Maybe the real NeoGAF was the friends we made along the way...

[zepblackstar]

wooo lawd
a whole album of leaks

https://imgur.com/a/s8MDw#nDj9xCD



hmmm....

[Rman]

Can someone PM the GAF Discord link?

[Swollen Bowels]

anyone who complains about "Social Studies Warriors" or the "ctrl-left" (possibly even stupider than the concept of "alt-left") while admitting they are a Trump supporter automatically places your opinion in a dumpster fire.

Your opinion.  There were massive amounts of posters that hate Social Studies Warrior bullshit and just wanted to talk about games.  When the Social Studies Warrior garbage spilled out of OT into Gaming over Gamergate it was the beginning of the end for GAF.  It's also when the modding developed an ideological bent that placed banning political WrongThink over what was actually important on GAF - gaming

well, boo fucking boo, i'm sorry that you and your friends were discomfited by the mere intrusion of real life into your video game fantasies. sadly, society is presently in the midst of a crisis, the emergence of which can be attributed in no small measure to the successful right wing propaganda reflected by popular media platforms like gaming.

[Kurt Russell]

So it looks like Besada threw Evilore under the bus. Curious about which mods contributed insider information to the Kotaku story?

Here's a list of who he follows. Most recent first. Notice anything?

[K]

This ResetERA copycat is going to fall flat on its face. NeoGAF lived on its name alone, but the site had turned to shit a long time ago. With the baggage and the EviLore enablers over there, it's a failure before it even started.

Something else will take over NeoGAF (or rather, some other sites), but ResetERA won't ever reach anything close.

[Big Kielbasa]

https://imgur.com/a/s8MDw
They'll never learn. Oblivious to the fact they're the ones who brought down GAF with their ideological zealotry.
This should be a lesson to anyone who believes can cater to these toxic ignorants, everything they touch crashes and burns.

[Cerveza mas fina]

THINGS I WILL NOT MISS FROM GAF:

- PUBG saltmines and whining
- shitty PS4 exclusive game winning GOTY over 10x better multiplatform games (happens every year - this year with the BOREFEST Horizon: Last Yawn)
- sonyfags running the place for circa 15 years
- praising Dark Souls 2 which is dumpster GARBAGE
- whole forum jacking off to some pedo-japanese game on Vita/ 3DS selling 80k copies LTD like it is some unheard of success
- "Switch port when?"
- Iwata bjs

Tons of other stuff. I rarely opened the Off Topic there as it was 99% centered on UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. You didn't even qualify to the WORLD CUP, losers.

THINGS I WILL MISS FROM GAF:

- More_Badass indie gaming/ iOS gaming threads. They were the best thing on the gaming side.
- all Souls threads in the Community section especially Bloodborne/ Dark Souls 3

Borys.. bro.. Horizon Zero Dawn was an amazing game O_o. Combat was tight as fuck and the story was nice.

Sonyfags running the place harharhar during the ps3 days shit was all Microsoft centered, now Sony takes back the reigns and people start crying. Man the fuck up Borys.

As for the rest I can agree with that shit lol.

Borys is just salty cause he bought an XBOX ONE first lol for the Kinect bullshit that they canned

It's true :'( Kinect was so big on 360 I thought it would be even bigger (STANDARD) with Xbone. Then they fucked the Kinect owners like no one else in history (sorry Zune fans).

I know I laughed at you then and It's still kind of funny for sure

But now that my daughter is bigger I'd think about her first too if Id buy something gaming related, as I remember doing fun family stuff was the reason you wanted Kinect

[John Dunbar]

https://imgur.com/a/s8MDw
They'll never learn. Oblivious to the fact they're the ones who brought down GAF with their ideological zealotry.
This should be a lesson to anyone who believes can cater to these toxic ignorants, everything they touch crashes and burns.

are they using different usernames? i barely recognise any of those people.

[Tektonic]

what i love about the discord member screenshot, is how many of them are actually playing games.

you know, because it's a forum for gamers.

[Third]

So youre telling me all the games i collected and bought, that can be played on my xbone, backwards compatability, that collection is putrid trash? And i should build a new pc, and rebuy everything again? That sounds solid.

Why game on such lazy and limp hardware like the PS4, lil fucker doesnt have BBC. Big, beautiful, compatability.

Gaming didn't start with Xbox though. BC is not a system seller for consoles. Never has been. Why enslave myself to a terrible platform just because of BC?

I also have many Xbox 360 games. But I won't be getting an Xbox One because the platform doesn't appeal to me. Halo and Gears of War are dead anyway.

[Cerveza mas fina]

what i love about the discord member screenshot, is how many of them are actually playing games.

you know, because it's a forum for gamers.

no one plays games here either though

[Tektonic]

what i love about the discord member screenshot, is how many of them are actually playing games.

you know, because it's a forum for gamers.

no one plays games here either though

but is this advertised as a "nexus of gaming"?

[John Dunbar]

https://imgur.com/a/s8MDw
They'll never learn. Oblivious to the fact they're the ones who brought down GAF with their ideological zealotry.
This should be a lesson to anyone who believes can cater to these toxic ignorants, everything they touch crashes and burns.

They were all shitty people before this happened, they will be shitty people after.

They had to be.  They still had GAF accounts in 2017.  They were carefully cultivated to be only be a gaggle of delusional and terrible human beings.

i just liked talking about tennis man

[SPCTRE]

that Virtua Tennis was alright

[Dennis]

Having thrown EviLore under the bus the bold and the brave are now backing the bus over the still twitching corpse.

These guilt-free moderators were all held hostage at NeoGAF and were powerless to do anything even though they all knew EviLore was a sketchy character

 

[benjipwns]

I just hope none of the new mods are secret GGers.

[benjipwns]

Gaf was an island the the red sea that is gaming (the alt right). It was held up to higher standards because almost everything else didn't have any

[WanderingWind]

Besada is trash people no matter where he chooses to try to gain respectability.

[benjipwns]

Fuck that alt right dev and his feminist dystopia bullshit

says guy using Lime's avatar

[benjipwns]

A lot of internet culture started in gaf, it has monetary value just for the copyright

        

[Dennis]

And you know moderating a big forum is just so difficult which is why Besada was caught admitting he conspired to ban people who didn't kowtow and swallow his Kool-Aid.

[Big Kielbasa]

sadly, society is presently in the midst of a crisis, the emergence of which can be attributed in no small measure to the successful right wing propaganda reflected by popular media platforms like gaming.

People like you are the reason we couldn't have nice things on GAF. You disgust me.
ps. when was the last time you played a video game, breh?

[benjipwns]

i feel like youtubers have this gotta stick together mentality

like...has he even seen youtube?

[Zepp Twofist]

So I guess I'm here now. I feel like the shut down of gaf was an opportunity for me to stop wasting time on the web mindlessly reading posts by broken people about games I don't care about, but then I got to work and realized that it at least beats being productive.

[radioheadrule83]

Seeing people like Boogie2988, his GG followers and 4chin spergs feeling happy makes me angry.

[Occam]

And dislike noise.
NeoGAF was great.

Oh come on, I said "as news aggregate". Not talking about non-gaming.

[nomis]

A lot of internet culture started in gaf, it has monetary value just for the copyright

        

internet culture? like colored_outline_guys.meme? 

[Raist]

I wonder if the locusts (you know like the MK bros, a bunch of BCT regulars etc) will move to a safe space (Waypoint) or to a regular place and turn it into the same shitshow that GAF became over the past couple of years. I'm leaning towards the latter.

It doesn't matter where one of my dogs craps in the house, it stinks no matter where it hits the floor.

Depends. If it goes for the septic tank it will be inconsequential.

GAF was never MS centered. Check your facts straight, beau. 

EvilAvatar.com was.
EvilBore.com was.

Did you somehow hibernate through 2006-2012 or something?

[benjipwns]

They're only co-opting the "oh god they mistreat women" because its negatively affected someone they have an agenda against.

wow if true

 

[benjipwns]

A lot of internet culture started in gaf, it has monetary value just for the copyright

        

internet culture? like colored_outline_guys.meme? 

hey buddy don't forget the $30 italian meal

or beyblades being back and totally metal

or soft moist as dudes

[WanderingWind]

And you know moderating a big forum is just so difficult which is why Besada was caught admitting he conspired to ban people who didn't kowtow and swallow his Kool-Aid.

It's such a weird thing to try to lord power over. You can't claim to be a good, socially aware person and do weird creeper shit like him. That he's somehow gotten a pass is highly indicative of the kind of shit human beings that congregated together. Most of the mods were doing their jobs - Besada was doing it because he needed it. Really fucking creepy dude.

[Occam]

anyone who complains about "Social Studies Warriors" or the "ctrl-left" (possibly even stupider than the concept of "alt-left") while admitting they are a Trump supporter automatically places your opinion in a dumpster fire.

Your opinion.  There were massive amounts of posters that hate Social Studies Warrior bullshit and just wanted to talk about games.  When the Social Studies Warrior garbage spilled out of OT into Gaming over Gamergate it was the beginning of the end for GAF.  It's also when the modding developed an ideological bent that placed banning political WrongThink over what was actually important on GAF - gaming

well, boo fucking boo, i'm sorry that you and your friends were discomfited by the mere intrusion of real life into your video game fantasies. sadly, society is presently in the midst of a crisis, the emergence of which can be attributed in no small measure to the successful right wing propaganda reflected by popular media platforms like gaming.

Sorry to say this as someone who just joined, but thebore may not be for you. You are precisely what was wrong with NeoGAF.

[Maiden Voyage]

And you know moderating a big forum is just so difficult which is why Besada was caught admitting he conspired to ban people who didn't kowtow and swallow his Kool-Aid.

I'm surprised so many are willing to follow the same people who caused so many of the problems with GAF. Once it came out Besada was involved, I knew I would not follow along to the new site.

[Dennis]

And you know moderating a big forum is just so difficult which is why Besada was caught admitting he conspired to ban people who didn't kowtow and swallow his Kool-Aid.

It's such a weird thing to try to lord power over. You can't claim to be a good, socially aware person and do weird creeper shit like him. That he's somehow gotten a pass is highly indicative of the kind of shit human beings that congregated together. Most of the mods were doing their jobs - Besada was doing it because he needed it. Really fucking creepy dude.

Besada should have been toast on GAF after that. How can you have a moderator who admits to not moderating?

And here he is trying to get in at the ground level to poison a new forum from the start.

[benjipwns]

weird how all the actual GAF inside joke memes were from the less tightly wound eras, fucking "go ly down" was from like 2012 or some shit

the current era was seemingly all inaccurate appropriation from elsewhere driven into the ground in three weeks or your money back

[Raist]

So it looks like Besada threw Evilore under the bus. Curious about which mods contributed insider information to the Kotaku story?

Here's a list of who he follows. Most recent first. Notice anything?

(Image removed from quote.)

I'm sure this is a pure coincidence, shitlord.

[Tokyosandblaster]

Can I get my GAF Gold tag back? Shit was dope.

[Occam]

And you know moderating a big forum is just so difficult which is why Besada was caught admitting he conspired to ban people who didn't kowtow and swallow his Kool-Aid.

I'm surprised so many are willing to follow the same people who caused so many of the problems with GAF. Once it came out Besada was involved, I knew I would not follow along to the new site.

Most people seem to have this latent desire to be dominated, to have everything structured nicely for them. That's the secret of success of fascism and other organized religions.

[D3RANG3D]

Seeing people like Boogie2988, his GG followers and 4chin spergs feeling happy makes me angry.

 

[WanderingWind]

A better person would take this opportunity to re-evaluate their life and the decisions they made to support, cover up and help deflect the actions of 2 pedophiles and a serial sexual predator. Nope. Let's start it again and do all the exact same things. What could possibly go wrong?

If it's about re-establishing a community, why does the old guard feel it inherently necessary that they run the place, considering they lead to the destruction of said community? Again, because he's a creepy fuck that has to be in charge of something.

[Dennis]

And they are saying GAF bans will carry over to Reset Era?

But.........fucking Besada already got caught admitting his bans were corrupt bullshit anyway..



Great start, guys.

[benjipwns]

And you know moderating a big forum is just so difficult which is why Besada was caught admitting he conspired to ban people who didn't kowtow and swallow his Kool-Aid.

It's such a weird thing to try to lord power over. You can't claim to be a good, socially aware person and do weird creeper shit like him. That he's somehow gotten a pass is highly indicative of the kind of shit human beings that congregated together. Most of the mods were doing their jobs - Besada was doing it because he needed it. Really fucking creepy dude.

Besada should have been toast on GAF after that. How can you have a moderator who admits to not moderating?

And here he is trying to get in at the ground level to poison a new forum from the start.

Think about it, a guy who is going out of his way to compile dossiers on posters so he can "balance" the forum properly is someone who probably already has them on the people he needs to have them on to ensure he can continue his "mission" without interruption.

He was only a lowly mod technically, banning him was unnecessary if there was fear of his abusing his power on the way out the door. He either asked for it or provoked it.

[nomis]

weird how all the actual GAF inside joke memes were from the less tightly wound eras, fucking "go ly down" was from like 2012 or some shit

the current era was seemingly all inaccurate appropriation from elsewhere driven into the ground in three weeks or your money back

modern gaf had a fucking thread devoted to the concept of the milkshake duck without even realizing what it meant because they stole it from weird twitter and are morons

how was gaf going to have any funny original shit anymore, when even the jokes they steal get the humour removed

[dragon]

i survived the sinking ship...  but man this place already feels like home

[LurkinMerkin]

I just hope none of the new mods are secret GGers.

Pic is huge, sorry.

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[zomgbbqftw]

anyone who complains about "Social Studies Warriors" or the "ctrl-left" (possibly even stupider than the concept of "alt-left") while admitting they are a Trump supporter automatically places your opinion in a dumpster fire.

Your opinion.  There were massive amounts of posters that hate Social Studies Warrior bullshit and just wanted to talk about games.  When the Social Studies Warrior garbage spilled out of OT into Gaming over Gamergate it was the beginning of the end for GAF.  It's also when the modding developed an ideological bent that placed banning political WrongThink over what was actually important on GAF - gaming

well, boo fucking boo, i'm sorry that you and your friends were discomfited by the mere intrusion of real life into your video game fantasies. sadly, society is presently in the midst of a crisis, the emergence of which can be attributed in no small measure to the successful right wing propaganda reflected by popular media platforms like gaming.

Posters like you are why the internet is so happy gaf is dead. Hopefully all of the relaunches fail and your band of cunts are left without anywhere to go.

[BlackBuzzard]

I mean it being started by Cerium the rabid Nintentard was already a red flag but then seeing that Besada is listed as contributor means this entire thing will be a dumpster fire, no thank you 

[jorma]

weird how all the actual GAF inside joke memes were from the less tightly wound eras, fucking "go ly down" was from like 2012 or some shit

the current era was seemingly all inaccurate appropriation from elsewhere driven into the ground in three weeks or your money back

They got replaced with meme-like buzzwords, hills to die on and ducks to shake on.

[Optimus]

A lot of internet culture started in gaf, it has monetary value just for the copyright

        

My God, are they that delusional?

[TVC15]

Has anyone heard from Evilore since Saturday? I’m starting to think he offed himself.

[benjipwns]

I just hope none of the new mods are secret GGers.

Pic is huge, sorry.

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ha, use width= in the img tags to resize them, see Rufus' tag for details

modern gaf had a fucking thread devoted to the concept of the cheeseburger shark without even realizing what it meant because they stole it from weird twitter and are morons

how was gaf going to have any funny original shit anymore, when even the jokes they steal get the humour removed

before the shit storm we were making fun of this and i had come across a post from last week sometime when somebody was hoping Tom Hanks wasn't one

[Raist]

I wonder what Hilldawg thinks about all this. You know, permanently banned from the internet forum NeoGAF.com being among the top referrers for her campaign, or something.

And they are saying GAF bans will carry over to Reset Era?

But.........fucking Besada already got caught admitting his bans were corrupt bullshit anyway..



Great start, guys.

I'm not entirely sure how they're planning to enforce that. Unless, of course, they ran away with a huge list of IP addresses. Which isn't fucked up at all.

[Para-Medic]

A lot of internet culture started in gaf, it has monetary value just for the copyright

        

internet culture? like colored_outline_guys.meme? 

hey buddy don't forget the $30 italian meal

or beyblades being back and totally metal

or soft moist as dudes

NeoGAF just shot themselves in the foot.

I don't know how much the rest of you know about Internet culture (I'm an expert), but memes and shame are huge parts of it... yadda yadda. 

[Raist]

A lot of internet culture started in gaf, it has monetary value just for the copyright

        

Internet culture like, sexual harassment?

[Luxray]

Still nothing? Jesus Christ lmao. He don't give a fuck anymore.

[benjipwns]

Has anyone heard from Evilore since Saturday? I’m starting to think he offed himself.

He's been moderating the forum, seriously. This goes around the bad main url to let you view it at least: http://assets.neogafllc.netdna-cdn.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?&f=3

None of those threads were locked and users banned, and the forum was full of one or two post threads when the site died. And the staff page shows there's literally nobody else listed except Timan still on the staff, and IIRC, Timan was another of the site management helpers like Stump and may have just seen the main ways onto GAF down and not logged in or bothered. He just posted in threads unlike Gromph who was hired help. There were still about 12 mods or so when the site was collapsing, then the story came out that they all resigned in solidarity, and I guess this is proof.

[nomis]

I wonder what Hilldawg thinks about all this. You know, permanently banned from the internet forum NeoGAF.com being among the top referrers for her campaign, or something.

And they are saying GAF bans will carry over to Reset Era?

But.........fucking Besada already got caught admitting his bans were corrupt bullshit anyway..



Great start, guys.

I'm not entirely sure how they're planning to enforce that. Unless, of course, they ran away with a huge list of IP addresses. Which isn't fucked up at all.

as though ”resertera” needed to both be founded under more dubious circumstances AND find a way to have fewer concurrent users than they are bound to have anyways

[desert punk]

Is More_Badass still alive?

I think being a mod on GAF was the first time people looked up to this guy...

[benjipwns]

I wonder what Hilldawg thinks about all this. You know, permanently banned from the internet forum NeoGAF.com being among the top referrers for her campaign, or something.

Quiet you, I'm trying to work out a deal here between Evilore and Peter Daou/Verrit.

[SwolDic]

Besada should have been toast on GAF after that. How can you have a moderator who admits to not moderating?

And here he is trying to get in at the ground level to poison a new forum from the start.

It's clear that the mod team had the elf by the balls. They helped him scrub some shitty things he did in the past so now they had him and he couldn't purge shitty mods that had backing from other mods for fear of them all walking out while putting his dirty laundry out to dry.

It ended up happening anyways.