Some people are just stupid

ACRONYM here, trying to make amends for his long and untimely absence. This post is actually a review/rant of a game of one of my favorite game series: Fire Emblem.

Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn is an excellent game; there's no other way around it. However, some people think it's a bad game. Let me be perfectly clear: while Fire Emblem is DEFINITELY NOT A SERIES FOR EVERYONE, it is by no means a bad game. Some people like to think otherwise, however, and for me, it's upsetting.

Search "Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn Review" on google, and the first result is the Gamespot review that gives it a measly 6/10 (They gave the GBA games 8.9/10, so it's not the series). Their reasons for not liking are complete bull. The second reason really made me laugh: they basically said "It's too hard." USE THE DIFFICULTLY SETTING YOU {insert infinitely long and explicit string here}!!!" I mean seriously, it has a difficulty setting; I personally liked that it was hard, but I guess the people at Gamespot are a bunch of lame casual gamers. They also said that the plot was bad: granted, it isn't an amazing plot, but it's not terrible either. Another complaint they had was that it didn't utilize the motion controls of the controller. How do you apply the Wii's motion controls to game where you control units from an overhead view in a practical way that makes sense? You can't. Their final complaint was that it's graphics weren't that great; they looked fine to me, but they weren't spectacular.

You want to know why I'm right? Gamespot gave it a 6/10; the users gave it an 8.6/10 (Metacritic says that it overall got an 7.8/10 with a user score of 8.9/10 [for comparison purposes]). Gamespot really screwed up that review big time, and the gamers know it. Oh well, it gives us more to laugh at. To be fair, sites that rate games have a hard job; they have to somehow honestly rate a game that people are going to consider in their purchases. Unfortunately, game ratings fall into 3 categories when compared to the general consensus: Complete agreement (Think something like Bioshock or Mario 64), Overhyped (Think Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2), and Underhyped (Think Psychonauts or Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn).

I know this is all technically my opinion, but frankly, I'm a Mother Panda so your argument is invalid.

ACRONYM of the Blog

Gamepot's Review: http://www.gamespot.com/wii/rpg/fireemblem/review.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=summary;read-review

The Contributors on this Blog are Lazy

Okay, so I don't like to post twice in a row; I try to let at least one other person on the blog post before I create another post. But, the contributors on this blog appear to be very lazy, and haven't posted in a week now. So now, in order to revive the blog, I'm going to perform the first double post in TBCRH history!

So, what is this post about you might ask? Well, it's about...

FACEBOOK!!!

I could be done with this post in a single statement: "Facebook Sucks", but I'm going to elaborate a bit on exactly why Facebook sucks.

Errors: Even if I'm on for only 5 minutes, I seem to get constant errors; "Oops, sorry we're working on this", "Network Connection Error", "Could not connect to FB Chat", etc... plague this website. I also have problems with pages not loading. WHAT IS UP WITH THIS!? The shear number of problems that I have to do something so simple. Instead of designing new layouts for the site, they should spend their time on getting the site freaking working!!

Spam: Tons of it. Applications spam senseless posts that fill your home page, people make fan pages for EVERYTHING, etc... Also, there seem to be a new string of applications that mimic Facebook photo, wall, etc... that somehow can give users a notification even though they've done anything on Facebook relating to that application. I'll give Facebook a bit of slack that its a bit of the user's fault for not realizing the obviously suspicious nature of having to allow an application to access their profile, but these applications shouldn't be able to access our profiles to give us false notifications in the first place!

Privacy: There are issues here. I can only filter certain content from certain friends, but I can't filter some things (being tagged, notes, etc...). That, and add the fact that businesses can somehow access your profile and use it against you is just plain ridiculous. People are losing their jobs over things that they said on Facebook, which may or may not be deserved. Nothing on Facebook is private.

The Company: This company is the biggest bunch of arrogant snobs that I've ever seen. They've rejected investments from big time companies like Google because they think that they're better than them... Why would you do something like that? On top of that, they accept Microsoft's offer to invest in them. Wow, smart move. Facebook thinks that they can do what Google does better than Google can: bulls%$! Go on Facebook any day, and you will find someone complaining on how they don't like Facebook. I bet you that they will jump as soon as a new (and good) Social Network appears on the online scene.

Mark Zuckerburg (aka Satan) envisions a world where people obtain information primarily through their friends and family: that's a terrible idea. Secondhand information is inaccurate, unreliable, and lacks the depth that you can find in the online world. This is coming from the guy who tries to make an enterprise on user's personal data, tries to shove advertisements into our new feed, etc...

Facebook is fail, and I'm going to most likely quit it soon. I disagree with their idea of the future. Although, 1 good thing has come of Facebook: Failbooking.com. Facebook is terrible.

That's all for now,

ACRONYM of the Blog