I joined Giant Bomb on February 1, 2009, because Gamespot wasn’t really holding my appeal. Never would I have dreamed to actually stay in a video game community for this long, and to actually still enjoy it here! Some of ya’ll that’s known me these 3 years has known that I’ve grown into more of video game loving person, a self-loathing person (Click here for update), and even a people loving person. Unknown to most, I have grown very close to some of the users here, though for their own privacy I will not call them out. Before this all started, I vowed to never grow close to anyone and actually be a mutual or perhaps close friend; however, that has not worked. So, this post isn’t just for me… but for the incredible people who were willing to put up with me all these years (or year) that I can relate to, unlike the people that I know in real life. So to you all… thank you. I really feel less than an alien and outsider. =-)

So, since this is an anniversary post… I’m going to share the most precious memories that I have on record. =-P (My 10 most memorable moments that I have had here interacting with the community on Giant Bomb.)

1. The time when I revealed that I am asexual. The effect of this is still very fresh.

2. When I first introduced myself to the whole community who made me feel so welcome overtime (I was such a noob.)

3. The time when I talked and messaged a Giantbomb user via Skype for the very first time. It was also the first time I ever really talked with someone online and have a voice… though my voice isn’t something that I’m proud of.

4. My video game music blog made with a user that is no longer on Giantbomb, Diamond. Claude also did a nice introduction. The blog had 200 video game songs. The community made awesome recommendations. There were also other awesome video game music blogs, and they were a blast to make.

5. The time when I first appeared on an actual podcast called Mission Failed.

6. The time when I first entered the Giantbomb IRC chat room under the name “Computer”, which was changed to “Mork” afterwards.

7. The time where I expressed a very deep video game love with everyone, and even a Mario Kart racing idea.

8. When I was able to play Mario Kart Wii, Mario Kart 7, and Super Smash Bros. with fellow Giantbomb users, cause I have no visitors or real life friends to fight or race.

9. When I shared my poor artwork skills with everyone. Here and here.

10. When I was able to come up with reasonable and discussion worthy topics everyday in the forums for a short period of time. I think it lasted for a few months then I got tired. It was nice and it is still is nice to just see someone, even if it is just one person, to leave a comment.

Though I may not be as active now, I’m still here to stay! It’s been 3 great years, and may there be a future for me to continue to stay with the community. Cheers!

-Tyler York (Tireyo643)

Holy.... I remember reading some of those old threads. I don't think I was even signed up at that point. (Feel bad about it now but I stayed as a lurker for a good while before signing up.)

Anyway Happy Anniversary. Looks like you have some great memories.

It's been a wild ride, Ty. Here's to three more years.

@Claude said:

It's been a wild ride, Ty. Here's to three more years.

Three more years, or longer! =-P I'm pushing for lifetime.

Wow, that's quite cool. I'm making one year at GB next week. I don't have many memorable moments. Oh, Video_Game_King calls me Chickenhead sometimes. Does that count as a memorable moment? 
 
EDIT: Also, the SMT: Ten joke i made with Pepsiman, and  my dumb pun with Rocksteady making a TMNT game.

@MikeGosot: Only if you think it is.

Three years rhymes with "free tears", as in, tears falling freely as I weep upon this day, for here at Giant Bomb, it is my third anniverseray-e.
 
Three years down, hopefully three more to go. Thanks for sharing this. :)

@MikeGosot: Only if you think it is.

@N7: Definitely necessary that I posted this. = - )

@MikeGosot: Funny!

Good to see you still having fun^^

it has only just begun!

Sounds like you've really had a good time looking back on your GB history and sharing it with the rest of us. Good on ya, duder! I hope you still have a couple more years left in ya.

Now excuse me while I try to figure out when I registered this account.

It is hard to believe that Giant Bomb has been around for so long now. Seems just like last year I was listening to Arrow Pointing Down.

Happy three years!

Not been apart of this community as long as you, but i definitely like it over here, thats for sure

and grats btw

YOU SON OF A BITCH I'LL KILL YOU.

-Love, coakroach

Congrats on 3 years!

This thing ain't over until a bunch of suits ruin the party. 

@dudeglove: Anti-climax? How so?

@Flappy: Looks like you registered here on April 20, 2010.

@coakroach: You're weird. Also, aliens usually win against cockroaches. We don't use nuclear power!

Ah, good to see I was making fun of Vincenzo in your very first blog, you two had the same avatar (and he was a dick).

@TooWalrus: All I remember is that he liked Calvin and Hobbes and had it as his avatar too. He never bothered me. Is he banned or something? (You said "was".)

Well this is definitely your happiest post you should do more of these instead of the depressing ones so good luck, and where can you check the date you signed to the site?.

@AngelN7: You can check the date on your profile. Click "read more about me" and you should see it directly under your profile picture.

Been here since the start. Crazy to think how far this whole site/community has come. Glad there are long term duders still in the crowd. Congratulations on the anniversary!

4. My video game music blog made with a user that is no longer on Giantbomb, Diamond. Claude also did a nice introduction. The blog had 200 video game songs. The community made awesome recommendations. There were also other awesome video game music blogs, and they were a blast to make.

@X19: So do I. I sometimes I wish it was yesterday. O_O

@Tireyo643: Oh thanks that's really useful ... I've been here for barely two years?! what! does that mean that Comic Vine existed long before Giantbomb?

I'm sorry every thread you make I think about that hardcore depressing one where you said you hate yourself... It puts the things you say in a different light.

I'm sorry every thread you make I think about that hardcore depressing one where you said you hate yourself... It puts the things you say in a different light.

Congrats dude, and there are many more years of joy to be found on Giantbomb! btw I haven't heard the celebration music from FF:CC in a long time, I used to love playing that game. Too bad I never got the chance to experience the co-op experience due to the hassle of all the GBAs and link cables.

@Hector: The music definitely added a nice touch.

@Claude said:

@VisariLoyalist said:

I'm sorry every thread you make I think about that hardcore depressing one where you said you hate yourself... It puts the things you say in a different light.

I know right? Ty is cool. He was Mork on the Giant Bomb IRC. Hell, some people thought he was going to kill himself with this post after the I hate myself thread. He's so hard on himself. I never will understand it.

I'm hard on myself, because I feel like I can never meet my own expectations. An example would be like when I do my college work. I spend a long time on writing term papers, and I take longer than I should with them... because I double check them over and over again just to see if it's good enough to earn the best grade possible. I don't always necessarily get the grade, because there are really tough critics when it comes to writing anything. With that said, the mentality just builds up over time to where I feel like I'm truly insane and truly never going to be good enough for anything and everything I do. Trust me, I don't want to be like this. I'm 23 and depression at my age is dangerous, but I'm not going to kill myself. I'm much smarter than that. Sure, many people I expect, after that one post about hating myself, will see every thread in a different light; if I was in another persons shoes such as yourselves, I would too see things in a different light too.

I have no idea how to get in control of the depression to tell you the truth, because I don't want to rely on a drug or a drink for my mental problems. I feel like those are only temporary fixes. Sure I've been suggested therapy, but it's not going to work because of where I am at, who I know (family and supposedly friends), my severe trust issues, and it's also merely temporary. I would like to love, be moderately happy, function, have a friend and live life to the fullest like anyone else, but I don't really see a future for me to do such things and even be capable of them.

Thing is, I don't give up. I won't ever give up, because I will not go down easily because I somewhat think that I have a purpose. I need peoples support, though I'm getting it to an extent, but I've not yet met one who genuinely cares. I care so much about and look for the good in people, but when you think they are your friends and such... they are the ones that can hurt you most, and they don't care to bring you down or even care about what you say over a period of time, because they are out for number one and screw number two. I was raised to put people first before myself, and that's what I've been doing... and so far it hasn't really been worth a damn to me, because they are never there to help. You all have absolutely no idea how hard it was for me to post that post, but I thought it was going to be therapeutic... and it turned against me. At the rate I'm going, my future is dying a lonely old man with no friends or family around me if I ever make it to retirement, I'll probably have a decent paying job during my lifetime, but I won't ever like it. I'm stuck in a rock in a hard place, and I cannot get out. That's the future I see for myself, and I hate it. College gives me a little bit of a better hope for the future, but it only does so much and not enough. There aren't no promises and anymore there isn't such thing as a promise. I want to change, but with my mentality... the dream is further away than it is close.

I cannot continue on.... this is making me very upset, and I started out really good this morning... until I read what you two said because I felt like I needed to explain myself, which I failed to do so miserably. I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS ANYMORE. I love the community here, BUT DAMN SOME THINGS JUST SHOOT RIGHT THROUGH MY HEART.

@Tireyo643 said:

@Hector: The music definitely added a nice touch.

@Claude said:

@VisariLoyalist said:

I'm sorry every thread you make I think about that hardcore depressing one where you said you hate yourself... It puts the things you say in a different light.

I know right? Ty is cool. He was Mork on the Giant Bomb IRC. Hell, some people thought he was going to kill himself with this post after the I hate myself thread. He's so hard on himself. I never will understand it.

I'm hard on myself, because I feel like I can never meet my own expectations. An example would be like when I do my college work. I spend a long time on writing term papers, and I take longer than I should with them... because I double check them over and over again just to see if it's good enough to earn the best grade possible. I don't always necessarily get the grade, because there are really tough critics when it comes to writing anything. With that said, the mentality just builds up over time to where I feel like I'm truly insane and truly never going to be good enough for anything and everything I do. Trust me, I don't want to be like this. I'm 23 and depression at my age is dangerous, but I'm not going to kill myself. I'm much smarter than that. Sure, many people I expect, after that one post about hating myself, will see every thread in a different light; if I was in another persons shoes such as yourselves, I would too see things in a different light too.

I have no idea how to get in control of the depression to tell you the truth, because I don't want to rely on a drug or a drink for my mental problems. I feel like those are only temporary fixes. Sure I've been suggested therapy, but it's not going to work because of where I am at, who I know (family and supposedly friends), my severe trust issues, and it's also merely temporary. I would like to love, be moderately happy, function, have a friend and live life to the fullest like anyone else, but I don't really see a future for me to do such things and even be capable of them.

Thing is, I don't give up. I won't ever give up, because I will not go down easily because I somewhat think that I have a purpose. I need peoples support, though I'm getting it to an extent, but I've not yet met one who genuinely cares. I care so much about and look for the good in people, but when you think they are your friends and such... they are the ones that can hurt you most, and they don't care to bring you down or even care about what you say over a period of time, because they are out for number one and screw number two. I was raised to put people first before myself, and that's what I've been doing... and so far it hasn't really been worth a damn to me, because they are never there to help. You all have absolutely no idea how hard it was for me to post that post, but I thought it was going to be therapeutic... and it turned against me. At the rate I'm going, my future is dying a lonely old man with no friends or family around me if I ever make it to retirement, I'll probably have a decent paying job during my lifetime, but I won't ever like it. I'm stuck in a rock in a hard place, and I cannot get out. That's the future I see for myself, and I hate it. College gives me a little bit of a better hope for the future, but it only does so much and not enough. There aren't no promises and anymore there isn't such thing as a promise. I want to change, but with my mentality... the dream is further away than it is close.

I cannot continue on.... this is making me very upset, and I started out really good this morning... until I read what you two said because I felt like I needed to explain myself, which I failed to do so miserably. I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS ANYMORE. I love the community here, BUT DAMN SOME THINGS JUST SHOOT RIGHT THROUGH MY HEART.

lol i was happy till i read that too. dam that was depressing. feel like going out and kicking a cat to death now

I noticed I said some unkind things in one of your previous blog posts (an art one). I want to say I'm sorry for that and hopefully I have matured since saying those things. You're right when you said that your current situation and depression is temporary. Things will get better.. Never give up!

@CaLe said:

I noticed I said some unkind things in one of your previous blog posts (an art one). I want to say I'm sorry for that and hopefully I have matured since saying those things. You're right when you said that your current situation and depression is temporary. Things will get better.. Never give up!

It's been a while... but I accept your apology because I do remember to a point what was said now. You're a good man apologizing to me here and better late than never... so thank you, because it really means something. It's actually really great to know that many people here know that I keep it real, because I do not jack shit around when I talk about my situations. Thank you for the encouragement. =-)

@CaLe said:

I noticed I said some unkind things in one of your previous blog posts (an art one). I want to say I'm sorry for that and hopefully I have matured since saying those things. You're right when you said that your current situation and depression is temporary. Things will get better.. Never give up!

It's been a while... but I accept your apology because I do remember to a point what was said now. You're a good man apologizing to me here and better late than never... so thank you, because it really means something. It's actually really great to know that many people here know that I keep it real, because I do not jack shit around when I talk about my situations. Thank you for the encouragement. =-)

@CaLe said:

@Tireyo643 said:

@CaLe said:

I noticed I said some unkind things in one of your previous blog posts (an art one). I want to say I'm sorry for that and hopefully I have matured since saying those things. You're right when you said that your current situation and depression is temporary. Things will get better.. Never give up!

It's been a while... but I accept your apology because I do remember to a point what was said now. You're a good man apologizing to me here and better late than never... so thank you, because it really means something. It's actually really great to know that many people here know that I keep it real, because I do not jack shit around when I talk about my situations. Thank you for the encouragement. =-)

Part of my problem is that I'm so used to being trolled by people online that it makes it hard to recognise when someone is really pouring their heart out there. What you do is extremely brave. Really, I respect your courage very much.

Again thank you. It'll be safe to say that it's people like you that makes staying on Giantbomb worthwhile and making common every day life more bearable. I agree that it's hard to recognize who is trolling or not, because I've had a little bit of trouble with that myself. Just know that I'm not out here to mentally destroy anyone, I don't want to hurt anyone, I don't want to be the troll and if I have ever done anything wrong to anyone... I want to make things right, because it's the way I am. Talking about stuff with me gets you a long way, so don't be hesitant to call me out on whatever the problem maybe. It's healthy to you're social experiences as well as mine. =-)

Somewhere in 2009 was when I too signed up, but I was lurking this site since it started.

I actually remember the first time I encountered you on these forums. It was in one of those ask above answer below thread or something. And you earn one of my rare follows. Good to see you are still around!