God that forum was terrible. Probably the worst place ive ever posted with by far the worst moderation

I had a good experience on the forum actually - I hung out almost exclusively on the punk and metal music forums and am still in touch with a few leftists from there today.

Granted, this was also like 2001-2002.

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The amount of work and detail put into the guides on that site is incredibly impressive. I wonder what fueled the people who wrote those guides, whether it was altruism or purely passion for the games, or maybe both? Those guides are still better than any video or professionally produced piece of media we get today.

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I always assumed it was college aged people writing these guides, not people 12-14 years old. I could never pull that off at that age. Did you get people coming to you for help often?

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The forum was bad, but the guides are still the gold standard. I fucking hate scrubbing through youtube videos or IGN articles that have tons of padding to find out what I’m supposed to do in a game, give me a text document PLEASE.

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100% love a searchable text where the table of contents has distinct character strings so you can hop around as fast as you need.

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There was a forum?? I used it for years and never noticed lol.

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