Most people here maybe only have the vaguest idea's of what I enjoy, Or what my taste are.

To be fair I also learn these as my life continues on.

When I first messed around with the 3DS I didn't much care for it. It was at worst an oddity, And at best, "Somewhat OK?" I only got to play a demo unit at GameStop and the thing was bolted in place so I couldn't pull it anywhere near my face. I'm nearly 6'7" and a little over weight (at least in the picture. I've lost nearly 100 pounds between then and now) I cracked the guys up by playing on my knee's so I could check out the 3D. Kid Icarus was OK but really didn't drive home anything for me. I wasn't impressed.

I think it was around then I heard about Fire Emblem coming? It may of been the reason why I checked it out? *other than pure boredom while waiting for my mom to finish her doctors visit. I am a die hard fire emblem fan. I have bought every fire emblem that has ever came out in the US. I was a bit apprehensive about the system. My lack of disposable cash plays a small part in that a well.

Flash forward a few months, I got sick again. I spent a good deal of time feeling like crap. My tires were dead, car broke, my furnace broke. It was not a good time. My only saving grace was the bombcast and 8-4 play's podcast. Through listening to 8-4 my fever for fire emblem grew. They also sparked a interest in monster hunter that I hadn't had before. I started playing MH:freedom on the psp for the hell of it... just to see if i liked it. As I had yet to even try one.

Over the holidays things got even rougher, Money got tight, And my mental state wavered like a flame in the wind. I was dead broke, But I frequent K-Mart for my prescriptions and one of those days in late Nov. I think, I seen a friend that happened to have a XL, They had

Mario 3D land

, And

RE: revelations

. I tried both of them for a few minutes each. I had decided that I really liked the XL. The bigger screen looked wonderful, The form factor was better for my fairly large hands... And the updated menu system felt a bit snapper and better.

the games seemed really good. The thoughts of the giant bomb crew reflected as much. So I was half way there just waiting on a sale, And I was fairly sure I would get one. Well a few sales had came, and gone by. My funds were barely stretching the months. I expected that to loosen a bit but it continued through January....

By February , I had a little money to play around with. When Fire Emblem came out I wanted to buy it, But couldn't justify the buying of it and the system. I still wanted to get it on a sale. Well my sister had caught wind that I wanted the game, And realized she missed my birthday so she got it for my birthday not realizing I was unable to play it. I then started looking for any deals on the 3DS I could find. I found none. On march first I caved in... I bought a XL. I was / Am still pretty excited by the system. My mom mocked me when I told her there was a upcoming sale on the 24th at target. She said, "Yep, That sounds like your luck."

So, I had my pink XL. I downloaded every demo they had on the Eshop I liked a few of them more than I thought I was going to. A few I really didn't care for like Castlevania & Rayman Origins I was surprised to see were nearly broken and unplayable. There are a number of games that get to quote most of giant bomb, "super framey" There are some cool demos on there though. I played a small amount of fire emblem. I liked it a great deal, but I enjoy taking those games slow. I will beat it a good 10 times before everything is said and done. There is no rush. I was sort of looking for what my new system to do so I continued down the rabbit hole.

The built in crap had no draw to me at first but, I did remember @brad going on and on about puzzles and street passing. I checked out the Mii Plaza , For the first day I was kind of like, "That's neat." Next day I was jonesing for street pass. I live in Flint, Michigan so I didn't think there would be much to be had? I looked on a few "street pass" forums and stuff looking for any kind of meetup. What I found was one guy begging for people to meet him anywhere locally. I was exactly right, There's not much street passing to be had. I thought, "Screw it!" packed up my 3DS and headed to the 2 nearest game stores that are right next to each other. First is "Disc Replay" a used store that has games, movies, and music. I wanted to check prices and see what they had, but hoped I'd find a random street passer in the mix... I decided after I looked down to not see that little light turn green that I wasn't going to look at it minus to see if I in fact had one. I went to gamestop and was sad after standing around for a while that I didn't have one. So I wondered why the store unit had not triggered the street pass. As i checked it out I discovered they had the wifi switch off and street passing disabled. So I turned it on and got it. I then went to the mall across the street to visit the best buy in there to hopefully do the same if I didn't catch a random one. Unfortunately the gamestop there didn't have a display unti. So I went to used store in there and walked over to sears hoping either would have one. Well neither did but I did pass by a random dude with one apparently which made me happy. I went back out there the next time I was looking for games and included toys R us, Best Buy and Target into my hit lists. Well none of these had any randoms with units on. At toys R us the display unit triggered it right away. At best buy the unit has the home button disabled and the wifi switch off and glued in place. Target didn't have a unit so my adventure yielded only 2 display unit street passes. It was a lot of work to find out what stores had display units which wasn't what I set out to find. I was hoping to find more 3DS's in the wild... But it wasn't meant to be.

This brings us to Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, It turns out after playing MH:F, MH:F2 I really liked it, So some friends, and I started playing Monster Hunter Tri about January or early February ... I got a bit more hooked on it as it is the crack. When I got my 3DS on the 1st or shortly after I put the MH3U demo on it. I really liked it and thought it looked really good. About a week before it I asked if gamestop would be doing a midnight thing for gears and if monster hunter would be included. The guy said he didn't know. I told him if he knew for sure I'd pre-order and come back. (Even though I really hate midnight events at gamestop the last ones I went to were horrid.) He basically told me he didn't know and they wouldn't know till Monday, I should call then to see and it'd be cool to get one even if i didn't preorder. On Monday I contemplated going to gamestop to get it, I called instead. The same dude told me unless I preorded it I couldn't get one which isn't what he told me before. But he also told me not to come.

So Tuesday I had to get meds so I was finding myself back at K-mart. I thought I'd just pick on up there. They didn't have it. So I went to toys R us.... The guy there said he was waiting on a shipment of them, But Nintendo didn't ship them any. He had Luigi already but not monster hunter. I went over to the same gamestop and asked the ok guy if they had any and he said they also had not received a shipment so the other guy lied to me a couple times for no good reason. I head out thinking, Where the hell can I get one? I drive to walmart. Just so happens they have 1 single copy for the 3DS and none for WiiU, The guy said some other guy just bought one right before me. He also said that they got 8 of each and they were now out with no plans to get more. I found out later that best buy nor target got shipments. I am dumbfounded by this.

I have seen a bunch of stories, and have heard Capcom and Nintendo themselves say things to the order of, "this is the monster hunter we really want to get behind and push onto the US market." It's kind of silly that it lunched with neither of the 2 apps *save transfer tool and packet relay tool* were ready for it at launch and Most users that were lucky enough to find themselves with a copy of the retail game... The game refused to register correctly in club Nintendo. The pictures on the left are what club Nintendo spit out on Tuesday and Wednesday when I entered my pin. Then they don't even ship the game to 99% of the stores that carry games in my town. It seems like they almost forgot this was coming or mistakenly thought it was coming out Sunday with the rest of the Nintendo stuff? This experience is baffling at best.

This story could use a lot of pruning and editing, But I don't feel up to the task lately so forgive me. I am not the strongest writer, But sometimes I feel I am the only saying these things. I'll be adding my 3DS friend code to the massive thread on here and will be adding most of the numbers till i get sick of doing so. Hope to see some of you for dumb Luigi fun later in the week. Till then much love,Linus

I guess,

Like with most things in life or on the internet this was to be expected. I have been noticing the comments here getting worse by the day.

I find myself enjoying a great number of videos on giantbomb. I then glance down at the comments to see a torrent of horse cock in the comments.

Here is where my fathers saying comes in, The saying is, "You can't win for loosing." I don't know where exactly that comes from. It normally is said when everything you attempt to do goes tits up for no damn good reason. In this case You are doing things and everybody is bitching for no good reason.

A few examples,

You do a video with double fine, and harmonix that are both pretty damn great. Glance at the comments "I AM SO SICK OF ALL THESE QUICK LOOK EX'S!!! YOU'VE DONE TOO MANY!"

You don't do a video because there really isn't anything worth a shit going on, and half your staff is out of the office first thing you post after a couple days gets comments of "HOLY SHIT DO MORE CONTENT!"

Jeff does a video for a game he isn't really feeling and states as much before starting the video (which is reflected in his lack of interest in the game but still gives a pretty long look of something he's not enjoying) "YOU GUYS ARE JUST PHONING THIS SHIT IN NOW IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT, JUST DON'T DO A VIDEO!" or "THIS MAKES THE GAME LOOK BAD HOW DARE YOU!"

Brad plays a game... If he takes his time "I HATE THE WAY HE PLAYS HE'S TOO CAREFUL AND ANAL!" If he just rushes like he normally does without giving at shit "BRAD HAS NO SKILL AS A GAME PLAYER! HE'S SO BAD I QUESTION IF HE HAS EVER PLAYED A GAME!"

Patrick is in the quick look, "STFU PATRICK YOU HIPSTER!" , "RANDOM UNJUST HATRED!" , "FUCK YOUR HAIR!" , and so on so forth. The guy really iesn't all that bad you should give him a chance.

I could go on, I think they point is proven though. So you guys Want things but, Hate everything being done. Yes I know, "wecome to the internet" and all that. I uess since I've been here for a while. I expected a higher form of cretin to be here.

So john drake sparkle crotch is not wanted because your sick of quick look EX's also happy action theater is gone too. Even Ryan screaming at poor german fellows to "GET THAT CHEST, GET THAAT CHEST!!" is out as well. All because there are 2 letters that don't always mean the same thing at the end of it. I pretty much say, "Fuck You!" to that very notion. If the devs would of wanted to sit in on "Pid" I guess you assholes would of also thought it was a crime against man to have yet another EX? Instead of brad playing it. Honestly this is just silly and the point being. They can't win so back to the saying "They can't win for loosing!"

I for one have enjoyed everything I have watched the past few months. And I'm working myself back into the habit of not looking down at the comments...

I started streaming myself playing through random games. I have been taking request and, those are kept separately.

I have uploaded these on youtube as well Thus farI have just played through PepsiMan and Abobo's big adventure.

I made a pile of shame list that can be found HERE. From the list I used a bunch of poorly done math and, Dice rolls to widdle down or choose

what I ultimately would be streaming Next.

The completely moronic Method behind spoiler,

The actual rolls behind the second spoiler,

If you care it's there but, it's really fucking dumb ^ and, I might of fucked it up too or, used really shitty logic. I wanted it to be really random so, I couldn't cheat.

I had no clue on what any of the rolls were pointing at in terms of what game it was till everything was done.

The results of which I compiled into this handy dandy list.

If you would have any requests from any of my list or something that would be inexpensive / easy to get my hands onto I would gladly play it for you.

If you would be down for watching me play and maybe beat some games I was going to fuck around with and play anyways Drop me a line somehow and let me know. If you would like information on which games I have in mind check out this list.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/linus_south/stuff-i-can-stream/46-71251/

or

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/linus_south/games-i-bought-and-really-got-to-get-to-at-some-point/46-66754/

I am thinking I will do a majority of my shit on http://www.twitch.tv/watchmebeatit

I will add to the list and video as time allows.

I am broke, 
Far beyond broke. I also, have been playing a fair amount of oddities this summer. With that in mind I thought I'd put together a list of some of free games you could be playing.  
 
GAMES,

spelunky

system shock  
n (the first game not N+ but, still a ninja game)

http://osu.ppy.sh/p/about

ikachan

cave story   
frozen bubble
 
Thanks to the GiantBomb user

louiedog I realized a grave error in not including Octodad and, 

Please if you enjoy it kick in a few bucks so part 2 can get made.

https://www.digipen.edu/gallery/games/

http://www.reloaded.org/index.php

http://www.abandonia.com

Digipen is filled with student projects. I couldn't tell you what is good or not in that but, There are a ton of little games. 
Reloaded and abandonia are filled with abandon ware and free ware games. Even though sometimes abandonia has a buy through link instead of a download link and,  both sites have games that can sometimes be a pain in the ass to get working with modern computers. 

http://projectorigin.warnerbros.com/fearcombat/main

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/beneath_a_steel_sky 
http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/?id=1  
I also forgot, you can get Back to the future episode 1 for free on telltales site
and, Wolfenstein: Enemy territory
there are also a few things on steam for free provided you want to have a steam account like Team fortress 2 and Trackmania.
I say free but, not free because you have to register them to use them but not a bad deal for a free game.   
 
Hope this list helps someone play something they will enjoy.
I will add a secondary note in here that if you enjoy any of the above games or any game for that matter please support those games in whatever way you see fit. 
Be that by money or simply sitting down and, Writing your favorite game makes a note. Working in the video game industry sometimes can blow. It's cool 
to know people like what you put your heart into.

I'm having problems getting this blog started so I'll start rambling a little. 
My first experience with Team Fortress 2 was through orange box on 360.  I bought orange box upon release.  
TF2 was kind of ok but, It seemed to me I was constantly stuck on a team that had no idea what the hell was going on. 
Being I was a new player this kind of compounded the not so great experience I was having with it but, I Did have a good deal of fun in the loosing.
I Had not had a computer that would run Half Life 2 with any kind of grace. Mostly because I had been using laptops for a majority of my computer using needs since 2003. 
I bought a new desktop around 2006 which I missed the first dual core intels by a few weeks But, around 2007 I bought a PC version of orange box for this computer. 
It ran ok on there.  I gave it a shot. I never got too heavy into it because, It didn't run too well on that PC and the servers I was on either was kind of shitty for various reasons. (I tried a bunch of them.) 
 
So, 
around 2007 I got a new laptop ... It ran TF2 pretty damn good. I thought I'd give it another go.  I still wasn't that great at it. I had some good fun the little I played of it then. 
I still don't enjoy PC gaming for the most part. People scream at me for this but, I don't enjoy using a desktop. Using a mouse to me these days feels kind of weird. I've used a laptop everyday since 2003 so this is understandable. I once again dropped TF2 because of this and, I still couldn't find a server with a good balance or was the right fit for me I guess. 
 
The beginning of the year I bought a new laptop cause above mentioned laptop decided to shit itself and die. I realized during a steam sale a while ago that I had not tried to play any games on here Yet. I had installed steam and, I bought the Indy bundle to play some VVVVVV. I didn't plan on playing much else.  Flash forward to this past steam sale. 
I bought the penny arcade bundle and, the magicka bundle. 
I have yet to play either of those But, I had caught wind of or, was reminded of the tested/GB TF2 server.  I fired up TF2 on here for the first time to check it out. This laptop runs the game like a god damn dream. I also was pleasantly surprised by the skill level's in the room and, the general good shit going on in the room. I'm not sure if I am good or bad at the game honestly? I guess sometimes I do good and, sometimes I do bad. I am still a bit of a new player. 
over the week I've been hitting up the GB/Tested server,  all has been going well for the most part. The server gets packed when the tested guys come around. First time I seen will in game I tagged him in the face with the flare gun that I had just earned the round before and, It was a one in a million shot that I laughed my ass off about... didn't notice it was will till well after the kill. Those ain't bragging rights at all, I don't think I am awesome or anything it was just fun and, that's the point. 
 
Yesterday, 
I got booted off the server, I am aware it's nothing personal and, people were prepping for TNT and such... or it may have been personal in a way that they more then likely seen my name on that list more times then they liked and thought "Fuck that guy! He's been here all week!" fuck if I know but, I am not mad about it none the less.  
Which led me to finally jump around to a few random servers. I went and looked up some server lists ... Tried those. I won't mention which ones but, one I tried had 2 full teams playing the worst game of TF2 I've ever been a part of. I think "This can't be the skill level of this room?!" I stick it out for a few more games and, sure enough Yep they are pretty fucking horrid.  I hop to another sever and it's a team of getting steam rolled a few times even with team balancing between matches. I skip to another one. the map is just a giant pool of poisoned water? the rooms full of guys slowly dying in said water? I don't see the point and, move on ...  later that night the GB/tested server was clearing out so I played a bit. then called it a night  It's a bit funner over there. 
 
This is a super long winded fucked up thing, I am sure it's a hard read as I am a shitty writer. I am aware. But, all the above is my history with this game and then some. 
All the above is to say. Could some of you smarter more experienced TF2 players point me in the direction of some decent TF2 servers other than the GB/tested one.  Also, what was the servers will mentioned on TNT? I was busy and really didn't catch what he was saying. 

 Some initial thoughts on possible teams and fun names,  
Feel free to add your own.  (I will be trying out some of these.)  
 
CAP , Skrull , Hulk  = Captain Skrull Crunch  
Skrull , Dante , Wesker = Skrull Fuckers  
Tron  , Set ,  Zero = Dr. WAHWEE! 
Phoenix , Skrull, Dorm = BLAZE or Flame On  
Dorm , Ammy , Akuma = Angels and Demons 
Hulk , She-Hulk , SHUMA = GREEN! 
MODOK , Spidey , Iron Man = SCIENCE!  
Hulk , Storm , Dorm = Earth Wind & Fire.  
Thor , Doom, Magneto = MIRACLES!  
 Ammy , Felicia , Morrigan = Bitch Tits! 
Arthur , Deadpool , Haggar = King Shit Kicker   
 
 more to come....