The Seats Are Not Small, People Are Big…

United Airlines: Fly The Friendly Skies As Long As You’re The Right Size!

I read in a news article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30227335/) that United Airlines will now require overweight passengers to buy two seats when purchasing plane tickets. At first when I read that I figured there was no way it could be true. Isn’t that discrimination? It pissed me off. I am 5ft 4in,  I weigh 127 lbs and I think the seats are far to small.

I wonder how the meeting went…

Gee, Bob, we sure have got a lot of complaints about our seats being to small.

You sure are right Jim.

Well, gee, I wonder what we could do Bob.

Oh I know, Jim! It’s not that our seats are to small it’s that people are to big!

Oh boy! Bob you are on to something now!

Oh Jim just you wait and see! I got just the thing! Instead of making the seats bigger and more comfortable we will make the fat people charge extra…

That is bull shit and should not be allowed. However, apparently many other airlines have similar rules.

So can two 120 lb people share a single seat? Can a parent and their child only pay for one and a half seats? What about midgets?  What if the person is overweight because of genetics? Hell, even if it is because they want to sit at home and eat cake all day, it should not matter. GAH! One person, one ticket. Period. This is just ridiculous.

I have been seated between overweight people. It is not comfortable. I have been seated between underweight people. It is not comfortable. Just because a person takes up two seats DOES NOT mean they should have to pay for two seats. What is to stop the airlines from making  the seats smaller and smaller?

While I get that there are weight restrictions on airlines, blah blah blah.  Make planes with fewer seats. Make the seats larger. Sure less people can fly at once, however, the flight will be more comfortable and the less weight in the planes due to them not being over crowded will save on fuel. Everyone is happy. …ok so the airlines would probably lose some money, but they charge an arm and a leg for a ticket anyways. They don’t even offer peanuts anymore. $200 for a ticket and I don’t get a single peanut.

If you do not want to sit next to an overweight person follow these simple steps:

 1.YOU buy 2 tickets.

2.YOU choose your seat.

3.YOU quit your bitching.

4. Done.

So, what’s next? Tall people going to have to pay for two movie tickets?

WCG ‘Ultimate’ Gamer, Or So They Claim

Warning! Rant Ahead, Read At Your Own Risk.

WCG Ultimate Gamer, you may or my not have heard of this show. It is a reality show in which “Pro” Gamers live with each other and face off against each other in gaming challenges. There is the “real world challenge” which they do something (such as play a real instrument) that has to do with the game they are going to be playing. Then there is the challenge of actually playing the games. (In this case it was Rock Band 2) Whoever loses the challenges has the chance of being kicked out of the loft. So yeah, it is kinda like Big Brother, with a dash of video games.

It’s a decent enough concept, however what exactly makes a “Pro” Gamer? Based off the Rock Band 2 episode NONE of these gamers are “Pros.” DO NOT say you are ranked in the top 10 on Rock Band 2 and Ranked Top 5 in Rock Band 2 women if you cannot even strum up AND down and you get less then 100% on hard. What the hell is that about? Not only are you making the rest of us female gamers look bad, you are making WCG look bad, because you obviously gave them false information that they chose not to look into.

Play the damn game on Expert or do NOT call yourself a “Pro.” If my little sister can beat you at the very first challenge game, then you are NOT a pro gamer. (No offense to Scout…well maybe a little.) Perhaps I just expect more out of these “Pro” Gamers. In a way these guys are representing my fellow gamers and me, not only that, they are claiming to be better then us. So far I am NOT at all impressed.

A lot of their claim to fame is “I can pick up a game and in minutes I know how to play it!” Give any decent gamer a controller and a new game, within minutes they will be figuring it out. That does not make a pro gamer. Whoopie, learning to play a game in minutes, it’s called a DEMO.

On a side note: Being able to JUST play Madden does not even make you a gamer. That is all.

Now I respect WCG and the impact they have on eSports (Yes, it is a ‘sport.’ I can’t help but laugh at that, but at the same time think it is just pure AWESOME!) however, if this is what they expect out of their “Pro” Gamers, well, then that pisses me off. Just off the top of my head I can think of a TON of people who are better then these guys. Dajmer The Trophy Whore, TKKNMSTR (Unless he has to play Tekken or any game that involves finding a huge red button, he really sucks at those games…), JR (Shut up), Hell even Old Man George could pwn them at Burnout.

I am not saying I could beat them…wait… yes I am. I could have beat everyone of them at Rock Band 2 and that the fuels the fire. Maybe next season I should go on the show. Unfortunately, I know I am no where near attractive enough, because when you are a girl gamer, how you look matters WAY more then whether or not you have any skill, this show more then proves that… (For those of you who are going to reply that girls can’t play games, blah blah blah. Please answer one question, how the Hell are you holding your controller so that having a penis matters?)

This is probably the most annoying show I have ever watched, but you know what? I am going to continue to watch it. Why? Simply because I can’t help it. I am holding on to hope that maybe, just maybe, these gamers will prove me wrong and live up to the title of “Pro” Gamer. The gamer stereotype is going from “Guy in Mom’s basement” to…well, I guess we will find out.

 

You can watch WCG Ultimate Gamer: Ready To Rock  (Ep. 1) here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-CrJMC6H_0