# Welcome to the Game Room! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 21, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499 "2008-02-21T03:10:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/21 "2008-02-21T04:34:56Z")
So us sports scholars who study VORP, tempo-adjusted offense, and YPPA have to share a room with these smelly nerds pretending to be ninjas? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/22 "2008-02-21T04:49:40Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane] So us sports scholars who study VORP, tempo-adjusted offense, and YPPA have to share a room with these smelly nerds pretending to be ninjas? [/QUOTE] Careful, as someone that bridges the gulf, I would like to appraise you of the simple fact that our one and only Game Room moderator is **fluiddruid** who it is safe to assume is a “Gamer”. Jim 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/23 "2008-02-21T04:50:46Z")
Yeah! And I’m not a ninja, I’m a half-elven paladin. _makes lightsaber noises_ ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/24 "2008-02-21T04:56:49Z")
Great new forum… but “The Game Room”? Couldn’t think up anything better than that? How about “The Sports Bar (and nerd dungeon)” ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/25 "2008-02-21T05:01:28Z")
In all seriousness, I definitely don’t want sports fans to feel unwelcome. I’m not married to the name, but I felt it was a good balance (The Game Room can refer to “the big game” as well). ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/26 "2008-02-21T05:01:47Z")
I like the name, and I’ve even come around to liking the forum. (It was Trivial Feud that did it to me.) Good on you, modes. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/27 "2008-02-21T05:07:43Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] In all seriousness, I definitely don’t want sports fans to feel unwelcome. I’m not married to the name, but I felt it was a good balance (The Game Room can refer to “the big game” as well). [/QUOTE] Well, to be truthful, as one of the louder nags for this forum to happen, I was hoping that the word Sports would actually be in the Forum name. I think \*\*Frank \*\* and I have both referred to the hoped for new forum as the Sports and Games forum in fact. I note that it is easy enough to see in the description however and I don’t think it will prevent usage of the new forum for Sports. I know several if not most of us Sports fans have felt like lost souls occasionally over the years trying to find the place to start our threads. It is nice to have a home. The place needs a few pool tables, dart boards, a good bartender, lots of TVs and of course a couple of backrooms for the poker games and the D&D games. 😉 Jim ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/28 "2008-02-21T05:08:04Z")
Can/should you move the [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=450013) from our weekly poker game here? The Risk thread in CS? :smack: They are already here. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/29 "2008-02-21T05:58:09Z")
How about The Rumpus Room? A little more creative and doesn’t really give any more significance to the game aspect of the forum over sports. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/30 "2008-02-21T06:20:54Z")
Might the front page blurb description need a little clarification to make explicit that this place is also for PLAYING games, not just talking about them? Or is it assumed by enough folks? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/31 "2008-02-21T06:35:35Z")
What about sports? ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/32 "2008-02-21T07:01:10Z")
I like it. And it’s kinda nice to shake this place up a bit every now and then. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/33 "2008-02-21T08:14:29Z")
Okay, I have a question, what are everyone’s thoughts on “post-padding” types of games? For example “[Call me ThreadKiller™!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=430906)”. I know from the outside looking in these types of threads look uselessly competetive, but in their defense that was actually one of the most fun threads I have ever taken part of on this message board. It’s funny, it grew and took off in it’s own wild directions, for three pages of that monster I think we were all Western themed. Another example I’ll use is over that Opal’s Fathom Forum, “[The longest thread in message board history](http://fff.fathom.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20411)” is up to ninety pages, with 3569 posts. That one, also, is a very fun thread. It’s just anything you’d like. Fun links, haikus, stories, or fun facts (what day is it?). I’m sure that we won’t be getting any threads that long here, but with the smaller population over at FFF it’s also a fun sort of time-machine. Meaning that for over two years now you can go back and take a look at who’s posted, who hanging around at that time, who comes and goes in spurts, lots of cool stuff. I know we got the MMP for MPSIMS, which has been said by some to be “legitimized post-count padding”. Why not get our own sort of version over here? But rather than sort of a temporary community journal of what’s going on in life that week, it could be a more “gamey” style thread. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/34 "2008-02-21T09:01:48Z")
And for real style points, a triple post. Sorry, I keep brain-storming. When I say “post-padding threads”, please understand that my intention isn’t to start a thread for the purpose of padding your post count, that’s just the reason given for closing these types of threads. The purpose would be to just have fun, chit-chat, and post things that may not fit in any other thread, but alone don’t merit starting a new one. Think of it as one weekly thread that is a collection of all [these ones](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=450882). And we wouldn’t start a new one every Monday, no no, the start of the work week ain’t no fun. We’ll start ours every Friday, call it a TGIF thread! No, actually that’s a little boring, oh well, we’ll figure out a fun name for it. Eh, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/35 "2008-02-21T12:54:35Z")
Great idea. I think it should be called the Geek Squad. And I think there should be a **Jane Austen Forum** complete with **Knitting** , because, yanno, there are at least 4 of us that would be there alot. SRSLY, great idea. I probably will never visit this department again unless I need a five letter word for scrabble that begins with a Q. ---
**Author:** ![CatInASuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3be4f8/32.png) [@CatInASuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInASuit)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/36 "2008-02-21T13:01:31Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] I probably will never visit this department again unless I need a five letter word for scrabble that begins with a Q. [/QUOTE] Queue Or did you want this in a different thread?? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/37 "2008-02-21T13:20:00Z")
Well, I’ll be all for making the sports fans feel welcome if it means I don’t have to wonder if a certain pit thread is about sports or not, not knowing the last names of each and every player and coach in history, but I feel it won’t prevent that. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/38 "2008-02-21T13:28:24Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] And I think there should be a **Jane Austen Forum** complete with **Knitting** , because, yanno, there are at least 4 of us that would be there alot. [/QUOTE] Someone is a little [bitter](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=440541) aren’t they? SRSLY 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wolfstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/39 "2008-02-21T13:45:52Z")
[QUOTE=CatInASuit] Queue Or did you want this in a different thread?? 😉 [/QUOTE] Quest, Quart, Quell, Quark, Quint, Quail, Quran, Quite, Quirk… ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/40 "2008-02-21T13:46:19Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] The place needs a few pool tables, dart boards, a good bartender, lots of TVs and of course a couple of backrooms for the poker games and the D&D games. 😉 [/QUOTE] We need to install the wood panelling first. It’s traditional. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499.md?page=3)