Whoo Weekend!
Holy shit, this is the first week where I haven’t been hit by an onslaught of packages from gaming companies.
Next week though, I know of at least wow, 8 coming.
Scheduled a 60K tune up and a new headlight for my car tomorrow at 8am. Yay! Well, not yay for the 8am part, but yeah for car fixing.
I’m spending the weekend with Kim in two weeks. Just hanging out, going for a hike, eating Nandos and having a good time. She told me yesterday she’s bringing her son along who is “Super excited to meet me.” Ouch. Here’s the thing. I have no problem being on when I need to be. I have no problem being that role model for the zillions and zillions who read me in all my myriad forms. I have no problem spekaing in front of thousands or being that guy that makes parents love me even when I’m running around in vinyl pants and have wacky adventures. But spending a long extended period of time with a single Kid who knows and loves my work and whose mom is a fun person to be around? That my friends is pressure. It takes a lot of self awareness to have to watch my “European vocabulary,” and to keep away from certain topics that are second nature for me to talk about. If you let that younger generation at all, even for a second, you’ve lost them and their trust, possibly forever and kids remember these things as they get older. Which is not something I could ever live with doing.
I guess it’s hard to describe why the only time I feel anxiety is with the kids of my friends. It’s probably because if I let the kids down, it’s also letting the friends down as well. I never have and I know I never will, but I always get a picture in my head of me doing something Swarley-ish and then hearing “Alex sucks! Pokemon sucks! I’m going to go be a cock to people that aren’t exactly like me in every way.” Then generally Megatron comes in a blasts humans with his fusion cannon and I’m left holding the charred remains of people while the Decepticons over run the city.
Or something like that. ;-)
On another note, it’s weird to see how the Europeans love the DHGF. I realize *I* have a very european style of writing and also similar tastes, but we’re at that point where we have a siginifcant Euro audience, people translating our works into French, Itallian and German, and European companies asking directly to work with us even though we’re an American publication. Nifty. Especially since you don’t see that very often in the industry.
I’m part of the Sony “Home” beta. I’ve yet to care.
Vlad & Dave - I just read the rough draft of Matt’s Purr Pals review. Mother of God -it actually has an American version of the Jingle Cats game in it.
Holy crap! It’s 11am already.
We’re almost in Greek’s top 100,000 websites on Alexa. Which is odd to me. I should through a shout out to those readers, Ya sas! Ti kanete? (closest I can come phonetically).
I’m going to throw on some pictures and a video clip onto that review tonight. You know that as far as I can tell it’ll be the first review of the Wii version out there? Was our site the only one that asked for a review copy?
Well remember Alexa only works with those that have Alexa on their computer, so Greece probably loves us even more!
Most other sites tend to only focus on the BIG BIG name titles. More often then not we tend to have the niche titles or obscure shit reviewed before anyone else.
I may dig out my old, modded G1 PSX and my copy of Jingle Cats tonight.
I’m surprised you don’t have the Saturn version!
My PSX copy cost me $2! That’s why I don’t have a Saturn version.