That's right, for this year's Newgrounds BBS awards, out of all the users who posted on the BBS, I am one of the five who made the cut to Best Poster in the awards, which is impressive since it means I'm declared as one of the best posters on the BBS (well, for this year at least). I'd like to thank everyone who nominated me for Best Poster, because I feel honoured to get this far, even though everyone else in the category is pretty much beating the crap out of me. Oh well, I'm still amazed to be there. :)

As for YouTube, NicotineAlien (AKA Armake21/Marcus Sparacio)*, one of my favourite video game reviewers along with Angry Video Game Nerd, was suspended from YouTube last week. The only reasons why this would have happened to him were either his House of the Dead commentary videos (just 20 minutes of it) or his videos showing himself playing Red Alert 3. The former would have been reasonable, but there's much worse out there on YouTube such as people uploading the WHOLE movie without any commentary and such. Sadly, I see a lot of that and YouTube don't even penalise them.

Getting suspended just for the Red Alert 3 videos wouldn't be right at all. They may be complete and utter hypocrites, but I'm sure they wouldn't go as far as taking one video showing game footage down, but leaving the entire rest. If they went after anyone who uploaded video game footage, a lot of users would have been banned from YouTube for life. And considering Red Alert 3 is published by EA, what about all the users who uploaded a video of themselves playing a track on Rock Band or created a creature on Spore? Shouldn't they go as well? Again, it wouldn't add up if this was the case.

Another recent problem with YouTube is their new censorship policy. From what I've heard, any videos with swearing in it (even if you just say damn) will be removed from Top Favourites and Top Videos lists, which to me isn't fair at all. A lot of videos are so fucking great with swearing and AVGN's videos are a great example.

Taking away honours for those videos just because there's swearing in it is PLAIN FUCKING STUPID! Why can't they just make a warning saying there's such thing in the videos. They make a warning for anything with sexual content, so why not anything with violence, explicit audio and such? Newgrounds have a fucking rating system for these things, so why not YouTube? That'll be much better than taking away honours for videos that may have deserved great recognition.

I still find this to be a joke, but what IS a bigger joke is the 19/12 blackout where everyone is to avoid YouTube that day to protest the new censorship policy. As much as I hate this bullshit, protesting isn't going to do shit. I mean, Anonymous didn't succeed against protesting Scientology, so why will this work? And on top of that, not everyone in the whole world is going to come across this campaign to boycott YouTube for a day and then there'll be people like me who know this protest will fail miserably.

Well, whatever happened to Marcus Sparacio's suspension on YouTube and the new policy, I still disagree with YouTube's decision. On the other hand, the more great people they take out and the more bullshit they do, the less reasons to keep going to that shithole. If the site was full of unfunny YouTube poops, pointless video blogs which are better off written on MySpace, lame ass AMVs, overrated fucks like Fred and pathetic events like YouTube Live, I don't see why I even need to go there ever again.

*For those who don't know Marcus is, he's a video game reviewer like AVGN, but has a more serious approach and doesn't limit himself to the retro era. He reviews games from any generation, but it's mostly NES, Xbox 360 and PS3 games he reviews. Some of his most well known reviews are Big Rigs, Bomberman: Act Zero and The Ring: Terror's Realm.