So I signed into the internet today and found one solitary lonely e-mail telling me that I had recieved a message on youtube. I clicked it and to my sheer surprise it was from GuyverSnake, the official profile for David hayter (the voice of Solid Snake and big Boss) It was a message of thanks for commenting on his profile! Here it is;
Hey there,
I just wanted to thank you for your message. I'm glad the games are as inspiring to you as they are to me.
So I have been playing around with a few renders on gimp and have come up with to very good sigs. What one do you prefer or do you think i should keep the one I have now?
or
I hope you like them and again please tell me which you prefer! :)
I am re-writing the chapters of the imperfect assasin that I have already written as I believe them to contain too many overused cliches and to be rather poorly written. But I do have good news. I have found an online company that will publish my book with no advance paymentin return for 20% of the profit and I have to advertise it myself. Hooray! So sorry if you enjoyed what you are reading and if you enjoy my company on gamespot but I now have to meet a self made deadline which means I have to keep my head down and keep writing. Ill be sure to blog occasionally on my progress though!
With the release of halo 3 just around the corner, and people on the internet now cowering away from fan-boys fighting an unnecessary war of words about what console whoops the other around the backside with a damp towel. Its because of those reasons that I have decided that I should write my first editorial about what it is like to be a fan boy and a brief journey of the inside of a fan boys mind. Also, hopefully, I will make you see them in a less harsh light than you probably already do. I myself am a fan-boy of a few things like Metal Gear Solid and Star Wars so I am going to describe what it was like for me when I first went to see Revenge of the Sith in the cinema and when I first played Metal Gear Solid 3. Both are very vivid memories so I promise you the following accounts are not exaggerated. These are honest feelings! When I first saw Revenge of the Sith I was on holiday in the south of England and was annoyed because I missed its premier. I still talked to my parents, as I did not want to make them feel guilty because I missed it. However, to my surprise, they took me to the local cinema to watch it the day after release. When going in I felt like I was five years old again, barely suppressing the urge to start making the infamous Darth Vader breathing noise or bursting out in chorus with a few bars of the theme tune and was fidgety until the movie started. Then when the 20th century fox symbol came up, I remember that I had a weird feeling in my guts, it was the strangest feeling I had ever had. It made my chest so tight that I clasped down on the arms of the seat, nearly tearing through the fabric. All the way through the movie, I thought I was in heaven, no jar-jar, amazing fight scenes and the fact that I finally got something that came close to the original trilogy just gave me such a feeling that if it were not for the fact that I was so engrossed in the movie, I would have fainted. I came out of the cinema jumping up and down bickering about how fantastic the movie was and all about my favourite scenes. I remember making my parents embarrassed. So much so that my dad said to a passer by that started giggling 'thank god its all over' before I retorted 'Its not over, there are two different television series to come.' Both of their faces were a picture! When I bought Metal Gear Solid 3, I was panicking. The game was not on the shelf in my local store and I was not amused as I had my eyes on it only the day before and I had earned the money that day by trading in a copy of the Xbox version of Cars. Therefore, in a last minute hope, before I could feel any more upset with myself for not buying it sooner or angry with the guy who I thought must have bought it, I asked if they had any in stock. I was so pleased to find that they had just removed it from the shelf because it was not selling! So I purchased it immediately, ousted my little brother off of the playstation and delicately, with a feeling that was a mix of relish and victory, I took the game out of the case and held it up to the light inspecting the disc for scratches. It was flawless. I remember thinking that angels must have forged the disc. I nearly changed that completely when I put the disc in the playstation though as my hand was shaking so much with anticipation that I nearly scratched it beyond repair without playing it at all. Moreover, when I started playing that game it was like hugging a sibling that I had not seen for years, a feeling of a burning love and relief for seeing it again. I picked up the slight control tweaks immediately and I learned all the differences from metal gear solid 2 in minutes. Many people complain about a bad camera and too intelligent AI in the game but I did not notice. I completed my first time through the game in a matter of hours, my feelings of determination to complete it and my love for the storyline compelling me to go on without stopping. When I completed it though I felt suddenly hollow. I realised I needed more metal gear solid so I started to play the series back to back! Now for the explanation of why fan-boys get so defensive over such remarkably small comments. Being a fan boy is a form of stress relief, just like smacking a pillow until your lounge is smothered in feathers or going to some form of yoga class. This stress relief, however, means you do not have to tire yourself only to find that you have only bottled it up for another dose of smacking the living snot out of more pillows. This stress relief is where you can come home from a stressful day at work or school and can watch or play that one thing that you think is extra special. The one thing that gives you an extremely warm feeling on the inside and as you play or watch it you can just feel all the stress literally melt away replacing it with incredibly strong emotions, whether it be happiness or a sudden feeling of sheer depression (But that might be because the game is so dreadfully bad). Its for that reason that makes them get angry when you say something about you not liking a particular game or movie, you are literally telling them that they are enjoying something, relieving their stress on something that you are telling them only an idiot would enjoy. That is when they go defensive and that is when fan-boyism starts to ruin the enjoyment of a good discussion about a particular game in places like the gamespot forums. It is not because they enjoy it but it is because they feel hurt and upset and they want to spread their views on why their opinion is right not wrong and that the console they own or the movie they like is not the wrong choice. Fan-boys should not be hated the way that they are, they should be pitied to a certain degree. I hope this view into the world of the fan-boy helps you understand them a little bit more, and I also hope that you don't pelt the queue for halo 3 with rotten tomatoes! And if I have not persuaded you to pity the fan-boy cause then I will gladly listen to anybody that thinks along contradictory lines! Just leave a comment!
Thats right my mum has just booked me tickets for the london showing of the new musical sensation Video Games Live! Im so excited too because its shows on october the 22nd, just after I get home from holiday! I just can not wait!
Also I recently drew this and I think I should show you guys. Tell me what you think!
Yep its back to living life slowly again. Im spending most of my days on my own now my mums got a job at a tea room (where I understand shes earned a reputation and that shes already on the management team for the stables where the tea room is) soI have had nothing other to do than to sit back and just take it easy. So I have been doing nothing new. In fact the only news I have is the three movies I got earlier in the week. so we got the unsuprisingly mediocre Open Season, the heart warming Happy feet and the what Im hoping to be amazing and if not overly hyped (try saying that in one mouthfull) Children of Men. And whenI watched open season with my younger siblings it realy made me wonder what the hell childrens tv shows and movies are coming too as it was an hour of purile jokes. Not even my younger siblings, who have been brought up with comedy like blackadder and the pter sellers pink panther series meaning that they have already got a well established sense of humour, found this funny and its aimed at their age group! I seriously dont remember this sort of garbage in the cinema or on the tv when I was growing up and Im only 15! Anyway I dont think there is much else to say but the much anticipated line from I guess the only harry potter hater in the world who got the new book pre ordered on his birthday. Deathly Hallows is one of the worst books I have ever read. It has been rushed and no effort has gone into writing it. Its litteraly another way for JK Rowling to milk a few more pounds/euros/dollars out of the worlds population. God Im in a worse mood than I thought.
Heya guys! Sory for being gone for so long. I have been feeling a little deppressed this week and I would rather not talk about it in this blog. Thats not a lack of confidence in you or gamespot but to explain it I would also have to break a few promises which I dont want to do. Oh well Im back now so I might as well explain the rest of whats been going on!
Its my brothers tenthbirthday in around three weeks time and you know what that means, an enourmous wish list! From RC cars to audio books he cant make his mind up! But he decided to ask our mum a couple of days back for a video game that was going on the cheap. So he got it as a 'little' birthday pressie. It was the gret escape. :( Yep thedreadfull stealth game based on the depressing war movie they show every christmas on the BBC. I ma not looking forward to watching him play it, not at all.
Also Im back in the realm of Puzzle Pirates! (expects cheers but is disspointed when none come) You know the MMORPG *someone coughs* with puzzles instead of fighting *cricket chirps* so I guess no one has really heard of it then. Well puzzle pirates is an MMORPG and the twist is all the jobs and the fighting mechanism is puzzles! You have tetris style puzzles and bejewlled *more cricket chirps* style puzzles and a lot more that I cant be bothered to compare to other games. Its really intresting and definately a refreshing change from gunning verblensk city streets in black and even though I hate to admit it throttling guards in MGS does start to grate after a little while. So if youare intrested you can download the client at:
and then you can make an account (I reccomenda dabloon ocean as you dont have to pay monthly membership to do everything there instead paying in game mony for mony called dabloons which are needed to buy items and badges for certain jobs.)
oh well thats about it for todays blog so see you soon! (I promise I wont stay off for a week lol)
Things keep getting better and better for me!(and Im not being sarcastic) I have recieved fan mail for the imperfect assasin, I have been invited to a (relatively new) halo clan and most importantly I have got my ps2 back! You have no idea what I was like getting through nearly the whole of black on hard mode in under 2 hours. It was as if I had a caffiene overdose!:lol: Also I got hot fuzz on DVD! Hooray! So now I can watch one of my faveoraite films over and over again! And I guess you might also be intrested to know I have started typing the next part of the imperfect assasin. Well Im ending blog as a fairly short one again as I havent really that much to say and Im eager to blow up some more virtual terrorists!
Just a quick post to say that im home and that you were not loosing youre marbles if you saw I was online over the last two weeks I had found an internet cafe and came on here a couple of times.
Hello everybody! How are you? Me, I am feeling terrible. the reason you ask? MyPS2 has been confiscated due to me spending too much time on it (or maybe its something to do with this manchester cathedral business) so my only form of stress busting is gone. So now I am suffering to what could quite easily be called withdrawel symptoms without my daily dose of safe and controlled mayhem. But that is not all. My mum has changed the password on the computer without telling me so I have to stop her from shutting down when she is finished just to get on here! Oh well I will find out soon enough. I play enough splinter cell and metal gear solid to know how to sneak into the computer room and watch my mum type the password without her noticing.:lol:
But next week I am going on a weeks holiday to spain anyway. My mum just booked it over a last minute bookingwebsite so I guess that is a fairley decent consolation for my playstation being confiscated. So I am going to take my writing pad (so I can start chapter two of the imperfect assasin)and a couple of books and I will be happy just lying in the sun.
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