Posted: Saturday, September 19th 2009

For the longest time I claimed that GU was "for gamers, by gamers". And where other places have claimed that tagline since, I honestly thought that was what I was doing with GU not just slapping it on my site in an effort to convince myself. Now I know I was wrong. Some of you are going to disagree with me here. Those of you that know the levels to which I am willing to go to make sure gamers are represented via this site will be key among that group. But, here's where I'm coming from:

Even though I've been trying to get myself back to doing in-game comics rather than washing you with gaming news, I still read a LOT of gaming news. But I can't read the comments left by people on gaming news sites anymore. If those are the voices of "gamers", I don't want to represent them. The more I read the more I realize they're attention whoring dumbasses being negative for the sake of being negative. It's almost like they revel in the stupidity they're able to conjure up.

So no. I don't represent gamers. I represent a very specific sub-sect of people that play games. I represent the ones that actually love games. Now I don't know what to call those folks. They ARE gamers. But to lump them into a group with the dumbasses, I think, would be a complete disservice to what exactly they are. Unfortunately "for aficionados, by aficionados" just doesn't say "gamer". And "for people who love games, by people who love games" is just too damn long.

So I'm stuck. What are we? Sure the GU forums frustrate me at times, but I would take the folks on the GU forums over the folks anywhere else, without hesitation, every time.

Submitted by Woody | 15 Comments - last comment by: GrandMasterJR