So, hey, DeviantArt? I get it, okay. You want me to subscribe. But your abusive behavior about trying to get me to subscribe is really, really getting under my skin. I visit DeviantArt about once per day to go through all the new deviations I can look at, and in the last two weeks, several changes have been made to the "check your deviations/messages" page.

The number of deviations-per-page has been dramatically reduced. A new advertising sidebar has been added, showing me deviantart shirts I should buy. And at least every other day (sometimes every day) I come here to find a new message, written in bright bold red letters above all of my other deviantart messages at the top of the screen, demanding I subscribe because like it's so cool and everybody's doing it, man. On top of that, I am also getting what are basically pop-up advertisements now that are trying to guilt-trip me in to buying a subscription for this site.

It's like, dude. Step off. It's not 2001 anymore. Annoying me to death isn't going to get me to pay for a subscription. We're barely a hair's breadth away from the level of desperation you get from some place like FilePlanet when they ask you to subscribe to their service.

Badgering people in to subscribing just so they can get rid of your stupid "HEY, IF YOU LIKE THIS SITE SO MUCH, PAY US MONEY FOR IT BECAUSE THIS HAMPSTER IS TIRED" pop-ups is ridiculous. It's starting to feel like every time I turn around there's something else taking up page space begging me to subscribe.

Knock it off.

So I guess some people wanted this as a print. I'm not entirely sure why myself, but I've scaled the image up and submitted it as a print. 4x4, 8x8, and 10x10 glossy prints, some coasters, and a 2009 calendar (three faces per month). Whoever the two people out there who wanted prints of that image, your wishes have been granted.

I went through and deleted some old things that I didn't really like anymore. I may continue to delete more, but I am mulling over the fact. The main thing I deleted were my reviews, really, but there were a couple of really awful scraps and a couple of really awful gallery pics in there, too. There's still some awful stuff in my gallery, but it's mainly 4-6 years old, and old stuff is allowed to be awful.

If you liked my reviews, I am now reviews editor for TSSZnews.com, and post all of my reviews there exclusively. If you would like to keep up with where I blog (since I don't post blogs here anymore), check out my GiantBomb.com profile or my Gametrailers.com profile.

No, I'm not really updating my journal, I just wanted to get that old message off the front page. So, how about them there DeviantArts, eh? They sure are... deviant.

Hm.

"What happened, man? You went from blogging every few days or couple of weeks to not blogging for nearly two months."

It came to my attention that having a blog/journal here is probably not the best idea in the world. So, basically, I stopped writing stuff for DeviantArt.

Without going in to too much detail - because even writing this much on the subject is probably a mistake, there are certain people out there who like to amuse themselves pretending they're 15 years old again, sitting at the "cool kids table" in the lunch room, pointing and laughing at the dorks. Who knows, some of them probably still are 15 years old.

The easiest way to stop this is to stop giving them stuff to laugh at. Just ignore'em and get on with life.

So, no more journals here, probably. All the fun's taken out of it and posting the happenings on my personal life is, quite simply put, a bad idea. I'm too much of a wet blanket to deal with any possible repercussions.

And perhaps a certain group of people out there are rolling their eyes, and certainly, it partly has something to do with "that" - but it's certainly not the only example of me posting details that are perhaps a little too personal on the internet. I had more than one experience last month that made me realize that sort of stuff was a bad idea. Certain events weighed in on the opinion more than others, of course, but there was more than one.

Sorry folks, party's over. It has not been a good month for me. Posting stuff here, about most of what I posted, was kind of like playing russian roulette; The only people who play russian roulette are psychopaths who think they're untouchable - and enough clicks on an empty chamber only helps reinforce that "I'm invincible!" insanity.

But eventually, sooner or later, that gun is going to go off and you aren't going to like the results. So I'm putting the gun down before the shell shock of all the horrible, scarring experiences I had when I was in school practically puts me in a mental facility; one could recall all the times Sonic Cult baited folks from the SSRG and caused a lot of unwanted stress just because they thought it was funny to act like an asshole and see what the response would be.

So yeah. Later for now, guys. Don't hold your breath on my next journal (as if you ever did), it'll probably be a while.