Fivespot
04-24-2008, 10:11 AM
Just realized today that I recently hit the five year mark at VGR. I know many of you have spent a similar number of years here and then there are more who recently joined in the last three years or so.
It's a great community with it's ups and downs but regardless it's still a place I've come to chat for over five years. And the true meaning of my name is finally revealed. Kidding.
Joined five years ago when my wife and I decided to own a retail store. Actually we had already owned it a year by the time I got to signing up (for the first year or so I just visited and never posted). I would sit at our store night after night after my regular job ended for a couple hours thereafter. Since we were a new business in a not-so-perfect location, there wasn't much for me to do. The shelves were clean, product placed, books balanced, bills payed.... so I found VGR to help kill time.
I think I might have started with a couple reviews although I can't remember which games they were for. I found the site initially for the user game reviews specifically. Back then, that portion of videogamereview was thriving. I could supplement major site reviews from the then big hitters, IGN mainly, with user reviews which ultimately provided me with a much better understanding of what each game was about. I was on a tighter budget and considering the investment we made in our store, reviews were crucial to me as they helped guide my purchases.
Roughly one year later, I discovered the forums and signed up. Sat real quiet for a long time and only posted rarely. It was my first experience to any internet forums and frankly I was shy. Obviously I shed that later on and have been actively posting for much of the five years since my first day on the site.
Thanks to all of you for making the last five years enjoyable. Got into a silly tift or two with a few VGR members but it's only videogames and if I were to step back and take a more realistic, high level viewpoint on my life, videogames are a hobby and are supposed to be fun. At least that's why I choose to play videogames. In the grand schemes of things, it's stupid to even argue about stuff like this but then again it's fun. We're all passionate about our games/systems and it shows in our posts. Quite a few of VGR's members are also knowledgable and intelligent. I love that about VGR. It's gets watered down by imbecile fanboys but who cares. As annoying as they are, they're just showing up and sharing their love and passion for videogames.
May we all grow old playing the games we love and then coming here to discuss and argue about them. Forget videogames being mainly for men between the ages of 18-34 or whatever those numbers are that we all hear spit out of "experts" mouths or when referring to marketing strategies and what not. Let's carry this number on up as we grow older. I'm currently 34, right at the peak age of that number and I'm not slowing down. Plan to play games as long as my hands and body let me.
It's a great community with it's ups and downs but regardless it's still a place I've come to chat for over five years. And the true meaning of my name is finally revealed. Kidding.
Joined five years ago when my wife and I decided to own a retail store. Actually we had already owned it a year by the time I got to signing up (for the first year or so I just visited and never posted). I would sit at our store night after night after my regular job ended for a couple hours thereafter. Since we were a new business in a not-so-perfect location, there wasn't much for me to do. The shelves were clean, product placed, books balanced, bills payed.... so I found VGR to help kill time.
I think I might have started with a couple reviews although I can't remember which games they were for. I found the site initially for the user game reviews specifically. Back then, that portion of videogamereview was thriving. I could supplement major site reviews from the then big hitters, IGN mainly, with user reviews which ultimately provided me with a much better understanding of what each game was about. I was on a tighter budget and considering the investment we made in our store, reviews were crucial to me as they helped guide my purchases.
Roughly one year later, I discovered the forums and signed up. Sat real quiet for a long time and only posted rarely. It was my first experience to any internet forums and frankly I was shy. Obviously I shed that later on and have been actively posting for much of the five years since my first day on the site.
Thanks to all of you for making the last five years enjoyable. Got into a silly tift or two with a few VGR members but it's only videogames and if I were to step back and take a more realistic, high level viewpoint on my life, videogames are a hobby and are supposed to be fun. At least that's why I choose to play videogames. In the grand schemes of things, it's stupid to even argue about stuff like this but then again it's fun. We're all passionate about our games/systems and it shows in our posts. Quite a few of VGR's members are also knowledgable and intelligent. I love that about VGR. It's gets watered down by imbecile fanboys but who cares. As annoying as they are, they're just showing up and sharing their love and passion for videogames.
May we all grow old playing the games we love and then coming here to discuss and argue about them. Forget videogames being mainly for men between the ages of 18-34 or whatever those numbers are that we all hear spit out of "experts" mouths or when referring to marketing strategies and what not. Let's carry this number on up as we grow older. I'm currently 34, right at the peak age of that number and I'm not slowing down. Plan to play games as long as my hands and body let me.