I Love Trolling World News Daily

Whenever I am feeling particularly stressed out, I go to that beautiful American website, WND.com, and troll the shit out of their Tea Party message boards. Here are some excerpts of the conversations I entered into, and if it isn't totally obvious, my name is AtheistDad. (They hate that.)

Just thought I'd share some of my joy with you all this morning. Remember, when the apocalypse comes, pick dragon!

Ronald Reagan: The Almighty Satan

When asked which president I disapprove of the most, I usually say Nixon, and if I'm in a silly mood, I'll say Truman, but I never take the opportunity to blast Reagan. There's a reason, despite Ronald Reagan being a world class douche, he's loved. It's blind love, and it's hypocritical. Do you hate Nixon? Yes? Then you should hate Reagan too, because he has accomplished the same terrible acts, the only difference is, (and I think this is more horrifying) Reagan genuinely thought his actions were justified.

Edmund Morris, who wrote a biography on Ron Ron said, "Once he made an emotional commitment to this or that policy or story, no amount of disproof would cause him to alter his belief in it." Ronald Reagan was an actor, a proud propagandist who didn't let annoying facts get in the way of a good story. He was probably the most gifted speaker and speechwriter, a man who could fill your heart with American patriotic poetry, and every word was shit. Ronald Reagan would say such unchecked nonsense like, "Welfare queens are driving around the south side of Chicago in Cadillacs, you can get an apartment with eleven foot ceilings and twenty-foot balcony, a swimming pool, laundry and play rooms on welfare and other Federal programs that states should be administering. Tax-free!" Was any of this true? No, of course not, but it sure made a blue collar family man nod his head and shake his fist.

Reagan got elected by pretending that he was upset at "How weak America appeared to the rest of the world." We had just bugged out of Vietnam, and the new generation of Americans didn't see war as something we should be focusing on as a nation. However, Ronald knew how to spin us back in his direction, and he started with feigned outrage at Ford giving the Panama Canal back to Panamanian leader Gen. Torrijos. "The canal zone is not a colonial possession. It is not a long-term lease. It is sovereign United States territory every bit the same as Alaska and all the other states carved from the Louisiana purchase. We should end these negotiations and tell the general: We bought, we paid for it, and we intend to keep it!"

Oh man, that last sentence is a whopper, doesn't it just make your chest swell with pride? Don't be distracted by the fact that the Panama Canal is in no way shape or form a sovereign United States territory, and not giving it back is in full violation of dozens of UN sanctions and bi-laws that we signed, don't draw your attention to the massive outcry of journalists, Time magazine articles and major media outlets screaming that we had already promised to give Panama back the land we mugged them for, just listen to that line, "We bought it, we paid for it, and we intend to keep it!" 

What Reagan had done was capitalize on the post-Vietnam embarrassment that every American felt. We got pushed around over in Asia, and we certainly weren't going to get pushed around in our own hemisphere. Reagan went on to say in that speech that won him North Carolina, "South Americans respect the macho, I think if we respond with firmness, we might not earn their love, but we will earn their respect." What a dick.

These aren't opinions, these are lies, and the difference between them can be seen with Ronald's huge exaggeration of the Soviet threat. Here are some quoties from a 90 minute television special that Reagan purchased, free from debate, free from counter arguments, just 90 minutes one on one, America and The Gipper:

"There is one problem that must be solved or everything else is meaningless. I am speaking of the problem of our national security. Our nation is in danger, and the danger grows greater with each passing day. The Ford administration is asleep at the wheel while Cuba's communist strongman Fidel Castro continues to export revolution to Puerto Rico and Angola and a score of places in between. We sacrificed democratic Taiwan to China,. Then there was the Panama Canal give-away. Worst of all, the Soviets are cleaning our clocks when it comes to war making capabilities. The Soviet army outnumbers our 2 to 1, and with reserves 4 to 1. They outspend us on weapons by 50 percent. Their Navy outnumbers ours in ships 2 to 1. We're outgunned in artillery 3 to 1 and their tanks outnumber us 4 to 1. Their strategic nuclear missiles are larger, more powerful, and more numerous than ours."

None of these statements about Soviet military superiority were true, in fact the Soviet Union was a mess. The infrastructure was collapsing, the lack of social safety nets were starting to take their toll on the Russian elderly population, hunger was rampant, murder an epidemic, their army was a tattered shell of what it once was. Reagan didn't like all that truth mumbo jumbo though, red scares were good for buisiness, good for America, so he responded to these truth facts by saying, "The evidence mounts to the fact that we are #2 in our world where it has been proven that it is dangerous, often fatal, to be 2nd best." 2nd best!? Fuck that, this is the USA! We are 2nd to nobody! See how that works? Pretty smart stuff.

The Iran-Contra scandal is obviously a terrible abuse of power and an example of how privatizing a war for personal gain is an impeachable offense for a president, but aside from that there is another human rights violation that Ronald commited. Grenada. The Isle of Spice. The island where 45 US college students were housed on a university campus that Reagan wanted to save. Did the kids need saving? No, but rescuing these kids from a country that talked to Fidel on the phone every couple of months would look so good on Reagan's re-election campaign resume'. So, without telling Congress, (they would tell him no anyway). Ronald Reagan got the Navy SEALs to launch a covert and highly secret attack on the island of Grenada, to save these perfectly happy and perfectly safe college kids. The only problem was that Reagan was so afraid of Congress finding out, (because, you know, it was illegal), that not even the pilots of the drop planes knew what was up. The result was 8 Navy SEALs killed in action, dropped in the middle of the Carribean Sea in the middle of the night, drowning in their parachutes, because not enough information had been exchanged. They weren't even allowed maps! This is why Ronald Reagan is the worst president that we've ever had, he literally killed American soldiers, to promote his own fame and public stature. It's a good thing that we haven't had any president do anything similar since then.

Oh shit.

Chris Kluwe Is My Hero

Chris Kluwe is an idol of mine, with his gay rights activism, successful World of Warcraft career, intellectual anti-republican debates, and oh yeah, he's been the punter for the Minnesota Vikings for the past 8 seasons. (He actually just got signed by the Raiders like, a week ago.) If you're scratching your head wondering why you've never heard of this beautiful man before, here are some reasons you should be a Chris Kluwe fan too.

Kluwe was a member of the legendary World of Warcraft guild The Flying Hellfish, that dominated global leaderboards for 4 years, Chris played a troll named Loate, and is a very serious PC gamer. He is also a Magic fan, playing through Unlimited and Mirage, returning to the game a few years later for Commander decks. ""I really enjoy seeing all the rare and unlikely to be played in normal format cards you can put in a Commander deck," Kluwe said in an interview with Star City Games, yeah, he's that hardcore. Also in that interview, Chris was asked if he played Magic with anyone else in the NFL and he responded, "I wouldn't be surprised if there were one or two others around the league that played. I think that as kids that have grown up with gaming enter the sports world it's slowly starting to change the cultural perception of jocks and geeks."

When Maryland state assembly delegate Emmett Burns wrote the Baltimore Ravens a letter condemning Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo for publicly supporting gay marriage, Kluwe wrote a letter of his own. The letter, also sent to Deadspin, tears Burns apart, calling out his homophobia and declaring that supporting equality "Won't magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster." Kluwe also publicly challenged former Vikings player Matt Birk's support of a same-sex marriage ban, and has even appeared in the documentary The Last Barrier in which he spoke about his feelings on equality. Chris, along with Ayanbadejo filed a amnicus brief to the Supreme Court opposing California's infamous Proposition 8, and he was also Ellen Degeneres's first inductee to her defense of same sex marriage hall of fame!

When the 2011 NFL lockout happened, Kluwe tweeted that Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Vincent Jackson and Logan Mankins were "douchebags" for holding up the season. Nate Jackson criticized Kluwe for "talking out of turn", to which Kluwe said that, in his opinion, "four people endangering the livelihoods of the 1,900 affected by the dispute was pretty much the definition of greed." Awesome.

Yes, Chris Kluwe is spectacular, and he just wrote a book called Beautiful Unique Sparkleponies. I will post here an excerpt from the book in which Kluwe debates Libertarian thinking, and Ayn Rand specifically. Thanks for reading, and go out and buy a Kluwe jersey, let's make it a new pro-gay thing to wear.

Excerpted from "Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies"

So I forced myself to read “Atlas Shrugged.” Apparently I harbor masochistic tendencies; it was a long, hard slog, and by the end I felt as if Ayn Rand had violently beaten me about the head and shoulders with words. I feel I would be doing all of you a disservice (especially those who think Rand is really super-duper awesome) if I didn’t share some thoughts on this weighty tome.

Who is John Galt?

John Galt (as written in said novel) is a deeply flawed, sociopathic ideal of the perfect human. John Galt does not recognize the societal structure surrounding him that allows him to exist. John Galt, to be frank, is a turd.

However, John Galt is also very close to greatness. The only thing he is missing, the only thing Ayn Rand forgot to take into account when writing “Atlas Shrugged,” is empathy.

John Galt talks about intelligence and education without discussing who will pay for the schools, who will teach the teachers. John Galt has no thought for his children, or their children, or what kind of world they will have to occupy when the mines run out and the streams dry up. John Galt expects an army to protect him but has no concern about how it’s funded or staffed. John Galt spends his time in a valley where no disasters occur, no accidents happen, and no real life takes place.

John Galt lives in a giant fantasy that’s no different from an idealistic communist paradise or an anarchist’s playground or a capitalist utopia. His world is flat and two-dimensional. His world is not real, and that is the huge, glaring flaw with objectivism.

John Galt does not live in reality.

In reality, hurricanes hit coastlines, earthquakes knock down buildings, people crash cars or trip over rocks or get sick and miss work. In reality, humans make good choices and bad choices based on forces even they sometimes don’t understand. To live with other human beings, to live in society, requires that we understand that shit happens and sometimes people need a safety net. Empathy teaches us that contributing to this safety net is beneficial for all, because we never know when it will be our turn.

If an earthquake destroys half the merchandise in my store or levels my house, that’s something I can’t control; it doesn’t matter how prepared I was or how hard I worked. Trying to recover from something like that can cripple a person, both financially and mentally, unless he has some help from those who understand that we’re all in this together, we need each other to function as a society, and the next earthquake might hit one of our houses.

If a volcano erupts and takes out vital transportation and infrastructure, should we just throw our hands up in the air and say, “not my responsibility”? No, because it is our responsibility.

It’s our responsibility as members of a societal group to take care of the underlying foundations of peace and security — to ensure that the roads and rails are protected because they provide a collective good.

To be fair to John Galt, though, the safety net cannot be a security blanket. if you hand one person everything in life by taking it away from someone else, then the will to succeed rapidly fades on both sides; why work when it doesn’t matter? Look at any of the idle rich, the spoiled children of privilege, the welfare collectors who churn out babies because it means another weekly check to buy shoes or purses. Ayn Rand got it right up to that point but fails to make the next logical step.

If you want to get rid of the moocher, you don’t do it by excluding everyone you think could be a moocher, by building your own private jail with yourself as both warden and prisoner. No, if you want to rid yourself of the moocher, you do it by focusing on and teaching rational empathy. If you treat other people the way you want to be treated, you’ll never want someone else to live your life for you, because shackling others means you’ve chosen to shackle yourself. We’re all free, or we’re all slaves.

No one wants to take care of someone who does nothing in return, provides no value for society (I’m ignoring babies and children here, because they’re kind of necessary to the long-term survival of humanity), and so the corollary applies — if you feel that everyone should be free to live his or her own life, the safety net can never become a permanent solution, because if you rely over-much on it, then you’re no longer living your own life.

Just as you don’t want other people to be an unnecessary burden on you, you should desire just as much not to be an unnecessary burden on others. if you take handouts when you no longer need them, you’ve turned yourself into a slave to someone else. If you think that other people have to take care of you but that you don’t have to take care of them in return, you’re trying to enslave those who would provide for you. If you make people dependent on you by limiting their opportunities for education and work and requiring them to subsist on a dole, you’ve taken away their chance at free will, at making their own lives.

John Galt as written lacks this rational empathy. John Galt is brilliant but doesn’t have the long-term vision to maintain the society that allowed his brilliance to flourish. John Galt is self-motivated but has no concern for the effects of his actions on other people. John Galt is a lone individual living in a world filled with countless teeming masses, and just as John Galt plants his feet on the backs of all those who came before him, he must provide a surface for future generations to plant their feet as well, not through sacrificing everything he owns but by realizing a stable society is ultimately a productive society.

But that’s not John Galt. A world full of Ayn Rand’s John Galts is a world that will eventually consist of only one person, and then none, once his lifespan concludes. John Galt doesn’t care for the disasters that affect his neighbors — they can sink or swim on their own (and they’ll sink). John Galt doesn’t care for the public good, because all he can see is his own good (and he’ll wonder why it gets harder and harder to get the resources he needs). John Galt doesn’t recognize that genius arises under any circumstances (and he’ll never know how many geniuses he excluded from paradise because their parents didn’t fit his ideals, or why the population keeps shrinking).

John Galt is a remorseless shark feeding on those unable to get out of his way, the blood-churned waters boiling around him as he takes in everything he requires for his own happiness without thought of the cost to others, rending and tearing the stability of social interactions until his once-teeming world is barren and lifeless, collapsed under the gluttonous appetite of self.

Then he starves, and no one is left to mourn his passing.

Are you John Galt?

Excerpted from the book “Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies” by Chris Kluwe. Copyright © 2013 by Chris Kluwe. Reprinted with permission of Little, Brown and Co.

EDIT: I forgot to mention the Donovan McNabb business. When Donovan was traded to the Vikings, he wanted #5, which Kluwe was wearing. Chris said that he would gladly give McNabb the #5 jersey, but under the condition that Donovan mention Kluwe's band 5 times on the air, donate 5,000$ to charity, and buy Kluwe an ice cream cone. What a patriot.

Oliver

Just a couple random dad things I wanted to put up, like this picture of me reading Ollie The Very Hungry Caterpillar 

Olls rolling his eyes as I explain why DC will always be better than Marvel

I love this little video, Oliver asks me what a picture is, he hears the answer, stares into the distance for a minute, thinking about it, then moves on.

More in-depth stuff coming this week I swear, I am writing a piece about Chris Kluwe, I'm playing a new Ron Gilbert game, and of course, more republican stuff. Stay tuned!

A Quick Thought About Privacy

Barack and I have been disagreeing a lot lately, and this Edward Snowden NSA disaster isn't helping our relationship. Mr. Snowden leaked very sensitive government secrets, then took off to Hong Kong in an effort to avoid prosecution. Today, the USA officially charged him with espionage.

We have also learned recently that the US government has been monitoring our cell phone metadata, (a word that politicians are using a lot right now, and I'm positive none of them know what it really means), tracking our call logs, dates and times, and the numbers we are contacting. They have also been stealing our information and online activity from big internet companies like Facebook, Yahoo, Verizon, Apple, and Microsoft. 

However, when asked about this, instead of feeling shame, the NSA almost beamed with pride. "If you have done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to worry about," the same bullshit every country hears when it is discovered that their government is secretly spying on them. 

Here is my question then, if the NSA's response to our outrage of privacy invasion is, if you aren't breaking any laws, then you have nothing to worry about, then why are you charging Snowden with espionage? He revealed information that he thought looked suspicious, now you are freaking out and trying so desperately to catch this guy. If you have done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to worry about. 

Right?

Fing Faloomabinga

If I ever became a Congressman, one of the very first things I would do, is learn how to pronounce my fellow delegates' names correctly. This man here is Eni Faleomavaega, and he represents American Somoa in Congress.

This man here is Kerry Bentivolio, a Congressman from Michigan. He had the very special honor of filling in for John Boehner on the floor. The job is pretty easy on paper, just bang the gavel and announce the names of your fellow representatives in the order they are to be recognized. When Eni Faleomavaega's name came up however, this mess happened.

Eni Faleomavaega isn't the easiest name in the world to pronounce, but is that really an excuse? Well, maybe Mr. Faloomabinga is new, and people are still adjusting to his name. The problem with that is the fact that Eni Faleomavaega has been representing American Samoa in Congress since 1989. On the real.

What's really inspiring in the video is how Del. Faleomavaega handled it. He did not mention that his own name was mispronounced, but he stuck up for Bentivolio saying "Samoa" wrong. That's class.

Fable 3 Is Really Good, And Joss Whedon Has Great Taste In Movies

Fable 3 is making me laugh, a lot. I joined a theater troupe and made their play better by adding dude on dude kissing, then proceeded to earn a hen's trust by wearing a chicken suit. I had sex with a woman known as Jen The Drunk in the back of a bar, paid an orphan ten bucks to let me fart on his head, and then spent an hour or so just walking up to strangers and smacking their belongings out of their hands. Fun.

Fable 3 does dark humor well, similar to A Bard's Tale, or The Witcher. Yes, the jokes can be really juvenile, and the sex stuff seems to be everywhere, but it is very funny, and some of Jasper's jokes are side splitters. 

Joss Whedon listed his 5 favorite movies on Rotten Tomatoes recently, and it is a great read. Here is a link to the interview itself. The list is as follows:

-The Matrix

-Once Upon A Time In The West

-The Bad And The Beautiful

-Magnolia

-The Court Jester

I haven't seen three of those, and I feel like I owe it to Joss to watch the three I haven't seen, since I consider him a god and all. 

My Father's Day Loot

This was my third Father's Day, and it's really nice that Stephanie knows that even though I'm a dad, I will always be a fifth grader at heart. She themed her over-the-top gifts around that.

I dig this shirt. A lot.

I love that Bioshock Infinite already has a line of really amazing swag. You can buy a full Handyman suit now too.

I like how Shazam is Magnesium

A cool and already useful Lego moleskin

Its a bad picture, but those are chocolate D&D dice

Yes, that is a candle that smells like Middle Earth

So I have something to listen to when Oliver takes his 7 hour baths!

Today is the real present though, the start of a three day vacation at home. Oliver and I have already played basketball, fixed the shingles on his playhouse, played a new Doc McStuffins ipad app, had a Burnout Takedown style demolition derby with his Hot Wheels, and ate Pop Tarts while watching The Daily Show. Tonight will be the three of us, no crazy appointments, no visits, no grocery store madness, just me and the family alone in the house, the best Father's Day present ever.

100th Post, Fable 3, 10 Year Old Hackers, Voodoo Earthquakes And More Bob McDonnell

Usually, a topic I want to discuss will be either political, religious, geeky or video game related. Surprise for today though, it's post #100! So how about all four!?

I talked about Bob McDonnell, Virginia's governor, last week, and my obsession with Virginia politics just keeps growing and growing. So apparently, Mr. McDonnell got his degree from Regent University, a school run by 700 Club host Pat Robertson. (We'll actually talk about Pat a little later down the page). Bob McDonnell wrote a thesis to graduate from that school, and I took some time to read it. Here's a quote:

The family as an institution existed antecedent to civil government, and hence is not subject to being defined by it. It is in the law of Nature of the created Order that the Creator instituted marriage and family in Eden, where He ordained that “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.” Family arises out of this divinely-created covenant of marriage between a man and woman, the terms of which can neither be originally set nor subsequently altered by the parties or the state. (pg. 19)

Basically what Mr. McDonnell is saying here is that politicians and leaders cannot alter the definition of marriage because it is overseen by God, and we have no right. That's not overly shocking, in fact, that's textbook Christian bullshit, and we've been hearing that for decades. What is actually shocking, is this:

“[W]hen the exercise of liberty takes the shape of pornography, drug abuse, or homosexuality, the government must restrain, punish, and deter” (pg. 26).

The government has no right to re-define marriage because it would override God's almighty authority, but politicians have the right to punish that which a select number see as a sin? And I say select number because two of the three things he listed there are 100% legal in all 50 states. I'm not done here, in fact, here are a bunch of quotes from this prince's paper:

“Further expenditures” on child care, he wrote “would be used to subsidize a dynamic new trend of working women and feminists that is ultimately detrimental to the family by entrenching status-quo (sic) of non parental primary nurture of children” (pg. 46).

[E]very totalitarian movement of the twentieth century has tried to destroy the family. The modern American experience can be seen as an ideological battle between the forces of democratic capitalism and socialism, with the latter’s attempt to “substitute the power of the state for the rights, responsibilities, and authority of the family.” (pg. 10)

McDonnell goes on to refer to family as a “God-ordained government,” and asserts that there’s no need for government policy to treat “alternative lifestyle living arrangements” equally to the traditional family (pg. 19).

And he blasts efforts to “redefine family by allowing special rights,” not just for “homosexuals,” but for “single-parent unwed mothers” (pgs. 72-73).

Bob McDonnell wants women who are considering abortion to be forced to take an ultrasound, even if it is against their will, to try and spark some one-sided sanctity of life perspective before proceeding with the procedure. Bob McDonnell fought hard to preserve Virginia's ancient and never enforced anti-sodomy laws, just so it is still technically a crime to have gay sex. Bob McDonnell is currently wrapped up in a huge scandal, in which he is being investigated for accepting illegal bribes and campaign contributions. One of the contributions that his donors illegally gave him was to cater his daughter's wedding. You're all about the family right Bob? Yet you pay for your daughter's wedding with bribe money? Fuck you dude, seriously. I love stupid politicians, and they make me smile, but I draw the line at evil. 

Microsoft messed up, and now that all of their fans are hopping the border fence in an attempt to make a new life for themselves with Sony, Xbox has been releasing free games for their gold subscribers, (Playstation Plus has been doing this for 2 years now). Anyways, the first game is Fable 3, a game I never got a chance to play. I'm 2 hours in, and my favorite part so far was a hungry child screaming "Im tired of eating snow!!" More on this when I get further.

This is Cyfi, a 10 year old hacker who found dozens of vulnerabilities in Apple's IOS games. At 10 years old she has figured out how to beat Apple security, breakdown an iphone's internal clock by manipulating wi-fi setting, and also sent Apple the solutions on how to fix all of the things she found. She appeared at this year's DefCon to speak publicly, and to me, is the coolest kid I've read about. Ever.

Remember when I said that Pat Robertson would be coming back into conversation? Well, above is a video of Joe Ellison, the GOP's new "Black Outreach Director" (what a title), agreeing with a very controversial statement that Pat Robertson made on his show, The 700 Club. What was the statement? Pat Robertson said that Haiti suffered an earthquake because they made a pact with devil. Joe Ellison agrees, and says that Voodoo is the cause of all of Haiti's problems. This man is trying to obtain political office in a state that has voted for Obama, twice.

Thanks for all of the support that I have gotten from those who continue to read my nonsense, and thanks most of all to these guys, who I do everything for. Have a happy father's day everyone! Hug your kids.

Nintendo Announces New Pokemon Type: Its Fairy

Nintendo has been releasing a lot of new information about Pokemon X/Y in the wake of E3, the release date (October 12th), this new amie nonsense, and craziest of all, a new Pokemon type! We all knew there was going to be a new type announced when they revealed another Eevee-lution, Sylveon, but the type is Fairy? Really?

Noivern, another fairy

That is Vivillion, a new fairy-bug

In addition to the new Pokemon, there are a few already existing Pokemon that Nintendo said will be re-classified as Fairy. Merrill, Gardevoir and most importantly, Jigglypuff will all now be members of the Fairy family.

I am all for new ideas for our beloved Pokemon franchise, and I'm not some dumb macho homophobe who is going to get all upset about fairy being the new type. If Nintendo can introduce new Pokemon type without disrupting the delicate balance that makes the games great in the first place, then I am 100% supportive. A suggestion? Just get rid of normal types, nobody uses them, and they are a bunch of fairies anyways.

E3 2013: The Biggest In Years

E3 happened yesterday, and it was the most important one in a long time. There is a lot to read and watch, but I am not a reporter, so if you want in-depth E3 coverage, IGN or Gametrailers is probably your best bet. I am just sharing what games gave me a boner yesterday. 

PS4 

Sony was really aggressive yesterday, making their entire conference a Microsoft bash. Funny but childish insults aside, Sony clarified some very important things, that have further solidified my decision to switch to Playstation. If you buy a PS4 game, Sony said it belongs to you, and that you may sell it to a friend, lend it to anyone you want, sell it to retail, or keep it forever. No restrictions whatsoever for used games. No online requirement is necessary to play any game, and the PS4 will not require you to periodically check in online for the system to work. It was also announced at 399$, 100$ less than the Xbox One. Sony has dedicated themselves to the gamer, not to the TV advertisers or the soccer moms, but to us. And for that, they have earned thousands of my future dollars.

This is the official Sony video on how to share your games on the PS4, I almost peed my pants

The Witcher 3

Anyone who reads this blog knows that The Witcher 2 blew me away. While this was debuted during the Microsoft conference, it will be available on the PS4 and PC as well. It looks like the same voice actors, and the same type of semi-non-linear gameplay, with just a higher production value. Sounds perfect to me, can't fucking wait.

Titanfall

I love shooters, I just don't like playing them online, (with a few exceptions), but Titanfall really grabbed my attention. Jetpacks, big mechs, and chaotic gameplay that doesn't look like it is hard to control. I saw the player dodging mech rockets while jetpacking up and running alongside a building three stories up. This game looks crazy, and maybe it is time to get into another online shooter. It will be an Xbox exclusive, but released for both the 360 and the One. 

 Mirror's Edge 2

I understand why people didn't like the first Mirror's Edge. The story sucked, and a first-person parkour game with hyper sensitive controls is a hard sell. I happened to love it though, even after dying 10,000 times in a row during the final scene of the game, so the announcement by DICE that #2 is on it's way got me really excited. Yeah, #1 wasn't perfect, but it was new, innovative, artistic and most importantly, unique. When a developer takes a gamble on something completely unseen before, we, as gamers, must support them. 

Dragon Age 3

Finally, I get to talk about my most anticipated game that was announced at E3. Dragon Age is Bioware's fantasy rpg, that they haven't forgotten about despite Mass Effect's huge success. I almost love DA as much as ME, because the story is just soooooooooooo good. The voice acting is top-notch, and the twists and turns that even the tiniest of fetch quests gives you make the game really stand out. Dragon Age 2 got a lot of criticism from fans, but if there is one company that listens to complaints and fixes them, it's Bioware.