(WARNING!

This commentary features really personal issues, none which has anything to do with the current game show landscape. If you're looking for stuff of that ilk, I advise reading Game Show News Net, or Game Show Weekly. However, if you are willing to let me vent about some of my personal life, you are more than welcome to read on. If not, then just check out another commentary or the inductions.

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Game Show Garbage has always been something that I enjoy doing over the past 3 years. Whenever I have a bad week or something, writing out an induction and either laughing or getting angry and the utter stupidity over the past 60+ years of game show lore always seemed to cure what ailed me. There were certain weeks where I couldn't get an induction out, whether I was sick or I was on vacation or the induction wasn't good enough to get out until later on. However, when it came down to April of this year, I had planned on doing something interesting outside of Game Show Garbage as well. Not only that, I had almost finished an induction on a sheer fool in the history of the Genre. But April shortly became a month I would really love to forget.

Now, for those in the know, I attend The Evergreen State College. The class I was taking this year was very writing intensive, having to crank out 2 essays a week, one being a rough draft of the essay and one of them being the final draft during the week, meaning there was almost no time to write an induction. However, after the initial month, it became manageable and I was able to do the writing and had no problem creating the inductions. However, there was one aspect of my life that trumped even creating inductions and caused me to not want to do the site because it caused me so much pain on the inside that my outside work would have suffered.

I had a friend by the name of Devi Sword. We've been friends for three years and I had real feelings for her. We'd go to Seattle, hang out, have dinner, buy games and comics and overall, just enjoy each others company. I would also say that we were really great friends. I had agreed to do a video for her DeviDarkside Youtube Channel. We had planned to do it the week before April Fools Day. However, I would later find out that she had defriended me on Facebook for some really odd reason. I tried to get ahold of her, to see what was wrong. Then she left this message on Facebook for me. "Listen, you're probably not going to believe this but it's not what you did but rather what I'm making not happen. You see both me and Jade had a shared vision, I won't go into details for the safety of us both but in the end you die. I deleted, defriended and ignored (And will continue to ignore) your calls because I don't want what I saw to ever happen. Think of it as me saving your life by disconnecting from you. I'm sorry, but this is the only way." I got this facebook message on my phone after returning from a video game store in Seattle, when I went to pick up a birthday present for another friend.

I couldn't believe it. All the planning, effort, and time that I spent on her went up in smoke because of a vision that was easily debunked. Unfortunately, she is still wrapped up in said vision and certain spirits that it isn't even funny. I found it weird that not a few months before this, we had laughed off spirits and mysticism and stuff like what she's wrapped up in now. I was so heartbroken that this friendship was destroyed because of that. I wound up crying myself to sleep that first week of school because of the heartbreak. It was after that I scrapped doing the induction and told Jim and Carl to take over the site in my absence.

I want to thank Jim and Carl for being really great friends. I also want to thank others as well for being supportive and getting me through this tough time. You're more than welcome to contact her to get her side of the story through her Youtube Channel.

Devi, You only have yourself to blame.