finally, textures
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[Me, day one of my job as monetization specialist at ZA/UM] For 2000 v-bucks you can smooch kim
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new scientific breakthrough promises to make gamefaqs user experience even worse
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and when we close enough
itâs the overstock of TLOU part.2
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fandom completely cornering the fan wiki market with their terribly designed pages was bad enough i am terrified that gamefaqs might go the route of an imdb or other useful service post acquisition
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honestly more worried about giant bomb, which is the most reliable database of games that also has screenshots labeled by which platform theyâre on.
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Hoping Gamefaqs guides are preserved forever.
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GB and Gamespot (plus some others?) were bought from CNet by Redventures for $500m and this deal is worth $50m, so clearly some money man fucked up.
Itâs just so hard to make money using video and editorial content, it seems. Part of me feels like GB could be self-sufficient on subscribers, I think the model it had pre-pandemic worked really well. I felt like I was getting my moneyâs worth with Unprofessional Fridays and other video features. That sorta evaporated a long time ago. Everyone from Ye Old Crew seems to have their own success, but I canât help but miss the old days. Nothing really replicates that except for WayneRadioTV related streams and Jerma stuff.
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I guess it was inevitable for the web to eat itself like this, but itâs dismaying to see it happen so quickly
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See also, this HN comment from the founder of Giant Bomb:
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honestly i havenât looked at any kind of gamefaq for about a decade, but iâm not playing all that much that a youtube or several doesnât cover entirely adequately 
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itâs liike webcomics becoming not very fun anymore after hiveworks became acendant all over again
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The three best things I ever saw on GameFAQs back when I visited that site were:
- A funny R-Type Delta review that unfortunately got taken down.
- A Super Metroid guide thatâs fully justified with a monospace font.
- A Silent Hill 1 plot analysis that showed me how much I hadnât picked up on.
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itâs more about preserving all of those ascii guides for posterity than their specific utility but the good news is the files are very small and easy to scrape
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i use gamefaqs every time i play a game still cuz finding what i need in text is always easier and faster than finding what i need in a video. got a tab open for super paper mario rn!
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yeah iâm sometimes amazed by the fact that GameFAQs is still the best source for stuff, but also, i really shouldnât be, right? like the entire web has only spiraled downwards since then in terms of quality, lol
IGN does have some pretty good walkthroughs, though, but i kind of figure theyâre ripped from other places so idk
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Speaking of this, if you can figure out how to use gopher, check out my gamefaqs archive at gopher://gopher.endangeredsoft.org. Probably the easiest way to get to it via the web is the gopher proxy at Public Gopher Proxy @ Floodgap.com: Access Gopher Sites from Your Browser.
This project was motivated by gamefaqs.com wrapping their plain text faqs in gobs of html and making them inconvenient to download. Iâm still missing a lot of content though. Despite being scrape-able, the way the site is organized makes it time consuming and I had to write some custom code to remove all that html.
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