First 8 days of 2009

There's this place called Bagiuo see, and It seems that among the people who I usually hang out with I was the only one that didn't get a chance to hang out there. Well, kinda. I wanted to go there years ago but I've been hearing that it really changed since becoming the top tourist spot of this country. I finally went over there since that was where the family wanted to spend new years eve and for three days I found out that it really was about the coldest place around here. It wasnt like that cold like how it is in the states or even japan, its just much more colder then any other place here, A cold I couldnt bear and even though on that one night, while I was waiting for my friend, my legs felt like they were icing up, It was a nice feeling mainly because I prefer layering up instead of just wearing a Tshirt.

So yeah, just hung out with my ex girlfriends friends, even felt sad because one of them has a boyfriend. well, not really that sad since duh, Id never be her type anyway.



01/06/2009

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3172156
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21759
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/06/assessing-the-damage-at-1up/



Quite the way to start the new year. When I heard rumors a month ago of 1up getting sold , I Thought that it would just be 1up moving house. Then I see this on the front page of pretty much my favorite gaming news site for the past 3 years. Not only that but Im losing my favorite gaming magazine. One that I have been reading since I was 6 or 7 years old. Not really reading, but just looking at the pretty screenshots mind you but still. Yeah it was around that age where I have this story relating to gaming magazines and how my mom didnt understand it at the time.

I had just bought 2 magazines after getting the friday night dinner of popeyes with my mom. I usually buy my mags near this one small mart with a few game cabinets hidden in some dark room. I had just gotten I think a Gamefan magazine with Killer Instinct on the cover. Where that dino dude is shooting a fireball from its mouth toward a ninja named jago. yeah. I cant help buy laugh at that. Anyway, browsed through that and also seeing screen shots of this really intresting game with some anime looking long red haired guy with huge hands that has a gem on the top of his hand flying around and fighting things. I dont know what that game is but I wish I actually read the thing to know it. Later that night in bed I woke up to use the bathroom and for some reason my mom who happend to be passing by my room thought that I had nightmares from reading all those magazines. All those magazines being probably about 12 diffrent magazines. Not really sure of the numbers but it was a heavy stack. In the morning I found out that my mom threw it all away.

Yeah not much of a story but awhile ago I tried to compare the feeling of my mom taking away my magazines to the feeling I have now concerning 1up / Egms sad state. But you just cant. When I saw the list of people getting laid off I just really couldnt believe it. You got Anthony Gallegos, Ryan O'Donnell, Shane Bettenhausen, Ryan Scott, and, FFS, James "Milkman" Mielke. According to twitter (yeah im new at that) Today would be the last day that they would be at the office and If I read correctly the Jan 09 issue would be the last Issue of the almost 20 year old Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine. With fucking wolverine on the cover. Really hope they can pull off a farewell issue. I really think they deserve it too. But since times are rough over there...

Internet killed everything I love. Well not really everything, just took away alot of things.

Ugh especially the magazine. I dont know whats up with me with mags. Even though I have internet access I dont complain about the 600 peso price tag I see when I want to pick up the latest (as far as latest around here goes) issue of whatever Im looking for. Whenever we go to a mall I just cant leave without checking out if my fave mags are at the store for me to pick up. Although I dont have the biggest collection of magazines since some got lost to the wind, I can say that im probably the only one amongst the people I know that are really big into magazines. Yes I can hear them when they tell me just search the net but theres just that something that pulls me into it. I dont know. Maybe Its the funnel effect that mags have, especially today where writing is everywhere on the net, its nice to have a medium that can help filter through all the rumors you read on the internet.

Its always been a dream for me to be able to work for a magazine related to gaming or music. However It seems that taking up that journalism course wont be helping me much since magazines are closing down or are on the brink. Besides, If I take up journalism Ill be forcing myself to only go for somethign thats gaming or music related. Also, I dont think I could keep up anyway. As you can tell by my posts Im not that good of a writer. Not good with keeping schedules too. Take note that ive been reading sicne I was young and this is all I can muster up? Maybe Ill finally know what my writing is capable of very soon.

I really dont know how this year will turn out for 1up and for the people that got laid off. But thats the exciting part. I have this little daydream where everyone from 1up past will all make a magazine or a site together and that would be so rad.