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.