I’m coming up soon on my 1 year anniversary of being a Destructoid community member, and recently I’ve been thinking a lot about all the experiences I’ve had on this site over the past year. One thing I’ve noticed is that the longer I’ve been here, the more I’ve started noticing a pattern to all the stuff that occurs on the weekly basis in the cblogs. I’ve realized that there are really a lot of things that are almost guaranteed to happen here on the blogs on a weekly basis. Some of these things infuriate me, but most just make me laugh and/or shake my head every time they occur.

I’ve decided to sit down and list out the top 20 things that seem, at least to me to me, to occur on a weekly basis here in the cblogs. Maybe you’ll agree with me, or maybe you’ll think I’m just full of crap. You’ll only know if you read them yourselves. Check them out below. Please note that these are in no particular order.

1) An old member of the community posts something that appears to be a fail blog, but that is really absolutely hilarious, and all of the older members get it, and all of the newer members comment saying “get the fuck out”.

2) Someone posts a news story which is almost an identical plagiarized version of the same news story recently posted on Kotaku.

3) NihonTiger90 writes a great blog about the current state of the gaming industry in the failing economy and no one comments.

4) Yojimbo writes an awesome blog about absolutely anything, including gaming while going to the bathroom, and it’s an instant hit that 75 people comment. Oh how we all love that old bearded man!

5) Someone comments on a blog saying “This belongs in the forums” and a bunch of forum posters get justifiably angry that the forums continue to be thought of as that deep dark place where bad blogs should go to die a slow and ever agonizingly painful death. .

6) A new member decides to list their top 25 games of all time, with each game having its own individual blog, each of which is posted every other day, which ends up spanning the length of 8 gruelingly long weeks.

7) Someone posts a blog that is simply a link to another blog. These people then go an crawl back under the rock they came from.

8) Someone posts a video which was already posted at least twice that same day by other community members, because they didn’t pay any attention what-so-ever.

9) Aborto Thefetus posts his weekly “10 Things I Learned This Week” feature on Friday, which is usually followed up by someone else who wants to get in the action who posts their own lame “10 Things I Learned This Week” feature.



10) Someone with no avatar posts a great blog, and more people comment about the fact the person has no avatar, then the amount of people who actually comment on the content of the blog itself.

11) A Sony fanboy posts a flame blog stating all the old and played out reasons why he/she hates the XBOX360.

12) A Microsoft fanboy posts a flame blog stating all the old and played out reasons why he/she hates the PS3.

13) Someone who has no affiliation to any other console what-so-ever posts a flame blog stating all the old and played out reasons why he/she hates the Wii.

14) Someone posts an absolutely incredible blog, which absolutely no one reads. This is probably the most dissapointing thing on this entire list.

15) Someone posts a picture of a cat playing video games, which is just so damn cute all you can do is say “Awwwwwwww” out loud.



16) Someone with absolutely no artistic talent whatsoever posts video game art drawn exclusively in MS Paint that is absolutely horrendous, but that at the same time is completely awesome!

17) Someone writes a blog about World of Warcraft which is completely ignored by 99.99% of the community.

18) A new female member posts her first blog in which she shows off some hot pictures of herself and it immediately gets 100+ comments, half of which are from horny guys who are trying to impress her with their elite commenting skills. The girl ends up leaving the community within a week. [Note: This hasn’t actually happened in a while, but it used to happen a lot].

19) One of Dtoid’s staff posts a community blog that’s not part of a Meme …. maybe …

20) Someone writes a drunk blog, and wakes up the next day regretting it. There’s a 1% chance that this person woke up beside someone else of the opposite sex. If they actually did, then there's approximately a 0.001% chance they got laid by that person.