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About Me

First off is my highest honour -- my shit on the front page of Destructoid.


I was born back in the days of yore, when 3-D graphics were only a dream.

I like games.

Super Nintendo had to be one of the best consoles. Mario, Metroid, Link, Kirby, Donkey Kong and everyone else came to the party. Good times.

I own a Super Nintendo, N64, Gamecube, Wii, PS1, PS2, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, and a DS.

I regret missing some of the good old days, back in the early 90's, because I was too young to appreciate a good game when it smacked me in the face. Such is the folly of youth.

Somedays I wish I could have lived through such tumultuous times, what with the advent of Spandex tights and Rap, but then I think that it is much better to live longer and be younger than all of you people who did enjoy Super Metroid and Mario Kart in it's heyday and just be content with an emulator and a Xbox 360 controller.


Favorite Games: Mario series, Donkey Kong Country/64, Metroid series, Legend of Zelda series, Fable, Halo series, Shadow of the Colossus, GTA series, God of War 1 and 2, Morrowind, Oblivion, Tales of Symphonia, Final Fantasy X, Banjo Kazooie/Tooie and more that I can't recall.


Send me a friends request if you dare, just send a message telling me you're from Destructoid so I don't think you're a 63 year old pedophile masquerading as a teenage girl to lure gullible, young boys to your basement. And if that description both fits you and you are from Destructoid then expect to recieve my home phone number and address.

Update: One year later

New games I would add to my favorites are Gears of Wars series, Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Bioshock (hey, I was playing it when I joined!), and other games I cannot recall. Some games I have loved for a long time but forgot to list over a year ago are Rome: Total War, the top Mario games, and the main Pokemon GB games. The rest escape me at this time.



So these days God no longer compels you to blog, Atlas is Fontaine, and generally speaking I am pretty well known around these parts. (I hope) I regret not joining Destructoid sooner, when I first had the chance with a link from Chad Concelmo's IGN blog. Even he was born in the primordial soup IGN was, or so it would seem. I no longer frequent there or other gaming sites except from time to time because Destructoid is hopefully my internet home from here on out. A great place to be, cheers to another year at Destructoid!

Update: Another year later

Okay, so year three isn't going that great. I haven't blogged for six months and have barely visited the site. In fact, it is nearly November and my 2 years happened almost 2 months ago in early September. Damn life, going outside into the real world is time consuming! I haven't even turned on a videogame since April... (until just recently!) But of course I haven't forgotten about Dtoid; THE GREATEST SITE ON THE WEB! Sorry Dtoid, I will try to live less and Dtoid more.

Update: Another few years later

So life hit me... I still visit this site when I can... to think I started visiting this site when I was 15, and made an account two weeks after I turned 16... I'm 20 now, Destructoid is practically part of my life story at this point, even if I disappear for years at a time. Still, I remember the good old days, the days when Dtoid was like the Wild West, when I was at my most active, and when we would open the gates of Hell in our mischief, always walking on the edge of the banhammer. Now I'm just an ancient, obscure memory to the last surviving cowboys, a group even to this day I feel I'm a part of. Still, I raise my glass to you. Good times Destructoid, good times!

Oh, and to a few of us oldsters, Atlas is Fontaine.

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Blizzard unleashes an underhanded way to profit millions from World of Warcraft Atlas | 3:10 AM on 10.24.2011 12 comments

World of Warcraft has been around for nearly a decade. In that time millions of accounts have been created, and many more billions of characters, now completely inactive, have been created, taking up space and money. And now Blizzard has found a way around this huge drain on their resources. Blizzard guaranteed your characters and account would remain saved indefinitely, even if you stopped paying subscription fees. Many players took breaks of months, or even years to come back when new expansions came out, and spend once more on WoW subscriptions. But what about those players that didn't come back, the players whose data is saved on Blizzards' servers and costing them money? Well, I reveal to you a little known secret. Blizzard has been systematically deleting old accounts, and breaking their initial agreement to keep them saved. But how could they do this, without alarming WoW enthusiasts everywhere? Well, with an extremely suspicious email, that's how. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear customer, It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal World of Warcraft account(s). As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees. If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership. You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with: https://www.battle.net/account/support/password-verify.html Login to your account, In accordance following template to verify your account. * Account name * Account password * First and Surname * Secret Question and Answer Show * Please enter the correct information If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently. Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation. Regards, Account Administration Team World of Warcraft , Blizzard Entertainment 2011 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You see, Blizzard has selected easy-to-attack accounts and sent their owners emails. Emails that state that their WoW account is suspected to have been for sale or sold recently. But here is the problem. Most of these accounts have been defunct for years... how would they be for sale over the internet, if they have been sitting undisturbed for half a decade? Who is interested in outdated accounts with a few characters at lvl 60, with old equipment? Nobody! And so Blizzard sends out emails, mostly to long abandoned emails, and gives them extremely short notice to give Blizzard personal information to save their account. You have to tell them your name and answer a secret question... Like that would not also be passed along if an account was actually sold! The result is this. Blizzard gets to dump millions of old, dusty accounts, and save a small fortune on the space it takes to save them. And you may ask why that matters? Well, as an old WoW user, I have dedicated a large amount of time to my account, back 6 years ago. I was considering going back to that old account, until I see Blizzard has used a deceptive path to delete it. The truth is right in front of us: Blizzard tricked me and millions of others to break the promise they made, just to save a buck... Shame on you Blizzard, now you are just another model of corporate deception and greed.