{"id":73,"date":"2009-01-22T21:09:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T02:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2009-01-22T21:10:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T02:10:14","slug":"randomness-1-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Randomness #1: Waiting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think waiting is a far worse position to be in than failure, because at least with failure you can make a new plan and start picking yourself up from the floor.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBut I find myself in these last few days simply waiting for things to happen.<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nI&#8217;m waiting to hear back from nearly a dozen publishers, whom I&#8217;ve emailed on Spirits of Metropolis. So far, zero response. The sales on the main site are flat, and I need a portal\/publisher to really get going on the sales. But so far&#8230;nothing. I&#8217;m waiting on the new website\/art\/music from various people, all of whom are working on the content and have shown me some great stuff in progress. I&#8217;m waiting on the results from the GM Competition 04 so I can start promoting greenTech in a larger spectrum. Waiting waiting waiting. Sigh.<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nSince then I&#8217;ve been looking to see if there&#8217;s any game competitions I might be able to enter, but no luck. If anyone has any links they could throw my way, that would be awesome. Till then, I&#8217;ll be working on the backlog of Dead Space, Call of Duty: World at War (a much better game than COD4 honestly), some PSN games including the upcoming Flower (I hope I&#8217;m in the credits again!) and Fat Princess.<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<strong>Let&#8217;s laugh at chubigans #2,012: UMD Movie Reviews<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nDid you know I once had <a href=\"http:\/\/vertigogaming.net\/PSP\/\">a UMD movie review website<\/a>, and wrote over fifty UMD video reviews for IGN\/Home Theater Forum before the entire market crashed? UMD movies being those little carts you&#8217;d play on PSPs.<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vertigogaming.net\/PSP\/filler06.jpg\" alt=\"UMD Pics\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nWell I have to say that out of the 50+ reviews I wrote, I&#8217;m really proud of maybe six of them. And awfully embarrassed of the rest. Here&#8217;s some of my favorite quotes of mine:<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Schwarzenegger had Total Recall, and Stallone had First Blood. To miss either of these movies would be a shame since both present a fair amount of intelligence and depth.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;This movie has tons of hilarious dialogue, and I love the message it contains&#8230;guns are for fools. Use fists instead. &#8220;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;When the movie ended, as I walked out of the theater, I turned to my friend who had the exact same expression on his face:<br \/>\n&#8220;That movie&#8230;was AMAZING.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8230;wah&#8230;bah buh bee.&#8221;&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;So Blade is about Wesley Snipes who kills vampires. See, he&#8217;s a vampire also, but only has the good traits of Vampirum (that&#8217;s a word, yeah? Yeah!) which allows him to kill about twenty vampires a minute. But unfortunately, &#8220;Time&#8217;s runnin out&#8221; before Blade&#8217;s serum that allows him not to feed off humans is rejected by his body, in which case I don&#8217;t know what happens. He becomes an even nastier vampire I guess. &#8220;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nI never actually got compensated for those reviews, just all the free movies I could ever want. 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