So.... What's been going on, guys?

Hey Duders, new and old. Been awhile since I've posted in these parts. And for good reasons too (I'll get to that later). How is everybody doing? Good? That's great for you. Bad? Drink up and forget your troubles. But I'm not here to talk about you. I'm here to talk about my favorite website, Giantbomb dot com. Its a website about video games. A website where you can click on links and 90% of the time that link will bring you to a different page with video games on them. I like that. Which is why I have loved the layout of the site ever since it has been in beta. No BS ads about how I can make my dick bigger. But I knew at some point, the guys running this joint would have to stop taking out of their mom's savings. 
 
Now it's been awhile since I've been roaming the boards, but I am still up to date with the bombcast (even though it may take a month for me to catch up) and I still watch the majority of their quick looks, mailbags or whatever random shit Jeff, Ryan, Brad and Vinny very well wish to throw up on the front page of their website. And I wouldn't have a problem if these guys shot a video of Dave taking a piss. You know why? Because these guys' charisma is so likable. Vinny, Brad, Ryan and Jeff are all very lively (maybe not Brad, but he is still very.... er.... bradley) and bring character to an otherwise characterless journalism. I have always felt this way since GB was in beta and I felt that they haven't lost any of that, but instead have gained more with new writers, interns (Fuck whatever you guys say, Kessler had more balls than the half of you to say whatever the hell he wanted, even after taking shit) and merging some events with sister Wiskey Media website's editors (A couple years ago, I couldn't imagine Alex working in the same office as the GB dudes again. All I can say is YESSSSSSSSSSS) 
 
Now here is where my problems come up. I hate people. After being a forums browser over at Gamespot for some time, I've learned how bitchy, incoherent, idiotic, selfish and ignorant people can be sometimes. Which is why I stopped posting over there. I'll come clean right now, I didn't leave GS because Jeff was fired, I left because I couldn't stand the idiots over there anymore. This is where Giantbomb filled the gap. GB was a new website created by a dude who I thought was pretty dope. So I thought, hell, maybe people like me will leave GS because of the assholes and come over here. Maybe this website can be the manifest of intelligent conversations (as intelligent as they can get through the internet). Maybe our jokes wouldn't be just old memes. And you know what, it was pretty awesome for a while. Sure we had trolls, but I always thought a few good trolls are infinitely better than a shitload of bad ones.  
 
I became a regular visitor to Giantbomb forums and met a lot of cool people who shared my interests. We all hung out, threw back a few brewskies, and played horseshoes by the setting sun. (If any of them didn't live in effing England). But then I started noticing something. Assholes. Everywhere. Suddenly treating every user like they are below you became the hit thing on these forums. For some weird reason, Giantbombers felt like they were the elite in the game community. At some point I did feel our forums WERE elite because of the quality out of them, but I did not feel this gave everybody the right to try to put down newbies and non-frequents. That was a year ago. Since then I have not been able to visit the forums as much I'd like because of school, but I'm starting to not even think of these forums the same way I did before. I don't want to spend hours talking to the cool people I met before. Sure there are still a lot of cool users still making it interesting to stick around these parts, but there are also all those pricks running rampant similar to when I tried avoiding them back in the Gamespot days. 
 
(Continuation forth coming. Going to be about the subscription, bombcast and you assholes. just kidding about the assholes part <3)

Hey Duders, new and old. Been awhile since I've posted in these parts. And for good reasons too (I'll get to that later). How is everybody doing? Good? That's great for you. Bad? Drink up and forget your troubles. But I'm not here to talk about you. I'm here to talk about my favorite website, Giantbomb dot com. Its a website about video games. A website where you can click on links and 90% of the time that link will bring you to a different page with video games on them. I like that. Which is why I have loved the layout of the site ever since it has been in beta. No BS ads about how I can make my dick bigger. But I knew at some point, the guys running this joint would have to stop taking out of their mom's savings. 
 
Now it's been awhile since I've been roaming the boards, but I am still up to date with the bombcast (even though it may take a month for me to catch up) and I still watch the majority of their quick looks, mailbags or whatever random shit Jeff, Ryan, Brad and Vinny very well wish to throw up on the front page of their website. And I wouldn't have a problem if these guys shot a video of Dave taking a piss. You know why? Because these guys' charisma is so likable. Vinny, Brad, Ryan and Jeff are all very lively (maybe not Brad, but he is still very.... er.... bradley) and bring character to an otherwise characterless journalism. I have always felt this way since GB was in beta and I felt that they haven't lost any of that, but instead have gained more with new writers, interns (Fuck whatever you guys say, Kessler had more balls than the half of you to say whatever the hell he wanted, even after taking shit) and merging some events with sister Wiskey Media website's editors (A couple years ago, I couldn't imagine Alex working in the same office as the GB dudes again. All I can say is YESSSSSSSSSSS) 
 
Now here is where my problems come up. I hate people. After being a forums browser over at Gamespot for some time, I've learned how bitchy, incoherent, idiotic, selfish and ignorant people can be sometimes. Which is why I stopped posting over there. I'll come clean right now, I didn't leave GS because Jeff was fired, I left because I couldn't stand the idiots over there anymore. This is where Giantbomb filled the gap. GB was a new website created by a dude who I thought was pretty dope. So I thought, hell, maybe people like me will leave GS because of the assholes and come over here. Maybe this website can be the manifest of intelligent conversations (as intelligent as they can get through the internet). Maybe our jokes wouldn't be just old memes. And you know what, it was pretty awesome for a while. Sure we had trolls, but I always thought a few good trolls are infinitely better than a shitload of bad ones.  
 
I became a regular visitor to Giantbomb forums and met a lot of cool people who shared my interests. We all hung out, threw back a few brewskies, and played horseshoes by the setting sun. (If any of them didn't live in effing England). But then I started noticing something. Assholes. Everywhere. Suddenly treating every user like they are below you became the hit thing on these forums. For some weird reason, Giantbombers felt like they were the elite in the game community. At some point I did feel our forums WERE elite because of the quality out of them, but I did not feel this gave everybody the right to try to put down newbies and non-frequents. That was a year ago. Since then I have not been able to visit the forums as much I'd like because of school, but I'm starting to not even think of these forums the same way I did before. I don't want to spend hours talking to the cool people I met before. Sure there are still a lot of cool users still making it interesting to stick around these parts, but there are also all those pricks running rampant similar to when I tried avoiding them back in the Gamespot days. 
 
(Continuation forth coming. Going to be about the subscription, bombcast and you assholes. just kidding about the assholes part <3)

Uhh... hi, nice to see ya again. Not really sure what else to say after all that, so uhh... okay.

Well I was having trouble trying to fit this escort into my trunk because I was in... 
 
Why am I telling you this?

It could be a trend or it might be growing pains. I've found that the forums vary from week to week and sometimes days. The boards have been stressed the last few days, so I wouldn't call that normal. But before all the subscription stuff hit, I saw many new members being welcomed. Well, unless they were new trying to complete a quest and posted some crap like, "I'm new first blog, love these quests.". That pisses people off.
 
I do get sick of them from time to time. Sometimes I just want to get on and have some fun, other times just hangout and talk about video games. I just take the good with the bad.

The forums were generally calm until a few days ago when the subscription stuff came out.  Besides that event in itself the site has become a lot more busy, some people who have also been away for months because their asshole ways were generally not accepted have come back to wreck their temporary havok again, some of the people who are just popping up in the last few days also are assholes.
 
Basically, the hornets nest was stirred up and far from ending with the bombcast issue, it has carried over into fanboyism, people acting like jerks, and much much more.
 
Give it a few months and things will return to relative calm.
 
That's not at all to say all the returning people are assholes, but the assholes certainly stick out.

I've only seen a couple people make fun of others because of their post count, most of the people here are very welcoming. Even a thread that just says, "Hi, I just found this site" will get a couple pages of welcomes.

I agree, except about Kessler. Just....no.  
 
@SethPhotopoulos said:

" Well I was having trouble trying to fit this escort into my trunk because I was in...  Why am I telling you this? "