i just joined and was wondering, i see alot of unecessary posts around, i havent used forums alot but it seems that alot of the threads here dont relate to game design and am wondering why? just curious thats all? if its also a place for friends to communicate, how will a member of some big company feel if he saw some of these posts? stuff like that *toself: this may also count as unecessary :D*

You mean Morbius?? Every forum have to get some freedom. Or you'll see some very very tough kicks from the bored users.

hilbert and morbius are not-game related categories of the forum

yeah, there you can talk about (nearly) everything and get the other forum-users better to know
many forums have an offtopic-section...