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Yeah, I didn't get the Tokyopop thing. For some reason, I got my hopes up about it, although it was pretty obvious that I had about as much chance of getting a writing job like that as I do of winning the lottery-- especially since I don't buy lottery tickets. I'm actually still pretty bummed about the whole stupid deal. Oh, well, yet another reason not to buy Tokyopop's manga translations, and an even more redundant additional reason not to buy their domestic 'original' material (basically KeenSpace on paper).

I shared the original email with Nikki and Heath, two of my coworkers from Game X Change, both of whom sent samples in, also unsuccessfully. But it turns out that Nikki is going to start writing for Joystiq, and I am considering the dick move of following her lead and sending a submission to them. Yeah, it would have been great if I had had some initiative before, but there's no real reason for me not to at least try. I don't really see how it would hurt or offend her, but there's something wrong with it that I can't quite name. Plus it's not like I'm in any danger of competing with her; she's already got the position, and has a lot of qualifications that I don't.

So tomorrow I'm going to do some practice game blog entries. I always go for kind of personal items on the game blog, but we'll see how it goes tomorrow with short posts about the news of the day. The news of the day as it applies to video games, that is. Not the regular important news.