Yet another GAF thread - I still haven't got over it :( (No spergfits allowed)

[Steve Contra]

Everyone I've ever met from South Africa starts off by talking about the horrors of apartheid when I ask them about their country and then follow up by being super racist.

[nachobro]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=823432

 

Dude gonna get his whole bank account taken by trying to be a literal captain save a ho 

[Joe Molotov]

You can't turn a ho into a housewife.

[nudemacusers]

that thread scenario does not pass the 'would i slap my friend on the head for doing this' test. a good friend of mine almost fell into this trap in vegas with a stripper and considered flying her up to visit

 i had to fix this by playing a particular T Pain song every time we hung out.

[nudemacusers]

she's different tho

[Phoenix Dark]

I don't disapprove of the date, however I do disapprove of telling him "grats" for going on a date with a prostitute.

get in how you fit in, but don't expect dap from me.

[Shadow Mod]

I'll just genuinely never understand how anyone here goes about life lacking friends of a specific gender. Just how walled off is their life.

[king of the internet]

I don't really see him trying to save a ho, he just seems lonely as fuck and hopeless with women so she's probably taking advantage of that.

Basically this:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=113023120&postcount=221

[nudemacusers]

well that's the rub; lonely dudes who strike out with women or have zero 'game' will usually dive in hard for the first woman who throws some poon their way. see the gafbro who wifed up the sister of the prostitute he (iirc) lost his virginity to. or old guys throwing paychecks at strippers. or the camgirl scene.


pussy and desperation are demonic, friends.

edit: i also don't see how this breaks a dude out of his shell. it's still a relationship through exchange of funds.

[Shadow Mod]

When someone says they're lonely and helpless with women I honestly wonder which women. Like are they kind of schlubby and consistently ignoring the funny chick who's more on their level?

[helios]

It sounds like the premise to a romcom. He's out to save a ho, but the ho will save him. Starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence

[Phoenix Dark]

If you're a lonely dude in your late 20s with no social skills...do you, breh. I'd imagine a "girl friend experience" will teach you more about conversing with women than whining about women on GAF all day.

[Shadow Mod]

If you're a lonely dude in your late 20s with no social skills...do you, breh. I'd imagine a "girl friend experience" will teach you more about conversing with women than whining about women on GAF all day.

Or getting advice from other gaffers who keep asserting they're experts on women.

[Phoenix Dark]

1hr with a backpage slore>WiiU

[nudemacusers]

If you're a lonely dude in your late 20s with no social skills...do you, breh. I'd imagine a "girl friend experience" will teach you more about conversing with women than whining about women on GAF all day.

or his failure to woo this woman and save her from a life low moral character will only harden his attitude toward women and he will start a red pill / mra website.

[Kara]

lol i'm pretty sure the first thing i say to gafbros when i met them is 'please don't call me macuser i might die'

Usually they just call me Kara since everyone can say that right (unlike Karakand)--but it's awkward for people to be calling some dude Kara irl. 

My handle matches my RL nickname, so that's not a concern for me.

I used to use my surname as my internet handle (for most of my irl youth everyone called me by it rather than my first name) but when I registered on GAF it was unavailable so I ended up with this instead. What could have been...

[Broseidon]

Wasn't there some guy on gaf getting money-farmed by some girlfriend a few years back? I want to say it involved the Philippines or Okinawa.

[Broseidon]

Hearing your handle said aloud irl is

Thankfully in my experience people only use it for the "oh, you're that person" introductions and then it's normal names.

[Phoenix Dark]

Reminds me of when I met Cheebs. I crossed the street and met him on our campus. Shook his hand and said "hello [Cheeb's irl name]." He called me by my name too. Then he gave me a DVD copy of True Romance and Big Lebowski.

[Shadow Mod]

I'm just happy I haven't been caught in the wild by some weirdo I don't know. That'd be the most awkward.

[Phoenix Dark]

My irl nicknames

Re Re
Moe


and another I'll only share on the EB page.

[Rufus]

I never had a nickname offline.

[Kara]

I'm just happy I haven't been caught in the wild by some weirdo I don't know. That'd be the most awkward.

I would imagine that impossible as the Shadow Mod obviously travels by motorcade with handlers and plain clothes security.

[nachobro]

1hr with a backpage slore>WiiU

Mario Kart is out next week so I dunno bout that.

[nudemacusers]

i actually met coldvein (of house gaf) outside a bar in seattle by complete random chance. i opened the door while he was walking out and I did a double take and asked him if he was on neogaf

Wasn't there some guy on gaf getting money-farmed by some girlfriend a few years back? I want to say it involved the Philippines or Okinawa.

yeah, eyeliner or something. they're married and in the states now iirc.

[Phoenix Dark]

1hr with a backpage slore>WiiU

Mario Kart is out next week so I dunno bout that.

Double Dash was my shit. I know people hate on it but I had 3 brothers to play it with, it was fun.

[Atramental]

If someone called me "Atra" irl I wouldn't skip a beat.

[king of the internet]

I don't think I'd feel comfortable being called king of the internet.

[etiolate]

Double Dash was great. Never understood the hate. It's the Maroi Kart I prefer at this point.

[Kara]

Double Dash

[benjipwns]

I've attended the show since I was 14 for about 5 years

Why were you 14 for five years?

[Rufus]

So that he won't (wouldn't?) have to be 29 for several years.

[nudemacusers]

Im honestly happy just to hang out with a hot girl who actually want to be with me (I hope). I know friendzoned is supposed to mean something negative for a lot of people, but for me friendzone is a lot better than no zone.


 

[nudemacusers]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=113038471&postcount=261

it has begun. rip OP.

[Shadow Mod]

While it's true plenty of escorts aren't always on the clock, if you're the kind of person who doesn't have a lot of experience with people, it's going to be ever harder for you to discern the difference between genuine interest and being used.

[nudemacusers]

he's already fallen in love. it's too late.

[Atramental]

Trust professional slores with your heart, brehs.

[Shadow Mod]

To be honest is it that much of a step down from marrying the first girl to let you get past 1st base and then being genuinely clueless about why you're divorcing years later?

[El Babua]

Im honestly happy just to hang out with a hot girl who actually want to be with me (I hope). I know friendzoned is supposed to mean something negative for a lot of people, but for me friendzone is a lot better than no zone.


 

Hey now, all my best friends are escorts...or strippers.  :'(

[Kara]

Dating a sex worker could be interesting if you weren't a fucking noob.

The exit strategy conversation might be a little awkward / relationship ending however.

e: Interesting is a really poor word choice, sorry, they're people not fucking sloths in their native habitat, worthwhile is maybe the word I should have used.

[nudemacusers]

Im honestly happy just to hang out with a hot girl who actually want to be with me (I hope). I know friendzoned is supposed to mean something negative for a lot of people, but for me friendzone is a lot better than no zone.


 

Hey now, all my best friends are escorts...or strippers.  :'(

we're talking about females tho

[Shadow Mod]

There's not enough Elder Scrolls ads on the front page right now.

[Kara]

There's not enough Elder Scrolls ads on the front page right now.

NP on EviLore's expensive phone in his Porsche.

[Steve Contra]

There's not enough Elder Scrolls ads on the front page right now.

Who goes to the front page

[Shadow Mod]

There's not enough Elder Scrolls ads on the front page right now.

Who goes to the front page

That's how you view the online staff so I you can narc on people.

[Broseidon]

GAF has a front page?

[benjipwns]

There's not enough Elder Scrolls ads on the front page right now.

I really don't mind these at all. In fact, I wouldn't mind seeing others later.

It's a gaming site after all. Cool with me.

[nudemacusers]

pretty clever to get that front page ad money when 90% of your users probably won't notice. gg.

[benjipwns]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=113042782&postcount=15

oh no not the ot's

[Kara]

There's not enough Elder Scrolls ads on the front page right now.

Who goes to the front page

People who look at GAF on computers that aren't their own.

[Broseidon]

There's not enough Elder Scrolls ads on the front page right now.

Who goes to the front page

That's how you view the online staff so I you can narc on people.

Be like a normal person http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showgroups.php

[Shadow Mod]

There's not enough Elder Scrolls ads on the front page right now.

Who goes to the front page

That's how you view the online staff so I you can narc on people.

Be like a normal person http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showgroups.php (Image removed from quote.)

Was a joke, you think I don't got my peeps I just pm straight away or talk to off GAF?

*evil laugh*

[Shadow Mod]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=113046082&postcount=31

Never understood the adoration this guy got. He was talented, yeah. Bit he lived a dangerous life style and paid for it in the end. How any one could idolize that life style is beyond me

Says the guy who lives with a complete sociopath.

[Plywood]

Usually they just call me Kara since everyone can say that right (unlike Karakand)--but it's awkward for people to be calling some dude Kara irl. 

I get called Ellie in real life  , the fucks I give.

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motherfuckers better call me Ellie

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It's short for Eliezer

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[Kara]

Eliezer Scrooge

[archie4208]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=112867393&postcount=262

[Steve Contra]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=112867393&postcount=262

Ok that's fucking amazing.

[thisismyusername]

Except he isn't even--


Ding-ding. He is pretty much ignored by most everyone in the industry. How is that "being in" the industry?

Didn't he pay for that (near the end of their life) Gamepro article that advertised GAF?

Well, again, I don't see Major Nelson offering up a special guest badge to AceBandage.

You guys are waaaaaay fucking over reading my point, though.  And in the process, you're missing what I'm saying.  Let me try again:

EL with NeoGAF: living very comfortably, has a sense of being someone, a sense that is supported by occasional favors from industry peeps as well as forum people falling all over him online and in RL meet-ups. 

EL without NeoGAF ($10 million sale): living very very comfortably, nobody knows who he is, nor do they care.  unless he figures out a way to hit the jackpot a second time, there isn't even anything to look to in the future.  basically retired and waiting to die.

I know which one I'm picking if I'm a former social pariah hovering around 30 with no dependents.

No, I and Slime got it. But the Major offer is just a PR move. Get Evilore in, get MS some good press with the "NeoGAF forum citizens." How do you not see that?

Well, again, I don't see Major Nelson offering up a special guest badge to AceBandage.

You guys are waaaaaay fucking over reading my point, though.  And in the process, you're missing what I'm saying.  Let me try again:

EL with NeoGAF: living very comfortably, has a sense of being someone, a sense that is supported by occasional favors from industry peeps as well as forum people falling all over him online and in RL meet-ups. 

EL without NeoGAF ($10 million sale): living very very comfortably, nobody knows who he is, nor do they care.  unless he figures out a way to hit the jackpot a second time, there isn't even anything to look to in the future.  basically retired and waiting to die.

I know which one I'm picking if I'm a former social pariah hovering around 30 with no dependents.

lol calm down. You just stated that EL is an industry somebody and frankly as someone who works in that industry that isn't the case. I don't think you understand that being an "administrator of a gaming forum" means nothing to most people. Here's another post that echoes exactly what I said because you seemed to have missed my point in the first go around.

I have, but only because I work(ed) in the games industry. Then again none of the people I worked with who knew about NeoGAF knew the name of the guy who ran it or jack fucking shit about him. Most conversations I had with other industry members about the NeoGAF populace were generally kind of scornful, OR about how to use it to market our game. It certainly isn't viewed as a bastion of intelligent discourse by people who actually make games.

It's nothing against EL at all. He's been incredibly lucky to find himself in the position of moderating a somewhat popular message board and it's awesome that he can sell it for a lot of money. However to steer my comments back to your thoughts about keeping/selling the site:

• Right now, he's just an unknown entity managing a forum that's only claim to fame is being an embarrassing collection of a die-hard game nerds and an easy community to manipulate for marketing.
• Keeping the $10 million in hopes of a better offer is a risky gamble that could pay off but he's much better off selling the site and re-investing his financial windfall on a new venture that can make him more money.
• In both scenarios you present, keeping or selling, his non-existent industry profile actually works against him since he could easily market himself to get a better offer OR utilize his notoriety to help steer NeoGAF towards being a bigger industry presence.
• Meanwhile E3 denies him a badge and lets Nintendo Fansite #1,345 have full access.

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In regards to your Major Nelson guest comment: E3 guest badges are handed out to nobody journalists often as a token of good faith. This happens with fan-sites and foreign enthusiast press. In addition, getting VIP access to an E3 booth is generally the rule rather than the exception. I see how that can impress the random forum goer but that kind of shit is fairly common and goodwill fodder. It ain't special.

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All of this, basically.

And again: Isn't he the one that paid for the NeoGAF advertising in Gamepro?

1hr with a backpage slore>WiiU

Catching herp-a-derps from backpage slore > Wii U.

There's not enough Elder Scrolls ads on the front page right now.

Who goes to the front page

Optionally: Who doesn't Adblock?

[nachobro]

There's not enough Elder Scrolls ads on the front page right now.

not using adblock 

[Shadow Mod]

I do have it, just not on shit that ain't mine.