The 10th Hour 01.14.12: Top 10 Things We Learned in 2011
Posted by Jordan Williams on 01.14.2012
From Nintendo learning the risks of arrogance and PC gaming not being dead to modern military shooters getting old, the slow death of turn-based RPGs, and more, 411's Jordan Williams ranks his Top 10 Gaming Lessons of 2011!
Welcome to the #1 Column to...
Oh god dammit not this shit AGAIN.
My first apperance of the year and it's not even MY OWN COLUMN? Well since you all LOVED me so much when I covered 10th Hour last time (Haaaa) I have be requested to cover YET AGAIN in your who has come down with a bad case of the Fridays And by "Fridays" I mean I tranqed him and sold him to the Polish Black Market. But seeing as this is my first apperance of 2012, I figure I should at least bring in one of my column's normal features...
Working Backlog
Skyrim - Oh god. Man, I fucking have a love/hate relationship with this game. I love it to death because I can just turn off my brain and have some fun. I HATE it to death because I CAN'T GET SHIT DONE. This is the only game where I can finish a quest and the act of finishing the quest will open up THREE MORE quests and on the way to finish just ONE of those quests you will randomly happen upon another quest and play that quest to completion WITHOUT ACTIVATING THE QUEST and while finally trying to GET to the end of the quest you orginally started you are HUNTED DOWN by a courier that gives you ANOTHER quest that takes you in the opposite direction of the quest YOU ORIGINALLY SET OUT TO COMPLETE. And the worst part? That's not even a MAIN quest. It's not even a SIDEQUEST. It's just some miscelanneous ass quest!
Battlefield 3 - So BC2 used to own my life for a long time on consoles until eventually retired from it because the build up for BF3 started. My first few weeks of BF3 were shaky/shitty because I forgot one very important thing about myself when it comes to online military shooters.
I am fucking terrible at online military shooters.
I am not that guy with the positive K/D Ratio. I am not that guy who is going to be constantly on the top of the leaderboards at the end of the round. Fuck, I am not even that guy that people on the other team will go out of thier way to kill if they see me. So once I realized that I do indeed suck ass at these games I remembered why made me have so much fun with BC2. I play these games essentially like a roleplaying game. By playing BF3 like an RPG I mean...when I choose my class and my loadout I PLAY THAT CLASS AND LOADOUT. I primarily stick with Engineers so that means I am spending roughly 75% of the time doing what engineers do; repairing vehicles and actively disabiling opponents vehicles. While it might not show in the K/D at the end of the game I usually walk away with an MVP 2 ribbon or at least 3-4k points. Similarly when I am a Recon I play like the most badass ninja ever. Since I HATE Camping/Sniping I usually pop on a shotgun and sneak around the enemy base allowing my friends to spawn in and track enemies...so...what I am trying to say is that I REALLY like BF3 because it's not about "SHOOT THAT GUY AND WIN" it's still about teamwork.
Although the FAMAS is broken as shit and can eat a dick.
WWE 12 - You know what? Fuck the haters. WWE 12 is a good ass game. Sure, the gameplay is still largely the same and the models could really use some work but I haven't spent this much time playing a WWE/SVR game since Day of Reckoning 2. The main draw for me here is that the Universe Mode is actually fun to play AND watch this time. I think whomever decided to add that "Today's Remarkable Match" tag to Universe that lets you flat out know that a storyline is starting/progressing and tells you to play or at least watch the match is GREAT. In SvR 2011 I spent mostly all of the time in Universe just skipping over matches until a match with my CAW or a wrestler I wanted to play ass showed up. In WWE 12 I find myself playing or watching almost every match on the card and really only skipping jobber matches. Just the sheer amout of lunacy that can come from the game booking in Universe leads to some hilarious situations. For instance in my Universe which is in the it's 8th or so year we have Yoshi Tatsu as the reigning leader of the heel power stable consisting of Yoshi Tatsu, John Cena, Sheamus, and Zack Ryder. Yoshi is the WHC, John Cena and Zack Ryder are the Tag Team Champs, and Sheamus is holding the WWE Title, US Title, AND IC Title. That's not even the MAIN PLOT in my Universe. For nearly two years now Sin Cara has been fueding with the Undertaker and he ENDED the streak. And I didn't even PLAY that match. It's a damn shame 1/3 of Road to Wrestlemania is shit or else this game would be the complete package.
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition 2012 Still training for Evo. Still using Hakan. Still losing a lot. Will not give up on Turkish Oil.
Alright, now that that is out of the way let's go ahead and get into my list. This actually works out good for me because my first column of the year is usually a retrospective about what we've learned in Gaming from the previous year. This time I just get to put it in a nice digestable list! Yay!
The 10th Hour: 10 Things We've Learned in 2011
10. DLC isn't as evil we think it is.
DLC. Those three letters can rile up some heated discussions on the internet and most of it is negative. However in the past year I would argue that it's really NOT as evil as we like to think it is. Let me clarify by saying when I mean DLC I mean additional game content, I am not talking about Pre-Order Bonuses, Patches, and On Disc DLC...that shit can still eat a dick. What I am saying is that the days of charging 5 dollars for essentially Horse Armor are slowly dying. It's still a pretty controversial topic which is why I only listed it at #10 because there are still a lot of people against the very idea of DLC because they think that it's content cut from the game that is charged for later. The sad thing is they are right some of the time. But I personally think the thing that is going to turn the corner for DLC is the emergance of the Season Pass system. The biggest rebuttal you will hear for DLC is "Don't buy it" which does make sense because anyone who only has a passing interest in the game. So what about the people who definitely are going to buy the DLC? Give them all of it at a discounted price! DLC isn't perfect...but it's getting better. It's not quite the downfall of the current generation as everyone likes to say it is.
9. The Turn Based RPG is dying.
We are impatient as fuck. If there is one thing this generation has proved is that we care not for waiting around and doing nothing, even if the 'wait' is about 2 seconds. Because of this you are seeing more things streamlined and more things changed to keep the action constantly flowing. So far there have been no real casualities of this outside of people who REALLY like item management in Survival Horror games. But there is one thing that is being choked to death because of this and it's the turn based RPG. Once a staple of the genre, the turn based RPG was seen as something that had to be STANDARD in any decent console RPG up until the PS2 Era. Although there were famous examples such as Chrono Trigger that didn't quite do Turn-Based style it was still a staple in games like Final Fantasy (up until 12) and other JRPGs. But now that the RPG is changing (with the JRPG becoming more of a shadow of it's former self the the WRPG becoming the leader) the one thing we are seeing less and less of is the turn based RPG. Now that damn near every game has some sort of RPG element it seems like the RPGs are adapting to keep up with the faster pace. Is this a good move? I don't know.
8. We are less forgiving to Developers/Companies taking the easy way out.
Fanboys used to be known for being giant apologists for thier company/game/genre of choice. 2011 showed that while Fanboys are still rampant they are also getting smarter at seperating the shit from the shine when it comes to games and developers trying to piss on you and say it's raining lemonade. Activision, Capcom, Nintendo, EA, Sony, and even Valve at one point were all taken to task last year over boneheaded decisions and stupid ass moves. Capcom and Nintendo took the biggest beating on that front. Look at the 3DS, the DS launched with the same exact weak line-up and lackluster support and early implementation but everyone ate it up like cocaine laced hotcakes. What happened when Nintendo tried it again this year? We spit in thier face and told them to try harder. Do I even need to touch on how much shit Capcom took from fans this year? We ain't taking shit anymore...well...we don't take as much shit as we USED to.
7. Indy Games aren't that "Indy" anymore.
Although I have a minor beef with Indy games, I will not deny that they are a pretty impressive movement. A movement that is so large in fact that the term itself is not longer fitting. While the games are still "Indy" in the sense that they are made independant of a developer or a big name producer the strange thing about that now is that Indy Games are becoming just as main stream, popular, and funded as "Big Name" games. Not saying that Indy games need to be this grimy hardcore underground scene like Indy Music and Movies fashions itself to be. But the fact of the matter is when someone hears the words "Indy" that is the first image they conjure up. Indy has pretty much developed into a genre at this point...which means if it's anything like Indy Music and Indy Movies people should start calling them sellouts in 3...2...
6. Social Gaming is more of a fad than it thinks it is.
At the start of 2011 everyone was riding the dick of Social Gaming. Facebook was being seen as this giant assed new gaming platform and everyone was on the Farmville tip and this was the NEXT BIG THING! Fast foward 12 months later and no one gives a shit anymore. The same shut-ins that obsessively played Farmville are still playing it and no one new is really flocking to it. Where Broswer-Based Games are starting to take on a new life it seems that the whole 'social' gaming part of it was nothing more than a speed-bump onto bigger and better things.
5. Mobile Gaming, however, is not.
That bigger and better thing being mobile devices.
But no one wants to play games on the iPhone/iPad/Android/GalaxyTab!
No, shut up. You're wrong. People DO want to play games on them. It might not be the hardcore crowd that is reading this or the guys on NEOGaf and what not but THERE ARE PEOPLE PLAYING THESE GAMES. Further more developers are noticing this and making honest-to-goodness GAMES for the damn things. While they will never be these 60 hour epics and great blockbuster expriences...they all don't have to be Tower Defense games and Angry Bird knock-offs either. As long as new tech comes out there are going to be apps for it. As long as there are apps there are going to be games. As long as there are games there are going to be people who play it whether you all like it or not.
4. Nintendo learned that arrogance can bite you in the ass.
Nintendo got a rude awakening this year with the 3DS launch. While they are admittedly doing better now after that bumpy start Nintendo learned that they can't be as arrogant as they have been ever since the Wii launched. When the Wii took off like it did although the hardcore fans were not having any of it the casual fans ate it up and gave Nintendo this notion that they could do no wrong. Every peice of casual shovelware that got released everyone ate it up and they were on top of the world. So they rushed out the 3DS thinking that everyone would just flock to it
Nope.
No one gave a shit about it and Nintendo ended up having to take it's first sale loss in a LONG time because of it. While they might be doomed to repeat these same errors again with the Wii U at least they finally learned that they aren't invincible anymore and that they are going to have to step it up or get left behind.
3. Microsoft and Sony learned that ignorance can bite you in the ass.
And speaking of left behind we have the other 2/3 of the Big 3 that got left behind when it came to Motion Gaming. For nearly half a decade Sony and Microsoft shit all over motion gaming saying that it was a fad and that it wasn't going to go anywhere and then what did they do? Sony what some see as a straight rip off of the Wii and Microsoft made what some people see as a straight rip off of the EyeToy. If those had come out a year or two after The Wii's big boom period than maybe these things would've meant something...but instead they didn't do diddly AT ALL last year and are all but forgotten simply because Microsoft and Sony were too ignorant to strike while the iron was hot. That's a lot of money that was left of the table.
2. Modern Military Shooter is the new Zombie Shooter is the new World War 2 Shooter. We're all getting sick of it...and it shows.
In 2009 it we felt a bit of it. In 2010 we were getting tired. In 2011 it's officially been upgraded from "tired" to "sick". We are over it. Call of Duty still sells really well but it's no longer as warmly received by the critical OR casual audience which means that it has offically become a dead horse to which we beat mercilessly. I don't know what the next big thing is going to be for games but we are all getting burned out on the Modern Military FPS just like we are all burned out on Zombies and WW2 games. Is it time to go to the future? Is it time to just create some weird new timeline? Maybe a Steampunk shooter? I don't fucking know and the sad thing is it's getting to the point where no one even CARES...they just don't want to see it anymore.
1. For the last time, PC Gaming *is not* dead.
I feel like someone has to say this every year, so I'll be that guy. PC GAMING IS NOT DEAD.
SERIOUSLY. IT'S NOT DEAD.
More ports or straight-up simulataneous releases are coming out for PC everyday, there's a GIANT digital market for PC games and in 2011 most of the PC versions of AAA console games were flat out BETTER than the console counterparts. I did an entire column on how console gaming has hit the point in the generation where the PC is getting the more optimized and better versions of games. Hell, TVs are so great today that a very large number of people turn thier PC INTO their console and just hook that up to the TV.
So for the last time, people.
PC GAMING IS NOT DEAD
And that's the list. Do you agree? Disagree? You know where to let us know. Will I be back next week or will you have your normal and more well liked host? I don't know. But until then...I dunno...go play some games.
WWE 12 - You know what? Fuck the haters. WWE 12 is a good ass game.
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Amen, brother. Well said. I bought a PS3 solely becuase of WWE 12, as I love SVR 2010 and 2011. There are a few very minor complaints about 12, as there was for SVR 10 and 11, but overall, you sjust don't get a better wrestling....scratch that...you just don't get many better games, period, then WWE 12.
Posted By: Guest#4490 (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 01:54 AM
If a game is released on PC and a console, chances are the console version is a better buy since not everyone has the hardware to play the same game on the PC.
The only PC exclusive games i've played in the last year are Recettear and Sims 3. PC gaming is dead in terms of original exclusive content, outside of indy games and mmos. It's become the realm of the 'casual gamer' because of the expanded focus on microtransaction browser-based games and mmos. While indy games are doing well on the PC (minecraft comes to mind), they aren't doing gangbuster numbers so don't kid yourself about the current viability of indy gaming. It's probably bigger than indy music but only marginally more so.
The PC gets better versions of the games (better graphics) just because the hardware can be upgraded. Not everyone ponies up money to buy a new comp every time a new game comes out. It's just not feasible. My comp is from 2005 and does everything i need it to do for work, EXCEPT playing cutting edge games.
Posted By: Mr. Ace Crusher (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 05:51 AM
#1 people complaining about how "bad" MW3 is despite being one of millions of players playing it to death
Posted By: Guest#2328 (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 07:06 AM
Oh that's funny, "WWE 12 is almost the complete package". What a load of crap, the game isn't even playable
Posted By: Guest#8242 (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 07:08 AM
MW3 wasn't well received? Wow, you really have no idea what you're talking about. For a game that "wasn't well received", millions of it are playing it daily.
Get your facts right and stop being another Skyrim sheep
Posted By: Guest#6279 (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 07:11 AM
I think the main problem with turn based RPGs has less to do with the fact that they are turn based and more to do with the fact that they all suck. The stories are boring and the battle systems are bland or tedious. I dont mean tedious as in waiting for your turn. More like tedious as in the battles are all the same. Earlier versions of Final Fantasy had so many emenies that were all different that you might never run into all the monsters in the game. Now a days you end up with 30 straight fights of the same monsters. The only thing changing is the number of them that you fight. Plus the stories all seem like cheaply recycled versions of FFVI or FFVII and that doesnt help.
Posted By: Guest#1463 (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 11:27 AM
The Kinect didn't do anything? I think you need to go back and look at some sales figures sir. The Connect is doing BIG BUSINESS for Microsoft because it's something different. It's not a ripoff of the Wii like Sony's move is. Sony's move is just sitting on shelves according to Sony heads, while MS can't keep Kinect on it. The only reason why Sony's "move" is outselling the Kinect, is because Sony counts each "move" peripheral[camera, move, sub-joystick] sold as an individual sale. So if you buy a complete set, Sony counts it as 3 individual move sales. Where as Microsoft's Kinect is only one device that you only have to buy ONE TIME to play multiple players.
Posted By: David (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 12:12 PM
People are tired of modern military FPS games? I guess that's why every time I look at my PSN list, 80% are playing MW3 or BF3. The other 20%? Netflix. But I agree you can only beat a dead horse so long.
As for WWE12... played it. Hated the controls. My N64 still works, so I won't complain.
Posted By: G-Walla (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 01:12 PM
PC Gaming is dead.
Posted By: Troll (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 02:35 PM
Oh, and WWE 12 sucks.
Posted By: Troll (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 02:35 PM
MW3 wasn't well received? Wow, you really have no idea what you're talking about. For a game that "wasn't well received", millions of it are playing it daily.
Get your facts right and stop being another Skyrim sheep
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It seems that everyone is confusing MW3's sales and playerbase with it still not being stale. It's not *as* warmly received as it has been in the past. Note the "as" because that's important.
Go read reviews. No, really. Go do it. No one is saying MW3 is bad (Not even I), but everyone is saying that it's getting long in the tooth.
And c'mon man? Why ya gotta go and call me a Skyrim sheep? I thought we were all cool here.
Posted By: Ogre (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 04:37 PM
Funny how the CoD Fanboys are quick to call everyone else sheep when they buy the same game every year.
Posted By: CoD = Madden with Guns (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 04:40 PM
Kinect would probably sell even better with some decent games, and if it didn't require concert hall spacing to have a proper setup. The commercials of people standing in front of their TV playing are so misleading.
Posted By: Guest#5270 (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 05:06 PM
WWE 12 was fun for a month but now I haven't played it since maybe christmas (bought it at launch)
That's a huge improvement over being bored after three matches on 08-11 (none of which I bought but did barrow because this is the only wrestling game series left)
Posted By: Guest#8106 (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 05:59 PM
People are tired of modern military FPS games? I guess that's why every time I look at my PSN list, 80% are playing MW3 or BF3. The other 20%? Netflix. But I agree you can only beat a dead horse so long.
As for WWE12... played it. Hated the controls. My N64 still works, so I won't complain.
Posted By: G-Walla (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 01:12 PM
Posted By: CuntPuncher (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 06:39 PM
PC Gaming isn't dead, but PC Gamers are sure trying pretty damn hard to kill it. Fucking pirates.
Posted By: Guest#9695 (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 06:44 PM
WWE '12 is worth ur $60 its that good.
Posted By: alexander arce (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 06:59 PM
Good list. I may have to try WWE 12. Anyway about the DLC. My one complaint is that companies will put it out, but then later sell the freakin game with the dlc. So what is the point of buying the original game when the "game of year edition" will come out.
Posted By: Rob (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 07:04 PM
PC GAMING IS NOT DEAD
RTS, RPG, FPS.....Such a vast variety of genres!
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"I bought a PS3 solely becuase of WWE 12"
No, No you didnt, its not an exclusive game! If you said Metal Gear, maybe but you didnt, so lets keep the brocksucking to a minumum, please!
Posted By: Guest#4022 (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 07:07 PM
All I can say for the WWE lovers is keep riding that tired, old THQ cock.
WWE '12 was marketed as an entirely new game, yet it's Smackdown vs. RAW 2012. That didn't seem to bother anyone. If they released "Rock 'n Roll Fantasy" and said it wasn't Rock Band, but a bigger, better and badder game... then it turned out to be Rock Band 4, with the same sprites, controls, career mode and online mode, people would speak up. But no, not WWE/THQ players. For some odd reason these people gladly take it up the ass each and every year, despite the growing number of problems. Even reviewers aren't immune to this disorder. They never mention the important details, like the game-breaking glitches, exploits that make cheating easy by three-year-old standards, a broken, yes BROKEN, online system that one MUST PAY FOR and last but not least the game seems to have completely bypassed Microsoft's aggressive policy against hacking! How is that even possible? Everyone and their retarded sibling has invisible CAWs, stats into the 1000's and can win a match by pushing a button, and that button isn't "pin" after competing in a twenty-minute match, either. It's "up."
If Modern Warfare 3 came out and people couldn't find a friend's game, couldn't join a lobby, couldn't download any content and kept getting kicked back to the main menu when they tried to log on, they would complain, and Activision would then, in turn, fix the problems. Oh no, not WWE fans and THQ! These problems have been going on since 2004.
Two-thousand-and-four. The really crazy part is that they managed to carry these problems over to another system! I'll buy that they could have issues with PS2's online, since it wasn't built-in and all, but I refuse to believe that a game developer, in 2011, can produce a game with a non-functioning online mode. They should be shut down by the BBB for this shit, not praised for a Universe mode that is 60% imagination, 1% sloppy menu navigation and 39% loading!
So, again, keep riding that broken cock, and I hope you all experience these glitches, bugs, exploits and hacks for yourselves so you'll stop settling for mediocrity and, in turn, FOOLISHLY recognizing it as greatness.
Posted By: Engel (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 07:19 PM
"I refuse to believe that a game developer, in 2011, can produce a game with a non-functioning online mode."
QFT, if Nintendo can do functional online modes on their handhelds than it can't be that hard.
Posted By: Guest#4998 (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 08:25 AM
Posted By: Engel (Guest) on January 14, 2012 at 07:19 PM
U mad bro?
Got much hate inside?
GO take a wale with the stuffed pink unicorn you sleep with and relax.
Posted By: Guest#7183 (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 08:27 AM
"Sure, the gameplay is still largely the same"
If that's even remotely accurate, then I'm gonna pass. I hate SVR's gameplay with a passion.
Posted By: Guest#5065 (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 08:34 AM
Q. "Look at the 3DS, the DS launched with the same exact weak line-up and lackluster support and early implementation but everyone ate it up like cocaine laced hotcakes. What happened when Nintendo tried it again this year?"
A. The 3DS ended up having a more successful launch (in terms of sales) than the DS did. So the point you're trying to make is... what exactly?
"If those had come out a year or two after The Wii's big boom period than maybe these things would've meant something...but instead they didn't do diddly AT ALL last year and are all but forgotten simply because Microsoft and Sony were too ignorant to strike while the iron was hot."
Isn't the Kinect the fastest-selling consumer electronics product of all time? Isn't it the main (or even the only) reason why the Xbox 360 stayed ahead of the PS3 in lifetime sales, despite everyone claiming that 2011 was the year when the PS3 would finally overtake?
"Is it time to go to the future? Is it time to just create some weird new timeline?"
What, like Halo, Killzone, Resistance, and the millions upon millions of Halo clones? We got burned out on those games LAST generation. Future/alt timeline shooters were the big craze before WW2 shooters. Call of Duty is to this gen what Halo was to the last gen.
"Maybe a Steampunk shooter?"
What, like Damnation? Or do you mean a GOOD steampunk shooter?
"Will I be back next week or will you have your normal and more well liked host?"
Based on the above statements, let's hope for the latter.
Posted By: Guest#5037 (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 09:04 AM
Wow. This has to be the most poorly written article I've read. Period. On any subject and on any website. Just awful.
Posted By: Guest#3254 (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 05:17 PM
Wow. This has to be the most poorly written article I've read. Period. On any subject and on any website. Just awful.
Posted By: Guest#3254 (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 05:17 PM
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Have you read Enrique's poorly-researched Libertarian fantasy-land crap in the politics section?
Posted By: Scott B (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 07:13 PM
yeah DLC isnt a douchebaggy move.... righhhtt its the worst thing that has happened to gaming ever and drms and crap like that
Posted By: Guest#2808 (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 08:39 PM
Have you read Enrique's poorly-researched Libertarian fantasy-land crap in the politics section?
Posted By: Scott B (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 07:13 PM
Yeah that stuff is some of the worst crap on any website on the net, poorly written and even poorly researched. God love a country where you can get paid to be terrible at your job.
Posted By: Guest#1752 (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 10:03 PM
I would of strongly dissagreed with you over the PC games being dead at the start of last year but something changed an I ended up buying my first lap top an getting WoW an DC Universe Online. This is the first time in my 28 years on this planet that I can honestly say I've spent more time gaming on my PC this year than consol
Posted By: Pankakes (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 10:44 PM
Wow. This has to be the most poorly written article I've read. Period. On any subject and on any website. Just awful.
Posted By: Guest#3254 (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 05:17 PM
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Have you read Enrique's poorly-researched Libertarian fantasy-land crap in the politics section?
Posted By: Scott B (Guest) on January 15, 2012 at 07:13 PM
Oh, he's a terrible writer too, but at least he can spell and knows more than one adjective. Enrique's stuff is garbage because it's intellectually dishonest. This article is garbage becuase it reads like it was written by a 4 year old.
Posted By: Guest#6541 (Guest) on January 16, 2012 at 09:21 PM
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