Oh my goodness! I was dropping by to talk about today’s deal and had no idea why I had so many notifications. So here I am incredibly stunned at how amazing everyone is! Love this community. Um, please accept my apologies as we’re here to celebrate Scribesake, and my apologies for my extended absence.
Please provide me with some of your time, as I reply to as many as I can:
@DownwardConcept : How do I even top this?! How?! Simply put, I love Chrono.gg’s refreshingly different and ethical business practice of reselling Steam keys, during a time when people have abused this opportunity VALVe inadvertently created. Their promotions of independent developers and bringing lesser known games to our attention is something I would gladly support. Of course, since then Chrono.gg’s success has expanded to gain developer/publisher trust to secure much higher profile games, but at the time it was a small-time business with a lean tight-knit team, where only small developers would give them a shot.
Even with promotions by Totalbiscuit and other internet personalities, the forums were still building a community and didn’t become this established until a few months before the coin shop was launched. I want to support both Chrono.gg’s business practice, and Alex Faciane’s (Super Beard Bros./The Dex/ThatOneVideoGamer) hilarious writing, though there are gems from substitute ghost writers too cough frst and lonin cough. And so I joined the community and stayed as active as time would permit me. Even if I didn’t have the money to buy the game, or the game wasn’t my cup of tea, I wanted to identify either the game’s value, the creativity of the writing, or waste everyone’s time with a random comment. I just wanted to express my desire to be a fan in these forums.
And now here we are, with a huge community posting every hour, awesome community moderators keeping us in line, and so many free key giveaways and PSAs (especially by these moderators who started these giveaways long before their forum promotions)! You’re all amazing! So why am I saying all this when you, DownwardConcept, already know this? Well first, I wanted to make you roll your eyes in sarcasm and cringe. Cause I feel like it. Second of all, I wanted to let everyone know how much effort you made in acknowledging me and that you witnessed my entire history of being here in Chrono.gg’s community. You were there and you made me feel welcome and rewarded for chatting here.
It’s a treat to be here and I want to thank you in a very boring fashion with a lack of creative writing. I simply can’t be as poetic and hilarious as you, but I hope my words express a portion of the appreciation I have for this random act of kindness you have provided to me and everyone else here. Even in general your posts tend to highlight other people and that is really awesome of you! So… Thank you!
I feel that moderators here deserve this badge too though. Can we fix that? I know that’s a lot of badges to issue, but there’s a lot of awesome people here and no pun intended. Moderators do thankless jobs just like Chrono Inc. staff.
@Fraggles : Thank you for clarifying!
@lonin : THIS IS AWESOME THANK YOU! Although I feel that DownwardConcept deserves this badge more than me. I mean, look at this person’s writing past and present! Is there anything that can be done to acknowledge this person’s efforts and contributions to the community? I’m still in a state of shock because this really cool reward showed up completely out of the blue! THANK YOU! Like… I don’t know how to say anything beyond THANK YOU! Oh I know! I can ruin the moment by pointing out that the badge picture doesn’t load on my computer! Yaaaay!
@Scribesake : Congratulations on being THE New User of the Month! Well deserved with your creatively funny posts! And I don’t just mean meme pics, but more about your writing. I am K-16 and it’s a pleasure to meet you! You may also refer me as KOneSix or K16. All are correct. They’re only different depending on which site I go to with their respective naming restrictions or “somebody else got it first and are sitting on it inactively.”
Thank you for the compliment on a badge that I had no idea existed whatsoever! Heheh, ChronieX-2. I think I figured out what the criteria is and my speculation is different than yours. I believe our answer is based on this forum thread, where a very active poster we all know has hinted exactly how it works. The timing of when I suddenly received this badge out of the blue, and when this person posted would explain how it happens. I can be wrong, as I am making a blind guess here and have no actual information on its criteria. It appears to be a badge that is VERY RARELY awarded. I am STILL trying to figure out how to express my appreciation to everyone here to both Chrono.gg staff and fans, but I am far too stunned to come up with the right words to represent even a portion of my gratitude.
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