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RealityMeltdown
- 1/07/07 - 4:03 PM
Broken is obviously putting pressure on me to improve the site, and we all know I don't cope well.
But I'll see what I can do.
Broken
- 1/06/07 - 7:28 PM
Part 2 is finally done. I'm not going to try and predict when the next parts will be done, but I've already got very detailed and impressive outlines for each one. You'd think that would help.
There will be some more changes to the overall site pretty soon. At least that's what I assume. Melt said he was going to start fiddling with the html a couple days ago. I'm sure he'll get around to it any day now. They're probably going to be the most drastic we've seen since we stopped doing the long spinal cord and shitty brain graphic thing. Should be fun.
RealityMeltdown
- 1/01/07 - 1:57 AM
Happy new year.
On the previous discussion, I think i missed the most fundamental point.
Women have no need for a down seat, and men have no reason to care about the position. It's a fundamental anatomical diffrence, and if the man is hygienic he's moving the seat. It's that simple. We will never agree. It might be easier if men always needed it one way, and women another, but I doubt that even if there were the case, we'd still have the same silly arguement. Quit discussion there.
Finally, on the New Year. I'm entering into ths next year angry; and I'm not sure why. Fuck the new year.
RealityMeltdown
- 12/27/06 - 11:21 PM
I'm tired of having the same fights picked up over and over, and using the same defenses each time. It gets old. Since I have yet to dissuade anyone from a stupid fight and I'm too proud to roll over and give in off the bat (setting yourself up to lose the
real fight); I'm just gonna write this one down.
Why men will never, ever leave the seat down
It's a constant peeve of women that men leave the toilet seat up. I'm not sure what it is about an upright seat that makes them fly off the handle.
An argument can be made that since women never use it in the upright position that it's unfair for them. But if that were true, isn't the same true of any time a man has a bowel movement? If there are two men, and one uses the bathroom and leaves the seat up, and the second man, having to seat himself is forced to put the seat down the self-same travesty? No, it isn't. It's inconvenient. They take it in stride because it's something they can understand. It happens. Sometimes you forget to close a cabinet in the kitchen. It is not a big, at best it is unfortunate that women have no visit that require an upright seat. Even were they infrequent visits, women would never complain if they had a use for the upright position of the seat.
Men have no use for remembering the position of the seat. At best remembering to put the seat down avoids a petty argument. Avoiding punishment isn't a good means of changing behavior. There is no incentive for a man to put the seat down just to be as equally likely to do it again. There's nothing at stake, no point in it. They just don't care. It's not a life or death situation, and it's one he seems to be coping with just fine.
The real question is, why is it so hard for her to be aware of her surroundings that this is such an issue? I have yet to hear a decent case on this matter
RealityMeltdown
- 12/27/06 - 11:16 PM
It's really easy to pick a fight. It doesn't matter the topic, sometimes it's just that confrontational itch. Right under the skin, just asking to go off. It's like walking around with a ticking bomb when you want to pick a fight. It's nto constructive, nothing gets done.
Broken
- 12/12/06 - 7:26 PM
The journalism guide isn't dead yet. It'd be stupid to give up after only one part. I have a good chunk of the second one done. It's just a matter of finding the time to do the rest. Also, unlike real websites, we don't have a constant flood of emails telling us to hurry up or reminding us that we never do anything. As such, there's no real pressure to get anything done. So ultimately, this is
your fault.
(Hey Meltdown? We need a new banner. Want to get started on that?)
RealityMeltdown
- 12/10/06 - 6:53 PM
Many games include sections solely for the compulsive.
Zelda that Wind Waker has the figurine collecting game, and it takes more time to finish than can possibly be worth it.
RealityMeltdown
- 11/28/06 - 8:33 PM
In our current world, with all that's going on it's hard to sit and finish anything. It's so easy to rush from here to there and be talking to everyone and you just donit finish what they start.
Not right off the bat, anyway
Someday, I'll finish final fantasty 12.
Somedays, I like to listen to the blues. Or just music fitting the theme.
Broken
- 11/19/06 - 6:11 PM
A long time ago, we used to write features that had their own seperate place on the site. The kind of stuff you'd find after clicking on one of those buttons over there on the left side of the page. I'm happy to say that we've finally written another one. It's the first part of a guide on how to become a successful game journalist, and you can find it
here.
I'd ultimately like to do guides for all areas of journalism, but I've decided to start with game journalism because it's the least pervasive form. Many "real" journalists often look down on videogame journalism. Those that even acknowledge it as journalism in the first place often call it sloppy, unprofessional, and immature. I disagree. Game journalism is not immature. It's been around for over 20 years.
And the fact of the matter is that as the industry grows, so will game journalism. That means the major publications will be on the look-out for young talent to fill their ranks, and it is with this in mind that we create this guide.
Ideally, I'll post a new part every week, but I can't make any promises.
RealityMeltdown
- 11/19/06 - 5:06 PM
Final Fantasty 12 may have the weirdest battle system ever created. I can't tell if my guys are over-powerful or if it's supposed to be difficult. I just spent alot of time staring at their grid, trying to figure out where all the spells and abilities I've always liked are (like Ultima - gotta love the "always hurts them alot" spell). So when I actually get to fighting, the gambit lets you pretty much autopilot your way through. All I have o do is walk my team up near some enemies; they auto target, attack, kill. You can talk on the phone, literally holding it to your ear, and play.
I don't know if that's awesome or boring. Frankly, I generally play pretty mechanically anyway; so maybe it suits me well.
Also: one can be banned in WOW for unsucessfully trying to cheat.
My brief revie wof my last year of playing WOW: It is the most addictive mindless reptitive game ever. Raids are neat, but you wind up doing them so often what's the point. WOW is an excuse for random people to talk shit about each other's moms, and other general team building practices.
RealityMeltdown
- 11/04/06 - 8:14 PM
Go visit
Pandora. It lets you pick musicians and songs you like, and then starts playing. You can rate songs up or down, and it'll tailor it. And it's free. For someone as lazy about music as I am, it's great. I get exposure to all sorts of music without having to go find it. It's got some weird rules, like you can only skip so many songs and can never really request a song; but I don't have a problem with that. If you really want to hear a particular song that badly, cough up the dollar to buy it off Amazon or iTunes.
RealityMeltdown
- 11/01/06 - 9:14 PM
I wrote the time when I finish my post, jackass. I don't ahve all day to synchronize around you.
I have not, and never will, own or operate a livejournal. You're full of shit.
I have no new news for today.
Broken
- 10/31/06 - 11:22 PM
Nice one, Meltdown. I post an update where the last digit of the time is a 6, and now here you are, one day later, doing the exact same thing. Way to rip me off, you cheap bastard. Can't you do anything original? Do you
always have to steal my ideas?
As I said, if you think the colors are bad, fix them yourself. You know how to do it. And you've stated on numerous occasions your desire to blog. You even had a Livejournal, and probably still do. Lastly, don't insult me after writing a paragraph about Scrubs, especially if you're not going to use my name. It makes it sound like you're saying that Scrubs has no sense of color (which I agree with, by the way).
Moving on, Happy Halloween everyone. It's almost over, so I thought I'd say something before that happens . . . Actually, that's all I'm going to say. It's not really a top tier holiday in my mind. You don't even get the day off. Fuck it. I was leaving my house to go to work right as this weird looking dad and his two kids were coming up to knock on the door. The dad gave me this really odd look, like he wanted to fight me. Like he thought I was swooping down from my perch to steal his children. I wasn't. I was just going to work. Fuck that guy. I don't need his hate. Not today, not ever. I should've grabbed him by the ear, pulled him over to that little tree in front of my house, and explained to him how over six million Jews died in the Holocaust. That would've given him something to think about.
Anyway, I'm thinking about giving us a new banner with new words on it. You know, just temporarily.
RealityMeltdown
- 10/31/06 - 10:06 PM
Were you listening? I said I wouldn't blog. Blogging involves talking about oneself. I am giving short, random reviews. These reviews just so happen to be whatever I've been doing. But unlike bloggers, who tell you how they went to the store and nothing happened, I'm trying to relay my analysis of events.
I've been watchign Scrubs. It's on Comedy Central, and I've got mixed feelings about it. I think the first few episodes were pretty good; but the later episodes get mroe and more... random. Taking a phrase and enacting a daydream sketch about it. It made more sense in the begining, as a new doctor probably would be suprized by how things actually work. Anyway, the other really intresting part of the show is that several episodes end on a sad note. I like that, it seems... distinct. Too many shows always end on a happy note or else it's some big deal.
And for the record you, like most dogs, have no sense of color.
Broken
- 10/30/06 - 8:46 PM
I think of you as a crackwhore too, Meltdown. You damn well better make good on your promise to update. I don't want this to be a repeat of the last time you promised to do more updates.
By the way, if you want to blog, why not get a Myspace account? Everyone's doing it these days. And I mean everyone. Even loud Rock & Roll music bands like Eyehategod, Soilent Green, and Pig Destroyer have Myspace pages. The most anti-conformist, anti-social, anti-technology, society-hating, nihilistic people in the world have Myspace pages.
Anyway, while Meltdown's doing that, I'll be working on my novel. It'll be 24 chapters long and I'll post them as I finish them. I probably won't finish all of them. Hell, I may never start in the first place, but it's a chance I have to take.
There's also a movie I want to review. Just need to watch it first.
I haven't worked on the colors in a while. Meltdown's free to do so if he wants. He's really picky about these kinds of things. I also want to do another name change for the site, possibly reverting back to one of our old names. Cerebral Hemorrhages just aren't what we're about anymore. I know this won't be a popular decision with the other webmaster, but ultimately I answer to our readers, not him. And personally, I don't think our readers would give a shit if we changed the name.
You wouldn't care, would you, Eric?
RealityMeltdown
- 10/28/06 - 1:45 PM
Final Fantasty Tactics Advance has one key advanatage over it's PSX counterpart. There is absolutely no reaosn you ever have to stop playing. It's protable, and that means evena bathroom trip isn't safe. Replaying it is alot like admitting I have a problem. It isn't a hard game, I never loose a battle; but still I find myself gearing and training the hell out of my army. Why? No idea. It's not necessary in any way shape or form. It's completely unecessary. And that makes me think of myself as a tactics crack whore.
RealityMeltdown
- 10/28/06 - 1:42 PM
The site looks terrible and it's not my fault.
I've been thinking about lower effort ways for me to update more often. The simplest is to blog, but let's face it, nobody cares about what anyone does on a given day. The only point would be if I wnated to read it later, and I really don't.
So I came up with a new idea. I'm going to tlak about what I've been up to, but without talking about myself. Eventually we might categorize it into various topics (games, movies, etc.) but I'm too lazy to do that.
Broken
- 10/20/06 - 7:14 PM
I have a correction to make. Way back in 2003 when I wrote my Home Alone 2 review, admittedly after having not seen it for about ten years, I said that Macaulay Culkin's family was going to France. They were actually going to Miami. I'm sorry I didn't catch that sooner.
Hey, I wonder where Meltdown is. You'd think that since this is our birthmonth, he'd at least want to come out and say something.
Broken
- 10/07/06
Our colors are currently in disarray. They'll probably be like that for a bit longer. Our ultimate goal is to change them into something more visually effective than the previous colors, but we haven't decided what that will involve yet. So for now, we're just testing. I'd appreciate it if anyone who sees this site would please send us E-mails telling us how awful the new colors look so that in a few days, I can tell everyone to stop, and that you'll eventually get used to it. If you do this for us, I promise that if I ever see you in real life, I'll do you a solid. I don't know what exactly that will be at this point, but I'm sure it will involve the genitalia in some way. Just because that's what people seem to prefer these days. If we were living in the 1950s, I would buy you a yo-yo or a tin can or take you to the soda fountain across the street. But today it's different. People want to feel good down there. We can make that happen. Well, Meltdown can, anyway. If you're a guy. I assume you all are.
Also, tomorrow's our birthday. Four years. I told my colleague a while ago that we should do something special when the site turns five. I don't think either of us thought we'd ever be around for that long, but it looks like we have a pretty good chance.
Broken
- 10/03/06 - 12:05 AM
Just so everyone knows, it's our birthmonth again. I think we started on the 8th. We made a big deal out of it on our first anniversary, a casual mention of it on our second, and nothing on our third. Maybe this year will be different.
