I just found out an interesting fact about my grandpa through a local newspaper article:
| Article wrote: |
| "I've been president of the local Atari group since the 1980s," he said. When asked why there was only a Wii system visible in front of his television, he emphatically replied, "That is my wife's Wii. Definitely, not mine." |
My grandpa is the only person I know who had an Atari Jaguar. We'd bust it out on holidays and gawk at teh grafix. Then the N64 came out and we ridiculed the Jaguar's supposed 64-bitness. Puny Atari.
I had no idea that he was the president of the Michiana Atari Club, or even that such a thing existed. He talks about it in the present tense, so I assume it's still around. I wonder what they do when they meet..... I'll have to ask him on Easter.
I'm hanging up my badge and various GS-engraved sticks today, after nearly ten years of off-and-on moderatorship.
The main reason is that I just don't feel like my help is necessary any more. I'd rather be able to browse the forums -- well, let's be honest, browse the Wii forum -- without having to worry about whether replying in a certain thread or to a certain post would be considered hypocrisy, without having to worry about reading threads that I don't care about just because I know there will be hostility that needs to be monitored.
Basically, I'd just like to be a regular user. I don't have any major problems with the moderation team or anything like that, and I don't think I'm going out with any bad blood. I've actually been planning to do this over the past year, and now the time seems right.
I have to add that it was fun while it lasted, and I learned a helluvalot about people and life in general through being a moderator. It gave me invaluable experience in leadership, working with a team, customer service.... I've spent a lot of time interacting with people - real people - because of moderator responsibilities, and I don't think any of that time was a waste.
Recently, there have been some complaints in the Wii forum that five to six hours of gameplay is too short for a $50-game. These complaints are based on the reviews of Deadly Creatures, which generally place the game at less than ten hours, and previews of MadWorld, specifically at IGN, which places the game at five to six hours.
These time estimates don't take replayability into account, in the sense of exploration, unlockables, multiplayer, and even simply playing through the game multiple times. This is nothing new, but people seem to think that the time it takes from the start of the game to the credits is the maximum play time we can get out of a game, when that's (pretty clearly) the minimum.
So please, consider these things before getting discouraged and letting everyone know about it when other people say that a game isn't as long as you expected.
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