By reilo Go To PostBend the knee, m8s. Else my banhammer will be swift, but painless.Now that i think of it I've never seen you get angry or acting all mighty and above everyone else here. The only time you got angry was when you said you'd ban me if I posted another gif of a huge zit getting popped in the footy thread. Good times.
Just fucking with y'all, call me out if I'm being a douche. n8 does.
Greetings.
I was a NeoGAF member back in 2012. I went by the name RawPower.
I was eventually perma'd after 6 months or so because, according to EviLore, I was "not a good fit for the site". That's literally all he said to me. He gave no specific reason as to why I had been perma'd. I had not broken any rules, I received no warnings about anything I did (or didn't do), and I had only rarely encountered EviLore himself on the site (even back then, I could tell that he was an elitist, self-important jerk so I steered clear of him, although I did see him often in the RealGAF IRC), so I was confused to say the least. All of the GAF members I was friends with at the time told me that he just didn't like me, for whatever reason. And it really did piss me off: I had just gotten banned from a community that I loved (more on that below) all because the big cheese didn't think I was cool enough.
Nevertheless, the months I spent on that site were some of the best of my entire life. I remember going to a meet up event in NYC with several RealGAF members. Coincidentally, it was very close to my birthday (or directly on it, can't remember), and they all threw me a surprise party. My self-esteem was very low at that time. I had just kicked a heroin habit (one that had nearly claimed my life), and overcome homelessness after I was ostracized from the punk community (because I had become pro-Israel). I felt utterly worthless, so it was amazing to me that people I had barely known at the time (some of whom I didn't know *at all*) went out of their way to do something like that. It was a real "light at the tunnel" moment for me. I will never forget it.
All in all, it was a great community. Its founder just happens to be a terrible person.
I was a NeoGAF member back in 2012. I went by the name RawPower.
I was eventually perma'd after 6 months or so because, according to EviLore, I was "not a good fit for the site". That's literally all he said to me. He gave no specific reason as to why I had been perma'd. I had not broken any rules, I received no warnings about anything I did (or didn't do), and I had only rarely encountered EviLore himself on the site (even back then, I could tell that he was an elitist, self-important jerk so I steered clear of him, although I did see him often in the RealGAF IRC), so I was confused to say the least. All of the GAF members I was friends with at the time told me that he just didn't like me, for whatever reason. And it really did piss me off: I had just gotten banned from a community that I loved (more on that below) all because the big cheese didn't think I was cool enough.
Nevertheless, the months I spent on that site were some of the best of my entire life. I remember going to a meet up event in NYC with several RealGAF members. Coincidentally, it was very close to my birthday (or directly on it, can't remember), and they all threw me a surprise party. My self-esteem was very low at that time. I had just kicked a heroin habit (one that had nearly claimed my life), and overcome homelessness after I was ostracized from the punk community (because I had become pro-Israel). I felt utterly worthless, so it was amazing to me that people I had barely known at the time (some of whom I didn't know *at all*) went out of their way to do something like that. It was a real "light at the tunnel" moment for me. I will never forget it.
All in all, it was a great community. Its founder just happens to be a terrible person.
There were always some great threads in neogaf.
Usually they were drunk threads but they were entertaining.
Usually they were drunk threads but they were entertaining.
Splitting hairs here but reilo is a founder of slaent for example. Lore bought gaf off some other dude.
By Prinny España Go To PostOh boy, I forgot Evilore changed Blaburn's username to Snitch 😂😂That was pretty funny tbh.
By Pbsapeer Go To PostThere were always some great threads in neogaf.We don't have one here, but I recommend browsing through Psy and his cooking.
Usually they were drunk threads but they were entertaining.
Wonderful stuff.
http://slaent.com/thread/478305/
By Random Ass Username Go To PostSplitting hairs here but reilo is a founder. Lore bought gaf off some other dude.
I didn't know that.
By Suen Go To PostBunch of people who came here who still have their gaf account and never got banned so it's not just out of bitterness. Great for gaming news? Sure. Some other quality threads? Absolutely, and yet it still turned into a disgusting toxic fucking cesspool with a huge amount of cunts. Like some other poster said: GAF was very enjoyable to read years ago but it gradually got worse and the signs were there. It could be because it got more users. It could be because many mods were a bunch of self-entitled twats. It could be a mix of the two, who knows.
I found a lot of the mods to be fuck-faces. Bish was really good but even that dude banned me for calling out Stinkles hypocrisy of saying he had to explain to his daughter that cheaters sometimes win (Brady and the Pats) all while pimping and selling a game that was broken to a lot of people and actively fleecing them out of money. So, yeah even good mods fuck up sometimes.
Yeah it was called gaming age. Already had a staff and a decent size userbase. Fixed my wording on the other post.
By Pbsapeer Go To PostThere were always some great threads in neogaf.http://slaent.com/thread/1208377/
Usually they were drunk threads but they were entertaining.
By Pennywise Go To PostWe don't have one here, but I recommend browsing through Psy and his cooking.Haha nice one. Will give it a read.
Wonderful stuff.
http://slaent.com/thread/478305/
You know one of my favourite things was the differences between USA and Europe. People would talk about how Americans don’t have crackers for Christmas.
And of course the whole euroGAF cheese sandwich.
By Kabro Go To Posthttp://slaent.com/thread/1208377/My man. This is the stuff!
By Suen Go To PostThat was pretty funny tbh.
Then we where not allowed to talk about breakfast. Surreal shit.
I wonder if a company like IGN has any interest in owning a site like neogaf. Is a forum like neogaf, with so much daily activity around video games, is a net positive for the industry? Like, some small indie games got a lot of exposure from gaf.
I recall community threads where folks got banned for not staying on the exact topic of said community thread. Just dumb as hell.
By Watershed Go To PostI wonder if a company like IGN has any interest in owning a site like neogaf. Is a forum like neogaf, with so much daily activity around video games, is a net positive for the industry? Like, some small indie games got a lot of exposure from gaf.
From what i've heard, they were the ones trying to buy it a couple years ago.
By Prinny España Go To PostOh boy, those where the days.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eQrxO8Tqc0oJ:m.neogaf.com/showpost.php%3Fp%3D136419910%26postcount%3D925+&cd=2&hl=es&ct=clnk&gl=es&client=safari
Evilore's reaction is hilariously petty lol
It must have sucked for the people affected at the time tho
By vastag Go To PostI'm going to miss steamgaf :-(. Is there an steam OT going here?http://slaent.com/thread/1235716/
I'd have something to ask about this place. Can you make thread about something very specific, like praising a movie you've just seen? Stuff like this, for instance.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6ezfotWDy9gJ:www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php%3Ft%3D1362445+&cd=1&hl=it&ct=clnk&gl=it
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6ezfotWDy9gJ:www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php%3Ft%3D1362445+&cd=1&hl=it&ct=clnk&gl=it
By FairFriend Go To PostI'd have something to ask about this place. Can you make thread about something very specific, like praising a movie you've just seen? Stuff like this, for instance.yes.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6ezfotWDy9gJ:www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php%3Ft%3D1362445+&cd=1&hl=it&ct=clnk&gl=it
By FairFriend Go To PostI'd have something to ask about this place. Can you make thread about something very specific, like praising a movie you've just seen? Stuff like this, for instance.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6ezfotWDy9gJ:www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php%3Ft%3D1362445+&cd=1&hl=it&ct=clnk&gl=it
EDIT: Beaten :(
By FairFriend Go To PostI'd have something to ask about this place. Can you make thread about something very specific, like praising a movie you've just seen? Stuff like this, for instance.
let your hair down
Hey there, another GAF refugee and semi-lurker here. Ramped up 500 Posts in my 10 years there. That abrupt end hit me hard. I don't usually care for internal politics and concentrate on the news and ideas people bring to the table. However, the end of NeoGAF is just plain sad on how scumbaggy it all was. Shame.
NeoGAF was my number one website for so many things. It gave me a platform for all the News important to me: Every gaming news, Gadget News, technological advances or scientific stuff, Music News (hell, I found so much good music via GAF and had the Scoops on new Music sometimes months before the Songs got huge on the Radio), just plain entertaining and weird stories and even breaking News on catastrophes and the like. I could be sure that if something happens, NeoGAF would have a thread about it.
I also fueled my real life wisecracking with Infos I got from GAF. Be it Marvel secrets, random trivia or the aforementioned news.
Then there were awesome threads like Mediacreate, the yearly NANOWRIMO, photographyGAF, Steam, yearly E3 threads, Dating-GAF and so much more.
Damn, I'm going to miss that place. I'm actually feeling down because of it. Glad I've found SLAENT. The design is awesome and I have a Feeling there are some nice people around. So yeah, to the future!
NeoGAF was my number one website for so many things. It gave me a platform for all the News important to me: Every gaming news, Gadget News, technological advances or scientific stuff, Music News (hell, I found so much good music via GAF and had the Scoops on new Music sometimes months before the Songs got huge on the Radio), just plain entertaining and weird stories and even breaking News on catastrophes and the like. I could be sure that if something happens, NeoGAF would have a thread about it.
I also fueled my real life wisecracking with Infos I got from GAF. Be it Marvel secrets, random trivia or the aforementioned news.
Then there were awesome threads like Mediacreate, the yearly NANOWRIMO, photographyGAF, Steam, yearly E3 threads, Dating-GAF and so much more.
Damn, I'm going to miss that place. I'm actually feeling down because of it. Glad I've found SLAENT. The design is awesome and I have a Feeling there are some nice people around. So yeah, to the future!
So when I went to bed last night the site was slow but still up, is it true that it got completely nuked?
By Plasma Go To PostSo when I went to bed last night the site was slow but still up, is it true that it got completely nuked?
I think the only thing we really know for sure right now is that the site is down. There's lots of rumours flying around about it being wiped or abandoned or whatever, but I'm not sure there's any evidence to support those.
By Plasma Go To PostSo when I went to bed last night the site was slow but still up, is it true that it got completely nuked?Even if it comes back up Im not going back whilst Evilore is still the owner. Cant be supporting pieces of shit like that. This place seems real nice, hopefully it gets busier with all this shit.
Another from RefugeeGAF. I woke up this morning to find my go-to site of 5 years or so on fire. I’m gonna miss it. I hope Malka doesn’t nuke the place. That’d be some petty shit.
I don’t use other social media, so finding info on what’s happened has been a little difficult. Most of it is celebratory crap from the spurned and perma’d crowd.
Seems nice here. See how it goes. Still getting my bearings. Dumb question but can you sub to threads and stuff...?
I don’t use other social media, so finding info on what’s happened has been a little difficult. Most of it is celebratory crap from the spurned and perma’d crowd.
Seems nice here. See how it goes. Still getting my bearings. Dumb question but can you sub to threads and stuff...?
I wasn’t on Gaf yesterday because I was at the Savannah Seafood Featival. I wake up this morning and Gaf is gone!
There are so many subcategories of people regarding this situation.
Gamer gaters celebrating an unearned victory
Salty banned people
Salty industry people
People who liked the community but hated some of the leadership
What I haven't seen has been the loyalists. I really wonder how many of them exist and how they are going to justify continuing to go to the site after it comes back up.
Gamer gaters celebrating an unearned victory
Salty banned people
Salty industry people
People who liked the community but hated some of the leadership
What I haven't seen has been the loyalists. I really wonder how many of them exist and how they are going to justify continuing to go to the site after it comes back up.
I've been posting on GAF since about 2011? Long ass time to be contributing to a community and to see it just vanish. Very strange thing to wake up to.
A lot of stuff on GAF was great. But I definitely feel it went downhill over the last year or so. Off-Topic become a really cynical and nasty echo chamber really quickly. I never got banned from GAF so no salt here, but I did personally resent that you ran such an increased risk of it by posting anything even slightly against the grain.
I'll miss it but I'll get over it. I've just replaced the GAF tab on Chrome with this place so whatever. A lot of the guys I most enjoyed reading and speaking with have been here for a while so let's have it.
A lot of stuff on GAF was great. But I definitely feel it went downhill over the last year or so. Off-Topic become a really cynical and nasty echo chamber really quickly. I never got banned from GAF so no salt here, but I did personally resent that you ran such an increased risk of it by posting anything even slightly against the grain.
I'll miss it but I'll get over it. I've just replaced the GAF tab on Chrome with this place so whatever. A lot of the guys I most enjoyed reading and speaking with have been here for a while so let's have it.
Hey everybody. 10 year GAF member looking for a new home. Hopefully this can fill the void and then some!
By ShimshonNaharai Go To PostGAF was unparalleled as a gaming news site. Are there any alternatives?Follow wario64 and ShugeEX on twitter. That’s all you need
Looks like I am not the only one.
I have been on NeoGAF for the past 7 years. Sure, sometimes it was filled to the brim with elitists who tried to sway you towards their opinion, but I never ventured into those threads.
I was purely there for the gaming related topics and talking about experiences others have had.
I am honestly semi shocked by the allegations against Evilore and I have no reason not to believe this isn't true. For me, he always seemed like this guy that has no boundaries and just bans people who don't share his opinion.
So, yeah. I abandoned ship. I hope I can get along with you fellas.
I have been on NeoGAF for the past 7 years. Sure, sometimes it was filled to the brim with elitists who tried to sway you towards their opinion, but I never ventured into those threads.
I was purely there for the gaming related topics and talking about experiences others have had.
I am honestly semi shocked by the allegations against Evilore and I have no reason not to believe this isn't true. For me, he always seemed like this guy that has no boundaries and just bans people who don't share his opinion.
So, yeah. I abandoned ship. I hope I can get along with you fellas.
I reckon Fox Searchlight will pick up the film rights.
Miles Teller as Evilore
M.B Jordan as Bish
Robert Patterson as Reilo
Daisy Ridley as Bold
Start the bidding at 20 million Trump dollars
Miles Teller as Evilore
M.B Jordan as Bish
Robert Patterson as Reilo
Daisy Ridley as Bold
Start the bidding at 20 million Trump dollars
Hopefully the gaf crowd coming here isnt the dog piling "I dont like thing therefore you should campaign against it too" people.
Female videogame characters in skimpy clothes? Dont give a shit. Pokemon only having male or female as character choices? Dont see the outrage to go boycott nintendo. Link being male only in zelda games? Again dont see the outrage. People complaining about white male protagonists in Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer? shutup already.
That was the problem on gaf. Complaining about things that if you so much as said you didnt care about it you got dogpiled because "it's 2017 get with the program". I dont want that cesspool of thought police coming here.
Female videogame characters in skimpy clothes? Dont give a shit. Pokemon only having male or female as character choices? Dont see the outrage to go boycott nintendo. Link being male only in zelda games? Again dont see the outrage. People complaining about white male protagonists in Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer? shutup already.
That was the problem on gaf. Complaining about things that if you so much as said you didnt care about it you got dogpiled because "it's 2017 get with the program". I dont want that cesspool of thought police coming here.
Miles Teller only does patriotic American hero movies now. I guess sexual assault is a patriotic act in this country, so nvm.
Hello fellow exgaf lurkers.
I didn't post a lot there but I've had an account for years and I'm here now. I was going to post in the DGAF thread earlier today, getting ready for Tuesday, but that didn't go as planned.
I didn't post a lot there but I've had an account for years and I'm here now. I was going to post in the DGAF thread earlier today, getting ready for Tuesday, but that didn't go as planned.
By Deadbeat Go To PostHopefully the gaf crowd coming here isnt the dog piling "I dont like thing therefore you should campaign against it too" people.
Female videogame characters in skimpy clothes? Dont give a shit. Pokemon only having male or female as character choices? Dont see the outrage. Link being male only in zelda games? Again dont see the outrage. People complaining about white male protagonists in Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer? shutup already.
That was the problem on gaf. Complaining about things that if you so much as said you didnt care about it you got dogpiled because "it's 2017 get with the program". I dont want that cesspool of thought police coming here.
Well, honestly this doesn't bode too well. Why did you post in those threads if you didn't care?
By srsly Go To PostHello fellow exgaf lurkers.
I didn't post a lot there but I've had an account for years and I'm here now. I was going to post in the DGAF thread earlier today, getting ready for Tuesday, but that didn't go as planned.
Welcome
DestinyGaf has a discord. It’s very active
By Deadbeat Go To PostHopefully the gaf crowd coming here isnt the dog piling "I dont like thing therefore you should campaign against it too" people.
Female videogame characters in skimpy clothes? Dont give a shit. Pokemon only having male or female as character choices? Dont see the outrage to go boycott nintendo. Link being male only in zelda games? Again dont see the outrage. People complaining about white male protagonists in Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer? shutup already.
That was the problem on gaf. Complaining about things that if you so much as said you didnt care about it you got dogpiled because "it's 2017 get with the program". I dont want that cesspool of thought police coming here.
I agree. Not that i dont wanna see slaent grow but it felt nice talking to mates. If the result of gaf closing that this place turns into gaf
Allah no