Thursday, April 15, 2010

CHRONO TRIGGER!!!!

It's no secret that video games inspired my storylines and writing. In fact half the plotlines in Genocide are evolved forms of the easy plots I saw as a child.

Chrono Trigger was probably the best game I've ever played. Somehow, even 20 years after it came it out, I find myself playing it again and again each year.

So I got the DS version this time, and the game is still good. In fact, it's got new areas. Of course the new areas are like a dude getting ahold of a map editor, but I still am giddy with new Chrono areas.

So here's the thing. I keep thinking I've grown out of video games because I can't sit through an Xbox360 game for more than an hour. Then comes this and I waste three hours getting stuff. Games just arn't the same as they used to. They don't draw me in as the old stuff does. Guess that makes me a traditionalist.

Chrono Trigger is a game that I can still play and find something new, and the storyline was that good. Go pick up the DS version and relive memories.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

A moment on Tiger Woods

Since ESPN won't say anything about it, and only Jim Rome is telling it like it is, I figured I'd give my take on this whole Tiger Woods/Masters/Cheating thing.


First things first: I'm not a Tiger Woods fan. I never hated the guy, I've just never been a fan. There is no denying that he is the best golfer of this generation and probably surpasses the likes of Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, and Nicklaus (three of my personal favorites...who I wasn't really around to enjoy). What drives me nuts about Tiger isn't really him, it's how everybody can't shut up about him. A couple of years ago when Tiger had his knee surgery, every network continued to yap about him even though he wasn't there.

It got really bad during a major (I think the US open, but don't quote me on it) where the network in question had half the coverage on the actual golfers and the other half talking about what Woods did the year before when he played. He's a media whore who gets ratings and overshadows everyone else on the course.

Now before you send hate mail, I will once again state-he's earned every bit of it. He's that damn good. I just don't go ga-ga over him simply because everybody else does, and I don't like the way he's on top of the world. Good guy, great golfer, can't stand seeing one person in a sport. It's the same reason I can't stand Brett Favre...but then again he's an overrated, premadonna, piece of...well we're getting off subject.

I really don't give a shit about what Tiger Woods does off the golf course. And neither should you. He's got a personal life, let him fuck it up. If he wants to cheat on his wife and impregnate porn stars (allegedly), let him. It has nothing to do with golf.......

....BUT! The problem is, he's been built up as a role model for kids and adults alike. Half of his sponsors have taken him because he's a do-no-wrong athelete. He's never been in jail, he's never been high off coke, he's a decent guy. Jordan during his time with the Bulls was the same way. I'm not saying Michael Jordan cheated or he didn't cheat, but no one really talked about it because Jordan knew how to handle it. You didn't hear about any scandals going on in Jordan's day besides a small gambling problem (whatever Jordan did is his buisness anyways, point is, he held up pretty well).

Tiger on the other hand, as the new Michael Jordan, didn't get things so smooth; he got caught. Whether it's because his family wouldn't cover it up, or because his wife was sick of his cheating, HE GOT CAUGHT. Now, because he's the person in society that he is, it's only fair that Tiger just simply comes out and says, "Look, I'm not the guy you think I am." That's it. We don't need details of who with, how much, what checks he's scratching for his wife to keep her around etc.

Tiger, just own up, explain what happened and walk. Why should you give two cents? So these families as well as these sponsors know, that you arn't the person you've been marketed as.

The rest doesn't matter. Members of the media following his kids is flat out tasteless, and what goes on between him and his wife in divorce preceedings is irrelevant. I do kind of wonder why you'd cheat on that hot Sweedish blonde of yours...but I won't go there.

Unfortunately, Tiger didn't do that. He held a press conference to his friends and wouldn't take questions. Later on had interviews taking questions and dodging the bullets that followed. If he simply said "I cheated on my wife" right from the start-none of this probably would have gotten so out of control...I THINK.

The flip side is what he was doing Thanksgiving evening. He was on a public street, in an Escalade, asleep, barefoot, while his wife took a 9-iron to the windshield. That probably would make a section in a local Florida paper, so I'm curious to what happened. THAT'S newsworthiness. That's all I want to know. Don't give me this crap "It's personal."

"Man Wrecks car and falls asleep while wife breaks in with 9-iron"

That would so be in a newspaper even if it wasn't Tiger Woods. He needs to stop manipulating everybody, make himself out to be a victim and swallow the pill. Say what you were doing, that you are NOT the man we thought you were, and call it a day.

Afterwords golf news can go back to being sucky...