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New subforum request: Video James

Post by Lago PARANOIA »

The video game thread is like a trillion pages long and it's hard to find threads about specific games. Which is annoying because peoples' gaming interests don't follow a linear progression in which you can just find people talking about Contra by clicking the first few pages.

I say that it's time for a new video game forum. Especially since this place is called TGD.
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Post by Grek »

I don't know if you've noticed, but people go ahead and post about video games in IMHO despite it not actually having the words "video game" anywhere in the name. Seriously, go hog wild with your video games there.
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th »

I second the motion for a vidjya game forum.
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Post by Cynic »

I"m curious what all the different topics would be? So far, we have Video Games & Pokemon as far as I know.
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Post by Maj »

I think, Cynic, that the point would be separating the Video Game thread into several representing the many games in that thread.

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And even though I'm seriously not a video gamer, I support y'all.
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Post by Vebyast »

I'd be interested in seeing TTRPG analyses expanded to CRPGs. There's a little bit of this in IMOI already; might be useful to give it its own spot. This is balanced by the risk that it'd turn into r/gaming or something. Worth a test run, at least, if it's possible to kill it with fire it if it turns out bad.
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Y'all enjoy!

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Post by Grek »

Should probably move the Dominions 3 thread over there too.
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Post by Darth Rabbitt »

Also, the POKEYMANS thread is still in MPSIMS.
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Post by fbmf »

Links, please.

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