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[super_etecoon]

I left IGN and Gamespot because of the Console Wars mentality that was so prevalent at those sites in 2007. As is customary now, all everyone wanted to do was label Nintendo a continued failure and highlight the success of Sony and the breakout Microsoft as prime examples.

Generally intrigued by the matchup that would ensue once the Revolution was announced I sought a site that, like Box Office Mojo, would put an actual score on the results, minus the hysterical rants of rabid fanboys. Much to my surprise, a fledgling forum also existed in a form I can only describe as a 1995 internet throwback. It was quaint, simple, and mostly non-combative. The few trolls that lurked around were quickly acknowledged as being trolls and were kept at non-feeding distance generally.

I met quite a few people on here whom I considered good friends. Interesting folk with solid opinions; they were passionate, but not pushy. They understood that the world is full of great ideas, but taht not all of them were for everyone.

Any number of things took me off the site, including a stronger focus in my own life on the "real world" as well as a distaste for the petty bickering that derails so many threads around here. Then there's also the fact that as a primarily Wii owner, the loss of support for the Duct-Taped Gamecube resulted in a lack of enthusiasm or the HD war between the nearly identical versions of Call of Duty that have come to be known as hardcore gaming in gaming circles.

I still lurk, swing by to see if certain news causes ripples, and await a new renaissance of intellectual discourse on this site, but I never stick around long enough to see if it exists. That's certainly a failure on my part.

I'll always love this site and all the work that Brett and the staff do here. Unfortunately it's just not what it used to be, but then again, I'm not really who I used to be either. I am thankful that enough people still participate to keep this community alive, like a town I used to grow up in that's always fun to return to to see what changes have been made.