9. GameFAQS in Space Skeleton FROM SPACE

WARNING - this entry contains examples of sheer dumbfuckery. For your own safety and sanity, please do NOT visit the accursed website mentioned below. Reader discretion is advised.

So! Let’s talk about GameFAQS and how it is a haven for maniacs, wankers, shitheads, douchebags, racists, homophobes, and misogynists! Oh, and people who like to discuss video-games, but there aren’t many of those dudes.

I cannot stress this enough, you will get some sort of disease from this entry, I won’t hold it against you if you decide to stop here.

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Still with us? Okay, let’s dive in. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

GameFAQS has the distinction of being moderated by complete fuckwits. They’ll ban people who say things they don’t like whilst letting known trolls, racists and xenophobes post. Sure, they have some level of cognizence, but their intelligence is somewhat rudimentary at best. Still, even they know that racial/homophobic slurs are, in layman’s terms, bad, but many f the more prevalent trolls tend to find ways around it. Just visit the politics board for your out-there batshit insane, dyed in the wool racist. Yes, there’s a politics board on GameFAQS, the videogame discussion website. Not that it matters - since the inclusion of the very-well-thought out Community tag, you can now discuss whatever you want in any board.

This brings me swiftly yet reluctantly to the PS4 board.

This here is the top topic on the PS4 board. The board for discussion about the PS4. The gaming device the PS4.

Now, what exactly does Trump’s “immenent” impeachment have anything to do with the PS4? Unless he’s being sent the subpeona via PSN, of course. The answer, dear readers, is that it has nothing to do with the PS4, but the people over at the PS4 board are, in a word, idiots. Let’s take a closer look.

These are all pretty promising. Generally speaking you’re going to want to look at a topic with many pages of replies. Let’s have a gander at the Star Wars topic down the bottom there. Star Wars is guaranteed to bring out the nutjobs.

TLJ was “an atrocity”. Forget the Khmer Rouge, Rian Johnson made a space movie!

Where the fuck do I begin with this one. Hey, guys, this movie sucks! So you should boycott it by pirating it and watch this movie that sucks! That’ll show ‘em!”

AND WE’RE OFF! Three pages in before the misogyny starts! (Edited for spoilers)

Reminder: “SJW” means “has a non-male/non-straight/non-whitecharacter in it”

LOL people still say things like this unironically

The only sensible thing said in this entire topic so far. The underlined bit, not the rest of that nonsense.

I hate that I understand what he means by this.

The next several pages are full of people having a discussion about The Joker and which movies are better than it, which is hilariously off topic for an already off-topic topic that was posted on the PS4 board, a board for discussion about the PlayStation 4 videogame console.

You see this a lot on GameFAQS, where people will post something so incredibly fucky that it gets deleted.

This, kids, is called “gatekeeping”. Don’t do it, you look like a twat.

Anyway, that’s GameFAQs. Surprisingly tame by their usual low standards, but I didn’t touch on the politics board (again, why is there a politics board on a videogame we - oh, forget it).

Fucking abysmal site and I can’t stop looking at it.