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December 17, 2003

Gamers & Geeks Rule

Last night, while looking for a way to get my recently decertified RP114 router to work with XBox Live, I found a very cool site called GamerTagDatabase.

I'm accustomed to searching around the world for solutions to my stupid little problems, and I was almost there having created some weird packet filters and port redirections thanks to some bloke. Alas, it didn't work. Yike, just thinking about those things make my head hurt. So I ended up playing XIII against relentless AIs instead of relentless humans. But thanks to this bloke I did find GTDB and finally could put some demographics behind the anonymous faces and voices.

I still haven't found anyone there that I know from gaming which suggests that the online gaming world is even more vast than I expected. Understand that the GTDB folks are all voluntarily seeking each other outside of the realm of gaming itself. It allows you to find gamers from California who are over 40, for example.

When I get my new router for Christmas, I'll be back online with gamers from all over the West.

Posted by mbowen at December 17, 2003 03:43 PM

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Thanks for the hook up on your site about GTDB. Gamertag and I were actually scoping your site after you posted your pic. We love it! We talked back and forth about the scope of the XBL crowd. Take care man. Thanks for the support.
~JFragment

Posted by: JFragment at December 17, 2003 10:01 PM