Author Archives: David Hall

I know this is old news but The Simpsons has a bucket load of episodes. (A bucket load is equal to roughly 500 episodes) Now I used to be one of those people who said they’d seen ever episode but by now I don’t think I’ve seen half! On the other had I just watched episode 256 of Naruto Shippuden and before that there were another 220 episodes before it. Why is that?

Why I stopped watching The Simpsons

1. They wanted to stop. Remember when Futurama showed up?! The idea was that Futurama was eventually going to replace The Simpsons and it made perfect sense. The creators were getting a little tired, but more importantly Futurama was designed to be a longer lasting version of The Simpsons. Futurama can have an infinite number of possibilities, just travel to a new planet, create a new futuristic device. The Simpsons ran out of rational story lines years ago.

2. Re-writing history. The Simpsons don’t age but they’ve been on television for over two decades. This creates problems, when did Marge and Homer get married. Recently the writers rewrote history to be in-keeping with modern times. That shit is whack.

I think there is no debate that war fuels economy but games about war do too. Last November’s retail sales were up 0.3% from October. That might not sound like much but when the figures are in the billions it is. There was a 29 million increase in stores that sold video games (namely Call of Duty). The only sector that did better then video game sellers was the gas station companies.

Couple weeks ago Voltron the game came out on XBLA and PSN. Now I remember that I used to love Voltron. And I mean love Voltron. Get dressed up and punch people in the face love Voltron. Yet, I can’t remember a single thing about Voltron besides the fact that we is a giant robot put together by 5 mech-cats and he fights evildoers from space. I don’t remember the characters or the plot. I don’t remember the vehicle Voltron, non of it. But when I heard there was a game I was excited. I was excited for no good reason. Now I don’t want to go into a rational for cashing in on nostalgia and what it’s all about but I just want to point out that this game was purely made because of it.

Why? Because Voltron is an inherently flawed premise for a game (or at least one as a downloadable one). It supports 5 player co-op yay! But Voltron is only cool when he merges into one giant robot. ONE! How can you properly have 5 people trying to control one thing!

So apparently people still choose dumb passwords like 123456. Other popular choices QWWERTY, trustno1. and various sports like football or basketball. Two that I find kinda hilarious is Dragon and monkey?! I don’t know if that’s awesome or sad. Also a common name to use as a password is Ashley. So Ashley, you either have dumb and uncreative parents or you’re some crazy ass mistress!

Today I picked up the newspaper (yes I still read a physically tangible paper) and read not one but two articles back to back that in my mind were slightly bullshit. The first was talking about the 1% (because of all this 99% business) and how those people are deserving of the money because they are all well educated as opposed to the lower end of the scale who aren’t. Well no shit, except it fails to mention that higher education COSTS MONEY!

Article number two is about a hockey player and his girlfriend dressing up as Jay Z and Beyonce. Not too terrible until you find out they colored their skin a la blackface! There was no malicious intent, it was more ignorance than anything. Lots of people are defending what they did which is, whatever. I take issue because the excuse for why they didn’t know any better was because they are Canadian and being a hockey player is a very insular environment. They rationalize that Canadians were never taught about Al Jolson and blackface. I remember learning about this in grade 4! We don’t have the same issues that America has but we still have things like black history month to at least inform us about basic racial issues.

I was trying to figure out why for the past several days it’s been so hard for me to get out of bed. Then I remembered, I’ve switched back to the duvet. Sooo comfy. Apparently the duvet is called the doona in Australia. Doona kind of sounds like a tribal music instrument…

Anyway, speaking of the changing of the seasons/it’s getting friggn cold out, I was just on the search for a new coat. Something nice and water proof, and warm. I’m convinced that every MEC coat is identical, it also hit me that I’m not really that sporty. So moving onto non-mountainy stores!