My name is 316.  Amp316.

For those of you who don't know me, let me give you a brief rundown of how some the users have felt about me through the years on this site.  I have been called brilliant, a moron, hilarious, unfunny, the 2012 Vgchartz user of the year, a great mod, and a Nintendo fanboy mod with a stick up his ass .  The truth is that I have probably been all of those things at one time or another and you can make your own decisions about who I am.

I want to address a few things:

I would like to apologise to the mod team for how I left -  I have had my ups and downs at the site through the years, but never had any regrets.  None except how I left the site.  I bailed on the mod team without letting any of them know.  For this I am deeply sorry and I hope they can find it in their hearts to forgive me.  Well...  All of them except for Smeags, who is a dirty scum sucker.

I left because I wasn't having fun anymore -  Sure, there are a lot of minor factors for me leaving, but it basically came down to this.  

During my sabbatical, I got married -  No, her name isn't Tracy and no she wasn't gunned down by Blofeld and Irma Bunt.  When you get older and lamer like me, you'll find out that commitment to the right lady (or man) is a glorious thing.

I have returned because I have missed the community as a whole - Seeing the same three threads with the same five responses can be a real drag, but I really have missed many of you.  Many friends  I have made here.  You know who you are.  I hope to make many more.

So...  I just picked up Mario Kart 8 and am going to be online after racing through the cups.  My NNID is Amp316.  I can't wait to see some of guys on the track. 

If you have any questions, comments, love, or hate mail; feel free to leave it here. 

I am now going to log out for a much shorter period than last time because I'm going to watch some hockey.  Will return in a bit.

From Chicago With Love,

Amp316

Welcome back Amp! The community is richer with you here.

You were before my time. Nice to meet you.

Well, I haven't met you before since I'm pretty new, but I hope we get along!

Welcome back! I remember you from my lurker days.

Try to have some fun while you're here.

Finally, I have a reason to hate on the Packers again! Sports threads were worse without you.


You will find there are more new people now by far as compared to when you left.

Congrats on the marriage!

Figures you'd need a Bears fan to give you the backbone to be properly jealous of the Pack.

The last sentence is right though.

We were discussing this in the mod chat the other day, Im glad you eventually did decide on returning and Smeags wasnt just teasing.

Welcome back!