# 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:** 3
**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, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/41 "2008-02-21T13:52:33Z")
[QUOTE=Trion] We need to install the wood panelling first. It’s traditional. [/QUOTE] :smack: Of course, how could I forget that? By the way, can we buy dank? We need a little dank in some of the back rooms or it won’t feel right. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/42 "2008-02-21T14:24:40Z")
Love the new forum! Wish I had a wordplay thread ready for it, but I don’t… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/43 "2008-02-21T14:35:09Z")
Wow! Everything’s so shinny and new. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/44 "2008-02-21T14:38:21Z")
(I am just so darn pleased I noticed the new forum on the first day. I am pretty oblivious sometimes.) ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/45 "2008-02-21T15:05:51Z")
It’s all fun and games until someone posts about putting their eye out! ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/46 "2008-02-21T15:09:01Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] … Mafia scum … [/QUOTE] Hi, nice new forum you got here. Really nice. Pretty. Shiny and new. For something this fancy, you should seriously consider purchasing some “insurance”. Just in case, you know? You wouldn’t want anything to … happen to it, capice? 🆒 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/47 "2008-02-21T15:20:32Z")
Do we still need to ask permission to start new games of something? ---
**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, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/48 "2008-02-21T15:24:15Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Do we still need to ask permission to start new games of something? [/QUOTE] (That’s sorta what I’m doing) ---
**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, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/49 "2008-02-21T15:24:25Z")
Right now, no. We’ll have a free-for-all and see how that goes (as long as it is allowed by the rules generally, of course. If it’s necessary, we’ll clamp down later, but I see no reason to keep things wide open for now. ---
**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, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/50 "2008-02-21T15:28:09Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] 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. [/QUOTE] It’s been awhile since we originally kicked around the idea, so I hadn’t remembered we’d kicked around that name. My only beef with it is the unfortunate acronym of SAG - I much prefer TGR. In any case, I suppose we can feel out the new forum and if change is needed, we’ll make changes. Sadly, on short notice, I couldn’t think of anything terribly witty. ---
**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, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/51 "2008-02-21T15:47:11Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] It’s been awhile since we originally kicked around the idea, so I hadn’t remembered we’d kicked around that name. My only beef with it is the unfortunate acronym of SAG - I much prefer TGR. In any case, I suppose we can feel out the new forum and if change is needed, we’ll make changes. Sadly, on short notice, I couldn’t think of anything terribly witty. [/QUOTE] Well, we could come up with, I dunno, maybe a game to name the forum. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/52 "2008-02-21T16:37:08Z")
Just here to express my glee over finally having a home for sports. I think I’ll wait until next Thursday to start the “First Annual Los Angeles Dodgers March To The World Series” thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/53 "2008-02-21T16:46:55Z")
These days, I generally just click on SDMB-UCP to check my subscribed threads. Then I click on “New Posts” to see what people are talking about. This new forum isn’t going to affect what I see, unless I go back to checking each forum separately, which I only do occasionally in CS. I guess this will clean up CS a bit, although I didn’t mind seeing game and sports threads there. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/54 "2008-02-21T16:53:37Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] It’s been awhile since we originally kicked around the idea, so I hadn’t remembered we’d kicked around that name. My only beef with it is the unfortunate acronym of SAG - I much prefer TGR. In any case, I suppose we can feel out the new forum and if change is needed, we’ll make changes. Sadly, on short notice, I couldn’t think of anything terribly witty. [/QUOTE] You might have second thoughts when folks start pronouncing TGR “tugger”. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/55 "2008-02-21T19:40:04Z")
Woo! I approve. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/56 "2008-02-21T19:52:12Z")
Atari lives _here_! Live in your world. Play in ours. Are you game? I’m going to be in The Game Room all night!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/57 "2008-02-21T19:55:29Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] I see no reason to keep things wide open for now. [/QUOTE] Freudian slip? 😉 Seriously, as one who both enjoys participating in game threads and gets sick of certain posters’ attempts to crap in same, I applaud this new “room”. It’ll generally replace MPSIMS as the first forum I visit whenever I log into the **SDMB**. ---
**Author:** ![Stringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Stringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringer)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/58 "2008-02-21T19:56:30Z")
Long overdue, love it though. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/59 "2008-02-21T20:05:08Z")
New forum! I can hardly sausgage contain my window exitement. Formula wee. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/60 "2008-02-21T20:28:29Z")
[QUOTE=BJMoose] You might have second thoughts when folks start pronouncing TGR “tugger”. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Which is only appropriate, considering the wankers who will be posting here! 😃 (A quick check shows that 10 of my last 15 posts have been here. I rest my case.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499.md?page=4)