As of this writing I will no longer be gaming online under the moniker of ToxicGoblin. Henceforth I shall be known to the anonymous Xbox Live masses as FREMENLAW (a.k.a my email address). Why you ask? Well I'll tell you, it's because as of last month my american Live subscription has expired so I am now offically a Euro gamer. Inorder to play online, which I must do, I finally had to break down and purchase a new euro Xbox Live account to go with my new euro xbox. Apparently you cant use european VISA cards on american accounts. A fact I was introduced too only recently. At first I was a bit bummed, I mean now all my hard work aquiring the meager gamerscore I did have would all be for naught. Then the more I thought about it the more I realized how trivial the whole gamerscore idea had become anyway. I mean I generally play games for fun not acheivements so it's never really mattered to me how high my score was and with guys already out there with 6 digit scores I'm surely not trying to keep up with the jones this generation. At least that's how I intend to rationalize it.The plus side is that at least I get to keep my original profile and gamerscore as a reminder of what acheivements I have earned. It just means that I probably wont be displaying any gamercards on the forums anytime soon.

Recently my wife bought me my first HDTV. I say first because I hope to buy another larger one in the future specifically for our living room. As it turns out the one she bought me was for my gaming pleasure and is setup in my room (a room dedicated to my art, gaming and other passions). I'm glad that after all these years of video gaming I finally get to play games the way they were meant to be played, or at least the way I keep hearing they're meant to be played (personally I never really had a problem with SDTV so long as the screen was fairly large). I'm sure by most accounts I'm pretty late to the party but oh well, better late than never. Another bonus is that the tv now acts as my computer monitor which is awesome and a bit unexpected. I knew people used HDTV's as monitors but I really thought you had to buy a specific kind or something. Shows how much I know. Anyway I think it's pretty cool since now I can play Total War games on a huge screen. I'm not ready to go all Blu-ray yet but I'm happy to have finally made the jump from SD to HD.

So I log onto to good ol' gamespot and notice that I have one message. I rarely get messages so I check it immediately (to see what anonomous person is tracking me now) only to find that it's a not so friendly message from the higher ups at gamesspot informing me that I have just been modded. Apparently I posted something in the forum someone arbitrarily didnt like so they modded me and awarded me with a point loss. I'm pissed off about it but I know there's nothing I can say or do about it without risking further reprisals from those on high. Hell I'm probably risking suspension just blogging about it. I know that they're only "doing they're jobs" but it still sucks. I suppose it's like a cop that accidently shoots a kid then swears up and down that he saw a gun and therefore was only doing his duty.