by jake108 Thursday 22nd April 2010

Teabag Prevention: Growing Up Before Your Eyes

It late 2007, when I decided that I wanted to get more involved with my favorite podcast, Editor-in-Chief Jonathan London was looking for a staff of writers to fill in some spots for his much anticipated Geekscape.net. Having had experience in writing for the school newspaper, I sent in an article containing my review of Halo 3.

Much to my surprise, Jonathan decided to give me a shot. It was at that time that I started talking to our volunteer features editor Brian Gilmore, the man behind the screen of the weekly show. We shot some ideas around, which included game reviews, movie reviews, or even comic-book reviews but nothing was really sticking. If I was going to see myself writing a lot, I needed to find a subject I was really passionate about. Funny then, that we were shooting these ideas around while I was busy kicking his ass back and forth across the map in Halo 3. I mean really kicking his ass across the map. It was sad even. I started feeling bad for the guy and questioned whether or not his thumbs were properly working. My moment of quiet reflection gave way to an obvious revelation: people like Gilmore needed me! I would do a weekly tip guide on Halo 3!

And so I did. Rain, sleet, snow and shine, I got to writing the regular Teabag Prevention (luckily… there’s not a whole lot of rain, sleet or snow in Southern California… or inside of my gaming room). And to my amazement, Teabag Prevention started to pick up some regular readers! As the article gained popularity, we moved from Halo 3, to Gears of War 2, back to Halo 3, to ODST, and then finally back to Halo 3 every time the fine folks at Bungie released another map. Today, on our two year anniversary, Halo: Reach is fast approaching and will be the start of our third year. So here’s to us… and to all of you for your loyal reading. Whether you’ve been with us 3 minutes or 3 years, thank you for being a great fanbase and we look forward to teaching more people like Gilmore which end is the business end of an assault rifle.

Below, I have a few of my favorite screenshots from some past articles. Feel free to take a stroll down memory lane.