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In today's blog, The Original Ser starts getting ready to get down in Boston. Oh, and a rant. 

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It wasn't easy, oh no. Not easy at all to work today. In fact, I was down right defeatist about it. It was a hopeless, uphill battle that ultimately left my meager enthusiasm utterly annihilated. But I made it through my shift regardless. With a headache, but at least it's done.

PAX East is going to be pretty good this year, I think. Well, as good as it can be with only my Nikon D-3100, my four-year-old netbook and a small digital recorder (which is admittedly pretty awesome). But wait, there's more. 

The old girl still gots it. I hope.  

See, I registered for something called Buttoneering this year, and while I won't have so many buttons, it makes the ones I'm going to have pretty rare. Like a rare limited-edition collector's item. My wife (Daeruna) will have many more, since she's going for funsies. And if someone approaches me with her button or vice versa, they get the bonus Team Düo button. You might be able to pick out our designs from this lot. 

Speaking of rare collectors items, "wat tha fak" about the Pikachu Yellow 3DS XL, eh!? Apparently there's a whole six (literally!) allocated to the whole Halifax region for preorders and, uh... that's it. And they're all preordered. Welp, that's a no-go for me now, 'innit?

Actually, hold on. That tiny beef reminds me that I have a much bigger beef. Yeah, it's that Anita Sarkeesian thing. I watched the video and came away feeling miffed. Not just because her subject matter is ultimately a one-sided, skewed rant.  No, there was also a serious problem with her production. I wondered, often aloud, "Hey, where did all the Kickstarter money actually go?" With $160,000, I could make a person's head explode through creative visual panache alone and still have $150,000 left to vaporize the rest of them with sheer awesomeness. And I'm just one guy*! (*"Guy" meaning "person", not "Man".)

Just imagine if I had a hand-picked team of equivalently skilled assistants at my disposal. With $160,000 I easily could, and god damn, would it be incredible. 

Meanwhile, Tropes vs. Women in Video Games falls severely flat, feeling more like a long, drawn-out sermon - seemingly designed to guilt the male population who watches it into some kind of matriarchal submission -  with plain sound and a drab visual presentation. I won;t be watching the rest of it. Simply put, it's garbage. Yeah, I went there. And yeah, I could definitely do (and have already done, according to some,) better with next to no capital at all.

But the thing that really bothers me is that her videos - literally paid for by a specific audience - are entirely censored via comments and ratings being disabled. There's no rebuttal, no counterpoints, just what she says and that's it. I'm sorry, but uh, no. Big faux-pas. Doing that essentially invalidates any argument she could make, since there's no way to challenge or correct any of her (seemingly-numerous) misinformed judgements.

Not that it means much coming from a "pig" like me though, right? 

Oink-oink, binches. 

 

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