UGO offers a Gold Affiliate
status. It makes some of the more insecure affiliates feel good about
themselves. "Hey we're the gold team - what are you silver or bronze?"
It is this kind of witty remark that makes Erik bite his tongue. We're not
allowed to brag about it - we can't display it beneath our UGO fist or even mention it
more than once every ninety days - but we're on the platinum team. For those of you
that don't know, platinum is the implied Olympic medal you win by giving up your amateur
status and turning pro.
Our browsers display some Daily Radar pages on a
regular basis. Marvin wrote a program to automatically scan the site - no need for
us to actually read the content. It is a favor to UGO. It builds DailyRadar's
morale when they see our IP addresses in their logs. Today is only the second time I
actually read something on Daily Radar. I was prompted to read this piece
(go read it and come back) after one of our six forum posters posted an
article using one of his 35 aliases.
After reading the piece, I have come up with my own theory. I will keep in the same
vein of logic - the nonsense vein. For every year that PC games sales have shrunk -
I have grown older. Everyday that I come closer to statistically being dead, the PC
gaming industry suffers. At the current rate, PC gaming will be gone if I live
another 5 years.
For you. For the community. I pledge, I will take my own life in three years
if the PC game market is still in trouble. If my aging is the cause of the PC
game industry's slide - then barring the fountain of youth - I will take the most drastic
of measures to stop the slide (Erik already has dibs on helping so don't bother mailing). In
the meantime, I plan on enjoying every waking moment to the fullest. This means
unlike Jason Samuel I do not have the time to reformat
and respond
to each and every email that disagrees with me. If you still insist on sending
me an email, let me just paraphrase Jason in advance, "You are an idiot and
I am right."
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