Blerk
New Member
Posts: 2
|
Post by Blerk on Sept 5, 2024 21:13:35 GMT
Bring back the puddle of wee! Peak logo, for sure. Hello, btw. The 25th anniversary stuff made me all nostalgic and stuff, and Whizzo reminder me that this place exists, so thought I'd drop by. :-) |
|
cubby
Full Member
doesn't get subtext
Posts: 6,360
Member is Online
|
Post by cubby on Sept 5, 2024 21:17:58 GMT
Holy shit! Blerk's back baby!
|
|
|
|
Post by Dougs on Sept 5, 2024 21:37:47 GMT
Welcome back!
|
|
Blerk
New Member
Posts: 2
|
Post by Blerk on Sept 5, 2024 21:49:51 GMT
Cheers, all. Been a while, nice to see so many familiar aliases. :-D
|
|
JonFE
Junior Member
Uncomfortably numb...
Posts: 1,936
Member is Online
|
Post by JonFE on Sept 5, 2024 21:54:14 GMT
Welcome Blerk , I'll add the "back" part when/if you decide to post regularly  |
|
|
|
Post by mothercruncher on Sept 5, 2024 22:21:37 GMT
Remember when there was an amazing fresh new design coming but it just turned it to be blue and shit and the forum continued to be the same shit 1998 forum inside a window of that new blue shit?
|
|
|
|
Post by Whizzo on Sept 5, 2024 22:56:02 GMT
Bring back the puddle of wee! Peak logo, for sure. Hello, btw. The 25th anniversary stuff made me all nostalgic and stuff, and Whizzo reminder me that this place exists, so thought I'd drop by. :-) WTFAY? |
|
deez
New Member
Posts: 716
|
Post by deez on Sept 7, 2024 12:17:39 GMT
The forum gets a passing mention as part of the community -
'And it's true by the way - you do make this a nice place to be. You, collectively, are as much a part of Eurogamer as we are, and we never lose sight of that, even if we do jettison a forum from time to time.'
|
|
|
|
Post by Whizzo on Sept 7, 2024 15:51:26 GMT
Makes us sound like a cargo of spice when the Imperials appear.
|
|
|
|
Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 7, 2024 16:02:06 GMT
The forum gets a passing mention as part of the community - 'And it's true by the way - you do make this a nice place to be. You, collectively, are as much a part of Eurogamer as we are, and we never lose sight of that, even if we do jettison a forum from time to time.' That forum really was the ginger headed stepchild of the site wasn't it? They sound positively embarrassed by it. |
|
|
|
Post by dangerousdave on Sept 7, 2024 16:15:12 GMT
I love you guys, but there are a few patches on that forum that I can understand they’d distance themselves from. All things related to Ecosse, for example. On both sides, I mean. They may have been intolerable, but that also bought out the ugly side of some folk. I remember somebody found an image of them on Facebook(?) and bullied them on their appearance on the Wii U thread. And then you have the countless times girls were chased away from the forums in general.
Moments like that would dominate an evening and be a bit of a stain on an otherwise wholesome and supportive community.
I say this as somebody that has had my moments of being dumb, confrontational, rude and childish. I’m hardly an example of good behaviour.
Not all of us were a DFawkes.
|
|
craigy
New Member
Sunsetter
Posts: 32 
|
Post by craigy on Sept 7, 2024 16:37:37 GMT
To be fair to the team that run Eurogamer these days a lot of them never visited the forum - or weren’t even around when it existed! - so it doesn’t get brought up when reminiscing. But rest assured a bunch of us very old timers went to the pub the other day and had a good chat about the forum. Forever in our hearts.
|
|
nexus6
Junior Member
Posts: 2,526
|
Post by nexus6 on Sept 8, 2024 9:57:42 GMT
BlizeH would always ask for advice on the most mundane of things and then always do something completely different.
Rooney twisted a bollock off ‘to see what would happen’
Guy that had a really shitly built house
King of the Indies being a total wank
|
|
|
|
Post by LockeTribal on Sept 8, 2024 11:51:04 GMT
I've always been more of a lurker than a poster but finding EG and the forum when I did (probably 2005-2006) was a godsend. The EG podcast with the two Toms and resist appearances from Christian Donlon was probably the first podcast I listened to regularly. I may have grown a bit colder on Donlan's writing over the years but his enthusiasm for games always shone through when he was talking or writing about them. Tom Champion sent me a bunch of Singstar discs that time he was doing an office clear out too, so he'll always be a top fella in my book.
Then you had stuff like Ed Zitron's Dorkfail review and ask the fallout from that which was hilarious. TF Tuesdays were the first time I played online games semi regularly with a bunch of people. Isketch Fridays were brilliant craic and I still don't know how I wasn't caught playing it in work on a few occasions. I'll always remember that story about morriss (I think, or was it Gremmi?) saying he'd help that kid in Animal Crossing then chopping down all his trees.
For all the fractiousness of the forum and the wee cliques there was a fantastic sense of togetherness at times, especially if someone needed help.
All stuff that's been covered in here already but just wanted to add my bit.
|
|
|
|
Post by Trowel 🏴 on Sept 8, 2024 12:30:19 GMT
The forum gets a passing mention as part of the community - 'And it's true by the way - you do make this a nice place to be. You, collectively, are as much a part of Eurogamer as we are, and we never lose sight of that, even if we do jettison a forum from time to time.' That forum really was the ginger headed stepchild of the site wasn't it? They sound positively embarrassed by it. I liked the bit right before that, where they effectively claim ownership of neilka's good work as though it were some genius guerrilla campaign. A lot of you simply thanked the community spirit which is embodied in the weekly What We've Been Playing series, and in how a seemingly innocuous article took on a life of its own. That has nothing to do with us by the way! You did that, with your emergent bold formatting and general encouragement. We just shepherd it along. Or perhaps we roll it along - that's a reference to Stephen's Sausage Roll and the meme-like back and forth we had with you, culminating in a special festive review of the game. |
|
|
|
Post by LegendaryApe on Sept 8, 2024 13:42:01 GMT
BlizeH would always ask for advice on the most mundane of things and then always do something completely different. Rooney twisted a bollock off ‘to see what would happen’ Guy that had a really shitly built house King of the Indies being a total wank I think Psychotext was the shoddy house guy |
|
Frog
Full Member
Posts: 7,272
|
Post by Frog on Sept 8, 2024 13:51:25 GMT
Yeah, he had the new build that was basically fucked.
|
|
|
|
Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 8, 2024 14:20:06 GMT
It obviously drove him mad.
|
|
|
|
Post by LegendaryApe on Sept 8, 2024 14:20:40 GMT
He did have a hot sister-in-law though
|
|
|
|
Post by elstoof on Sept 8, 2024 17:13:45 GMT
Wife and sister in law played the hilarious prank of flirting with him to see how he reacted
|
|
robthehermit
Junior Member
Subjectively amusing
Posts: 2,462
Member is Online
|
Post by robthehermit on Sept 10, 2024 13:12:28 GMT
Damn, missed the appearance by Blerk |
|
crashV👀d👀
Junior Member
not just a game anymore...
Posts: 3,855
|
Post by crashV👀d👀 on Sept 10, 2024 13:29:37 GMT
The EG podcast with the two Toms and racist appearances from Christian Donlon fully read it as this and had to double, nay triple take. /RubsEyes |
|
|
|
Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 10, 2024 13:33:21 GMT
Yeah, have I missed something about Donlan?!
|
|
zisssou
Junior Member
Posts: 3,311
Member is Online
|
Post by zisssou on Sept 10, 2024 14:32:12 GMT
He said George Foreman should stick to selling grills and not games (George Foreman's KO Boxing).
|
|
|
|
Post by LockeTribal on Sept 10, 2024 15:52:08 GMT
The EG podcast with the two Toms and racist appearances from Christian Donlon fully read it as this and had to double, nay triple take. /RubsEyes Haha, I think that was supposed to be "regular" appearances, not racist. Typing on my phone and not proof reading before I post as usual. |
|
|
|
Post by Duffking on Sept 10, 2024 20:36:41 GMT
I see a Psychotext posting relatively frequently on resetera. Probably the same person. Maybe he doesn't know this place exists. Or hates us.
Ah, he just hasn't posted for 2 years. Probably hates us all then.
|
|
|
|
Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 10, 2024 20:39:53 GMT
I see a Psychotext posting relatively frequently on resetera. Probably the same person. Maybe he doesn't know this place exists. Or hates us. He was on this forum. He was banned. |
|
|
|
Post by simple on Sept 11, 2024 8:15:49 GMT
What did he say?
|
|
nexus6
Junior Member
Posts: 2,526
|
Post by nexus6 on Sept 11, 2024 8:18:12 GMT
Enjoyed russians dying a little too much I think
|
|
