Better than the VGA's, but still with the blagh...

Yes, every person who has devoted themselves to the electronic entertainment culture can easily identify the worthless gut wrenching, pathetic excuse of a award show that is or was the Video Game Awards. For the many of you out there who think that I am wrong, that the VGA was a glorifiying event that compares to the Oscars and Academy Awards I say this to you. Stop your dellisions of merryment and see it for what it truly brought to the world. I hated every minute and I have never heard myself yelling at the t.v for so long. Cursing on and on, like a football fan in the final quater or something (damn that joke was lame...)

But I digress, this isn't about that show, I pretty much now want to state out that I grew a real distaste for video game shows. Some if not all those shows do something in paticular that piss me off. I don't know what quite yet, but I can't see them that seriously. Unless it was a REAL show with the REALNESS that I want to see. Anyway this is about the DirecTV Championship Gaming Invintational and even though it felt weird watching a bunch of hot chicks and computer geeks at the same time, in the same channel, right next to each other, I can say that it was pretty interesting. There were many strong points to this tournement and a lot of really weak points. The one strong point is that it is in fact what it was said to be...a tournament. A shiny tournament, but a tournament still. You see contestants' emotions rise and fall and soon it became the best part of the show. Their "I don't care if you won, I'm still cool..." faces, not to mention the empty "Your and asshole" smiles, (who can forget those) brought joy and much happiness to my sad day.

*sighs*

Now you see the games that the contestants play and you start to think, well there's DOA4, Project Gotham Racing 3, Quake 4, Halo 2, Counterstrike...there's nothing but PC and Xbox360 games here?!?! Before you start to put your fanboy caps on, the whole thing was sponsered by Microsoft, IGN, Best Buy, uhh...Mountain Dew?...and Fox Interactive Media...yeah. So don't blame me, blame the sponseres dammit! Well my point is, everything was way overhyped...I mean, come on...the Mountain Dew trophy? Why? No seriously why? I was almost convinced until I saw what that thing was called. I hate product placement like that. It's bad enough that they were offering the shitty drinks for free but to make it into an ice sculpture and turn it into a trophy?!?! Okay, I'm done bitching now...

Well even after that, I'm still convinced that the show turned out great, they could try to get more partnerships to really get the party started, so let's hope they do...

One last thing, I started to re-do the webcomic so sorry about raising those hopes out there. I'll try to start posting updates on it with pictures to show the progress.

Johnathan Wendel, you're my hero...