Destructoid I am impressed by you. When I found this site a little over a year ago it only seemed to me that it was a good place to find news on video games and look at people argue about which console is better. I did not care much for the community and up until early fall I did not create an account for either the Forums or for the main website/ C-blogs. After creating my account on the main site I started to notice that there was a community here and not one of those communities like Gametrailers where people spout faggot and asshole and racism at each other. It is an actual community of people who enjoyed games and were kind individuals. As some people know I am an admin on the Destructoid Steam Group (we like to call ourselves SteamToid). Some of you who know me like me and some do not (I of course speak of those of you still bitter about the announcement spam episode a few weeks ago). I enjoyed being in the Steam Group chat for SteamToid and something interesting happened recently. Wasteland and VgFreak decided to hold a contest.

Now this in itself seemed rather normal in its procedure. one of them bought the reward (a copy of STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl) and then the contest started. The contest was tell what a Destructoid is in four words. So an announcement was made and people started pouring into the chat to give their submissions and to win the coveted prize. Dark Raven won with his submission of Jim Sterling's Play Orgy but before the contest ended we had more people hosting their own contests. One SteamToid member by the name of Senor Doucheoisie started a contest that was the first five people to friend me each win copies of STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl. I participated in this contest and was one of the first five making me one of the winners (we will come back to this later). I also participated in a contest by MurderMamba that consisted of first person to change their name to Christmasey won a copy of STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl I also won this contest (no I am not greedy this will be visited later as well). So the contests were over the chat was clearing and I realized I had won two contests for the same game. Trebz had participated in all three contests and was the only person left in chat who had not won anything. I quickly told Senor to give him the game instead of me. That was it the contests were over and people were leaving. Games were gifted and people headed off to play there new copies of STALKER. I stayed behind and talked with some of the people in chat including Doomsday and Wasteland then went off to sleep. I woke up the next day and the first thing I thought was "Damn that was fun."

That is why I love Destructoid. You people are what make me check the website once a day. You are why we have FNF every Friday and why PC FNF has lifted off the ground and without you none of this would be here. You are why I made that Forum account a few months ago and why I am writing this blog. The kindness that all of you show on a daily basis whether its through giving gifts, running contests, or just lighting up someone's day you continue to change for the better. You are the reason I play games; every last one of you.