Let me introduce myself.

Hi, I'm Matt. I'm a gamer, so I hate everything that moves, want to destroy everything, think I'm invincible, spend all my time playing Xbox, steal and am generally not a nice person. In my spare time, I also hang around in the dark, with a hoodie and a machete trying to scare off the locals.

Well, at least that's what the press will force you to think. I mean, videogames are huge at the moment, but do you really have to blame everything on them? If there's some sort of attack on a person, or insult or anything, The Daily Mail will just blame it on Gamers with no real thought. If there's a crime, Gamers were behind it. Gamers are the scurge of society, like shooting things and should be avoided at all costs. That's just not true, and it's about time the bastards realised the fact.

I play videogames to unwind, much like people watch soap operas (urgh) to escape from the real world for a few hours. It makes me no different a person for doing so. In fact, we did a study in Psychology the other day about Violent media and Aggression, and as it turns out, there's really no difference in Aggression levels and watching or playing violent stuff on your Xbox.

If anything, I reckon it makes you even less aggressive - people can exert their anger safely into the games, and relax much more than if they didn't, and had to keep the anger stored inside them. Even so, not all video games are violent, in fact very few are these days. Go look down the isles of any major game shop, and there'll be the usual violent games, and then there'll be shedloads of ones that aren't violent in the slightest. There's Call of Duty, and Halo, and Battlefield mainly, and these seem to clog up the headlines with how they're turning kids into murderers, and it's just not true. I've seen people be more violent after playing Mario Kart than a particularly tough round of Halo.

I could go on forever, but I'm going to end it there. Please, if you're anti-gamer and look down on us like the scum of the Earth - don't. And if you're from the Daily Mail - I wouldn't even use your newspaper to put out for my dog to relieve itself on.

KEEP TROLLIN TROLLIN TROLLIN TROLLING

Der Svine floo has subsided, and it's business as usual on here. [Disclaimer, I had slight depression, lack of sleep and a bad cold, not to mention a chest infection and stuff, not Swine Flu.]

I just saw a news report on Trolls on Youtube, courtesy of Fox News (Slow news day much) and It made me think about Trolling on The internets for a second, and then completely disregarded it. I mean, trolls are the equivalent of bullies, but unlike real life you can turn the computer off, or delete the comments. I know there are people who are affected by trolls, but it's often not as bad as IRL 'trolling'. I know this.

Besides, I think the hilarity of comments that the trolls say, and how the insults are thrown back can be quite funny, provided nobody takes it to heart, and besides - it's the internet, it's not SRSBSNS. I've been trolled before, and if you just ignore it and laugh at the trolls, you can have a bit of fun at the Troll's expense. It's a sort of good thing that it's turned into a meme of sorts, because you can apply TrollFace to most pictures for hilarity's sake and you'll get some pretty funny results.Speaking of which...

Aww yeh.

Also, shout out to Noodle Link for highlighting my Blogger/Thread on the ONM GAAW magazine, it's really appreciated and made my day :D

Why Muse are awesome

Well, other than the fact that they have some of the greatest songs known to mankind.

In particular, Matt Bellamy's guitar playing is something I've noticed - Songs like Plug in Baby or Feeling good are extremely catchy, but relatively easy to play for a moderately experienced guitarist, and like in my case, made me want to pick up a guitar and just learn the songs, and is much the same with the song's very catchy drum beats, courtesy of Dom, the band's Drummer. Same goes with Chris' Bass playing, but the Bass in most Muse songs is like OMGWTFDIFFICULTMUCH?!, Even if it does sound pretty amazing.

They've also got a great sense of humor as well, the most recent I remember being the 'protest' in which they all switched places when told they had to mime Uprising, in which they all basically took the piss, and was all very hilarious.

Also, If you're reading this, Muse (Lol, I bet - They've got much cooler things to do than look at obscure internet blogs) but I'm really looking forward to the next album you guys make.
Can has free tickets for live show now? ;)

Facebook is the root of all problems.

Just kidding, I love Facebook most of the time, except when everyone's liking each other statuses because they get the 'in jokes' then there's me posting extremely clever videogame references and theyre all "WTF is he on about?"

So yeah, aside from that, and the POS profiles (There's a reason I didn't apply the new profile when I was first asked, assholes) Facebook's alright. Just please stop cutting off half of the pages that people like, they're sometimes funny but you have to click on them to see the full thing, damn it.

The thing I do hate on the internet is Youtube. It's a video sharing website that does it's job, but does absolutely nothing to help up-and-coming channels, like mine. I've already posted a few reviews and gameplays, but non of them have been viewed over 10 times in the 3 months that they've been up (minus my Halo Wars Mega Bloks review that just hit 1k) and if you get flamed early on by trolls, it's unlikely you'll recover and so you have to make a new account (as I also had to do). It's also full of no good bastards who think they're better than you at everything. I got a kid saying "clip is shit" on all of my videos, one being a 20 second Search and Destroy round which is pretty good for me, so I went on his channel to return the favour, and he posts frigging 20 kills to 40 death games on Domination with no commentary - HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT I'M CRAP?!

But anyways, enough on that, Duke Nukem Forever got a release date this week, so whilst everyone's partying like it's 1999, I'm going to go and hide - I now owe a lot of people stuff.

Videogames are the root of all problems.

No, seriously.
Now, I am a gamer but I didn't intend to be. I started playing my Gameboy colour at a very young age, and it's sort of carried on since there. It reached a Peak (I think) when I got Halo 3 and I'd play for hours and hours on end. This, of course meant that whilst everyone else was out getting real life friends, I was boosting up my Xbox Live friends list, and killing the covenant.
This is one of many things which I blame for my lack of IRL skills and confidence and shizzle, but as you can tell, I'm not afraid to vent things onto the internet - such is the mind of a nerd.

I don't quite understand why I'm rejected by people in real life as much as I am, but I'm pretty sure it's something to do with the whole 'outsider groups' thing. My best friends are gamers, yet as I go into further years of Education, there's fewer and fewer gamers, since everyone's out getting drunk, or going to parties because they actually have friends.

My 'parties' are Xbox live ones, and as such I find all this really depressing, for one that I've probably got more Xbox friends than real ones. Another is that the majority of my somewhat friends have really close friends or even girlfriends (yeah, girls avoid me, no guesses why) and then there's me who just talks to people over the internet.

Even down to progress in other things like my guitar (I began learning in the hope that people would notice my existance more, they do slightly) or my exams, Videogames seem to have caused so much crap that they shouldn't be worth the hassle.

Damn you, videogames.

I have a blog.

Let the rants commence.