ANDRé BARDIN
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[Boilerplate text about being a broke writer with humble aspirations and a desire to not live the rest of my life counting pennies and eating gas station food.] ----- Dejected and self-loathing 20something LGBT comedian eternally trapped in the 1990's and living in an unfriendly world. Scrapes by in life waxing pseudo-philosophically and nostalgically about video games, Internet culture, and mass media on a website called "GatorAIDS". Also fails as a game designer.
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In the 1980's the market for video games took a turn for the worst but out of the ashes rose a brilliant new age of gaming. Community writer André Bardin takes a look at the corruption in the world's current video game economy and provides five reasons why it's time for another "cleansing by fire".
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 | Comments (4)
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Community writer André Bardin steps up to January's writing challenge and presents 6 video game peripherals that embody his "shame is plastic" ethos.
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We're betting most of you enjoyed Pokemon Red & Blue without noticing anything out of the ordinary... however lurking just under the surface of Nintendo's best-selling game lay a number of bizarre and potentially game-breaking glitches straight out of your worst nightmares. Community writer Andre ventures into the unknown in this feature.
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Is there a Gamerscore addict hiding inside of you somewhere? Whether it's a shameful secret or a badge of honor community writer Andre takes a look at six Xbox achievements that, for reasons provided, are among the most frustratingly difficult to obtain.
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A look back at the original Project Natal teaser trailer with a comparison of what Microsoft demonstrated and what the Kinect system can actually do.
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The Spyro community is buzzing with seething hatred of the upcoming Skylanders: Spyro's Adventures. Find out why dozens of long-time fans of the cute purple dragon are up in arms at this latest atrocity.
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The values of the six rarest and most valuable games of all time quantified by NBA Live 1995, arguably the least valuable game ever released for a game console. Learn about the history of these rare games, get a laugh out of how many copies of NBA Live 95 it takes to equal them, and have your mind blown with awesome trivia!
COMMENTS BY THIS AUTHOR (25)
""Dracophile". Not original because it's just a word and other people use it, but original enough that most people wouldn't expect to see it as a username somewhere."
Thursday, May 24, 2012
"I'm more upset at how tiny the map is. At first I thought I just had a bad seed and the map just cut off and spawned water in one direction forever, but I played with a friend and I found a CORNER where this happened. Eventually we pieced together that the entire map is super small and takes about 20 minutes to completely cross in one direction. That's what got my goat. Originally the edge of the PC map took 100+ days to get to the end because it kept generating new land and only ended when the game's algorithms just could not process any more data. Here there's like a stop, and there's an invisible wall too because I built a boat to try and cross the ocean."
Sunday, May 13, 2012
"I had to scroll up to double check that I did not post something on Bitmob, forget about it, and then see it spontaneously show up on the front page. Turns out no I did not write this, but if I were to write my feelings on the subject it would look exactly like your article. I gave up on "the dream" a long time ago, really. I acknowledge that thanks to the Internet the market is a lot more accessible, but far more diluted with nasally two-bit morons on YouTube and message boards making it nigh impossible to be seen among the sea of retards. I write humor as a hobby now and I don't expect to ever make a living off of it.

I still WRITE, though. Just not about video games only. I've never given shit advice to a single person who's ever asked me, and honestly if people are willing to dispense advice consisting solely of "give up" I'd reply with "if I wanted to hear that kind of BS I'd have just asked myself for advice, douchebag."

Here's a piece of advice that most people give out, but people hardly understand. Find a niche. No, I'm serious. Find a specific kind of audience that you know you can speak to, and hammer it to hell. If your speciality is solely JRPG's with jailbait protagonists and the potentially illegal sexual situations they get caught up in, then chase the hell out of it. Your experience and knowledge in a given field will show and people who want to genuinely be entertained or informed will seek out the best possible avenues for it.

Also, fuck the "inner circle". Make your own circle in your free time and play by your own rules. You won't make near as much money, but the freedom to be yourself and follow your own ideals and disciplines will be well worth the effort."

Monday, March 19, 2012
"Yeah, it is still in the rumor mill. It might be a misunderstanding regarding digital distribution, it might be something started by a rival company, it could be anything. Since it's not as rigid of a reason as the others, with only rumor reporting to back it up, that's why I stuck it at #5. Same with GameStop at #4. Despite the fact they own a GIANT chunk of the market, the term "monopoly" is still kind of subjective.

I'm HOPING the 720 thing is just a misunderstanding, though. Otherwise that's just a clousterfukken waiting to happen."

Tuesday, February 07, 2012
"Amen to that. I've previously stated my peace on Kinect here, haha. As for the bongos... the ed's added that in. XD I never really had a chance to play Donkey Konga, but it sounded goofy. The bongos were the iconic "shame is plastic poster accessory" though, so I'm guessing that's why they showed up in my article. :P"
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
"An honor to last the ages, I must say! 

I have a question. When the ed's proofread the article, there were some mistakes made that I feel kinda bring down the quality of the article. The numbers were removed from my listing, but only 2/3rds of them. The Dreamcast keyboard and N64 Transfer Pak still have numbers 5 and 4 next to them.

The chromatics of when I "revisited" Marky Mark are also a bit skewed. I made a passing reference that I had already played the game recently (within the past year) when I was working on my publication. When that sentence was rewritten it seems to detract the flow.

I just wanted to know, am I allowed to edit the article myself and take out the numbers? Or is it now something that the Bitmob ed's have to do because the article has been promoted?"

Wednesday, February 01, 2012
"Oh, I acknowledged that the Transfer Pak still serves its purpose just as well today as it did in the late 90's. I neglected to mention Stadium 2 just becuase of the redundancy, so I figured lumping them together as "Pokemon Stadium" would make things more concise.

I never played Mario Golf or Tennis. Or owned them, rather. A friend of mine had the games and I hated them. I don't like sports games at all, and fluffy whimsical sports games with Nintendo characters are just as bad to me. I understand the appeal of Mario Golf and Tennis but I still didn't like the games. From an objective standpoint I looked at the games compatible with the Transfer Pak in NA only: Pokemon, Perfect Dark, Mickey, and two sports games. That's not cool to me, especially when there were tons of other games in Japan in varying genres.

Back in the 90's the Transfer Pak probably was a better deal than having two Game Boys, but today it's just kinda clunky. I put it in the list mostly because of how poorly it has aged and that it's not really useful once it's been driven into the ground. :("

Tuesday, January 31, 2012
"As a comm theory graduate I saw the by-line of the article and I was rather intrigued, though the article is a little lacking in depth and analysis the theory is there. I hadn't heard ot he "press X to win" argument, then again if Naughty Dog wants us to pretend like we're using the PS Move to climb a mountainside then they better get something that refines the Move. Or just ship the game with a rock wall.

(Also, I study and learn about cetaceans as a hobby. Dolphins, I'm assuming the common bottlenose, don't generally maul the faces of each other to say hello. Dolphins rake each other with their teeth as part of mating habits, and it's usually done on their fins. You know. Just so you know. XD)"

Friday, January 06, 2012
"Indeed. :P The game stores each of the 2 fossiles (Kabutops and Aerodactyl) plus the Ghost from Pokemon Tower in one of the MissingNo files. When you go to the museum it calls for just the pictures. The skeleton ones are pretty creepy but you will only encounter them if your name has certain letters/symbols in it. I thought about including them, but neglected to just because the "Original" MissingNo was far more common. :("
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
"As far as I know, anything that is stored in the section govered "Pokemon", even if it isn't a Pokemon at all (like the Charizard M), can be traded in the Link Center, and between R/B to Yellow. Glitch Pokemon present in R/B have different counterparts in Yellow (for example, "M" turns into "3TrainerPOKe" when traded to Yellow).

What I am interested in are glitch Pokemon from the Red/Green Japanese game. If there's a different roster between Red/Blue and Yellow, then there is no doubt in my mind Red/Green has some interesting stuff!

Thanks for the thumbs up! :)"

Wednesday, December 07, 2011
"Hehe, yea the requirements are honestly no-brainers, right up there with "reach level 30" and "amass one million dollars" but due to the heavy patching required for the game (and the amount of bugs still present) I opted to go with the inclusion of Borderlands on the merits of poor programming/QA rather than Mad Moxxi's ridiculously impossible DLC. I don't know a single person who didn't use a modded gun and shield for that crap."
Sunday, October 02, 2011
"I'm proud of my Little Rocket Man achievement.

But honestly, after doing THAT? Never again. Never."

Monday, August 22, 2011