I had ChatGPT whip up this very dubious and obviously misspelled image for us! 
I’m kind of shocked at how much copyrighted stuff it threw in here
Enter for your chance to win a year of Grouvee Gold for free here! I’m giving away 5 years of Grouvee Gold, no strings attached! Just leave a comment and you’re entered. The deadline to enter is 12:00 AM EST, Sunday, December 1. Entries will be thrown in a RNG and the first five users on the resulting list win. Good luck!
Thanks for the giveaway! Best of luck to whoever else is entering!
Please don’t enter me, as I pay for mine yearly anyway, I just wanted to tell a gaming story.
So way back in the day when I regularly played Halo 3 online, I made this map in the warehouse level. It included several absolutely ridiculous traps that were often triggered on accident by grenades or something and elicited much cursing from other players. My particular favorite was the semi truck that I had somehow balanced on it’s trailer hitch. One small tap sent it tumbling over, so I put one of those air pad jet things that would launch objects and players a good distance across the map. Then another, and another until the truck would fly around the map in a loop tumbling about like a petrol powered wrecking ball. This was quality entertainment to a bunch of high schoolers with the vocabulary of grizzled sailors. Very often players would be running across the map, forget about the truck and then suddenly be turned into roadkill as the rogue semi splattered them into a wall, or floor, or on rare occasions midair. The best of these were always the times where someone saw it coming and would get about half of a curse out before taking a ton of metal to the face. In text from this might not seem that amusing, but its long stuck with me as several times players would be laughing until their sides hurt as someone once again would let loose with “Fuck, stupid shitty truck! Why’d you put that fucking thing in here! Bullshit!” or something along those lines
The creativity in those custom forge maps and game-modes combined with the fact that lan/splitscreen was just as common as xbox live during those times makes this the pinnacle of multiplayer gaming for me. So many great memories attached to Halo 3, when even if you played online, it was often a specific gathering of friends to do pointless things like this.
I would love a Powe-Up but don’t enter me in the Givaway since I’m already a Golden Grouver. Hopefully, someone who is a big Poke-Nee fan wins.
I’ve been saying Po-kee-hee
Lol that is a lovely Eev-chu ChatGPT has imagined up. Power-ups for everyone! Thanks for the give-away haha
Poke-Hee Heee! Shamone! Youve been struck by a Smooth Crimachu!
Please enter me into the Groovy Grouvee Gold Giveaway!
Grouvee is essential for tracking my gaming library. Thank you!
I’m in, I also want to know what it feels like to be a God.
Anecdote: Last year, while playing Dead Space 3, I started coughing uncontrollably and felt a sharp pain in my chest, as if I had a stake of ice in my heart. At that moment, the only thing I thought was: damn, am I having a heart attack? Seriously? You gotta be kidding me! To keep the story short, plot twist: I didn’t die; but the funny thing is that when I got back from the hospital, I realized that I had saved the game before seeking help, can you believe it?! I saved my game first before saving my own life, and what’s worst is that I did it twice!
Love the fact that the words “fluid gold” are melting on that poster. 
My story is that the hotel escape scene in the old Call of Cthulhu impressed (scared) me so much, that I reinforced my fear of my house being broken into for years to come. You’re basically woken up defenceless to the sound of your doors being bashed and have to quickly run, lock the doors behind you, barricade entrances and look for an escape path.
Here’s a video of this scene. I was in my school years when I played this game.
Comments on YouTube at least console me that I’m not the only one, who got the spooks from it. Also, it didn’t help that this escape scene was tricky and required trial and effort via many retires.
I used to sleep with pepper spray IRL nearby just to feel like I have at least some self defence tool. One night I lost it and went to sleep with thoughts “gotta stop being paranoid”. That very night a new renting neighbor tried to open my door with his keys, so I woke up to someone pressing my door handle. 
It was fine though, ironically, after that accident, the fear subsided for a while.
I don’t really have a gaming story, but what I can tell you is that I have been playing M rated games since I was way too young… And my mom would go with me and buy the games. The cashier would ask, “Who are these games for?” (while I smiled at them) and my mom would say “Why do you ask?”. For some reason, the cashier would never ask for more information. To this day, I don’t know if my mom knew what was going on, or if she just didn’t care! She also told me that when she went to get me the GameBoy Advance, since I was a girl, they tried to sell her a Pony game or something like that. She was like, nah, get me that vampire game I saw over there (Castlevania). She knew me very well.
My favorite games during that time were the GTA Trilogy in PS2 and Red Faction. I turned out to be a responsible and law abiding citizen nonetheless, lol!
I’ll admit as an artist I do hate generative AI but I’ll be damned if I don’t want some fuiuold for my poke-hee!!
All seriousness, gaming itself is the transformative experience for me. Every time I go into a new game, I get to see the world from a new perspective. I really like thinking about each mc’s motivations and making decisions based on where I connect with them. There’s a little heart and soul in every game, no matter how small, I think.
Id love to be a part of the draw! Been using the site for years to keep track of stuff.
My gaming story is that due to my love of video games, last year i took a deep breath and decided that I wanted to work with them full time, and applied to a Masters degree for game studies and engineering, and long story short i moved all the way from Pakistan to Austria this year and every time i interact with something from the new culture, and a world i dont know anything about (but am excited to learn) i just chuckle and think about how pixels on the screen convinced me to change the trajectory of my life forever
Gotta catch 'em all!
I’m in. What are y’alls favorite Po-kee-hee game? Mine is probably HeartGold/SoulSilver.
Never played one. I watched my ex play Let’s Go Evee but they gave up on it, like they do with everything. 
My reply must be at least twenty characters.
good choice, mine would have to be the same
