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.