is this really the origin? i’ve caught myself saying this from time to time and it’s only because I’ve seen it in your profile
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Facker? I think you’re the fack poster around here!
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That’s the only place I’ve ever seen it! It’s a deviant art post that I didn’t link to but is easy to find
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the attitude advisor in civ 2
actually, all of the advisors in civ 2
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via a random wikipedia wormhole i found some article covering the indie game development scene in 1999 and the very first IGF in the short-lived Maxim-style edgelord pc gaming magazine PC Accelerator.
there’s a game named “Boobies” in here… for some reason. i guess it was a Worms-style strategy game? makes me think of the game “Baldies”
oh look, here’s some of their advice for indie game developers in 1999. i wonder what kind of helpful things they have to say… trigger warning
btw the game that won the very first IGF, Fire and Darkness, was never officially finished or released. as were a lot of other games nominated that particular year (i.e. Seed). the trend of very unfinished games winning awards and potentially never releasing at all was a trend that… would continue to the present. lmao. though i guess it’s a little better now than it used to be
the list of nominees from that year is here btw.
oh and in case you were wondering what the tone of PC Accelerator was outside this article, this should give you a good idea:
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they really just shouldnt let men talk about videogames. its time to silence them for good. i fucking swear to god
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i seem to recall PC Accelerator was notorious for being trashy and kinda shitty even at the time. i think PC Gamer US used to make fun of them and delighted in their demise (at least until people from that mag ended up working there. lmao). but like… there really isn’t that much difference between this and old issues of PC Gamer or EGM i used to read. other than they’re much more explicit. here’s an extremely typical ad from an issue of PC Gamer i used to own
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pc accelerator sounds like it might have been inspired by a lot of the ps1 magazines in the uk which were written by people who desperately wished they were writing for the “lad mags” that were popular in the 90s
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yeah i think PC Accelerator was a pretty blatant attempt to cash in on that whole trend. this was also during the window of time where Duke Nukem was a big deal and PC gaming in particular was trying to push that image of being The King Of The FPS. the prestige meathead PC FPS trend ala SiN didn’t actually last for very long though. well, at least the pre-military propaganda phase of it.
Making this my new sig on the other forum I post on (trainsim.com)
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please don’t… for the sake of other forumgoers there.
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Don’t worry, I wouldn’t do that
I learned my lesson after my RANK THE DENSHA DE GO MEGA-CUTIES thread got locked within minutes of posting 
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The very cute furry couple in this final mini game you unlock in WarioWare Gold
Learning about Nintendo’s pre-video game toys was honestly a pretty cool feature of that game
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The eggs in Adios.
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video games probably could be improved with more parker posey, though definitely not for the reasons stated in that article
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My brother accused me of “studying” puyo after learning one strat and destroying him at Puyo Puyo Tetris like… no…
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When you were partying, I studied the Puyo.
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