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My new Club Nintendo Game carrying case |
So today my second Club Nintendo prize came in today. It's the 9 DS cart holding case, SMB style! Here's a handy picture of it in it's shrink wrapping(That's a link to it).
Now here's a picture of me holdng it in my hand(That's a link too!)!
Now here's a picture of my games in it (A l-link!)with one ontop of my DSi and the case for my missing game(which Orochi is borrowing).
And finally a picture of the case completely open from behind(You guessed it, a link).
Now forgive the dates, the camera I used has it's date set wrong. It's pretty nice, sturdy, and seems like it'll hold up well traveling with me at school. The stylus are DS lite/I stylus. It's a bit awkward to dig out my games, but that'll probabally go away in a few days. Well, I'm off. I got homework that needs being done.
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Wet |
Wet, as some of you may know, is an upcoming third person shooter by Bethsda. You know, the people of Elder Scrolls, and the people who butchered FallOut. Well, Wet's a new game they're publishing, and I must say that I wont even be trying the fucker out. Why? Because of their viral marketing. They're not even holding back on this shit. The first viral marketing I saw for Wet was on JoyStiq. They had people comment on every post, about Wet. So, I'd be checking the new Rock Band Weekly, first reply was a thing for Wet. It eventually got so bad most JoyStiq memvers called for a boycott to Wet. Now, I go do my daily 4channing and I see them markerting that shit in /v/. Their viral spam advertising is making me hate the game more and more. From what I hear from everyone is that it's a very generic piece of shit third person shooter, with terrible Quick Time Events and Slow-mo. I really wonder why companies think spam is a good way for advertisement. Along with this type of advertisement, what about forum spam, or e-mail spam? How many of those really work? Also to be able to just spam you have to spend a lot of money, as I've never seen server hosters who allow spam. So you have to set up your own server, an all that fun stuff. Plus all the anti-spam acts/laws. I wonder if we'll ever reach a time where spam'll just die?
I say, the 'least they could've done is some cool Viral advertising. Like Cloverfield, Eat Led, and Quarantine. Those had some amazing viral marketing, that worked.
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Mr. West |
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I fucking hate Kanye West. He's a shitty rapper, and one of the most douchiest fuckers around. You know he demands he be called the new King of Pop? Yeah, he wrote to the Jackson family asking to be crowned the new King of Pop. He also "doesn't want a books autograph". ACTUAL QUOTE! I hate this man with a firey passion that I've never felt before.
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Time ignored - oh Fuck store clerks |
So I've spent time ignoring this, not mostly by choice, but somewhat. I figured I'd write a blog in tonight, which I plan on changing this system around a bit. So, I was on Kotaku when a comment greatly annoyed me there. Itwas someone who works in retail who posted about how they enjoyed not letting "underage"(using this for America's sense, as it's not law here) kids get their video games. This always annoyed me because as a young one I knew what was right for me, and what wasn't, even then my mom did too. Like when RE 1 came out, I wasn't allowed to watch anyone in my house hold play the game. That built curiosity and I watched my brother play one day when my dad and mom left. They came home saw him playing, and me watching. I don't really remember what happened, I just remember we broke that rule. I didn't find anything scary with RE, or traumatizing. Infact, I didn't understand what was going on. I'll admitt I didn't understand the concept of zombies untill the third one came out. I just figured they were clawing at your throat/face. So from that day foreward I was allowed to watch people play it, then a month or two later I was allowed to play it, during days only.
Now we can fastforeward to when I'm 15 a bit. I was at GameStop about to buy a new copy of The Suffering. I was surprised I managed to find a new copy of the game. I accidently found it, because I walked 4 miles off target and needed a breather. So, I go back two days later with my mom. She was in the car so as I prompted her to get out the lady read the ESRB content of the game. My mom quit caring what I played around 12 or so. If she ever thought a game to violent she'd express some ammount of concern, I'd express a rebuttle and a few days later I beat the game and wa sback to Crash, Spyro, or Snow Board Kids. So, as she stood there getting the ESRB read to, and the woman emphasizing Drugs and Violence. I lied to my mom, big time, when she asked me about that. To the drugs I said,"Yeah, the man does tons of them. Like crack, coke, meth, weed, LSD, and many more!" for violence I replied,"Yeah, there's tons of rape! I MEAN TONS!" my mom then buys the game after the woman wont shut up about how the game is unsuitable for someone who's not 17! At this point she didn't know my age. I replied,"I just turned 15 there's not much difference in two years." She interupts with something so I interupt her with,"Fine, say my mom doesn't buy me this. I'll just go home, emulate some games, and steal porn." the woman looks at me with defeat, I hand her the cash, and my mom didn't care one bit I a) Got me a 17 rated game (OH NOES) and b) looked at porn. The funny part was a little while before I went to buy the Warriors at Best Buy. I handed the man the cash, the man asked no questions. My mom was not interupted in her order, nor I mine. As an FYI, she was two people ahead of me. I really wish stores would be like that when someone looks atleast 15+. What's worse is I was once carded for a TEEN rated game. I never went back to that GameStop.
Now let us fastforward to when I was 17. I go to buy Dead Rising: Drop Till You Chop. I get carded, have to get my mom (she had been putting off getting me a state ID for a year now). As they read the box to her and I hand them the money, this little kid behind me is buying it on the 360. They're talking about it with his mom. I figured," OH probabally explaining the differences between the two (as he went in looking fo rthe Wiiversion when he didn't own a Wii) and what's in the game." as I put more focus towards that conversation, I hear that they're egging her on to buy her son the game, while they told my mom to not buy me the game. They're telling her it's a good game for kids, and all this. That he'll love it, and blah blah blah. As my mom and I walk out, we both commented on that. How they told two different stories to the same picture. If anything it should've been reversed as A I didn't look 10 and the 360 version is worse then the Wii version. Seriously, this ESRB shit is more hassle then it's worth when you're older. What I like is how I'm now a "regular" at a gamestop that if 4 employee's see me they know I'm 18 and I'm no longer carded. Yay for being ditched at gamestop for hours!
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