Rest In Ring

I finally got the nerve to go to Wal-Mart and exchange my shuffle for a Nano. No more than an hour after I got home, my Elite finally red ringed. Yes... about two years following the expiration of Microsoft's warranty being available, it red rings. *sad face*

That was some of the best times I've had with a video game console, and I have no problem stopping into Best Buy tomorrow to replace it with an Arcade. I'll even give their Service Center at Microsoft a call just to take a chance on seeing if they'll fix my Elite.

Yeah, I'm pissed that I can't finish this night off with some MW2, but I guess for now I could just substitute that with some Res: Remake for 'le Cube. The only game in the last ten years that's scared the shit out of me with the exception of Dead Space and Fatal Frame. Orrrrrr, I could just go through more of MGS4, right?

Well, for now I'm gonna spend some time bitching about a topic that's always gonna be important... I guess. The everlasting "best game ever" war. Yeah, it's always going to be something that's "flame-on" for the fanboys out there that can't help jumping on their keyboards to consistently badger other fanboys for liking something that they don't. So why the fuck not join in and do the same right here!?!?

How often are you flamed for liking something someone else doesn't? I'm sure we've had our Backstreet Boys are better than Jay-Z fights at one point in our lives; knowing full well that such an argument isn't plausible. But I think what's most important to this is knowing that not all things are relevant when it comes down to it. I've been told by one person that their favorite game ever was Donkey Kong Country, and that it was better than any of the crap that comes out today. Well, as obvious and fair of a statement that is- I think it's a bit late for Donkey Kong to make a comeback into canon releases (since Nintendo/Rare doesn't care to re-dignify the ape with a standalone title to reclaim his throne), let alone bring back an SNES series that's over ten years old to compare with what's coming out today. It's a bit... intangible. Basically, it's a difficult topic to go on; what really is the best game? Well, how about the one that's holding the audience's attention best at the moment? How about the one that, for now, is doing what other games can't? Keep the players playing.

What am I playing now? Well, it's mostly a shifting behavior. I'm sure that at some point, what I want to play will change. Right now, it's the shooters. I can't get enough of the good'n's. Now, not that I'm solely into the MW2's and the Halo's, but let's just establish that some of the better FPS' are holding my interest better than the games that I'd spend just as many hours playing back from my tweens to about eighteen.

Take for interest- RPG's. Wow, what happened? These things used to be my favorite games ever. I could probably play Chrono Trigger again if someone bought it for my DS *wink wink*. The day my sister gives back my SNES, I'm gonna pop in FFIII (you know which one it really is). I would be ecstatic if I could get my hands on Secret of Evermore/Mana within the next decade.

Let's face it: RPG's were the shit back then. But are they now?

The current topic of debate is the ongoing battle between JRPG's and WRPG's (Japanese vs. Western... don't you all think that "Western" is almost paradoxical, considering that... well, Asia is technically more "Westside" than USA is?)

Essentially, both sides are getting to be stupid. They shoot back and forth about how their opposing side is going to fall off of itself, and all the while, I keep seeing both sides repeating the same game they released last year. Which I guess is what everyone is guilty for within every genre, but nonetheless, this one hits me a little more at home.

FFXIII is due out now in two months and eight days. The next big WRPG appears to be somewhere along the lines of Fallout: New Vegas and whatever Bioware has planned for consoles that isn't Star Wars related.

One douchebag I always seem to be reading comments from on Kotaku put it pretty well: WRPG's are just re-releasing KOTOR over and over again, while JRPG's keep re-releasing FF. (I'm not quoting him because I don't give a fuck)

This is the direct competition that we're seeing. And yes, both sides have stated that the other will die out sooner or later. Which clearly, neither will anytime soon, no matter what their opponent says. There's a large enough fanbase for both sides to keep them from going out. So for the time being, we're gonna see the same ole' same ole'. Atlus will get away with releasing shoddy titles with subpar presentations and incomprehensible (due to poor English translations) storylines meeting arbitrarily difficult gameplay, while Bio-Thesda will release heavy story driven games that will be judged negatively on their immature (yes, I've heard people say that the gameplay is "immature," in what I'm assuming is in relation to the depth of the gameplay versus whatever clusterfuck you'll find in JRPG's) gameplay instead of what stories they tell.

I hate to make it sound like I'm picking a side on this one; but I'm really not. What I like about one, I hate about the other... and vise versa. I've been trying with THE BEST OF MY PATIENCE not to throw Demon's Souls out the window for its punishing and arduous battle system. Throw in the shitty ass Dualshock 3 controller setup, and you get me breaking knuckles on the wall, just like MW2 Kid. You know who he is. While at the same time, I'm trying to keep myself interested in Dragon Age: Origins. I'm REALLY trying. REALLY. It's a super easy game so far... so far... yeah. But I just can't find myself caring about what's going on. There's some LoTR shit going on here, people are joining me, left and right... I've got a dog. (sigh) I'm constantly reminded that Mass Effect looked beautiful in comparison. And altogether, I've learned the main plot of the game not more than three hours of playing it... which won't be accomplished for what seems to be another 60 hours later. That first boss fight in the tower was pretty cool with the finishing move that I had no part in, but still looked really damn cool considering that every other RPG boss just falls over and gives up after you brush off 99,232 damage on his legs.

What Dragon Age lacks in keeping me attached, Demon's Souls banishes itself from my love by pissing me off in the first dungeon crawl at Castle Boletaria. Yeah, I suck that much at that game that I can't even get passed the first dungeon after you most certainly die against the Vanguaard and find yourself in the Nexus. I can't seem to master the shoddy parry/riposte system. It's like, some enemies are simple. Others, however- are ridiculous. They'll start swinging fast... like YEAH I GOT THIS... and then mid-swing, they just go slow-mo, almost like they're juking you into hitting parry too early by just a hair. And yet, when their attack lands, you flinch, fall back a bit, and are opened for their sudden 4-hit combo that takes your health to near... after-death? Oh yeah, don't forget that you have to reclaim your soul-filled bloodstain that mysteriously appears in a location roughly a few meters from whatever brutally murdered you a few hours after you ran through a large portion of the dungeon. And don't forget that you have to kill everything all over again to reclaim that bloodstain, with damaged equipment, scarcer supplies that seem to be more difficult to replenish after dying, and ultimately, a deterred will to continue living because you know that you just got fucked over by one of the little guys because the stamina system is something that needs to be fucking axed. All in the hopes that you progress just a few rooms further before the next little guy cuts you the fuck up for making eye contact with it and further recycles the ever-repeating process.

After all that is said and done- I find myself shooting the shit out of Christmas Nubs on MW2.

There's a point at which I think the happy medium can be obtained in RPG's again, and hopefully, that comes in the form of FFXIII when March rolls-in. The game series that has yet to disappoint me in the realm of RPGs, yet has always kept me just far enough away to know that they aren't exactly perfect, either, without being upset about it. Where Final Fantasy suffers for repeating the same storyline over and over, it still excels in the very way they do it. Add their tried and true battle system, and you have another winner in the beginning of 2010.

All the while, I'm still thinking about Bioshock 2. ^_^

CoD 6: Modern World at Warfare 2 1/2

I've got to stop having crushes on people. It's probably not healthy.

Try having an epiphany that has nothing to do with solving a problem whatsoever. Yeah, that worst kind of revelation you can think of. That whole "Icarus Complex" one can have because they find out that there is no solution to what they are trying to accomplish.

I've come to terms with the fact that no one from the outside is ever going to understand video games, let alone get the title of any game right. You know, I'm not going to pigeonhole it to people on the outside, because people who love video games are fucking stupid, too.

Today- my patience was tested. Again. For the eleventy-billionth time. Not because of someone asking an honest question regarding games, but because some smartasses thought they knew more about what they were looking for than I did. Awesome. I'm sure anyone who sells shit they like gets the same feeling when someone tries to stump you about something you idolize.

I'm going to mock Nintendo Wii fans today- no- not the "Nintendo Wii fans who know their shit" fans, I'm talking about the Mom's and Grandpa's and the otherwise "completely-uninterested-in-the-video-game-world-assholes" Nintendo Wii fans. God, you're so lucky that Nintendo has some greedy pieces of shit using douchebag marketing strategies to clean out your wallets because you're too fucking smug to see that you're wasting your money on aesthetics.

Now before I go too far into the darkside of the Nintendo Wii- I want to thank the people who genuinely ASK me if it's a waste of their money to buy these shitty ass products that are EXACTLY what you think they are- a waste of money. I want to thank the people that actually listen to what I have to say when I'm helping them find these games without treating me like I'm some clod they hired to stand behind a shit-camera stand.

*Ahem*

So today my initial asshole called me over to Nintendo stuff. And instead of asking me for New Super Mario Bros. for the Wii, they said- "This section. The only game that's red. Can you handle that?"

I smiled, and said: "So you want New Super Mario Bros. for the Wii?"

"No. It's Super Mario Bros. New. It's the ONLY one with a red case!"

*facepalm.*

Oh hey, should I grab you Smuggerfuckles: I've Been A Gamer for Two Months, too? Honestly, go to hell. Just because you got yourself that piece of crap doesn't mean you belong in the gaming world, you oaf.

"Of course."

"Can I walk around with this game in my cart? I still have shopping to do."

"'fraid not. It's in the lockup, so I've got to either ring it up here, or I can drop it off at the lanes for whenever you're ready."

"...that's weird, you'd think these things wouldn't need to be protected."

No, of course not. These things are valueless to the fullest extent. Little shitbags haven't already stolen these $50+ disks for years before you found it to be socially acceptable to be a part of something you probably vilified long before the Wii came out. (come to think of it, the media used to say that all video games rot your mind; and now that there are such games that actually do because of the Wii, people love them, and will blow all their money just to have them. Heh... irony IS funny!)

I don't want to dwell on this bullshit, but seriously- this Wii trend needs to stop... fast. Not for the financial reasons, because I know that if it had failed- then Nintendo would have waved its long overdue white flag, but because people need to understand that it's not a fucking video game anymore. It's a machine that was built for the mentally disabled. A machine built for the sole purpose of resetting your mind back to the years where anything was believable, and therefore plausible.

-OF COURSE YOU CAN MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL LIFESTYLE CHANGE BY WORKING OUT ON OUR PATENTED WII BALANCE BOARD! IT'S PERFECT TO SHED THOSE UNWANTED POUNDS!

-OUR MOTION DETECTION SYSTEM IS TOP NOTCH! YOUR MOVEMENTS ARE TRACKED BY OUR SENSOR BAR THAT HAS EXCELLENT RESPONSE TO THE VERY WAY YOU MOVE... just buy the motion plus attachment so that it's actually an accurate response.

-OUR GAMES HAVE THE GREATEST GRAPHICS OF ALL! WE DON'T NEED TO MOVE UP TO HIGH DEFINITION LIKE THOSE OTHER GUYS DO JUST TO IMPRESS YOU! ...what's a Gamecube? No, it definitely didn't have a better processing engine than the Wii does. *chuckles* Heh? What's 1080p? That sounds stupid.

Seriously, you're getting duped. Hard. All of you. I've heard of these fucking mediocre games that are coming out for your mediocre video game system that's only means of conveyance for me was playing the new Smash Bros. and Zelda: TP, which was a fucking disappointment anyway. So in essence, this is what I have to say to Nintendo: Get your fucking act together. You already have all the money in the world from the idiots who bought this system butt-ass naked, now give back to the people who gave a rat's ass about what games you're putting out instead of making another fucking stupid sports accessories bundle that serves no actual purpose other than giving people a larger hit-box in their living room.

I'm too frustrated to finish this. MW2 time.

Oh Hey... Forks! Time to Gouge My Eyes Out!

I can't fucking believe this.

This piece of shit. Actually. Exists. He seriously fucking exists. God help me, this kid fucking exists.

Type in "foxmcloudds" over at youtube when you get the opportunity... go ahead, just do it. I can wait. I just want you to take a few hours to watch that so that it makes sense when you read what I have to say when you get back.

*twiddles thumbs*


...done yet? I knew you couldn't handle more than fifteen seconds of that crap. Don't feel bad, neither could I.


So, I'm not going to spend any time picking apart shit from his videos and then make a trollgument go on here. We're here to point out the stupidity of the gaming world, not start nerd fights over the internet. Well, I suppose it's not much different. But yeah...

I just want to start off with "Actually.... Act-tual-ly..."


The general response to this kid Kris Fox is that from the direct competition- the Microsoft and Sony fanboys. I watched a couple response videos where other fat, awkward, and potentially stupid trolls retort in bitter agony over the content of these videos that Fox posts. And as the console wars go on, such things will continue in new, annoying ways. I sure as hell can't change that. But what I will take part in, is the direct and methodical bullying of a completely pathetic group of shitfaces, right here at The Herp.

Honestly, it doesn't bother me one bit that Fox says what he says. I probably would agree with the kid if all I thought was relevant to gaming was what recycled franchise Nintendo had to put out next. Hell, I'd be the biggest Foxmcloudds fanboy there ever was that doesn't wear Naruto headbands to school or carries my DS on my backpack straps to show off my cool as hell Hot Topic stickers to all the other tools out there in the Nintendoverse.

But again, this post is about the kid himself, not the content of his intent. Trust me, I'd feel a fool if I were to rant about how much I love my Xbox experience, or how dusty my Wii got before I sold it. If you are looking for a response to what his videos entail, then... uhh... goodbye.

If you think this kid is fun and exciting and interesting from watching his videos, then I have some awesome news for you: He's none of the above.

I personally have never met anyone more awkward in my life. Ever. I usually adore awkwardness; it's a sign that you're aware of other people, while still not so overconfident that you'd step over your own mother to shake hands with someone you just met. But not this time; this is the kind of awkward that makes your stomach do somersaults and makes you want to puke. This is the kind of awkward that's like Alan Rickman telling you that he just kicked your dog in the face with his voice.

Now I'm not just walking into the subject of this clown because it's a random thought. Turns out I've been hating on his shit ever since he started doing this, and unknowingly, I've been a stone's throw away from being able to deck the kid in the mouth in person... THIS WHOLE TIME!!!!

I don't just flame people for no reason. It usually takes a couple things before I try to make you feel uncomfortable around me in the first place. Fox reached Defcon 5 in less than one day. Had I known that it was actually HIM that I was dealing with in the first place, I probably could have avoided having to deal with this troll in such a manner.

So I took the time to watch his rather classy Scribblenauts opening video. And this is probably the only one that I have taken to heart, just because, to an extent, it does involve me.

And by the way, watching people open up new games on video with a pair of scissors is probably the most pathetic thing I've ever seen.

Prior to this video being made, I want you all to know that Fox purchased this game. Twice. You read that right: twice. We're not talking about buying two copies of the same game just so you can have one you play, and one you can hang on your wall to jerk off to because you can sell it on Amazon as a Mint in Plastic collectible. We're talking about, "I bought it from an unknowing jackass at GameCrazy, then returned it the next day to fuck up his/her numbers."

I was told that such an event was not uncommon, as this shit has done this more than once before. Do you know why he does this?



Because that piece of shit takes in the Pre-Order gifts so that he can compare them between what GameCrazy gives and what Gamestop gives. And the other cockface in the background says something rather sly about which is the better gift between the two.

Yes again, your eyes aren't fucked up. Fox here buys the game from GameCrazy (if the opportunity arises for the ever elusive SharkTroll to cash in on), then he returns it the next day. And wouldn't 'ya know, he gloats about why he does it: "Oh, I just bought it from my store so that I could get the discount."

Yeah, grats on being a smartass. A fine day it'll be when that little piece of crap Sribble-Dictionary catches fire in your treehouse looking bedroom and kills you and your twelve year old girlfriend.

You see, it's not entirely what he posts that's put me into a nerd-rage, it's the fact that he actually is as socially awkward, socially oblivious, and possibly more disgusting to look at than Alan Rickman is as I had previously thought him to be before I even met Fox. I guess I'm just... baffled, that he even had the confidence to talk to a camera for an audience to view him express himself like he does in these videos. I promise you, if you've ever met him at Gamestop, or perhaps see him anywhere in St. Cloud as I, and apparently many other associates of mine have, you would know that this turd is most likely the proudest troll to have ever typed on the internet. But like every troll, there is a master above him...

Middle Management

Excuse I!

There's nothing like cramming as many tasks as you possibly can while sandwiching all of that with depriving yourself with sleep. I don't really want to go any further with that because it's all been said before by other douchebags.

However, there's a fine line I want to draw today between business and Ma & Pa shops. I'll tell you one thing, I'm glad I don't work for the latter. If people came to me every day and tried to get shit for free from me while I was at a Mom 'n' Popper, I'd probably kill myself with how much money I'd end up losing. Then again, some customers make me want to off myself enough without asking for free goodies.

Enter the Yaeger, an apparent, long-disgruntled customer, foaming at the mouth from genital rabies passed on from his raccoon of a mother, and then again passed on to his needle-sharing girlfriend. I've seen less doucheass morons in Axe commercials. This guy's story?

"So, I think in the last 360 I sent out, I might have left my NBA Live in the disk drive..."
"Oh, ok, do you remember which one?"
"Uhm, well I think it was NBA 2007- no wait, 200.... no I know, it's 2009."
"Really."
"Yeah, I think you guys took my game."
"Hmm, your 360 was sent to corporate about a month ago. Are you sure you left it in there?"
"Positive."
"Well, see, there's not a 360 here for me to check and see if it has the game in there. So I'm not sure what I can do at my level, man."
"Well..."
"Yeah, no, that one doesn't have it in there."
"Well, I would like to get my game back."
"Ok, if your game was here, I would, but it's not."
"So what do I do?"
"I dunno, the best I can do is sell you a like copy, like say, NBA Live 2008; I don't have 2o09 in stock."
"...fuck."
"Yeah."
"So wait, you can only SELL me the game?"
"Yeah, I can't just give you one, you know, there's nothing I can but sell you one."
"What the fuck. Ever since I started coming here, I keep getting fucked over by this fucking company. No wonder you're going out of fucking business, because you keep fucking people over."
"That's neither here nor there, man. The company is still going to have two stores, so we're not going out of business, either... Oh, you'll have to go out the other side, that door's locked."
"This ... fucking seriously, god damnit. This is bull-shit."

/sigh

No, I don't feel bad. That's the first time I've ever seen the guy, and he immediately made more of an ass of himself than any piece of shit who's ever waltzed their way in asking for free shit. OK, so there's maybe a few that are close, but still. It'd be different if I had a copy of NBA Live 2002 for the Playstation sitting in the trash somewhere, but no, I'm not just gonna give out a 360 game to someone who starts talking shit to me like it's our fault the store is getting shut down.

So I called Jen to bitch about him, and it appears we both needed to vent about that dumb fuck. Turns out we sent the guy's 360 out to corporate to get fixed like a month ago, and for him to come up with the brilliant idea that his game was left in the disk tray was so broken, it literally posed no threat to my "dumb fucking knavery radar," and passed right through without hazard. The stupid bastard had no evidence backing that this game was anywhere, and probably wasn't even in his possession of ownership! Guh, fucking guy.

So anyway, reason why I'm posting tonight is because I'm in that stage of "fear of sleep" because of ... you guessed it, Paranormal Activity.

For those of you that haven't heard, this movie went national on Friday, and by Bob, itself, I am going to ruin my life over it.

It's all in good fun, scaring the shit over yourself when you make sounds in your head and try to link that immediately to an unknown force from another dimension! What, you've never been?
Seriously, though. I've heard stories. I'm cringing, just thinking about it. How the whole fucking thing just goes under when the boyfriend makes things worse.

I need to sleep, but I kinda can't; which is totally fucking over any chance I have of studying for Tuesday and Wednesday's exams. Oh yeah, and I'm supposed to revise and memorize a script for my second performance, too.

At least my third exam for Comm. in the Workplace is just a typed response to interview questions. I'm totally gonna win.

I'll Remember, That This Isn't Over

I've been listening to this band, Sky Eats Airplane, for about the last couple days. Introduced to me by JRLOLOL, I was skeptical, but then grew to enjoy it. Support them so they make more stuff. Yeah.

So there's this movie called Paranormal Activity that's apparently a huge hit right now. Something about this whole "a million demands and it'll go nation-wide." When stuff like this happens, I get fucking hyped. It's been a while since a scary movie fucked me up in the head since The Grudge. I still get creeped out when I see the DVD cover pretty much every time. And now after I see this one, I'm probably gonna add that onto that little problem.

Then there's Where The Wild Things Are. If I miss this movie, I'm gonna fight someone to the death.

Hmm, I don't really have much else to say today. I guess uhh, 26 days to MW2. Gotta get started on piecing together my Halloween costume. Goodbye.

Isn't That Just Something...

"People are so stupid.

This is Medal Of Honor not COD, why do people always have to compare any FPS with COD.

f*ck COD, I seriously hope this game does better than COD, I'm tired of COD games.. I have all the games and after COD 2, I gave up hope with the series

Goodluck EA, I hope you blow COD out of the water and shut these fanboys up.

And why do people prefer modern over WW2? Jeez if anything WW2 has more large scale battles, more infantry fights."

Fail.

I'll tell you why. Because no one cares about the overdone WWII series, shit bag. You gave up after CoD2 because it was too hard for you, so you went back to Medal of Honor's open arms of "we love failboys." Grats on hoping MoH: MW does better than CoD, we'll all be laughing at you when you're one of three hundred people in their lobby, scratching your heads over why you can't connect to each other because EA has the shittiest servers in the existence of man.

People compare FPS' to Call of Duty (ESPECIALLY MILITARY RELATED) because Call of Duty does a damn good job (...except Treyarch) of paving the way for copycats, much like GTA does for sandbox games, much like Mario and platformers. Much like Final Fantasy and RPG's. The forerunners will always be followed.

"If you overhype something to death, people are going to buy it, especially the average folk who sadly are the majority...and the Call of Duty Modern Combat series is one of the most overhyped game series today"

Lol, go back to WoW then, shithead. Sorry that great games get advertised heavily, it's how you sell them. Yeah, bad games get in the mix and are commercialized as much as they are, but there's a reason why we're not gonna see one commercial or trailer or teaser or sizzler or whatever-the-fuck-you-want-to-call-it for your oh-so-anticipated Cabela's Seal Hunting Adventure. Yeah, the average folk are buying it, but to me, they're just more supply for the kill farm.

Agh, I'm getting pissed at people back home over dumb shit. Bioshock 2 being called overhyped and that barely anyone is going to play it, that's just an insult to games.

Infinite Unshitcovering

Well, I'm pissed.

A company's gotta come out to my place to fix my damn sink, my kitchen's flooded (still after two fucking days), aaaaaaaaaaaaand there's really no point in staying at the apartment when it smells like fish covered in buttflex.

Apart from that, my keyboard decided to give up on me after four years of ... average service. Now I'm using this one that Matt gave me that has a bogus space bar.

Hmm, oh yeah, GameCrazy's riding the failboat at maximum speed. To where? I guess Fail Island. Where all that failsense adds up in the heads of whatever the fuck the people up top are thinking. I was reading on The Escapist, and I've heard yet another reason as to why they're shutting down a shit load of stores. First I here that they're trying a new direction for opening new stores, then I hear that the focus is switching to the Hollywood/Movie Gallery side, then I hear that they can't fucking afford to buy any of the Q4 releases, and now they tell Escapist that it's because the stores they're closing are "underperforming."

Bullshit. Bull-fucking-shit.

You know, it's probably true. But then you also have to look at the awesome decisions these people at the top have made prior to this awesome decision. Kinda like the whole "firing someone" is the best solution to everything. I've heard of some other brilliant ideas that the suits have had in the past, and all I'm doing is sucking my thumb hoping that my future with the company is safer than the printer I nearly kick to pieces every time it jams over nothing.

Oh, but of course my future isn't safe.

So yes, we're in the process of liquidating our inventory into piles of boxes for our ultra-buff Fedex guy to work on while we figure out what the hell we're going to do for the next month as any chance of saving ourselves turns into an entire month of watching borrowed episodes of The Simpsons from the Hollywood side.

But what do any of our non-regulars care? They get an awesome sale out of it. They get to go back to Gamestop and assume that they're saving the most money while their dumbshit employees twittle their thumbs at the idea of guest interaction. It's a small price to pay for them that they're going to get all of our business in exchange for all of the turds that went to GameCrazy before that were too cool to get the MVP or pre-order any games because it was "a waste of money."

I just feel shitty that we're losing a large portion of awesome regulars that have reminded me what it's like to have fun helping people. It's just awful that after all the time they've spent telling us how much they hate Gamestop, they have to go right back, while the generally pudgy, socially awkward, fake elitists get to gloat about how they beat us. Come to think of it, it would be just swell if Gamestop just acquired our entire staff to take over one of their stores and fire the lot of them. That would be awesome.


Ok, I'm too angry. I'm gonna go kill stuff in Call of Duty.

Schooltables on the Burnside.

Oh, hi!

My bad on not saying anything for two months. The whole "moving" thing has all been said and done, the whole "transferring" thing has been said and done, too, and yeah.

I suppose I should say I'm all settled in, but the fact of the matter is that there are things I'm still not "settled" on. I'm (for the most part) already bored again. Crazy, eh? That didn't take long at all. I haven't been skating in forever, I work roughly 45 hours a week in addition to 10 hours of school. One can imagine how little of other things I get to do; namely... sleep.

Not really complaining about the whole thing, it just sucks that the whole sacrifice-this-for-this deal is back up and running again. As far as money goes, I'm back on track for the time being and I've already paid off my copy of Modern Warfare 2 for the release on 11/10/09. (Hell yes)

But that's enough about me, this blog is about OTHER PEOPLE! People who manage to fit food in their mouth, but have a hard time accepting that ODST is not pronounced "Oddist;" people who can't seem to understand that if we were basing the next Call of Duty on what numbered release it is, it would actually be CoD9; people who are so FUCKING stupid that they think that there is a justification behind EA maxing out your credit cards with shitty release after shitty release of the same game!

So what should I jump on today... (checks current articles)
OH! Here's a good one!
http://kotaku.com/5363583/is-gamestop-a-best-buy-for-best-buy

Best Buy commented on their current "acquisition target" we all know as GameStop, you know, those guys who sell used games... you've probably heard of them.

The fact of the matter is that because of how well GameStop is doing in this awesome recession we have going for us, Best Buy doesn't have the money to take them. Period.

And yet, despite this piece of information provided by Owen Good, your general populace of Kotaku fuckfaces comment their laments and fears of this actually happening.

"Great. If Best Buy buys out GameStop, I'll have to worry about being pestered to buy pointless warranty plans for my video game purchases."


"Geek Squad AND used game badgering? I can see it now-
Excuse me sir, but would you like to get the used version of X instead? Its $2 cheaper! And would you like to purchase a Geek Squad installation for just $14.99? We'll handle removing your current disk, inserting this one, and updating the game to the newest version for you. Also, would you like to buy an extended 2 week warranty for $9.99? It guarantees that you'll be able to swap the game out for another copy of the same game in case this disk doesn't work. Personally, I'd get all three. That's the best value."

"Noob question... but is Dow Jones a real person?"


Awesome.

You commenters are the turds that come into stores and buy one $4.99 piece of shit GameCube game and probably use it to masturbate through the little hole in the middle.

I'll let you in on a little secret; GameStop already offers those fucking "warranty's" that you think are so useless to you. Not that I'm supporting them at all, but those warranty's are also known as the Dumbshit Coupon. GameCrazy's got them, too, and they're much better than Gamestop's; it basically means that you can wipe your ass with the disk and start it on fire, and they'll still replace the game for you at no additional charge. Saves you a hefty sixty bucks that you don't have to spend when your stupid ass props your 360 over the kitchen sink. Saves you a lot when your inbred child comes stomping in the room demanding its share of the moonshine, only to step on and break - in - half your treasured copy of Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2005. Saves you a chunk when you pick up your system and shake it while it's running because you can't use your hard drive to mass transit child pornography photos to your recently played list.

Personally, now I see why Best Buy put out that $129 offer to help you plug in your Playstation 3, the sooner none of you have money to pay for these things, the sooner the shittier side of gaming will just die out. Not that I'm offended when you come into a store and blow your entire paycheck on game stuff; no, no, I think that's just rad, I just find it appalling that someone can say that they're not willing to add some kind of protection policy on their games, and then complain that the very service is OFFERED. You spend all your money on these beautiful things we call an escape from reality, yet you won't tack on an extra $1-60 (this is including hardware warranties) to guarantee that you have something that works for an entire year, perhaps even two if it includes a manufacturer's warranty? Well, I hope that in the future, you can make that difficult choice between your daily dose of Happy Meals and a used copy of Scaler, turd.


So Jen's starting one of these to post stupid things that people say to us on XBL. I think that's fucking awesome. The problem is that I'm worried that there's going to be too much for her to write down and keep up with! With that being said, I think I would like to commission an acquisition of The Herp by whatever she names her blog. We could use the whole "Multiple Authors" thing to allow her, myself, and possibly even JR to write down the stupid stuff we hear and then we can comment on it ourselves afterward. YEAH!

Well, now that I've lost track of time by searching my name in Google, I'm just going to cut this post a little short. Go to hell, Lutzka.

Geo

Taco Potter and the Half-Pint of Jag

Horrible titles are horrible.


So tomorrow I move; god damn July 15th arrived quickly. The whole thing is gonna be a fucking mess. Me not knowing what to put in what box. Garbage managing to get into my bookcase. Delicate things broken in half. I anticipate it all.


But I'm already kind of over it. It's possible to keep this down to two trips back and forth total before it's all done and the lease is signed.

Also getting into the habit of doing my own laundry rather than being a brat and having family do it. Works out quite well for me as I've gotten more loads done in one night than I have in the last year.

Now for the actual topic of discussion: Why people are stupid.

I just read an article on Kotaku that EA Sports has been in a high profile court case in regards to their monopoly on NFL IP's. Of course with Kotaku, I genuinely read the article with interest, and I'm generally enthused to read what they have to say about it.


It's always the comments that follow that somehow make my brain numb.

Now, I'm only naming off Kotaku as an example to this case- horrible, mindless stupor can be found on just about any news-based website in the history of the internet. Everywhere I fucking go, someone has the dumbest thing to say about something. Hell, even me once or twice in the past. What's worse is that it can come from either side of the spectrum. "I love Batman: The Dark Knight!" "I hate Batman: The Dark Knight!"


We all have our reasons for loving/hating something or someone, but for God's sakes, there has to be a better way to have that expressed without leaving someone catatonic over how awfully brain dead you sound in type.


Freedom of Speech is not exactly the point I'm getting at here; it's simply a matter of-

"Do we really need to hear what you have to say?"

Grammar. Repetition. Context/Relevance. Timeliness. Organization. Authenticity.

Let's just put it into those (hypothetical) six rules written above. In less than ten words, I can usually pick apart someone's comment and find how they fail to oblige to any of these, then either immediately disregard their comment, or angrily type in the comment box something witty to identify their stupidity, then sigh, and leave the page only to allow the retarded comment to further exist as either unchallenged or challenged by an equally retarded comeback/argument.


Here's a good one I snagged off of IGN-
"who can see a treyarch/infinity ward situation here, obsidian will do a good job, but it just wont be as good as what betheseda did for fallout 3 i LOVED IT...just like the cod's cod5 was good, but cod4 i loved"
(I won't put his username in here because I don't care enough to blacklist someone I don't know)


This is in reference to Obsidian picking up Fallout for the first time since they released Fallout: The Brotherhood of Steel, following Bethesda's Fallout 3. The commenter on IGN claims that, like the two current generation Call of Duty's we have seen thus far, CoD4: MW is better than CoD: WaW because Infinity Ward is a better game developer than Treyarch (which is a valid and justified argument to the fullest extent) However, because this comment was written so poorly and without evidence, I'll just take a couple minutes to go over my .02 as to why I hate this person for saying such an absurd thing.


First of all- Call of Duty: World at War was not "cod5," and it never will be.

Secondly- Obsidian (formerly known as Interplay) CREATED Fallout, it is probably the only IP that they've made an effort to be as badass as possible with. And I can, without a shadow of a doubt, state that they aren't gonna stoop their former following by making a shitty Fallout.

Third- After the time and effort that Bethesda has put into making Fallout 3, does anyone really think they're gonna take a break from the game (especially with such a huge success Fallout 3 has had) to allow another company to drive it into the ground without at least having a hand in making the game amazing? (Sure, that sounds a bit optimistic and naive, but oh well)

Fourth-I can name off a very good series that was handed off to another studio, and as a result, was turned into one of the best titles of the last generation. Metroid Prime, anyone?

Lastly- Seperate your goddamn sentences with periods, not commas. Run-on sentences are a pain in the ass to read when it sounds like a clusterfuck of stupid.

Now, the usual response I get (when I have the audacity to actually post an argument against someone) is exactly what you'd expect from someone who has a brain the size of a cheez-it. So I'll leave that up to your imagination. Hell, for anyone who has the audacity to comment on this whole "thing" I've got going here, feel free to. I might just send you a box of cheez-its as a reward for being creative and funny. *shrugs*

Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince was pretty interesting; I have to say that if I'm going to start reading the books anytime soon, then my opinion on the movie will likely change to "I hated it," and therefore saturate any experience I have with reading books and then following them up with watching the films afterward to piss me off. Damn it all.

Back to packing.

Change (In The House of Guise)

This is the first time in a while that I've been able to freely rant about everything that's going on. A tangent on the relevant, to say the least. I don't even really know where I want to start, to be frank.

I guess I'm gonna start with saying that I will no longer be writing for LiveJournal (not that I have been recently or anything). I find that in writing in this instead will give me a sense of "space" that I probably had for the last several posts before jumping ship, but well, didn't really get to express back on the ole' LJ. So for those who might have followed me before under the alias "geoffizzle," then my fault.

So I guess the best way for me to start this whole thins is a post about me glorifying my current favorite show: Heroes.

As of today, I am all caught up with the series, and a big part of me rebooting this blog is to vent on how speechless I've been over it. (Oh snaps, IGN commenters go wild over how much of an "idjit" I am for liking a show that has more story arc in one episode than an entire season of that garbage you call Family Guy)

Anywho, it's been apparent from the start that I'd pick up on this show because I am attracted to superpowers, and Lost already paved the way for me in being able to follow several perspectives all at once. So this was kind of a head bonker as to why I never picked up on this show from the start. (For Heroes Junkies- I've actually seen "The Eclipse: Part One" before I did all this cramming and had a few mindfuck moments trying to remember what I thought of the show when I first watched from the breakroom couch)

I spent some time at Applebee's after finishing "An Invisible Thread," the finale to the ridiculously absurd Volume 4, barely contained within the 3rd Season of the series. Reason being that I wanted to collect my thoughts on everything that had happened up to that point- that truly unnerving, and strange ending to it. The show, like Lost, leaves you with that feeling that you want to know what happens next- which I guess is exactly what a lot of shows do recently, but not as well represented (in my belief) as Lost or Heroes does. Then again, I still have A LOT of Lost to catch up on, seeing as I'm only on Season 2 of that. >.>

It's safe to say that I think I just care more for the coming of Season 4 of Heroes more than most other TV shows out there. (The Office... replaced?)

So another huge thing in my life that's going on is that I'm going back to SCSU in August. Ironic, isn't it? I hated that school for the blatent allowance of bigotry and the acceptance of hate, and yet I'm gonna walk right through the doors for another year and a half like nothing ever happened.

I guess I should explain that one.

The U of M (for me) ... sucked. There are some things I thoroughly enjoyed to the best of my ability-
1) I got back in touch with my imagination [writing, not being four years old pretending everything away]
2) Met some really good instructors who actually pointed me back to St. Cloud for my major
3) Learned how to be self-sufficient again

Let's just say everything else I took part in either shed some light on what I thought about the place or just overall made me into an angrier person.


On July 15th, Wednesday of next week, I am moving into my apartment in Cedar Square. It's actually right off of Highway 10 near a Subway (my favorite food place!!) I'm moving right into the same complex as two of my fellow employees, two friends I started skating with, one fiancé, and my roommate whom I've known for probably all of two years. I'm thinking I might have a friendly get together since my roommate is only going to be moving stuff up before the move-in day. Pizza and fun-times?

So I just got writer's block; I'm going to pick this back up when I remember what I wanted to post about.