https://www.neogaf.com/threads/hi-lets-talk-about-off-topic-and-each-other.1461052/post-253189910
Lore finally got some participation in his manifesto thread, complete with artwork.
This thread sums up why Tyler has such a fanbase across multiple websites and forums.
His long-form posting in the last month has been interesting and insightful.
Reading his exploits across Europe and around the world were thrilling and inspiring.
I'm an amateur artist and did some artwork based on his adventures.
I kinda wish we could fund another trip or something just so we could hear about it.
Free climbing
When his body got dashed against the reef
His car racing on the cliffs of China
Tyler is an all-time great internet user
http://archive.is/FEjIY for when it gets deleted.
Way, way too much dumb rambling and revisionist history going on there. When will he stop just making long-winded posts about himself?
Gaming-Age was just a little fan site covering the typical news and reviews, with a side forum of some note, but those years were all crucial to the trajectories for everyone involved. Gaming-Age co-founder Sam Kennedy went on to start 1up, Patrick Klepek is over at Vice News/Waypoint these days instead of sneaking his way into E3 to guerrilla cover it as a minor, and lots of other folks on that original G-A staff ended up with notable roles to play across the Video Games space.
Me, too, I suppose, though through completely different avenues: the little forum attached to that thing.
No, not you too, Thug 1. You had nothing to do with that website. Zero. Zip. Nada. You're just a dude who got control of someone else's forum and you played no part in its popularity.
GAF was distinct in tone, cultivated with intent by leadership being there to care about it and steer it, with all the rules and policies and bans and all that operating as an extension of what you try to do from the top down for the sake of the end result:
The vibe, which is what will either bring folks flooding to the registration gates to the point where you have to implement a several month waiting list and all sorts of other hoops to jump through to keep everything manageable, or just leave you with shuttered doors eventually, as most have already.
GAF was popular because it was a super-busy forum with responses and gaming news stuff being posted, 24 hours a day, with an insane frequency that no other forum (that I can think of) had back then. Things have changed and that was no longer the case for years already, and that this point saying that is just insane. The traffic is gone- everybody went to Resetera.
Either way, I've always thought of it as something vaguely like running a bar or social club.
The kind where you grab women's asses to "show power" or get into the shower with them without asking?
There's just too much shit there to bother responding to and he keeps saying the same things over and over again anyway. It's just:
It's over, dude. You fucked up and that supposed "#metoo" thing was just the fuse being lighted for the gigantic powder keg that had been waiting to explode for years.
