Its 9 am.   I wake up, I look around, I get depressed.   Something is missing.

Its 11 am.   I’m running errands.   I go to the supermarket, the drug store, and the bakery.   I’m not doing what I should be doing.

Its 1 pm.   I’m eating lunch.   I stare out the window.   Something is wrong.

Its 4 pm.   I start thinking about dinner.   I’ve already blown off the gym.   I need to be somewhere.   Where could it be?

Its 7 pm.   I’m eating dinner.   Its just some mystery meat that I found in the fridge, but fuck it, everything tastes good in a burrito wrap.   I don’t feel like myself.

Its 12 pm.   I go to bed, dreading waking to another day of feeling like there is a hole in my life.   Hopefully tomorrow will hold better tidings.   As it stands, November 10^th was a dull day.

November 11^th started like any other day.   I woke up knowing that today was a day of days.   What would it hold?   Would it be a great day or a terrible day?   Whatever the outcome is, the status quo was about to change.   For today of all days, Skyrim is released.

I hate doing reviews or write ups of game’s I haven’t completed.   Skyrim however is different.   I can’t complete it, it completes me.

Can a game be this perfect?   Lets take a closer look.

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We start this week’s walking dead with more flashbacks.   I don’t know if I’m softening or if its getting a little better, but I didn’t hate this flashback.   Of course it could be because it involved one of my fantasies, firebombing Atlanta.  So we’re treated with a little prequel about how our merry band started and then is off to the land of the dead.   Oh, almost forgot to add the heavy handed reminder that Shane banged Lori and told her and Carl that Rick was dead.   Can’t forget that, it might come up later.

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Looking at video games like a high school class, we see all the tribes are represented.   You have the Jocks, sports games.   You have the artsy kids, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Okami.   You have the music section with Rock band and similar music titles.   You have the nerds with their RPGs.   And finally we come to the FPS genre.   These are like the jock’s jocks.   They are the inner circle of meatheads that control their respective flocks.   Where does this leave Call of Duty?   It’s the captain of the wrestling team; all aggressive and arrogant.

Call of Duty is more than a game.   Its an institution.   Gamers come in shapes and sizes, and one thing they have in common is an opinion of the greatest selling franchise in history.   Love it or hate it, Call of Duty is here, and its here to bang your sister, steal your girlfriend, break up your parents, foreclose on your house and other seemingly douchebag things, and you will thank CoD for it.

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We’re greeted this week with a change from the norm.   No shitty voice overs, no terrible flashbacks, no cryptic visions of the future.   Our survivors converge and unite at casa de Green and hopefully puts an end to the jump cuts we were put through last week.   If this recap seems barebones compared to my others, its because nothing happened this episode … NOTHING!!   Seriously … if you have a friend who has not seen anything of Walking Dead, get them into the show, and when you expose them to season 2, skip this episode, they won’t know.

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OCTOBER 31st, Mutually Assured Destruction, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

“War …
War never changes…
Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing path with rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything, from God, to justice, to simple psychotic rage.”
-Ron Pearlman as the Narrator of Fallout

Here we are. We made it. I’m not going to lie, I fully expected to quit halfway through this thing. Through trials and tribulations, I managed to hang on. So here we go the final fear of Fear Fest.
MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction refers to a scenario in which one super power launches their nuclear stock pile. This creates a chain reaction that causes a retaliatory strike from one or more countries. If this happened between the US and Russia, there would be no need to include any other countries. We’d crack the Earth like an egg.

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We start this week’s episode with a simple scene.   Shane is shaving his head like it’s his first day in Leavenworth and he wants to suck up to the white supremacists.   Its short, it’s concise and it sends a clear message; “This is where the episode will end up.”   Then we are greeted with another voice over.   Rick is telling Lori a story about how Shane was a pimp in high school and he got all the ladies.   Great, he was O’Bannon, we get it, stop with the voice overs, you’re not Michael Westin.   This episode dealt with more storylines than any previous ones, so there was a lot of jumping around.   Because of that, this write up will also be jumping around, try to keep up.

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OCTOBER 30th, Irrational Fears

“I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.”
-Jeanette WInterson

Today we’re going to switch gears a bit. For the past month I’ve been picking one fear per day and running with that. Today we’ll quickly look at some irrational fears. I mean like the really weird fears … the kind that make you laugh. The kind of fears that when someone says they have it, you reply incredulously and probably lose a friendship. So, let’s dive right in.

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OCTOBER 29th, Vampires

“The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.”
-Garrett Fort

Vampires are everywhere. They are in our movies, they are in our books, they are in our children’s programs, hell they even sell us breakfast cereals. Metaphorically speaking, these creatures have lost their teeth. However there was once a time when these majestic creatures were more feared than cancer and aids combined.

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OCTOBER 28th, Ventriloquist Dolls

“Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! ’”
-Victor Hugo

First off, if you don’t think that these dummies are scary, something is wrong with you. Plain and simple. Philip K. Dick wrote a book by the name of “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Well, I can’t answer that, but these dolls do in fact dream of strangling you with piano wire. I’m not suggesting that you have to have full blown automatonophobia (fear of dummies, and wax or animatronic figures), you should at least be wary around them.

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OCTOBER 27th, Zombies

“Yea, I know I’m ugly … I said to a bartender, ‘Make me a zombie.’ He said ‘God beat me to it.’”
-Rodney Dangerfield

Today’s fear comes out of the world of horror stories and voodoo religions. Originally the term was meant to describe a person who was hypnotized or under a spell, it wasn’t until recent times that it was applied to animated corpses.

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