VOAT Containment Megathread of Trash People for Trash People

[archie4208]

Lore isnt far off introducing sponsored posts (lol), email marketing, co-registration and finally paid membership in the form of private member-only sub forums. I'm honestly surprised he hasnt jumped on any of these yet.

I thought those were called OTs. 

[Averon]

end of the day, lore still has a largely self sustaining business that his employees work for free on. the direction it has taken lends itself even more to that as the community is almost self policing at this point and advertiser unfriendly salaciousness is naturally weeded out.

he doesn't have to work hard and enjoys an easy life of the back of it. he won't be big pimping but probably has a decent nest egg left over from the glory days and will get a few quid when he sells it off.

not a bad result all told.

I suppose.

But, with a bit of elbow grease, reinvestment of profits, and just an ounce of foresight, he could be Pewdiepie rich (or richer).

Let's look at it this way: NeoGAF is one of the biggest video game forums on the web. It was in the top 1000 websites in the world (according to Alexa rank). It has (had?) hundreds of millions of hits a month.

And yet, there is no official NeoGAF YouTube channel, no official NeoGAF Twitch channel, the NeoGAF twitter account only has 8,000 followers and tweets about 3 times per year, and the NeoGAF Facebook account has less than 900 likes (and is growing at the pace of a local senior knitting group page).

Kind of pisses me off just thinking about it, to be honest.

'Lore far too lazy and incompetent to go that far. Look at how disastrous Lore's been at handling the virus ridden ad situation. Or how about him and his team incompetent attempt to install HTTPS last year?

You really think 'Lore is competent enough to do all that?

[Great Rumbler]

You really think 'Lore is competent enough to do all that?

No, but you'd think he'd at least be competent enough to hire someone to do it for him.

[bork]

I still dont really understand what pushed magus so far over the deep end

Aren't you the guy who followed him because we were being too mean? 

yeah i had real life stuff to do and i thought it would be more hilarious if I left satirizing magus, evidently I failed because you fucks believed that crap   I dont think I read more than a single post in that thread tbh

 

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Yeah, I can actually see it, looking back. 

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[Averon]

You really think 'Lore is competent enough to do all that?

No, but you'd think he'd at least be competent enough to hire someone to do it for him.

That will probably cost money. 'Lore's too cheap to hire competent help.

[Shuri]

Lui Kang Baking a pie is sporting a pretty damn problematic avatar. Is this user even of asian heritage? It's pretty disrespectful to Robin Shou, an actor that has been pretty vocal about the stereotypical treatment of asian actors in Hollywood Cinema and who has even produced a documentary on the subject. This user is making a mockery of Chou's biggest starring role, Lui Kang, in a grotesque amateurish montage representing him as some sort of shirtless cook? Is this clever? Is this amusing? Why are the gaf mods not doing anything?

" Lui Kang Baking a pie " should take a minute from accusing other forum posters and do some  reading  to see how damaging his "online persona" can be. Perhaps an avatar switch and an username change to something more neutral is in order.

He has a lot of soul-searching to do.

Gross.

[railGUN]

The fucking Facebook "Like" icon isn't even showing up right now on GAF.

 

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Let's see how long until a GAF mod sees this post and it's fixed.

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[Momo]

end of the day, lore still has a largely self sustaining business that his employees work for free on. the direction it has taken lends itself even more to that as the community is almost self policing at this point and advertiser unfriendly salaciousness is naturally weeded out.

he doesn't have to work hard and enjoys an easy life of the back of it. he won't be big pimping but probably has a decent nest egg left over from the glory days and will get a few quid when he sells it off.

not a bad result all told.

I suppose.

But, with a bit of elbow grease, reinvestment of profits, and just an ounce of foresight, he could be Pewdiepie rich (or richer).

Let's look at it this way: NeoGAF is one of the biggest video game forums on the web. It was in the top 1000 websites in the world (according to Alexa rank). It has (had?) hundreds of millions of hits a month.

And yet, there is no official NeoGAF YouTube channel, no official NeoGAF Twitch channel, the NeoGAF twitter account only has 8,000 followers and tweets about 3 times per year, and the NeoGAF Facebook account has less than 900 likes (and is growing at the pace of a local senior knitting group page).

Kind of pisses me off just thinking about it, to be honest.

Reddit's growth was always going to eat other discussion hubs' lunch. It's an eventuality that most big discussion forums will die at their hand (unless they do something completely insane). People are realizing they dont really have to put up with the moderation and shitposting on gaf and the like and can just curate their own bundle of shitposting over there or create their own shitposting sub. Sites like IGN, Giantbomb, RPS, Penny Arcade and such will be fine because they are content portals that create media that lures subscribers/readers. What content does neogaf create? A constant stream of outrage, shitposting, hype and corporate ball-licking? 

[agrajag]

Lui Kang Baking a pie is sporting a pretty damn problematic avatar. Is this user even of asian heritage? It's pretty disrespectful to Robin Shou, an actor that has been pretty vocal about the stereotypical treatment of asian actors in Hollywood Cinema and who has even produced a documentary on the subject. This user is making a mockery of Chou's biggest starring role, Lui Kang, in a grotesque amateurish montage representing him as some sort of shirtless cook? Is this clever? Is this amusing? Why are the gaf mods not doing anything?

" Lui Kang Baking a pie " should take a minute from accusing other forum posters and do some reading ( reading ) to see how damaging his "online persona" can be. Perhaps an avatar switch and an username change to something more neutral is in order.

He has a lot of soul-searching to do.

Gross.

iirc LKBAP claimed he was Asian before.

[bork]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222155851&postcount=3

Why Neogaf is full of this posts? We all know how to use Youtube, don't need a post to tell us a video is out.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

NeoGAF is just destined to be another SomethingAwful.  At it's peak, the SA owner cleared six figures easily.  While the owner didn't go "muay thai training" in Thailand, he bought a McMansion, a badass car, and an office in a strip mall.  A couple years ago he sold all of that and is now begging for money to draw spaceships for them if they donate.  SA peaked somewhere in 2007 but it's still running almost a decade later.  NeoGAF will keep limping along well into the 2020s.  Nobody is going to buy the piece of shit off of Evilore so he's stuck with it unless he gives it away for a pittance.

[bork]

At it's peak, the SA owner cleared six figures easily.  While the owner didn't go "muay thai training" in Thailand, he bought a McMansion, a badass car, and an office in a strip mall.  A couple years ago he sold all of that and is now begging for money to draw spaceships for them if they donate

Really?     What was the point of the office, especially?  Server space?

[archie4208]

Don't forget Lowtax got into a boxing match with Uwe Boll.

[Averon]

I remember when Sony used to give call outs to GAF regularly. They don't do that any more. MS don't even bother with the place, and I cannot blame them. GAF used to be a place where you can converse with industry folk and get new info from legit "insiders." That is no longer the case. Now, the industry folk moved on to Reddit, Twitter, or their own company run forums. What "insiders" they have left seems to be attention-whores, mostly.

[zepblackstar]

NeoGAF is just destined to be another SomethingAwful.  At it's peak, the SA owner cleared six figures easily.  While the owner didn't go "muay thai training" in Thailand, he bought a McMansion, a badass car, and an office in a strip mall.  A couple years ago he sold all of that and is now begging for money to draw spaceships for them if they donate.  SA peaked somewhere in 2007 but it's still running almost a decade later.  NeoGAF will keep limping along well into the 2020s.  Nobody is going to buy the piece of shit off of Evilore so he's stuck with it unless he gives it away for a pittance.

SA, Fark and GAF are now at the too old to be in the happening club age.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Don't forget Lowtax got into a boxing match with Uwe Boll.

The first thing that springs to mind anytime I see anyone mention Lowtax is the Wired article about Boll beating the shit out of him;

Kyanka lifted the Lowtax nom de guerre from a Tennessee politician who murdered his opponent during a 1998 state senate election. Earlier this evening, he joked about the medical waiver Boll's people made him sign, obviously assuming this whole event would be a pain-free publicity stunt. ("It says that if he gives me AIDS or brain damage or kills me, I can't sue him," he smirked. "But it didn't say anything about me giving AIDS to him, so I've been out sleeping with male hookers.") But as his moment in the ring draws closer, his jokes become more panicky and desperate. "If he gives me brain damage, my webmastering days are over!" he whimpers. "Somebody please teach me how to fight!"

The bell sounds, and Kyanka circles Boll, waving his fists with cartoony exaggeration. The stone-faced director, who has been training for this evening for four months, lets his foe dance around for 15 seconds and then raps him on the side of the head. Kyanka drops abruptly, like a joke cut off before the punch line.

But he's back up in a flash and taking another trip around the ring before Boll surges forward with a left to the body, then a right to the head. The webmaster crashes faster than an overloaded server. "You hit me in the face!" he says, glaring up at Boll. He climbs to his feet and prolongs the match by yo-yoing to his knees whenever the eager director threatens to take another crack at him. But Boll catches him off guard and hammers him with three solid punches. Kyanka sinks to the mat and stays there as the ref counts to 10. The fight is over in less than two minutes.

DURING INTERMISSION, Kyanka does an interview with streaming site Wavelit.com. He's trying to be self-deprecating – he knows the matches will live forever on YouTube – but is too furious to laugh it all off. "He said he wouldn't hit me really hard!" Lowtax fumes, rubbing his head. "I hate him as a human being! This event is a combination of PR and BS!"

Meanwhile, Sneider is taking advantage of the country's socialized health care. As two EMS workers tend to him, he occasionally removes his oxygen mask to vomit. As the intermission ends, the director emerges from the dressing room, looking serene. Kyanka points to Sneider's sickly puddle. "Look what you did!" he snaps. Boll glances back, bemused. "It was boxing," he deadpans. "Not chess."

https://www.wired.com/2006/12/ragingboll/

[Tasty]

"It was boxing," he deadpans. "Not chess."

[Raist]

I seriously doubt adblock usage has been a recent problem. He's been complaining about it for YEARS. When he pulled that Vigilink crap for instance.
It's more likely that traffic is tanking.

Also, the shitty ads started popping up right after https encryption was added for a couple of days, but suddenly pulled because it was supposedly "breaking the site". Weird, isn't it?

[thisismyusername]

Evidence: http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=43652.0

Satch don't post here anymore. :'(

[Momo]

I remember when Sony used to give call outs to GAF regularly. They don't do that any more. MS don't even bother with the place, and I cannot blame them. GAF used to be a place where you can converse with industry folk and get new info from legit "insiders." That is no longer the case. Now, the industry folk moved on to Reddit, Twitter, or their own company run forums. What "insiders" they have left seems to be attention-whores, mostly.

Garry fucking Newman takes time out of his day to answer my stupid questions on reddit, although I kinda wish he wouldn't and spend more time fixing Rust

[Momo]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222185719&postcount=449

holy fucking megazord batman I didnt read any of this shit, guy got rattled into a care post

[agrajag]

  I like Vigilant Walrus

[VomKriege]

I like Vigilant Walrus

Too bad, he's MRA now. Alt right money got to him, obviously.

[agrajag]

I like Vigilant Walrus

Too bad, he's MRA now. Alt right money got to him, obviously.

launch that alt-right monster into the sun

[headwalk]

i think this is what happens when you no longer know any people and you only know their most relayed opinions.

[Dennis]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222185719&postcount=449

holy fucking megazord batman I didnt read any of this shit, guy got rattled into a care post

[helios]

i think this is what happens when you no longer know any people and you only know their most relayed opinions.

Same thing with AVGN. People just heard that he isn't going to review/see Ghostbusters 2016 and assumed that it was because it was full of women. He became "one of the jackasses behind last spring's misogynist anti-Ghostbusters campaign."

[FStop7]

The yas queeners are losing their shit over the FBI doing its job.

[Syph]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222185719&postcount=449

holy fucking megazord batman I didnt read any of this shit, guy got rattled into a care post

holy sweet fuck that ignorant first post wow
:thisisneogaf 

[Jansen]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1303767

[zomgee]

I remember when Sony used to give call outs to GAF regularly. They don't do that any more. MS don't even bother with the place, and I cannot blame them. GAF used to be a place where you can converse with industry folk and get new info from legit "insiders." That is no longer the case. Now, the industry folk moved on to Reddit, Twitter, or their own company run forums. What "insiders" they have left seems to be attention-whores, mostly.

Garry fucking Newman takes time out of his day to answer my stupid questions on reddit, although I kinda wish he wouldn't and spend more time fixing Rust

It's a shame because when Microsoft was trying to explain their situation during the launch debacle, Albert and Larry Hyrb would post and answer questions to try and calm shit down. Basically damage control. Which, sure they earned their own L out of that but they were trying.

Well THAT. SHIT. DON'T. FLY unless Bish says it does. When Albert mentioned that there was a Microsoft Technical Fellow working on the architecture of the Xbox One people lost their goddamned minds, mostly because they didn't understand what a Fellow actually IS.

The moderators had a chance, a real chance to actually let conversation happen and... you know, moderate the forum. Instead it was jokes about a Technical Fellow peppered with what a PS4 had the potential to do.

But you know, it's a lot more fun when you can watch the carnival of stupid erupt I suppose. Being all neutral and stuff makes it cool like that.

[zepblackstar]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1303803

I've been noticing a worrying trend on internet as of late in regards to racial tolerance and cultural sensitivity. Due to the wonderful moderation team and Gaf's more liberal leanings, we don't see too many posts that look like this on the forum

 

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222197267&postcount=5

Ninja Scooter

People like to be sheltered assholes and don't like to be challenged or asked to think outside of their preconceived norms.

 

[zomgee]

um

[Raist]

I got nothin'

[clothedmacuser]

Hmm, I guess racism is bad.  I'm glad that poster had the guts to make that thread.

[thisismyusername]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1303767

https://media.giphy.com/media/l3V0CsylqeVB4BYqc/giphy.gif

He's been suck that dick hard over the past few days. Probably because there's only like 5,000 players on PC.

[seagrams hotsauce]

I remember when Sony used to give call outs to GAF regularly. They don't do that any more. MS don't even bother with the place, and I cannot blame them. GAF used to be a place where you can converse with industry folk and get new info from legit "insiders." That is no longer the case. Now, the industry folk moved on to Reddit, Twitter, or their own company run forums. What "insiders" they have left seems to be attention-whores, mostly.

Garry fucking Newman takes time out of his day to answer my stupid questions on reddit, although I kinda wish he wouldn't and spend more time fixing Rust

I doubt he would bother if this was his first game. I doubt many other developers could get away with rebuilding their whole game (in Unity no less) and not updating it for a year. He built up a lot of goodwill with Gary's Mod, and to his credit the game is updated every week now, but short of a Star Citizen-esque culthood I'd bet the Rust subreddit would look a lot different if he didn't have GM under his belt.

[Syph]

Hmm, I guess racism is bad.  I'm glad that poster had the guts to make that thread.

COURAGEOUS

[doctavius bonbon]

so is the titanfall 2 singleplayer actually good or

edit: http://imgur.com/gDYbg8w

omg

[Take My Breh Away]

NeoGAF is just destined to be another SomethingAwful.  At it's peak, the SA owner cleared six figures easily.  While the owner didn't go "muay thai training" in Thailand, he bought a McMansion, a badass car, and an office in a strip mall.  A couple years ago he sold all of that and is now begging for money to draw spaceships for them if they donate.  SA peaked somewhere in 2007 but it's still running almost a decade later.  NeoGAF will keep limping along well into the 2020s.  Nobody is going to buy the piece of shit off of Evilore so he's stuck with it unless he gives it away for a pittance.

SA, Fark and GAF are now at the too old to be in the happening club age.

The internet outgrew them and Fark's on borrowed time because of Reddit, but Drew Curtis could easily walk into a management job at Conde Nast or BuzzFeed Inc once Fark dies because he was smart enough to reinvest the money he made from Fark back into Fark and has kept it profitable and well managed ever since he started monetizing it way back in 1999 or so (Or at least if he was smart enough to create a retirement fund) since he actually hired staff to run it, gave something back to volunteer mods by sending them on the swag they got from advertisers if they wanted (mostly beer) and was active in the community. Hell, I checked it today and they added a ton of features since the last time I saw it. They didn't have to because there's no doubt their readership is declining, but the fact they do care about their remaining customers is probably 99% of the reason they stay loyal.   

Lowtax and Evilore? Way less so. Conde Nast would probably laugh Lore out of the building for giving free advertising to one product just because a PR Rep of another "didn't shake his hand properly".

[FStop7]

Colbalt is right.  Titanfall 2 is fantastic.  Most creative single player campaign since Portal.  You have to use the environment and mix up the on foot parkour stuff with the mech fights.

[Jansen]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1303767

https://media.giphy.com/media/l3V0CsylqeVB4BYqc/giphy.gif

He's been suck that dick hard over the past few days. Probably because there's only like 5,000 players on PC.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222216927&postcount=377

[toku]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1303767

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Great game, great thread. Titanfall 2 in stores now. Bless up. I played a few games with him yesterday.

[Tasty]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1303767

https://media.giphy.com/media/l3V0CsylqeVB4BYqc/giphy.gif

He's been suck that dick hard over the past few days. Probably because there's only like 5,000 players on PC.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222216927&postcount=377

 

[Shuri]

My understanding is that Lowtax ran into some serious problems in real life, if I remember well, he ended up getting in a terribly expensive divorce and had to resort to sleeping in his office for a while. He went into deep depression and from what I read, developped an addiction problem. For a while he had to share a room with one of the forum mod, who turned out to be a weirdo. His personal life went to  shit.

I think He also got scared of his exwife possibly using the fact that there were at some point  warez/porn sharing sections on his forum as a weapon against him in court, so he shut them down overnight and it pissed off a lot of people

Also the forum went from total chaos to ultra militant hardcore sjw style within the span of a decade, and most of the readership from the wild west days migrated to 4chan and other smaller forums until reddit and etc were created.

It's a shame because the gaming and comics community were super rad, I had so much fun with the chromehounds squad back when the game launched. The gaming section eventually turned to crap when the "lets play" people pretty much took over it. When the subsection was created just for them, it was too late

[toku]

Goons are still great to game with for the most part and their TV/film discussion section I like as well. That distinct goon sperglord over dumb shit still happens from time to time though. Dudes ranting for 10 pages about ammunition in a dumb tv show type shit.

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222216927&postcount=377

It wasn't aware enough. When you had to speak to Dr. Hayden I groaned so loud I woke people up.

What made me groan at DOOM is why it was even included. It did literally nothing to the experience but hold you hostage from gameplay.

Literally 2 minutes of story in a 12 hour campaign caused him to be massively triggered, apparently.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Lowtax has to pay $4k a month in alimony and child support.  So yeah, he got railroaded but his income was declining far before that point.

[Boredfrom]

Anybody that references games to Half-Life/Doom/Quake is usually talking out of their ass.

 Will play Titanfall 2 just to see a mecha game with good gunplay.

Is a good campaign, not Half Life 2 good or well written like Wolfs as some user was trying to imply, but is a pretty good one. Is like a more subtle Bulletstorm or Shadow Warrior in tone than anything else, as the best level in the game is the one that acknowledges more that is a dumb buddy cop story with a giant robot (in the good way).

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That time travel level is something else. It should have been a  jump the shark moment but somehow ended being the best level in the game

[close]

Doom is still better but Titanfall 2 is no pushover.

[Phoenix Dark]

All I remember about HL2 was a helicopter killing me a bunch and I gave up. Meh.

[toku]

I thought Doom 3 was more interesting than HL2 back in 2004 and I still think so now.

[thisismyusername]

What? The gunplay in the first was fine. The major problem was lack of maps (which took forever to correct), and the maps weren't balanced for Titan/Pilot mixed gameplay. That and the small player-count in matches and... *continues to list thousands of things wrong with it?*

...But the gunplay? What?!? The gunplay is basically a clone of CoD with some exceptions (smart pistol)

[toku]

mods help

[Rahxephon91]

Wolfienstien is one of the biggest huhs to me this gen. The game did nothing for me and I don't understand it's praise at all.

[mormapope]

The main issue with Titanfall for me was how titans didn't feel nearly as good as normal infantry combat. Non stop sprinting and maneuvering around a map with a SMG felt way better than camping and trying to snipe ant sized infantry inside buildings or doorways.

Half Life 2 is still the best FPS campaign by a long shot. Nothing matches it's sense of adventure, design variety, or pacing. Worst parts of the game are in the first two hours, the other 10 or 12 are still the best in the genre.

[VomKriege]

Not major by any means but this thread took the expected turn (Barack got a taste of that sweet alt right moniez ?) :

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1302643

Judging within context ? Lol, how adorable :

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222234743&postcount=521

You'll probably break a wall or something by projecting so hard, Ami :

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222244419&postcount=3250

This problem has arisen because a mass of anti-intellectual people have deluded themselves into thinking all the legitimate sources are somehow corrupt - scientists and the major newspapers etc - and have fooled themselves into believing that the dark places on the web are the only ones seeking truth.

Because what these assholes want is not truth, but validation for their fucked up worldview. They see a world where most people are smarter than them, understand how to filter bad info from good, and in their envy and rage they create a world where only they have access to the truth.

They are pathetic, essentially.

EDIT : 

[Syph]

be Amri0x brehs

[Momo]

I think we should clearly mark Amir0x posts with a garbage warning going forward

[Cerveza mas fina]

Amirox is posting with that post-hit-my-mom-clarity.

[VomKriege]

I hope Comey is destroyed in every way conceivable so his career is embers and he has trouble pulling a hundred dollar bill for speeches.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222186891&postcount=4604

    So the FBI director needs senate approval to be appointed.

    Comey afraid that he was going to lose his job when Hillary won, so he decides to play dirty in order to save his position?

He doesn't need to be reappointed, the job was his until 2023.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222158451&postcount=4353



Y2Kev

Huma should tell them to go fuck themselves and Hillary can pardon her if need be. It's time to stop playing nice with people who obviously are politicizing our institutions. I hope Hillary appoints 0 republicans to run anything.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=222153951&postcount=4290

Abuse presidential pardons to fight against partisan abuse of neutral institutions ?