ThirdMarioBro
09-21-2010, 11:41 PM
No, not from the Technodrome. :P Did you really think for even a second I would leave after all the sh8t we've been through together?
You might have noticed lately that I've been a little bit more emotional than the regular overreacting douchbag you've come to love or hate. Well, please forgive me as I had my reasons to stress over the past couple of weeks.
As of about ten minutes ago, I am no longer in the gaming media. Kombo is shutting its doors at the end of the month. A combination of staffing conflict issues/money issues resulting from the recession did us in. I'm not exactly unemployed as I never dropped my daily job since I didn't expect this fun ride to last forever (especially in this convoluted gaming media market and broken economy), but I did a HELL of a lot over the years to get that position and keep it as long as I did. I'm proud of that. It was a childhood dream.
I got to meet all my idols, including a few special and priceless moments I didn't expect). I hugged Shigeru Miyamoto and then bugged him about putting Block Fort in Mario Kart DS. I hummed the Mario theme with Koji Kondo in person. I crashed an episode of the Totally Rad Show, and sneaked into an EA sponsored The Who concert. As for my favorite memory? I went out for a long and unforgettable night of drinking and E3 party crashing with Lady Gaga (a truly wonderful human being) after bumping into her incognito at the Capcom booth this year at E3. She had ditched that 6 million dollar Activision concert at The Staples Center because she didn't want the blood money of the employees they had laid off to pay for the event. Most people couldn't imagine some of the wild sh*t I've gotten away with. I was truly blessed and have no regrets, or any reason to feel sorry for myself.
As it stands, I likely won't be getting another job writing about games somewhere else. It's too easy to pay teenagers peanuts to blog about how much Bobby Kotick sucks mammoth gorilla balls than it is to pay somebody with experience. Too much demand, too few positions. I'm probably going to wind up going back to school and getting into political writing at some point, but for now I once again return to my proud status as an eternally recovering Nintendo fan and core gamer. Hey, now that I'm not writing anymore, I have time for more fun sh*t.
Mind if I come home guys?
Cowabunga Dudes,
-Lucas
You might have noticed lately that I've been a little bit more emotional than the regular overreacting douchbag you've come to love or hate. Well, please forgive me as I had my reasons to stress over the past couple of weeks.
As of about ten minutes ago, I am no longer in the gaming media. Kombo is shutting its doors at the end of the month. A combination of staffing conflict issues/money issues resulting from the recession did us in. I'm not exactly unemployed as I never dropped my daily job since I didn't expect this fun ride to last forever (especially in this convoluted gaming media market and broken economy), but I did a HELL of a lot over the years to get that position and keep it as long as I did. I'm proud of that. It was a childhood dream.
I got to meet all my idols, including a few special and priceless moments I didn't expect). I hugged Shigeru Miyamoto and then bugged him about putting Block Fort in Mario Kart DS. I hummed the Mario theme with Koji Kondo in person. I crashed an episode of the Totally Rad Show, and sneaked into an EA sponsored The Who concert. As for my favorite memory? I went out for a long and unforgettable night of drinking and E3 party crashing with Lady Gaga (a truly wonderful human being) after bumping into her incognito at the Capcom booth this year at E3. She had ditched that 6 million dollar Activision concert at The Staples Center because she didn't want the blood money of the employees they had laid off to pay for the event. Most people couldn't imagine some of the wild sh*t I've gotten away with. I was truly blessed and have no regrets, or any reason to feel sorry for myself.
As it stands, I likely won't be getting another job writing about games somewhere else. It's too easy to pay teenagers peanuts to blog about how much Bobby Kotick sucks mammoth gorilla balls than it is to pay somebody with experience. Too much demand, too few positions. I'm probably going to wind up going back to school and getting into political writing at some point, but for now I once again return to my proud status as an eternally recovering Nintendo fan and core gamer. Hey, now that I'm not writing anymore, I have time for more fun sh*t.
Mind if I come home guys?
Cowabunga Dudes,
-Lucas