Reviewers: A Review

Oh the critic, the reviewer, whatever you want to call them. They have the best job on the entire planet Earth. I cannot even fathom having a better job than getting to critique the work of someone else. I mean, I do that anyways but I don't get paid. These people get paid for their opinions. What the hell?! Why isn't anyone paying me for my all important opinion? Oh right, I'm not important.

Here is the problem I have with all this, these people that are critics seem to be the people that couldn't make it in their chosen field. They wander aimlessly muttering bitterly about how they almost made it, then someone got the bright idea that they should talk shit about the people who did make it in said profession. They created a rating system of sorts and somehow an entire new profession was created.

Why does everyone listen to these people? "I heard such and such jackass gave this movie 0 stars." Who cares? How do you know his tastes line up with yours anyways? How is he able to make money off of movies when he isn't involved in any way shape or form in making them. All he does is complain about them because he wasn't good enough.

So basically the reviewer is given a free item (be it a game, meal, or movie) and they judge it. Then get paid. They are given free things then paid way too much money for an opinion.

I need that job.

Oh yeah, this is a review...

Reviewers: 0 out of 5 Stars.

Twilight: Awful?

What is with people's obsession with this series? I don't understand it. When did this goth kid nonsense become super popular? This is the kind of stuff those social reject kids write in their spare time in their pitch dark rooms as they type a blog about how much their life sucks and all the new cuts on their arms.

Now you may be wondering "Well then why did you read them?" I didn't! Screw that! I don't do research before making up incredibly biased opinions. I just take what I've heard and read off the back of the book. I mean, how can one read such meaningless drivel, ever? One would have to be incredibly bored and/or stranded on an island with only copies of these awful books. Then again, I would think you might want to do something more useful with them like burn them for warmth and cooking.

I have nothing against this culture of vampire loving freaks (yes I do) but when did it become mainstream? I guess after Harry Potter, anyone who could write more than a few paragraphs and knew someone that worked for a publisher decided they could write a book. Somehow this particular idiot hit the jackpot. Some idiot read the book, then told their friend about who told their friend about it. You know what, I don't think anyone has read these books at all. They all just bought copies because its the cool thing right now. Jerks.

Security

So EA has decided to have DRM on both Spore and Mass Effect. I could care less about Mass Effect but I plan on purchasing Spore. And really, I could still care less. Oh no they want to verify it when I install the game?!?! Outrageous!

I see people all over the internet just absolutely losing their shit over this. If you bought the game and have an internet connection (if you don't you probably really don't play PC games) this shouldn't be a problem. Just verify after install then go and play. Oh no?

Getting angry about this is like saying you're mad a store beefs up security after people keep shop lifting it. For some reason since its the gaming industry and it affects gamers (the whiniest people ever) its the worst thing that has happened in the history of the earth. The Holocaust? Mere spilt milk in comparison. If this ruins the game for you, you obviously didn't care for it that much in the first place.

Out of all of this I have really come to the conclusion that the people whining about this aren't the people that were going to buy Spore in the first place. Its the people that want to pirate it but still wanted to download content for it (oh yeah it verifies anytime you download content as well). Pony up the $50 and buy the game. Or hey wait a year and pay like $20.

Another thing is we should be angry at the people pirating the games for all this, not the companies for adding more security measures.

Good Luck

Ok I retract all of that, not that anybody cares. I still hate Sean Avery and the fact that the Stars signed him. Jerks.

Well then...

Well it has been about a month since my last post so I guess its time to update for the one total reader that I have. Its exam time now...oh boy. That time of year when you study and study and study then take the test and find out its over completely different material than the stuff that you spent three weeks meticulously going over. So I guess if this post is terrible (it probably will be) I can blame exams.

I don't want to rant about exams though. What I do want to talk about though is karma. It undoubtedly exists and it is one of the few things that actually makes me believe in a higher power. So many times you see some idiot (Shawn Avery for instance) being stupid and doing things that just make you think "Man what a jackass...someone needs to break his leg or something." Instead of someone having to be suspended to take Shawn Avery out, karma comes and gets him back for everyone and his spleen bursts or something like that.

Thats so beautiful. It is on the cusp of being poetic. It seems so often that for some reason or other, people do in fact get what they deserve, reap what they sow, whatever you want to say. Almost like there is some kind of justice in the world.

Oh sure there are plenty of cases that refute this, but since they don't prove my point, I like any good writer, will just ignore them and pretend they don't exist.

Hockey games and...socialites?

So tonight I had the honor of seeing the Stars lose a horrendous game to the Phoenix Coyotes 4-2. The interesting part was that I sat in Section 117, on row F. Normally I'm in section 323 or some kind of nonsense. The point being that instead of the players appearing to be ants, I could see their freakin facial expressions.

So that was fairly cool, I got a bunch of pictures from the warmups and a few from the game, but I didn't get on here to update to talk about that. I'm here updating to ask this: when the hell did it become the socialite thing to do to attend a hockey game? I was at the game, enjoying myself a bit at least, but there were these four girls sitting in front of me that annoyed the hell out of me with their mindless chatter. It was like a hockey game broke out in the middle of their conversation or something.

How do people like this get tickets and a bigger question is why? I didn't see them pay attention once, all they did was talk fairly loudly and look stupid with their orange skin. Another thing, why do girls think that looks good? I don't think there is a single guy that says, "Oh man that girl has a fake tan, I'm all over that!" No, wrong. Its gross and looks bad. You don't look like you are from California (who the hell wants to be from California anyways?), you just look like an idiot with a fake tan. Which I can then infer you probably have some kind of fake personality and a fake laugh. You aren't a real person and you have no soul.

I had a lot more things I wanted to say about this, but I'm fairly lazy.

So...crosswalks

I was on my back to Denton from Dallas tonight, after spending the day there, turning things in to be a lifeguard and earn some kind of money this summer, and just because it was me, some kind of event had to be ending right when I got back. So as people flooded out of the arena, they of course needed to cross the street to get to their cars

This presented something of a problem to me as I had to in fact get down that very same street. Well as all know people enjoy traveling in packs. Very large packs at times. So I sat there for close to 3 minutes before the smallest opening appeared and I ran over about 5 people to get by. It was the only way.

Seriously though, there is a point while sitting there where you think to yourself, "You know, I am in a 2000lbs vehicle and they are only flesh and bone, I think I can win this battle..."

Man did invent the cross-walk to protect the pedestrian though, its a safe zone. Like "Hey I'm in this, you aren't supposed to run me over." That only goes so far, people need to respect the cars out of fear though. Those stripes of paint don't magically grant them invincibility. When you are inside there you can't just go "Hey man don't worry, I got this" and step in front of the car and watch it smash to little pieces.

So I guess what everyone should take from this is that Newton invented physics so that right as he was about to plow some pedestrians over in his SUV, he didn't magically pass through them or something.