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#150 Post: Whoop-de-doo :P

So this is blog post #150 for me. Not very impressive for someone who has been with GS for over 4 years, but better to be late than not show up at all. Having been absent for quite some time, I thought it would be fun for me to reflect on my time at Gamespot. Everything started in 2005. I started my profile mainly just so I could rate games and keep track of my game collection. I wrote a couple of reviews here and there, but I wasn't ridiculously active. I think the highest rank I reached in two years of Gamespot activity was Paper Boy. In 2006, me and a friend of mine tried to recruit people for a gaming talk show we wanted to establish. Things for that show, which we were gonna title "The Show Show," :P never really panned out. Instead I got caught up in a new portion of Gamespot that stole my attention from here on out: unions. I was recruited to become a charter member of The Game Development Union. As an officer of that union, I helped contribute towards the production of one game: dodgeball. It was actually quite fun, albiet challenging. Feeling pretty adventurous, and a bit abusive of my power in TGU, I sent out a mass telegram asking for charters of my own union: The Club Whatever. That union, which was an off-topic union, was my most recognizable feat on Gamespot. The union I helped create helped revolutionize recruiting (which I wrote a guide on), and also made topics and thread posting pretty fun. It won the 2007 Union Award for Off-Topic Union of the Year. That was 2007. though, Now it's 2009. Club Whatever has long perished in the inevitable fate of all unions, and my activity on Gamespot died along with it. Now I have come back to resume my activity level. I will mainly just be posting blogs about movies, sports, and other random crap, along with frequenting the Social Cafe Union (which is a great union), as much as possible. I hope to one day get more comments on my blog posts. My goal for this post is 2. I just hope with the support of my GS friends, and members of SCU, I have a chance to become a productive member of the GS community again. Thanks, and Peace :D