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brb isn't enough.
Y0j1mb0 | 11:23 PM on 05.25.2009 44 comments




It's 11:41 pm and as I'm writing this Jay Leno is doing his corny ass monologue on the Tonight Show. I'm too lazy to get up from the computer and take all of three steps to get the remote to change the channel. So I endure his failed attempts at humor. I turn my attention to Destructoid and read every Cblog and front page piece...twice. Aside from the Heavy Rain preview Conrad put up way earlier nothing is perking my peepers.

Usually when this happens, I turn my eye to the wackiness, the unpredictability of the forums. I know that somewhere in the forums a Dtoider will put forth a new topic that might strike a chord with the community and off we go to hilarity street. I know that someone may post a new picture of themselves and it will be either ridiculed, shooped to become something that it was never meant to be, or just plain drooled on, if by chance one of the many good looking Dtoid women decided to grace us with their female presence on pic form. But always I will find something new to see.

At this moment if the forums were up I would be writing a new entry into Four things on your mind or rating someones avatar. Usually done doing that I'll check the introductions to see if any new members actually created a decent intro so I can welcome them to our fold ( yet secretly wish someone didn't bother or care for a proper intro, so I can laugh at the forum policing that comes in quick to show said person the error of their ways ).

Instead what I'm forced to do when I click on the forums is see this. Yup. That's it. Typically when I see that brb its when my wife writes me a small note saying something to the effect of:

"Be right back, went to the store to pick up a gallon of milk." Which means I'll be right back. Maybe twenty minutes longer than usual and with the very least a brief explanation of why the act of "brb" was initiated. No such brief explanation included here. Just "brb" and that blank white void of a page. I think I'm going out on a limb here when I say this but unlike some who just frequent the frontpage and cblogs, I view it as a whole. An entity of several parts but one not greater than the other. Destructoid is incomplete to me. I'm used to a whole pie of awesome and instead I getting half of it now. I'm hungry here. Greedy even. And that "brb" blank page is mocking me.

Forgive my little rant here. Maybe it's corny ass Leno, or that eighth Corona I just downed but I miss the forums. I don't know what happened to them to make them go down, but I know I'm growing impatient with them not being up yet.


BTW: Hope everybody had a happy Memorial Day.



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MrSadistic's Destructoid Blog
It's past your nap time. Just take a couple of alker seltzer tablets, listen to some Jack Benny and quietly rest those weary eyes of yours into dream land.

Oh and it's deBLOO's fault the forums are down, since no one likes him on there.

Oh and son of a bitch I forgot that I was going to watch Jay Leno all this week, since that douche bag is leaving next week and Conan is taking his place. Fuck yeah.
HydroTonix's Destructoid Blog
Dtoid fanboy
Magnalon's Destructoid Blog
Hell yea Jay Leno is gone soon.

'Jimbo you're a true fan, and there's no doubt your blood runs green. Seriously though, this is just depressing. My wife and I are on a budget, and every day I go "I WISH I HAD FUCKING SACRED 2 SO I COULD PLAY WITH THIS OLD DUDE NAMED FRANCISCO/YOJIMBO.
garison's Destructoid Blog
I normally don't really hang out on the forums, but lately I've been in there more and more (mainly due to the Game Trading thread), I reallly miss them too.

BRB is definitely not enough.
Monodi's Destructoid Blog
Jimbo will tear up some robot ass
Krow's Destructoid Blog
A happy Memorial Day to you as well sir.
Wry Guy's Destructoid Blog
Ironically the lack of forums has had me contemplating writing some blogs. Something I've never done.
gatorsax2010's Destructoid Blog
The person above me is trying to be productive.

It just doesn't work right out here :(
ZekeThePlumber's Destructoid Blog
Jimbo can type and shake his cane in angry manner at the same time. I'm impressed.
Kryptinite's Destructoid Blog
We both know you're ass should be sleeping right now.
ArcticFox's Destructoid Blog
Due to the lack of the fourms, I wrote a blog. About Sonic music and Michael Jackson. Really.

Also, Happy Memorial Day!
Ballistic's Destructoid Blog
Maybe when the forums are back I'll actually write my introduction post there instead of lurking it so hard. But why can't the blogs be just as interesting as the forums? What's going on with them that makes so many blogs seem bland and unremarkable compared to the ones produced just last year?
Tehmtnlion's Destructoid Blog
Heh, tune in later in the week, I may have something worthy of your peepers.

K, that sounded better in my head.
garison's Destructoid Blog
@Ballistic:

If you want the Cblogs to be as good as they were "last year", do something about it.
HydroTonix's Destructoid Blog
What garison said.
MrSadistic's Destructoid Blog
He's only one man dammit.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Destructoid Blog
I agree with Jimbo, an update would be nice.
Solgrim's Destructoid Blog
This should have been a video blog.
IronPikeman's Destructoid Blog
I like how Cross Edge is your most anticipated game this month and you probably won't open it for a month or so... Also, get on your PS3 so we can play games!
de BLOO's Destructoid Blog
Yeah I broke the forums apparently, becuase MrSadistic said so.
Artemus's Destructoid Blog
Can't wait for Conan to take over The Tonight Show!
Then you won't have to worry about changing the channel, Yojimbo.
Unless, of course, you don't like Conan.
brainderailment's Destructoid Blog
The real tragedy is that Leno will still be on television when Conan takes his timeslot.
Ballistic's Destructoid Blog
Garison, I think you missed the point of what I was trying to say. I'm not complaining that 'the blogs are bad now' I'm asking why isn't it getting the kind of notice that the forums get these days. It's partially my fault because I misspoke in the last sentence. There are plenty of great blogs out there now, but I think we don't quite give them the attention that everyone else did previously. I've seen too many great articles that had obviously had a lot of work put into them get hardly any comments and that's a damn shame.
RiotMonster's Destructoid Blog
I'm going into Destructoid Forum withdrawals.. *twitch* I need my fix.. *scratch* Yojimbo, halp? *twitch*
nebones's Destructoid Blog
:[
Ali D's Destructoid Blog
Nebones is liks a junkie needing a fix right now...
TheToiletDuck's Destructoid Blog
brb uninstalling destructoid
ZombiePlatypus's Destructoid Blog
Yeah, I have a stack of forum notifications sitting in my inbox that're taunting me with threads I can't visit. It's worse now that I'm back at work itching to jump back into my routine of not working.
SilverDragon1979's Destructoid Blog
You would think with the forums down, that maybe a bunch of forum goers would post some quality cblogs. Yeah, that shit hasn't happened yet!
bbrigg1's Destructoid Blog
The only reason I'm even reading these is because the forums are down.

Why De Bloo? WHY??

Also, is it me or has Conan seemed to be getting less funny lately?
Wry Guy's Destructoid Blog
I haven't checked up on Conan since the tonight show ended, but it could always be possible. Remember how every night for like a month Conan did "put these childish things away" skits that explained the Tonight Show wouldn't tolerate his usual immature jokes?
Qraze's Destructoid Blog
i haven't gone into the forums in 8 months. i just don't like them. maybe one day but not this day.
Aziel13's Destructoid Blog
sleep grey swords men sleep.....
Niero's Destructoid Blog
I shall fix this!
mistic's Destructoid Blog
Yeah missing the forums too...

need to find more Europeans to spam them for the EuroNARP :-)

plus I'm really wondering what the F is going on back there at the robotHQ, KotaKu-Takeover? Terrorist Invasion? Mass Orgy with the finalists of Miss World?
BS3 Owner's Destructoid Blog
Wait we have... Forums?

:)
SephirothX's Destructoid Blog
HOLY SHIT THE FORUMS ARE GONE!?
blehman's Destructoid Blog
Yeah, missing the forums. :(

Also,

@Ballistic

If you want the Cblogs to be as good as they were "last year", do something about it by re-inviting all the people that used to write here last year regularly back from wherever they've gone to write now, and kick out all the people who think they're good enough to write now by flaming them mercilessly until they fit your narrow view of what a "cblog" should be.

...is what garrison meant to say.
RiotMonster's Destructoid Blog
I miss the sausage... =[


randombullseye's Destructoid Blog
I nearly sent you a message good sir. But of course, can't do that. That was almost three days ago.

I feel bad writing free content, but at the same time I feel like an asshole not being a part of whatever this is.
Zodiac Eclipse's Destructoid Blog
It feels like when you're supposed to meet your friend somewhere and then they call you after you are already there to tell you they aren't coming. Then you're just sitting there feeling alone and stupid.

I want my forums back.
Dexter345's Destructoid Blog
Hear hear!
exodus1925's Destructoid Blog
I agree entirely. What gets me the most is in the absence of forums lots of people start posting 'forum blogs' consisting of a random thought or one sentence idea. NOT COOL MAN, NOT COOL.


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