Quest for Nostalgia!

So, lately I've been digging through my old games with great disgust. Seeing the piles of bad games, that I have no desire to play is sad, but that I found it. The greatest creation mankind has ever made. The N64! So I decided, to hook it up. By god, I've been spoiled by the decadence of new games, auto aim, auto run, I AM LAZY GAM3R!

I am looking into building my own comp, as you all know, but I am going to be recording consol gaming as well, to save on costs. You will defiantly be seeing me play retro games, and because my parents didn't buy me every new game when I was young, I only have 5 N64 games, so if you wanna send me some, i'll pay you! I just want to get as many games as I can for my old consol.

MrFidelmios V. Reddit

So upon the spark of curiosity, and the prodding of a friend I joined reddit. I figured here was a GREAT place to show my experience and I will have no holding back on what happened. This was a side note journal I kept to show you guys how my Reddit life went.

Day 1: Odd layout, confusing, impossible to find help page, impossible to navigate, rules page hidden.

Day 2:  Finding topics, and exploring. Found r/Gaming, turned off the comp early, didn't want to spoil the fun, wanted stuff to explore!

Day 3: Finding more and more topics, I LOVE THIS SITE!! 

Day 4: First Posting...

Day 5: First couple comments, made a few friends, and a few haters

Day 6:  Post got 5 downvotes, but why? 

I'm going to stop for a second a talk a bit about Reddit's Karma system. One can either up, or downvote a post, link, thread, comment ect. The overall number of number of up and downs are calculated and plopped on your user profile. This would be good, but it shows ANY post you've ever made, and since someone decided the best thing to do was allow someone to be able to downvote any thing without reading the actual post. So for example, I made a posting that hurt a hater, he downvotes 10 comments, I look like the jackass who has a -10 karma.

Day 7: Rest

(Cutting to weeks for benefit)

Week 2: My friend warns me about /r/Aethism. Obviously I must see what he is hiding from me. Let me say this: /r/Aethism is the largest bunch of people who enjoy bitching and being asses I have ever seen in my life. I do not know why, but the best thing they have to do is just complain about God, and show how science explains everything, and how people who complain about God are nothing more than ignorant fucks. Now I will say this: I believe in God, but I do not dare to question what is science and what is God. Now I am NOT closed minded, I welcome all scientific debates, and all arguments, but still they just..... they just complain about everything! (/rant)

Week 3: Posting In Aethism topic is not doing so hot, so far -3 downvotes. The topic was "Removing In God We Trust, from the US Currency." I said "Why? It's part of our history....". Of corse this was a kiss of death in Aethism. I got hated, and downvoted.  /r/Gaming getting old, and immature, wanting a different group of peers to talk to. I find /r/TrueGaming. They are a group to talk about games, abit more mature, and pretty funny. At least that was my first impression. /r/gaming is FILLED with Fallout Logics....

Week 4: Find /r/Slender, /r/nosleep, and /r/horror. Most stories are not scary, I laughed, but I liked the change of appearance. This week was the deciding week, if you will. I got my best grasp on the feel of how the groups were laid out. The only things I am seeing are Portal 2 Cakes, things I build because I'm a gamer, Greenlight, and Kickstarters. /r/Gaming is sad now, the immaturity is more frequent than I was led on to think, I was tricked by my friend! This place SUCKS. I find I am being forced to check my mail, and karma every hour! The more smart assey I am, the smaller my karma gets, but the jokes I say, are directed for no one in general. Than I hit the karma gold mine, I said "Personally, I get all the bitches with Link." 30 upvotes. DAFAQ?

Week 5: I am fed up with Reddit, if I go against the popular flow, introduce a new idea, I am shot down before I can make an intelligent statement. My Karma is at a standstill, at 41. I make a posting in both Gaming and TrueGaming. I ask them to generalize their complaints with the gaming industry, the responses I got were awful, people hated me asking an open ended question! How dare I ask a question to gamers, my fault, guess I'm not allowed to discuss games in a gaming forum! I was appalled! I decided the best thing to do was apologize, and slink back to my safety of /r/WTF and put my head between my knees and cry.

Total Anlaysis is still in progress, maybe I will find something to make me stay.

Current Analysis: Unorganized, slow, ad filled website. Many popular subreddits are filled with children, or people with trolling decent. While reddit can be used as a quick news soucre, many of the people on the site swim in the same direction, and attack anything that swims another way. The popular stuff gets upvoted, new stuff, downvoted, dirty/racist stuff upvoted, smart stuff downvoted, long stuff downvoted. Hey, I met some new people, and got a few subs out of it! :D

Subreddits to avoid: TrueGaming, Gaming, Aethism, Politics, Funny, and gamingsuggestions.

Whoops!

Well, a shit load of bad things have been happening back to back in my life lately. First off I lost my USB and I can't find it anywhere! It contained about 2 finished videos ready for upload, and one video that needed about 5 more minutes of editing. I need to find it! Like the intelligent sauve man I am, I kept the original files, and the post edit ones safe on my hardrive. I just have to re-export them to .mov files and we should be good again!

After that I have gotten bombarded with tests, and reading assignments, so I haven't recorded at all this week! I hate myself for it, but I love myself to much to do anything. The heat sink on my xbox is shot, so I have to crack it open and see if I can't fix it. I'll need a few hours and about $20 f canned air.

My next Late Night with Fidel will be all about The Reddit Reform. FYI. And if you love reddit now, don't go sending bad karma my way! :D

Late Night Talks With Fidel, #GonnaBeFun

I really enjoy these, they're fun,  I think i will keep doing them!