The GNamer Posts Appreciation Thread

The Snack Thread in Off Topic has been a source of delight over the years. Mr. Jimbob serves up another ace.

Oh, Drunka. Never change.

Cappa does a good in the If... thread, talking about inclusive gaming.

Zero blows us away with perhaps one of the best puns of all time. Credit to Drunka for the assist.

Writing about today's breakfast attempt reminded me of Drunka's paean to the hash brown. Melodious enough to make up entirely for originally forgetting the spud-based delights.

Good on Balla for his current sig.

The Balls Man wrote:

Currently programming (not really): an epic JRPG starring the bard of his generation. Sooth savage breasts, woo fair maidens, and save the universe in Serenade Chronicles 2.

The Balls Man wrote:

Sooth savage breasts, woo fair maidens

More of a Boobs Man wrote:

breasts

Yer intermittent man/fowl combo Nintenduck posted this utterly charming story of discovering games. A real heart-warmer.

@NintenDUCK wrote:

Still on the "people experiencing the switch" train, my younger cousin was round on Christmas and she was very keen to play on my switch. Her only other means of playing games is her wiiU and her phone. She was utterly inamored by SMO. I let her run around Metro kingdom and she seemed to get the hang of the basics of using cappy pretty quickly. But the big one for though was when I showed her Zelda, she'd never played a Zelda game nor even an open world sandbox do what you like type game. I showed her the basic controls which she brazenly ignored in favour for chasing a fox around most of Hyrule (I didn't bother explaining that it was a different fox and that they despawn), she eventually got one after her 100th or so shot and was utterly thrilled with herself. She also killed a pack of lizalfos which made her even happier. But then she killed a wolf and felt bad because it made that noise wolves make when they die.
Eventually she found herself in the coliseum and was attacked by the resident Lynel, which she thought looked weak so she shot it, simultaneously missing her mark and breaking the bow.
I then showed her how incredibly cool I am by killing the beast for her. And she was amazed. It was a pretty sweet thing seeing someone genuinely awestruck by what video games can achieve. Especially when that someone has only experienced Mario games and sausage run. I think I sold another switch for Nintendo, and I may have even made a fresh new Legend Of Zelda fan while I was at it.
Of course there are downsides: several broken Lynel bows, a savage Lynel crusher dropped into a lake and all my arrows and a substantial portion of my food shot and eaten respectively. But that's what the Load button is for - games really are clever.

Cappa's 2017 retrospective is beautifully written. Thanks, big man, and I am sorry for your loss.

A touching read that deserves to be in this thread instead of my stupid one. Here's to you, big man!

I get Drunka's post now.

A reminder that Muss can talk a lot of sense even in his shorter posts.

Treesmurf hits a top physics gag.

Also shoutout to the Balls Man for his arcane formatting knowledge

Heh, thanks. And yes, that was a top one from Smurfers there. Very clever.

I liked this post from Jay on the Smashing of Brothers.  Very close to my feelings about the series, but probably more eloquently put.

EDIT to avoid triple-posting: This post from Jimbob is a rarity in that it made me laugh out loud but is entirely innocent and adorable.

Aha, thanks!

Smash is something that I've evidently got a lot of passion for and I'm happy to gush about it anytime.

Cappa introduces us to what the N64 directory might, perhaps should, have been.

Yep, an absolute cracker of a post. I need to dig out my old PS1 magazines and see if there's anything similar going on there.

Did Jimbob make me laugh again?

Yes. Yes he did.

Jimbob SquareBants

I am sorry

Definitely my loudest laugh on the forum so far this year.

Andy's 'review' of Shenmue is the next GNamer post to make me laugh.

Pack it in lads, this is done.

Thanking you.

With the GNamer Awards coming up, here's a reminder that if you've got a 2018 post you want people to vote for (that you didn't pen), you should probably drop it here so that everybody else knows it exists.  Like this top Cappa pun that only really works in the context of Drunka's post two up.  Oh well.

Also, going back through old reviews, I stumbled across this bile from Muss.  Don't hold back sir, tell us how you really feel!  Show us your EMOTIONS.