(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Well I thought I would never make this sorta thread here but fuck it here I go! Please be aware this will just be my mind talking and just typing. Alright so in this thread I will be talking about my time being here on NextGenUpdate. So where should I start? I'll start when I joined. Well it started back on my Ps3 days when Cod4 and WaW were huge. I was playing search and destroy on Cod4 when all of sudden I got killed by somebody flying around in the sky. I was like what the fuck how is he doing that so I can't remember how but I ended up somewhere on the internet was either youtube or google but I tried to type in a search that would go along with it and I believe I found Ngu. So I signed up and got the method and to tell you the truth if anybody remember how easy it was to the the ufo hack thing on Cod4 with the usb it literally took me like an hour with a couple tries to figure it out believe it or not lol. I then found you could do even more hacks with the usb offline on cod4 and do even more fun mods with it and stuff. But then finally my Ps3 blue ray laser took and shit and didn't get it fixed till like 6 months later. And that is the time when I fully started my ngu active duty I would call it lol.

So I started getting active in the community and had some stupid bumps in the road but who doesn't? I think I got infracted for rep boosting 1 time and a couple other stupid shit but I am an example on why people deserve 2nd chances and should not be looked down on the stupid shit they did. No 3rd chances etc.. just a 2nd chance and if you fuck up after that you're done. I started to get to know more and more people etc.. Played games on the consoles and got talking to outie on aim etc.. when he was able to get on started to get to know each other and seeing from his point of view I really cared about ngu and boom I became staff in June of 2010 and becoming more with the community etc.. and working my way up through the ranks and finally becoming admin in oct. of 2011.

Alright so that was basically my journey story or something along those lines but now we get down into the nitty gritty. It feels as if back then people actually cared on the site and now hardly anybody does. Like a select few and others are like fuck it. Back then it feels like there was a push that made people want to do more and more because everybody cared and worked together. Back in my time mod stats actually mattered and you would not even have to warn anybody for being to low. shit I think everybody was pretty high in the ranks and actually had mod stats wars to see who was #1 etc but was a friendly competition in the end. This is when all staff got along and there was something like idk what I would call let's call it a "PUSH" that made everybody want to put in some effort into the whole site. there was even a push to mod the forums even when you had enough and you knew you had enough stats or whatever to be fine for the next months. There was so many caring people I could not even believe it and we all worked together on projects and shit and everybody got along. Nobody went off and did there own little secret shit bla bla and got everybody into it so everybody felt together and wanted to do more. shiver, gobble, enzo, rjive, paul, battman, jim, shit the list could go on with ex-staff on people that cared and wanted to help even more but released it was starting to get to why and I doing this anymore since nobody else really started to not care?

I remember when shiver deleted himself or should I say AlphaMudafuckinDenver (holy shit first smiley used in this thread dayumm) but yeah people thought this was a joke as it was by April fools days but I kid you not he came into the modbox like a G and posted this song right here: and deleted himself like a bad ass. Now I don't know about you but that shows you how bad it go at that point of time and how much it took to wake up the owner himself. Shit I would call that the ngu melt down of "2011". A couple more staff members left I believe and shit just got bad. f33l made a thread and even people posted on outie's wall with like 10 scrolls of visitor messages or whatever you would call it. It was all just bad togehter but lucly things started to get ok again but you know you know...

It just feels like there is so many wanna be trolls here and just fuck shit up for the rest of us. Or to many I don't give a fuck people. Back in the day you were respect even on staff you were respect I think it's kinda all a big joke now. Some staff joining along in the bullshit that goes on and then says why is this place like this now. Well hurr durr I wonder why. If you got staff acting like a joke then the members see it and it spreads almost lets call it like a virus. Oh he can do that then I can do that. You gotta think like 80% of this community is teenagers including myself but you got most of then that will be copy cats and do the same shit you do. Then you go ban people/guest them whatever and people start rebeloins over that and shit goes down etc... rep was fuckin awesome before it got changed. It almost made you feel like a bad ass to have respect etc.. since nobody negs you you could fuck up their shit if they do etc.. or help them out a shit load with rep bla bla.

Man I know I will be forgetting a shit load in this thread but I'm trying to think about all the stuff I know well the big stuff I guess to put in this thread but if I have more stuff to add I might just make another thread or edit this but this is getting kinda long I guess lol. But yeah back then it felt like there was push/urge to do more and everybody was just happy to work together and 1 whole team unlike now I would call it. I mean I have had my own thoughts on making my own site and shit etc after I retired and shit but now that I think about it is why? I already belong to this big community why not stay here and try to make shit better or something? Anything helps I guess but still. Gonnna need alot of duck tape here I guess. But I shall stay here and fix things etc.. You get my flow. :p

We need to do something to put this place back in over drive or should I say poppin like it was back in the days that it was good. It happened before and I'm pretty sure if everybody puts their minds to it then we all could make it happen. I mean shit we can even put a video up on the ngs channel without it getting tons of dislikes? Some bs I call that. We all have to work together to make shit happen and I can see that happening. So I had a couple ideas that came to mine and shit so here it goes.

We need to spread stuff out. And I mean go big or go home! Let's do some new domains that focus on other forums Idea different things.. Maybe like a computer discussion site etc... but all the domains would always bring linked back to the main site which is here ngu. I mean we are the next gen updates site arn't we? the next big generating or all updates etc.. We gotta expand stuff and get new people and who knows maybe if they join one site they will come to ngu and spark a lil gaming in them or something. Try something new. When there is no glitches hacks or something then you gotta move on with something else but still keep it. You never know until you try it right? Life is like a box a chocolates you never know what you gonna get right?

Well I can't believe I just typed all this up lol this is crazy (and I just met you can I get ya numba?) :p anyways if you guys want to get into a movement to make this place better again etc... then hell yeah let's goooo! any ideas post below. remember 1 idea can go far.

I probably forgot a couple things but like I said above maybe 2nd part or something but for now that is it and I hope you guys read it even though how fuckin long this is but yup.

Regards, Reaper

Edit: Also I don't mean to get into any fights with anybody or anything etc.. This is just how I saw it and thought I would share since this general discussion right?

Well for starters you could post content that's better than average, so commentaries of players getting good kills or really good games. You could also do videos that aren't related to cod (for example a sports game).

I will, I am really limited of gameplays atm. No one on NGU knows what my current situation is except for Dave and a couple of other members on the team. You guys love to troll and flame (not you personally), and yet, you don't know what is going on with anyone. FIFA 10 and Need For Speed is on my todo list. :y:

Welcome to the internet.

Do you think the people who lash out at you have perfect lives? The reason they do it is because they're miserable and misery loves company.
I really don't think anyone knows much about you gaming squid guys. Get together, post a little bit about yourselves and make a thread. It's that simply: introduce yourselves. Even if you've done it before.

Yeah I know a lot of people are lazy and won't do stuff. I will try and make a difference, it's just I haven't really thought of any good ideas at this point in time.

Just trying to help out And if I could submit my own videos, I would. But unfortunately I don't have a pvr. I might try and submit some non gaming related content though if I can.

That was quick.. HA!

But honestly, I did read, and I agree with most of it. The site has become riddled with people you cannot seem to please.

"Elite should be free."
"It's not for server costs"

The bigger the site gets, the more of these members appear.

Yeah I mean you don't personally have to do gameplays of those games, but I'm just suggesting someone does different games that are popular. I think BF3, Fifa 10, minecraft and a few other big games should be done. I mean if it came to it, people that aren't in gaming squad could do some of these.

I'm not a staff member, never have been, probably never will be. Way back in 2009, everyone was treated equally, admins listened to members and tried to incorporate ideas, and try out new things. Ever since the site has grown to over 600,000 members (or so) staff have been going power mad - retiring a few days after (Omshivam, etc ). But other staff members have been retired/joined the staff team at a later date, and tried to bring back some ideas from the old days. Now, this is what I feel: I feel that moderators/staff team, is mostly based off of popularity. I have said that since around 2010. Some of the staff team, has been chosen well, e.g rjive, Jim, Gobz, Drack, Reap, etc. But others have proven to abuse their power (I'm not mentioning names), and this was proven to be a mistake to the staff team, yet they still promoted the same people at a later date? Also, a lot of the former staff team whom I have become friends with, have at one point bitched about the staff team in one way or another, then when their staff, they instantly feel as though they're above everyone.

Don't get me wrong, there has been A LOT of good things happening to NGU, and how it has grown so quickly in such a short period of time, but I prefer the days of 2009, when everything was less-corrupt, and everyone worked together and had no major fallouts. Back then; it was a small community, but like a family at the same time; everyone knew everyone and got along and helped each other out. Now it's just about butthurt trolls and faggots who want to wreck everything for everyone. Hence why rep got removed (2011?), due to the amount of butthurt fags getting upset with -rep. IT'S CALLED EARNING IT NIGGUHZ.

I just feel like this community needs repairing :y: there a quite a few things which could be improved, and quite a few things which are/have exceeded expectations of everyone.

Tl;dr? Community back in the old days was better than it is now.

I can't believe that you just wrote that when you have been a prime example in the last few days of this exact act!