I’m An Addict And Other Pointless Drivel

Oh my dear god. Sports Interactive cursed us to forever be shocked with ourselves when they added the gameplay timer and it’s deeply worrying slogans – ‘Football Managers don’t need food’ I’m currently on. What a cruel inclusion that fucking timer was. There is a strange realisation that your life has gone down the pan when you see that you have spent a total of three wasteful days pointlessly filing through a glossy set of glorified spreadsheets. And that just one fricking little game? I tend to think I may have spent well over a week of my precious little life withering away on the span of CM/FM games I have owned, time that could be spent swimming with dolphin and doing other life fulfilling activities. My eyes are opened I’ll tell you that, I mean, some people who’s history with the game dates back donkeys years must of spent, well, a month on these games maybe. And not to mention the time we spend sitting on our half dead backsides exploring the many links of the scene. We are officially hooked, SI’s corporate machine must be smiling now, they have got us into Football Manager. I demand compensation! People have said they wear suits to games, they have FM all nighters – I attack cushions whenever I’m angry at a loss. This is it. Should we view this game time as wasteful? Are we really all that sad…?

YES. WE ARE.

So, my inactivity on this site has seen my viewing figures plummet to eight. Eight!? I might as well not bother! Which, I have not really, as a series of very unfortunate traumas for me have made updated unlikely over the past six days, but I hope to be back on my feet so to speak content wise in the next few days. But for now I would like to appoint to your attention a new blog (another WordPress affair – I feel so common using this software) called the ‘The Damn Scene‘. Hmmm. As others have commented on this guy seems to be trying to hard to be controversial. Reading his first bit of real content which is focused on the scene haven that is Throw In I feel in some spots he has got the right idea, such as the dramatic decline in the quality of the sites player reviews, an area the site was once highly praised for. But in others I feel he has been a little too over critical just for the sake of arguing against the site. Some guides of the TI front page may just be interpreted as a bit of a re-write of the manual with a twist but I still feel that if he actually really looked into the forums there are some real gems of articles to be fond there, I’m very fond of joaquin17 Team Guides and Toony’s pieces (of which he used to be plentiful). Another anonymous ranter too – join the club. |It looks the hordes of Throw In will probably be coming at him after his complaints about them. I hope it sticks around and doesn’t try and get too damn controversial for the sake of it, it could be it’s downfall as it bares the attack of Throw-In ferociously loyal and sometimes rather inept members. Good to see another home for discussion about the scene though.

EDIT: It seems as if his review might of raised some issues at Throw In..