# Resolved: The Game Room has been an unqualified success **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 17, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042 "2012-03-17T12:22:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/1 "2012-03-17T12:22:36Z")
When it first debuted, the posting volume was pretty low and some were thus skeptical of its utility/usefulness, but that has slowly picked up, and now the number of active threads that I see in it equals or exceeds that of the other forums. We have Board games, sports, video game discussions, chess threads, the works. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/2 "2012-03-17T14:32:23Z")
I don’t disagree and it has worked well. However, I think it has dragged a lot of posts from other forums such as Cafe Society. All in all a good idea though. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2012, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/3 "2012-03-17T14:59:22Z")
I think it’s a fantastic success. It allows for things like all the Feud threads and Mafia threads and whatnot, which work out fine in the Game Room but would probably become annoying if they were stuck in MPSIMS or Cafe Society or wherever. (For that matter, Cafe Society was a welcome and IMO needed addition to the forum list too.) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/4 "2012-03-18T04:15:04Z")
I wasn’t sure we needed it at the time, but yes, it’s been very successful and it was a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/5 "2012-03-19T08:56:51Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > It allows for things like all the Feud threads and Mafia threads […] Too bad those have been so absent of late. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/6 "2012-03-19T20:21:24Z")
I’d prefer to see sports-related threads relegated to their own ghetto where I won’t ever have to see them, but I realize I’m pissing into the wind on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/7 "2012-03-19T20:50:08Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’d prefer to see sports-related threads relegated to their own ghetto where I won’t ever have to see them, but I realize I’m pissing into the wind on that one. If anything would be segregated, it’s the game threads like Mafia, Feud, etc. Sports, video games, and board games are all topics about stuff. Those are games you play on the board. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/8 "2012-03-20T16:20:13Z")
I liked it at first, but rarely go there anymore. I understand why it’s not segmented into ‘doper games to play’ ‘sports talk’ and ‘general game talk’ (or even further to ‘video game discussions’), yet the cluttered mix of topics makes for an uninteresting forum (for me). I think my complete lack of awareness of sports exacerbates the situation–it can be hard to tell what a thread is about from an otherwise obvious title. Their inclusion (and the multiple-per-game mafia and omnipresent feud threads) makes looking for something to read somewhat tedious. Not complaining about the forum, and similar to leaving the silly Boo! forum visible it doesn’t tax me to bypass it. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/9 "2012-03-20T16:51:11Z")
Agreed. The forum only interests me during baseball season, but it is a good place to keep all the game threads and the like so they don’t clutter up the other forums. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/10 "2012-03-20T17:46:48Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Not complaining about the forum, and similar to leaving the silly Boo! forum visible it doesn’t tax me to bypass it. What silly Boo! forum? You must be hallucinating. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/11 "2012-03-20T18:58:47Z")
On the subject of forum management I find useful counsel in the words of that great philosopher Ricky Nelson: _You can’t please everyone so you got to please yourself._ Yoko brought her walrus. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/12 "2012-03-20T19:07:48Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t disagree and it has worked well. However, I think it has dragged a lot of posts from other forums such as Cafe Society. Which was part of the point. Game threads were cluttering up other fora (MPSIMS especially, but also CS and others), and so we made a new forum for them to de-clutter those others. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/13 "2012-03-23T23:07:36Z")
Yeah, I really don’t like how video games go there instead of cafe. I could see games like Madden or generic shooter with no story #36 but stuff with stories like RPGs or artistic merit like I dunno Braid or whatever, yeah, that makes perfect sense to talk about on the same board as “who’s the best pitcher on the Bumblefuck Nonecks?” rather than the same board as all the other stories and artistic things are talked about.:rolleyes: I’m probably coming off angrier than I intend, I’m not angry or anything, I just think the game room fits like a bunch of pieces from different jigsaw puzzles forced together, perhaps with scissors. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/14 "2012-03-24T00:14:46Z")
It has been indispensable to me, as I could never have made it to level 85 in Warcraft without my friends in that section of the board. They were extremely patient with teaching me the strategy and what equipment I needed as a Warrior. Many of them have moved on, but I will always be grateful because the game really does help with my cognitive memory function. Thanks, y’all! 🙂 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/15 "2012-03-24T01:14:16Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > I just think the game room fits like a bunch of pieces from different jigsaw puzzles forced together, perhaps with scissors. 😛 Sounds like a fun game! ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/16 "2012-03-24T01:22:27Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > On the subject of forum management I find useful counsel in the words of that great philosopher Ricky Nelson: _You can’t please everyone so you got to please yourself._ > > Yoko brought her walrus. Minor nitty: I believe he was known as “Rick” by that time, Dear, but yes, I LOVE “Garden Party”! For you: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fxdiraVxwkI/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGDIgPih_MA8=&rs=AOn4CLALoAThknGj78Wulmzeus9Op0KuzA "Rick Nelson Garden Party 1985") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxdiraVxwkI) Your pal, Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2012, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/17 "2012-03-24T11:03:31Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Yoko brought her walrus. I thought the walrus was Paul. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/18 "2012-04-06T22:38:58Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Which was part of the point. Game threads were cluttering up other fora (MPSIMS especially, but also CS and others), and so we made a new forum for them to de-clutter those others. Yes, the Game Room has removed many unsightly and unpleasant gamer threads from my awareness. Kudos! IMO the Celebrity Death Pool is more art than game. and should be in CS. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/19 "2012-04-06T23:54:25Z")
Yes, it was a triumph. I’m making a note here: Huge success. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042/20 "2012-04-07T00:17:31Z")
I like the forum a lot (even if I do read far more than I post in there). But, like many others, I find the odd mixture of sports (which I’m not interested in, and even if I was, I’d still have little to contribute for geographic reasons), board games (meaningful numbers of people play things besides Monopoly, Cluedo, Trivial Pursuit, Chess, and Risk/Axis & Allies? I did not know that), social games (another surprisingly popular thing) and video games (guess what my interest is?) to be incongruous and jarring at the same time. Sports, in particular, really don’t belong in the same forum as “video games”- but the current situation is definitely an improvement over having everything in CS. I agree with the person who said there’s a solid argument for having some of the more significant RPG or “worthy” games series (_Fallout, Mass Effect, Skyrim_ et al) in CS, but I also realise there’s going to be epic fights over what constitutes a significant or worthy game and what’s Generic Shooter 2012: #36. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-game-room-has-been-an-unqualified-success/616042.md?page=2)