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Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

Thanks for the traffic ;p

Ah, I so enjoyed posting the brilliant antics of Kalas in my last post. Those of you who’ve been checking out old posts with his brilliant comments – Good on you – those of you who came to the website for whatever reason and drove up my hit statistics the day after I posted his ‘face’ shame on you for not commenting!

I have a fun task for you (and by you I mean Mark and Rob ) why don’t you troll around all those places he spammed – ET, NRT, WSAG and YT and just dig out the golden nuggets of hilarity that he posted?

A personal favorite was his shocking lack of knowledge about WW2 …

For those of you who don’t care, enjoy this awesome link and come play COD4!

Regards,
JamesR.

Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

Kalas, la cunt himself.

Oh wow, I know it’s been a long time ladies and gentlemen but I have some Kalas related fun time for you!

The lo-down, new guy joins ET (I know, i’m surprised to!) posts about a Zelda game, I hear people do that, before our favourite little canadians leaps all over him (possibly in a gay way?) and acts like a complete douche, some of the quotes are below + of course he fired yet another PM to Leslie.

If you haven’t had a chance to catch up on his previous shenanigans then please check back through the archives but otherwise read on, enjoy and if you wish to carry out some nefarious scheme hit up the thread here.

“Lol you spelled Ocarina wrong too xD, all your posts are one liners man, it seems like your just trying to up your post count to me =/.”

“And no I don’t seem to come off as a mod or anything, just spamming isn’t really allowed and I would hate for the new guy to be warned already”

“Frankly I don’t give a damn, I was just telling him so he wouldn’t get in trouble”

“I don’t have to say anything else. I’m a mod on another forum so I’m used to giving people friendly (but perhaps unwanted) advice.”

“Btw, I spelt cool “kewl” on purpose, unlike you who obviously had no idea how to spell your “second favorite game”

“Oh ya its def a hissy fit, and I completely flew off the handle jumping all over him.”

“You should probably keep your comments to yourself because where am I a hypocrite? Have I been spamming, I believe not”

“As much as I may have “attacked him” you did no better, so your guilty of hypocrisy just as much as the next person.”

“Seriously I find it sad that after all this time you still want to try to assault me. You probably should have left it at that after I admitted my fault and apologized for trying to “boss” him around.”

So, the part you’ve all been waiting for – The Personal Message!

“Um sorry but I did say I didn’t mean to jump all over him and wasn’t trying to boss him around or anything. As for you, whether I got your intended aim at your hypocrital comment, you still are a hypocrite for what you did. I also find it sad despite all your high and mighty talk you still respond in an attempt to get the last word. Why exactly do you choose to continue acting like an immature child, what happened before is long over, and I definatly sent you an apology over pms and on Jame’s blog.

{~James: I put a line break in, so we can actually read. We use paragraphs in the adult world Kalas }

If you never actually read it, that isn’t my fault, but I did sincerly say I was sorry. I’ve already put it past me, don’t you think it possible to do the same? Just leave me alone if you have nothing to say, and btw I wasn’t spamming as it was clearly a response to what you said.”

It’s nice to know, I’m still in the hearts and minds of the people over on ET. Thank you Kalas, you once again have amused me greatly.

I especially like the way you apologized for that frankly appalling comment you left on my blog, which btw is still in the moderation queue. What a disgrace ;p

Peace, especially for the Templites out there.
JamesR.

I started writing some drivel about my opinions on Games as Art but it was a fairly lousy post, so to summarise:

To me games aren’t art in their natural form, just like a photo can just be a picture and a building a structure although like these things – they can become art.

In my original post I likened calling an average game art to calling a mud covered man hurling himself at canvas as being art. In this case EA might well be the man hurling brands at the market until one sticks. To reverse the example, what if the man instead of dipping himself in mud took it and created a wonderful mud-based building? They do exist, believe me.

Back to the gaming analogy, that company might be Blizzard or Valve. They to at some point threw mud at the canvas until something stuck – but the difference is, when it did stick they worked on it.

A more appropriate analogy might be in a painter who tries different colour palettes in a picture – There is a time for testing out new colours but if you do so for too long you end up with brown and nothing else.

Gaming can be an art, but we must not fly this flag too high for else we are no better than the Tate Modern and two thirds of the shite they display there. Let us hail some games as art but only a precious few but let us also refuse sub-par developers the right to try and join the bandwagon.

Rant over.

Now onto more important business:

IT NEVER ENDS

Go grab yourself the master on ET and join me in vandalising it, it’s soothing.

Also, I picked up a PC – a little under the spec of what I was looking for to save some money but I have in the process effectively bankrupt myself. I picked up Spore on predownload but found out I have to wait another 30 minutes on release day to get the last 1%. What a load of bollocks.

I have in the mean time been enjoying Medieval TW 2 for which the campaign is a bit meh but the battles are quite fun and Unreal Tourny 3 which seems solid if a bit soulless. When we get the net sorted I might hit the UT3 fansites for some awesome content but in the mean time I use it as a stress release.

I need recommendations on games to get and try, so let me know.

Regards,
JamesR.

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