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For me it was during a summer job (between school/summer job). Work had a built in filter for web traffic which limited close to everything. One day i fell upon this site ( can't remember how ) and read through a lot of posts throughout the day(we had a lot of downtime at times). Ever since then I've been hooked and regularly check the site daily , it's now part of my day to day routine.

One of the best communities I've ever come across, thanks to everyone here at gwj making it possible *you also provide the perfect guilds for me (filthy enablers!)

How did you first find out about gamerswithjobs.com?

rabbit had a write-up about Bioshock and visiting Irrational that was linked from Penny Arcade. I clicked, I read, I liked. I hung around a bit, read a few more articles, listened to the podcast, registered for the forum, lurked for about 3 months.

I realised I'd found my home on the web.

My brother (Jayhawker) told me about it when he won an Xbox 360 in one of the site fundraisers. It took a while before I checked it out, but when I did I liked the community.

If I remember correctly, I think it was Bills fault.

Several years ago, one of Elysium's early articles (or maybe it was Lobo's?) was linked on Slashdot. This is going to sound exceptionally corny but... I was amazed to discover a community for people like me, a "gamer with a job" sick of pubtards in games. So, I read the article, registered, avoided the P&C board and lived Happy Ever After.

The End.

I found out about it through my partner in crime, Kannon. He talked about it for a year before I finally saw it for myself and thoroughly enjoyed it. I lurked for a little while before finally joining the party not too long ago.

One day, I was looking for more gaming podcasts and found the old GWJ Radio on some directory some place. I loved the show and lurked for a while before jumping into the conversation. Been a daily staple for me ever since.

I seem to remember finding it via a random* google search in the early days, and thinking "hm, those guys from Evil Avatar have a site, huh?"

* Well, maybe not random but I have no idea what it was. Nothing that turns up in the best searches of the year, either.

I think I found it during a typing mistake; I was looking for http://www.gamerswithcobs.com , the web's best site for images of gamers enjoying delicious corn on the cob while gaming! One look at the quality of the community and I found myself becoming a quasi-regular contributor.

Ah well, it sounded funnier in my head. I think it may have been mentioned in an issue of Computer Games and I checked it out from there.

I vaguely remember stumbling over from Evil Avatar in the early days, because i recognized the names of "Certis" and "Elysium", and their posts at EA always struck me as more thoughtful than most.

Don't really remember, but I know I lurked for a really long time before joining the forums. Thinking back on what I was probably reading at the time, it must have been Bill Harris's blog, shortly after the dissolution of gonegold.com.

But then again, my memory is dogsh*t. I can't really tell you what I had for breakfast this morning, but I do know that on one morning in the past week or so, toast was involved. But maybe my wife ate it.

I came over from Evil Avatar after a "Hey...they have something good over here" prodding by Viking.

Lobo's article on Half Life 2 and free will, via gametab.com.

Followed a link from Bill Harris at Dubious Quality after he left Gone Gold. Lurked for like a year before I finally registered.

Zero told me about it. Exciting, I know.

I found GWJ Radio around episode 3 while browsing iTunes for something interesting to listen to, and Fletcher and Certis were interesting enough that a month or two later I decided I ought to give the site itself a try.

Someone linked to GWJ on a livejournal gaming community. I clicked.

I found my way here from a slashdot article http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/20/1742259 titled "Ken Levine Defends Lair's Control Scheme". There was some discussion in the slashdot comments about if he really was defending the game or just offering a suggestion why they went that unfortunate route. I had to give it a listen for myself and I was hooked. This is still the only podcast I can listen to from start to finish on a regular basis. Even though the topic is long dead I will say that I don't think he was really defending the control scheme, Ken just offered a possible scenario that pushed the developers into using the sixaxis.

Cooincidentally, i found my way here almost exactly a year ago.

MrDeVil909 wrote:

rabbit had a write-up about Bioshock and visiting Irrational that was linked from Penny Arcade. I clicked, I read, I liked. I hung around a bit, read a few more articles, listened to the podcast, registered for the forum, lurked for about 3 months.

I realised I'd found my home on the web.

What he said.

Can't remember where I found the link exactly (probably Slashdot or something), but it was the 50th podcast, with Ken Levine, which came just a couple of weeks after I picked up a 360 primarily to play BioShock. That was a great show, so I kept listening, and eventually checked out the community side of things, where I discovered to my delight that the crazy-but-intelligent banter of the podcast continues unabated. It was all downhill from there

I wanted to listen to something while I worked. I bought an iPod and started subscribing to every podcast I could possibly find. The GWJer CC was not one of the ones that I initially grabbed, but some other podcast had mentioned it, and I had heard of GWJ before then. Found the CC in iTunes, subscribed, and have listened ever since. Joined the forums when I heard about how folks over here were playing TF2 during the public beta.

KingGorilla via EvilAvatar while discussing CoH tactics.

After asking Elysium for the third time or so for the URL, I finally remembered to check the website that he ran.

I found GWJ via either Gamebrains (which has been dead for 3-4 years) or Gamecritics. I was a member of Gamecritics for a couple years but migrated to GWJ after I became frustrated by the overly analytical style everyone had on the forums. Well that, and my posts rarely yielded a response or even acknowledgment.

Necroyeti and I used to share a cubicle, and he would reference GWJ from time to time. Finally I decided to follow up and check out the site and immediately fell in love with the collection of people here and their perspectives on gaming. I decided to dive into listening to podcasts and the CC was one of the first I placed on my Sansa. Now I love the show and I come and lurk the forums at least once a day.

Someone on SomethingAwful mentioned the Levine podcast (somewhere around the 70s-80s, I think) in a thread discussing the themes and minutiae of Bioshock.

I was really impressed by the quality of the 'cast. The listenability, the discussion and the chemistry was quite appealing. I lurked as an unregistered reader for a while, and when I took a two-week trip to Mexico in January, squirreled away a number of episodes on my Zune to help pass the time. The more I listened, the more I realized that these were folks I'd love to share a game of TMNT (and a Smirnoff Ice) with.

/. I think it was the Half Life 2 source code thingy.

I was already very tired of Slashdot commentators, so I lurked for a while, and registered around Donation Drive time when I realized I was checking the site multiple times a day.

I actually came over from Evil Avatar when Certis and Elysium where there. I lurked for a bit and then registered. So I've been here since the first day.

Yeah, same here.

I was a regular reader of Escapist Magazine, which led to to discover Escape Radio, which led me to the original GWJ Podcast. The rest is history.

Gameraotaku wrote:

Followed a link from Bill Harris at Dubious Quality after he left Gone Gold. Lurked for like a year before I finally registered.

Ditto. Thank you Bill Harris!

I decided to get back into video games after a prolonged time away (substandard computer, no current-gen consoles, etc) a bit over a year ago. I listened to a lot of the Ziff-Davis podcasts and was searching for other podcasts to listen to as I worked. S'how I found the Gamers with Jobs Conference Call and Drunken Gamers radio (nee Team Fremont Live) along with a few others I don't keep up with anymore.

It's amazing how motivated you are when you have to fill multiple ten hour days. Then I registered for the forums after a few months of listening and jumped right in.

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