My inbox has received a lot of emails from people and/or unions I've never heard of, about friend requests, union recruitment and the like. So from now on, I would seriously appreciate people following these simple guidelines:

1. If you want to be my friend, I will probably accept you, but if you want to really impress the socks off me, send me a short private message when you send the friend request. Nothing major, just explain how you know me, because it kind of freaks me out to see people I have never heard of wanting to be my friend, and then trying to figure out what impressed them enough to friend request. The "PM" button is right next to the "friend request button", so it's not a lot of extra effort.

2. When you invite me to a union, again, leave a quick private message explaining why.

3. Invite me to a union once. If I don't join right away, it means that a) I haven't checked my mail, or b) I don't want to join that union.

Thank you in advance for following these rules. I won't do something stupid like put you on my ignore list if you fail to follow these rules, but by following these rules, you make my experience that much more enjoyable. I usually follow these rules myself, so they're not impossible to follow. Thanks again.

I was looking through the old Gamespottings, and I realized what void has been left behind after the cessation of Gamespotting. There is now less ability for the average Gamespot user to make his or her opinions known. A long running benefit of Gamespotting was its guest columns, and towards the end, this trend grew with featured guest journal spots and game reviews. I miss those, because they were the perfect way to keep community involvement high. I believe Gamespot should rectify this with a "Spot-light" feature to show the best of what is going on in the forums, in the journals, in the unions, and so on.

Thanks everyone who reads it!

You are all rocking!

Rock on!

(This is the least coherent thing I have ever written. Next time I promise to make more sense.)