Hey. This is actually my first topic posted here and while I had been accumulating posts in order to bring up a specific topic, that's not really on my mind right now so let me formally introduce myself - You can call me aLkaLiNE.
I come from Oregon and that 350Z as my profile pic was also my car (drunk driving accident changed that).
Anyway, I started shadowing VGC months before signing up simply because they posted estimates of console sales each week and it was always presented in a nifty graph. Ironically what led me to this site were the casual links to our front page here from the comment section on IGN. As a former reader and user of IGN I had always been annoyed by the ignorance of the majority of the user population there, and it always felt like there was a massive bias toward one particular brand on that site but I wasn't invested enough in gaming to try to search for other gaming sites. What really happened was I slowly, gradually and surely noticed that there was a "Hot Topics" section to the right of the front page here and I began clicking the topics when they were something of interest. After visiting for a few months I had a pretty good feel for how things flowed here and the users seemed SO MUCH BETTER. There's a large variety of articles posted from all over the internet with bias toward EACH company, and I can dig that. The social features (you can add friends whaaa?) are actually pretty cool and reminiscent of FaceBook.
So yeah, I haven't looked back since signing up and I happily never visit IGN anymore, instead opting to come here where I can see a much cleaner look on how things are going (Former Sony investor btw so I do still see a bit of business ignorance on here).
Anyway I'm happy to be a part of this community and may you all game on! (Anyone ever been to Scorehero or Rockband.Scorehero?)
