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wydrah
07/29/21 11:33:08 PM
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the last things i remember are:
  • cjayc sold gfaqs to cnet
  • sailor bacon ran things for awhile
  • a moderator sent nudes to an underage girl, was caught, but still got to be a moderator (i think this was still when naughty words had to be censored. so, ironic?)
  • at some point the message board skin changed to the obscene monstrosity we have today


questions i have:
  • who runs the website (and specifically the boards) now? are they active?
  • have there been any major changes to the boards recently?
  • has gfaqs administration disavowed the january 6 capitol insurrection and clarified that no staff participated? if not, why not?
  • do contests still happen?


thank you, friends

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DirtBasedSoap
07/29/21 11:40:20 PM
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wydrah posted...
have there been any major changes to the boards recently?
they recently rolled out this forced beta version of the message boards that made them look AWFUL. the entire website bitched so hard that they removed it after like 3 or 4 hours lol
this was like a month or 2 ago

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wydrah
07/29/21 11:42:07 PM
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DirtBasedSoap posted...
they recently rolled out this forced beta version of the message boards that made them look AWFUL. the entire website bitched so hard that they removed it after like 3 or 4 hours lol
this was like a month or 2 ago
LOL

Was this GFAQs' attempt to stay relevant in the age of social media?

Youtube made walkthroughs obsolete. Facebook and Reddit made the board obsolete. Literally the only people left here must be old timers and people who just hate social media.

Sooooo...make the boards less like what kept the userbase around?

Am I getting all this right?

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ParanoidObsessive
07/30/21 12:08:27 AM
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wydrah posted...
Literally the only people left here must be old timers and people who just hate social media.

You're not wrong.



wydrah posted...
Sooooo...make the boards less like what kept the userbase around?

Gotta try to get the Fortnite demo somehow, amirite?
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wydrah
07/30/21 12:28:06 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
You're not wrong.

Gotta try to get the Fortnite demo somehow, amirite?
what is a fortnite

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PunishedOni
07/30/21 12:32:43 AM
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i run the website now

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Far-Queue
07/30/21 12:34:53 AM
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wydrah posted...
what is a fortnite
A miserable pile of secrets

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wydrah
07/30/21 12:35:16 AM
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PunishedOni posted...
i run the website now
did you attend the january 6 capitol insurrection?

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PunishedOni
07/30/21 12:40:55 AM
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wydrah posted...
did you attend the january 6 capitol insurrection?

no, i wholeheartedly disavow the january 6 capitol insurrection. did you or any of the staff of www.potdparadiso.net attend the january 6 capitol insurrection

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wydrah
07/30/21 12:42:36 AM
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PunishedOni posted...
no, i wholeheartedly disavow the january 6 capitol insurrection. did you or any of the staff of www.potdparadiso.net attend the january 6 capitol insurrection
yes, i was there to protect the capitol from the treasonous trump supporters. why didn't you show up in defense? was running a message board more important than defending your country?

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PunishedOni
07/30/21 12:44:56 AM
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wydrah posted...
yes, i was there to protect the capitol from the treasonous trump supporters. why didn't you show up in defense? was running a message board more important than defending your country?
im physically incapable of surviving outside of my vacuum tube

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wydrah
07/30/21 12:46:41 AM
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PunishedOni posted...
im physically incapable of surviving outside of my vacuum tube
so it's treason then

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PunishedOni
07/30/21 12:50:27 AM
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wydrah posted...
so it's treason then
i wouldnt have been any help anyway. its very easy to destroy me. did you stop any rioters

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wydrah
07/30/21 12:50:58 AM
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PunishedOni posted...
i wouldnt have been any help anyway. its very easy to destroy me. did you stop any rioters
biden is president, ain't he?

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wydrah
07/30/21 12:51:09 AM
#15:


and it was all thanks to me

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PunishedOni
07/30/21 1:00:48 AM
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congrats! im really proud that someone from my website is such an incredible patriot. it just goes to show that gamefaqs.com has one of the best communities anywhere on the web

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wolfy42
07/30/21 1:10:11 AM
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wydrah posted...
what is a fortnite


About 2 weeks.

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wydrah
07/30/21 1:17:33 AM
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wolfy42 posted...
About 2 weeks.
there it is

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Zeus
07/30/21 1:18:21 AM
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wydrah posted...
has gfaqs administration disavowed the january 6 capitol insurrection and clarified that no staff participated? if not, why not?

...the site is literally owned by a far-leftist who has donated large sums to the DNC and Democratic candidates.

You know what? Fuck it, you just made the ignore list. I'm sick of these weird alts people are bringing back to troll.

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wydrah
07/30/21 1:18:56 AM
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Zeus posted...
...the site is literally owned by a far-leftist who has donated large sums to the DNC and Democratic candidates.

You know what? Fuck it, you just made the ignore list. I'm sick of these weird alts people are bringing back to troll.
lol i'm an alt now

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Krazy_Kirby
07/30/21 1:24:36 AM
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wydrah posted...

what is a fortnite


two weeks
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wydrah
07/30/21 1:27:16 AM
#22:


...there it was

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Zareth
07/30/21 1:42:36 AM
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lol Zeus thinks wydrah is an alt and not one of the PotD OGs

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shadowsword87
07/30/21 1:51:20 AM
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Oh, zeus was always a potder, has been here for a decade, and knows everyone.
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LinkPizza
07/30/21 2:18:00 AM
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wydrah posted...
Youtube made walkthroughs obsolete.

Maybe for most games. Though, walkthroughs are still good for some stuff... Like with the adventure maps for Hyrule Warriors...

wydrah posted...
Facebook and Reddit made the board obsolete.

I disgaree here, too... Facebook is pretty vague, where things here are more specific. And just different. I've been in groups on facebook, and it's way different then the boards here... As for reddit, it way too many users sometimes. With the boards here, you not only have more specific discussions than reddit, but a lot of users (old and new), without it being too many people... And people here can be easily recognizable, as well... At least how I see it. Facebook and Reddit are good for certain things, but they are very different from the boards here, which serve a different purpose... Plus, some people like the people here...

wydrah posted...
Literally the only people left here must be old timers and people who just hate social media.

Not necessarily. People could use both this site and social media...
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helIy
07/30/21 2:19:00 AM
#26:


Zeus posted...
...the site is literally owned by a far-leftist who has donated large sums to the DNC and Democratic candidates.

You know what? Fuck it, you just made the ignore list. I'm sick of these weird alts people are bringing back to troll.

lmao

he's not an alt, he's been here longer than me, even, who was already here longer than you.

@Zeus

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wydrah
07/30/21 2:22:20 AM
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LinkPizza posted...
Maybe for most games. Though, walkthroughs are still good for some stuff... Like with the adventure maps for Hyrule Warriors...

I disgaree here, too... Facebook is pretty vague, where things here are more specific. And just different. I've been in groups on facebook, and it's way different then the boards here... As for reddit, it way too many users sometimes. With the boards here, you not only have more specific discussions than reddit, but a lot of users (old and new), without it being too many people... And people here can be easily recognizable, as well... At least how I see it. Facebook and Reddit are good for certain things, but they are very different from the boards here, which serve a different purpose... Plus, some people like the people here...

Not necessarily. People could use both this site and social media...
The boards are dead. They are nothing what they were 15 years ago. Not to suggest things were better then, but more active. I think it's pretty obvious that gfaqs is not a competitive community to social media, and the fact that gfaqs activity declined as social media activity increased is compelling to me.

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FrndNhbrHdCEman
07/30/21 3:01:37 AM
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shadowsword87 posted...
Oh, zeus was always a potder, has been here for a decade, and knows everyone.
P sure I was here before him. Guys delusional.

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wydrah
07/30/21 3:04:51 AM
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FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...
P sure I was here before him. Guys delusional.
Where was this guy back in 2001?

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CoorsLight
07/30/21 9:35:24 AM
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Zeus posted...
owned


Zeus posted...
by a far-leftist


Zeus posted...
who has donated large sums to the DNC

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hockey7318
07/30/21 9:43:46 AM
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wydrah posted...
Where was this guy back in 2001?
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Clench281
07/30/21 9:45:15 AM
#32:


wydrah posted...
lol i'm an alt now

People don't even know their presidential history of potd. So sad

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ParanoidObsessive
07/30/21 10:14:51 AM
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wydrah posted...
lol i'm an alt now

I think you're secretly Ail.

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helIy
07/30/21 10:42:35 AM
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CoorsLight posted...
Huh???
yeah idk

gamefaqs is owned by red ventures, the founder and ceo of which hasn't made his political affiliation known

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wydrah
07/30/21 10:58:06 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
I think you're secretly Ail.

What better disguise to wear than the face of her enemy?
I'm 35 this year...

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PunishedOni
07/30/21 12:46:33 PM
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it is true that im a far-leftist who has donated millions of dollars to the dnc. it's simply because i hate america

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wydrah
07/30/21 12:49:00 PM
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PunishedOni posted...
it is true that im a far-leftist who has donated millions of dollars to the dnc. it's simply because i hate america
A far leftist would not so eagerly support the DNC. Also, how many millionaire far leftists are there? That would be literally against their self-interest. NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE

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Clench281
07/30/21 12:51:12 PM
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)O(

(Ugh my phone would not let me put the open parenthesis without inserting a space. Dumb phone)

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PunishedOni
07/30/21 1:19:40 PM
#39:


wydrah posted...
A far leftist would not so eagerly support the DNC. Also, how many millionaire far leftists are there? That would be literally against their self-interest. NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE
i just hate america so much that it fills me with blind rage. me and all my antifa-loving joe biden voter billionaire friends simply can't stand the idea of freedom. that's why we find rational left-leaning centrists such as zeus so annoying

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Entity13
07/30/21 1:52:52 PM
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I've had some laughs in this topic, with one person doing the usual shenanigans he is infamous and disliked for. Anywho...

wydrah posted...
who runs the website (and specifically the boards) now? are they active?

Sailor Bacon still heads the site, but answers to a subsidiary of CBS - CNET. Which, of course, CNET hardly gives a damn.

wydrah posted...
do contests still happen?

I think There have been a few contests, which no one in their right mind cared about, and the results were ultimately garbage and not even worth a grain of salt? I can't remember, because I didn't care about it.

Zeus posted...
is literally

Zeus is our resident . . . I'm not sure what polite word to use to describe him. He accuses people of gaslighting and strawman when himself doing a bunch of it. He calls himself a left-leaning centrist, which is laughable even by US standards when you see his political opinions surface (like to the point where a pile of bricks is far-left). And he loves accusing people of being alts just because he doesn't recognize the name, and clearly only the same few people disagree with him over and over ad nauseum. Well done getting on his ignore list so quickly. I'm surprised I haven't been on there in the past few years, myself.

In fact, much of the last few years has been almost everyone versus his backwards opinions and projections. And him denying he said a thing when it's known he said a thing, such as his original claim he had been here a while; which he has backpedaled hard on in the past one or two years every time people bring it up in retort to him not knowing a person or a fad from his alleged lurker or early poster days.

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wydrah
07/30/21 1:58:09 PM
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oh, so zeus is a child lmao

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Judgmenl
07/30/21 2:10:24 PM
#42:


Devin / Allen are still active. They sometimes post on certain boards.
Devin is the main developer of the site iirc.
GameFAQs is owned by Red Ventures.
I'm not sure if I want to read the rest of the thread.

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Entity13
07/30/21 2:34:12 PM
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If Peter Pan could write full arguments half the length or scope of the Peter Pan novel, then... Well, actually, we'd still be looking at one of the lost boys.

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CoorsLight
07/30/21 3:00:10 PM
#44:


wydrah posted...
A far leftist would not so eagerly support the DNC. Also, how many millionaire far leftists are there? That would be literally against their self-interest. NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE

Yeah, this is the point I was trying to make that helly seemed to miss. I don't know anything about who owns gamefaqs, but someone who is "far left" would not own a major business, nor be fans of the DNC.

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FrndNhbrHdCEman
07/30/21 4:38:33 PM
#45:


wydrah posted...
Where was this guy back in 2001?
He says he was here but none of yall recognize him. And Im from CE and I sure af dont recognize him. Hes a compulsive liar if ya listen to him long enough.

hockey7318 posted...
Most likely in a dorm room using a George W. Bush fleshlight.
Lmao.

Entity13 posted...
I'm surprised I haven't been on there in the past few years, myself.
He ignored me the instant he came back from suspension for saying my being black could only get me in clown colleges. Now insisting the events never happened despite users remembering. Hes a total bigot on top of his other problems.

wydrah posted...
oh, so zeus is a child lmao
Despite being in his late 40s like Sunny. They both agree on a ton actually.

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wydrah
07/30/21 5:36:11 PM
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i'm kind of surprised--but also relieved--that qanon has not infested gamefaqs

...or is someone going to give me very bad news?

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Entity13
07/30/21 5:42:39 PM
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FrndNhbrHdCEman posted...
if ya listen to him long enough

Read: 5 minutes

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Entity13
07/30/21 5:43:42 PM
#48:


wydrah posted...
i'm kind of surprised--but also relieved--that qanon has not infested gamefaqs

...or is someone going to give me very bad news?

There were a couple people here on this board, but they left within a week or two of Biden winning the election. No one remembers their names anymore nor cares, I believe?

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wydrah
07/30/21 5:45:29 PM
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lmao get fucked

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Entity13
07/30/21 5:59:18 PM
#50:


On a related note, there was a qanon guy on one of the discord servers I'm on, with some fellow gamers at work, and he was banned just yesterday for being the type of asshole that would rather insult people, including victims of abuse or sexual assault, than listen to what people have to say. Him being qanon, surprisingly, had little or nothing to do with his ban, but it still happened with his same quasi-mindset doing its thing.

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