Oh snap!

It's because a majority of the threads now are BAD off topic threads, and a majority of those threads have well over dozens of pages. There's no interesting discussion about video games here anymore.

They were friends long before Machina was head mod, and I'm pretty sure before he was even a moderator (and when Seece was a great deal worse. He was positively mellow recently compared to then). You don't abandon your friends because you receive a promotion.

The idea that Seece got special mod protection because he was friends with Machina, on the other hand, is ridiculous. Machina isn't here to see what I'm saying, and knowing both of them, I still maintain that point of view. The reason it seems as though he got mod protection is that while much of what he said was (considered) inflammatory, none of it came close to breaking the rules. It's an art that one seems to pick up after four years on the site

Seece posted so much here it WAS like a job.  I'm not an extremely active poster that starts threads with time consuming research like he did.  And while he was getting more and more cranky, I can understand when some posters are so unreasonable here.  You start to ask yourself "why do I bother????".  So maybe he just needed a clean break from something that was taking up so much time in his life but was not bringing him any joy.

I used to look forward to E3 time here, but now I dread it as the last couple of years have just been unbearable discussions that lasted months.  Then as sales become more competitive it just gets emotional and cruel.  When financials are released it just gets even worse.  So my name just isn't one that's seen much anymore either.  Still, shame about all of this, as his passion for truth actually was great.  He'll be missed.

Which comic forum?  I used to be on Newsrama until that forum basically died after the redesign.  Then I went to CBR and still contribute a little there, but it's mostly more unbearable than this forum at it's worst.  Comics fans are sadists!

So long Seece. He stealth trolled like no other. Rol needs to step his game up now.

And I'm still here... although I am hiding amonst the shadows, but I am ever present.  Well MS/Ninty fan, but due to my recent system play time, I think it is pretty clear that I am more on the 360 side haha.

Pretty sure Rol and Seece have a bigger mod history than all other users in this thread combined.

Machina and Seece are dating...

I also heard they've adopted triplets and that's the real reason they don't have time for VGChartz anymore!