If anyone has read my recent posting on the OT forums (http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26855547) then you know that I recently had an awful weekend of evil corporations and red rings of terror.

Today I sent out my Xbox 360 to the repair center, for the third time in its lifetime because of the E 74 screen of death. I wished it a safe passage, but with my recent luck I am scared for its well being. I can only imagine the terror and pain that it will have to go through, them ripping out its insides and pretending to assess situations that Microsoft doesn't even know about.

Unfortunately I can't even relax because my Ipod has now been wiped of all of its internal juicy organs, for some unknown reason. My pod is no longer a pod because the years of music I have saved up are now gone. Of course I expected something like this, my music is a big deal in my life as I'm sure plenty of people understand, but I almost screamed in pain as I realized the horror, mostly due to the stress and frustration of the previous days of my week. Technology, which I so rely on in this day and age, has turned against me.

I fear to turn on the microwave, due to the possibility of a tumor. The toaster now stares at me as a flytrap for my fingers, and the fridge is no longer keeping my arnold palmer cold. So many things that surround me now feel as if they want to suck the remaining life from me, of which there is not a whole lot.

So I blame the corporations.
Microsoft for screwing me over for the third time (Although I appreciate the easy to use care system), Square-Enix for being satan itself, yet still having power over me and forcing me to continually play the majority of their games (OMG FFXIII LOOKS SWEET!!!), and last but not least, Apple, for slowly tricking me into buying music (Only a dollar? OK!) over a vast period of time, while keeping me in chains with their products (Is this computer authorized for your Ipod? Well too bad, you used em all.)

I commend some of the lesser video game makers and companies that respect their players and consumers a little bit more instead of looking at us as a number on a graph.
Cryptic/NCSoft has always been pretty nice, Atlus makes great affordable games, and I'm sure other people do that can't come to mind right now, but the point is we don't notice the hypnotism upon us because we are consumers, thats what we do. Consume products.

But no longer will this poor, starving, college student fall for the reins of these evil evil business men. A new day starts, if the toaster or anyone gives me a dirty look I will use force. I now carry a squirt gun in a holster. By the way, does anyone know when FFXIII does come out. Looks sweeeeet.