I've never left for more then maybe a week (except when I was in boot-camp) since I joined up in 2003. This place has sucked from time to time but there's still a lot of good guys on here.
I've never left for more then maybe a week (except when I was in boot-camp) since I joined up in 2003. This place has sucked from time to time but there's still a lot of good guys on here.
I'm in the same exact boat as you. I have gotten so used to coming here right when I wake up, before I goto sleep, or mainly whenever I get onto my computer that I really couldn't imagine not browsing TNL for the non sense shenanigans and conversations that go on here. Whether it be actual useful news or gaming information, or just stupid bullshit conversations, TNL is always the first place I will goto first and foremost.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
And ever since I started working my new job I haven't had nearly enough time to post, or get involved in shit like the Kevincal debauchery. But I will always post as much as I can when I have the available time simply because I have grown fond of most of the people here, regardless of their like for me, or our difference of opinions. /<3
PS. I come to TNL for comments like the one Josh made in the Godzilla thread.
I came to TNL from the GameGo! exodus and have mostly enjoyed my time here ever since despite all the cyber drama. Due to it, I'd call the Xbox my best system purchase ever, because without it, I wouldn't have reviewed Shenmue II, and a world without that review is one I don't want to live in.
I've slowed down my posting here presently and very briefly over the past six months due to an attempt to shift my gaming focus back on playing them and not on talking about them. God of War was a key in this, as it hooked me faster and deeper than any game since the last generation began in '99. Now, I try to post long posts with some kind of merit, instead of four million that equal up to roughly nothing of vaue.
I like to read and sometimes I but usually I'm so busy with school and shit that I dont even get online to check my email most of the time.
I asked to be banned while I was in boston because tnl stopped being good for me and I needed a break (helps having an ex whose a mod) and also because you all pissed me off. Oh yes.
You are all stupid bastards, and sometimes I dont even want to read what you say because the pure idiocy of it makes my eyes bleed, but you guys are ok. and sometimes there is good discussion.
I hate/love you tnl.
Been coming here since 2002 in the migration from Gamego, and I honestly don't see myself stopping anytime soon. I've never been one to make numerous posts in a row, but I enjoy coming here and reading the discussions that take place, regardless of how stupid they get sometimes. This is gonna sound funny, because I've never met any of you, but its like I know so much about alot of you just from reading your posts all these years.
I left for a long while because of dicks like diffusionx. But I've long since stopped caring about what people like him say.
But I will say that while TNL is more peaceful now, the quality of discussion has dropped a lot. It's more about tracking what people are playing/buying than gaming discussions. Not that it's bad. Just kinda dull. But I still come here as a reprieve from the lameness that is GAF.
I will just say that criticism is always fair, but there's a definite difference between criticism and obnoxious trolling.
The latter could be better controlled.
I am thinking of leaving though. Way too much talk about garbage/Japanese games/systems for my tastes. Even the Wii threads aren't fun anymore.
I've been coming to TNL since, I dunno, 2003 or 2004. I've had a few accounts and at one point posted a lot. But now I just lurk.
I don't know of a better site for gaming news than the TNL board. If there is any other place I could get news from Muchi Muchi Pork! to Drac X on the PSP to Twilight Princess to whatever, then please show me the way. But it's all there on the TNL gaming board easily scooped up. Links to movies, screenshots, whatever, all there. So that's why I lurk here.
I don't post here anymore because the social demands this place has are just way too high. It seems for a lot of people here, TNL is completely their social outlet. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, just not my bag. There's a well established pecking order and culture here, and a lot of bullshit that goes along with it.
I've been here ever since the GameGo migration. I am definetly more of a lurker than a poster. I enjoy reading other people's thoughts and arguments, and frankly, this is one of best places to do so without discussions turning into flat out GameFAQ-ery, most of the time.
It's become second nature to automatically open up TNL in a tab everytime I open a browser. Even though this place has had its ups and downs I've never really saw a point to "leave."