So I just bought a year of Club Penguin membership...

I have been thinking about doing this for months now, I've just been trying to find the right game to do it with, and what better way to do it than with Disney's very own Club Penguin. Ok so basically whats happened is I went and bought a years worth of Club Penguin membership, this alone is a crazy statement, but it gets even crazier. Every Sunday up until thee last Sunday of September, I shall do a blog telling you what I have been doing in Club Penguin. Even as I am writing this it seems like such a bad idea, but hey Club Penguin is a game that Giant Bomb does not follow and you guys need to know about the goings on in Club Penguin!

Ok a little backstory is needed I suppose, Club Penguin was officially released in 2005 on October 24th. It was a small run thing run by a few dudes in some basement someplace, I started playing in April 2006. I played constantly for about a year or so, but then in 2007 Disney paid £350 Million and bought Club Penguin. I was so pissed off because at that time I hated Disney, mostly because of the shit they were putting out on TV, so I said goodbye to my friends and left. Now after 4 years, I'm going to jump back in and I want to share this experience with you.

I also never had a membership before, I was a free member for all of those years, so it will be cool to see both how things have changed and all the features I should get. I'm going to try to spend about an hour or so on it each day, and I will be letting you know about everything thats going on. I'll play around on it today and tomorrow then post week 0 tomorrow evening, this will give me time to get familiar with it and for you to prepare yourselves for the content that is to come!

I could use some ideas for names for this blog series, also props to IkariNoTekken for making the banner.

I have been thinking about doing this for months now, I've just been trying to find the right game to do it with, and what better way to do it than with Disney's very own Club Penguin. Ok so basically whats happened is I went and bought a years worth of Club Penguin membership, this alone is a crazy statement, but it gets even crazier. Every Sunday up until thee last Sunday of September, I shall do a blog telling you what I have been doing in Club Penguin. Even as I am writing this it seems like such a bad idea, but hey Club Penguin is a game that Giant Bomb does not follow and you guys need to know about the goings on in Club Penguin!

Ok a little backstory is needed I suppose, Club Penguin was officially released in 2005 on October 24th. It was a small run thing run by a few dudes in some basement someplace, I started playing in April 2006. I played constantly for about a year or so, but then in 2007 Disney paid £350 Million and bought Club Penguin. I was so pissed off because at that time I hated Disney, mostly because of the shit they were putting out on TV, so I said goodbye to my friends and left. Now after 4 years, I'm going to jump back in and I want to share this experience with you.

I also never had a membership before, I was a free member for all of those years, so it will be cool to see both how things have changed and all the features I should get. I'm going to try to spend about an hour or so on it each day, and I will be letting you know about everything thats going on. I'll play around on it today and tomorrow then post week 0 tomorrow evening, this will give me time to get familiar with it and for you to prepare yourselves for the content that is to come!

I could use some ideas for names for this blog series, also props to IkariNoTekken for making the banner.

oh hizang, what will we ever do without you and your sometimes badly rationalized purchases

Man, my 12 year old brother doesn't even play that anymore.

Bought a year of club penguin membership? Great!

Only thing left to do now is end your life.

This seems all the more hilarious to me imagining Hardcore Dave doing it.

I would now like to point out my Penguin has a MOUSTACHE!

This seems all the more hilarious to me imagining Hardcore Dave doing it.

"The game has been criticized for teaching consumerism and allowing players to "cheat".

Found that little bit on Wikipedia interesting.

This seems all the more hilarious to me imagining Hardcore Dave doing it.

I wish I didn't click on this thread. Then I wouldn't have known about this game.

Never heard of this shit.

Oh God.

This thread reminds me of Four Lions. I really enjoyed Four Lions.

@Hizang: You are insane.

I am also following you now.

What the fuck? This an even weirder purchasing decision then Jeff getting a STO lifetime subscription.

I have been thinking of joining Club Penguin to play with my little sister so I'll be watching your blog's Hizang to see if I would enjoy it.

@mylifeforAiur: samesies!

Man I have a bunch of new followers now, I guess there's no going back now.

Man, I remember Club Penguin...

My little brother stooped playing that when he was 7.

@Hizang said:

Man I have a bunch of new followers now, I guess there's no going back now.

You could always fake your own death.

Hey, guess who else has a club penguin membership? My 11-year-old brother. Hizang, don't do anything stupid that will end with me being able to find your house online because you had to register for a database.

Crazy idea, which I endorse entirely.

I've sent a little banner your way, nothing special but it could be okay for now. See what you think.

I remember having some good times with this game around release. That spy phone thing made me feel so cool.

I have no opinion of this but i had to post here to break the chain of Hardcore Dave avatars.

I hate that thing, it makes your kid feel like a reject if you dont pony up the cash.

This should be... interesting?

i guess i will have to follow this and read all bout it ... damn it!

One of my ex-girlfriends used to play Club Penguin all the time. I would just watch her and scratch my head, apparently "not getting it".

Club Penguin always seemed strange to me when I saw ads and such on the internet, but now I can hear all about it without having to lift a finger! Thank you for your sacrifice, Hizang.

I would like to thank Giant Bomb user IkariNoTekken for creating this banner for me.

Also 40+ new followers since this blog went up...

More like Club Lameguin, right guys?

More like Club Lameguin, right guys?

Hi, I noticed the banner isn't displaying full size so it appears a little fuzzy.

I uploaded to ImageShack and you can link it via html.

If you don't already know - Edit you OP and click 'More' on the right hand side, then go to HTML and copy/paste this:

<img src='http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/1646/cpbannerhizang.jpg' border='0'/>

It should appear full size, like this:

Thanks for using my banner. Can't wait for your first CP update.

@IkariNoTekken: It looks better, but now I can't see Lucha Deer.

@Hizang: Mm, really? It seems to be displaying fine my end.

So, is it actually cutting the right side edge of the image off?

@IkariNoTekken: So on the OP can you see the whole banner, if so it must be just the way its displaying on my end.

First time in Disney history that CP means something other than child pornography?

@Obsidian said:

This seems all the more hilarious to me imagining Hardcore Dave doing it.

A true gamer may play Club Penguin, but a true gamer would never like Club Penguin.

I don't get it.

Maybe I'm too old.

Is this like Neopets but... with penguins?

I'm sorry for the hell you will be going through but for us, this is good content. Keep us posted duder!

@CornBREDX:

This seems like a great idea. I give it thirty stars.

@Hizang: Yeah it looks like this:

It displays like that in both Chrome and Firefox - my screen resolution is 1680 x 1050 btw.

@IkariNoTekken: I'm on a Mac on Safari and it looks like this.

Make sure to post Screenies

@Hizang said:

@CornBREDX:

What the fuck...you paid money to go BACK to that?