My last post was a joyous celebration of Diablo 3′s premiere. Here’s the funny part; I’ve known about Diablo 3′s eminent arrival since Blizzcon last year. When they offered a deal about it tied with WoW, I said “meh.” No longer so insanely crazy about the MMO that I’d pay into a year’s account. I had reminders around 2 weeks ahead of release day. Coulda done something then. On the 14th, I could have stayed awake an extra two hours, hunted down a shop that had ordered extras, still, “meh” says I.
So when I got out of work, I thusly spent a couple of hours getting turned down at every store I went to for a collector’s edition. Special thanks to the mall Gamestop, where I joyously saw 4 on the wall, and waited 5 minutes behind two other guys for a cashier, thinking “score, I’m guaranteed to nail this now.” Thanks, for putting all of your pre-ordered, not for sale, boxes on. display. I even have blizzard to thank for a royal F’up, (I have suspicions that I’m not being told the truth here) The best buy I called swore they still had an entire unopened case of Collector’s editions registered and waiting…and would I like to have one held for me? You bet your ass I would, says the increasingly jilted gamer. 5 minutes pass, and I receive a callback. apparently Blizzard shipped an entire case of regular Diablo 3 games, in a ‘collector’s edition’ labeled case. Which I can’t really figure, because the two boxes for the came are completely different sizes.
But oh well. I refuse to play the game at all if I can’t have the collector’s edition Diablo 3. It sounds childish, but what I really wanted was that USB drive and holder for my desk. I wanted the extras. This is the first time my wish to play the game was completely overshadowed by other things. I had other things more important for me to do, and it worked out just better this way anyway. On the down side, I’ve just been exposed to a class of person that makes me automatically want to scrape the poo from my boots.
Searching the net for possible leads on the game, I saw on amazon.com that several ‘used’ collectors editions were for sale. These lurking human turds were selling the box sets minus the game and code, and yes, minus the usb drive and holder. Not the bad part. The bad part was, these bipedal douche bags were selling them in upwards of 175.00. I just know they weren’t thinking “this item is legitimately that valuable.” They’re sitting there waiting for someone to not read the description and smack down the credit card (internet-ly) for it, only to realize they’ve been had after the box has been delivered. And someone will do it.
Am I wrong? Did the definition of human decency change? Are those words something I should only use now, when I can take advantage of another person? Weirdly enough, against my better judgement, I associate that behavior with the game itself. Oh well, I still have small hopes of finding a collector’s ed, just not putting out my life for it.
Enjoy gaming everyone, I know I will.
The moment is almost here. May 15, 2012 is the official release date of the next installment of an all-time favorite in my game pile.
Why am I such a sucker for it? well, it was an innovative game, sure, but I think I spent more time standing around in town than anything else for the music. If I knew how to play the guitar, that would be the one song I would memorize and practice nightly.
Heh, no that’s not the only thing. I’ve loved the storyline from both previous games, and have high hopes for this one to pan out. Detailed backstory, rich character environment, and graphics that really catch the eye (were those boobs on that skewered torso?) The game promises to hold nothing back, giving a strong foundation needed to a horror-based plot.
I am even attracted to buying the collector’s edition for this game. The box comes with several interesting tidbits, and A great desk decoration (on the downside; a 4 gig drive, really? my 16 gig cost me 20 bucks a year ago.) I am really interested in the art collections, because they trend towards my personal tastes.
By all accounts gameplay is going to be the slaughterhouse grind that the previous two have been. I’ve seen the optimized combat tidbits, and really like the idea of keeping going for extended periods of time instead of having to gate back for more potions and then reenter the dungeon.
Yea, I know how big World of Warcraft is, but I consider this the iconic flagship of Blizzard, and I’m happy to see another installment to keep the trail blazing.
I am not, nor have I ever been, an expert at the english language. Didn’t really nitpick diction, punctuation, other than my own. Still couldn’t give anyone a legitimate explanation to nouns, verbs, or adjectives. I lay no claim to being a master wordsmith. I do, however, have a great and growing love for it, I can recognize what is bad grammar, because it just ‘feels right’. Thus, I am amazed that I am thoroughly offended by one word leaking into common use.
I remember the shocking moment it was first used. Pretty sure it was a brand name mexican food commercial. I knew, in that jarring moment, just how terrible marketing would fall to pander the attention of possible customers. As well, I knew that this offensive amalgamation of two perfectly legitimate words would catch on in the minds of susceptible watchers.
A short year-ish later, I was confronted as a general manager to a (different) fast food chain by a customer who used the word to describe a specific product on the menu. I made the mistake of forgetting what position i was in (cashiering at the time) and, as an equal, asked here not to use that word. I gave her an explanation that the word was only a marketing tool, and she would be amply served by either originating word. How it came across, however, was a supercilious condemnation of her, and her intelligence. For that I am truly sorry, because I could not communicate effectively, that my intent was to keep an obviously intelligent college attendee from looking, in short, stupid.
Now I am confronted by the word in almost daily media and direct communication (first and third person), and all it rings in my mind is; the person saying it has lost credibility and respect with me in this conversation. It truly angers me by the invasion of such poor and gratuitous use of our language stemming from a commercial. For all I know, it may have already been added to Webster’s dictionary.
Lets all recognize that we are, in essence, the smartest species of the planet. take a stand against words like ginormous. Ask the people using it how they could possibly be better served using the made-up word in place of either gigantic or enormous. Let them know you respect them enough to tell them outright; they sound less intelligent using it. together, we can make a difference, and protect our broadening horizons.
As I get little things about the site under control, and take those baby steps along the path set before me, I am appreciative of those small successes.
We’ve stepped up and placed our hats in the Top Webcomics ring, and would appreciate it if, after enjoying the comic, you’d click that vote link under the page to TWC. Whether you do so, or not, is unimportant, but it gives us that little warm fuzzy that someone out there enjoys what we as writer and artist are doing for y’all. You want us to have warm fuzzies, right?
Well, at a specific rate, I’m trying to organize my promotion of the site into a daily ‘to do’ list. You can follow me @xanejeremy on twitter, where I try to post on breaks from my daily grind, and I will be posting more often (at least once a day) to bring news and socialize with my awkward humor. I hope to hit several message boards to participate and legitimately promote my site, so if you’ve come here from something I’ve posted there, thanks for stopping.
Dont forget to bookmark us and come back Mondays to see the new page. Blog posting at random.
Michelle Brademeyer, of Missoula, Mon., wrote about the incident on her Facebook page alleging TSA officers called for backup after her daughter would not stop crying and at one point was ordered to spread her legs.
Brademeyer’s four year old child was so excited to see her grandmother that she ran over to give her a brief hug. At that point, a TSA officer began yelling at the child and demanded she sit down and undergo a full body pat-down.
“It was implied, several times, that my mother, in their brief two-second embrace, had passed a handgun to my daughter,” Brademeyer wrote on her Facebook page.
She said her daughter was terrified.
“They told her she had to come to them, alone, and spread her arms and legs,” Brademeyer wrote, noting that her daughter began screaming “No, I don’t want to.”
“That is when a TSO told me they would shut down the entire airport, cancel all flights, if my daughter was not restrained,” she wrote. “It was then they declared my daughter a ‘high-security threat.’”
It’s been a decade since 9/11. Still, common sense is out the window when it comes to airport security. I don’t mean the concept, I mean the people. Let’s look at the broad-stroke details. When our security was compromised, several thousand job positions were created, filled, and given the authority equivalent to a police officer who had to go through several years of training, psych evaluation, and on the job training to detain the american citizen.
Realistically though, airport security doesn’t meet a tenth of these requirements. So when they go off the deep end, from this particularly monstrous act, to body searching a 94 year old man who had to be lifted out of his wheelchair to do so, you need to ask yourself, how much is my dignity worth? What’s the trauma to this little girl going to be worth? Because the people violating common sense and decency probably went through a background check and 3 month on the job training to become the gestapo of your local transportation facility.