Experience opened my eyes.

Today was a totally normal day. I was browsing GBAtemp, wondering what news there was in Gaming today, what type of Blog should I made, should I finally get around to play Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door? As I was about to answer my questions, I spot something in the little news area on my portal.

My head turns and spots it. The day my life on GBAtemp would change.

XP Points are here.

I dropped everything. I dropped my mouth, I dropped my mouse, I dropped my Sweaty Icebreakers, I dropped any sort of consideration to play Paper Mario, I dropped my dreams of getting my like count to 200.

It was time for me to be reborn.

I quickly clicked on my profile picture to see my level.

"Oh boy, I bet I could be level 10! Nah, your hopes are too high. Probably 7. Or 5. Yeah, I think it's 5!" I thought to myself. After making pointless blogs and putting my insight on countless articles, I had to be a level 5 or up.

I was feeling so happy and hopeful until the little box popped up and crushed all my hopes. I was a level 2. A. LEVEL. 2.

Everything went silent.

I couldn't believe it. What about my likes? What about my messages? What about my blogs?

This shock quickly disappeared in RAGE. I needed to get myself out of this slum. I can't walk around GBAtemp with a LEVEL 2 stamped right under my 7th Grade Title. I gotta get more XP!

I mashed my mouse so much on the link showing how to gain XP. My heart sank.

Blogs weren't on there.

It felt everything I was doing was crushed. All that time planning on what I should put in my blog wasted.

"No one liked your blogs anyway. People hate you for making them anyway, dude. It's OK." I hear myself saying.

But deep down, I tried to deny that. I told myself that there was someone who read my blogs and got a chuckle out of them. After all, I just wanted people to get a little smile out of my blogs. I want people to look at my avatar and think of me as "the funny guy." I wanted to be liked for once, but it just never seemed to happen.

I scrolled down to look at my comments on my blogs. My eyes were opened. I could see that many despised my blogs. What's the point of making these and telling these supposed "funny" stories when no one think they're funny.

That's when I realized that everything I was doing, was pointless. I wasn't contributing to this site. I wasn't being part of the community by making these damn blogs. I was just upsetting it. My hope of getting people to like me turned against me.

No wonder I get so much hate.

My heart shattered, I clicked the blog icon and decided to create one last entry. If people don't like me, that's fine. But I don't want to make anyone unhappy in this amazing community.

I am laying down my crappy blogs to try to contribute to this community. I will try creating reviews to help people learn more about games they're interested in. I will double check anything I post to make sure it does not offend anyone. I don't want to be a lowly level 2 making blogs nobody likes. I want to be a Temper.
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The only thing that requires any kind of grinding for on this forum is the 100 posts needed to do trades. Apart from that, there is nothing else barring anyone from anything. Experience and levels are overrated/pointless (9 years at a level 3).
 
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Don't let this distract you from the fact that in 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team!
 
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I've been a member of this site since 2011, and I've been a lurker even longer. I give two shits about my level (It's a 3 btw). Just another internet cookie so people can satisfy their tendency for instant gratification. If the new system brings in more helpful content, fine, but I wouldn't worry too much about my level.
 
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Just work hard and contribute to the community. Setting the Temp to your home page will help generate more XP
 
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I believe people are missing my point. My entire point of quitting my blog is not to grind my level up. It's to become a better user, as making blogs nobody likes does not contribute to the community. The level up system helped open my eyes. THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED, "Experience Opened My Eyes"
 
We shall band together, go to the streets and protest against this tyranny! Blog posts should give us xp
 
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It's just, like... a website, dude.
There's surely bigger things to worry about in life?
 
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@DeoNaught Sure it's deep, but I'm keeping it inside GBAtemp and not the real world. If you want a blog with Existential Crisis, go to @Eix's blog.
 
Just please don't let this levelling/experience system stop you from posting blogs and making helpful threads. These things don't make you who you are. It's just sad that it's how we live in now, based on upward and downward social comparison. This is because of social media. Keep on contributing and helping the community as long as it's the right thing.
 
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@ov3rkill I won't stop making helpful threads. However, I'm going to stop making blogs. Like I said, many seem to dislike me and my blogs so much and I hate getting hate. So I'm stopping that. Also, GBAtemp is not my life. I do way more than do stuff on this site, I'm just focusing on this site because I refuse to reveal what I do in real life (other than my one blogs on "The 'Gamers' of Today"
 
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You don't get your magic unicorn points needed for the fairy dust levels due to the blog posts itself, but I think you get them for the likes you receive on the blog posts. So life dosn't wasted here ;)

(Some people... Seriously... I just really hope this blog post isn't only here for commiseration likes...)

Edit: Btw your like count already is above 200 for quiet some time...
 

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