So this is blog post #150 for me. Not very impressive for someone who has been with GS for over 4 years, but better to be late than not show up at all. Having been absent for quite some time, I thought it would be fun for me to reflect on my time at Gamespot. Everything started in 2005. I started my profile mainly just so I could rate games and keep track of my game collection. I wrote a couple of reviews here and there, but I wasn't ridiculously active. I think the highest rank I reached in two years of Gamespot activity was Paper Boy. In 2006, me and a friend of mine tried to recruit people for a gaming talk show we wanted to establish. Things for that show, which we were gonna title "The Show Show," :P never really panned out. Instead I got caught up in a new portion of Gamespot that stole my attention from here on out: unions. I was recruited to become a charter member of The Game Development Union. As an officer of that union, I helped contribute towards the production of one game: dodgeball. It was actually quite fun, albiet challenging. Feeling pretty adventurous, and a bit abusive of my power in TGU, I sent out a mass telegram asking for charters of my own union: The Club Whatever. That union, which was an off-topic union, was my most recognizable feat on Gamespot. The union I helped create helped revolutionize recruiting (which I wrote a guide on), and also made topics and thread posting pretty fun. It won the 2007 Union Award for Off-Topic Union of the Year. That was 2007. though, Now it's 2009. Club Whatever has long perished in the inevitable fate of all unions, and my activity on Gamespot died along with it. Now I have come back to resume my activity level. I will mainly just be posting blogs about movies, sports, and other random crap, along with frequenting the Social Cafe Union (which is a great union), as much as possible. I hope to one day get more comments on my blog posts. My goal for this post is 2. I just hope with the support of my GS friends, and members of SCU, I have a chance to become a productive member of the GS community again. Thanks, and Peace :D

How cool is Gamespot's blogging feature? A lot of us take for granted the ability to post our opinions, voice our congratulations, or just report what's going on in our personal lives so easily to our own Gamespot buddies. And the ability to comment on what each person is writing about makes blogging only that more fun. I could make a post tomorrow that says, "I'm gay and my post would be commented like 50 times saying, "really?," "I'm not surprised :P," or "that's cool :D." I could post a blog about how I think gay marriage is immoral, and I would meet a flood of comments either saying, "Damn straight," or "You are so INSENSITIVE! :evil:." Comments are great, because they actually let us voice our opinion about someone else's opinion. Where does that leave actual fact? I don't know, but it is so fun that what's factual and what's not is irrelevant to me. So I implore you all to blog! Let out your feelings! Make your opinions heard! Report the news! The internet is one place where anonymity prevents the harsh feelings of judgement, so say what you want without fear of rejection! And visit the Social Cafe Union to let your opinions out some more :P Peace :D

Just wanted to wish everyone a merry christmas and a super happy new year, and I hope you all are enjoying your holidays to the maxx! Enjoy the funny pic. Lolcats got nothing on loldawgs! gonna spend time with the fam. I'm out!

Hey guys! It's been a while since I've been around here. Football, high school, and the ever awesome Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 have kept me away from this place. It has not kept me from the movie theater, however, and today I wanna discuss James Cameron's highly anticipated sci-fi thriller Avatar. Avatar takes place in the somewhat distant future. Humanity's resources on Earth are quickly fading, and a large corporation is mining for a very expensive fictional mineral found on a far off terrestrial planet. After the death of his brother, ex-marine Jake Sulley takes his brothers place in the Avatar program, a program dedicated to fixing relations with the corporation, and the hostile arrow-slinging natives of the distant planet. The rest is 2 and a half hours of suspense, action, romance, and breath-taking CGI that will make you want to clap by movie's end. James Cameron is in my opinion, one of the great directors of our time. He is famous for making big budget films with extremely high expectations, and finding a way to actually exceed those expectations on screen. Titanic is one of those examples. Avatar does not have a dull moment. You are either on the edge of your seat during a suspenseful moment in the jungle, taken aback by the amazing CGI views of Pandora, or enjoying the fantastic soundtrack and amazing sweeping camera angles. Cameron doesn't need jerky Michael Bay camera motions to create suspense. The music and great camera placement combines to make amazing chase scenes and battle sequences. The only drawback I would give this film is its length, which feels like it drags at a few sporadic moments, but if I was to ever see the perfect film, I would never go see another movie again. All-in-all, Avatar is by far my favorite movie of the year, and easily in my top 5 favorite movies of the decade. James Cameron helped seal the 1990's with a great film, and he delivers again to end the 2000s with a bang. This $400 Million film is well worth the price of admission, and is sure to blow your mind. If I had a 5 star rating scale, Avatar easily earns a 7.

Baby Mama is one of those movies where you liked it, but nothing really sent it over the top to being a really great movie. the movie has its funny parts, but it is not non-stop hilarity, and the plot is good, but way too predictible. I don't like a totally random plot, but some kind of twists puts me more on the edge of my seat and makes the movie more interesting. This movie did not really do too much of that. However, a SNL based cast created an excellant atmosphere for sporadic laughter.

3 1/2 stars.

Now this is a movie worth writing a review about. This is one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time. The star-studded cast performed hilariously in one of the best comedies of the year. It is the story of 5 actors who are dropped into the Vietnamese jungle to film a war movie, but end up stumbling into an actual heroin ring, and have to fight their way out. Between Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr, Tom Cruise, and Matthew Mconaghey, this movie was funny as hell and kept me laughing till the end.

4 1/2 stars for sure!

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is the third movie of The Mummy series, and the first one to not be set in Egypt. Overall, this movie had some humorous elements, but some of the acting was flat out not good, and the fight scenes were seriously deficient in realism. The stars Brenden Fraser as an Englishman with an American accent who goes to China, and encounters an ancient revived emperor who wants to unify China and dominate the world.

This movie wasn't very good from the start because it is difficult for me to take Brenden Fraser seriously after seeing him in George of the Jungle. Therefore, although i'm not sure if this was supposed to be a full-on comedy, that is what i saw it as.

I would give it 2 1/2 stars.

yeah! a new level, and a new set of goals for the future. I will bionically command myself to level 29 and get my radient silvergun.

One thing that pisses me off is when adults complain that the media is corrupting kids minds, when the real onus of separating media messages from real life and fantasy rests on the kids themselves. I'm tired of hearing people talk about how the violent gaming and television is corrupting our youth, when most kids are not turning out like mindless trigger-happy heartless fiends that people claim violent gaming makes them into. This is because any kid who sees the light of day and leaves his own house will realize that the world is not a blood-stained alien battleground, a crime-ridden city with trigger-happy cops, or a world war II battlefield with one american killing like 1000 germans in a level. Only a complete moron or somebody with no moral standards to begin with would believe that shooting a person in real life is wrong and would yield grave consequences.

ok. enough tirading, im going to see the Incredible Hulk.

Peace Out! :D

I;ve decided to lead another union, and try my luck as union leader again. I'm gonna try to do things differently this time. I'm gonna be more laid back, and not be nearly as concerned about size or member count. The union will be about youtube and nlime videos in general.

I watched the first episodes of the seasons of America's Next Top Model and American Idol, and so far my fave girls are still alive as each show entered the top 3:

anya in ANTM

and syesha in american idol.

what a shame foe jason castro, he was completely overlooked because of 17-year old David Archuleta. oh well!