basically, i'm against a general talk forum because way back in the day (when dustloop didn't exist and it was gamecombos.com), there was a general watercooler subforum. that place turned to shit and it was a general hive of scum and villainy. if you want to shoot hte breeze, try:
- other forums like srk, smash boards, somethingawful, 4chan, whatever
- going into the irc chat room for guilty gear or srk or whatever
another not mentioned fact is that spam posts eat up bandwith and memory for this site. this site (as far as i know) is tiny and doesn't have that much spare resources to support a general discussion forum.
if you're using these forums as a way to make friends in real life, try the match finder section and go post in there and meet up with ppl near you.