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You would be surprised at how many people got me confused with Lemon when he was an intern. It wasn’t uncommon for someone to ask me a question in chat or refer to my intern-ness in forums. It’s like JJWeatherMan being confused for Rich Gallup. Weird. However, I flew out to Whiskey Media’s office for an internship interview. Several members of the staff to include Ethan, Jeff, Alex, Melissa, and Daniel interviewed me. Daniel was probably the most awesome interviewer, it mainly consisted of a “Hey, how you doing. You wanna see the bar?”. 

It was bad luck to be interviewed during the Whiskeyocalypse. After the interviews, I proceeded to alphabetize comics then ran chat for the Mortal Kombat TNT. I got the job and my first day of work is three days before America’s birthday. My internship goes until August 20, to give myself time to get back home before Fall semester starts on August 22. Thankfully, I got my commander’s permission to take a temporary leave for two months after volunteering for a deployment to Afghanistan, and extending my contract for the amount of time I’m gone. It's nice that all my time and energy writing about videogames and keeping current has paid off. My internship will include moderator-related stuff, wiki editing, writing quests, office management, running chat, and getting lunch. 

I finished Portal 2 and wrote a review for it. Not to jump the gun, but I'm convinced that game will join Final Fantasy IX and Resident Evil 4 in being one of my all-time favorites. I simply loved everything about Portal. Aside from me thinking the gels didn't get used as much as they should have, I can't say anything bad about that game. There's such an attention to detail that is highlighted with every bit of dialog and environment design that's lacking in most games these days. I don't know if this is me loving Portal 2, or me getting back into achievements, but my goal is to get the full 1,000 points in that game. 

When I'm not traversing through Aperture Science, I'm busting skulls in Mortal Kombat. I must say this, fuck the story mode. I came to a halt in the match against Shang Tsung and Quan Chi. After several days of going back to that match, I finally won through cheap tactics only to be stopped by Shao Kahn. My motivation for finishing that game is dwindling. Online is another story. I'm actually fairing pretty well against the Mortal Kombat kommunity. If I don't win a match, I always feel like I put up a good fight. There's only a few instances were I just got my ass beat. i hate to always use Scorpion, but he's the only karacter I can win with. I kan also throw down with Kitana, but I can't seem to fight anyone who can teleport with her. Weird. 

In news around the world, Osama bin Laden is dead which is fantastic. But in more shocking news, Silicon Knights intends to finish the Too Human trilogy! In this Destructoid article, Denis Dyack is quoted saying that his company didn't get defeated after Too Human uno. It's weird, Too Human was a game I totally liked in concept. The Norse mythology combined with crazy sci-fi was really awesome. I'm also a major fan of dungeon crawlers. Too Human's controls were unfortunately weird, enemies leveled with you, death didn't matter, and the combat didn't have a lot too it. Perhaps Too Human suffered from "the first first game in the series syndrome". The idea of a second-go at that franchise sounds super appealing to me. 

Love, 

EpicSteve

You would be surprised at how many people got me confused with Lemon when he was an intern. It wasn’t uncommon for someone to ask me a question in chat or refer to my intern-ness in forums. It’s like JJWeatherMan being confused for Rich Gallup. Weird. However, I flew out to Whiskey Media’s office for an internship interview. Several members of the staff to include Ethan, Jeff, Alex, Melissa, and Daniel interviewed me. Daniel was probably the most awesome interviewer, it mainly consisted of a “Hey, how you doing. You wanna see the bar?”. 

It was bad luck to be interviewed during the Whiskeyocalypse. After the interviews, I proceeded to alphabetize comics then ran chat for the Mortal Kombat TNT. I got the job and my first day of work is three days before America’s birthday. My internship goes until August 20, to give myself time to get back home before Fall semester starts on August 22. Thankfully, I got my commander’s permission to take a temporary leave for two months after volunteering for a deployment to Afghanistan, and extending my contract for the amount of time I’m gone. It's nice that all my time and energy writing about videogames and keeping current has paid off. My internship will include moderator-related stuff, wiki editing, writing quests, office management, running chat, and getting lunch. 

I finished Portal 2 and wrote a review for it. Not to jump the gun, but I'm convinced that game will join Final Fantasy IX and Resident Evil 4 in being one of my all-time favorites. I simply loved everything about Portal. Aside from me thinking the gels didn't get used as much as they should have, I can't say anything bad about that game. There's such an attention to detail that is highlighted with every bit of dialog and environment design that's lacking in most games these days. I don't know if this is me loving Portal 2, or me getting back into achievements, but my goal is to get the full 1,000 points in that game. 

When I'm not traversing through Aperture Science, I'm busting skulls in Mortal Kombat. I must say this, fuck the story mode. I came to a halt in the match against Shang Tsung and Quan Chi. After several days of going back to that match, I finally won through cheap tactics only to be stopped by Shao Kahn. My motivation for finishing that game is dwindling. Online is another story. I'm actually fairing pretty well against the Mortal Kombat kommunity. If I don't win a match, I always feel like I put up a good fight. There's only a few instances were I just got my ass beat. i hate to always use Scorpion, but he's the only karacter I can win with. I kan also throw down with Kitana, but I can't seem to fight anyone who can teleport with her. Weird. 

In news around the world, Osama bin Laden is dead which is fantastic. But in more shocking news, Silicon Knights intends to finish the Too Human trilogy! In this Destructoid article, Denis Dyack is quoted saying that his company didn't get defeated after Too Human uno. It's weird, Too Human was a game I totally liked in concept. The Norse mythology combined with crazy sci-fi was really awesome. I'm also a major fan of dungeon crawlers. Too Human's controls were unfortunately weird, enemies leveled with you, death didn't matter, and the combat didn't have a lot too it. Perhaps Too Human suffered from "the first first game in the series syndrome". The idea of a second-go at that franchise sounds super appealing to me. 

Love, 

EpicSteve

So in short... a lot of weird within the past couple of weeks for you ;P

Hey, congrats on the internship duder! I was pretty surprised when I head about it because I figured you were pretty invested in your army career, but it's great to have you on board! To clarify, in order to do this internship you had to volunteer for a tour in Afghanistan?

Also are you sharing an internet ship with Glen and Undeadpool? I still don't really understood what's happening with all this intern shlick; are there multiple internets (one leached per staff member!?), did some only arrive for a day, and are they still razzin Undeadpool for this fail load of win?

You're leading a pretty interesting life Steve. No doubt about it. Congrats dude, and thank you for serving.

Congrats man, I'll do my best not to give you a dumb question to ask the guys on a TNT or Happy Hour.

" Also are you sharing an internet ship with Glen and Undeadpool? I still don't really understood what's happening with all this intern shlick; are there multiple internets (one leached per staff member!?), did some only arrive for a day, and are they still razzin Undeadpool for this fail load of win? "

Cool, man! I wish I could be the Whiskey Media sandwich boy (among other things of course). I'd love that.

Good luck!

Edit: Stay Puft Marshmellow Man as your site header? I approve!

Congrats :)

I'm sure your sandwich making skills will be the pride of the army once your internship ends.

Congrats!

" In news around the world, Osama bin Laden is dead which is fantastic. But in more shocking news, Silicon Knights intends to finish the Too Human trilogy! "

I look forward hearing about the abuse they put you through.  Maybe they'll get you to eat so Surstromming.

I can't say why, but I felt like making this. Seemed appropriate.

Congratulations on the internship! =]

The picture made me laugh, congrats on your internship!

Here here!

Congrats on getting the internship! If you don't mind me asking, what exactly is it for, though? I seem to recall Jeff saying something like they will only take interns if their internship is relevant to their line of study or something like that. You're still in the army, right? I'm kinda confused!

But you earned it, so props.

Congratulations on the internship. That is pretty exciting news, I hope you have a blast doing it! 

Wow, keeping it busy in a good way. Always great to see someone pushing themselves to follow their dreams. Best of luck to you man, even though luck usually has nothing to do with it, and it's all about hard work. 

What are you exactly doing this internship for?.....I'm kind of confused because I'm not sure if you want to be a video game journalist or not because you never mentioned journalism in your internship description....seems like your doing a lot of general non-journalistic stuff.....congrats on the internship though it'll be a cool experience working with some of the big names in the industry.

" What are you exactly doing this internship for?.....I'm kind of confused because I'm not sure if you want to be a video game journalist or not because you never mentioned journalism in your internship description....seems like your doing a lot of general non-journalistic stuff.....congrats on the internship though it'll be a cool experience working with some of the big names in the industry. "

Good shit, dude! See you soon!

Congratulations on the internship! You certainly deserve it.

good job on the internship. i'm actually about to finish an internship in a couple of days. i can't wait until i look for a job. i feel like i won't find one but o well on that. maybe i'll move to cali and become a bum in front of whiskey media office.

" @EpicSteve: Looking forward to having you here, buddy! Also, thanks for making me sound like a drunk :) Kiddin "

Well done on the internship =)

Good luck for the future.

Grats on the internship! Man that chat right.

Congrats, dude! As soon as I heard that GB was looking for summer interns, I jumped in glee (not really). I've been trying to find who I need to contact to apply for an internshsip this summer. Can a duder get some help?

I hope things go smooth in Afghanistan for you. No one likes to hear that a fellow duder got IEDed.

Congratulations on the internship :) And beeing shown the bar off the bat, is never wrong. ^^

Congratulations on becoming the next Steve the intern.

Congrats on the position!

I'd be pretty insulted if someone mistook me for Lemon.

*Intern secret handshake*