — which are, in the long term, much more pressing. GFF could surely pony up another $30 a month if it had to (although much of this is out of a desire not to have to). Finding an entirely new host or (god forbid) fending off a lawsuit is another matter.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Yet obviously somebody had a problem, or we wouldn't have got the letter that we already did.

(We're not going to get an answer as to what that letter was for, are we)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Except that Blah would prefer that we not donate, since hrrrrmmm hrnnnnnrn hmmmmmmm

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I'm sure Pai Q Han will come back someday. He's a good moderator.


"Jay Converse"? With a name like that you don't even need a nick, just roll it natural Max Biggs style

I was speaking idiomatically.

Nobody's trying to "break up the community". Everybody will retain their membership on GFF.org after the split. If people decide, individually, not to ever USE their GFF.org account to post again — that's their choice, isn't it? I mean I'd be pretty annoyed if someone moved Laughs & Games to another board, but I'd just post in both places since I'm um what's it called. Interested in multiple things.

Quote:

Someone "hilariously" changed the name of the thread to "FUCKING, FISTING or FISHING? Vote NOW!!!" If whoever did that had spoken to my face like that, I would have shown them some Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do.

If you don't understand why that thread went off the rails then you weren't paying attention. It wouldn't be possible to say it to your face because nobody uses asterisks as completely inept self-censorship when speaking vocally.

As far as people being hateful to CH regulars when they pop their heads out, I only ever really see LeHah doing that. You can't draw conclusions from that crap; LeHah hates everybody.


v you're putting an awful lot of thought into an essentially unsustainable model, Bas

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?