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Bar hopping, gambling, dining in fine restaurants, spending time with beautiful women...well, that's over now. It's time to hibernate until late March, when I can do it all over again.

I will be blogging much more often on my own personal site going forward. It's for the best. I like Mr. DiMola and I don't want to do anything that would anger him. We need more nice guys like him on video game websites.

As Social Media and the Internet envelop us more and more, I see the dangers of being too obsessed with celebrities and their lives and fandoms for various franchises. Too many people, most of them young and naive, seem more interested in spending every waking hour they have talking about a celebrity they are obsessed with or a book series they read religiously than about taking care of their own lives. Perhaps these lives might be sordid cases of abuse, neglect and frustration, others might have a mental illness. I doubt any normal human being could spend hours online obsessing over some Hollywood celebrity or a book/movie series/T.V. show. I would find it very boring after 10 minutes but there are people whose entire life is built around over a celebrity. I only hope these people look in the mirror and realize that they are wasting their lives and mental health over it. All humans, regardless of their station in life, are equal and should be treated equally. They are not to be worshiped like a God. I am equal to 7 billion others, no more, no less. Society would be better if these individuals would wake up, smell the coffee and think about themselves instead of some wealthy celebrity who wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. It makes them look second-rate. Sadly, most of them take that advice as an insult. I guess life wouldn't be worth living if it weren't for their obsessions. Well, at least the Goth movement will be happy to gain new members.

I've always felt that mankind, as civilized as we are, still consists of savages. Back in our neanderthal days, mankind consisted of brutal warriors who traveled in packs and went after other men who weren't in their tribe. Fighting for survival and wearing nothing but skins, our ancestors were just like the animals we see in the jungle. Of course, over the years, we have learned to be civilized, some more than others, but we still wage wars and love to fight. Many UFC haters call MMA "animals fighting in front of animals" and that kind of hit home. We still have that savagery of our past in us but we only bring it out on occasion and usually in private. What would happen if we take that delicate balance between savagery and civilized behavior and put a nice Zombie Apocalypse in the mix? What you get is The Last Of Us.

For years, I preached about my dislike for Microsoft. That they didn't care for their customers. That they treated these customers like they were all buccaneers. That they would nickel-and-dime people to death. That they didn't care about quality when it came to their hardware. That they would defecit spend their way to success since they could. People continued to support this company that treated them like fecal matter when it came to customer service or  talked down to their customers at press conferences.

It's time to come clean on Tina Sanchez Palacios, guys. No insults, no swear words, no ripping each other apart. I just want to know the reasons why many people at 1up were fans of this woman despite the fact that many others blame her for ruining the site and leading it to its death.

I've been a video gamer since 1977, when I discovered them in a smoky little pinball arcade. I've gone through the highs and lows through video games much as I have done with my moods. However, there are days where it's depressing to see 14 year-old boys so deeply addicted to their hobby that they spend hours online talking about dumb technical junk (mostly uninformed in manner) that nobody really cares about on message boards.

Tomorrow is the big announcement from Microsoft regarding their next generation console. I expect this to be very similar to the Sony press conference from February, where they will unveil some facts but keep some other stuff under wraps until E3. Regardless, I expect this PC to feature much of the same propaganda that people such as Aaron Greenberg and Larry "Major Nelson" Hyrb have been using for the last 8 years. I don't happen to know who will be on stage tomorrow but I expect the pro-Microsoft video game media and their so-called "journalists" (who are really nothing but weak-minded, greedy hardcore gamers who got in good with somebody) to eat up these announcements like the people Joseph Goebbels brought in for his Sportpalast Speech in 1943.

I've always considered myself to be a pessimist. I feel our society is obsessed with dancing to the Decadent Dance. Celebrity worship is out of control and too many people have their entire lives online for all to see, We are getting dumber and dumber. You don't think so? Go watch some T.V. commercials where they have to put in small print that these are actor portrayals or need to re-iterate that these are "real people" and not actors. Everything has to be spelled out in big bold letters for them. The biggest concern is that way too many people's entire social life is online, where they can see or read what they have to say but never meet them in the flesh, And then you have the message board moderator.