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Who's Dave Z?
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The Dave Z Freedom Force models -- One of the cool features of the game is that there's already been a tool released that lets you create your own superheroes. And guess what? Good ole SkaterJoe has decided to put me in the game -- so without further ado, here are his Dave Z models for Freedom Force: [ Dave Z #1 | Dave Z #2 | Dave Z #3 | Dave Z #4]
Dave's
Babe of the Week! -- "Dear Dave" updated --
Dave's
Babe of the Week! -- Gruden to the Bucs -- The Raiders obviously got a great deal, especially considering that Gruden was going to leave after this upcoming season anyway. Plus, with the extra first-round pick this year, the Raiders might be able to take a risk on someone like Hawaii WR Ashley Lelie if he drops to fill a future need at WR and use their other first round pick on immediate needs at OLB or DT. Even if you're a Raider fan who thinks that this is the last year that they can win with this current roster, you gotta like this deal. If they get a new coach that doesn't rock the boat too much (like someone on their current staff), they can still win this year because they have a strong group of veterans. As far as the Bucs are concerned, even though they're giving up a whole lot, it might prove to be worth it. Despite the fact that Gruden has actually had similar results compared to Dungy (keeps having teams that are pre-season favorites to reach the Super Bowl -- only to have them lose in the playoffs year after year), the fact that he's more of an offensive mind than Dungy was makes him a great fit for Tampa Bay. It's kind of how Dungy is also a perfect fit for the Colts... My Super Bowl prediction -- Indianapolis Colts vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Just imagine the pre-game hysteria this match-up would make. Anyway, remember that you heard it here first!
"Dear Dave" updated --
No Lotto Luck -- Oh, well. I tried to earn it by walking three blocks in the rain to get my tickets instead of driving, but I guess I wasn't able to trick fate. If nobody else wins and the jackpot rises to more than $200 million, I'll walk to the 7-Eleven completely nude for good luck. And if any of you show interest, I'll post pictures of me doing it on this site.
Segata Sanshiro commercials --
I was tricked... -- My roommate, Sam "Not So Funny Guy" Bishop, thought it would be humorous to trick me into thinking I won the Super Lotto Plus $130 million jackpot. Here's the story: While I was at work, he went into my room and wrote down a set of numbers that were on my ticket. Then when I got home, he handed me the post-it and told me that he wrote down the numbers for me. I then preceded to go into my room, check the ticket and then upon realizing that my numbers matched the numbers he wrote down, I began screaming and yelling uncontrollably, "Oh my God! I WON THE FUCKING LOTTO! Holy shit! I actually won!" -- or something like that. Straight-faced, Sam ran into my room and asked if I was joking, I screamed "HELL NO!" and we both started jumping around. Excited beyond belief, I told him to get dressed as I was going to treat him to an expensive steak dinner at Houston's (the Hawaiian Rib Eye = Best. Steak. Ever.). I don't know how he did it, but he never gave a single hint that it was all a joke. What's worse is that he kept the joke going overnight and into the next day. It was not until I showed up at the Lotto office to collect my winnings that I found out that I didn't win the money. I've never been this embarrassed in my life and I doubt I'll ever experience such a huge turn of events ever again. Just imagine being in my shoes -- one minute I'm thinking I've just won $48 million (that's what I would've had after taxes) and the next I find out that it was all a lie. The good news is that I'm going to continue working at VC (where we're hoping to make NFL 2K3 the undisputed king of football videogames) and updating this website. I'm sure you can understand if I'm not all that thrilled by this "good news", though. NCAA Roster Save -- Anyway, I've decided that I'd go ahead and make it available here for those that are still playing the game but don't have the save or the time to edit all the names. Since there are no ad banners and no subscription revenue for my personal site, there's really no reason for anyone to sue. So, here it is -- The Ultimate NCAA Football 2002 Roster Save. Oh yeah, do NOT email me with any support questions with regard to this save. You're going to need a SharkPort for your PS2 and the latest version of the software. I can't get the thing to work on my home PC, so I won't be able to help you getting yours to work. Just please, USE A COMPLETELY EMPTY MEMORY CARD, because if you screw up, you could lose all your data on the card -- and if you have something like a big GT3 or GTA3 save, you'll be extremely pissed off. Happy Valentine's day... -- Anyway, Happy Valentine's Day!
I WON THE LOTTO!!! -- For those that haven't been following, the jackpot for this lotto has grown to more than $130 million and the one-time cash payout (which is what I'm taking) is for a un-freaking-believable $66 million. I'm told that the federal tax on it is about 27%, so I'll get stuck with a mere $48 million to spend on my fat, yet now extremely rich, cellulite-ridden ass. What am I going to do with it? Well, first I'm going to pay off my debt, buy myself a new car, find myself a big house somewhere here in the Bay Area and then find some girls willing to get some Bukkake on for a few bucks. Should be fun. There is some bad news, though. Now that I'm a millionaire (or at least I will be when I collect my winnings tomorrow), I'll no longer have the time to work at VC or on this silly website. After I buy my Bay Area home and Bukkake until I run out of semen, I'll probably go find an island to waste away the rest of my life. Goodbye! It's been great knowing you.
Save the Saturn? -- It obviously won't be updated often, but I do plan to add stuff whenever possible (there are a few games that I'd like to review that I hadn't previously). So, feel free to head on over to Sega-Saturn.com and see that site that helped me get in the industry.
"Dear Dave" update --
Isn't it ironic? --
Am I really just a 7.5 out of 10? I scored NHL Hitz 20-02, NBA Live 2002 and Aqua Aqua all higher than a 7.5 out of 10 on IGNPS2. And look at all the games that received a 7-something on IGNPSX and tell me that I've been given a fair review. Let's face it, I'm MUCH better than a 7.5, which only makes me hotter than 72% of the men rated on the site. Luckily, while my photo is no longer going to be voted on by the public, direct link votes are still being tabulated. This means that with your help, I can get the rating that I deserve (at least an 8.5/10, which is enough for Editors' Choice status on IGNPS2). Help me out, check out my picture on HOT or NOT and rate me a 10 to help bring up my Official Rating. You know that I deserve at least an 8.5 and should really get somewhere in the 9s. Do the right thing! Tony's gonna off
me -- Tony might have me killed for this, but I just couldn't resist sharing this photo I found of Miss Jamie Lynn that shows off a little more than I think she wanted to exhibit. I hope you like it, because I just might have an accident this weekend. Oh, and in case you haven't figured this out by yourself, you must click on the picture to the right to get to the nipple slip photograph. "Dear
Dave" -- If you have a question you want answered -- and no topic is off limits (I can say "fuck" here) -- just drop me an email. And it might even get answered in the first-ever "Dear Dave" update! By the way, if you send me an email that you don't want posted on the site, make sure you mention this in your email. Words
to live by --
You gotta wonder if Bill gave a speech like this before he lead his Pats to victory last Sunday against the Greatest Show On Turf in the Super Bowl. I personally like to play this speech from the movie before I take my morning shit. It's of the utmost importance to squeeze out every single inch that you can.
Party of Five -- The reason this is on my mind is that while scouring the 'net for news to keep me well-informed of world events (okay, I was searching for pr0n) I found some nice photos of the little girl from Party of Five -- but she's not a little girl anymore. Though she might not yet be a woman, young Lacey Chabert has grown up to be a bonafide hottie. Just look at the photo to the right and tell me I'm wrong. For those that need further proof, just have a look at the following photos: [ Lacey 1 | Lacey 2 | Lacey 3 | Lacey 4 ] Teen pop star in Playboy -- As a teenage boy (back when it would be more acceptable to like teen pop stars) I used to be in love with Debbie Gibson and Tiffany. And just like I'm counting the days until any one of the four girls I listed above pose for Playboy -- or at least follow Jessica's lead and pose for Maxim -- I used to think the same for those two young ladies. While it might be 10 years too late, it appears that Tiffany has finally decided to follow my advice and show me her stuff in the pages of Playboy (warning: this is a link to a NUDE picture of Tiffany from Playboy.com). Word of advice to Britney Spears (or Christina, Mandy or Jessica if you're listening): Please pose for nude some time within the next two to three years. If you wait too long, you'll lose my interest and I'm sure that means a lot to you. I'll surely check out Tiffany's spread, but it won't quite have the same impact on me like it would have had she done it before she fell off the face of the planet. Damn the man -- Top 5 recruiting class --
Oh, definitely HOT -- You can participate in the voting by following this link. I suggest that you don't hold back and give me the 10 I deserve. If my average score is above a 9 at the time NFL 2K3 ships for PS2, I'll give away a next generation console and post some nude pictures of Britney Spears.
Am I HOT or NOT? -- I originally submitted my whipped cream bikini photo, but for some reason it was rejected. Because of this, I decided to take a new, less revealing, photograph of myself wearing my old Miami Hurricanes football jersey. But guess what? It was also deemed unacceptable by the Nazi's at HOT or NOT. What the fuck is there problem? Are they afraid of my hotness or something? You can see my rejected photo on the right. Super Bowl upset -- My first thought was that it was going to be another boring Super Bowl blowout. But then I started thinking about some things. First, I thought the Patriots were going to be blown out by Pittsburgh in the AFC Championship and yet they managed to win that game -- they've been winning games that I didn't think they'd win all year long. Second, the Patriots have NOT been blown out all year, so why would it happen now? Those two points plus the fact that Super Bowls that have only a week layoff before them are always closer than those with the normal two weeks helped make me believe that the Pats might actually do it. They did and I'm pretty damn excited. The only downer is that I don't think Tom Brady should've won the MVP. The game was won by the defense (come on, they shut down the Greatest Show On Turf for God's sake) and someone on the D should've won the MVP.
Greetings and such --
For those that don't know me, my name is Dave Zdyrko and I'm currently working at Visual Concepts as a Production Assistant for the upcoming Sega Sports NFL 2K3 for Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo GameCube. Before lucking my way into this job, I had been working as an Editor for IGNPSX and IGNPS2, a job that I had for a little over two years. It was an awesome job, a dream job if you will, and it was preceded by a stint at Working Designs where I served as everything from Lead Tester, System Administrator, VP of Web Development (it's what I got to put on one of my E3 badges, at least), to "Vic's Bitch". I guess what really started it all were my fan sites called Dave's Sega Saturn Page and Eidolon Gamers' Society, which has completely fallen off of the face of the 'Net, so I don't have a link for you to check out. I did both of those Websites while living at home with my parents and it's safe to say that my work on these two sites helped me get my foot into the door of the videogame industry, as they like to say. Prior to starting these fan sites, my life included some college at the University of Delaware, a felony conviction and jobs at places like Taco Bell, various grocery stores that have changed their names several times, a few warehouses, a moving company and various other forms of torturous labor.
Considering that I'm a game geek through and through that loves all games, especially sports and RPGs, the jobs at Working Designs, IGN and Visual Concepts all could be considered dream jobs of sorts. I'm a lucky guy, I guess. Don't feel envious of me, though, because I haven't been blessed all that much outside of getting lucky with these employment opportunities. I've got diabetes, I'm about 100 lbs too fat, I haven't been intimate with a human female (don't ask why I used this particular phrase) since the first Bush administration (daddy Bush), and I still have knee and ankle problems that came about from injuries that I got while playing high school football for Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Delaware (1990 Division 1 State Champions, baby!). What can you expect from this page in the future? Not really all that much of importance. I plan to have sections that provide links to my previous work, plus new videogame reviews for those that may still want to read my opinions on such, maybe an editorial here and there, and various non-game related things. A Dave's Babe of the Week is almost a certainty and so is a section dedicated to Party Pics (digital photos I take at parties that I go to -- you can expect some hotties).
When will all this happen? I'm not really all that sure. Seeing that I've just started at VC and we're busy trying to get a game out, I don't foresee a lot of free time in my immediate future. I'll try to get this site going as quickly as possible, but I wouldn't expect something major until after we ship NFL 2K3. In the meantime, you might want to check out some of my most memorable articles over at IGN.com: In all, I probably wrote more than 10,000 articles for IGN and processed a million or so screenshots and movies. So there's a lot more than this for you to check out -- it's just that these are the articles that I've gotten the most feedback from when bumping into strangers who notice me on the street. My favorite was this one reader who asked, "Are you Dave Z of IGN?" and after I nodded yes, he responded with "I read your article called Big Dave In Little China...you're crazy!" Yes. Yes, I am. © 2002 by Dave Zdyrko. All Rights Reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyrights reserved herein, no part of this web site may be reproduced in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of the authors. ™ and © for all products, characters, and indicia related thereto which are contained herein are owned by the companies who market or license those products. If you have any comments or questions, please e-mail the Webmaster.
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You
can no longer say that you've never known someone that's won the lotto, because
I just won the California Lottery Super Lotto Plus! Just for the hell of it, I
decided to buy $5 worth of Quick Pick numbers and well...I JUST WON MYSELF THE
JACKPOT!!! 
