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Hey, everyone! I have some big announcements to make today. First of all, we just hit another impressive milestone—15,000 members! I want to give a shout out to all of you who have become a part of the VGR family, especially our frequent contributors. Together, you have made this one of the friendliest and most engaging forums around. Next, I want to welcome @The Blackangel as our second moderator (and thanks again, @Techno, for recommending we get one)! The Blackangel has been with us for more than three years now. During all of that time, I can’t even remember a week where she wasn’t active and involved. We can always count on The Blackangel for detailed, insightful replies to members’ threads—plus she is one of our classic gaming experts. Moreover, her passion for this forum shines through in everything she does, and I know she is going to bring that enthusiasm to her work as a moderator every day. Congratulations, The Blackangel! The Blackangel joins @Shagger, who became our first moderator in August 2020. Like The Blackangel, Shagger has specialized in engaging, in-depth discussion. Since becoming a moderator, he has done an incredible job keeping topics organized, quickly defusing potential conflicts, and keeping everything running smoothly for our community. Thank you so much for all of your ongoing hard work, Shagger! I just know you and The Blackangel are going to do amazing things together. Both our 15,000 member milestone and our second moderator are signs of how much VGR forum has grown over the course of 2021. Thank you all again for the role you have played in making this community the welcoming haven for gamers that it is, and for all you will do to make VGR continue to grow and flourish as we head into 2022.

Congratulations to you @The Blackangel. I knew spot on that you were going to be the likely selected member. More grease to your elbow @DC.. Good job!!

Congratulations @The Blackangel! That is cool indeed. Both you and @Shagger would make a great moderating team. We just got over a hundred new members cause I know I checked a couple days ago. So for those feeling the water, jump on in!

Congrats, here's to 20k and 25k!

Maybe this is appropriate for the leaker: LOL!

One of the biggest concerns for FFXIV players is the often long-winding process of completing Main Scenario Quests, or MSQ for short. FFXIV's story is a delight to experience, but the trouble with the game's MSQ is that it involves a plethora of sequential quests that must be completed in a linear fashion. This means you can't take on another part of MSQ without finishing pre-requisite quests firsts. This has been a point of frustration for newer players because some may just want to get into the action of FFXIV without going through a tedious questline; in which case, they may be setting themselves up for disappointment because FFXIV deals with its story a lot. Part of the FFXIV grand experience is its rich story and events. While players may use an FFXIV mount to get from point A to point B, main quests will still require you as a player to defeat mobs of enemies or bosses at key parts of it. Alternatively, players may choose to get an FFXIV account that has already completed the story so they can just choose to do the Bahamut Coil raids — the Bahamut Coil represents the biggest challenge in the game and is an absolute blast to experience and a worthy obstacle to finish, and not everyone gets to finish it. What do you think of the game's MSQ so far? Will Endwalker do a good job of tidying things up for it?

One of the biggest concerns for FFXIV players is the often long-winding process of completing Main Scenario Quests, or MSQ for short. FFXIV's story is a delight to experience, but the trouble with the game's MSQ is that it involves a plethora of sequential quests that must be completed in a linear fashion. This means you can't take on another part of MSQ without finishing pre-requisite quests firsts. This has been a point of frustration for newer players because some may just want to get into the action of FFXIV without going through a tedious questline; in which case, they may be setting themselves up for disappointment because FFXIV deals with its story a lot. Part of the FFXIV grand experience is its rich story and events. While players may use an FFXIV mount to get from point A to point B, main quests will still require you as a player to defeat mobs of enemies or bosses at key parts of it. Alternatively, players may choose to get an FFXIV account that has already completed the story so they can just choose to do the Bahamut Coil raids — the Bahamut Coil represents the biggest challenge in the game and is an absolute blast to experience and a worthy obstacle to finish, and not everyone gets to finish it. What do you think of the game's MSQ so far? Will Endwalker do a good job of tidying things up for it?

One of the biggest concerns for FFXIV players is the often long-winding process of completing Main Scenario Quests, or MSQ for short. FFXIV's story is a delight to experience, but the trouble with the game's MSQ is that it involves a plethora of sequential quests that must be completed in a linear fashion. This means you can't take on another part of MSQ without finishing pre-requisite quests firsts. This has been a point of frustration for newer players because some may just want to get into the action of FFXIV without going through a tedious questline; in which case, they may be setting themselves up for disappointment because FFXIV deals with its story a lot. Part of the FFXIV grand experience is its rich story and events. While players may use an FFXIV mount to get from point A to point B, main quests will still require you as a player to defeat mobs of enemies or bosses at key parts of it. Alternatively, players may choose to get an FFXIV account that has already completed the story so they can just choose to do the Bahamut Coil raids — the Bahamut Coil represents the biggest challenge in the game and is an absolute blast to experience and a worthy obstacle to finish, and not everyone gets to finish it. What do you think of the game's MSQ so far? Will Endwalker do a good job of tidying things up for it?

Here on Techno's Tales, I also like telling stories, this is one I was not apart of, but I have studied it. Many websites rise and fall some fall gracefully, others go with a bang, and some go into dark places. I will now talk about a forum which is still active, but has now become a shell of it's former self. Content Warning: Alleged Sexual Harassment and Censorship. Warning: Please do not go harass any person, website, or company apart of this story, all intentions are for education and entertainment. NeoGAF was started as a forum called "The Gaming-Age Forums", which was apart of a website called Gaming-Age. It eventually grew too big for it, after a few years with IGN it became NeoGAF. Many years went by, NeoGAF grew by the day. But on October 21, 2017 things took a dark turn, a film director named Ima Leupp told the community of Facebook that the forum's owner, Tyler "Evilore" Malka had approached her while she was showering without her consent. Following this, the forum erupted into chaos, half of the sites moderators quit, leaving the site in sheer chaos. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of accounts posted threads, trying to get banned. Soon, NeoGAF was offline, the plug had been pulled. But it was not for long, as afterwards, the plug was put back in, and NeoGAF had returned. But things had changed, scars left by this event can still be seen. The forum is bigger than ever, but at what cost? The cost, it seems, can be seem by the message at the top of the website that appeared afterwards, the one all shall see: "The Politics forum has been nuked. Please do not bring political discussion to the rest of the site, or you will be removed. Thanks." Maybe Evilore is gone, I do not know that, but what I can say is this: No more political discussion at NeoGAF, please. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoGAF https://www.vg247.com/the-story-of-neogaf-part-two-scandal-and-control https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-23-neogaf-offline-after-owner-accused-of-sexual-misconduct

Since I find some very interesting websites (the cleans ones, mind you) I wanted to talk about some of them. I had found this 90's website from a cult, >deleted< if I remember correctly, it's very interesting, but the cult is infamous for a >deleted< that happened, so keep that in mind. Here is the link to it: Note: The site is religious (Hope I don't get in trouble for this one) Another site I found was this really small forum site, The owner is nice and the site runs wells and is well moderated. I joined today, (note: I am not the owner nor a friend of the owner). It's a mix of entertainment in general. If you do check it out please don't cause trouble, especially because it has less than 50 members, and the owner is the only staff there. Link: https://thegoathouse.community Here is the last one I feel like talking about for now, so I was googleing weird sites and some site called ducks are the best came up. It's just a color board (eplictic warning: the colors change very fast, if you get seizures from that then avoid) that you draw duck emojis on. It's more of a meme site. Link: Well hope @DC doesn't get mad at me. If I messed up I am sorry. Moderator Edit: Links removed due to content. VGR does not endorse sites glorifying things such as cultist activities especially if they result in mass tragedies. We also can not allow links to sites that could cause massive health issues to members who may have undiagnosed conditions.

Why some games be left out in or with such upgrades? Please, I would like all of them to patched to VR once they have perfected it with no form of technical issues.

Currently filling out databases, my life has now turned into typing out numbers and posting them

I think Fall 2022 is a good timeframe for 20,000 members. I also think by then the forum will have over 200,000 posts, based on how we are currently growing. Very exciting!

My best bet would be in Summer 2022 to Early Fall 2022 for that, but by 2023 we should have reached it.

Exactly, that's something I'd expect to happen sooner than later with the way the community is growing so far.

It's not about how many games that you rushed and completed in a year but how many you really took time to explore very well and enjoy.

With my skin, it’s as if someone sprayed glue between me and whatever I’m sitting on. I have to have something between me and the actual material. During summer when it’s hot out, leather becomes a natural glue factory. It’s why my windows are cracked open a few inches all summer long. Even when it rains. Except with my Camaro. She parks in the garage. My baby gets special treatment. I know that makes me sound like a guy, but I’ve dreamed about this car for 35 years.

Well, you can actually use the community discussion as a therapy for fixing your rage. Talking about it really helps.

If you haven't purchased the Final Fantasy 7 Remake, you're definitely missing out on a great deal of fun that it comes with.

I don't really think it's going to be too expensive for gamers to purchase such games because they will still invest more in the games by paying for what they gamble with which they can lose.

Just created my first Techno Tales story, I will create more soon!

I don't care about what this "leaker" says. I've said it before and I'll say it again, untill there is an official announcement from 2K and/or Rockstar, this game does NOT exist. GTA6 is just a hashtag for asshole's desperate for clicks and any "leaks" are a total waste of time.

The fine-boys simply wants to be at the centre of attraction, and gain recommendations for spending more around video games, simply for bragging rights.

For me it's EA, Activision, 2K and a few others that really get on my nerves. Ubisoft is another, but I don't usually have issues with them. But they have done some shady stuff in recent years, so they're not off the hook here. But yeah, for me, it's mostly EA, Activision and 2K, or Take-Two since 2K is owned by them. Just so much bad things coming out about these companies. EA will never change, it's like they enjoy being hated. Activision still hasn't outed their CEO who knew about sexual assault allegations and did pretty much nothing to help.

They weren't on my list because I honestly had to do a google search to find the titles, which caused me to end up at wikipedia and they weren't even on the list. I just took the games that were listed there. I don't know anything about how many games have been released in the series or what their names are. I did think it weird that there wasn't a GTA II, but just assumed that one of them with a special title like Vise City or San Andreas came out between GTA and GTA3 and it was counted as GTA2.

Thanks for showing concern mate!! All is cool and I have checked out all the offers they had on the site which look very good.

It does. I can also sometimes see myself hanging out with these lets players, because they seem to be into the same stuff I am into. So yeah, I can see it being like that for sure. I get that. I kinda got tired of watching some lets players, but there are some that I still check out from time to time. I watch Game Grumps because they can be entertaining, and I also watch Funhaus from time to time. I sometimes watch my bro play, and he'll sometimes do the same if I play. But I mostly watch stuff through YouTube. Nice. I think RDR2 would be a fun game to watch others play. I've played my share of it, but I do like seeing others experience it sometimes as well. Yeah there's that too. Sometimes you can use it to learn how to get through a certain level or area.

When I am a novice via a particular game, that's when I'll simply gently sit closer to learn from experts, in order to balance how I'll play the game starting from the basics.

Probably will have to be the 80's here too because back then you could walk into any gas station and play arcade games. Plus, I was in Vegas so they had slot machines everywhere too, so everyone was gaming it seemed.

First off, a few little notes so I don't get in any sort of trouble. 1. I am not asking to be a moderator, I am merely giving my opinion on something. 2. Shagger has been a very good moderator, he is easily one of the most professional and chill moderators I've seen. This not not meant to be any sot of attack on him or his moderation. 3. I have not had any problems with anyone here. I am merely stating my personal opinion. This forum has been one of the most chilliest and kindest forums I have been one, but as the forum heads into 15k members I have realized something. We may have great moderation, but I think it would be best if we get a second moderator. I don't want DC and Shagger to be overwhelmed by spammers, raiders, or trolls. I think one more moderator would be very good for the forum. A second moderator would be able to help DC and Shagger when drama breaks out, and when there are raids. How should they be picked, well I think it should be up to DC for that, he owns the forum, he should get to choose. I wish you all a good day.

It was delayed back in August until sometime in 2022. They say it was because of the pandemic and how PC parts were hard to come by, which makes sense. You can read more on why at the link below. https://comicyears.com/gaming/intellivision-amico-delayed-again-to-2022/ On top of this though, I guess there's been some problems with this console and some people don't, like the controllers not working properly, phone connectivity was spotty and I hear there was other issues. As well, the games on the console are a bit lacking from what I have seen, just seems to be a cheap, overpriced console with mobile games. I'm not very hopeful for this project to be honest. I have a feeling it won't come out, of if it does, it will fail miserably.

This pic is really old, and only covers a fraction of my games. Especially since my library has grown since then, but this is how I display my games.

That's actually how it happened to my own sofa some year ago. I think that I still have the picture on my smartphone. Yeah, I do, just look at it!!