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Ten Thousand Posts

Welcome to my 10,000th post on Giant Bomb, the website about videogames. It's been 2848 days (7 years 9 months and 17 days for those of you without calculators) since I made this account on Juy 21st, 2008. That's 384 blogs, 1025 images, and 12,200 PM's that I've sent and received. Filling in your mental timelines, I've been moderating this website for 5 years and 3 months, roughly 62% of my membership here. Since joining Giant Bomb I've lived in 8 different houses on 3 different continents. I enrolled and graduated from university, held 5 jobs, and I'm currently living on the opposite side of the planet from when I started. I have PM's from people in my inbox that started 6 years ago who I still keep in contact with on a daily basis. I've watched people meet on this site and go on to get married. I've made friends all over the world and, in some instances, I've even traveled to meet them in person, in the real. I flew to Boston for PAX and Jeff bought me my first ever meatloaf. I got to drink Tequila with Ryan. I feel fucking honoured.

And old. I feel old.

Increasingly the majority of my time on this site is spent moderating it. Sometimes it can get hairy, and you need some distance from the people that are taking part in the discussions you're being asked to police. That sucks, and I wish I could be still be more involved. I'm not going to lie, I miss being a sarcastic little shit and causing trouble (although I'm sure plenty would argue that nothing much has changed in that regard). I miss hanging out in the IRC and fucking around. But I'm also proud of the website we've built and helped to shape. I don't want to get all emotional or anything (I promised myself I wouldn't cry) but we did good, people. Yeah.

Ten thousand posts is a nice milestone. I don't get the opportunity to write much anymore, so you're going to have to excuse the sudden goofy nostalgia :)

Stay excellent, Giant Bomb community. I still want to be inside you.

Thanks for reading

Love Sweep

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ArbitraryWater

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Us old folk need to stick together and complain about how we miss the good old days when militant fans of the Wii still existed on these forums and the Giant Bomb crew worked in a tiny basement.

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TheHT

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Hear, hear, adorable hamburger creature.

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Congrats on the 10K, Sweep! As Plato famously said, "Only thing better than a sentient burger is a prolific sentient burger".

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Congrats on the milestone, Sweep. Hope to see you get to 20k. :p

@sweep said:

Stay excellent, Giant Bomb community. I still want to be inside you.

I want this to happen. Is that weird?

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Xeiphyer

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Congratulations Sweep, you dun good! Here's to 10,000 more!

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@sweep Are you really going to tarnish that well rounded nice-looking number with an insignificant post and turn it into an ugly 10001?

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Good for you

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10,000 posts in the AAAAIIIIRRRR!

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Congrats!

Cheeseburger Mod > Testicle-face Mod.

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riostarwind  Moderator

I'm glad your still around Sweep. Everyone needs a little sentient hamburger in their life.

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Here's to being old fucks! Cheers!

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Thumbs up Mr. hamburger duder! :D

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You will always be my #1 cheeseburger.

Also...

Hell of a throwback, there.

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O_O

And I thought my 2000 posts was something. Congrats?

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You joined on July 21st, 2008? What a n00b.

#July19thCrew

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Old is a state of mind. Move states and keep on being you.

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@sweep: I'm hoping to do something like this for my 5000th post, but I'll probably blow it and forget.

Congrats, though! 10,000 is a nice milestone.

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You're an inspiration to all the little talking sliders out there, hamburger.

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Wowza. Congrats on such a long (mostly) mod perspective on Giant Bomb. I can only imagine the stuff you would have seen and had to police in your tenure - and this site is one of the good ones!

Here's to 10,000 more.

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@sweep said:

Sometimes it can get hairy...I'm not going to lie...a...little shit and...fucking around. But I'm...proud of the...shape. I...want...good...excuse...to be inside you.

Thanks for reading

Love Sweep

Disgusting. A mod should ban this man.

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Good jorb!

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As the fourth highest poster on Giant Bomb (and probably one of the only few in the top 10 that actually still post on here), I offer my congratulations to you. I mean, there's a part of me that wants to say "get on my level with that post count," but when it comes down to it, you've made at least 20k more posts worth reading than I have!

We love ya, Sweep. Now get inside me...please.

Also, I want to see the entirety of this "attn worthless fuckface" message that Ryan apparently sent out because:

  1. It involves Biff.
  2. It involves Ryan.
  3. It is started with Ryan saying something about "stupid bitch," "Your Mom's pussy," and "if you think I'm fucking" and I REEEEEEALLY need to know where that goes afterwards.
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@fredddi43: Hey have you heard of this game called Hearthstone?

@hamst3r: They tried.

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@shagge: I'm not familiar with his early work...

Us old folk need to stick together and complain about how we miss the good old days when militant fans of the Wii still existed on these forums and the Giant Bomb crew worked in a tiny basement.

Can't be a coincidence that after you posted this @claude has shown his grizzled face for the first time in weeks...

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jakob187

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@arbitrarywater: Ain't it the truth, man. We're a dying breed. Sweep is our Fearless Leader at this point. I also have to say that, for the longest time, I actually believed that Sweep was Moose and Moose was Sweep. There was a certain irreverence to their humor that just matched up.

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Also, I want to see the entirety of this "attn worthless fuckface" message that Ryan apparently sent out

  • .

http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic-31/ryan-davis-has-been-cyber-bullying-me-via-pm-516673/

*le sigh*

I miss all the silly threads...and @biffmcblumpkin starting at least half of them.

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I don't think there's a message board I've been on where I've kept a clean disciplinary record. The lifetime ban at rllmuk being a proud moment. Employment really saved my post count at many a place. Hang on. I think I've been at The Dugout / The Third Half for at least 12 years. That's a child's life. What am I doing?

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