I’ll be honest to you guys, I may have consumed too many alcoholic beverages before the game.  I meant to take as many notes as possible, but hey, I was drinking, eating snacks and BSing around.  As I try to decipher my reactions to the notes I kept on the commercials I can find two things.

1) I have horrible handwriting after I’ve been drinking
2) I think I stopped after the second quarter because there is a long line down the page from where I last wrote.

With that, here are the initial impressions of the commercials I can decipher from my notes.

There’s absolutely nothing going on in games and movies right now, so I thought I’d look at youtubes of none other than Conan the Barbarian. I found one of the most common sayings that is quoted from the movie, and one that I have memorized (thanks dad). But I never realized before that the guy who speaks before Conan is so rudely dismissed. He gave this poetic answer and a vivid one to a very open ended question, only to get a “WRONG!” directed back at him. I then realized that this entire scene is a metaphor for what I want this site to be.

Now hang in there, you lovely audience member you…follow with me if you will.

“What is best in life?” is asked by the leader of the camp where Conan has become champion. This man is YOU! It’s the audience saying “ENTERTAIN ME!”. The first person to answer with his long and poetic answer is quickly dismissed…This is the audience telling the normal news and gaming sites that “We’re bored with that shit, nobody cares about Generic Game X coming out in 4 years!”. The audience then turns to Conan only to hear exactly what they want to hear “Tits, Metal, and Opinions”.

We’re Conan…we are MediaWhoreNetwork, and I’m drunk.

Hey Whores,

I’d apologize for the lack of posts this week but your illustrious leader and crew have all been prepping for the biggest party we’ll experience until next year at PAX 2009. I’ve been in town for the past 4 days learning some archaic fucking programming language that I’m sure that I’ll use at my job for a whole whopping 10 minutes when I get back to real life this Monday.

Until then, I’m here in Baltimore gearing up for the big NARP (No Apparent Reason Party) that we’ll be sharing with a whole bunch of our brethren from Destructoid.com. Today (as well as on Sunday) me and Mike aka Hitogoroshi from Destructoid’s community section went out to a restaurant called Victoria that has a beer menu that is about 20x larger than the regular food menu.

That’s not to say that the food at this restaurant is nothing to sneeze at. We had some Poutine that consisted of fries that were cooked in duck fat and was topped with Gruyere cheese, duck confete, and duck gravy…perhaps the worst thing that one can eat. OMG it was so fucking delicious though!