I've been seeing a lot of news about the new Xbox and Playstation consoles getting bought up by 'bots so scalpers can resell them at extortion level price mark ups, and Sony and Microsoft don't seem to be doing anything to stop it. At first I thought they might not have any incentive to, after all, no matter who buys the console they still get their money, why would they care if it got in the hands of a scummy scalper or an actual fan? Well there IS one way we can affect their bottom line and MAKE them care. You see, the scalpers are only buying the consoles so they can resell them, that means they aren't buying games or accessories, which is where most of the profit goes in the gaming industry. So it's simple, if we all agree collectively to refuse to buy from scalpers we won't need to buy games or accessories for them, and when Sony and Microsoft see that their consoles are sold out yet they haven't sold any software for them that could force them to come up with a way to prevent scalpers from buying all their stock (seriously is it THAT hard to implement a capcha or something?)

I was just thinking about that Transformers/MLP crossover, and I realized that just like in the Star Trek Transformers crossover my boy Powerglide was basically replaced by Windblade again. I want to reiterate, I LOVE Windblade, I voted for a female autobot that turned into a jet for the fan poll so she's everything I wanted, but the one thing I didn't vote for was her color, I wanted her to be blue but the poll went with red. Making her a red jet steps on Powerglide's toes, now we can't have both of them appear at the same time because it's two red planes and would feel redundant. It's a real shame because Powerglide would have been a perfect fit for this crossover, he's a relatively small autobot so he could interact with the little ponies on their level instead of being building sized, plus he has a character archetype that would fit so well in that world. Powerglide is kind of a tough guy who is actually much more sensitive deep down, and who lacks raw power but makes up for it with superior technique and flying skills. I would have loved to see this guy interact with some MLP Dragons, possibly getting them to work with the wonderbolts or leading them in a dog fight with Starscream and the Seekers. Can you imagine it? The seekers flying around attacking Ponyville, when all of a sudden Powerglide comes flying in with a squadron of DRAGONS breathing fire all over the place? Oh well, I guess that's for the alternate timeline where Windblade was a different color and Poweglide wasn't overshadowed because of it.

After the last windows update movie maker totally stopped working, even if I downloaded it again it would only crash upon opening, I guess Windows put a bug into the last update to force people to stop using the old program, and the new one is pretty much useless for my purposes. I tried downloading another free video editing program, "Openshot Video Editor," but it doesn't have any option to record audio so I can't narrate, and the audio recording software that windows comes with is terrible, it has no option to alter the mic settings so everything is really loud and echo-y. Does anyone know of a free video editing program I can get that works like Windows Movie Maker 6? Or at least audio recording software that would allow me to adjust my microphone settings so I don't sound like I'm yelling in my bathroom.