PALGN's forums turn five!

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Excuse us for a second whilst we get all emotional, as today the PALGN forums are celebrating their 5th anniversary. However, rather than sit down and cry because it's our party and we can cry if we want to, we've decided to celebrate in style.

All today, we'll be celebrating. Two of our forumers (thebigm and GTPod) went to the effort of taking a look at the history of PALGN and the forums. We encourage you head over to the article so you get a bit of a background on our history. We'll also be giving away a few of our PALGN branded T-Shirts throughout the day. We suggest you head over to this thread and put in your T-shirt size, so we can send you a shirt if you're randomly selected. Certain members will also be rewarded with VIP access for a few weeks. We'll also be posting up a roundtable of our forumer's thoughts on the main site, and we'll even be launching a reader review forum!

To celebrate the occasion we rounded up a few of our forum members - Cerebral, NeoSanity, admeister, thebigm and Nick - to talk about some of the issues surrounding PAL gamers in a podcast. The podcast can be downloaded below, so if you want to save it, then simply right-click the link and select save. Alternatively, you can stream it by just clicking on the link. A massive thanks goes to our forumer Cerebral for editing the podcast. A massive thanks goes to Admeister for recording the podcast too.

Download the Podcast here

On behalf of all of the staff at PALGN, we'd like to say thank you to all 6,600+ members of our forum. Our community really is the backbone of the site, and we're very grateful to all of our members. Here's to another five years.

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18 Comments

segax

5 years ago

Umm people that are downloading this should probably try opening it through media player classic .. might be my computer but when i opened it via Windows media player all I heard was chipmunk noises.

Matt

5 years ago

segax wrote

Umm people that are downloading this should probably try opening it through media player classic .. might be my computer but when i opened it via Windows media player all I heard was chipmunk noises.

That's how Luke normally sounds

renegadesx

5 years ago

segax wrote

Umm people that are downloading this should probably try opening it through media player classic .. might be my computer but when i opened it via Windows media player all I heard was chipmunk noises.

I am running it in XMMS, so Winamp should be fine

ret the roman

5 years ago

Nobody did a shoutout to me and my addiction to tokobot

You are all my enemys

Benno

5 years ago

Oh! Mitch and Daniel's mum! Now is the time to make a move Mitch

Hah Adam you sound like you need to blow your nose

B3NBO

5 years ago

Congratulations palgn!!

btw on the podcast i can only just hear you enought(but a bit louder would be better) at full blast on my speakers!!

ret the roman

5 years ago

Was someone playing sonic in the background on the podcast that i could hear?

Big Pete

5 years ago

Haha, it was alright.

Bit dissapointed that we couldn't get say James and some of the original members and staff talk about how PalGN started and some of their memories and have different peoples views, instead of pretty much gaming for 30+ minutes and 5 minutes or so on PalGN.

The Dans Mum and Mitch had me cracking up. Infact it was Game Set Mitch.

Cerebral

5 years ago

Yeah, I couldn't think of what else to say, so I pretty much blurted out "Mitch and my mother".

Oh how little prepared I was for the consequences. It truly was Game Set Mitch.

slapshakle

5 years ago

Very amusing.

Oooh. Neo <3 for the props.

GroovySamurai

5 years ago

Thanks for the mention Neo <3

Good podcast too.

838 La

5 years ago

Sign me up for next podcast.

Unless this is another 18+ thing. *shifty eyes*

Pretty good never the less. Should have just made a podcast just of the staff too, you know, we all want to here what the "professionals" thinks.

admeister

5 years ago

Hey, why does Cerebral get all the credit?

I was the one who recorded it! That's right people, it was me.

Cer: Good job on the editing.

Edit: Thanks for that Luke.

Bitchacho

5 years ago

Thanks for the mad props! So...Cer's mum: asl??

Charly

5 years ago

^ Mr. Popular.

So will the forumer podcasts be a regular thing?

admeister

5 years ago

We're hoping for them to be, depending on how popular they are/how many downloads it gets.

Gtpod

5 years ago

Heart mekky, making me all famous.

Awesome podcast guys, funny to hear all your voices. Oh and I'm with La, if there's gonna be another one, sign me up an' all.

NismoR34

5 years ago

Mekky, you put me exactly where I belong: In first position. So thanks for that.

Seriously though, thanks for the shout out and thanks to the participants both on Thursday and Friday for taking the time out to do it. It was a decent first effort and while obviously the difference in sound quality was noticeable, it didn't really affect the overall Podcast all that much. Some decent subjects were covered so it was nice to get perspectives in speech form for once rather than reading it all and yeah, just a general all round decent effort.

Adam, kudos to you for not being as biased as you could have been.

Cer, most of what you said I found myself agreeing with. Not that it should surprise you really.

Mekky, again thanks for the shout out. Much wub for j00.

Neo, biatch forgot to mention me. Pfft.

Alright I'll stop now.

For the record (quick stop reading before you hear torture!) I'd love to be a part of something like this but unfortunately I just can't be (unless you lot can find a way to use Live instead). Computer is in the loungeroom for one, so obviously I wouldn't be in private the whole time (interruptions from a 2 year old sister wouldn't be so good now would it?

), and for two I don't have a mic for the computer anyway. Oh an no Skype, unfortunately. (latter can be fixed though)

So yeah, no Nismo in the Podcast (a good thing no doubt) unless you lot can figure out a way to use Live. Which, when I think about it would be impossible. So yeah, anyway. Enough 5:30am rubbish from me.

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