My inbox has received a lot of emails from people and/or unions I've never heard of, about friend requests, union recruitment and the like. So from now on, I would seriously appreciate people following these simple guidelines:

1. If you want to be my friend, I will probably accept you, but if you want to really impress the socks off me, send me a short private message when you send the friend request. Nothing major, just explain how you know me, because it kind of freaks me out to see people I have never heard of wanting to be my friend, and then trying to figure out what impressed them enough to friend request. The "PM" button is right next to the "friend request button", so it's not a lot of extra effort.

2. When you invite me to a union, again, leave a quick private message explaining why.

3. Invite me to a union once. If I don't join right away, it means that a) I haven't checked my mail, or b) I don't want to join that union.

Thank you in advance for following these rules. I won't do something stupid like put you on my ignore list if you fail to follow these rules, but by following these rules, you make my experience that much more enjoyable. I usually follow these rules myself, so they're not impossible to follow. Thanks again.

I was looking through the old Gamespottings, and I realized what void has been left behind after the cessation of Gamespotting. There is now less ability for the average Gamespot user to make his or her opinions known. A long running benefit of Gamespotting was its guest columns, and towards the end, this trend grew with featured guest journal spots and game reviews. I miss those, because they were the perfect way to keep community involvement high. I believe Gamespot should rectify this with a "Spot-light" feature to show the best of what is going on in the forums, in the journals, in the unions, and so on.

Thanks everyone who reads it!

You are all rocking!

Rock on!

(This is the least coherent thing I have ever written. Next time I promise to make more sense.)

I saw the thing that goes something like:

98% of teens have tried smoking pot.

If you're one of the two percent who hasn't, copy and paste this into your sig.

I think that figure is a little off, I can't think of anyone I know who has actually smoked pot. I think 98% sounds like a figure taken from either: a) a study where they asked the sort of people who think it's fun to give wrong answers on these kinds of tests, or b) a study that was biased in an attempt to sway public support in favor of pot.

Oh, and for the record, I don't smoke pot and never have, so I'll probably stick this in next time I change my signature.

Also, my old sig, for those who are curious:

Here comes a* new challenger! YOU MUST CRUSH THEM**!
*Singular **Plural

Also, since my current sig will probably be taken out eventually, I will post it here for posterity:

The Raven, Gamespot Style

Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered, weak and weary
Over many a webpage of games I had long forgot
As I looked around the 'Net I suddenly was disappointed
For the fine and friendly folk who run a website called Gamespot
Had written beside a game I long had waited for
Game's Release Date: Nevermore

And for the record, someone whose name I forget has a signature which begs the question: If your sig contains a large picture of a rotating PSP, a smaller, animated picture of a PSP, and an animation of some guy mistaking a DS for a toilet, do you really not see the hypocrisy in including a sig tag that says "fanboy hater" in the same sig?! Just thought I'd ask.

(Note the well-placed interrobang!)

I'm getting a little frustrated here, because I wrote all these articles, and I don't know if anybody has even taken the time to read them...nobody cares what I think *sniff*.

Actually, I'm okay, just, if you read my journal, put a comment at the end of an article, even if you just comment at the end of this one something short like "Hey I read your journal". Thanks.

Also, as a point of interest, I just found out there's a name for that thing with ?!, it's called an "interrobang". Not sure if it gets a name the other way around, as !?, but "interrobang" is my new favorite English word, narrowly edging out "detonation", "macadamia", and "electrifying".