When I first heard about the new reviewing system, I was excited. It looked shiny, new, and, while I would miss the accuracy of my dear friends 7.3 and 8.8, it had medals. Oh how I adore medals. Anything that you can lord over your friends, I’m interested in. That’s why I like emblems. They show what you’ve done; same thing with Achievement Points on the Xbox 360. These medals looked like a cool, easy way to see the good things about a game or the bad. Needless to say, I was pretty pumped to be able to use this awesome system in my own reviews. Until…

In terms of the scoring, all reader reviews will use the new system, sans medals. Medals will not factor into reader reviews, but the scoring increments will adjust along with the new system. Any old reviews you've written will maintain the old scoring formula, UNLESS you try to edit it, at which point you'll have to adjust it to the new scores.AlexN

Okay, now I’m a little irritated. Accurate reviews were what drew me to GameSpot in the first place. Now they’ve taken away one level of accuracy and make users give the game a rating with no helpful categories to really explain why. I figured being able to use medals in reviews would make up for this…whoops, sorry, those aren’t for you guys. It used to be that you could use the reviewing system equal to what the “pros” (I call them pros because hey, they get paid for reviewing stuff) used. Now, we’re forced to make due with a system with (in my opinion) the coolest feature ripped out. I’m a big fan of the new system and I would love to have full access to all of its features. I’m sure there are many others who feel the same as I do. Hopefully, GameSpot will hear our pleas and give us at least a couple shiny medals to play around with.

I just looked today, and out of 24 hours, there are two hours of gaming programming.

Um, what?

Fastlane? Hate it. Star Trek reruns? Watch 'em on Sci-Fi. Street Fury? Who cares? Brainiac? Whatever.

It deeply concerns me the usually, Spike TV has on more gaming-oriented TV then G4. That's just not right.

God, that is the most amazing movie ever.   Sure, I was totally lost in the first twenty minutes but then I understood it!   And isn't that what really matters?

Alright!  Halfway to my goal!  Huzzah for me!

I have recently discovered that one of my close friends is...a casual.  His favorite games are the EA James Bond games (namely Rogue Agent), he loves The Sims on GameCube, and he just now discovered that, yes, they do make WWII shooters.  Worst of all, for Christmas, he gave me a used copy of Bomberman Hero (read my review).  Poor guy.

They're still on the pages they used to be on, like my Animal Crossing review is back on the Animal Crossing page, but I still don't see them on my profile page.

Well, all of my reviews are all gone. I tried the fix in the forums, but it doesn't work. I don't think that they're coming back any time soon.

Honestly, I've made one post in TSOU and the Union message boards, either:

1. Cows are extinct
2. Nobody reads the message boards
3. Nobody wants to join a PS3 Union.

The Sheep and Lemmings, will declare it self-pwnage...so be it.