Cranefolder's blog

Another day, another mind-warping tale of wii-mote stupidity. What the f#ck is wrong with people? These days it seems like you can’t spend 4 hours surfing the intertubes without running into a new story about somebody breaking something expensive or injuring themselves with a wii-mote. A great many of these stories are fake, but I’m not sure what is more pathetic, a real wii-mote injury or a staged one.

Another day, another mind-warping tale of wii-mote stupidity. What the f#ck is wrong with people? These days it seems like you can’t spend 4 hours surfing the intertubes without running into a new story about somebody breaking something expensive or injuring themselves with a wii-mote. A great many of these stories are fake, but I’m not sure what is more pathetic, a real wii-mote injury or a staged one.

After a 3 month hiatus, I am finally trying to complete writing up my experience at the Chicago LAN (which was in AUGUST for crissakes). I feel like a marathon runner that came to within a half-mile of the finish line and then bonked out, unable to move another step. I’ve been revived recently, and now I am forging ahead towards the goal. I may not win a medal, but dammit I WILL finish this thing if it kills me in the process. For those of you who have previously read portions of this epic, the new page is up at:

After a 3 month hiatus, I am finally trying to complete writing up my experience at the Chicago LAN (which was in AUGUST for crissakes). I feel like a marathon runner that came to within a half-mile of the finish line and then bonked out, unable to move another step. I’ve been revived recently, and now I am forging ahead towards the goal. I may not win a medal, but dammit I WILL finish this thing if it kills me in the process. For those of you who have previously read portions of this epic, the new page is up at:

…or at least, I’m going home to my roots as a gamer. My first real gaming machine was a PC, and this whole “next-gen” console war is pushing me back that way, even though I have loved (and still do love) my original Xbox. Over the last year I’ve seen more and more people migrate from the original Xbox to the 360, and I wish them well, but I won’t be joining them anytime soon, if ever. I’ll explain...

I'm not even going to try not to swear in this particular blog entry. Usually I try to edit my writing with strategically placed special characters like #, @, $, *, etc. to cover up words that might be offensive were they not so masked. But not today, b!#ches. I will be letting fly with all sorts of profanity, so if that kind of thing bothers you, then you best just scroll along to somebody else who is a bit more gentile, 'cause I'm 'bout to get rude as a muthah fuckah up in this piece.

Fetal wrote a good blog entry on tipping, you should read it.  I was writting a comment to put on it, but the comment got so long that I decided just to do my own blog entry about it.  I agree with his take on giving people decent tips, but I have some complaints about the tipping system in general, hence this entry...