I get a kick out of all these people who say "Since nobody can make a NFL game, all of them are going to make a college game, but Evil EA won't let them now!" This is complete garbage. EA has had a near 100 percent lockdown on the college football market since the middle of the PSOne days, NO major developer is dumb enough to waste development dollars on trying to create a college football game, when EA has a complete stranglehold on that genre. And how did EA do that? They did it by making great college football games, back when Sony/989 was stinking it up with their GameBreaker games, and Visual Concepts was making a mockery out of the sport with their sub par college football titles. Why would anyone want, or think, that GameBreaker and the VC games were coming back?

Another thing I found funny is that people now think EA will, of course, run these games into the ground, since they have no competition. I don't think so. EA knows what got them on top to begin with: Making great games. They aren't about to sink this NCAA ship, because they would make more money creating great games on a medium budget than churning out crappy, low budget games. Of course, the skeptics won't believe this, because their judgement is so clouded with EA hatred for some stupid reasons.

So, my cousin comes down this weekend for the first time since October, and he brings his new assault rifle. I didn't get the model or make, all I know is that it kicked ass. We went to a park that's way out in the middle of nowhere, and shot come over-ripe bananas, and it was hilarious. So after that, we decided to go see Sin City, which was pretty good, but it's not as incredibly perfect as everyone here on these forums makes it out to be. We get back to the house, and watch the finale of The Ultimate Fighter, in which Stephan Bonnar and Forrest Griffin wailed on each other for 15 bloody, lumpy faced minutes. Awesome. He left last night, and I got up early this morning and headed over to Wal Mart (I had an Enormous Omelet Sandwich on the way there). I bought God of War, which I had been meaning to get for a while now. It's really good, although I've only played it for a couple hours.

So there you have it, my incredibly ultraviolent weekend. Oh, I forgot to mention that I also killed 3 drifters at the bus station on Saturday morning.

If Spike TV isn't jumping at the chance of offering the UFC some kind of television deal, especially now that Raw's end is near, then they are morons. Bonnar vs Griffin just put the UFC into it's best position yet as far as appealing to a wider audience, and gaining even more mainstream acceptance. The only negative out of this whole night is that people might still be skeptical about watching the UFC or ordering their PPV's because the other 2 matches didn't even go 3 minutes. Still, that Bonnar-Griffin fight was more entertaining than ANYTHING I have EVER seen on WWF/E TV or PPV.

Aren't people supposed to have some kind of feelings towards advancing their place in life? I mean, surely people have urges inside to, I don't know, start their own business, or wrestle a couple asian pre-teens in sweet and sour sauce for a couple hundred bucks. Not me. I don't have any goals, except for making it through the current day without my pants falling down, or a bee flying into my mouth while yawning, or having a visable boner while walking through an orphanage. I just don't want to do anything, and if I miss out on something I have been looking forward to, like my yearly spring trip to the Nebraska Poop Caves, it's no big deal, because I just don't care. Anyone else have these feelings, like you just want to scream, but you can't, because the cops, who are searching your basement at the moment, will hear you, and think you really did dismember all those Greyhound bus drivers?

But seriously, folks, I have never felt the need to get either a cellphone or an iPod? I don't need a cellphone, because in the last 5 calender years, I've probably spent a combined 10 minutes on the telephone (not counting calls to Xbox and PS2 tech support). I don't have real life friends, and I don't order crap over the phone like pizza's, since I live in an area where nobody delivers. As for the iPod, I'm not one of those people who has to listen to their crappy music everywhere they go. Why are people listening to their Eurotrash techno garbage while they are shopping in stores? I just don't get it. Plus, I really don't feel like having to kick some punks ass when he tries to steal my iPod right off my neck, since they are the new hot item to steal among street thugs.

So, in summary, if you have a cell phone, an iPod, or both, I hope you get hit by a train....

It's for Applebee's, and I'm sure you've seen it. Here's the jist of it.

The friendly neighborhood Applebee's staff is closing up late one night, and they have the TV on. They see the local high school football team playing an important game, and of course, it's pouring down rain. Apparently, Hollywood thinks that every single sporting event should be played in monsoon type rains (see: The Fan, that one football movie with Kurt Gibson and Robin Williams). The TV says that now the team won't make it to the playoffs! Oh rascals! So the Applebee's staff is bummed, but they continue to close down the store. But what should they see outside in the parking lot?! Why, the football team's bus, of course! A couple beaten up, sad players come walking out of the bus, and one of them says something like "I guess we're too late, let's go home guys." Of course, the friendly neighborhood Applebee's employees all buck up, and offer to stay a little longer.....TO FEED AN ENTIRE FOOTBALL TEAM! Now, I work at a Senior Center, where one of my many tasks involves feeding old people. I only do this 3 hours a day, and there is no way in HELL I would stay longer to feed even a couple people who just walked in. However, these friendly neighborhood Applebee's employees are willing to extend their likely 8 hour shifts, so they can stay for probably more than an hour to feed, again, AN ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM! Gimme a break. I swear, some of the ad wizards who come up with this garbage need to be fed to cannibalistic circus midgets.

In 10th grade, I had this shop class with a teacher named Mr. Eek, and this guy had just come out of retirement to teach this new class. The first part of it, we had to sit in this computer lab and use this Computer Aided Drafting program. Of course, it was pretty easy to look at pornography or play games on these computers with Eek finding out, because he literally didn't even know how to turn on the monitors. He would just bark orders at us from his desk, and we wouldn't follow them, since 98 percent of the class was full of slackers and trouble makers like myself (it was an elective class, so if you didn't pass, it wasn't a huge deal).

The second half of the class, we would go into the shop, and make your typical stupid wood projects. This is where I really raised hell. I remember hocking a big, green loogy on his stool, and then laughing as he sat right in it. I remember hiding his pictures of his daughters on his desk, which really didn't make him happy. I remember spending an entire class period hiding in a utility closet, and about 2 minutes before the class was over, he opened the closet to get some tool, didn't see me, then close the door without noticing me. I walked out of the closet a couple seconds later, and he looked completely confused. I would go into the storage room where everyone kept their projects, and I would just break most of them. The class before ours was full of freshmen who actually cared about getting good grades, so everyone in our hellraiser class would treat their projects like garbage. We went so far, that Eek actually sent me and one of my friends to this one room in the shop which just had a bunch of lumber, and he locked us in there for an entire class period. Of course, we broke this vent that was on the door, and crawled out while he wasn't looking :) Another fun thing I liked to do was take hammers and other metal instruments and just blindly throw them at the back of the shop while he was teaching some lesson. He would always ask "Who threw that?" but could never figure the damn thing out. It didn't help that there were 4 or 5 other guys in the class who would do the same thing, so during each day, everytime he would try to say something, he would be interrupted from a "CLANK" or "BANG" coming from one area of the shop.

One time, and I swear to god, this is a true story, we trapped Mr. Eek in his office by using those straps you use to tie down glued wood to tie his office door closed. With Eeek disposed off, I snuck into his lunch, and took a bite out of every item he had. Eek had a weird little flaw, he was allergic to bread, which I thought was hilarious. At the end of the day, when we let him out, we had no idea what the hell was going on. I chucked a giant ball of glue from a couple glue sticks at his head while he wasn't looking, and ALMOST got him too.

And the funny thing about this whole thing, I was NEVER suspended or issued a single day of detention during my 4 years of high school.

I hate buying clothes. Always have. Many factors come into play when shopping for new clothes, and I f******* loathe all of them. I'm just a basic, t shirt and jeans/khaki's kind of guy, but I typical buy Nike and Adidas shirts, or just basic white, black shirts. So naturally, I have to occassionally step foot inside a Footlocker or whatnot. And as soon as you walk in, you get some hip 20 something homie in your face, asking if he can help you find something. No, you can't, I'm not a 5 year old, I can probably walk around the store myself without having to hold your hand, D'Andray. Then, you can't just shop in peace, there is always some incredibly loud techno or rap music playing (example: Best Buy). Then, you have to traverse through the crowds of other wannabe trendy morons, with their skull caps and American Eagle bullcrap. God I hate shopping for clothes.

Quick rant, over.

More fully featured voice integration

Personally, I think that all next generation consoles should come with a headset mic, so you could issue voice commands in more games. Sure, some of these ideas could be easy to implement, like the ability to call plays in a football game, or add custom voice samples to a fighting game character or something, but I think there are more untapped ideas when it comes to voice recognition. I'm not sure what they are, but I'm sure there are smart developers who know what to do with the idea.

A 3 disc changer

This idea will never happen, but I think it would be somewhat handy to have a console in which you can load 3 games into it, just like a CD changer, so you wouldn't have to constantly put games in and out. As a person who almost always plays multiple games in a day, this would really be a neat addition.

Spectator Mode for online sports games

If I see one of my friends is in a game online, I want to watch that game, dammit! Limit this feature to one spectator per player, and it shouldn't be a problem. Plus, let the spectators use their voice chat to possible commentate the game, or talk extra trash ;)

Those are all the ideas I have for today :|

Song O' Da' Day: Hidden in Plain View- Ashes Ashes

Is there anything better in America than Arby's? I would venture to say that there is not. Recently, Arby's has been running their 2 for $3 Bacon Cheddar Melt special, which is just faaaaaaaaaaaabulous. I load mine with a ton of Arby's sauce, because I'm not a natural fan of roast beef, but either way, those things are tasty. I also love their Chicken, Bacon & Swiss. Again, I'm not a fan of honey mustard, but in this scenario, it makes the sandwich so much better.

If you have an Arby's in your area, I highly suggest you hit them up............NOW!