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Here you'll find a small collection of things currently of interest at IGN.com and, more specifically, their message board system, located here. I update it pretty infrequently, but if you show up every now and then you'll find something new.

Links to users are coded in that specific user's colors. Links to threads are coded in dark blue bold font.
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9/9/03 - I'm archiving a bunch of my old arguments from IGN and elsewhere in a new section I call "Thoughts". Check it out here!

4/16/02 - New Forum Pics section... it's going to be popular.

3/26/01 - Many people are discussing the issue of the IGNCube interview with Perrin Kaplan and Jim Merrick being cut. Among what is missing is information regarding Rare's relationship with Nintendo, Zelda, and the development of a Pikmin sequel. IGN has gone on the record saying that their reasons for the removal of these portions of the interview lie in NCL's zero tolerance policy concerning "harmless" jokes from company reps - according to NCL, these jokes often turn into rumors and false belief (which does happen quite often). However, if you want to find an unedited version of the interview, you can do so elsewhere on the internet...

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The Master List of Stupid Quotes

"were you that hore my friend picked up last night" -Orange_llama_boy
"and i pitty the person who confides that indrema system is a flop" -crazyj4766
"Believe me, E3 2001 will belong to the PS2." -yasirali
"And Yamauchi is a moron." -virtually-alive
"some of us don't own a ps2, and need to play those games somehow. so, survey says, XBOX" -thefantomas
"No piece of hardware can create FMV quality at realtime." -IO-STREAM
"if I keep talking to mods and expressing my views obviously I will be IP banned,
so I may as well circumcize my ban right now and say goodbye." -Hairston5
Blinx may not be the best game out there, but its more innovative than any other game on other platforms. -JonesCK1
"i don't see how xbox can compare to the sheer power of the indrema..." -Gogita17
"this is why i think that the xbox will have better games than anyhting else:" <Links to Daily Radar> -moosemessier
"PS FANBOYS ARE HIPICRITS" -HBK911
"Something's wrong with you people's PS2s." -blackhaz3
"Nintendo's corporate honesty is laughable at best." -XBox Radar. Idiots.
"OtherSteveBoy.. YOU ARE A MORON, PLAIN AND SIMPLE" -Brilliant_Genius
"I didn't like [Mario Kart 64]. It was no Crash Team Racing, thats for sure." -Clobbersaurus
"othersteveGCN u r nothing but a fanboy blinded by NINTENDO PR" -alterno69
"Why does soo many guys want too shhhhhh gay in too an black hole... ?" -Jesus-1
"Pot its awesome, so is valume." -drunken_bastard
"Your a real genius." -sircuit
"New game console that will crush microsoft xbox!" -reydelnet, referring to the Indrema
"Shouldn't Sony fix this?" -fred53, in reference to PS2 disc scratching problems
"Alos Xbox is american made, Not good! Look at american cars.....(JUNK)." -CrashB5
"Fans are sure to flock to the portable Game Boy Advance, but the new product
will hurt sales of the old Game Boy." -Marcella Bernhard, staff writer Forbes.com
"the bottom line is that we most likely will not see the Gamecube in the US this year." -Xbox Radar, 2001, idiots.
"go a head and wine." -Z-e-p-p-e-l-i-n
"In Quake 3, all you do is run around and shoot things. In Zelda, all you do is run around and slash things. Looks the same to me." -TNBG
"the GC cancellation is inevitable" -DeadmeatZ
"you are retarted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" -mSaKrRkAsM
"People are idiots and will buy whatever is cool at the time...That's why the NES sold so well" -linkfrek
"you a bunch of losers.All im saying is puting down othere people just to make your self feel beter is stupied." -Jcbrockport2000
"Boob are nice..specially when they are between your penis..." -Super_Gogeta
"a kiddy game is when parents buy their kids games. and most parents will buy their kids Nintendo games." -Devegus79
"to try in life its up to you if you want to live it." -xboxplayer
"ohh well look at the specs there better then gamecubes." -ass_man90
"Dont get me wrong Socrates was good and all for his time. But frankly he sounds like my stoner friends at a greatfull dead concert..." -TheVISS
"And im personally looking more foward to Sony's 1st/2nd party line-up than Nintendo's..." -JyggaJygga
"In a couple of year? So I guess now your Marty Mcfly and can travel into the future, whatever." -JyggaJygga
"The GC sucks because i hate it" -cooleriscool
"DONT BE A IDIOT" -Choose-a-user-name
"Other Steve doesn't know ****, he probably just wants some attention." -Super.Vegeta
“At any rate, DOA3 was better than Animal Crossing… DOA:3 was not a very good game, but at least it was nice looking.” –ololo3
"HAHAHAHAHAH! OtherSteve, comedy. What would you rather have, a book with an awesome cover or the SAME book with a crap cover?" -CubeMaster3333
"The plot of Swordfish is the worst I've seen in a movie that others have called great. Where exactly do you find a second body that's just like yours?" -asmo22
"GAY CUBE SUCKS IT FOR BABIES SOON AS YOU REACH PUBERTIE YOULL BELIVE ME" -AntiGayCube
"I thank the GAY CUBE SUCKS WHOD WAST ANY MONEY BUYING THIS POS?COME ON ITS CRAP ITS A UGLY LUNCH BOX.IT FOR BABIES SOON AS YOU REACH PUBERTIE YOULL BELIVE ME" -AntiGayCube
"Xbox, which doesnt have much right now, looks promising, because im not upgrading my PC for 2 years." -Oxes
"Xbox is teh future" ------Xoll------
"MGS2 is better than anything out on any system right now... Some of your comments just don't hold water." -quake1028
"You seem to be the most uninformed, accused mod in both the boards I frequent most." -The_Interloper
"Not only am I the second best Smash Bros player in Florida..." -deathbringa

Long have the IGN Boards awaited the presence of a prophet, one who can see the future and reveal its secrets. Now it seems that this man has finally arrived. His name is ArbitraryName - and he is certainly wise.

"Every game developer is shooting for nothing but realism and flashiness...
...what does realism and flashiness have to do with fun?
The same old genres and development methods still work in America,
but they won't interest the more discriminating gamers"
-Hiroshi Yamauchi

"A delayed game will eventually come out. A bad game is bad forever."
-Shigeru Miyamoto

"Microsoft is going after performance only, and does not understand that the game is played with
software... We do not consider Microsoft to be our competitor." -Hiroshi Yamauchi

"if we let them get away with one nipple, there will be nothing but nipples, everywhere."
"Nipples on the icons, nipples in sigs, nipples in your cereal bowl in the morning."
"Yes sir'ee bob, it'll be a non-stop nipple-fest on the boards." -Tal-IGN

"All you do in Zelda is run around and slash things? Damn that must be what I was doing wrong all
this time. Shoot maybe if I wasn't trying to figure out all of those puzzels i would have gotten
through the game quicker." -mildewproduction, in response to TNBG's quote above

"There is a new Snowboarding move called the Xbox.
It's when you fly high into the air, do a lot of cool tricks,
and then moments later fall flat on your face." - mildewproduction

"Girls Gone Wild is nothing compared to Mary Kate and Ashley Olson. Until you've seen those girls
gone wild, you haven't lived." -Fran-IGN

"They should cut off all his fingers, toes, ears with a butterknife. Then pull out each
individual tooth and pull out all of his hair by hand. Then make him stare at the sun so he can
go blind. Then skin his body very slowly with a cheese grater, but make sure you do it so he
doesn't die, because you still have to pour salt all over his body. Then try to keep him alive
and stick him in solitary confinement for the rest of his life, forced to listen to Richard
Simmons self help tapes." -Aphextwin2

"As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks" -Fred Dales, from Microsoft

"That must be why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet" -Bill Gates, after Windows 98 crashed on him during a presentation.
(Thanks to supershadow18 for these)

"'and the package also comes with a special silver-plated key chain inscribed with Bill Gates' signature.'

Are they saying that Japanese people need to be reminded who made the XBOX? Oh wait, it was... uh... let me look at my key chain." -regamer

"You must judge a game based on what it sets out to do. Let's say I classify Majora's Mask as a racing game. I would review that game a 1.0, because it has only one or two racing sequences. Now let me compare it to other racing games.

GT3 has more cars, tracks, and better physics. Majora's Mask Goron racing sequence is innovative, but lacks depth. You can only race on one track, with one type of Goron. GT3 excels in this aspect with a total of 15 tracks, and a whopping 200 or so cars to buy and sell. Gran Turismo 3 offers a lot for car enthusiasts as well with a detailed encyclopedia of all the cars. Majora's Mask offers little information about the racing history and the specs of their Gorons.

Wasn't that a great review? Next time, I'll compare Halo and Metroid Prime." -flan2dave