Hi everyone, some of you out there in CBlog land know me while some of the others are clicking this and seeing my name for the first time. I am Excremento, but otherwise known as Xopher Reed, or even in some rare cases Chris. I've been writing game blogs for Destructoid for almost a year now and I have to say that I love every minute of it. The community here is where I've gotten my feet wet in the gaming blog industry.

Almost 8-9 months ago, I took a writing position at Megatonik.com and have been attempting to be a "real" video game blogger. The only problem I have with such a gig is that I have to rehash idiotic and bland PR press releases from all the companies out there, or even worse go out to another gaming blog and steal their news and post it on the other site. I always cite who my source is, I'm not a douchebag like some other writers can be. Sometimes I don't want to write these bland and tedious blog postings because I feel that we as gamers get our news from many of the big sites.

What a successful gaming blog site needs to stay relevant is opinion and an image. Here on Destructoid we have both. Whether it be the big guns like Jim Sterling making his opinion known on the front page and reaping the benefits of Digg, or lowly peons in the CBlogs like me and Wardrox who are lucky to get on reddit or N4G every once in a while, Destructoid is full of talent and excellent writers.

It's true that you have to put in your time with shitty little blogs about what was said at some event that almost every other gaming blog in the blogocube is already furiously typing out, or in Kotaku's case sometimes so quickly that all spelling and grammar mistakes are overlooked. Don't get me wrong, I like Kotaku just fine, but sometimes the grammar nazi inside of me just can't stand to look at glaring mistakes.

Now, to the main meat of my discussion with you today. I like writing, I like writing features mainly (as many of you already know). I've done drink recipes, lists of songs I think would be great to see in the current crop of music games, top 10 lists broaching almost every topic in gaming, and even some off-the-wall blog posts that were spawned in the depths of the IRC hell. When I sit down to write a CBlog I want it to be relevant, entertaining, and most of all worth the reader's time. When guys like me are forced into the professional blogging scene, we sometimes don't get the luxury of having fun writing about things we enjoy, we get stuck reviewing games like Top Spin 3 or writing yet another story about Hail To The Chimp because it's a slow news day.

I'd love to be a editor at Destructoid mainly because the stories that I read here are more than just rehashes, they inject humor, cynicism, and character into them. I've tried this at other gigs, but it always hurts to spend time on a story only to have it float on by without any comments at all. Destructoid is my home, it's my lifeline into the gaming culture that I've always wished for, and hopefully one day a place that I can write for professionally.

I've talked to Ron Workman about the topic ad-nauseum and I completely agree. With the amount of time this story will be on the sidebar of the main page of Destructoid (generally an hour if the Failbloggers aren't out in force), I get more page hits than any other site that I burn the midnight oil writing for. That is insane, the fact that as a CBlogger we have this wonderful exposure that you will rarely see at any other site.

Maybe I should worry mainly about writing my features and my editorials from now on and ignore the shit that we as gamers like to call the news. At least then I'll have made even more of a name for myself. Stay tuned for more to come from me, I plan on blowing up the leaderboards in the weeks to come.

Also, the CBlogs are a privilege, not a right. Please use it responsibly, and for the sake of any ethereal being that you may pray to, make it worth the reader's click, you owe them that much. Thank you for your time, also TL;DR.