Forums Get in on the Ground Floor and Grow With Us

So the forums are finally ready to go and are as fresh as the driven arctic snow, just waiting to be trod upon by the first few brave explorers.

I think I speak for the other contributors to this site in admitting that we are each individually have been members of several boards in our lifetimes. BUT NEVER BEFORE has any of us had the opportunity to get in on the ground floor and really muck around in it.

The board has the basics, but with a twist that I particularly enjoy.

The board allows general discussion on games, movies, anime, booze and tech. And will soon have particular discussion on making fighting sticks, Street Fighter 4, Wild Turkey or anything else that seems to get everyone hyped up.

The Board also contains THUNDERDOME.

Having been a member of many boards, I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that if I see a fight break out in a thread I get a little pumped. BUT I am always depressed that there is never a definitive winner, and moreover, no way to separate the winners from the losers. SO these boards are implementing the "Mortal Verbal Kombat Forum"

the rules are simple
(1) Don't like somebody in a thread? Did someone besmirch the great work of Tommy Tallrico in the Earthworm Jim games that got you mad as a wet hen?


(2) Reply to the thread that you believe the offender is a "brigand" or an "Uncouth Fellow" and challenge them to Verbal (I guess typed is more appropriate) Kombat


(3) The poster accepts your challenge by replying "have at you"


(4) An Admin/Mod Must approve of the fight by posting his official blessing


(5) The two fighters enter Thunderdome and start a new thread in the "Mortal Verbal Kombat Forum" with their names and the date as the title.


(6) TWO DAYS of Slobberknockin fussin and a fightin (generally anything legal is allowed) post videos pictures nasty phrases and witty comments about your opponent.


(7) The winner is decided via lil Kim in You got served, and the scoring is "Straight HOOD" with the other members voting for the winner in a poll.


(8) SHAKE HANDS AND SIT DOWN. After the fight is over and the winner decided all claims are considered settled. No reprisals against the winner, no kicking the loser when he is down.


(9) To the winner goes the spoils. The winner is granted by the admins the ability to edit his subtitle with his win record in fights and any manly moniker he chooses.


The other vital element of Thunderdome is my personal favorite portion of the entire board. I can't even count how many times I have been browsing a thread when some ass hat claims that the competition on the internet is terrible that he "dominates anyone he plays" and that he and is "clan" are ranked worldwide or that he or she engages in Major League Gaming. My response to any of these common statements is a blend between sadness and amusement.

At Turbo Button we ask that you don't overwhelm us with difficult to prove and frankly hilarious credentials, but instead actually prove yourself. If any poster becomes incensed by another posters braggadocio he may post "demanding satisfaction" from the offending poster. The braggart will be forced t o back his stuff up by replying "en garde". AGAIN the fight must be approved of by the Admins by their posting of approval in the thread.

The two combatants then move their fight to the thread in the "Get on the Sticks" forum, with their names and the game being played as the title of the thread. Then get on Live or the PSN and make it do what it do. Winners and loser must report back with the honor code. Again to the winner goes the spoils, and they will be granted a special moniker and a ticker of their wins as a testament to their prowess and their inherent warning not to be "fucked with" Videos of the actual game play would be awesome if at all possible.


SO that’s that.


I really think this could be fun, get in their start posting. God knows the three of us will be in their posting like idiots to get everyone into it. It should be a good time.


Grow with us....

(I was actually looking for "She's a Virgin by the Awful Band Typical Hawaiian" For this clip, which would have really changed the tenor of my invitation to the forums from a friendly consensual thing to weird sexual innuendo with new members taking our board's virginity.