Kimani
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Posted by veritron on February 16, 2005
You may hear Kimani's name bandied around FYAD and certain goon game servers.
Kimani is known for this post in a games thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...0#post296656980
That post is what earned him his current custom title.
Fragmaster made a hilarious parody of that post:
http://www.somethingawful.com/autom.../gamespeech.mp3
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Posted by ntg85 on April 29, 2006
The post runs thus:
"So you're working out and getting buff so you are strong to do what?
"Getting women" as if they are objects to do what? Fuck them and forget about it? Some life. "Getting women" improves your social status amongst those who hi-five people for being "playa"s. Who gives a damn about being more social amongst those vapid wastes of food and employment?
Video games are a great way to have fun, and enjoy things that are availible to you in life. Not only this, but the making of a game is an art form - by playing through, say, an RPG, you are treated to a grand story that is just overwhelmingly more fufilling than going out, fucking some chick, hi-fiving yourself and calling it a night.
You get the benefit of enjoying an experience that billions of people haven't already done to death. You get the benefit of enjoying an art form. Notice here that I am not approaching games as some h4rdc0r3 EL THREE THREE TEE jerk - I'm going about it in ways much like a movie buff would appreciate film. For tangible benefits, in competitive games, you are constantly pushed to not only complete a task, but learn to do it better and better. You learn to be quick on your feet, smart, and precise.
Oh, and popular television gives you a point of conversation with the lowest common denominator of people. And we all know that mediocrity is something to strive for, am I right?"
This was posted as part of a debate over whether being good at video games means you automatically have no life. Speculation still rages as to which side Kimani was trying to argue.
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Posted by Mahuum Aqoha on April 30, 2007
The actual thread where Kimani uttered the famous quote is here:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...mp;pagenumber=6
It started out as a discussion in the Games forum about the belief that video game players don't have lives. Kimani posted the thing about Final Fantasy being better than going out and having sex and then FYAD came to the thread, which resulted in a hysterical thread that got moved to the FYAD Goldmine.