How have you grown on Giant Bomb over the years?

I'm a better internet person because of Giant Bomb. Hell, I could have become some Wii fanboy, but yet I here I am.
Just another lover of games. Video Games.

I'm a better writer now; I'm better at expressing ideas/opinions clearly.

and now i love games in an intellectual capacity as well as a "having-fun" one!

I've learned to let shit go because of being on here. Because, fuck it, it's the internet.

Giant Bomb is like a slow cancer that eats you away from the inside until nothing is left. 
 
Can't believe I've been here since the beginning.

@JasonR86 said:

I've learned to let shit go because of being on here. Because, fuck it, it's the internet.

Every ISP should send you that message when you first sign up for the internet.

I think Im a better internet person because this site has allowed me to look at things from different perspectives

I was a shit poster, and am now a slightly less shittier poster (because this is the forum where I can not use punctuation, SA doesn't tolerate that shit)

PROGRESS

@JasonR86 said:

I've learned to let shit go because of being on here. Because, fuck it, it's the internet.

Every ISP should send you that message when you first sign up for the internet.

I agree with you Claude, the staff here is really awesomely against such petty side-taking. Is it good? Then I'll give it a shot. I guess I've grown as an IRL person too, but that's another topic.

I think I'm a better internet person thanks to the people on the forums.

I agree with you Claude, the staff here is really awesomely against such petty side-taking. Is it good? Then I'll give it a shot. I guess I've grown as an IRL person too, but that's another topic.

@Claude: Aww, thanks bro. I like it here. Memories!

Giant Bomb has made me a much better person, there you go.

Well I went from an adult with a waning interest in games to an adult who doesn't play games aside from the odd iphone game.

I still watch a lot of videogame coverage for some inexplicable reason though.

Giant Bomb has made me a much better person, there you go.

Whether that's a good or a bad thing, that's for others to judge, but I'm definitely still the same "internet person" as I was before GB.

I've only been here a year, so not much change. I have been buying more games, though, because I'm more frequently updated on them now. Not sure whether this a good thing or a bad thing. :(

I've only been here a year, so not much change. I have been buying more games, though, because I'm more frequently updated on them now. Not sure whether this a good thing or a bad thing. :(

Giantbomb's kinda become my number one source of entertainment since I joined. Its kind of takin the place over my regular television watching which was maybe 2-3 hours a day.

Hell, you go back and see some of the shit I was posting on here a couple years ago and you'd be... Not better for it, but I am and that's pretty rad! My grammar's gotten way better and I've definitively broadened a few horizons because of all this, thanks in no small part to yous duders and your awesome blogs, so thanks 'n stuff!

Where's the "Grown on a videogame website? LOL no" option?

Hell, you go back and see some of the shit I was posting on here a couple years ago and you'd be... Not better for it, but I am and that's pretty rad! My grammar's gotten way better and I've definitively broadened a few horizons because of all this, thanks in no small part to yous duders and your awesome blogs, so thanks 'n stuff!

@JasonR86 said:

I've learned to let shit go because of being on here. Because, fuck it, it's the internet.

hope i get to that point. for as mature as the GB community claims it is (caveat that there appear to be quite a few decent and contributing members) there sure seem to be a lot of complete assholes on it. they seem to appear mostly in the video comments, overly condescending and critical of the staff here when they mess up during a quick look or overlook one or two small parts of the game. i don't mind constructive criticism that recognizes the amount of work teh GB crew puts into this site; just the over-reactionary filth that wants to put them down at every turn. also the irrational patrick haters. i know, i know, they're mostly a vocal minority, but it ends up casting a pall over the GB community as a whole. forums (for the most part) seem to be a fair bit more subdued and rational. hopefully i can separate wheat from chaff and come to recognize the goodness in the GB community i know is there.

i guess assholes will be assholes, and there's a ton of good and interesting people here it seems. about to celebrate my personal 1 yr anniversary of being a regular visitor to this site, so like you say i should learn to just let it go.

I chose "B". I've changed, but not because of Giant Bomb.

I've been a troublemaker in ways you can't imagine.

Nothing about Giant Bomb or it's "community" has made me grow. I haven't learned a thing and I am still just little old me. 
So I guess, C? 
 
@Swoxx  said: 

Where's the "Grown on a videogame website? LOL no" option?

@Claude said:

@UnrealDP said:

Hell, you go back and see some of the shit I was posting on here a couple years ago and you'd be... Not better for it, but I am and that's pretty rad! My grammar's gotten way better and I've definitively broadened a few horizons because of all this, thanks in no small part to yous duders and your awesome blogs, so thanks 'n stuff!

Dude, my grammar has gotten way better. Mad props always to Giant Bomb for that and all its peeps.

There ain't enough props in the world for all these GB peeps, brother.

@Claude said:

@UnrealDP said:

Hell, you go back and see some of the shit I was posting on here a couple years ago and you'd be... Not better for it, but I am and that's pretty rad! My grammar's gotten way better and I've definitively broadened a few horizons because of all this, thanks in no small part to yous duders and your awesome blogs, so thanks 'n stuff!

Dude, my grammar has gotten way better. Mad props always to Giant Bomb for that and all its peeps.

There ain't enough props in the world for all these GB peeps, brother.

@Claude said:

@UnrealDP said:

@Claude said:

Dude, my grammar has gotten way better. Mad props always to Giant Bomb for that and all its peeps.

There ain't enough props in the world for all these GB peeps, brother.

Alright, I mighta been a bit hyperbolic, but this place is still pretty rad.

Y'all ain't never gonna change me! Y'all can't tell me nothing!

I post a lot less anymore. Giant Bomb has taught me that there's no convincing some folk.

 I'm the other motherfucker who grew up before I got here. If riffing memes for a dozen pages and getting in giant quote-box pyramid arguments about who's ruining Quick Looks the most is the GiantBomb community grown up, then oh god.
 
EDIT- If "I post a lot less anymore" is GiantBomb grown up, then OH FUCK!

@JasonR86 said:

I've learned to let shit go because of being on here. Because, fuck it, it's the internet.

This.

I think I've improved a lot as a writer, too. I go back and read some of my old work and I feel like I have progressed, that I'm not communicating my ideas and points more fluently and articulately.

Still a cunt, though...

@freakin9 said:

Well I went from an adult with a waning interest in games to an adult who doesn't play games aside from the odd iphone game.

I still watch a lot of videogame coverage for some inexplicable reason though.

Same, pretty much. I'm only here because I love the duders.

I'm THAT other motherfucker. Fear me.

Where's the, "I'm wasting time for hours and hours and ignoring my priorities because I'm watching videos on Giantbomb" option?

But seriously though, it's not that bad and plus I'm learning a lot more about video games.

Well I went from being 22 to 26 and my 20s have been 10x more tumultuous than my teens were, so yeah, I've grown with Giant Bomb. At first I wasn't very good at accepting that people liked things I thought were really bad, but I've become more understanding of such things. I dunno if that's thanks to Giant Bomb, or just maturing in general.

I don't really think I've changed much because of Giant Bomb, the changes have been more just life happening, but Giant Bomb have been with me, and as such it is part of me <3

This being one of the few sites that accepted me into the forums ranks has certainly helped. I feel valued here for my opinion, not because I happen to have breasts. I've grown thanks to Giantbomb and I've met/talked with a crazy amount of people that put a whole lot of things into perspective.
 
This site's community even killed off my last bit of Sony hate, which I'm thankful for since it was childish and games are games.

i dont post much but over the past few months iv been here i know shit now i can better understand why a game is shit and why i should play a game i never would have played before good stuff

I went from an attentionseeking, lying, shallow shell of a man to an eccentric, compulsive but generally more thinking and considerate shell of a man!

I'd say that is better!

Man some of my old posts... I feel bad.

About six inches or so.

In all seriousness, A.

I changed a bit on here but mostly my experiences elsewhere are what caused me to change a lot about myself. Being on here more has definitely helped in my shift in becoming more PC oriented though.

I use to be a piece of shit awful poster. Now I just don't post as much or as poorly I hope :P

@JasonR86 said:

I've learned to let shit go because of being on here. Because, fuck it, it's the internet.

Exactly. I can't even keep count of all the times when I write out a full response to some internet shit... think about it for a second, and then delete the whole thing then move onto something else.

I am a glorious motherfucker. I was before Giant Bomb, and I will continue to be so long after Giant Bomb ceases to exist.

I'm a sort-of better writer because of it, I guess?

@ZeForgotten said:

Nothing about Giant Bomb or it's "community" has made me grow. I haven't learned a thing and I am still just little old me.
So I guess, C?

C for Cunt, right?

See? You have learned something from Giant Bomb.