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Name: Samit Sarkar (pronunciation guide: suh-[rhymes with 'duh']-MITT sar-CAR)
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Currently Playing: (last updated 2/6/10)
God of War II (PS2)
BioShock (PS3)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)
Rock Band 2 (PS3)


The defining moment of my life so far

Hey everybody, I'm Samit Sarkar, and I'm a 23-year-old lifelong gamer from New York (short answer). What's the long answer, you ask? Well, I'm from a bunch of places, actually: I was born in Calcutta, India, and I moved to the States when I was ten months old. I've lived in New York ever since (Queens until I was eight, and Long Island since then). So I figure that 20+ years of living in and around New York City is enough for me to be able to call myself a New Yorker.

I officially became a Destructoid editor in February 2008, but I've been an avid reader of the site since November 2006 (you may know me from my old nom de guerre, "BrOnXbOmBr21"). On the staff, I'm the lone editor who covers sports games, but you may see me do other things from time to time. If you ever have any questions, concerns, props, or hate mail, please see the "Contact Me" section above for ways to get them to me.

I've been into video games for as long as I can remember. In 1990, when I was four, my parents got me an NES, and I've been hooked ever since. I often tell people that I'll play video games until the day I die, and I truly believe that. So here's my gaming history (date in parentheses is when I got the console):

Nintendo Entertainment System (Christmas 1990)*
Sega Genesis (Christmas 1993)*
Sony PlayStation (Christmas 1997)*
Sony PlayStation 2 (December 27, 2000)
Sony PlayStation 3 (December 31, 2006)
Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite (February 6, 2010)

*I no longer have this console
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I may not have a crapload of games, but I do have a rather extensive DVD collection. For the full lists, check out my collections at IGN:

My Video Game Collection
My DVD/Blu-ray Collection

As you can see, I'm a big fan of sports games, action games, shooters, and platformers. Some of my favorite games/series, in case you don't feel like going through my entire collection, are: God of War, Grand Theft Auto, Guitar Hero, Madden, and Prince of Persia. Also, though I've never played any prior games in the series at length, I plan to get into the Metal Gear Solid series in this generation.

Finally, I really think that Destructoid is the greatest place on the internet for video game-related news and things like that -- that's why I spend an inordinate amount of time on the site. It provides a unique combination of resources: news, humor, a phenomenal community, humor, a tremendous amount of knowledge pertaining to video games, and finally, humor. Also, cocks.

Oh, one more thing: I'm what people like to call a 'grammarian', and in my case, that also includes spelling. So nothing you see here, in my c-blog, or in my front page posts, should have any such errors (except for internet memes and the like, such as 'I can has c-blog?', etc.) Let me know if you spot a mistake. Also, I generally correct other people's mistakes, and since it's hard to correct someone without coming off as a dick, please don't take offense if I do it to you. It's only constructive criticism, and even if I'm brusque, I mean well.
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Well, that’s quite a milestone... Samit Sarkar | 10:45 PM on 02.06.2008 36 comments

Wow. That sure is a lot of comments, isn’t it? Because I’m a science guy, and I like to do some calculations to show cool stuff, I’m gonna go for it. I started reading Destructoid sometime in August of 2006, so if we start from the middle of that month — as in, August 15, 2006 — and count to today, that’s 540 days. In other words, if we assume that I began commenting here on that day, in a week, it’ll be exactly a year and a half since I started reading the site. So... 2500 comments ÷ 540 days = 4.63 comments/day While I don’t have some sort of graph that shows my number of comments from month to month or anything, I know that the average must’ve shot up during last summer, when I was reading Dtoid any chance I got while at work, and I also started reading lots more of the c-blogs around that time as well (I mean, they’ve only been around since what, like, last June?) Hell, the average most likely peaked in the past two months or so, as evinced by the following snapshot: Hey, my Destructoid score (whatever that means) went up by over 1.68 million! That screencap was taken on December 2, 2007; 66 days have passed since then, so bear with me while I do some math once again: 2500 comments – 1111 comments = 1389 comments 1389 comments ÷ 66 days = 21.05 comments/day Holy crap! Do I really comment on over twenty front-page stories and c-blogs a day? God damn. I guess when you think about it, it doesn’t seem like all that much — each day, I probably comment on ten main-page stories alone, and it obviously doesn’t take too many more c-blog comments to push that number up. Anyway, I’d like to thank all of you guys and gals here: from Reverend Anthony to Ron Workman, and from bhive01 down to WiiSucks (well, I can’t very well link to his blog, now can I?). I don’t usually comment on something unless it catches my eye in some way, and generally, that means being thought-provoking as opposed to just attention-getting — although there’s nothing wrong with the occasional LATENITELULZ™, to be sure. Then again, a quarter of those 2500 comments probably consist of me correcting people, so I suppose making mistakes in English usage also has to qualify as something that I notice and comment on across the site. Either way...I salute you all, Dtoiders, and here’s to 2500 more comments, which should be made in... 2500 comments ÷ 21.05 comments/day ≈ 119 days