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33. Human. Male. Geek. EIC/Owner of Crush! Frag! Destroy! Plays video games. Rocks your face.
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Captain Smiley is a pretty crappy superhero. He's insecure, frequently confused and his itchy trigger finger has resulted in the accidental death of more than one innocent. Not traits that we typically associate with the larger-than-life 4-color demigods of our youth.
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geoDefense for iPhone/iPod review by Rob Thomas.
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"Good times playing with you guys tonight (Jasmine and Shoe, specifically). Too bad the bot brigade went away and we started getting slaughtered.
Also, Shoe, you should be aware that getting to play alongside you fulfilled one of my friend Oscar's (Prisoner C33) fantasies. Thought you should be aware of that ;)"
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
"Don't even get me started on those handholds. Heh.
Still, despite its flaws, I enjoyed the hell out of this one. Finally posted my review over here too (it's been too long since I've contributed to Bitmob)."
Monday, October 04, 2010
"Oh, forgot to mention - gamertag is ShadowPraxis13. I'm online and ready..."
Friday, September 17, 2010
"@Shoe: No worries. I'm the most gracious winner you'll ever meet.
I'm an even better loser though. More practice at it, you see. ;)"
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
"@Shoe: I always worry anyway. Not huge on public embarassment, though I suppose embarassment in front of Bitmobbers is better than the alternative, eh? ;P
Still, I'll spend the week honing my skills..."
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
"I could be down for this. I'm by no means good at "teh Haloez" but I'm all for having fun. Sounds like a plan to me."
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
"You know, I wanted to avoid seeming self-aggrandizing here, seeing as Sage writes for my site and all, but I'm really glad to see that this got posted on the front page here. Go Sage! CFD! CFD!
*breaks out into early 90's, Arsenio Hall-esque dog barking and fist pumping*"
Friday, July 16, 2010
"Oh man, this reminds me. We finally got our podcast off the ground over at Crush! Frag! Destroy! a couple months ago, but I forgot to post about it here. Meh. Guess I'll hop on that when the next one goes up next weekend.
Here's a link to the most recent one, if anybody cares.
http://www.crushfragdestroy.com/2010/05/23/cfds-team-deathchat-episode-5-5232010/"
Saturday, May 29, 2010
"m SOOOOO there."
Monday, January 04, 2010
"mes: It's late and I was planning to be in bed about an hour ago. I had a very large reply halfway written out, but I realized that in the end, there was no point to prolonging this.
You have your opinion. I have my mine. You have issue with mine and think I'm off-base. I have issue with yours, especially the huge basket of incorrect assumptions you made about me to base your arguments on (who's bringing flawed logic into this again?).
And in the end, the world keeps turning. Innit grand?
Besides, Gerren said a fair bit of what was in my mouth already anyway, so what's the point in rehashing it.
@Gerren: Thanks for saving me some of the hassle,"
Monday, November 16, 2009
"@James:[/b] Last I checked, sites without scores [i]weren't[/i] on Metacritic's list. What would be the point of them including reviews that they can't aggregate into their overall score?
In regards to your first point, while I agree that you may not have the time to read every review out there, the reason you [i]should[/i] read more than just the final score is because everyone grades differently. If somebody gave the game lower marks because they felt the story/narrative was trite or poorly executed, but the reader reading the review doesn't give two craps about a game's story, how would they have any idea if they didn't read the whole review? I'd rather give someone's score that I might not agree with the benefit of the doubt by seeing [i]why[/i] they scored it the way they did, rather than just label them a moron because I assume their opinion doesn't jive with mine.
Not everybody buys games for the same reasons and, since review scores are subjective to begin with, in the end they really are useless. The only way you'll find out why a person gave it that score is by actually reading the review.
To put it a different way (one defending those "self important writers" you mention): imagine you had, say, a report you were working on at your job; something you sunk hours of work into researching and writing. Then imagine that, upon handing it to your boss, he opened to the last page, skimmed the final sentence and declared it "crap", based on that cursory examination alone. Maybe that wouldn't bother you in the least, but it would most people.
Mind you, I'm not saying every person writing reviews on the internet (or even in print, for that matter) is amazing at what they do - I just don't agree with being that reductive and painting everyone with the same broad"
Monday, November 16, 2009
And yeah, I was on your friend list for a while after the Reach affair, but I imagine I got bumped to make room down the road. I just tossed you another invite. We've been playing on and off with Jasmine since then, so if you see us in there, hop in!"