I hope everyone’s had a wonderful holiday season and I wish you all a happy and prosperous 2011.
A little over a year into this new blog and I’m liking what I’ve been able to do thus far. Especially in terms of making videos down the road, it’s a lot more flexible than what I’ve been using in the past and I can appreciate that. In regards to the video front, I guess it’s safe to say that more is coming. I’m starting to get the hang of this Vegas software that a friend managed to get me and I certainly appreciate most comments coming along the way… while others… well, such is the nature of the beast.
Back on the old DTM Blog, I used to do a quick lookback on a year, primarily some of the highpoints and lowpoints that were worth my attention during the past year. Now we’re slowly approaching 2011 and thus it’s time to look back on some winners and losers of 2010.
2010 has been a relatively crummy year for me personally; I spent the better part of it looking for work after getting laid off from my old job. And for the most part, spent months doing nothing at home until a couple months ago where I got another job… which is actually less than stellar, but I guess I should be glad to have any work at all. In any case, not the best year for me.
But while things may have been on the low end of things personally-speaking, I can take solace in the fact that I’ve got family, I’ve got health, and I’m not as far as I could have been. So I suppose I can’t complain too much.
But that would defeat the purpose of this listing. So let’s begin, shall we?
I normally wasn’t going to touch on this because it’s not really worth the effort. And some time has already passed. But… I figure I throw my two Canadian pennies in and talk about some guy that I have a bone with.
Joe Vargas… also known as Angry Joe.
Now here’s a guy whose “popularity” is a complete and utter mystery to me, because he doesn’t look like anybody interesting – just some doofus with a greenscreen. To be fair, I checked out a couple of his vids and got nothing out of it. He sounds annoying, he’s not remotely funny, his greenscreen effects are distracting at best, and for a guy who calls himself “Angry” Joe, he doesn’t seem all that angry. So… yeah. Not exactly someone I’m going to be tuning into at any point in the near future.
But the only reason I’m bring him up – and quite possibly the only notable thing about him, it seems – is because of his embarrassing, horrifically-painful-to-watch interview with Geoff Keighley on the carpet of the 2010 Spike Video Games Awards show. And while Keighley did show a lack of interest in putting up with Joe, I can’t really blame the guy. People might not be aware of it, but Geoff Keighly is the executive producer of the Spike Video Game Awards, an award show that goes on TV. Tee Vee. And he has a lot of shit on his plate to ensure that his baby goes off without a hitch. So that fact he’s giving this relatively obscure amateur whose fame comes from the Internet five minutes of his precious time moments before this big show goes on Tee Vee is pretty fucking generous, I think.
Joe came in completely unprepared and was basically fumbling through the questions he had, showing no integrity, composure, and coming off as a joke. And this is during an quick impromptu interview that Joe claims lasted two minutes, but seems more like four or five. And in that short instance, the man who claims to represent gamers and be a hero of people DROPPED THE FUCKING BALL.
How do you start an interview? You introduce the person you’re going to interview. “So, today I’m here with Geoff Keighly, executive producer of the Spike Video Game Awards.” blah blah, exchange pleasantries, blah blah, first question. Basic stuff. Keep your cool. Be professional.
What does Joe do?
“I’m here with JEFF! And I’ve got a BONE to pick with this guy.” He calls that being diplomatic. I’ll call it unprofessional and a sign that this is not going to end well. You know? Yeah, lack of preparedness. And I’ve been in situations where I was caught unprepared. I know the feeling. That’s what I get from Joe.
The other sign that . Joe is in the middle of a sentence as Geoff looks in the distance, presumably to check for celebrities since it might possibly part of the job description. And when Joe notices Geoff seemingly not paying attention, he sort of just trails off. Lost in thought. It almost seemed like Angry Joe was about to burst into tears. In fact, this happened a couple times.
And… and the funny part about the whole fucking thing is when, during the video, there’s a little counter countdown to the moment where Joe would lose his cool… yeah, sorry, Joe lost his cool the minute he opened his mouth.
“Thinks I’m some random guy off YouTube!” Oh, I guess it’s easy to get that wrong. I suppose. You’re not some random guy off YouTube. You’re some random guy off Blip.Tv. SAME SHIT, ASSHOLE. As a matter of fact, I think some random guy off YouTube might show a better more professionalism and a bit more preparedness for the occassion than Jose did.
His excuse is that he didn’t get the proper 15-minute sit-down interview that he wanted, but really? So what? You didn’t get it; you got five minutes on the carpet, so you make the most of it. The fact that YOU FUCKING BLEW IT in the five minutes you were give almost makes me glad that you DIDN’T get the 15 minutes you were allegedly promised because that would be a trainwreck of massive proportions.
This is not taking into account his blatant hijacking (for lack of a better term) of the press conference, bombarding Mr. Keighley with question after question and never letting up. Never letting the actual journalists… you know, the ones who are professionals and thus GOOD at their fucking jobs.
And for Joe to go crying about it afterwards, that is just pathetic. If this chump is supposed to be a representative of the gaming community, then that community has no hope whatsoever because he’s doing a fucking horrible job of it. As a matter of fact, I venture to say that Joe did a better job at destroying the image and credibility of the gaming community in that ONE interview than EIGHT YEARS worth of poorly-contrived awards shows EVER DID. You want a good gaming representative speaking on your behalf? Look in the mirror and you found him or her. Don’t look to the Internet for that HERO, especially when his name is Angry Joe and his main beef is with an awards show that no one with a SLIVER of common sense and competency should be caring about.
I’m so glad I got this off my chest. Happy New Year, everybody.
(2025 Update: Replaced the old Youtube embed with a new video upload. Originally a 2-part video, it has been unified as one single long video.)
Cheating here a bit… on the one hand, it’s a new product released in 2010. On the other hand, it’s a straight repackage of a Super Nintendo game from 1993 with no modifications whatsoever. But in any case, here we are.
I initially stated that I hadn’t caught the TLC PPV live… well, that’s a bit of a fib, isn’t it?
You can check out my quick TLC thoughts if you’d like, but after seeing John Cena’s attempt to murder Wade Barrett and subsequently bury him both figuratively and literally, it was nice to see CM Punk return the favor tonight on RAW. If someone had to do it, it may as well be Punk because that guy is awesome.
Yeah, that’s right, Mizzles. Punk is awesome and you’re not. What Punk did to Cena was awesome. Meanwhile, on the other side of the coin, we have not awesome in the form of the Miz – your reigning WWE World Heavyweight Champion, by the way – getting pinned by a 60-year-old man and then I’m supposed to take this guy seriously as a top draw? Isn’t the World Champion supposed to be someone with some level of credibility? The guy is a total tool. He makes JBL seem like Hulk Hogan in comparison… never thought I’d see the day where I’d be complimentary towards either JBL or Hogan.
(Though to be fair, JBL is a better talker and color commentator than he was an active wrestler, so I’ll give him that much.)
Oh, and Michael Coleslaw? Jerry Lawler earning a victory with an assist from Randy Orton is less cringe-inducing than the Miz retaining his WWE title in a later match with an assist from a scrawny little commentator, you fucking moron. No matter how hard you try, you will never be as good as The Coach.
So, I guess with the apparent killing of Wade Barrett, does that mean Nexus is over and done with? If that’s the case, then it’s probably for the best that this failed experiment was buried in a dozen folding chairs with very little fanfare and circumstance. I guess I have to update that funeral video, don’t I?
Dug the William Regal/Daniel Bryan match – great stuff. I also dug the match Bryan had with Dolph Ziggler on RAW a couple months back. Can’t say the same for the match Dolph had with John Cena. In fact, the only good thing was the aforementioned returning of the favor by CM Punk.
That’s all I got. The show wasn’t really anything special save for the Punk attack. I’d expect things to pick up steam now that Cena is done burying rookies for a change.
It’s the last WWE PPV of the year… man, what a sour note to end the year on. The Nexus, what could have been a hot thing in WWE, is all but buried, you have Miz as WWE Champion, and John Cena is still a thing. My hopes aren’t high for this TLC show, so let’s see if I can “just be a fan” and enjoy the show.
(2025 Update: Replaced the old Youtube embed with a slightly less old Dailymotion embed that was eventually replaced with a newer than new Youtube upload that I’m shocked made it through in one piece. Featuring a new title card and some considerable edits here and there, including the restoration of an old intro from when this review was originally intended as a Halloween upload. Despite these changes, it’s still the same old review that is outdated and superseded by a new one in 2012.)
Folks, appease your inner common sense and vote for John Cena on the Mashable Awards. I implore you to do so, because we don’t need another Spoony victory where he berates his fans again as was the case last year. Besides, I already have a really nice visual lined up if Cena wins.
So let’s give John Cena another award that is completely useless. Let’s give him a Mashable Award!
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