# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**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, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/61 "2008-02-21T20:35:41Z")
[QUOTE=Lobsang] New forum! I can hardly sausgage contain my window exitement. Formula wee. [/QUOTE] I have no idea what you just said but if this is what the game forum is all about, I’m kinda glad you got your own forum. No offense, but seriously. Is there some weird game-forum speak? ---
**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, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/62 "2008-02-21T20:37:38Z")
Absonoxly. Barabajackal rebate to you, too. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/63 "2008-02-21T20:39:28Z")
Awesome! Thanks for doing this. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/64 "2008-02-21T20:41:18Z")
Looks nice. I like what you’ve done with the place. If you could figure out a way to serve drinks in here, it’d be friggin’ perfect. ---
**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, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/65 "2008-02-21T21:33:20Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] I have no idea what you just said but if this is what the game forum is all about, I’m kinda glad you got your own forum. No offense, but seriously. Is there some weird game-forum speak? [/QUOTE] No it’s just excitement-induced turrets. (or I was trying to be funny) ---
**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 22, 2008, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/66 "2008-02-22T01:37:36Z")
You grow [turrets](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/B29_ventral_turret.jpg/800px-B29_ventral_turret.jpg) when you get excited? OK, but what does that have to do with throwing random words around? ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/67 "2008-02-22T08:03:50Z")
Perhaps now would be a good time for a policy regarding format wars, before they start crapping over every thread five posts in. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/68 "2008-02-22T21:02:14Z")
That’s one of the things I was thinking of regarding the threadshitting rule. It’s basically being a jerk - we don’t need a special rule for console wars. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/69 "2008-02-22T22:12:13Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] That’s one of the things I was thinking of regarding the threadshitting rule. It’s basically being a jerk - we don’t need a special rule for console wars. [/QUOTE] Pfft…sound like something an _X-Box_ user would say… ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/70 "2008-02-23T01:12:44Z")
We got fun ‘n’ games ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/71 "2008-02-24T21:11:49Z")
I like this place. The only suggestion I can think of is something like a walkthrough subforum for game walkthroughs and “let’s play” type threads with [img] tags on (just that forum, to make walkthroughs 40 times easier). And if RP gets too popular here a shard forum like “the Storyteller’s Hall” may be appropriate, though i don’t see enough yet to warrant that one. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/72 "2008-02-24T22:54:18Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] That’s one of the things I was thinking of regarding the threadshitting rule. It’s basically being a jerk - we don’t need a special rule for console wars. [/QUOTE] Especially because deep down inside we all know that Nintendo has already won. They were there at (near) the beginning, and they’ll be there at the bitter end. d&r ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/73 "2008-02-25T02:03:53Z")
So, any truth to the rumours that the real impetus behind this forum is to prevent an active(and I use that term lightly) Mafia game from ever slipping to page 3 again? 😉 ---
**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 25, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499/74 "2008-02-25T03:10:23Z")
I’m just waiting for someone to start a game of Six Degrees. Hint, hint. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-game-room/438499.md?page=3)