Discovery Channel:

Thanks for advertising new episodes of Mythbusters on billboards and on television commercials for like, two weeks in advance only to cancel them till the end of the month with barely an hour's notice and replacing them with the most frequently rerun episode you could possible find.

 Seriously, you've hyped me up for this for weeks to the point where I put a sticky note on my TV so I wouldn't forget and then you go and screw me over with the freaking Pirate special again, thanks for nothing, and FYI, I watch Supernanny last Wednesday, not the Mythbusters rerun that you played complete with commercial breaks still advertising the new episode that should have been playing at exactly that moment.



Warner Brothers:

Screw you for  delaying Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince from November 2008 to a half year later into the summer of 2009.

As far as entertainment goes, this was basically going to be the highlight of my year aside from a Christmas where I'll receive no presents and will be too broke to buy even the most trivial presents for those around me.

The film is well into post-production at this point and was perfectly on schedule, so it's not like there was some deadline they couldn't meet or something like that. In fact, the November 2008 release date for Movie 6 was announced before Movie 5 even came out.

I don't go to the movies often at all, but this pisses me off enough to deliberately avoid Warner Brothers films (thank God I already saw The Dark Knight) until HPB comes out.



Nintnedo:

Nintendo owes me nothing, and I understand that they are a company and they exist to make money, but boy have they let me down this year.

There was a time when I literally looked forward to Nintendo's E3 briefing more than I looked forward to Christmas. I camped out in my car overnight in front of Nintendo World to see the E3 2006 show.

Between 2005 and 2006 I spend hours of my time on forums debating with naysayers who complained that Nintendo had "screwed" them and no longer cares about "real" games or gamers, but now I pretty much can't disagree with anyone who says that since at this point I basically agree with them.

From 2005 to 2007 Nintendo was releasing a pretty good mix of "Touch Generations" type games and traditional "hardcore" games like Zelda, Metroid, and so on.

Now however, I basically see NOTHING that you've announced that piques my interest, I don't know who Reggie thinks he's kidding when he went on G4 last July and said that their traditional fanbase would be satisfied with what they announced during their E3 08 showing, and I've skipped school to get this guy's autograph mind you.

I feel like I've been mislead to an extent, because I remember how everyone clapped and cheered with me when we saw the first glimpses of Project Hammer and Disaster Day of Crisis at E3 2006 and we were all relieved that Nintendo was not only going to attract new gamers with Wii, but cater to existing fans with their regular Mario/Metroid/Zelda/Pokemon lineup but also move into even more hardcore or gritty territory with these new games.

Well, both of those games have now been scrapped and their developers assigned to work on their "Wii Sports/Fit/Music/Play/Cooking/Whatever" franchise while the Nintendo DS suffers from a catholic of shovelware "Brain Age" wannabees.

Based on Nintendo's E3 2008 briefing, it seems to me that they seem to think that the continuing sales of "Evergreen" games like Mario Kart DS, Nintendogs, and New Super Mario Bros. means that they don't have to worry about coming out with (or at least announcing) new "hardcore" (I hate that word when used in this context, I really do) games until the sales start to slow down.

The only two Nintendo DS games I'm even interested in now, Pokemon D/P and Zelda Phantom Hourglass were announced well in advance of this recent apparent change in Nintendo's attitude, or else I'm sure they would have been canceled and replaced with "Marrige Counseling DS" and "Writing Age: Improve your Penmanship in Minutes a Day!"

I honestly don't play that many modern video games anyway, even the ones I already own I'll be shocked to put in more than an hour a month at the most on them, and thats with all the free time of not having a formal job or school at the moment.

I actually used to consider myself a "casual" gamer, but now casual gamer doesn't mean one who plays video games casually, but means a baby boomer who never touched a video game machine until the Wii came out and only knows how to play Wii Sports and Brain Age.

PS

I love how for the last four years Nintendo has been tooting it's horn about how they are such daring risk takers for coming out with games and systems with no guarantee for success.

Well, I guess Nintendo's risk taking only applies to getting elderly women to poke polygonal puppies on the DS, because countless thousands of people have been begging them to come with with MOTHER 3 since 1996, and yet they won't even consider it for release in any form because it's "too small a market".

At the very least out of all of this I can give them a thumbs up for choosing to ignore the MOTHER 3 fan translation project, when Reggie has already mentioned his awareness of it in interviews over the last couple of years.



Well, If I go ahead and get all the boring stuff out the way I'll have more time to do fun things tomorrow.