We Are A Friendly People. We Play Games.
Congratulations, friend! Sit down, put your feet up, pour yourself a delicious adult beverage. Or a non-adult beverage. We're not here to judge, either way. Let the cares of your busy day fall away. You're at MefightClub now, and it's all going to be OK. We're here to help.
'What' is a question you might reasonably ask. Perhaps also 'where'. Maybe even 'why'. These are good and important questions, and part of our dedication to serving you, friend, is to answer them.
Mefight.club (that's where you are now) is the hub of the Mefight Club network of gaming sites. See how that works?
The MefightClub forum is where 3000+ (as of early 2014) MFC members hang out and talk about games. And food and booze and movies and TV and pretty much everything, but you know: mostly games. We're called MefightClub because we started as a group of TF2 enthusiasts at Metafilter, where members are known as "Mefites", and so: MeFight Club. It's a joke. We don't actually fight. Except, you know, by blowing each other up in games that encourage blowing each other up, because if there's one thing we are, it's encouragable. You should totally read about why we exist: not just to play games together, but to do it in splendid semi-permeable semi-firewalled isolation from the seething misogyny and homophobia and racism and just plain aggressive dumb that grips so much of the gaming world.
Levels Of Detail is a gaming blogging site straight outta the oughties, created to give MFC members a place to write longer, public stuff about games and gaming. It is fully awesome.
Gamefilter is modeled on Matt Haughey's Metafilter, except, you know, for games and gaming. It is all about the links and the linking and the http and the href.
It's a big bastardy bucket of bastards over at Ludic Research Labs. We suggest you keep well clear of them.
They are the MefightClub Things.
A manifesto, of sorts, but let's not dignify it quite that much, because.
We shouldn't still need to talk about this. Gaming culture still sometimes seems compromised, co-opted and colonized by bad people, but we reckon it's not rotten to the core. Things are bad, but they're getting better and we've wanted over the past 7 years to be part of that process. You still don't need to look hard at gaming to find sexism, racism, homo- and transphobia, and well, all kinds or horrifying stuff. A huge part of our reason for existing is to build a community of gamers that take a stand for inclusiveness.
Web Community is real community. Some folks don't believe web community is a thing that can actually exist. We think they're wrong, and we're keen to prove it. Friends you've never met can be some of the best friends you'll ever have. Encourage the positive, keep the rest at arm's length, and help each other's lives to be just that little bit better, as much as you can. It's what life's about.
LOL WTF BRO Y U MAD. Whether you have kids of your own or not, you're probably tired to death of having 14-year-olds shout obscenities at you. Maybe you shout obscenities back, but you've got to admit, it's exhausting. Kids don't ruin gaming, and there are good children and bad ones just like any random segment of humanity. Be childlike, be a child, enjoy play with all the heartfelt wonder and joy that children do. But childish? Ain't nobody got time for that. Gaming is supposed to be relaxing and fun, and life is short.
Corrosive Competitiveness Corrodes. Competition and playing to win aren't bad things -- they're great, in fact, and propel us into being and doing our best. But hyper-focus on competition, to the exclusion of caring whether your fellow gamers are enjoying themselves or not, ruins it for everyone, including yourself. We play to win, and we like to win, and we love to shower winners with our love and approbation, but it's equally important to MFC gamers that everyone's just having fun.
We all need a little validation sometimes.
Running the MFC Network takes time and costs money, and we currently do not run any advertising to help defray costs. Defray. Defray defray. That word sounds weird if you say it enough times.
Anyway. If you'd like to help support the community and the admin who runs it (that's me -- stavrosthewonderchicken!), then please consider a small recurring donation via Patreon or Tugboat Yards or a one-time tip via Paypal. Contributing to the health of the community by participating is the first and most important way to help us grow and thrive and have the happy, but cash is also appreciated! I'm not making potato salad or anything, I know, but I do my best.
Donate via Patreon Donate via TugboatYards Why Donate?MefightClub and its associated websites are a labor of love. It's a damned good feeling to build a place where people can come together and have fun.
If you're not an MFC member yet, and all that stuff upstream there on the page makes you think you might like to be, I encourage you to join us. The door is always open -- it's not ajar, but it is unlocked. If you're already a member, know that I love you, and I thank you for being part of the community.
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