Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Lesser Know Treasures of the Blogging World and New Thoughts on an Old Subject.

Ever since I started blogging I have been really into the lesser know blogs. They are usually way less bias and have more straight forward opinions. They are not getting paid to review anything but they do so simply because they want their opinions to get out there in the world. One such blog that I enjoy every minute of is GamerBlogTV! Its a blog much like my own but a little bigger. He blogs about all the same stuff I do but it has more of a newspaper quality. Actually he has his own online news paper called The GamerBlogTv Daily which I also strongly recommend you check out. The guy behind it all is a huge GEARS fan and you will notice it by just looking at the home page. I personally have never been a huge GEARS fan but as I like to say "To each their own!"
On the third of this month I talked about how developers eventually plan to phase out disk based gaming. I said that I thought this was a stupid idea and an all digital world would suck but now that I have my 3DS I have made an exception. I went on a mini vacation to Niagara Falls this weekend and I decided to take my 3DS along. It was great fun at first but then it started to get annoying to keep switching game cartridges every time I wanted to play something different. So my exception is that I think that portable gaming should be all digital. I knew a lot of people that were completely pissed off when Sony went all digital with the PSP GO but looking back it truly is an easier and more convenient platform. Besides the ease of use it could also mean cheaper games and I know that that will be very welcome in this time of $50 and $60 games. To clarify, No I do not think all gaming should be digital with the exception being portable gaming
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Monday, August 15, 2011

Jay-Z and Kanye West Trash a Super Car and I get the 3DS for $99

Jay-Z and Kanye West basically tore apart a brand new Mercedes Benz Maybach, the German super car that STARTS at $373,000 for the base model. They tore off the top and welded reinforcements over the fenders. In my opinion it was a stupid move although there were some reasons they did it that were kinda good. The first and most obvious of these reasons is for the video. The second reason is that they plan to auction it off and give the proceeds to a charity that will help the famine in Africa. The damages were estimated at $180,000 and I don't even think that they will get that back! For such great artists I feel that it was very uncreative and poorly planned out but the song itself is awesome!
On Thursday night I received an email from Game Stop that basically said that since I'm a Power Up Rewards Pro member I qualified for a coupon that would allow me to purchase the 3DS for just $99. The only catch is that I would have to have an old DS to trade in! Lucky for me I had my old DS Lite and I took full advantage of the coupon! With this coupon I got 20 more dollars than I would have without it! In reality this coupon would have been worthless if I had had a DSi or DSiXL because I know for a fact that you can get $80 for the DSi and $100 for the DSiXL. So I upgraded and got the aqua blue one instead of the red one like I planned! That is all ok because I figured that I should give the red thing a break, after all the DS I traded in was crimson red so I think a color change would be welcome! As always Please comment and follow!