In addition to the junk, I also found some pretty cool things in my closet that I will be using for forthcoming updates. So stay tuned, I promise it'll be at least somewhat interesting. Ever wonder what I looked like when I was 11 years old and dressed up in an ugly ass green and yellow baseball uniform? Or what I looked like back in the 4th grade? Well, you'll soon find out!

Gotta pay the bills --
The Reverend is also trying to get rid of some of his excess goods on eBay, so if you're interested in items like these -- Bandai MG 1/100 ZZ Gundam Kit, Bandai MG 1/100 Gundam EZ8 Kit, Bandai MG 1/100 God Gundam Kit, Bandai MG 1/100 Ramba Ral Zaku I Kit, Neo Geo MVS Garou Mark of the Wolves, Neo Geo MVS Last Blade 2, Neo Geo MVS King of Fighters 96, Neo Geo MVS Four Slot JAMMA PCboard, Sega Saturn Japan Princess Crown By Atlus, Sega Saturn Fire Pro Wrestling 6-Man Scramble, Nadesico Complete Chronicles Anime DVD Box, Cowboy Bebop Anime DVD -- Complete Set Of Six, Sega Saturn Console -- Import Switch Included, Dragon Quest / Warrior Blue Slime Plush, Sega Saturn Japan Do Don Pachi Shooter, Bronze Zetsu Ai Poster Minami Ozaki, Final Fantasy Chronicles PlayStation New, Yasuhiro Nightow Gungrave Autograph Print, and Guilty Gear X Drafting Artworks - Autograph -- then you should check out David Smith's items up for sale on eBay.

Friday, January 24, 2003

My PC lot available on eBay --
Since I couldn't decide a fair way to determine who I should give the first chance to buy my lot of nearly 180 PC games, I decided to go ahead and just put it up on eBay. There's no reserve, so it's possible that you can get it for even less than the total I had initially offered it up for a couple of days ago. If it goes really high and you're one of the people that emailed me about it previously, I will go ahead and give you a discount off of the winning price, so keep that in mind.

Thursday, January 23, 2003

The hot girl from Dream.

PC game sale, part II --
I honestly didn't think that anyone would be interested in buying these games from this site, so I wasn't prepared to handle trying to figure out exactly who I'd give first dibs at buying the lot off of me. In total, I've already received about a dozen requests to buy the games and I'm not really sure what would be the fair way to handle this since many came at almost the exact same time. I'm going to try and think of something, but may just go ahead and put it up on eBay to give everyone an equal shot at it.

If I do choose that route, I'd likely give the people that have actually emailed me about it a discount on the winning bid if it goes over my original $65 asking price. We'll see, I guess. My other choices are to just offer it to the very first person who emailed me, even if it was by a second, or just throw all the names in a hat and pick one at random. I'll let you all know tomorrow.

Wednesday, January 22, 2003

180 PC Games For Sale --
First things first. I lied about putting up a new Babe of the Week today. I'm in a really bad mood and I've stared at a computer screen way too much today and need a little break. Should have one up for you tomorrow, but I'm making no promises.

With that out of the way, let's move on to the quick update. I'm going to be putting the majority of my PC games up for sale as a complete lot on eBay sometime this weekend or next week. But before I do, I figured I'd go ahead and see if any of you would be interested in purchasing the whole thing. I'm only looking for $50 for all 180 games, but would want whoever buys it to pay the shipping, so the total for all of it would be about $65 if I ship it USPS Media Mail with insurance. Here's a list of all 180 games included. If I don't hear from anyone by this weekend, I'm putting it up on eBay.

Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Weeding out the crap --
I'm not really a big fan of selling or getting rid of any games from my videogame collections, but I just needed some extra cash and I honestly had a lot of completely unplayable and crappy games on my shelf gathering dust. So, it made sense to go ahead and sell about 89 different titles from my Dreamcast, PlayStation, and PlayStation 2 videogame collections. I now have 44, 170, and 91 games for those three systems and will soon have about $320 extra in my wallet.

I've also managed to weed out a lot of the crap from my Music CD collection, which has pretty much been cut in half and is still filled with a whole lot of crap...but crap I still like to listen to. For this, I was able to get about $120 total for somewhere in the area of 70 total CDs. Not bad considering that I paid less than a buck each for the majority of them, as just about all of them were from Columbia House memberships that I'll never fulfill my obligations for.

And for those of you wondering about the Babe of the Week -- it's been cancelled forever. I'm gay and will doing Stud of the Week from now onward. You can just search for your own female porn by going to Google. Or just come back tomorrow when I should have a new Babe of the Week. It'll be some hot chick, but I don't know who yet. Maybe a pop star, maybe a model, maybe an actress. I honestly haven't decided and generally don't make my choice until the very last second, anyway.

Sunday, January 19, 2003

Before and After --
Tried downing 20 pills of Ex-Lax and puking up everything I had in my stomach, but it all wasn't enough to get my weight below the big 3 - 0 - 0. Weighed in this morning at a colossal 300.5 lbs, which is a net loss of approximately 86.0 lbs. Not bad, but I wanted to get below 300 for the first time since the summer of 1998. Flashback...

I moved to Redding, CA to work for Working Designs weighing in at about 320 lbs, but after five whole months of eating nothing but two bags of Ramen noodles per day (and four McDonald's 39 cent cheeseburgers on Sundays) I got down to 283 lbs. Then in June, I got a big raise and started eating like a pig again because I was sick of ramen, now had a budget of more than $20/month and was quickly back over 300 by the middle of the month. I haven't returned below that number since. 

I guess I'll just have to wait until next week to become a semi-happy man. Once I pass the 300 lbs mark, the next milestone will be 268.5 lbs, which is what I got down to after my big diet at the end of my senior year of high school in 1991. Once I drop below that weight, I will be lighter than I have ever been since roughly the 7th grade back in 1986.

Oh, yeah. For those that get off on seeing pictures of a semi-naked and completely gorgeous fat man, go ahead and check out my Before and After pictures showing the transformation from really really really fat man to really really fat man. Not pictured is the three extra inches I now have on my cock.

Saturday, January 18, 2003

Killing some time --
Didn't feel like sitting around the house all day being bored, so I jumped into the car with my Smith and my Bishop and killed some time at the Serremonte Mall down south and Best Buy across the Golden Gate with a nice little stop at Funcoland in between. Well, it's not called that anymore, but that's what I still think of it as. As is normally the case, I left with some new old-school games for my Sony PlayStation, Sega Genesis and Super NES. 

The games I picked up were Silent Hill for PSX, Crusader of Centy for the Genny, and Killer Instinct, Star Fox and F-Zero for SNES. Picked up Silent Hill because I only had a burn of it in my collection (some review burn Konami sent me while I was doing Eidolon Gamers' Society) and Crusader of Centy because it's the Genesis' answer to Zelda...umm, okay. As far as the SNES games are concerned, Killer Instinct has always sucked but I couldn't resist picking it up, F-Zero WAS a classic even though it's complete crap when you play it now and Star Fox...well, this will mark the third time I bought this game, as my previous two copies have mysteriously disappeared, so it's just a matter of tradition, I guess.

Friday, January 17, 2003

It's all about the RAM --
I was at the stage where I was extremely close to buying a new PC, or rather dreaming about buying one, when I decided to pick up a 128 MB SODIMM for my notebook computer to see if it would help make the damn thing chug less when I open two massive programs like Notepad and WordPad at the same time. Guess what? The damn thing flies now. Best of all, it only cost me a mere $24 to buy that RAM and it should help me go another six months or so before I next begin dreaming of a new and faster PC. Gotta love the price of RAM these days. 

Got games --
You also gotta love good videogames that you don't have to pay a cent for. I sure as hell do. Special thanks go out to my boys -- David Smith and Anthony Chau -- for hooking me up with retail copies of War of the Monsters for PlayStation 2 and Panzer Dragoon Orta for Microsoft's Xbox.  

Wednesday, January 15, 2003

Dear Britney... --
I just emailed this to Britney's fan mail address listed on her official website. My fingers are crossed. Wish me luck! 

I know that you must be crushed and humiliated knowing that your ex-boyfriend Justine Timberlake will be going on tour with your arch-rival Christina Aguilera. I'm also sure that it must hurt you even more knowing that Christina is so tremendously slutty that there's no denying the fact that the two will have sex quite often, especially considering she supposedly banged at least three of her dancers while on her last tour and undoubtedly knocked boots with countless others during that same period. 

The reason I'm writing is that I have the PERFECT plan at revenge. Your first reaction will indubitably be to deny that you're hurt, then you'll eventually come to accept it and slip into deep depression. After time, you'll surely move on to wanting to get back at Justine. That's where I come in. I am the perfect revenge. Sure, it might make sense to try and nail some hot male celebrity to hurt him, but that won't really accomplish anything. It'll just go back and forth and you'll only lose out in the end because we all know that the more a girl sleeps with the more her reputation is hurt, while pure numbers have the polar opposite effect on men in this two-faced society. 

What I'm suggesting is that you go out with and sleep with me. At first, the media will claim that you've hit rock bottom since you would have moved from superstar Justine Timberlake to some random ugly fat bastard, which would seemingly make for horrible revenge. But hear me out. Sleep with me often, be seen with me in public, and when asked about your relationship with me, tell the truth -- that I'm the world's greatest lover and that I'm 1,000 times the man that Justine Timberlake could ever and will ever be. Tell the world that I could bring you to orgasm more times in a single love making session than Justine could in a lifetime, add to that by saying that my manhood is much larger than his and, most importantly, that I'm not some scared little boy that's hiding in the closet because he's too afraid to lose his teenybopper audience who would be destroyed if they knew he preferred man loving.  

It'll be a huge slap in the face to Justine, he'll cry like a baby, and then Christina, her whore nature notwithstanding, will kick him to the road and will eventually try to hook up with me. When she does, I'll convince her to let me give her some anal loving and then have her suck me dry afterwards while recording every single second of it. Soon after, all in the world with access to the Internet will have seen a video of your nemesis getting painfully banged from behind and then licking off the very weapon that penetrated her dirrty booty hole. Justine and Christina will both be humiliated and you will have had the opportunity to have sex with me -- the world's greatest lover. 

I appreciate your time and hope that you think about taking me up on this offer. It would work and your life would be better because of it.

Yours truly,

Dave Z

Sunday, January 12, 2003

The former king --
Surprisingly, the "Dear Dave" section had been the top trafficked section on my web site for eight straight months before being dethroned by the Babe of the Week in the month of December. I guess the cold weather and the ensuing covering up the girls do when it's wintertime has increased the overall level of horniness in young men. Maybe "Dear Dave" will come back in January, maybe it won't. Who cares, though, it's updated and that's all that matters! Right?

Time to start working out again --
My little break from working out ended up lasting about four weeks. Luckily, for me, I still lost 20 lbs during that period, bringing my overall weight down to its current 305.0 lbs resting place. That's about 81.5 lbs and a tiny bit more than 5 lbs per week since I began this thing about 16 weeks ago. I'll be in the gym first thing tomorrow morning, so the non-working out streak will come to an end -- well, I actually ran a couple of times during that month off, so it was an iffy streak, at best. 

Monday, January 6, 2003

Down to 309 --
Only 2 lbs of weight lost for the past week, but nothing to complain about. As of my Sunday weigh in, I'm now a svelte 309.0 lbs. Week could've been better, but I put on 13 lbs after my free day last Sunday that saw me eat a whole serving of General Gau's Chicken from Beijing on Irving. Funny thing was that how much I ate that day was actually less than what I was normally eating when I ordered food from that place before I started this diet stuff. I'm surprised I wasn't 500 lbs now that I look back at it. 

And, for those of you that seem bewildered, I am still very fat and tremendously overweight. I'm not as fat as I was 3 1/2 months ago, but I'm still a whole Christina Aguilera or Natalie Portman heavier than any man should be. So, if you're emailing me to bitch about something, there's no need to refer to me as a "fat fuck" because it's an already known fact that's pointless to reiterate. By the way, normal updates should continue this week assuming the negative emails calm the fuck down. However, considering the topic of my subsequent comments, that may not actually come to pass. We'll see, I guess.

Rule 7, Section 3, Article 8c. --
Defensive pass interference is contact beyond the neutral zone by a Team B player whose intent to impede an eligible opponent is obvious and it could prevent the opponent the opportunity of receiving a catchable forward pass. When in question, a legal forward pass is catchable. Defensive pass interference occurs only after a legal forward pass is thrown. It is not defensive pass interference if it is the type that occurs:

1. When, after the snap, opposing players immediately charge and establish contact with opponents at a point that is within one yard beyond the neutral zone.
2. When two or more eligible players are making simultaneous and bona fide attempt to reach, catch or bat the pass. Eligible players of either team have equal rights to the ball.
3. When a Team B player legally contacts an opponent before the pass is thrown.

That, my friends, is the official NCAA rule that defines pass interference -- the specific penalty that was called against Miami on OSU's fourth down play in the first overtime. What happened in the games was CLEARLY not pass interference and all of you that emailed me saying otherwise are CLEARLY complete morons. 

Yes, contact was made. But the contact was legally initiated within one yard of the neutral zone and after the snap and before the forward pass was thrown. Yes, there was still contact after the ball had been thrown, but it was legally started prior to the pass being put into the air. No, there wasn't any additional contact made after the initial contact was made and subsequently released. The Miami DB did NOT intend to impede an eligible opponent in an obvious manor that could prevent the opponent from having an opportunity to receive a catchable forward pass, as seen by the fact that he had no problem putting two hands on the ball before the Miami defender touched him again. 

If you've watched any football in your life (and have a brain and actually pay attention to things), you'd know that the amount of contact made on that play was the norm in these types of situations. If what happened was really a penalty, then the number of holding or pass interference calls per game should be increased by about 20-25 because that's how often that kind of contact happens. The pass interference call was complete bullshit and should NOT have been called under ANY circumstances, let alone at such a crucial time in a National Championship game where the common standard is to "let the players play" -- which is why you saw so many non-calls throughout the entire game for BOTH football teams.

Congrats to the National Champions, the Ohio State Buckeyes --
All that said, bad calls are part of the game and Miami still had countless other opportunities to win and didn't come through. A bad call is not an excuse to blame for a lost football game regardless of when or where it happens. In the end, OSU played well enough to win and Miami did not. 

There were also many non-calls or bad calls that went in Miami's favor that could've changed the entire outlook of the game, so it's not like that call was the only bad one made (the officiating sucked overall). There was a REAL holding penalty that was NOT called on Miami's DB on a crucial 3rd down play that helped setup Miami's field goal to tie the game -- and it's also arguable that the receiver was in-bounds anyway when he caught the ball. If either of these calls were correctly made, there's a possibility that the Buckeyes could've got one more first down and ended the game without Miami ever touching the football again.  

The sad truth is that officials, like players, make mistakes and mistakes are part of football or any other sport. Miami was not able to overcome the bad calls that went against them, while OSU was able to overcome the bad calls that were made in Miami's favor. 

Countless other things also went wrong for Miami that helped lead to the final outcome. You could put together a "What if..." list that could go on for weeks if you wanted to -- What if McGahee didn't get injured? What if Dorsey didn't miss that wide open 3rd down pass in the 2nd OT? What if Sean Taylor doesn't get stripped by Clarett? What if Parrish doesn't fumble the ball? What if Parrish breaks ONE more tackle on that same play? What if the ref didn't call that penalty? But to be quite frank, "What if..." are words only uttered by the fans of the losing team (Miami players, to a man, are all blaming themselves personally for the loss and not using the pass interference call as an excuse, by the way. They are not the classless hoodlums that many of you are calling them. These are not the Hurricanes of the '80s and early '90s.).

The bottom line is that the football team for The Ohio State University played a game deserving of a National Championship. They made less mistakes than the team from Miami, they made more big plays, the played a better overall game of football and they overcame their own mishaps and those of the officiating crew and WON the football game. 

Congratulations must go out to all the Buckeye players, their alumni, and their football fans. That was one hell of a game and your team has played one hell of a season. They were the better team on that day and they were the better of the two teams that played in each of their previous 13 games leading up to the National Championship. That is why the Ohio State Buckeyes are this year's National Champs and can fittingly be called the best team in all college football (USC fans might be able to argue they could've won a playoff, but until we use one to decide the champs, you'll have to make it through the season without losing two games before you make any claims for the title).  

Let's Go Canes! --
Win or lose, I'm a diehard Miami Hurricanes fan and will be one until the day I die. I wore my colors proudly even during the down years after the probation when we were getting spanked on a regular basis every year by FSU and countless others. The loss in the Fiesta Bowl doesn't diminish my love for the team, but rather enhances it. 

For Miami, it's time to reload that juggernaut and begin a new winning streak. We should be in good hands with Crudup, Berlin, Ortega or Kyle Wright at the helm. Gore was expected to be the top RB this season, anyway, so we should be fine with him next year assuming he's fully recovered from his torn ACL injury that happened last spring. Our receiving corps should be fine as well with players like Roscoe Parrish returning. We lose most of our defensive line, including back-ups, but we should be okay there if Vince Wilfork stays. And our LBs and secondary should even be better this time around since most everyone will be back with a full year's worth of experience under their belts.

Once again, we should be in the running for yet another National Championship, even though I'd have to say that the early favorites to go all the way would be the teams from Ohio State and Oklahoma. Regardless, five National Championships over 19 years isn't anything to be ashamed of, neither is losing to a quality team like Ohio State in almost away-like conditions, and no fan -- including ones as demanding and as crazed as myself -- can really complain about a 35-2 record and three top two finishes over the last three seasons. And unlike the teams of the '80s and early '90s, they've done it with a lot more class.

Friday, January 3, 2003

Pass interference, my ass --
One of the worst calls in the history of college football. I'm not going to say any more. Please, do NOT email me about the football game or anything else for that matter. I will not reply to anything and will be deleting everything that I receive regardless of who it's from and what it's about. Don't expect any updates to this website for a while.  

Thursday, January 2, 2003

Long replies, your letters --
It probably doesn't show, but I actually took some time on this update to the "Dear Dave" section. It's not as good as the previous one because it lacks "408" and that alone made that day's letters worth checking out. She looks to me almost like a purely white Kristin Kreuk, which basically means that this girl is hella cute because ole Lana Lang is one of the hottest babes you'll ever see on TV these days. Well, "Dear Dave" is there for your reading, so go read it now or be cursed with everlasting blue balls.

Wednesday, January 1, 2003

Dave Z's Best of 2002 Awards --
One of my least favorite parts of doing the editorial crap back at IGN was the arguing over what was the best game of the year. The sad truth was that the arguments were typically stupid and rarely did everyone involved in the voting actually play through all of the games being voted on. 

Seriously, how can I say whether or not Grand Theft Auto III, Halo, or Super Smash Bros. Melee was the best game of the year when I hadn't even played more than a single match in Super Smash Bros. Melee and hadn't finished all of the main story missions in GTA III at the time? Halo won game of the year for 2001 and I was only one of two editors that had completed it at the time of the voting and I didn't even give my vote to it. My vote ended up going to a game that I hadn't even played through.

Then there's the fact that you'll piss off millions of people with whatever game you give the award to, even though most of the people angered by the choice hadn't even played through 1/10th of the games in the year that the average IGN editor was able to play. I didn't tally up what I had played in my last full year at the company, which was 2001, but I had played completely through or finished significant amounts of more than 150 games in 2000 while I was working for IGN. I seriously doubt any reader who wrote in to bitch could say the same because only a person whose job was to play through those games could've found enough time to do so.

That's what's so good about doing awards for a personal website that reaches an audience about 0.000001% of what a publication like IGN reached. My awards go solely to the games that I personally liked the most and they only include games that I have personally played. What's more, not enough people actually read this site to really give a damn about what I choose because nothing that I say really matters at all. It's a beautiful situation, I think. Anyway, on with the awards...

Dave Z's Best of 2002 Awards

A week without a babe --
Since I ended up having a horrible, party-less, and drunk-less New Year's Eve last night despite bold plans to get shit-faced drunk and waking up to begin the new year face down in my own vomit in some gutter, I've decided that this week didn't deserve a babe. So, there will not be a new Babe of the Week until Monday, January 6th, 2003. Sorry. Well, I'm not really, but you can pretend I am if you're bothered by it. If you simply MUST have a babe, just check out the link in the last "Dear Dave" update. I'm sure it'll hold you over for this week and possibly more.

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