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The Game Informer tip line is one of our favorite features of the revamped website. While the legit news tips help us report on rumors or stories we may have missed, we also receive a healthy dose of nonsensical ramblings. This is just a slice of what greets us in our inbox every morning. I want you to feel the full effect of the messages, so I’ve kept all the egregious misspellings, typos, and CAPS ATTACKS in place. To protect the identities of these wayward posters, we’ve made the tips anonymous. Public Service AnnouncementsSome people just like to share, no matter the context. Like Brick Tamland openly declaring his love of lamps in Anchorman or our own Ben Reeves (fish, anyone?), these tippers aren’t afraid to yell their thoughts into a crowded room, even when they’re the only ones who know what they are talking about. Tipster #1: PLAYING THE XBOX IS FUN TO ME.........Tipster #2: the japaness game makers makes the most sexest gamesTipter #3: i aM dA Be$T aNd ALL sHaLL PeRiiSh unDER mAh hAnD...Tipster #4: just thought i would submit this picture of me holding a playstation 3 remote.. not sure if this is the right place for it.. if not, please re-direct it. thanks http://www.flickr.com/photos/kidknapp6/4241956971/Tipster #6: It is now 2010 which means Halo Reach will come out soonTipster #7: hello my gamertag is FM3 xXWAR94XxTipster #8: cortney love is PISTED OFFFFFFF !!!!!!!!Tipster #9: live off of videogamesCries of Help From The EtherReality can be a cruel mistress. Ask these forlorn souls, who clearly are losing their relationship with waking life, however tangential it may have been in the first place. Tipster #10: MY GAMES ARE NOT CAN YOU HELP ME IF YOU CAN HELP ME THAT WOOD BE GOOD FOR METipster #11: It's about SONIC SEGA ALL-STARS RACING and the fact they are not having NiGHTS as one of the main playable characters.This news has indeed shocked the NiGHTS fans from all over the globe,causeing a NiGHTS phenomenon,especially in a little NiGHTS community called NiGHTS Into Dreams.com.Tipster #12: 370z pleaseTipster #13: i want the game army of two right now :(Two-Second ReviewsOur consumerists aren’t afraid to give honest feedback about the games they purchase. Instead of writing a user review, blogging, or posting a forum thread, these cats decided the tip line was the way to go. One tipster was so pissed at Halo Wars he offered his opinion twice! Tipster #15: moddern warfer was short and sucked but it took up 7 hoursTipster # 16: I wanted to talk about Halo Wars it stinks because I heard you only get to call the commands and you don't to kill any thing. Thats why it stinks. Tipster #16: Halo Wars stinks Badly.Because you only call out the commands and you don't fight at all. Well, thats what i heard. Don't get it.It's just a waste of money. Tipster #17: i konw that some of you know about this new game called borderlands here is something you might not know in the game there is just 3 guns. And if one is taking from you you can never get it back. So how do you get over like 566 guns I tell you why all of the guns in the game have diffrent power and accuracy. I know so cool of how they did that!!! So I think borderlands is cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Tipster #18: just in i know i may be late but don't get terminator salvation if u like hardcore games because if u play a game all night don't get the game because u will beat it in one night or one day.Tipster #19: Please rent Halo 3 ODST before you rent it I wasted sixty $ on it and I dont want other people wasting moneyTipster #20: I THINK THAT THQ WENT A LITTLE OVERBARD WITH THE NEW SMACKDOWN VS RAW BECAUSE WHAT ABOUT THE NEXT ONE? I DONT THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE PUT AS MANY NEW THINGS IN SvR 10 AS THEY SHOULD HAVETipster #21: if you really like smackdown vs raw then dont get on d.s unless you have the the stick. the game is reall y dificult on d.sTipster #22: COD!COD!COD!I think mw2 is great so is waw.I think waw need another zombie map and the next cod should be Vietnam.Y you say.Because call of duty games so far have been ww2 or modern warfare.They need to change the game.Sher modern warfare 3 needs to come out but they should do a Vietnam.Tipster #23: Have you played kingdom hearts re:chain of memories? It has a card system which makes it slow down the battle.Game TipsOur link says “Submit a News Tip,” but that didn’t stop these kids from going all GameFAQS on us and sharing the minutiae of their gameplay experiences.Tipster #24: In Mario Bowser's inside story,when you get the drill bro`s icon,go where the area reacts when Bowser drinks water.At the entrance,use the drill bros icon go underground go to the right until you make it to the other side.Tipster #25: On "Dead Space" alwys shoot the limbs and also always go through doors even if you are scared for there are more than likely schematics for suits and ammo for your guns.Tipster #26: if your ps3 isn,t working on HDM1 then justin hold on the power button till eayou hear the second beep while its onTipster #27: On Guitar Hero 3. The cheats DO NOT WORk unless you are using the guitar. So next time it doesn't work and you are using the controller MAKE SURE YOU ARE USING THE GUITAR!Tipster #28: In Mario Luigi Super Star Saga, shrink Mario with the hammer then use Luigi's High Jump but when he is up in the air, jump up with Mario. You will hit Luigi in the nuts but it's a great way to get coins. Just remember to have some mushrooms with you to heal Luigi.Tipster #29: on halo 3 on high ground go on fordge and get up a tree and right there is a secret spot to snipe someoneTipster #30: You can dual wield handguns in Modern Warfare 2Tipster #31: on halo 3 there is a talking gruntQuestionable Understanding of the “Tip” ConceptMaybe it’s not their fault. Maybe we have a site error on obscure browsers like Opera or IE8 that replace the term “Submit a News Tip” with “Submit a Question.” That would explain these guys. Tipster #32: i was wondering cause i dont have a ps3 about heavy rain umm is is at all a game worth playingTipster #33: will there ever be a new mortal kombat gameTipster #34: do u think halo reach is going to be goodTipster #35: I was just wondering, why is there not any RTS games on the Wii? This console seems to be able to work with a RTS, seeing how some of the RTS' graphics arent the greatest and neither is the Wii.Tipster #36: would like to know when the wii is coming out with better games.war games.Tipster #37: it would be nice if you would make a new game a sniper game. to were u go and do missionsCaptain ObviousThis just in, Halo: Reach may not be the last Halo game! We all know certain announcements are inevitable, but that didn’t stop these soothsayers from looking into their crystal balls and stating the obvious.
Tipster #38: plyastation4 is coming but i don't know when.Tipster #39: I heard there ia a transformer 3 movie coming soon.
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Haha wow. I hardly was able to understand what any of these people said. How do you find anything useful when you check your tips? It must be hard looking through this nonsense.
I personally love the lack of question marks after any of the actual questions.
These are the same morons that go around posting 'FIRST' on everything. I bet there's going to be one here, too. Great exposé. I hope these people recognize their submissions and become horribly embarrassed and stay off of the internet forever.
I can't believe I haven't abused this feature yet.
"always go through doors even if you are scared"
I'm getting that tattooed on my leg.
Can we please add some of these quotes to someone's "List Of Epic Fails" blog? X-D
wow people are dumb
Dear lord please rid us of such stupidity soon so that i may live in peace.
What's Courtney Love "pisted" off about now?
Inquiring minds, probably don't care.
And to think, you actually wanted to interact more with your community, what silly people you GI editors are.
I wish I could say these are fake but I know better, and I'm sure a bunch of those "tipsters" think they could do your job better than you can...
Most likely, these are the same people who send in messages to GI Mail like "Howz comez u guyz dont rite about gamecube no more". Still hilarious though.
CAPS!!!....greatest button ever thought of.......
I think it is funny how dumb peopl can be sometimes
Actually, there are quite a few legit, useful tips that come through there as well. That blog would be awfully boring, though ;)
Oh wow,thats just...I don't even know how to describe that,words escape me.Do you seriously get all this in one day,and even more of this than posted here?
It's obvious many of these users are able to navigate the site as well as their keyboards. Obsolutely painful. Maybe you should reserve this tip line for select, high level members. Just a thought.
Ironic. *Abosolutely painful*
EPIC FAIL like honestly, this is the wierdest stuff. "live off of video games" what does that even mean?
Maybe I should stop using the tip link, there are way too any of my tips up there.
The thought of having to read these comments on a daily basis in order to play games for a living almost make me wish I had an anonymous cubicle job at a Fortune 500 company. Almost.
Why not put an age requirement on the tip line since its clear fourth grade-level brains posted some of this stuff? Unless you guys are sadist and enjoy laughing at underdeveloped minds.