Yep. I'm alive. I kinda got tired of the gaming for a while, well, since my last blog, but I'm back now because of Christmas. Got a 360 Elite, so now I have all 3 systems. FInally. Let the unbiased gaming times roll! My mom was a jerk and decided to tell me she bought it for me, brought it in, showed it to me, and then said hey have fun waiting a month to get it. Cruel? Absolutely. Now I just need to work on getting the games I want. Before that though, I need to figure out which ones I actually want. Probably Halo 3 for online good times. GeOW2 for that same reason I suppose. Madden because I got rid of it on my PS3 and I've been missing it big time. Fable 2 because it looks leaps and bounds better than the first. Both Naruto games because I'm crazy on those, mostly the reason I wanted a 360 again. After that, I'm pretty much stumped. Any suggestions? Also, how's everyone here been doing? Tell me what I've missed.

Three words: World. of. Warcraft. DON'T play it. You won't stop. Trust me.

Uh, it's amazing. Get it. Play it. Feel the awesome. I thought I had a man-crush on GTA4. Well snap son, you haven't even heard the word masterpiece until you put this game in your PS3. Finally the PS3's killer app? Oh hells yeah. Oh, and MGO = funnest online shooter experience ever. GS better get a tournament going soon because I'd renew my subscription just to enter that goodness.

I got Snake's Revenge in the mail today, in perfect condition as Metal Gear was also, plus I was in the middle of procuring the second disc of MGS3 this morning and I forgot my box in my room, (sorry anfangs, I'm ashamed), and so she caught me, and just as I was about to throw her over my shoulder and choke her and take her back to the truck Portable Ops style since she has an A in technical skill, she told me to just have it, and then I revealed I stole one anyway so good that she said ok. So now, my point of the blog, is that my Metal Gear collection is now COMPLETE, excluding MGS4 of course, and not counting MGA and MGA2 since I hate those. So now before I continue Portable Ops I'm gonna play through MGS3 so I can get the beginning of the story. Happy times in my house.

So I think all this MGS playing is having an effect on my daily life. As I've said plenty of times lately, I just bought Metal Gear 1 and 2 for the NES and MGS3 Subsistance for the PS3 as Christmas presents to myself. I convinced my mom to pay for MGS3 for me as a Christmas present, but I wasn't expecting to have to wait to play it. It came today, and Metal Gear came yesterday. I was playing Metal Gear and remembered how easy games are nowadays compared to old games, as I could barely make it anywhere on that game. Anyway, MGS3 came, and I opened it and it was still sealed, perfectly, just as the auction said, so I got a great deal, as you can't find that anywhere new anymore. Well my mom saw it and asked if that was what she got me for Christmas, and I said yes, stupidly, as then she immediately took it. Well that made me angry, so I decided I'd do what the little Solid Snake inside me would, and went on a mission to procure at least one of the discs out of the case, hoping my mom wouldn't find out and wrap it, leaving me with the game to play freely. I put on my metaphorical bandana, as to not be seen, and snuck stealthily into my mom's room and procured the second disc, which I am playing as we speak. Snake one, mom zero.

Tomorrow I'm getting The Orange Box since UPS lost the box the Gamestop here was supposed to be getting it in. I will then proceed to play the crap out of Portal, Team Fortress, and maybe even play a little HL2, as I hear that's included. :) Good times will be had by all, and then I'll be crying in a corner since I won't have UT3 until Christmas, and maybe not even then. I didn't think through my money situation enough, or I'd be a proud owner of both tomorrow. I'm not sure whether I'm more stoked for UT or OB. Nah, who am I kidding, I'm more stoked for UT. Well bed time because I'm a tired sissy. I'll make a longer blog tomorrow probably, if I can pull myself away from my PS3 for long enough since I have the day off. Farewell folks.

I leveled up, which is awesome. I can finally play Final Fantasy XI, which is also awesome. I moved to a bigger room in my house, with a MUCH better internet connection, which is really awesome. I just beat Metal Gear Solid for the PSOne, which is even more awesome. I can't believe I hadn't played through that game before. My mom got me MGS 3 Subsistance on eBay brand new and sealed so that I can play through that awesomeness, and Whitney just bought me MGS Portable Ops, which I played a bit of this morning, and can safely say is awesome also. Plus I still have MGS2 which I will enjoy playing, and I also bought Metal Gear and Snake's Revenge for the NES, which will be awesome to play too. You could say I've been on a MGS tangent lately, right? Well hell yes, because I had no idea what I was missing out on. Well FFXI calls. I'll be around.

I got two very great games today, and I'm extremely happy about them. The lady wanted to open Elf, so she agreed to let me open a present. I told her to surprise me so she brought Puzzle Quest for me, and after only a few minutes of playing I'm very pleased with what I played of it. The other game my friend gave to me for Christmas because I gave him his present today, and what I asked for from him was Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker, and that's by far my favorite game on my DS right now. I loved Pokemon, and I am a huge fan of Dragon Quest, and putting the two together makes the best game I've ever played on a handheld. I'm going to make a review in the next day or two because I need to get this game known and popular, because it deserves it by a long shot. I guess that's all I have right now.

If you haven't listened to the Hotspot from yesterday yet, I highly recommend doing so. After listening to that, I've decided I should stick around, just for a little while longer at least, because while I'm extremely angry at CNET and whoever else was behind the Jeff firing, I haven't been giving the rest of the folks on the GS team enough credit, because while this has been hard on us as GS subscribers, regular members, or whatever, it's also been hard on the current employees. We're mad, sure, but they're mad too. I've been spending my time at IGN, and I still plan on visiting there, but the community here is just too hard to leave. I've made a lot of friends here and met a lot of cool people, and that's pretty hard to walk away from. Those friends I've made here I haven't even met in real life, and yet walking away and not talking to those important people every day like I have been is a hard thing to just push aside, no matter how pissed CNET makes me. I'm sure I had a point here, but that point is slipping my mind right now. I just think it's important that we wait this out and give the people still running this site a chance and let them try to start this place up again and return it to the level of credibility and high quality of news, reviews, and videos it was known for. Apart from that, I'm still gaming. I got Super Smash Bros. Melee at a pawn shop yesterday in nearly perfect condition, better condition than my old copy was, for only FIVE BUCKS. Buy it new for 30, or buy it at a pawn shop for 5. Easy decision, I'd say. I also found my copy of Wind Waker a couple days ago so I plan on playing that again. Way underrated I think. anyway, I think that's pretty much all I had to say, so I guess for now I'm back. Lets make GS the place to go for gaming again, for all our sakes.

I was floating around for a day or two, just sort of surfing everywhere, debating whether or not I was actually going to leave GS or not, and I've made my decision. I'm gone. No surprise though, as most folks are. If you want to keep in touch and have some sort of messenger service or whatever, maybe we can keep in touch that way since people don't seem to go to IGN. Email me at jimboboklashaur@mac.com and then we'll take it from there. I might come by from time to time to check on things, just to see if the site gets any better, but other than that my time won't be here. Anyway, for those of you who I talk to it'd be nice to keep in touch so please get a hold of my email. Keep gaming and I hope all of you enjoy your stay at Gamespot.