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.