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Midday LULZ: My birthday present to Destructoid: My resignation at MEGATONik
Coonskin05 | 3:39 PM on 03.16.2008 26 comments


So, as some of you may or may not be aware of, I started writing for MEGATONik.com in January. Megatonik is made up of primarily older Destructoid community members that through some ways or another, fallen out with the Toid. Well, there's not a huge community over there, and for the most part we were just writing articles for the other staff members to comment on. I have been busy with things for the past couple of days, AND the past couple of days have been slow news days so I haven't posted anything on Megatonik.com for a while.

Now, don't get me wrong and think that I quit from there just to make DToid happy. Earlier today this was posted on the staff forums by lawl, one of the founders.

"The last post was 2 DAYS AGO and I was the only one who posted that day.

What are you guys doing? Traffic is fucking abysmal.

New rule is in effect: EVERY WRITER MUST MAKE AT LEAST ONE POST PER DAY and unless you have special circumstances (send me an email or something), this is mandatory.

Also, if you guys follow this, we'll do our best to get you as many free games as possible. We absolutely HAVE TO get traffic up again ASAP."



Yeah, funny stuff. So for the past 45 minutes I wrote my reply, which came out to be something like this.



"Haha, its been fun guys, really it has, but I think this is about as far as we go together. But since I want yall to succeed, even if I'm not a part of it, I will try to leave you with some things to improve upon.

1. I think the fact that yall are so young (dont have your own transportation) puts a damper on things. It's hard to cover events when you have to ask Mommy or Daddy for a ride.

2. Don't ban a community member just because they disagree with you when you only have about 10 active community members.

3. I don't know what happened with Arrogantics, but it looks like MEGATONik is going the same way that did. You probably should have tried to learn from your mistakes the first time.

4. Hating Destructoid probably wasn't the best idea. In the gaming journalism industry it's a good idea to try not to burn bridges if you can help it.

5. When the community figured out the "ARG" as quickly as they did, flat out denying it was fucking stupid.

6. I seriously laughed when you brought up the idea that we should ask Gerstmann to change his site's name. Hilarious.

7. When lawl, Cortez, backflip, and zizzy don't post very often, dont try to bully us lowly "Writers" into doing all of your work for you. The best bosses lead by example.

8. When we do write stuff, don't piss on us by telling us what we wrote about isn't important enough. Video games are video games, and certain video games should not be neglected just because they're not being made by huge developers.

9. I don't know why you tried to get the "LOL" article Dugg. Destructoid posted an article about that in February. LOL indeed.

Thats about all I can think of for now. If you would, please take my email off the tips forwarder so I will quit getting all that spam that we get. That would be great.

Hugs and kisses,

Coonskin05"

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Excremento's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 15:50
Excremento
You forgot how there was someone calling mom names, and then there was this giant cock that blocked out the sun...or was that just a dream. Grats on making less work for yourself mang. Happy Birfday Dtoid!
the GAMEGOBLIN's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 16:00
the GAMEGOBLIN
yall lol.
lawl's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 16:01
lawl
You're a fucking douchebag.
itemforty's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 16:01
itemforty
Rock star.
BlindsideDork's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 16:02
BlindsideDork
I think I smell a little pwnage there?
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 16:02
king3vbo
Coonskin, internet hero extrodaniare
Gregor's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 16:14
Gregor
lol you are such winrar.

I love you dude.
Ogu's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 16:24
Ogu
coonskin the almighty banner of the irc banned? pfft, those amateurs.

I salute you.
Gameboi's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 16:53
Gameboi
Ouch.
wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 16:59
wardrox
eDrama :(
Bob Muir's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 17:00
Bob Muir
Anyone who would ban you just for trying to leave nicely and giving them some desperately-needed criticism isn't worth your time. Good job, meng, best present ever.
lawl's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 17:06
lawl
He left nicely? Posting private staff discussions on another site and being an ass about it is not "leaving nicely".
Poopface Morty's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 17:10
Poopface Morty
"2. Don't ban a community member just because they disagree with you when you only have about 10 active community members."
For the record, SLOK-y was banned because he resorted to personal childish attacks and slams, not mild or even heated disagreements. I do bring out the best in people I suppose.

Sorry it had to end this way man. Good luck on any future ventures.
Aziel13's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 17:43
Aziel13
Ariba #2 return of a ariba XD
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/16/2008 18:00
Justice
lol@ e-drama
Sorta sounds like MT fell off sadly.
Thornnn's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/17/2008 01:08
Thornnn
Your a funny man. Ha......Ha.......Ha I LAWLED LOL see I did it again.
ceark's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/17/2008 02:37
ceark
lol, I've never even heard of megatonik, but that was still funny.
BigPopaGamer's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/17/2008 09:58
BigPopaGamer
Well done coon. I like how you tried to show them their mistakes and now you have lawl on here calling you a douchebag. They are going to go far....</sarcasm>
lawl's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/17/2008 17:45
lawl
Except he's flat out wrong on most of the stuff he mentioned.
lawl's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/17/2008 17:47
lawl
and the stuff he is sort of right about has already been acknowledged.
Poopface Morty's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/17/2008 18:37
Poopface Morty
It still amazes me how certain Destructoid members (some who we've gotten along with quite well in the past) are so bitter at those of us original D-Toiders who wanted to go and do our own thing, as though we are attempting to stomp Destructoid out of the blogosphere. Christ, I still visit here, though not as much recently due to starting my new job and such...shit I haven't even been able to help out with Megatonik much besides the redesign (which BTW Rorsarch, go fuck yourself). Yeah, I've had my issues with D-Toid in the past, only reserved to a small percentage of individuals though and even then I'm not necessarily proud of it and it's been long blown over anyway and I like the direction the site has gone, and I like coming back here still even if it isn't as often as I used to. If people think we are solely working on Megatonik out of sheer spite, you would do good to think again. I don't spam people's C-Blogs here wishing for their failure...I mean c'mon, I just wished coonskin luck even after his immediate departure. I guess therein lies the difference between some of us.

Now come on, group hug.
Daniel Husky Lingen's Avatar - Comment posted on 03/18/2008 00:00
Daniel Husky Lingen
HAHAHAHA

ohhhh drama that comes out of starting a community out of dtoid rebels

sooooo glad to not be a part of it
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