Welcome Dave to the Stage.

We now have a rundown of pretty much everyone I know that either reads or writes for TL;DR. Last week we added two new contributors, and today, we're adding Dave.

Dave and I have known each other since...2000(?),at least since then. Dave is an old skool console gamer, but more a PC gamer and so his perspective is going to be unique. I had long since written PC gaming off for dead years ago, but have been proven otherwise. Maybe retail PC gaming may be on lifesupport, but sites like Direct 2 Drive and Steam have kept things running pretty well.

Dave used to be a big Quake III, Diablo II guy. He and I used to play Ultima Online for a good period of time, and has moved on to games like Company of Heroes and Blood Bowl. Any strategy games you play, you may want to add this guy because he's pretty damn good at them.

ZOMG. I Just Doubled the Size of my Staff!

Shit is getting real around here, folks. I want to welcome a few new cats to the blog.

MzrX lives in the greatest city east of Kansas, South of Iowa, North of Arkansas, and West of St. Louis. I've known him for about a year, and along with video games, we share a passion for LOST. He and his wife just bought a house, so be sure to mooch off him and his new tax credit.

NIN and I go way back to 2004. He was the Video Game Buyer at the company I worked at as a Sales Associate. I'm not going to say the name of the company we were both at, but I will say that right now a Big Mac Value Meal is worth more than a share of this company's stock. Anyway, NIN was actually critical in that company taking notice of the value of selling games, and was one of those guys that if you emailed him a question about an allocation, he would actually help you out and hook you up. He also helped me get into Xbox Live. He was like "Dude. You need to get Live and play some Halo 2". My Descent into Depravity pretty much began there. He's still in the gaming industry in California. TL;DR managed to get a recent snapshot of him:

Welcome 8BitBeerDrinker!

In my effort to spread the wealth of knowledge, I've invited a few contributors to the site, and we have our first victim in-house regular (with all due respect to our outsourced contributors).

8BBD is a good friend of mine from the days at the University of Kansas in Lawrence; former co-worker and troublemaker. He's now in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area keeping busy. He also shares a passion for video games and had collection of games that was pretty impressive. Motherfucker even had a news article written about him, so listen to what he has to say!

TL; DR- Oh hai, new guy.