Here it is: The one thing from the original GameTrailers blog that I have yet to post. It's the Best of 2011 blog entry that I made, unedited and uncensored. Enjoy.
2011: The Year In Review
I. Introduction
You're probably asking yourself, "Why am I reading this? This isn't one of PrinceWatercress's game guides."
You're right. It's not.
Welcome to the 2011 Review blog. In this series, I mention my thoughts on the year that was just spread out before us, from real life to the video game industry to everything in-between.
So, what will be covered? Awesome games, crazy memories, GT happenings, the history behind the PrinceWatercress blog, and more!
Sit tight. This is one huge blog.
II. Best of 2011
In this section, I recollect the ten best things I liked about 2011 in no particular order. For those not paying attention, this is 2011 according to me.
Those amongst you on my friends list who are curious as to what my non-video game interests are; prepare to have your tastes satisfied somewhat in this entry.
CM Punk and Triple H duke it out at Night of Champions
(WWE Universe)
Triple H was barely filling the shoes of kayfabe COO when CM Punk called him out on being no different than Vince McMahon. With Kevin Nash not only having a friendship with Triple H (that he'd later destroy) but also being the one to screw Punk out of the WWE Championship at SummerSlam, CM Punk was under the belief that Nash was sent to cheat him of the belt by Triple H when it wasn't even true (which was later uncovered, leading to Nash's firing by Triple H). CM Punk then made fun of Triple H's manhood as well as his wife prior to Nash's firing, setting the stage for an interesting battle - especially since this was Triple H's first match since his loss to the Undertaker at WrestleMania 27. Triple H would put his COO position on the line and forfeit it if he lost - and eventually win it all - but it was the events leading up to that win (as well as CM Punk eating a bit of humble pie afterwards) that make this match one we'll never forget.
¡Mucha Lucha! Sin Cara, the Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara storyline, Hunico
(WWE Universe)
Back in April, Sin Cara debuted to a full crowd on WWE Raw and decimated Primo, putting him in some sort of moonsault-style slam off the top rope. He got transferred to SmackDown in the draft, then got busted for recreational drug use thanks to the WWE Wellness Policy. While he was out for 30 days for his first offense, WWE brought out another Sin Cara under our noses. For anyone who didn't know about the Wellness Policy violation, it looked like Sin Cara was alive and well and still with us the whole time...turning heel in the process. When the 30-day suspension was up, though, the real Sin Cara showed up as the fake one was causing mayhem, setting the stage for a storyline in which the fake Sin Cara said that the real one stole his identity from him. The faker would also show up in a black outfit, with the real one being known as Sin Cara Azul and the fake one Sin Cara Negro. They finally fought it out in a mask vs. mask match in which Azul won, and the unmasked Sin Cara Negro would soon return as Hunico and attack Sin Cara from out of nowhere. Sin Cara is now injured due to a patella injury suffered during Survivor Series (where he'll be out six to nine months), leaving Hunico free to cause as much trouble as he can. How will this turn out? Stay tuned!
Project Café aka Wii-U
(Gaming)
This time around, Nintendo made the first move and not Microsoft. Even though they gave their console a new name that pales compared to the original (again), the fact that the new controller is a tablet-sized slab with its own screen makes for some pretty interesting ideas. If Nintendo makes the right moves (and games that take good advantage of the new controller from both first- and third-party developers come out), they could overtake Sony...
The "Super Empire Strikes Back" blog series
(PrinceWatercress Blog/GT)
Allow me to toot my own horn for a moment.
It's pretty hard to pick which one guide form the PrinceWatercress blog is the best of them all, since they all covered good games so far (as well as those that are yet to come). Success-wise, it was the guide for Super Empire Strikes Back for Super Nintendo that outshined them all.
I was currently working on the guide for ActRaiser when I found out that the entire Star Wars saga was coming to DVD. I immediately dropped all that I was doing and made plans for a guide Super Empire Strikes Back. I had originally created a guide for Super Star Wars based on a Let's Play by YouTube user lukenuetzmann, and the tips he had mentioned in those videos were very helpful. Heck, I even learned some stuff from those videos and felt a bit enlightened at the end. So it was only natural that I consulted his channel again for the sequel.
I was still working on the guide for the game when I posted the first entry for it. The results made it all worth it - not only did one of the first entries get 100 views in less than a week, two of the first entries achieved over 100 positive thumbs - both a first for the blog.
Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers to win Super Bowl XLV
(Sports)
This one was a bit of a nail biter. Green Bay was able to get ahead by only a few points near the end, thanks to Aaron Rodgers's seemingly robot-accurate laser arm. There was still hope that the Steelers would win a seventh Super Bowl on the last drive of the game, but alas, they could not. After that it wasn't odd to look up Wiz Khalifa's Black and Yellow on YouTube and see a bunch of "Green and yellow! Green and yellow!" messages in the comments.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
(Television)
Who would have thought that one of the best shows of the past year would be a cartoon for young girls? When Lauren Faust, the wife of Powerpuff Girls creator Craig McCracken, rebooted My Little Pony for a fourth generation, she pulled no punches with the writing and did not even talk down to her intended audience for a minute. The smart, witty presentation of the show caused it to be a cross-generation smash, with even '90s kids going so far as to say that the cartoon had balls and was reminiscent of the early Cartoon Network shows. Nice job, Lauren.
Mark Henry beats Randy Orton for the World Heavyweight Title; becomes the most dangerous heel in WWE
(WWE Universe)
Laugh or question this if you want. While Alberto Del Rio clearly showed weaknesses such as faking injuries or running from challenges between pay-per-views, Mark Henry did no such thing. Instead, he put Big Show, Sheamus, Kane and Randy Orton through tables. He even went so far as to injure Big Show's ankle and put him out of action for four months! And even though everyone seems to hate him, even that fact alone made his reign of terror interesting to watch.
Big Show had some interesting matches against him - the first one ending with the ring collapsing in a superplex, the second ending in disqualification when Mark Henry kicked him in the crotch - and Daniel Bryan even gave him a hard time. Can anyone bring this giant - who has finally won a major title after fifteen years at Night of Champions - off his pedestal?
John Cena wins the WWE Title for a record tenth time
(WWE Universe)
World Wrestling Entertainment must have a lot of faith in John Cena. At Night of Champions, he took on Alberto Del Rio and won. With this re-retrieval of the title, John Cena won the title for the tenth time in about ten years' worth of service in the WWE. Combine that with his reign as United States Champion, his four reigns as Tag Team Champion, and his three reigns as World Heavyweight Champion, and he's not just a battle-hardened veteran - he's a WWE Legend in his own time, regardless of what the haters say.
Osama bin Laden and Moammar Gadhafi get got; Egypt ousts Mubarak's regime
(Politics)
Well, it was bound to happen. The Middle East decides it's had enough and very gradually breaks down the four walls around them that defined themselves for so long. Egypt and Libya rebelled against their governments; the former forcing the corrupt President out of office and into exile, the latter fought its way into Gadhafi's domain via a rebellion and ended up finding and killing him. In the meantime, American troops (still stuck in the middle of a long, unpopular war) somehow got a break and found Osama bin Laden, bringing an end to his reign as Hide and Seek Champion. America finally got what it wanted.
Sony unleashes the PlayStation Vita
(Gaming)
Earlier in the year, Sony unleashed the Vita, the long-awaited successor to the PlayStation Portable. The specs for the new "PSP2" were pretty powerful, and a right analog stick was added, making the Vita a PS2 for your pocket. Even though we Yanks won't get our hands on it until February 2012, Japan got it recently this year. With some AAA titles confirmed for it, will Sony hit a handheld home run and knock Nintendo down in the portable department? Only time will tell.
III. The Worst of 2011
Of course, what would a memorable year be without...I dunno...bullcrap?!?
Here's the top ten worst things about 2011, in no particular order. Once again, just like the Top Ten Best, this is according to me.
Mega Man Legends 3 gets cancelled; the 3DS Resident Evil game gets "one save for life;" Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 released mere months after the original; Capcom becomes a pile of cash-happy PHAIL
(Gaming)
Oh, dear. For a developer known for some quality games as well as a few classic franchises, Capcom sure has been sucking lately. For starters, the long-awaited Mega Man Legends 3 was cancelled, according to Capcom Europe, not as many people supported the game. Note to Capcom: do you ever go to GameTrailers? GameFAQs? NeoGAF? GiantBomb? GameSpot? The Internet?!?
Before that, though, Capcom announced that their upcoming Resident Evil game for the 3DS would have one, non-removable save file "for life" in order to combat the lack of decent royalties from used game sales. Gamestop, defiant to the last, said they'd sell the game used anyway. I have two words for you: ROM dumps.
Meanwhile, four months after the release of the long-awaited Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Capcom released Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, which had not only characters that should have been in the original (ahem, Strider Hiryu) as well as characters that wouldn't fit in with the game's idea but somehow made it in after all thanks to the fans (ahem, Phoenix Wright), but also a lot of overpriced DLC that should have been in the game as unlockables (ahem, alternate costumes). I understand Super Street Fighter IV because of Super Street Fighter II and everything, but this is making the "one save for life" thing with the new Resident Evil 3DS game both superfluous and unnecessary. To quote the Mega Man 6 ROM hack known as Mega Fag: CRAPCOM SHOVES IT.
Nintendo 3DS
(Gaming)
Oh, boy. The fifth incarnation of the DS in five years. Where do I start?
For starters, we had to wait until later for quality first-party stuff. Not surprisingly, sales of the portable weren't as superb as Nintendo hoped. Then there's the issue of region lock chips being in the Japanese version when it came out as well as in the upcoming American released, meaning that JRPG buffs will have to import another 3DS to get all the good stuff that won't show up here along with the Japanese games. Then came the release of a second analog that was attachable and ran off its own separate battery (read: an alkaline battery). In Japan. Congratulations, Nintendo, you just created an afterthought so bad it actually makes the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive 6-Button Controller look like the greatest game controller on planet Earth.
At least we have the Ambassador Program, which lets us download classic titles onto out 3DS units, but come on. We could just as easily play them on the Wii or on Game Boy Advance. C'mon, Nintendo.
id Software punishes those who buy used; Rage locks out single-player campaign stuff in used copies
(Gaming)
Good lord, id. Not you, too. We know you have an interesting history in the FPS genre, and we know you push some awesome stuff out. But locking us out of the sewers in single-player mode because we bought the game used, among other things. That's how you make history for the worse.
GameStop removes coupons for rival Internet video game download service out of copies of Deus Ex: Human Revolution upon street date; gaming world throws a fucking cow
(Gaming)
Well, so much for bitching about buying used. When GameStop started selling Deus Ex: Human Revolution, word was leaked that the company sent out an internal memo to all its stores telling them to remove the coupons for a rival Internet video game download service to keep more money in their annual earnings, using that as an excuse to circumvent their definitions of "new game" and "used game." The gaming world was once again cheese off at GameStop, and GameStop eventually apologized for doing such a thing. The fact that GameStop thought they could actually get away with it is bizarrely hilarious, to say the least.
The heel turns of R-Truth and Christian
(WWE Universe)
It really sucks when a crowd favorite becomes a total jerk (it's also a regular occurrence), but two instances really stood out this year - R-Truth and Christian.
R-Truth had it made - the crowd loved it when he sang and danced, he had some agile moves, and he was one of two Number One contenders for the WWE Championship. He was addressing the crowd when John Morrison showed up and challenged him for his spot in the Triple Threat Match for the WWE Championship at Extreme Rules. John Morrison beat him, causing R-Truth to snap, beat up Morrison and smoke a cigarette at ringside. He ended up turning on the crowd the following week, and he would later join up with The Miz and form Awesome Truth, who both believed there was a conspiracy that somebody was holding them back from what they "deserved." Even though they went for the WWE Tag Team Championship against Air Boom and tried to take down John Cena, CM Punk and Alberto Del Rio, none of that worked for them. The only win of any importance that they had was against Triple H and CM Punk at Vengeance. After Survivor Series, when they lost to John Cena and his surprise tag team partner - The Rock! - John Cena tricked them into turning against each other...and it worked, as Miz put him in the Skull Crushing Finale on the steel entrance ramp. He turned face again and came back after a 30 day suspension due to breaking WWE Wellness Policy.
Christian, on the other hand, is just something else entirely. After winning his friend Edge's vacated World Heavyweight Title in a fight against Alberto Del Rio at Over The Limit, he lost it three days later on SmackDown to the recently drafted Randy Orton. Christian finally snapped, turned on the crowd, and blamed everybody else but himself for the loss before attacking Randy Orton, all on the following week, turning into a whiny bitch that kept asking for shots for the title, getting them somehow, and losing at just about every single one of them - and incurring the verbal wrath of Bret "The Hit Man" Hart and his now-retired friend Edge, among others. What a waste, indeed.
Michael Rosen bitches about his material being used in YouTube Poops; gets three YouTube accounts terminated before he realizes he can't win
(Teh Internets)
Oh, YouTube. Never has somebody trashed the short legacy of Mashup 2.0 so heavily...until now. After the uploading of cult favorites using British children's litterateur Michael Rosen as a source such as "The Michael Rosen Rape" and "The Babyshitter," Rosen caught wind of everything thanks to stupid people who didn't get the point of YouTube Poop and started throwing around copyright claims to the point that three accounts were banned permanently for this combined with previous offenses. When he realized that there were more videos with him in it than he could eal with, he called a truce. Colgate-Palmolive couldn't stop WalrusGuy, why did Michael Rosen think he had a chance?
Evan Emory becomes a target for a lynch mob of overreacting, retarded parents; gets trashed by the American legal system as a result
(Teh Internets)
It was hilarious at first - YouTube musician Evan Emory filmed himself singing to a classroom of first graders, recorded himself singing naughty songs in an empty classroom, spliced parts of it together with a clip of him singing to a bunch of preschoolers, and posted it on YouTube. And everything went fine until the parents of the kids in said video saw it and reacted - by thinking that their children participating in something both dirty and doctored would ruin their lives forever - and that's where it turned fatal. Emory was arrested and indicted on trumped-up child pornography charges that brought up to twenty years of prison time while YouTube removed the video. Evan Emory was eventually sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years of probation (during which he is forced to stay away from minors), and the video was ruled by the judge as contraband. Wow, either I missed the memo, or West Michigan (where Emory is from) is part of the Bible Belt. Even worse, he's charged with a felony because of everybody's gross overreaction - and he's only 21. Thanks for screwing up Evan Emory's life, America. I hope you're happy.
LulzSec hacks PlayStation Network amongst other sites before getting arrested; numerous thousands of accounts put at risk
(Teh Internets)
In the summer, the security of numerous websites - PayPal, the government, Netflix - were put to the test. Unfortunately, they all sucked. None were more far-reaching than the cyber-attack on Sony, which crippled the PlayStation Network and compromised the info and credit card numbers of thousands of PSN accounts. What, they couldn't hack XBox Live?
GameTrailers announces the removal of Factions in the site revamp
(Teh Internets)
GameTrailers has had people leaving the site left and right due to the quality of the community (and the site itself) going in a downward slope, but a migration of sorts was started when a conversation in a mods-only forum was leaked by an unnamed mod. The result sparked a huge controversy in which members that only participated in Factions protested the removal and many people who ran their own Factions banded together in an attempt to get staff to reconsider. Even Luna created a "Save Our Factions" blog that received over 1000 positive thumbs in a very short time and even more views and comments.
The staff have said that they still won't recommission Factions because of legal issues as well as their current unfinished state. We'll see.
Netflix makes...and un-makes...Qwikster
(Gaming)
Netflix is one of the best services for movies online. They know it. So how do they make it better? By pulling a Scumbag Steve, that's how...and by that, I mean making a separate site called Qwikster for gaming, which would have required a second password and a whole new website, as it wasn't tied to Netflix. Even worse, Netflix announced a huge price hike. A lot of people not only complained, but also left, and it hurt: 850,000 cancelled their Netflix subscriptions, and Netflix's profits went down 35% in the third quarter. Netflix found out the hard way that what they did with both the price hike and the de-streamlining of the service was a mistake, and Qwikster was axed.
IV. Personal Memories of GT
Gaming Blog
Back on December 20, 2010, I posted the first of what would be over 300 entries of what would be a really big blog.
It was pretty short and simple, really. It was a link to the overworld music from Super Mario Bros. as remixed by silentzorah aka Jay Reichard and shown on VGMusic.com, and converted to MP3 from MIDI format by the man himself. I already had a nonsense drivel blog on Gaia Online, so having another one on GT really didn't make sense from my standpoint.
After posting that and the two videos of me failing at Raphael at Soul Calibur III, I was running out of ideas and I really wanted to do something that made the 50 XP from each entry more than worth it yet still keep the blog game-related. The first thing that came to my mind was DeceasedCrab's LP of a freeware game available on the Internet called 6 Days a Sacrifice. I posted one video a day for fourteen days, posting an intermission related to the game after the seventh entry and an epilogue after the very last one. This intermission and epilogue pattern would soon become a recurring theme.
These first "YouTube link" entries didn't have a lot to them. They were just a clickable hyperlink to the video followed by a one-sentence description. They didn't get a lot of views, save for Part 1, which got more views than all my other blog entries combined and still has more views than the rest of my 300 blog entries. (I blame a freak snowstorm that passed through the area the day after I posted it. Go figure.)
Nevertheless, I posted videos of other people's LPs for other games in the same fashion: Super Back to the Future II for Super Famicom (caused by nothing other than watching an Angry Video Game Nerd episode) and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for Game Boy (caused by me wondering if I passed up a decent game as a kid - I didn't). It was at the pilogue for the latter that I actually got comments from two people: Scratch-N-Sniff, who would become one of my first blog regulars, and waldekzone, who said that my blog was good but needed more content. I had a list compiled of what I wanted to show off next, and the next I had planned with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie for Super Nintendo, as played by evilaj2010. Knowing that I had a handful of minutes to type something (the fact I had also played it didn't hurt, either), I put down what I knew about the first level (which was a lot), threw in a little bit of humor and published it, making a mental note that I would have to write all the entries up in advance. LP watching would take up a bit of my time.
Back then, I didn't take the blog scene - or my blog, for that matter - very seriously. I was only a low-level user, around Level 2 or 3 at the time. I just wanted 50 extra XP for the day.
As time passed, though, I found a few more games that had some decent playthroughs. There was the Thunder Force IV run on Mania difficulty by Japanese YouTuber Succulla, more stuff by DeceasedCrab whenever it happened to turn up, the really informative LP of Super Star Wars by lukenuetzmann. Amongst the first twenty games or so that I covered, there were some guides I had seen long before I had started blogging on GT that made for some good FAQ material.
As I started making guides for even more games, I gained some confidence in my writing abilities and decided the first three games I covered didn't get the justice they deserved. I actually took the time to watch those series again, and made real guides for them. There were a few (okay, two) delays - the Karate Kid guide that was made because Ralph Macchio was confirmed for Dancing With The Stars (he did very well, but he eventually got eliminated just before Hines Ward won) and the Super Empire Strikes Back that was made because the complete Star Wars saga was coming to DVD (once again, I used lukenuetzmann for this. Just like last time, he failed to disappoint), but the re-makes (or "RE-LOADED" guides), were finally released that summer.
All the while, my thumb total was leaping by the week. When 2011 started, I only had a few hundred thumbs, and I was only...what? Level 2? Now I'm beyond the first half of the leveling system, almost three-quarters, and I have almost 40K, and it all wouldn't hav e been possible without the GT community's support.
As time went on, other games would be covered in the blog. Sometimes, with the release of movies on Blu-Ray and other special events, I would deviate from the order in which game guides were written and insert another game in or after the current area in the "timeline." [i]Super Return of the Jedi[/i] was immediately written and published because the complete [i]Star Wars[/i] saga was released on Blu-Ray format. As of this writing (as of October, which means the guide I'm about to mention is already done and published and everything), a new guide for Jurassic Park on Super Nintendo is being made because the Jurassic Park trilogy came out on Blu-Ray on October 25th. There's been a few deviations from the writing order - the same order that the guides are completed - so far this year, but they definitely won't be the last.
Even though the blog has gotten bigger, there have been regulars both in the comments section and the videos themselves (it's not my fault DeceasedCrab covers a good amount of my favorites), and I've now kept all my sig images on Photobucket for a little over six or seven months just to see how the rest of my work here is doing (good news, it's healthy), one thing hasn't changed: classic games as well as independent games on XBLA/PSN/WiiWare/PC that are 2D or classic-style by choice will still be covered.
It'll still be a while, but once I get the resources to do so, you'll see (or at least, hear) myself in the mix with other LPers. I've already got a few details on how I'm going to do this:
Once I get a computer, blog entries will be posted twice a day instead of once. You will also get blog entries on Sundays as well. This is going to be a big deal. I can just feel lit. Not only does this mean more views, more reasons to be thumbed, more to look forward to, more videos to watch, more to catch up on, and more fun, this also means a bigger blog and the fact that larger blog series will be covered in less time than before. Add all of the points that are about to be mentioned and you definitely have not just something to be excited about, but also the biggest something to be excited about on GameTrailers.
The videos will be posted on an alternate YouTube channel (whose name will be kept under wraps for now) and on this GameTrailers account at the same time. Unlike other LPers, who I've only seen post their material on YouTube, I'll be pulling double duty on this site and YouTube. Once that happens, not only will there be the usual YouTube link, the GT embed codes for user movies will also come into play, allowing those who may prefer the GT video over YouTube to get into the action as well. Sure, it'll create two separate "subscriber lists," but with this I'll be able to take more advantage of what I can do on GameTrailers.
A mixture of games that have already been covered in the GameTrailers blog as well as games that have yet to be covered will get LPs by PrinceWatercress. Yes. You heard that right. You'll see some of my favorites...according to me. Sure, I may have covered some favorites already, such as Monster In My Pocket and ActRaiser, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to play them. If anything, you'll see me putting the stuff I've written in the guides in action. I have to admit, I don't have a list of what I'd really love to cover myself, but judging from the 40 games I've made guides for (not counting the repeats of the first three and also counting the stuff I haven't even published yet), there's a few I've looked at and enjoyed that I either want to replay for old times' sake, because I've finally gotten my hands on them, or because the guides have gotten me past a part of the game I've been stuck in forever. (Yeah, that's happened.)
I'd like a decent microphone, a decent capture card that does 60 FPS, and I'd like to get some accessories on the cheap. Since I'm going to get a new laptop (with Vista!) when I actually get the funds, I might as well get a PS3 controller, emulators and maybe FRAPS, I'd like some on input on what exactly I should get on the hardware and video-capturing side of things. A GameBridge sounds pretty nice, but sometimes there's a weird pitch shift problem prevalent (it's most noticeable in the music) and I have no idea if the split-second delay is worth it. A little help here, guys?
*looks at everything written so far* I've covered as much as I can, haven't I? Oh...wait...forgot. If anyone's wondering when I took the blog series seriously, it's Super Empires Strikes Back, if simply because of the accomplishments I pulled with it.
GT Happenings
Man, have there ever been things going on in GameTrailers. Besides all the silly threads in General Discussion that seemingly echoed a lack of quality control, a general sense of sarcasm throughout the forums, people abandoning ship because of the phasing out of Factions, but there were some pretty interesting things happening from my viewpoint.
DEM GLITCHES
If there's one thing that's going to be remembered from this year, it's how broken this site has been. If notifications and updates on games and friends were working, it was more than likely that we were supposedly logged in on the front page - which was as hilarious as it was annoying. Even when there was a temporary workaround found, people were still going to the main forums to see who they were "logged in as" as well as to point and laugh at the people who got banned. Heck, I got ZippingMeteor. Twice.
WWE Diva Michelle McCool retires after a "Loser Leaves WWE" match; wwedivaschampionmichelle discontinues the WWE Update Blog
Well, we sure didn't see this happen, did we? At WWE Extreme Rules back in May, the feud Michelle McCool and her former "bestie" and tag team partner Layla hit an all-time high when they finally fought each other at a pay-per-view event after weeks of not cooperating and general tearing each other's heads off. When it became known that the match would be "Loser Leaves WWE," nobody really knew what was going to happen.
Just as the match was about to get interesting, this huge block woman with big muscles that was clad in dreadlocks and all black came into the ring. Turns out, this was Kharma, who happened to be teased the last couple of weeks on Raw and Smackdown. Any of you TNA fans remember Awesome Kong? Same chick, different name.
Anyway, she performed the Awesome Bomb (now renamed the Kharma Buster in WWE) on Michelle McCool, letting Layla get the pinfall on Michelle, causing McCool to leave the WWE.
For those who didn't see Extreme Rules, however, the loss was nothing less than a shock to those who frequented the blog of GT user wwedivaschampionmichelle (Flawless Gang, represent). Not only did Michelle lose, but it was the last blog by the leader of Team Flawless herself, wwedivaschampionmichelle. The final blog has served as a shrine of sorts, and I still miss the days of going to my updates and getting my regular WWE recaps.
FelmanX gets Perma'd
A few of my regular commenters might remember FelmanX. Every so often (which was almost every day) he'd post a regular feature called "Funnies and Hunnies." Each entry would consist of two imgur links. The first one showed the "funnies," which consisted of a bunch of memegenerator material, some of which usually involved Socially Awkward Penguin, Insanity Wolf, Forever Alone Guy and Scumbag Steve among others. The other link showed the "Hunnies," which was...you guessed it...hot girls. Some were imaginary. Others were not. Fun times were had by all.
A couple months ago, however, he was permabanned and I have yet to see FelmanX resurface. FelmanX, where are you now? FELMANX, Y U NO COME BACK?
The end of the Subjectless Thread
For years, the ever closing and ever re-opening Subjectless Thread in General Discussion was like a staple of awesomeness in the forums. It was never an odd sight to see a few regulars - Sameh, LiquidSnack, ComradeStalin, God, HappyMaskSalesman, Wek (now Apollo), Miha, Pikajew, rederoin and a few others - talking about anything and everything.
As time passed, however, the Subjectless Thread became more like an exclusive thread, post were made soely to fill the thread up, and rules were quickly circumvented. In May, the mods finally decided to close down the Subjectless Thread...for good. By this time, the Subjectless regulars had their own faction, which is now facing a wipe-out itself thanks to the new site revamp. What's next in the wacky history of the Subjectless? Stay tuned!
DAT BAN
I got banned July 29th for one day for answering questions in "Ask The Mods." Lulz were had. My only regret about it is that I never took screenshots of my profile and GamePad with the little yellow strip under the user slogan. That would've been awesome.
Not surprisingly, the entry in the Turok blog series I posted when I was officially back in action was subtitled "SPECIAL BANHAMMER EDITION" and explained everything. It got 100 positive thumbs easily. It just seemed the natural response.
V. Outroduction
I have to admit this was a pretty interesting year. In between all the mentioning of Batman: Arkham City, Gears of War 3, Mass Effect 3, Crysis 2, and a whole slew of other Game of the Year nominees, there was a lot of interesting stuff going on. If this is any indication, 2012 is going to be pretty nuts.
I wish you all a good rest of the year, and I hope that you don't get drunk, take the wheel of a car and kill yourself. I'll see you all in 2012!
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