First-Person Shouter

Jesus Christ! The moment I clicked that link, my head exploded!
And that was awesome! Cheering for more!

Awesome, Mr. Livingston. Pure awesome.

Here’s hoping for this not causing every site in operation to never update, ever!

Hmm, odd that this suddenly goes up just as the volcanic ash cloud grounds European flights. He’s obviously moonlighting as an airliner pilot.

Also, this is frickin’ awesome.

Love it!

I have one response to this development:

**** YES!!!

That is all.

Dude, nobody running a free website should ever feel bad about putting up a little advertising. As long as it’s not one of those big fully-animated things that blocks out half the screen and can’t be closed, that is.

UH OH, another one of Chris’ crazy gaming news schemes.

jk, lol, looks great

Haha, great stuff. Don’t worry about the ads, I think they make it feel more like an actual news site.

Crazy. Fucking. Awesome.

I greatly approve.

Always thought you should get paid for writing, so ads are not a problem. =)

The site looks FANTASTIC. Seriously, it’s very well organized.

Are you going to open up the First Person Observer to outside contributions?

Pure win.

Is there anything on there about that recent shepherd’s pie theft?

win

Holyfudgeawesomepie!

The site is great, very unique in the game-space. Don’t be ashamed at all about the ads they’re even less intrusive then actual news websites and they make it feel more authentic.

Pretty damn awesome. Are you going to take this somewhere, or was this just for fun? You have a lot of potential. I suggest showing this to as many people, professional gaming sites especially, as possible. Take this as far as you can.

I turned AdBlocking off on it, for you, Mr. Chris, you deserve all the hard earned revenue you can get.

Fantastic idea, compelling implementation!

The thing I find exciting; most of the comments I have seen so far appear to be on the same vain, as if written by others within the universe the articles are about, making the site seem even more authentic.

Haha, good news. I liked the panau police blotter and I was just thinking it’d be great if you did more stuff like it.

Love the new site, it’s hilarious!

I agree with Andy Pearson, people writing comments as if they are in the same world really adds to the feel of authenticity.

I love this idea!

Pretty good site. In addition to the Real Ads, you should put some Fake Ads in there. Like a recruiting poster for The Alliance.

RSS feed needs fixing. See http://www.madtinkerer.org and scroll down a little to see the exciting story about “test for feed”. Or if you’ve fixed it already, it should have a link to the latest FPO post instead.

Your right, First-Person Shouter ISNT going anywhere, wink wink. JK still love ya Chris

That site is just full of so much win.

“One final note: there are some advertisements on the site. I decided I spend far too much time creating and abandoning websites to continue to do so without earning a little ad revenue on the side. If you find them too intrusive or distracting, please feel free to let me know and I’ll see what I can do to tone them down.”

Don’t worry about the advertising, put as much of it in there as you want, heck, make 80% of the website ads. Nobody using Firefox will see them anyway. =D

Dude, you should put ads on this site, I don’t think anybody gives a damn, and you could make some extra money. All your fans only want the best for you, consider how much you could save on hosting!

Also, can we be best friends?

Sorry about the double post,

I agree with John, fans should make fake ads to go on the site!
Think of the awesome, eventually you could accept fan articles, I think you actually make some real money on First Person Observer if you can get a dedicated audience and writers.

…wow.

I saw the site on RPS, go, read all the articles, think they are funny, come here, see that you created it, and somehow didn’t notice the connection until coming here.

Regardless, nice job. Very funny articles, I hope the site catches fire (In a good way). I’ll be telling all of my friends, real life and otherwise.

Here’s betting it’s updated once or twice for a few months, becomes popular and then suddenly never gets updated unless it’s mentioned in PCGamer.

How about the First Person Observer lonely hearts column?

Sh!t man, I have enjoyed concerned, 1Fort, First-Person Shouter so much I would not complain in the slightest about ads man. You sir, rock sir.

He can go ages without updating and still pull off all this awesome shit. Epic Win.

I just read a few lines of the observer and finally stopped to prevent my mouth from cramping in a really ugly kind of smile.
One night after reading the panau blotter, it seemed so obvious to do a newspaper in this style. The existence itself screemed for this newspaper to come true. And now it is real. Oh my Chris! I think we are witnessing to the birth of a new format spreading all over the universe.

This is like the Onion for gamers. I fully approve.

Wow Chris, I love this new site. And don’t worry about the adverts, they are not that intrusive.

Please keep up your awefully funny news creations!

I’ll get excited if it’s not abandoned by the end of the month.

j/k, this really is a neat idea.

But seriously try to update at least once a month.

well, great news, but mate, do you have any general-mail! or a fan mail, or stuff?

i just want to tell you some stuff about how m. i like your stuff.

also, new blog?

wtf april fools? it’s earl 4 that

anyways, love tha new developments, if (its true), that is, matte

yea..

also, what other things you plan, story making, or any game comic/series-or thing?!!

It would be cool if users could submit stories. Sure this may result in some “troll” articles, but you should be able to find some way to regulate it, like having other users review them before being posted, or some automated system that rejects stories with TOO much vulgarity.

Well, user submitted stuff is kind of iffy because you have forums that might find it lulzy to post some article that is either stupid or has “NSFW” content (pronz) and will spam post it.

The only way I could see it is to maybe pick people from the comment section (There is a brilliant number of commenters, I try to contribute when I can) to get a few people capable of doing articles, but then you could have people accidentally stealing ideas.

Brilliant! I love this satire. Witty punchlines, clever observations, top quality work.