Apparently, someone is pretending to be me on XBL.

I just got a few heated emails from people on here, which claim that they added "verbtex" on XBL. Little does this "verbtex" know, is that I am the real verbtex. There is no other verbtex.

Therefore, if you know me on this site, please do not add "verbtex". If you get messages from this person, this is not me. It is a very well known that my gamertag is seceret because I am dead embarrased of it. If you would like to flame this person for being me, that's on you.

I can't believe this happened. Anyways, please just disreguard any messages you get from him, okay?

System wars has divided by zero.

Dictionary for System Wars Users

This list may change from time to time as System Wars changes with everythread posted. However, currently known words include:

~HYPE (noun) word used to describe the expected results. Example: The hype on that game is AAA ( for the A's, see later part of survial guide)

~SERIES (adj) coined word for "serious" Example: Are you for real? I'm dead series.

If your reading this blog, please help me with more words used in System Wars, I'm really drawing a blank at the moment.

Explaining the A's

~AAAA (or AAAAE) - this is a game that scores a perfect 10 in the review only found on Gamespot. com, unless specified by the post.

~AAA (or AAAE) - this is a game which scores a 9.0 or 9.5 in the review only found on Gamespot.com, unless specified by the post

~AA (or AAE) - this is a game which scores a 8.0 or 8.5 in the review only found on Gamespot.com, unless specified by the post

~A (or AE) - this is a game which scores a 7.0 or 7.5 in the review only found on Gamespot.com, unless specified by the post

This is the proper way to hype a game. If you believe a game is going to get an 8.5, then you hype it as an AA game. It may also be an AAE game which means it will be exclusive, which will come up next.

The Rules of Exclusivity

This may seem really tricky so I will try to break it down for you as much as possible. Please be aware though, that these rules change from poster to poster, so just try to form to them. However, these rules are what I believe are the most fair and most descriptive rules.

1. A game found on only 1 system is exclusive. (This means it is only found on one system. For example, if it is found on the PS3, and if it appears on the PC, PS2, Xbox360, Wii, DS, or PSP, it loses its rights of being called exclusive)

2. A game is a called exclusive until the relase of the same game on another console. From the announcement of the game coming to another system until the game actually releases on said second system, the game is called a time exclusive. (To explain, lets say this really great game came out on the Xbox360 in December. It would be called exclusive. Now March comes, and they announce it for the PS3 coming in July. It is then called a timed exclusive. Once it releases on the PS3 in July, it loses its rights of ever being called an exclusive.)

3. Games found on two or more systems are called multiplats. This is always true. It can never be called exclusive, unless it follows under the next rule.

4. Games found on systems made by the same company are called ___ exclusives (fill in the name with the name of the founding company. )

~ If it is only found on the Xbox and Xbox360, it is called a Microsoft Exclusive.

~ If it is only found on the PS2, PS3, and PSP, it is called a Sony Exclusive.

~If it is only found on the Wii or DS, it is called a Nintendo Exclusive.

5. The last rule. Games found on both the PC and the Xbox360 can NEVER be called Microsoft exclusives. (This is kind of obvious. Although it may be true that they are both run on systems that were developed by Microsoft, there are Sony computers. And since Sony is also a competitor, it therefore loses rights to be called exclusive.)

More to come in later posts.

Please feel free to add whatever you want, and correct any mistakes I make. If you don't agree with something, just give me a holler, and I will try to work it out. I'm hoping to make this into an eventual thread.

After seeing many people get in lots of trouble, and not knowing how System Wars is supposed to work, I have decided to start my own guide, which may or may not be made into a thread in the future.

Welcome to System Wars! A land of many Lulz, defeat, ownage, and blood.

Chapter 1: System Wars Basics

Locating System Wars

~Open up the portal of your choice to the land of interwebs. Type "www.gamespot.com" in the messenger bar. Have the magic take you away to the home page of GS. Click on the Forums tab on top, and scroll down to System Wars.

If you're reading this, you're doing it right.

Basic terminology

In the land of System Wars *cough* Sparta!*cough*, we only use english, but there are many different dialects. For example:

~We have the all upper caps. Example : I HATE THE (insert system name here). This is often used to show anger, and is a very dangerous and rarely spoken dialect. (m)

~We have the LOLSpeak. Example : teh waggle on teh Wii is bery lame. This is also a very rare dialect, and often used in the lulz.

~We have the L33T Speak. Exapmle: 1 PWNED j00 en H4l0 3. Very rare dialect in System Wars, and is almost exclusive to newcomers (m)

~We also have the informed speak. Example: This (thing a ma bobber) connects to the (do hickey) which causes (a boom)." Replace these with smart words

*(M) signifies moddable speak. That of which can get you in trouble here at gamespot. For more information on modding, please see a later chapter.

Next come the Fanboy Nicknames

~Cows are those who are devout supporters of the Playstation and its entire franchise(comes from 6th gen characteristics where many accesories were needed to get the full experience, like the multi-tap, additional controllers, hard drives, eye toy, etc. This was called "milking" therefore getting the name "cows")

~ Fakeboys are those who falsely support one system. They are often used to create false hype for new games or products, making a certain type of fanboy look very bad when said product doesn't fully deliver as expected. (m)

~Fanboys are those who support a console, and show extreme disgust for other consoles.

~ Hermits are those who support the PC. (Origin unknown to me, but it would be nice if someone helped me out. I think it has something to do with PC people not being able to find a home amongst teh console gamers.)

~ Lemmings are those who support the Xbox and its entire franchise ( Origin uknown to me)

~ Sheep are those who support the Wii and its entire franchise (Origin uknown to me)

~ Manticores are those who support all systems. Its a rarely used term. Now you see "multi system owners" in place of it.

More to come in later posts

I'd say its a great start.

By Sirius XM.

Their service has been ridiculous since they merged.

~Their service cuts off when you are around trees that are too big, or go under overpasses, and sometimes getting too close to buildings causes it to make a weird schreeching sound.

~They charge a $2.00 invoice fee. Yes you read that right, they charge you to charge you.

GROSS!

I'm ending my subscription as soon as this is one is up, especially since their 90's channels suck since the merge.

I officially got my Triple Butterfly Emblem.

I'm disappointed in so many things right now.

Foremost, myself. I was sick last week and don't have the energy to do my make up homework.

I'm disappointed in myself that I can't even be happy for a few seconds around this time of year. The days around the holidays are anniversaries of some hard things.

I'm disappointed that I didn't go to a party tonight. It might have cheered me up, but seeing the holiday decorations might have just made me even more miserable.

I'm disappointed in myself that I can't even act normal around this time of year.

I'm disappointed in this time of year that I can't stop crying.

Next, Gamespot:

Not 1 award AT ALL went to LBP. I loved braid and all, but how did it win Platformer of the Year? What happened to LBP? LBP had trampled Braid a few times over in the votes.

Where's gears 2 for game of the year. Its in my top 5 of 2008.

Why does Braid get all this love, and MGS4? I guess you could say I'm a little jealous, but this is just ridiculous, any way you spin it.

And because I don't want to get you guys down too much...

Happy holidays

Even though mine won't be so cheery.

You know, the third illiteration curse seems to appear everywhere.

Look at the PS3, it dropped to the bottom.

The N64 dropped also, it was Nintendo's third console.

Which is why I kind of worry for the next Xbox. What if that is the last Xbox console? If after 3 generations, and not being on the top any of that time, I would have given up. I don't think I could take failure for first place 3 times in a row.

Also, whats gonna happen after we get the realistic graphics? And great sound?

Whats Nintendo gonna do to keep fueling its sucess, surely it can't have the next Wii stay exactly the same, the same thing doesn't work forever.

Where is Sony gonna find the money to create a powerful console? Or are they gonna pull a more casual route next year?

Where's Duke Nukem Forever?

Will Home be done by then?

I have some worries for this upcoming gen. The Video game industry never suffered such a bad economic time. Sure, the crash was pretty bad, but we got over it. Plus it was only video games that crashed and almost died. It wasn't like whole global economy died at the same time.

Only the future tells, but people, lets get some insight and some thoughts going. After all, the companies may be watching.

Note: I do not work for any gaming companies, but I hear a few scouts do go internet searching for suggestions. So, release your ideas here, they gotta go somewhere.

ONLYDOD is banned yet again.

How sad.

Lets hope we can track him down other ways, I miss the way he would post on EVERY topic in system wars, similar to one of our all time favorites: thrones.

Turns out that ReverseCycology has been banned as well.

Who would have guessed. :/

Anyways, you won't be one of the more liked users in the system wars users hall of fame.

But you fit in with the hall of infamy.

Yep, another person is banned, Superjim42.

Reasons unknown, but most guess it was his rude comments and remarks which led him that way.

Diretoad is banned.

Let there be a moment of silence to commemorate the loss of the self ownage.

Oh yeah, for those of you who don't remember, it was the poster with the sig of that girl with the crazy eyes.

Please add me on PSN. 

My ID is Verbtex.

I am interested to see your guy's interest in LittleBIGPlanet.

Plus I need more people to play with, the ones that are currently on my list usually aren't in my timezone, not making it very fun.

Note: I don't add ANYONE on Xbox Live.  So don't even ask for my gamertag.  I'm sickly embarrassed of the name, which my cousin picked for me.  When this year is up, I'm gonna switch to a new alias.

First off, lets get this straight.  We all know how much we hate annoying little no levels posting at system wars.  We all know how bad the fanboys are.

However, placing a level limit may clean up system wars, it will ultimately be more disasterous for those in other forums.  The wars between the mindless fanboys and stuff would be overflowing on the systems threads, which would make any speak whatsoever pointless.

So, no more saying "under level 5 can't post".  Its pointless.  System wars was created to contain all of the trolling that regularly goes on in other forums.

Which is why I propose a few ideas to the world of gamespot:

1 ) Create a Union, and only invite those who you can trust to have meaningful conversation similar to system wars.

2) To the creators of gamespot : Create a forum just for funnys/spam.  It would clean up a lot of other stuff, and keep the account suicides to the minimum in meaningful threads and or boards.

3) only post on blogs, and completely avoid system wars, and just let the fanboys kill themselves over, they will get bored eventually.

So yeah, just my little 2 cents on that whole " you can't post under level 5" statement.  I personally would like to see it raised to about 20, and have them rate at least 40 games, and have at least 30 blog posts before they are granted the right to post anywhere.  

That, in my opinion, would completely get rid of most bandodgers, and would clean up not only system wars, but the gamespot community as a whole.

So, the rumors are true.  Wolf_Avatar has been banned.

He was most recognized for his "Fur is Muder" sayings and his legendary signature.

This blog post is to commemeorate the loss.

Here is his legendary signature.

Now that all that drama is over, and things are better, but not great, I will be back and on as usual.

I'm looking forward to my 4 day weekend, and kinda don't like how fast this school year is going.

I'm actually getting kinda sad.

But still gotta enjoy the weekend.

Somewhat losing it.

I'm going to take a break and sort everything out right now. This is my announcement that I will be on gamespot less for a little while.

And for you worry warts around there, I'm fine, just gonna take a long time to think about something.

I'm excited for my 4 day weekend.

After some extensive debating with a store manager, I convinced him to sell the copies of LBP he had in his gamestop.

So, I got my game yesterday, October 27th. And am I glad.

However the servers aren't up, and theres no real purpose in playing right now, its just story mode, which is fun, but slightly challenging.

Verbtex over and out!

Any questions...feel free to ask in the comments.