Ignore where it says member since March 31, 2010 on this profile, this is the date I very first joined Gamespot on my M0wen10 account, and it's been 2 years filled with making new friends, writing reviews, taking part in the community, and of course, unfortunate controversary which caused me to start afresh.
The Beginning:
I started going on Gamespot during the early releases of games for the PS3 in 2007, and continued to check games on the site forthe simple reason of it's simple, yet brilliant, layout that was easy to navigate, and the well presented reviews by the staff of Gamespot.
I continued to visit the site until February 17th, where me and my brother decided to create an account to write reviews (something I'd always been inspired to do by Gamespot's fabulous ones). The mistake during creating the account was putting M0wen10 as the username, since we didn't realise that that was the name everyone would see on the site, we just thought it was a login username. Anyway, my brother soon become bored, but I continued on Gamespot by reviewing certain games I'd played, contributing on the forums and basically tracking games I was looking forward to. I never dreamed that the M0wen10 username would soon be a familiar and infamous name in the coming year.
Development:
I soon became very involved with Gamespot, and it was a site I was going on every day where I had spare time. (At this point I still didn't have PSN). I gradually began tracking people who wrote good reviews, and soon became best friends with a user named GameReviews2009 (now known as groundgamer, but unfortunately he's been absent for some time). Anyway, we started chatting, and I began to use the messaging system more and more and read his blogs. It was at this point in time that I decided to make blogs of my own relating to games primarily. I only had a couple of comments, but soon people began tracking me, I began tracking more and more users, and within months I had become a well known user amongst my new friends. I wrote more and more reviews, made more and more blogs straying from the usual game-related subject, and before I knew it, I had been on Gamespot for a whole year, had over 10,000 forum posts, over 56 written reviews, and more than 100 blogs. Things were coming along nicely with my Three Days Grace theme covering my profile page,or so I thought.
The controversy:
After meeting numerous friends who are still good friends with me now (people such as "tntkng" , "syler4815162342" and "tennis12master") (Sorry for not mentioning many people, but you guys know who you are) I became well known for my Top 10 list blogs, and sometime within March 2010, the collapse of my M0wen10 was nearing when I wrote a blog series "Top 10 favourite actors". I never had my account set to friends only, since I wanted to continue to meet more people, but now I wish (or perhaps not) that I should have done. This series drew the attention of some very rude users who I won't mention, but I became increasingly angered towards these people as I continued to post. They were having conversations together on the comments list about my poor choice of opinion for the actors and movies I like, and I raged like I never thought I would. A few days later, I had been suspended for a week for my actions, and subsequently dropped 4 whole levels on the site (from level 26 to level 22). That was a tough blow, but not as much as the fact that every single one of my written reviews had been completely bashed (every one received 4 or more thumbs down over one night). This was devastating for me, since it made my reviews look bad and worthless, and mainly because it was the reason I joined Gamespot in the first place. And so not long after, I threw in the towel and said I was leaving indefinitely, I needed a break from the horrible events that took place that month. M0wen10 was broken and a controversial user to many from then on, and only my best of friends stuck by my side.
My rebirth:
During my few months absent period I devised a plan to make up for what had happened on that account, and within a few weeks had created Venom_Raptor. I planned to rewrite every single one of the reviews I'd done on my other account but make them much, much better, detailed and helpful, and so I set to work secretly over the coming months working extremely hard on improving my writing skills and varied vocabularly that would make them better. In June I announced my secret on my M0wen10 account, and was pleased with the reactions ofmy Gamespot friends that I was still a good friend.
The now:
And so since June 2010 I have been on my Venom_Raptor profile, carefully selecting my friends who would join me on this new beginning, and while I picked someone who still had a grudge against me, that is now sorted, and that user is gone! I have numerous friends that I have known for a very long time, my reviews are now well presented and I'm very pleased how frequently I get to post more in-depth one, and more than anything, am thankful for the support of my many friends who thumb them up and enjoy reading them. I now have lots of reviews (56 I think), each improving every time I write them (still some reviews that require re-writing), I read in my spare time which helps me write better, and play lots of games on PSN which I love more than anything. No one knows what I look like, no one will probably ever know what I look like in person on this site, but you guys know me very well never-the-less, and I can now produce variousblogs that vary from game and movie-related, to personal problems that hamper my life in the real world, and I still have the support from people who are truly awesome.
Thanks to everyone who read this Gamespot biography from beginning to end, I hope it provided a deeper insight into the Three Days Grace fan you know and love. :P
Doesn't time fly when you're having fun? :)
- Scott
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