So yeah. I haven't done this blogging thing for a while. Or done much around the Gamespot community. You may be wondering, what gives Darth? Well, there's been a few reasons why, so you'll have to understand.

Firstly, I've been very busy with the Level 3 stuff. Aside from all the behind the scenes stuff that I've been doing, I've also taken on a much more proactive role within the group as a reviewer and an interviewer. As you'd expect, it's time consuming stuff ensuring that I can come up with a decent review or plan out stuff to do for an interview. That, and I ran a booth and did stuff on the main stage of eGames for Level 3, so there's also that.

Secondly is university. I just graduated from a three year degree not too long ago, and thanks to that, I'm now in the middle of job hunting. Lemme tell you, it's not fun stuff. Not in the slightest.

Thirdly, and I feel most importantly, is that the community just hasn't been all that terribly fascinating for me lately. I mean, I'm sure I don't have to bring up that several of the more prominent members of the Gamespot AU community left due to some pointless and utterly stupid (like it always is) e-drama, which I'm not going to waste any more time bringing up. That, and some other people left due to stuff like Gamespots draconian TOS. One of which I'm literally talking to as I write this.

I'll still stand by that. I mean no disrespect to anyone who actually enforces it, because knowing (and podcasting!) with a few of them, they're generally good dudes. Just the TOS is so ridiculously draconian and overly strict that I'm honestly shocked it hasn't driven more people away! But that's irrelevant.

I came back here after a year long absence once because I'd just discovered the AU community, and fell back in love with the place. It was a great time, and the community was fresh, exciting and interesting - the absolute perfect kind of community. That was in 2007. Now? Topics are constantly being recycled, most of the people I've found interesting have left and gone elsewhere, and the problems with the site that have been there for the past few years? Still not fixed.

Honestly, I've half thought of just leaving entirely, because I'm rapidly become more and more disinterested in the community and have found more places to call 'home'. Places like The VG Press and Australian Gamer have been filling that void for me that this place used to. I mean, if you guys can give me a reason to stick around, I'm all ears. I really am.

But aside from that, I've been well and what not. I've just found less and less use for this place.