Everyday I wake up to the same routine, I get up, get my kids ready to school, make a light breakfast consisting of a bagel spread with strawberry cream cheese, and before I do anything else, I fix myself a cup of coffee ( which ends up being more like three cups ) while I read all the cblogs that you fine folks take the time and effort to create. I may not comment on them all but yes, I read all of them. After I finish reading them, I fix me another round of coffee and read the forum posts. Again I read them all and enjoy them as much as the cblogs themselves. Well while reading the cblogs the other day I read a blog from a fellow Dtoider that started off with this actual quote:

"I know, short blog is short and I'm aware of which way the forums are but I thought some people would get a kick out of seeing these and obviously more people read the blogs then go to the forums..."

And it got me thinking. Is it true? Is it THAT obvious that more people read the blogs than the forums? I mean I know a lot of Dtoiders self regulate the quality of the blogs by saying the ever cliche "Forums are that way" tag, like the forums are a depot for one line nonsensical tripe, but is that statement truly correct? It makes it kinda seem like if you read the forums you may catch aids or something.

To me the forums of Destructoid offer a thousandfold more opportunities for intelligent ( and not so intelligent ) gaming debates, a freedom to talk about more topics than the usual, the escape of NOT reading a hundred user reviews of the latest game, and a close to real time engagement to your audience/readers.

I may be off here but it seems to me there is an imaginary divide between cbloggers and forum posters. Is it just me? Or is my impending dementia from being old making me see things? Are the forums barely read by community members? Do the guys down there have aids?

Here are just a few snippets of things missed if you are NOT reading the forums:

Blindside Dork's Draw a Whore! thread.

Sharpless asking for relationship advice for a newly acquired girlfriend. He says acquired like he caught a rash or something. LOL.

Nameless Ted's user created Dtoid Card



Pics of community members you may not know:




Who the FUCK is this guy?




Or this dude?



and a trillion other posts that are hilarious, crazy, thought provoking, pic filled, and yes informative. There is a reason why community members write in your comment section Forums are that way. They are not trying to be dicks ( unless it's Reaprar...lol ), that's because there is where you will find the answer you seek and there is where you are supposed to go if you do have a question about anything. Not the cblogs. But it's not a punishment sentence going to the forums ya'll. It's cool down there.

For those that don't frequent the forums, I encourage you to do so. It's a trip down there and there is an air of silliness that is as infectious as it is sincere. I wrote a variation of this blog in a post in the forums. You should take a look and read some of the comments they posted on the subject as they are enlightening. Engage and break these misconceptions of both the forum posters and the cbloggers. After all, the sum of our parts equal Destructoid itself.