Video Games are sweet

I would have to say that my favorite form of media would be video games. I grew up playing and loving video games from a young age. I noticed a couple threads on the discussion board talking about video games, mostly about the violence and affects they entail to players. Since i consider myself a major gamer i figured i would talk about some of my gaming experience.

I had a SEGA GameGear at a very early age. the Gamegear is a small handheld system similar to a gameboy. around 10 years old me and my brother and sister got a Nintendo 64. We were so addicted to games like Zelda and Banjo Kazooie that our parents would give us time limits to play, being so young. When i started working i bought a Playstation 2 and an Xbox, and finally i play the xbox360 now. When i first got the Xbox360 and played online i lost any social life i had for at least a month playing about 30 hours a week in between jobs.

I dont play as much video games now as i did as a teenager. however i still love new and old games whenever i have extra time. i just brought my old super Nintendo to my apartment and hooked it up today! If anybody has Xbox live add me: H3AVENsent

Whole New World

Believe it or not this is actually my first real experience blogging. I have never had a FaceBook, Twitter, or other popular social networking site. I created a Myspace account before it was popular, however i deleted all my friends except bands to stay away from the social networking aspect of it. I usually like to go against the flow of our society when it comes to technology or media related things. I guess i am a little old fashioned; The way i look at it, if i want to talk to a friend I'll just give them a call.

I figured i would share this because in today's day & age Not having a facebook is abnormal! which makes me even more mad! however 'to each their own'. I thought this might be interesting for everybody to read!

South Park!

Since this class focuses on media studies i found it appropriate to blog about one of my favorite shows, South Park! When i took comm 224 (Research Methods) i setup a research proposal to writing about how the show tears up social issues using a rhetorical approach heavily aided by humor and mockery. the paper looked at how South Park crosses forbidden social boundaries through a humorous mocking approach. Picking this subject for a research proposal was a 'lesser of two evils' for me, because having to write a 10+ paper just always sucks, however it was more interesting for me at points because I am such a southpark fan.


I love watching adult cartoons and i feel like there is an open door in this area for research. I would love to see more research journals and studies on adult cartoons!! Reading through scholarly communication articles can be boring at times, however research on cartoons was always fun and more understandable for me.

For future classes or my own research i would love get more in depth and study South Park from  a research angle. South Park is a very offensive show which has had major effects on people including banning, censoring, and even death threats. A research direction could be studying the effects the show has on people, or groups of people.

Well i figured i would talk about a form of media that is of interest to me for my first blog! If there are any south park fans out there comment on any ideas for a more in depth study of the show or your favorite episode(s)!

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