Wow.

I have not provided a substantial update to this place in so long, it is starting to look tired, sad and neglected.

For the past hour or so, I’ve been sitting and contemplating which topics would be readily available to write about, but nothing truly interesting is coming to mind.

As mentionned earlier, I appear to have run head-on into one of my trademark depressive states that is often coupled with an utter lack of initiative to do anything. Generally, it seems such moods approach at the dawn of the summer. Perhaps I have some opposition to the warmer months of the year, or maybe my mind is generally irritated by the unrelenting heat and annoying insects that come with the warmer months.

Nevertheless, I do wish to maintain this blog and keep it alive and kicking, so to speak. However, with my current state of apathy and my surprising disenchantment with video games, I wonder if regular posting on this blog will become…irregular.

Over at the Red Card Group, it seems that we’ve all given up. Our podcast was never anything truly special, and I think that once we established that it could simply be done, we neglected to improve it. And so, it slowly slid backwards and downwards until we reached Podcast #5, where one of our members was absent, and half of the attendees were detached from the recording and its topics.

It is currently being debated what the future of the Red Card Group will be. Personally, I don’t mind it being a network of blogs. Bearing that in mind, perhaps we should readily welcome other people into our little net of users including a reintroduction of Klaver, and perhaps extending offers to Caleb or Liam or something. Who knows? Personally, I’ve grown tired of the podcast. It feels like we’re not doing anything. At least when I blog, I get a few comments, and I get the general impression (or I can at least pretend) that I have a dedicated readership. When it comes to our audio podcast, I don’t even think we - the hosts - listen to the final product after it is released.

So, perhaps we should merely become a network of bloggers. One thing I’ve wanted is a change of name. The Red Card Group is not the best choice of name, as it doesn’t really mean anything. The name is truly random, and bears no significance to anything. I don’t even know how we decided that it would be the moniker we push forward with. If memory serves, it may have been the result of web domain availability.

Anyway, I think we should scale back and become a network of enthusiastic bloggers. Maybe contemplate a name change in the future. Have the Red Card Group evolve into something else…DataDyne Industries or something.

Well, that’s all. This post has lost my interest.

Wow. I thought I’d be okay with her not going to prom with me until the day arrived.

For all of Friday, I felt like complete and utter shit.

And it has miraculously carried over into Saturday.

Can I ask the readership if I’m making too much of a big deal out of this? Or am I right on the money with being sad and disappointed?

Why is dating so strangely structured? It is truly engineered to work against those of us with a shy nature. The first step is summoning the courage to approach or engage in conversation with a girl. That is truly difficult as it is, and - for me - only worked out due to a ridiculously timed conversation that just happened to work out in my favour.

After asking a girl out, you begin to see eachother more and more frequently. While “going out” may be incredibly enjoyable, it is really just a long and complex evaluation process as they examine traits about you that they like and don’t like.

Following this peculiar phase, the evaluation is completed, and the proper paperwork is filed to make the relationship official. Now, apparently, you are legally recognized in Canada and the United States as boyfriend and girlfriend.

And, this is as far as I’ve gotten. I find the structures surrounding dating to be so wierd. I mean, do I have to apply for a relationship renewal in six months? Should I be carrying some I.D. card?

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Hurray! It’s finally catching on.

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Apparently little Jimmy Harris accessed his school’s wireless network using his PSP and downloaded pornographic pictures. Moreover, he displayed them (on a dare) in his school library to a gaggle of his friends. Not the brightest move, as he has now been grounded for a month and given an in-school suspension.

I love Fox’s coverage on it though. I mean…pulling the pictures “out of thin air” sounds like quite an impressive feat, and seems to really be hammering home a bit of tactical scaring. Yes, the PSP can access dirty pictures over a wireless network. So can a laptop, or computer. A kid can also see “girlie magazines” in convenience stores. Hell, we carry Maxim, FHM and others at Zellers, and 10-14 year old boys are always stealing them. If kids stay up late enough, they can see porn on CityTV. Porn is so easily accessible to children that the PSP would be the last place I’d expect them to go to. I mean…as far as using a 7” screen on a portable gaming system to access your schools wireless network seems kind of…tedious. Set your VCR to record CityTV between 1 and 3, and you’re golden. :P

I’m just wondering why the school doesn’t have an encrypted wireless network. Or, why accessing pornography on their network wasn’t halted by some sort of firewall service, or something retarded like NetSweeper. They’re elementary school kids…I’m sure they couldn’t figure out a McGyvered way to bypass things like NetSweeper. Also…wouldn’t they want their network protected from outside wireless access? What prevents some pedophile from coming along and lifting all of the kids addresses from the schools network files? If you ask me, parents should be worrying about that a bit more.

Read up on a new lineup of DS launch dates. It is worrisome that most of the items on the list are Touch Generation, or “mainstream”, titles. Nevertheless, there are some interesting dates listed below. Nintendo DS June 5: Big Brain Academy (TG) June 5: Magnetica (TG) June 11: Nintendo DS Lite June 26: Sudoku Gridmaster (TG) Aug. 28: Star Fox DS Sept. 18: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team Sept. 25: Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis Oct. 9: Clubhouse Games (TG) Oct. 30: Children of Mana

The Nintendo DS Lite will be hitting store shelves on June 11. This has me so excited, but due to my illness, I have not been able to go to the nearest EB Games and fork over a fiver for a pre-order. Before I purchase a DS Lite, I definitely need to try and sell my PSP and original DS. Since I only paid 100 bucks for my PSP, I should - in theory - make a profit on the resale of this kickass Giga Pack (with everything still in one piece).

The DS Lite looks so awesome though. I’m hoping to pick it up in the rumored New Mario Bros bundle pack that has been alluded to. So, as a result, I have not purchased the game yet.

And I’ve been looking at buying an 8GB Creative MP3 player. They’ve got a big colour screen like the iPod (about the size of the discontinued Mini), but the price per gigabyte is so sweet. The 2GB Nano costs 249.97. This 8GB Creative Micro costs 239.97 (I believe…they’re around the same price).

It’s insane. And I do want an MP3 player that is smaller than the PSP.

Starfox DS will be the last game I get before university. You know, provided I have money then.

And finally, a release date for Children of Mana. I’ve been waiting for so long, it had better receive good reviews or else - rage.

Ken Kutaragi strikes me as someone who is either an idiot, or - perhaps - just completely oblivious.

I mean, he and Sony are constantly plugging the Sony Playstation 3 as “God’s ideal choice for a video game console” when, technically, it will not have a large advantage over the XBox 360, and since they’ve stripped it of everything, the Playstation 3 has become a bit of a joke.

The Playstation 3 is not a gaming machine. It’s a Playstation 3. What a bullshit reason to buy such an over-priced system. I mean, really…What kind of bullshit is that?

“Hey, we can price it whatever we want, as long as we point out that we’re not just a video game company making a video game system!”

“But, we are just a video game company making a video game system.”

“Oh, fuck.”

Bad post…I’m sick. Sorry.