Poll of the Day > They called my Zuckerberg topic horny posting!!

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They removed my black Mark Zuckerberg pic. In the moderation they preemptively called AI induced black face as wrong. AI is just a reflection of ourselves. If GFaq mods had their way, theyd modded the world off the face of the universe.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'm going to be honest, some of those wikis are part of the reason why I haven't used a FAQ on this site in about 15 years.

Oh, absolutely. Wikis are just a better format for answering gaming questions than full guides/walkthroughs: It's easier to find the exact section you're looking for, it's more amenable to having multimedia resources (text explanations, screenshots, maps, data tables, videos), you're less likely to stumble across spoilers than if you have to scroll through a full guide to look for what you need, updates happen faster when anyone in a community can make small edits instead of waiting for a single author to finish and publish a whole guide (especially important in today's world of games getting regular updates, since that means wikis/guides need to update as well)... It's no mystery at all why wikis have mostly supplanted FAQs/guides and GameFAQs has stopped being the major gaming hub it once was. Wikis just work better in the majority of situations. Fandom's wikis in particular are often a little iffy in terms of overall quality, and are miserable formatting-wise because their ad practices are awful, but they're still a better option than GameFAQs guides.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

And all of this probably isn't helped by the fact that the younger generation generally just looks on Google (or uses Alexa/Siri/etc) to ask a specific question, then follows whatever the first link they find to the answer (I know my 20-something nephew does this), which generally just points them to wiki pages or YouTube videos. So even if the answers are here on GameFAQs, the target audience they're looking for is never going to find them, and never going to care.

I do a similar thing (usually not defaulting to the first result because that can be hit or miss, but usually not going past the first few), but I'd argue that that's mostly because I know there isn't a single, reliable hub that I can consult for all games. Because wiki creation is so inconsistent (some games have official ones, some have fandom ones, some have ones that fall under another umbrella like fextralife, some have totally independent unofficial ones, some have none), it's a bit of a crapshoot what information I'm going to be able to find for any new game I search for, so I can't just go to any one gaming site and expect to find answers (and not just because these different wikis all have their own domains). That means Google is effectively the site I go to knowing that it will have the information I need.

The thing is, that's not new. Even back in the late 90's, there were alternatives to GameFAQs that we'd find through Google, and I know I'd often check 4-5 different sites for the information I wanted. GameFAQs just managed to be the best one consistently enough that it beat them out, to the point that I stopped checking others even before they died off. It's still very possible for one site to offer the answers people need consistently enough that they stop Googling the game they're looking for and instead default to checking that site first. To become that site, though, GameFAQs needs to switch tacks to be more wiki-like (plus bolstering its community significantly to be able to sustain those wikis, plus going a whole lot more SEO to actually show up on people's radars).

Again, though, Fandom's already positioning itself as being *the* wiki community (entirely by buying out as many previously-independent wikis as possible, rather than building a community themselves, but that's beside the point). They're very unlikely to cannibalize all of those efforts by trying to promote GameFAQs as filling that role, especially given how hard it'll be to pump up the community numbers enough to sustain healthy wikis. For that matter, though, even wikis are kind of dying out as more and more gaming communities shift to having Discord servers and focusing activity and information there instead of any static website (a trend which I despise, but the clouds never seem to listen when I yell at them), so even a wiki-focused rebrand probably wouldn't take off.

A much stronger fact is that games are changing things, a guide doesn't work for a game that's being updated/patched.

unless it's a live service game of some sort, i feel like they wouldn't change much to fundamentally change whatever is being changed to where a guide wouldn't still work

That happened pre-patches as well in different grades.
The Hunt for Red October on Nes had two revisions, and the released Game Genie codes only worked on one revision.
The Untouchables on Nes had 3 revisions. On the third stage, you shoot alcohol bottles from a third person view, and you move around your character and the crosshair at the same time.
Every bottle shot is worth 4% and the crosshair can only be moved when the virtual character is not rolling somewhere else.
The third revision has every bottle shot worth 5% and allows the player to move the crosshair at all times. This makes things easier, but it also forces a different strategy.
Super Smash Bros Melee had so many regional nerfs so it is not even fun. In the Home-Run contest, you have to make a sandbag fly a specific distance to earn a trophy. You got 10 seconds to damage the sandbag, more damage means it will fly longer. The trick was to spam Yoshis down attack. This attack was nerfed in the PAL release so it was impossible to do it with Yoshi.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

unless it's a live service game of some sort, i feel like they wouldn't change much to fundamentally change whatever is being changed to where a guide wouldn't still work

Balance tweaks are pretty common, DLC or other content patches can add a bunch of stuff that changes things, sometimes there are major bugs that get fixed (like Xenoblade 3 has an option to cook meals at campsites to provide timed buffs, except at launch those meals did absolutely nothing and that wasn't fixed until a patch a couple months later - a guide at launch should caution people against wasting materials on meals, but post-patch that warning can be removed)... a guide will probably still be useful as a *guide* (as opposed to explicit step-by-step instructions), but having incorrect information in a guide is still annoying. As a format, wikis are more amenable to being updated as needed because anyone can do it instead of the guide author needing to come back to a game they might not even play anymore.

Foppe posted...

That happened pre-patches as well in different grades.

The big one I remember is the Swordless Link glitch in OoT. In version 1.0 of the game, you could activate the glitch (and all the shenanigans it entailed) simply by saving and quitting after the Master Sword is knocked out of your hand in the final boss fight. In versions 1.1 and 1.2, though, that no longer worked because you'd load up with the Master Sword equipped again. Other ways to activate it were later figured out, but they were much more complicated and involved some bottle shenanigans (if memory serves).

Donkey Kong Country had a dropping platform that dropped instantly in 1.0.
In later versions it took longer before it dropped.
And the PAL released messed up the minecarts physics so you had to be more precise.

I feel naive for being surprised how many people on GFaqs are up-in-arms about the demise of hornyposting. Porn is readily available all over the web, and plenty of sites off image boards much more suited for "hornyposting" than GFaqs could ever be.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

I feel naive for being surprised how many people on GFaqs are up-in-arms about the demise of hornyposting. Porn is readily available all over the web, and plenty of sites off image boards much more suited for "hornyposting" than GFaqs could ever be.

TCs thread was a joke, not hornyposting.

Bonk

Foppe posted...

TCs thread was a joke, not hornyposting.

yeah

it was just pointing out how he looks like a regular human when he has facial hair as opposed to his usual waxy mannequin look

unfortunately, it was just an edited image of him

https://www.today.com/popculture/mark-zuckerberg-photoshopped-beard-rcna148770

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

I feel naive for being surprised how many people on GFaqs are up-in-arms about the demise of hornyposting. Porn is readily available all over the web, and plenty of sites off image boards much more suited for "hornyposting" than GFaqs could ever be.

I only hate that they don't want to clarify. Between that and what I know can be posted on Fandom (I've seen user uploaded content I wouldn't dare post here in the first place), we shouldn't be seeing the hits we have been. But without details, knowing what is allows is impossible

DeltaBladeX posted...

I only hate that they don't want to clarify. Between that and what I know can be posted on Fandom (I've seen user uploaded content I wouldn't dare post here in the first place), we shouldn't be seeing the hits we have been. But without details, knowing what is allows is impossible

Never give up!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/722e711d.jpg

Good. How is this website supposed to attract new users if it's going to traffic in smut?