Well it's been just under a week since the site launched and its been the high point of the week for me. Though outside of the interweb it has been a horrible week indeed, but more on that later. The forums are the Wild West of the site, a rogue figure on the hill, the sherrifs do their best but they're so wild that they can only realistically clamp down on the most heinous of crimes (Rickrolling, porn, trolling and the likes) I must admit I love it, posting on threads that normally would be banned so fast it hurts, able to read whole threads without posts being deleted or having posts faded out because the users that posted them have been banned (if you don't know what I mean look at the escapist forums - there are bans every 5 minutes it seems). The wiki system works excellently allowing the users to contribute content to games they are passionate about, it's a shame then that the number of submissions were so high the team practically drowned in them, I think there are still submissions that are four plus days old but no-one is angry, because they know that all the submissions are being dealt with as quickly as possible. On the whole this site feels like what the web SHOULD be, and especially what gaming sites should be, removing both the pretense and the assumption that because the staff are journalists they know all, while the plebs know nothing.

I truly envy those of you going to PAX there are questions I would love to ask the team as well as Rich and Alex. Though in all honesty I suspect the pair of them are here in some form.

I never really was a part of the community with Gamespot. If I am not involved in something at the start I tend to shy away since internet communities can be so closed off.  So I am glad I got involved here at the start and I look forward to seeing how it develops.

Anyway onto the real world, this week by Nan died of a stroke and this site has been the comfort blanket I kept coming back to, so thank you Giant Bomb, you've made a difficult week mildly enjoyable at times. For that I truly am grateful.