The Stupid Gamer

I’ll be gone all this week traveling to Colorado for a much needed vacation. Look for updates when I get back.

Well, I thought you people just didn’t like me. It seems that commenting was messed up for a while here on the blog, but it’s fixed now. So yeah, get back to posting your comments and we’ll all be happy.

Oh, and E3 summaries for days 2 and 3 will be up shortly. There will also be a post-E3 podcast as well, hopefully in the next couple of days.

I don’t get an enormous amount of feedback outside of commenting on the site, but lately I’ve been getting some direct emails (thanks!) from people asking when the next podcast is going up and when I’m going to get back to updating the site. I’ve been wrapped up with a handful of things, including a trip to California, some sickness, a root canal, late work nights, and STREET FIGHTER IV!

I’ll get back to normal posting real soon, including a strategy guide for Street Fighter IV, which will cover basics for newcomers to the series or to those that are just rusty because they haven’t played Street Fighter since the ’90s. I apologize for the gap between podcast releases, and we even had a plan to podcast today but I absolutely crashed when I got home from work. Five nosebleeds in one day will do that to you, you know.

First of all, there won’t be a podcast this week because I’ve not been able to sleep the past 4 nights due to a terrible toothache (broken tooth, now infected), and I’m barely getting through my work days, let alone having the time to put together a show. Sorry to both of you listeners out there.

Secondly, some of you have probably noticed that the site has been going down for 10-20 minute periods lately, with some lasting up to an hour or two. Well, it appears that our site is outgrowing it’s humble hosting environment and we’ll probably have to find a more robust and reliable option soon. This is both good news and bad news. The good news is that we’re obviously getting a lot more readers, but it’s bad because it’s obviously going to cost us more, and we don’t make enough on ads to offset that cost. Heck, we don’t make anything on ads, they just look cool over there. So until these downtimes become more of an issue, we’ll just deal with them, but we’re aware we’ll need to make a move eventually.

Thanks, for the continued support, and look for a new podcast next week. For now, I suggest catching RebelFM and the Giant Bombcast.

Sorry, listener(s), but there won’t be a podcast this week. After undergoing the upgrading of phone, cable TV, and Internet services last night in the Stupid Gamer offices (my basement), we had some technical issues that prevented me from being able to record. We’ll be back next week, sexier than ever.

Kind of.

Sorry guys, Jeff is at the EA Black Box event right now and I am unable recruit a co-host to replace him, so the podcast will not happen tonight. But fear not, for I remain committed to bringing you fine people a podcast once every week. So instead of just cancelling the podcast it is delayed till Wednesday so you can either expect it that night or Thursday morning, depending on how Jeff feels. Once again I am sorry for the delay.

You may have noticed that posts stopped abruptly for a while on the blog, but I’ve worked out all the technical issues that were keeping me from accessing my site’s backend. I’ll admit it, I’m no programmer, so when I’m being told to check this or re-write that, it takes me some time to figure out. Anyway, after some editing of php, some database tweaking, replacing some corrupt files, and nearly peeing my pants with fear on every overwrite and deletion, I’ve managed to get this baby back off of life support. I think I’m totally going to celebrate with a cookie.

Dang. I don’t have any cookies.

Hey everybody, I’ll be out of town and away from the Internet until August 18th. Where am I going? I can’t say.

I’ll be in Alaska, catching some poor and defenseless fishies.

Ok, I’ve had a bunch of emails and a few comments asking about the Stupid Gamer Podcast. It’s not dead, and it will be back soon. For those that don’t know, Stephen had another open heart surgery, and this one really knocked him on his butt. He’s just getting to the point where he’s on his feet again, so it will be some time before he’s back to 100% and ready to hit the mic again. On Miguel’s end, he’s had some terrible misfortune as well. Miguel got hit by some robbers that came into his home and took his laptop, Wii, DS, GBA, GameCube, games, CDs, and much, more. Basically anything of value got taken, and the likelihood of getting his stuff back anytime soon is worse than Nintendo dropping Friend Codes.

A good luck kiss for Miguel and Steve (somehow through Mario…).

So the podcast will be back, but I’ll most likely be flying solo for a few weeks. Miguel is working on a fix for his situation, but these things take time. Stephen is still waiting on his ticker to get better, but you know he’ll come back strong.

If you’ve been checking the site over the past day or two you’ve probably ran into some odd errors or site downtime. This is all due to server upgrades, so the growing pains are to help things run a bit better overall. I think we’re pretty much out of the woods at this point, so everything should be back to 100% now. If you do visit and see the site down in the next day or two, we’ll be back online shortly. Sorry, but we’re never going to die.