This blog symbolises America's past, present and future: it had a very rocky start with not much going on, then it sharply rose into prominence, yet despite being extremely good most people don't care for it, and it will very soon collapse into ruin and quickly be forgotten by everyone a very short time later.

• 19Aug 08

  A YouTube for game reviews...

  A friend told me today about a site that recently went live (but isn't public yet) that is, as the topic suggests, a sort of YouTube for computer game reviews. Reviewer status is invite only so only the best the internet has to offer (make sure your tongue was firmly placed in cheek while reading that) will be contributing, but it's looking like an interesting site.

  The site's tagline is Video game reviews by us, not "the man", so if you like your reviews honest and corruption-free, it might be worth checking out. There are already a large number of contributors and plenty of content is being uploaded ready for the public launch and the site is only going to be hosting computer game reviews (as far as I'm currently aware), so there won't be any sifting through tons of random videos to find one that looks like it might actually be a review.

  It's also a great opportunity for amateur reviewers to get a little more exposure (depending on the site's popularity, anyway). There are some people out there making video reviews that actually aren't awful, which is... something. There are also people out there who should be making video reviews but who aren't HINT HINT.

  Anyway, check the site out and see what you think (when it's out of beta, anyway). The site is gameular.

  • Posted Aug 19, 2008 3:03 am GMT
  • Category: Games
  • 22 Comments
  • Tag
  • Print
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Digg
• 1Aug 08

  I am an honourary American

  Not really, I'm just really fat.

  Well, not really really, I just have a lot of food.

  I'm going to be marathoning some stuff over the weekend and I wanted copious amounts of junk food to help me through it. I don't have a short attention span or anything, but either my brain or my hands need to stay active - I need interactivity of some kind. In fact, I sometimes carry a ball of Blu-Tack around with me as a penis substitute. My hands need something to play with!

  Anyway, rather than spend the whole time masturbating I decided to make a change to my usual habits and just eat to stay busy, so I went shopping this morning and returned with an absurd amount of food. He's a snapshot:

  
  
  I don't know how this stacks up with your giant piles of American food, but I think there's quite a lot there! Here's a full rundown from top to bottom:

  2x popcorn
  4x tin of vegetarian spaghetti bolognese
  4x cheese & onion pasties
  12x picnic eggs (vegetarian Scotch eggs)
  2x falafel & houmous in a soft tortilla wrap sandwich
  4x Relentless (energy drink similar to Red Bull, only nicer)
  5x pickled onion flavour Monster Munch crisps (potato chips)
  5x spicy flavour NikNaks (potato chips)
  2x large Cadbury's chocolate bar (to be melted on my alarm clock!!)
  8x ripple chocolate bar
  5x toffee crisp chocolate bar
  1x soft scoop vanilla ice cream
  1x strawberry cheesecake

  I think chances are good I will be sick in my sleep and choke on my sick and die. But that is a risk I am more than willing to take. I'm also playing with the idea of getting a 12" margherita, but that might be pushing it just a bit too far. The total cost was around £26, which is around $50 I suppose. Just to put it in perspective, my normal food bill is around £11/$22 per week.

  But whatever!

  Oh, and here is a list of films I recently watched and my thoughts:

  Wanted: The whole film tastes like ass, beside the last twenty minutes - which just smell like ass. No substance whatsoever, but no styIe, either. A wasted opportunity. 1/5

  
  The Dark Knight: Great, and Ledger was amazing, but the film as a whole simply doesn't deserve the praise it's getting. There's an absolute ton of awesome characters, all of which are performed magnificently, but the story itself is rather bland and the pacing is absolutely languid. I think it's overly-long for what it is and there are far too many unnecessary scenes - most of which I spent glancing at my watch, wondering when Ledger would be back. Despite flaws, there are too many powerhouse performances from some amazing actors for it to be anything less than great. 4/5

  
  Be Kind Rewind: A little too Hollywoodish compared with Eternal Sunshine and Science of Sleep, but a frequently fun-if-not-funny and occasionally touching film which, if nothing else, will evoke fond memories of childhood and the films we grew up with. Big points for originality. 3/5

  
  Babel: Amazing... just amazing. The stories are engaging, the writing is authentic, the acting standard transcends the concept of acting to the extent that they were people for me, not actors (even Brad Pitt). 5/5

  • Posted Aug 1, 2008 2:43 am GMT
  • Category: Opinion
  • 25 Comments
  • Tag
  • Print
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Digg
• 17Jul 08

  /mourn fireandcloud

  I don't yet know why, and this may not come as news to some, but I just learned that fireandcloud has been banned from GameSpot.

  It may be because he recently compared a female GS presenter with a cow, during the whole Dawn of War II worst interview ever fiasco.

  So yet another awesome GameSpotter has been banned, and the GS community is going to be less enjoyable for it. Here's hoping he will be back and pissing everyone off again as soon as possible.

  If anyone wants to say some some polite parting words, thise might be the place to do so. But I swear to God if anyone starts reciting poetry I will ****ing delete this blog!

  • Posted Jul 17, 2008 8:00 pm GMT
  • Category: Fashion
  • 35 Comments
  • Tag
  • Print
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Digg

See Previous Blog Posts