Hope everyone is having a good day, and refraining from giving anyone the business.

Everyone already knows how much of an information overload that the world has become in the past 10 years, give or take..

The internet created this place where everything was instantly available, where feedback was instantaneous, and where 99% of everything has a smell of bullcrap about it.

Many of the stories aren't stories at all, or are stories about stories, or worst of all, stories created by stories or by the press itself. You think that all of the coach tirades due to magazine articles, squabbling amongst basketball players and team management due to comments made to the press, etc, are all results of circumstance? I guarantee that each incident had something to do with someone looking for news and then making it happen. Slashdot is a prime example of it, and they pretend to be 'stuff that matters' and have a supposedly smart readership. Huh? I'm trying to think of the last time I saw something factual appear on that site, something that wasn't filtered through a free-software Linux opinion page. In fact, most things that look like a news site are really an opinion site, first and foremost. I wish they would advertise that fact instead of pretending to be actual news.

On to the self-promotion. Do I really have to spend time wading through stories about Tiger Woods' new advertising deal promoting Gatorade to find actual real sports information and opinion? That is not a news story. How about all of the useless ABC/Disney/ESPN tie-ins on ESPN.com? Even when I'm not looking for news, instead looking for opinion, I can't even find it. The good part of everyone having a say about the world is that you should at least be able to find good opinion pieces. Instead, what I find is promotion. Stupid, transparent, fake news.

I hate everything that the "new" UCF football stands for.. a bad and pointless rebranding effort, throwing money at everything (including a 12-24 coach), not having that "play anyone, anywhere" attitude, and ... ugh.

Edit: The UCF players worked their tails off for 60 minutes against Texas. They earned respect from me and anyone else who knows what football is about. However, the uniforms and logo are very mediocre, and Knightro still looks like the front grill of a Dodge truck.

I was inspired by reading Edge Magazine's list of the 100 best games and decided to "adjust" the list correctly. Even though I thought it was as good as I have seen of such a list, covering dozens of my favorites, it still suffers from some problems, notably placing XBox360 Games on the list (j/k), along with not enough of the retro era titles (everything was 90's and beyond).

I don't think I have the desire to list 100, so lets say a top.. erm 30? Listed to the side is the Edge ranking. Also, I'll be avoiding similar titles in the same series where possible, just picking the best of that series.

1. The Legend Of Zelda: A Link to the Past (6)
2. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (33)
3. Tetris (9)
4. Super Mario 64 (3)
5. Final Fantasy VII (18)
6. Quake 3 Arena (46)
7. Xenogears (N/A)
8. Resident Evil 4 (2)
9. Super Smash Bros. (91)
10. Halo (7)
11. Metal Gear Solid (35)
12. Pac-Man (N/A)
13. Final Fantasy Tactics (N/A)
14. Super Metroid (10)
15. Street Fighter 2 (16)
16. Ico (13)
17. Guitar Hero (56)
18. Katamari Damacy (31)
19. Grand Theft Auto 3 (12)
20. Counter-Strike (55)
21. Goldeneye (17)
22. SimCity 2000 (25)
23. Rez (27)
24. Starcraft (37)
25. Silent Hill 2 (85)
26. Half-Life 2 (4)
27. Super Mario Kart (14)
28. Wario Ware Inc. (40)
29. Paper Mario : The Thousand Year Door (93)
30. Galaga (N/A)

Did I miss anything crucial? Remember only 1 per 'series'. What's your top 5, 10, 30, 100?

Edit : I just saw (Japan's top gaming magazine) Famitsu Magazine's 100 greatest of all time. Play many RPGs?