Now that I've noticed there's a blogging tool, no one is safe. Let the *****ing commence.

1. I have never been able to get the discount awared to GSC members at EB. I've tried. But to no success. Kind of like Harold's attempts in Harolld and Maud to get his mother to feel concern for him...but more pathetic.

2. I really disliked Fable. It was a very beautiful game, but the gameplay itself was lacking. The situations felt forced more than most linear RPG's. Almost as if the designers were saying "hey, commere 'n look at this niftiness!" and you're like "no! I wanna go do this stupid task over here...oh hell, I guess I'll come over." Pretty game, but not worth the $30 I spent on it.

3. I'm irritated that I've played games that I can't add to my collection until they're released in the US. Granted, I hate going to my collection page because it's already getting unwieldy (the reason that I stopped adding things on IGN's as well). But, damnit! I should be able to add them if I own them!

4. I wish I had fanboy repellent. Of course, I am a MegaTen and Galaxy Express 999 fanboy, but my brand of rabid fascination doesn't care if others like it or not (and 90% of the modern anime crowd seem to hate Matsumoto Reiji's artistic stylings). But it's people who haven't even seen/played/read something that are full of misinformation and a willingness to spread it that pisses me off. For example, way back when The Last Temptation of Christ came out, I knew people who were frothing at the mouth to complain about a movie that they had not seen. these experts irritated me not only by their ignorance, but their adamant refusal to see the film. It was like Satan would reach through the screen and **** them all the way to hell while eating their $7.50 large popcorn. I see this same rabid fandom all around me when it comes to all kinds of crap. Like Final Fantasy. I love the FF's. I almost uniformly have hated their mini-games. But the games themselves have kept me entertained...and that's really all I ask of a game. But there are some people who tout them as storytelling masterpieces when, really, the plot of most any RPG released in the last 20 years sounds more or less as if it came out of the mouths of geeks sitting around in their parent's basement having a "wouldn't it be cool if we made a RPG with, like, airships and Chu-Chu on a cross,? That would be so deep. And religical or something. Pass the bong." Give me the games without the damn fans.

5. Easily readable paragraphs piss me off.

6. People who can read Japanese better than me piss me off (this includes a whole nation of Japanese that read their language like it's theirs or something). See, I have to work really, really hard to come up with crap translations. People in Japan that can actually read Japanese annoy me because of my inadequacy. Why don't they come over here and read our English translations of their games or something. Then they might understand my misery. Or else they'd just laugh at me. I don't know. I'll have to ask my friends over there.