DOES ANYONE REMEMBER GAMINGW? (REMEMBERING GAMINGW)

ceal
an example brought up in this topic was strangeluv creating rpgmaker screenshots featuring kaempher. kaempher had posted a thread somewhere on the forums concerning a girl problem, i may be misremembering and correct me if i am, but i believe it was basically asking for advice on whether he should have a threesome with this girl and another guy. from his perspective, and at his age at the time, i suppose this was a very serious issue and he was earnestly coming to this community for help

haha I legitimately do not remember this, that does sound like me though

Here's the problem with good-natured ribbing: your friends do that to you. Not... random people you don't get along with from the internet. I have an older brother, and he used to say mean shit to me all the time (that was his job). Since he was my brother, though, I took it in stride, since I knew he meant well.

The problem with a bunch of dudes you have never shared a kind word with pulling the same hijinx as your friends might is that they aren't your friends. See the difference?

I totally agree with ceal that taking someone down a peg is usually good for them in the long term, but there's another big difference between saying someone's anime fangame is bad and making fun of the way someone looks in real life.

For me, personally, I viewed video games as an escape from the bullying I'd received earlier in life. To conflate the two seemed like the ultimate low blow. Attempting to ruin someone's escape (whether or not your think its for their own good) is not a nice thing to do. So while it was maybe a funny idea conceptually, I was still very much the butt of that joke, and it was not great.

I should point out that I 100% agree that genuine (and sometimes harsh) criticism is good and useful when it comes to any artistic works, especially when those works are someone's first foray into the medium. Attacking someone on a personal level, which a certain cadre of folks loved doing, is another world altogether.

I wasn't the only one or the most frequent person to receive these personal insults. So ceal might not view the community at large as being toxic, and their argument is a compelling one, but I disagree with it.

GW certainly had a gate, but that gate was just a sort of mean spirited apathy that you had to have in order to gain acceptance. That gate meant that, eventually, the entire site reflected the opinions of those few influential members.

So, to sum up:
making fun of a stranger's game = good?
making fun of a stranger = bad
making fun of your friends = good
making fun of your friend's game = bad?


edit: I should also point out that obviously asking for sex advice at GW was a dumb fucking idea and I learned an important lesson about doing that, but

ceal
there is an inherent humor to the notion of someone asking for this kind of sex advice on a site primarily dedicated to japanese tile rips

would have been an infinitely better and less mean way of teaching me that lesson

LockeS
Not sure what it was like on GW but I feel like most everyone on this website are friends with each-other. I mean if you talk to someone about mutual interests on a regular basis for months on end (let alone years) I don't know how you could not consider them a friend.

That was not the case on GW. RMN is a whole lot friendlier than GW was.

hmm nvm

I will be honest about GW that I liked its competitive nature and how everyone didn't really hold back then.

When Medieve told me he was disappointed at me over a piece of artwork I did and he knew I could do better (and the cost that the mascot character we were saving there had been injured), it is still one of my driving forces today. And I even got a feedback that the coloring I did for a character's hair looked like liquid and that drove me even further to improve myself. Nowadays (not RMN in particular but in general), it feels like if you try to legitimately give criticism to someone, it's always taken as an attack and you can't be honest about what you feel.

And that in turn causes "cliques" where you can be as brutal as you can with a friend. Decky and Liberty can chew on me and it's vice versa. But I feel like I cannot do the same in public without seeming like an asshole because I can't be nice with my words.

author=Magi
Medieve was the nicest guy. you could tear him down with 30 soul-crushing verbal insults and his response would just be 'so... are we still on 4 movie nite'

Another lost hero :(

He's definitely one of the driving forces of Art forums :(

author=Rukiri

author=kentona
I USE QS INSTEQD OF QS
Current Mood: Just ate a pinecone

and fucking Porcupine Tree EVERYWHERE

Man that avatar was seen everywhere on GamingW!

Anyone remember the touted new version of GW that never came to be? I remember there was a beta of it but never completed, really sucked the design for the time was nice.

I don't know. The site is called Saltw now and it's mostly Drule yelling a wall?? I think?

Does anyone remember what happened to Bart? It's like he just vanished in the end... Funny guy, but a total dick!

from Dragol
I participated into three, I guess, ALEX games (ALEX3, ALEXIS and third one)
And the bitter part was - latest game was never been made, because organizer just left and that was all for ALEX games.

I loved those games so much. I still remember the disappointment that the final one wasn't completed, though I can also see why it wasn't. If I recall, the title was ALEX/JENQ and it was partially taking a jab at...whichever forum user whose last name was Jenq that I just can't recall.

But yeah, that series was such an inspiration to me. It's why I ran the Tastes Like Spelunky Metroidvania project and why I got involved with RMN Bros. since its third installment. It's just so much fun to see what a wide group can put into a game together.

Dangit, now I'm tempted to run a new ALEX game. FUUUUUUUH

The Befuddle Quest series was directly inspired by the ALEX games.