Wow wait a second I am actually alive?!?!?!?! A 7 month hiatus of GameSpot... who ever though I would be back. Well if there was any reason to give as to why I have not been on GameSpot in like ever. It would have to be due to the hellish 11th grade school year. 3 college c!asses along with SAT's and ACT's. Along with the joyous searching for colleges. All of those are the primary reasons others are personal. It is summer, I can promise I wil be active, but please do not expect a massive burst of activity I will be coming on in my free time. All I can say know is I am glad to be back.

Quote of the Blog:

"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" -Edgar Bergen

AceBermanX Quote of the Blog:

"Once something has been taken from you, you tend to love more once you get it back."

Video of the Blog:

Awesome Baseball Swing

Song of the Blog:

New Divide by Linkin Park

Thank you to those who are still friends with me.

Wow has it really been over four (4) months since my last blog post?  For those of you who are reading this thank you for keeping me as your friend.  As you can tell I'm alive and well.  Leaving GameSpot for so long gave me time to myself.  Now onto the fun.  In recent news Barack Obama is our new President, peace out George W (yes I know I'm about a week late, lol).  I've started Drivers Ed back in September, I have a big creepy big black dude who wears a bandana and apparently smokes.  I got accepted into my schools National Honor Society, you have to have an unweighted average above a 90 (I'm so smrt, lol).  In the gaming department.  I've picked up Guitar Hero World Tour and Gears of War 2.  So thats really it.  I don't know how active I'll be, so don't get your hopes up, I'll be around though hopefully.  Yes I'll still continue with AceBermanX's Quote, Song, and Video of the Day.

AceBermanX's Quote of the Day:

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."

-Vince Lombardi

"When the time comes for us to give something up, do we really want to?  Or is it that we've had it for so long we don't know what to do without it?

-Berman

AceBermanX's Song and Video of the Day:

Song:  Rock N' Roll Train by AC/DC (Because they finally came out with a new album!  Next Guns N' Roses!  YES!!!!!!!)

Video:  McFuneral

Thanks for reading guys... PEACE OUT!

Also what the hell happened to my good old friendly GameSpot, did someone go hey "Let's remater the layout and make it look like a pile of crapola or just a really poor imatation of GiantBomb and FaceBook combinded?"  I also left GiantBomb too.

Hey guys whats up? Long time no blog. I know I haven't been on a lot lately, for that I'm giving you this. GameSpot was a great site for me. When I first joined it was a place for me to met and greet gamers from all around the world. I made new many friends and some who I have become close with. I was able to join unions were I could interact with different users in a single forum. As time progressed I grew bored of unions and I left all of them completely. As of late I haven't been on GameSpot much for many reasons. GameSpot has been a fantastic place for me. Its just that as time goes along people grow older and mature and try new life experiences. This site was one of those life experiences. Now GameSpot to me is just plain old and boring to me. Its no fun anymore. I've been losing interest in this site for some time now. Right now I just feel that this site has nothing more to offer me. I do enjoy reading everyone's blogs, but there comes a point when I ask myself "How much more of this is there?" Then I realize that this site doesn't have much more, except for the great community. The community too, has been dying off ever so slowly. People have been taking breaks and they are getting longer and longer. People are leaving. I have taken a break from this site before, but that was just to get myself away to want to come back to GameSpot. I'm not saying this is a message of my official good-bye, but I need a long and I mean a long break from this site. For those of you who I am close with you know how to contact me and those of you who don't and want to keep in touch my Yahoo Messenger is AceBermnaX, my Gamertag is AceBermaX and my PSN is AcemanX (Please tell me who you are when you send me the request). So good-bye for now and I wish you all the best of luck. Hope to talk to you guys through the other means I gave you. I will leave you with my quotes and videos though. Just as a way to say I very well might make a return. Also for those desginers who are still working on my things you can leave me a PM with it for when I make my possible return. So good-bye for now. Remember my other means of communication.

AceBermanX's Quote of the Blog:

"As people grow older and mature, they learn from their experiences and use them to better themselves in the future."

-Berman (Me)

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."

-Freud

AceBermanX's Video/Song of the Blog:

Video - F*CK VIACOM...oh...and happy 4th of July!

Video #2 - David Blaine Street Magic Part 5

Song - Last Train Home by Lostprophets

So camp has begun again, for me I'm an employed worker at my camp. I'm an Assistant Skating Specialist. The job is mad easy. Skating is probably one of the best worst activities at the camp. Skating in general is fun, but the thing is we have to pad the kids up with elbow, knee and wrist pads and then helmets. Then skats. Because of that not many kids like it. We also have the most off periods :D. Even better the two (2) other guys who I work with are awesome. The head guy knows EVERYONE at the camp (either slept with them hooked up with them, a real pimp to say the least) which means he can ask a group leader not to send a group which means off periods :D. The other guy is new and nice. The job has so many benefits. When its to hot out Skating is closed.. off all day. When it rains we chill in our shed... off all day again. Then the older groups go on trips, so they don't come.. off again :D. So basically we get payed to do the minimum amount of work possible :D:):P. I think its the greatest job I've ever had. When I'm off I chill with my friends who are still campers, mainly all girls :) or I'm in the Arcade were it is AIR-CONDTIONED! Even better my friend is the Arcade Specialist :P. I also get to see my friends who work there who are counselors, who don't have ANY off periods. I've also seen my "Ex" whern we spoke all I heard was her b*tching that she has bug bites and etc. I'm like in my mind you know your in the outdoors and you DON"T think your gonna get a bug bite?!?!?! So needless to say this had been an awesome first week. This past Sunday I picked up Guitar Hero: Aerosmith you'd only like it if your an Aerosith fan. During this week I got my report card :d. My grades are ok in my opinion, but you can judge for yourself. Orchestra: 98, PE: 94, Sports Marketing 2: 99, English: 89 (Only c!ass I din't get a above a 90 in :(, why couldn't she have given me that 90 :cry:? I also got a 90 on that Fianl :).), Spanish: 90 (I got a 85 on the Regents, I didn't fail :D. Its great :)), Math: 97 (Got an 87 on the Final, I should have done a lot better :(), Global: 92 (Dropped 7 points from last quarter and I got an 87 on the Regents I though I did a lot better.), Health: 100 (:shcok: The c!ass I tried the least :shock: and I got a 90 on my Final :P), Living Environment (Biology): 94 (Got a 87 on the Regents I thought I did A LOT better on this one. I really thought I got above a 95 :?:|.). Sorry to bore you with all my grades there :P. Also thos weekend my family and I are going up to Copperstown for the weekend :D. Baseball Hall of Fame here I come. It'll be a nice weekend getaway, some time to chill :).

Rant of the Blog: Ah yes here comes the return of my rants. Todays rant is about the abuse of power. An article my friend Darth-Caedus posted on his blog was about a man who recieved 4,060 years in prison (North Texas Man Gets 4,060 Years For Sex Assaults). To me this is a complete abuse of power. There is NO doubt in my mind that this man deserves to be in prison. 4,060 years though... that is just an abuse of power. If you know for a fact that most people today don't live more then about 85-90. Why the hell would you give such a pointless sentence? That is truly mind boggling to me. He should have recieved life in prison with no chance of parole because that right here means he is not getting out of prison. So that would be a ruling that makes since. As I said it just shows a clear abuse of power and shows that hey we made a ruling that sounds good, but looks completely pathetic on paper. Their have been other cases and events in life that prove this. For example popularity in schools is no less an abuse of power. The popular kids go around thinking they are all high and mighty when they are no better then us. So why do they act this way? Power, they can play a sport better then us/you so clearly in their minds they are better and more powerful. Another abuse of pwer is the Government at times. They seem to intervein when it is opportune for them. They use the fact that hey we are the Government. I don't mean to knock the US Government. Its great and all, but it definitely has its downsides. Not gonna go into all of that know, You get the picture. Just remember this all just my PERSONAL OPINION!

Poem: Hope you guys like it. I made it up while typing the rant :P. Here you go.

Power

Man's greates weapon

Nothing more powerful

No guns, bombs or swords can stop it

The cause of it?

Greed?

Elections?

Family Representation?

No one will know

Is there a way to defeat it?

Who knows, we'll just have to look inside

to see if we can stop that pwer hungry feeling we get.

To help another just ask them to look inside to the spot were they felt happiness before

and if not, then they truly mght be the hopeless...

AceBermanX's Quote of the Blog:

"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."

-Mark Twain

"So todays a good and yesterday was a bad day. What does that make tomorrow a bad? I say no, it just makes it another day."

-Berman

AceBermanX's Video/Song of the Blog:

Video - David Blaine Street Magic Part 4 (Maybe, its not official I don't think. Its still funny though :P.)

Song - Rooftops by Lostprophets (I've been obcessed with this song for the past couple of days now.)

For those of you who read ALL this THANK YOU. For those who didn't please be honest and tell me in your comment. Thanks again to all of you peace for now. Copperstown here I come in about 6 hours 8). I should really get to sleep, lol... NOT :P!

Wow another blog so soon, what is wrong here? Well today has been a great day. I went to get my Learner Permit and passed. You can only get four (4) wrong and I only got four (4) wrong. I should have done better. To get my permit was an experience I'll never forget. DMV jerks, then waiting in a room for fourty - five (45) minutes just so they can grade a sheet of paper. Hey I still got it :D:):D:):D:). Then with the Jewish youth organizaton BBYO we had our first chapter event in like forever.. three (3) years actually :(:). So yea today was a good day. Also everyone arouynd here is doing these quizes so here you guys go.

AceBermanX's Quiz

AceBermanX's Quote of the Blog:

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

-William James

AceBermanX's Video/Song of the Blog:

Video - Charlie the Unicorn 2

Song - Bird and the Worm by The Used

*Cough Cough* I AM DONE WITH SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I took my Living Environment (Biology) Regents today. I believe I f*cking owned that test! Then the Spanish Regents. I probably did very poorly on it :(. Damn Spanish teacher :evil:. So camp starts Monday yeah. Life is gonna be good. I still have to do work over the summer for SCALE c!asses and Summer Reading, but its all easy :D. So Summer here I come! So yea short blog :P. Life is good :D:);)8). Also on a much sadder note. One of the best comedians George Carling has died of heart failure. I believe he was 71 when he died. He will be missed a lot in the comedy community. So in his honor I'll post his most famous quote ever. Sorry for the sad not :(.

AceBermanX's Quote of the Blog:

"There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is! 399,993 to 7. They must really be baaaad. They must be OUTRAGEOUS to be separated from a group that large. "All of you words over here, you seven….baaaad words." That's what they told us, right? …You know the seven, don't ya? That you can't say on TV? Sh*t, p8ss, f*ck, c*nt, c*cks*cker, m*therf*cker and t*ts."

-George Carlin

"Thank g-d for the creation of Summer, or else... actually no or else."

-Berman (Me)

AceBermanX's Video/Song of the Blog:

Video - Seven Words (Explicit Language)

Song - Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down

Rant: Do I have a rant today? I don't believe so :(. I think I wore you guys out already. Oh I think I do... NOT! Oh yes I do. Ok here we go :P. Don't you hate it when things stop to function at the most inconvenient times. For example. My laptop. The top buttons the "F" buttons just seemingly stopped to work. I listening to some music and I couldn't lower it and this being a brand new laptop. I'm freaking out. So I have to call Apple. Also when you have a power outage. Seriously why can't power companies have "better" alternative measures to stop the power from going off? There are more examples, but I think you get the picture :P.

AceBermanX's Quote of the Blog:

"Don't you hate it when you think of the right thing to say AFTER the event has occurred?"

-Berman (Me)

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's":

1. fighting;
2. fleeing;
3. feeding; and
4. mating.

-Psychology professor in neuropsychology intro course

AceBermanX's Video/Song of the Blog:

Video - Charlie the Unicorn

Song - I Kissed A Girl by Katy Perry

Well thats it for this blog, see yea on your blogs 8).

This week was my fianl week of school, thankfully :P. For the last week it was quite busy. I took my Health Fianl in Tuesday. Igot a 90 on it and my average for the year in that c!ass is a 95 :D. I also took my Math Fianl. I think I did ok on it. I messed up on one of the Part Two questions and I got one of the Part One questions wrong. So I did ok. Tomorrow I have my English Fianl. I don't think it'll be bad. The Critical Lens Esaay (Task Four Essay) won't be so bad if the quote ius easy. Then the multiple choice I hope won't be absurd like the Mid-Terms :?. Then Wednesday is my Global Regents. I'm not worried. On a practivce multiple choice I got 44/50. That was with me being pissed off from the period before and people being irrating. So I'll do awesome. The Thematic Essay and DBQ and its DBQ Essay won't be bad. I'll be getting 4/5 on both essays because as my teacher told me. Its VERY RARE to get a 5/5 on the essays. Then next Tuesday I have my Living Environment (Biology) and Spanish Regents. Bio I should do just fine in. I got an 86 on a pratice one and that was with multiple distractions in c!ass and a couple of careless errors. So I'll do just fine again :D. Then Spanish. Oh Spanish, thats the on;y Regents that worries me :?. The Reading part is usually the toughest because of all the grammer you learn its never on it. The Listening well, I just hope my teacher speaks slowly :|. Then the Writing part. All the writing we did in c!ass was useless since my teacher is an idiot. We wer doing a ractice writing and she stopped after a sentence and said we were done WTF! Then the rest of the period we did nothing. Also listen to this. My Spanish teacher LOST my friends test and she can't find it. So se is going to give him a zero (0) because she can't find it. So I made hima phot-copy of mine. He apparently had to do the back which she SPECIFICALLY told us NOT TO DO. He has do it. She is an idiot. Now for todays rant. As you can tell my rants are going to be a part of my blog from now on :P.

Rant: Why can't we admit when we are wrong? Thats what I want to know. In todays world, it is IMPOSSIBLE for anyone toadmit when they are wrong. Its a not posiible anymore. Humans are supposed to make mistakes and learn from then, now we just ignore them and pretend like nothing happened. Seriously we are human aren't we. Like you've seen me ranting about my Spanish teacher she is aperfect example. I don't think she has admitted to any of her mistakes at all. Believe me I don't like to admit to mine, but I do and I learn from them. Its just so irrating to see peope make a mistake and it gets pointed out and that person doesn't own up to it. Well thats this rant I know its rather short. Hope you liked it :P.

Poem:

Music.

What is it?

The harmony of notes?

Does it bring us together?

As a whole it does.

Just a bunch of notes being played as one

Relaxing, it makes you.

So just take it in

And live life to the fullest.

There you guys go another poem by me. Hope you liked it. Please comment :P.

Well thats really it. Oh for those of you guys who got my requests, thank you and you'll see them soon. All of you know who you are :P.

AceBermanX's Quote of the Blog

"Without mistakes who are we? Creatures that are bound to repeat the past?"

-Berman (Me)

"Only the good die young. That is why immortality is reserved for the greatest of evils."

AceBermanX's Video/Song of the Blog:

Video: David Blaine Street Magic Part 3

Song: September by Earth Wind and Fire

Well ther you guys go. See you on your blogs 8)

EDIT: I have a quick question. Has anyones blog header disappeared. Mine has, the link is no longer in my prefs and everytime I try to put it back GameSpot won't allow it:|. Any ideas?

Its that time of the year agian. Fianls and Regents. Yea... NOT! For me I have a Math Final Wednesday and Thursday (its on Math B, type of of Math on Long Island). Then Tomorrow and Thursday, I have a Health Fianl. Let me tell you this, Health is the most pointless c!ass I have EVER taken in my life. We are required to take Health for on year in High School. Do they seriously think that any of us are going to retain anything. All I'm taking away from that c!ass is what I came in with. "Don't do drugs, don't drink and if you want to have sex do it with a condom." So yea. This Friday is the last day of c!asses then two (2) of Regents and Finals. 6/16/08 I have my English Final, 6/18/08 I have my Global Regents. The thing I'm actually fine with taking Regent's, but Fianls are much harder. Then on 6/24/08 I have my Living Environment (Biology) Regents and then I have my Sponish Regents. What a day. I'd like to let you all know that I'll be taking a break from GameSpot so I can study for my Regents and Finals. I'd like to leave you guys with two things. One a rant and second apoem I wrote.

Rant: Well there is a Jewish club in my school, called EPIC. I ran against my friend for Vice President. It was a very close race. He out beat, even he was suprised. Since he had only been there for a year and a half, while I'd been there for two (2) years. So the President, who which I just learned is someone who feels pity for the losers which is total bull. Now I'll explain why I'm pissed. There were two (2) people running for President, we all knew who was going to win before elections. So that was already determined even though we still had to vote. But here comes the bullsh*t. the girl who lost running for President became Vice President! Which she DIDN"T EVEN RUN FOR! So both me and my friend BOTH LOST the position we ran for and we are both like WTF! I have some BS position and he hassome BS VP position. The person who won President. Understand the stupidtity of this. Everyone who ran for something and lost got some sort of "pity" position. Which is total bull. So he the guy who won President is going to make the girl who was AWARDED Vice President switch with my friend who lost VP to her when she didn't even F*CKING run for it! The point of my rant is politics are bull. A perfect example is Obama v. Clinton. Obam is't going to give Clinton some "pity" position because she lost. YOu just don't do that. It makes no sense. So yea. Our elections were rigged. Bull. I have a pity position. Oh best of all. She tells the new noard that there are too many of us in it! WHAT! YOU gave us these DAMN POSITIONS! WTF!? Come on! Other people were also outraged or just like wow that is total bull. Ok thats the rant for the day.

Poem: Please don't mock me for this. It was late at night. I think its petty good. It has no name, no title, at least not yet.

Who are we?

What are we in this world?

We are simply humans

Humans in a doomed society

That is who we are

Why?

You may ask

Simply because no one cares enough anymoe

All we can do is oray to G-d

For his protection and guidance

Look into your heart for the answer

There you will find what you have been looking for

The answer for society

We are simply human

Are we not?

There you guys go. So basically just respond to everything please. I'll be back just ogt to study and etc. So sorry if I miss your blogs. I'll probably on tomorrow and then I'll be gone because of studying. So one more day, I guess.

AceBermanX's Quote of the Blog:

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

-George Carlin

AceBermanX's Video/Song of the Blog:

Video - David Blaine Street Magic 2

Song - Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi

So see yea guys around8).

No its nothing sweious per say. I just have a couple of rants I need to get off my chest. Here you.

Rant #1: What the hell has society come to? No not that other rant from a copuple of weeks ago. It just struck me today. What the hell are we teaching todays children? I'm an aide (assistant to the teacher) and I was sitting in the c!ass I teach from 10:00AM - 11:00AM. Its called Crazy Clay, yes lame as all hell. I playing Tetris (awesome cell - phone game might I add and highly addictive) on my phone. the teacher doesn't mind at all. The kids who range from age 8 -10 or so are talking about... Family Guy, South Park (the "What What (In the butt)" video) and etc. Me personally, I'm like WTF. I was going to talk to them and go into conversation about how funny it is, but then the thought struck me. These kids are only like 8 years old or so. So then this leads me to believe what are we teaching our future generations?! Seriously education has improved a great deal from a the old days. But what good does that do if we let that generation through it all away by watching those shows. Me I'm fine with the shows IF and ONLY IF your old enough. People say education is very improtant to us, then why let a damn 8 year old watch this ****! Come people wake up and smell the damn coffee! In further detail, people wonder why kids act the way they do it because of T.V. and their Parents! So I believe in that sense we are ****ed if we don't teach our chidren what is appropiate at a certain age. There is just so uch crap out there that we have to teach our chidren right from wrong at a young age. I know for a fact kids will find this stuff out, but not at the age of 8. I hope that we learn something from this. I'd like to remind you all this is just MY OPINION. So if you don't like it I'm sorry.

Rant #2: The school system. You know how the school is divided up into different levels of c!asses. For my school district. Its AP (For 10 - 12), SCALE (For 11 -12), High Honors, Honors, Regents and then Regents Skills. There are a couple of things that bother me about that. One is the integration. Of special students. I am completely and whole haertly for it. But I think they should have to work themselves up. They are sually put in Regents, which makes no sense to me. The people whoo I have seen barely make it throught hose c!asses and I don't think its right. Like I know for a fact n estudent in my Living Environment (Biology) c!ass is sort of in that catagory, but he functions rather well. But posses the most irrating questions. I hate it. I think students like that should be put into Regents Skills and work their way up. If they can then great and if not. I'm sorry. I see the point, but you have to realize its going to hurt that student. They'll be picked on and well I've seen it happen and I USED to be someone who did it. Two very important people explained it to me. My dad and my 6th and 7th grade Orchestra teacher (Who has to be my favorite teacher of all time, who is now Dean in the Middle School). They taught me don't pity them or don't make fun of them. Stop those who do! It irrates me to se them in anormal c!ass because they may be getting the education they want, but they are getting mocked and made fun of constantly. So it pains me and the first thought in my brain is hut the *** up dumb@$$. Then those two very important voices kck in and help me, to calm myself and leave it alone. Ignore it. Because if you say or do something. it isn;t that you'd be made fun of, its just that what you say is completely ignored. So all I have to say is we need to find abetter way to help these children. Like my brother is in the special category. Since he is blind in his left eye. But that doesn't make him dumb, he just needs things to be enlarged to he can better see it. I think society has to find a better way to help these people. If any of my friends here reading this blog are people who make fun of people like that please untrack me because I find it disgusting! If anyone one is special. You are more then welcomed to talk to me. Just again, REMEMBER this is just MY OPINION!

Rant #3: Now onto a lighter rant. My infamous sandal rant. IU've told you all that I have a rant about sandlas well here it is. I HATE sandals. I think there is two reasons to wear sandals. One if you ar going to the beach. Two if its for a quick step out and you don't have socks on and your just to dang lazy to put a pair on. In school i hate it, for many reasons. People (Me) tend to step on them way to often. I then I have to slow my walking pace down ten fold so I don't step on them. For girls I see the point its a fashion statment, but as a guy your like f*ck its Summer/Spring. Crap sandals are back. Have to watch were I step. So yea its much funnier if I were to do it in person. MY friends love that rant.

I think that sums up all of my rants. Well I'll give you a very breif week recap. I finally played GTA IV :D. Yea me. I found out that I have a bunch of crap to study for. This Monday i have my Spanish speaking with my dumb@$$ of a teacher. I'll tell you what she did this week. We where writing converstaions for our speaking part of our Regents. To make things simple. I found a mistake within the first sentence of the dialogue and other people pointed it out to. So I corrected her. She used the part where she shouldn't have and somebody said some and she goes in a really HIGH PITCHED voice well Berman (I'm just saying my last name, sorry not giving my name out) said you can't do this. The she has to write slips for us to come down and take the speaking. First off she doesn't even know when our school starts. She gives one of my friends a pass 4 minutes before schoold starts. She goes I thought the warning bell was then, wrong its 7:29AM! Then she thinks one of my other friends can go "back to the future" We know she wrote the times in thw rong places, but its fun know to piss her off. Then she spelled my friends name worng. Muslim name, I'd undertsand if it was the begining of the school year, come on its the end of the year! Moving away from stupid Spanish teacher. I think thats it for now. Oh let me just say as a warning. if you ever give adog a bath make sure you are prepared for anything :P.

AceBermanX's Quote of the Blog:

"Why can't society be a forgiving place, where we all can be friends?"

-Berman (Me)

"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."

-William Gibson

AceBermanX's Video/Song of the Blog:

Video - David Blaine Street Magic

Song - Viva la Vida by Coldplay

Thnaks for reading. Just letting you guys know. I'm back sort of. I'm only doing blogs of friends. I'm on only once aday twice at most. So I guess I'm OFFICIALY back on a previsional sense. Also again I'd like to know wither or not you read the whole blog. I know its a long one, so please be hoonest with me.