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Not interested.  Unless I can somehow play as Scorpion in the round.

How agreeable/disagreeable are you to letting people add you on SC2?  Or is there a friends limit?

So, IGN and "Syfy" have, in their inept stupidity, created a website/contest where people can pitch a Syfy movie plot to them, and other people can vote on them, and the "winner" gets made.

With this in mind, I think I've come up with a brilliant pitch. Here goes:

We meet a nerdy kid in 1995. He's obsessed with a tv channel, let's call it the "Scifi Network". On this network are old/weird movies, occasional Twilight Zone marathons, anime late at night. The network knows what it is, and isn't ashamed.

We cut to 1999, when the network manages to start making some shows. Shows based on stupid movies, or canceled shows from other networks, but shows. One show started off great, and had a bunch of Muppets in it, with not a lot of CGI garbage. The kid is still pleased.

We cut to 2003, the Muppet show got incredibly stupid. The network has been trying, and failing,to come up with other shows, but has come up with a curious show where it's a stupid reality/prank show. They've also created a spin-off of the show, that was based on a stupid movie. There is a curious new show, based on a really stupid tv series from the 70's, but the kid will never watch it. The kid is growing up, but fails to stop believing in his beloved network.

We cut to 2006, the young man flips over to the Scifi Network It's about 9pm, and he's hoping to watch some reruns of The Outer Limits, or maybe some old movie, or, god help him, maybe some 4th or 5th season Sliders episodes. Instead he finds wrestling on his beloved Science Fiction network. Something called "ECW", which is now on the network. The young man, weeps inside. Also, the network didn't import the new Doctor Who show, till a year afer it came out, forcing the young man to get it from nefarious means from the "file sharers", and he's never looked back.

We cut to 2009, DISASTER STRIKES. The network the man has grown up to love is now gone. Instead it has rebranded itself the "Syfy" network. The man tries to understand what that even means. At a glance, all the programing seems to be withering away. Filled with wrestling, dumb reality shows, with only one night devoted to "original" programing, and the weekends filled with terrible, "original" movies, with such clever titles as "Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus". Or nightly marathons of "Ghost Hunter", and it's resounding *thud* of crap. And the sequel show to the original show has been canceled. Now they're making another sequel based off of it.

We end with 2010. The "Syfy Network" is awash with crap that is barely recognizable as television. They air commercials for Merlin, claiming the show is "Original", despite airing on NBC, and COMING from the goddamn BBC. They keep making horrible B-movies, with people who can barely act, like Felicia Day, or Casper Van Dien. It says a lot about the network that they only have the rights to air "Enterprise", the worst of all the Star Trek series'. Commercials for Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters International, Mary Knows Best, and Fact or Faked come on, and the man watches them.

The last scene of the movie is a long pull away shot of the man, still in his parents basement, a lone light-bulb swinging, hanging from a ceiling board, feet dangling.

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So, that's my movie pitch. What do you guys think?
 
In other news, WoW is down for the moment, Fallout 3 doesn't work right on my laptop (the radio stations are janky), and I bought Burnout Paradise for 7.50$, and the DLC is 8$ each.  Good luck with that, EA.
 
Also, thanks for your guys concern.  No news on #CancerFoot (as I call it on Twitter), but that's about it.

So, I know only 3 or 4 people follow me on here.  And that's fine.  I like this site fine, but some of the systems seems confusing.  I love everyone on the site though.
 
Well, I have cancer.  It's either a Sarcoma (Bone Cancer), or a High-Grade B-Cell Lymphoma (Blood Cancer).  I haven't been able to walk properly since about February or so.  The problem I have is, my left foot/ankle is essentially dead.  It's stuck in one position, and I can put ZERO weight on it.  If I even try to, I'll just crumple on the ground.  Bear in mind, this has been like this for 4 months now.  Also little things like touching my big toe, or flexing my foot at all, is super painful. 
 
 I'm saying all of this, just to try and explain what is going on.
 
The reason I'm writing this now is to describe something.  Ever since I "seriously" got into games, probably 10 years ago, if not more, I have always looked up to Jeff.  Not in some fanboy way, but just as someone who I would like to shake their hand, or talk about the finer points of Strider, or even just to hang out with, some afternoon.
 
I grew (over the years) to enjoy Ryan, Brad, Alex, Matt, and Vinny all the same way.  Like, "any of these guys would be great people to be friends with" sort of way.
 
 Ryan seems like one of the funniest, and happiest guys around.  His laugh is infectious, and his sarcasm can be biting, without being mean.
 
Brad is a gentleman of the highest caliber.  His dulcet tones provide a richness of scope that few possess.  Plus his, and Jeff's playing of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, is among the finest seen.  Or in that particular case, not seen.
 
Alex, such a cool, and passionate guy.  Even while having to review some of the worst games imaginable.  His two old videos, a review of Big Rigs, and making of a review for  Robocop are amongsst the greatest things put to film.
 
Matt, guide-master extraordinaire.  I've enjoyed his recent workings on Screened, and am happy to see what he has to say on films, and more.
 
And finally Vinny.  The Endurance Run master himself.  I love to see him comment on games, because it's such kind of a whimsical take on them.
 
I love all you guys.  You're the true spirit when it comes to video-game journalism, but also just people who enjoy games.  It would've been a dream of mine to visit the Giant Bomb offices some day.  I'm not even sure if you can do that, but you understand.  To sit on the couch under the Luchadeer.  To drink some horrible energy drink with Jeff and Ryan.  To discuss the inner workings of some obscure PC game with  Vinny, or to even sit-in (quietly) on a Quick Look with Brad, and wait for him to "Pull a Brad" as it were, during a game.
 
All of these things would've been something I would've loved to do.  That would've been my dream.  Sadly, that won't come to pass now.  Aside from the practical limitations (I'm in Michigan, they're in Cali.  And they don't want a bunch of random-ass people visiting their office), my problem now is health.  I know the Giant Bomb office is in a basement.  For me to get into it, I need to crawl/scoot down the stairs on my ass, using my good (right) leg as the momentum, while keeping my left leg away, from hitting anything.  
 
I...I guess I don't really have much to say.  It is super depressing to me to see this dream (of meeting, or even seeing the guys) fade away.  At this point, I'm trying not to shatter my left ankle when I walk with it.  Sorry if this has kind of meandered some, but I'm not sure how much longer I have when it comes to things like life.  But, I hope you took the time to read it, if you did.

Playing SOTN again.  It's the best of the "Metroid-vania" games.  I like Super Metroid fine.  Shadow Complex seemed a bit over hyped to me.  But SOTN is still the best.

Not great.  Westland, Michigan, USA.  Wireless cable, but slow at 1Mbps

Where are the rest of the units?  Like Firebat, Goliath, Reaver, Dark Archon, etc.?  Do they not make the cut anymore?

Contests are always fun.  And the original Sam & Max was great, so I'd be eager for the new stuff.

How long is it gonna be till Shane Bettenhausen joins Giant Bomb?  I say...3 months.