Cav's Place

With just over 300 in queue at the moment, I can now actually say that I did get back to submitting mobyranks on MobyGames and would normally intend to continue while I still find myself somewhat motivated to do so. Unfortunately, it seems that the asshole is pretty much the only approver who checks mobyrank submissions anymore, so the English-language Windows ones, which make up the large majority of what I submit, simply sit in queue because he doesn’t look at those, while with the rest I’m facing the same old problems yet again, already having three of them rejected for the same old idiotic reasons. Obviously, I wasn’t going to put up with that.
Actually, since he did first send them back, I sent Sciere a message, asking him to take a look at them, as he said he’ll do if this happens again. That resulted in a brief exchange that didn’t exactly lead anywhere, so I waited for the asshole to reject those three after I sent them back as they were, then simply resubmitted them and announced that shit will start flying if this continues, which interestingly prompted Simon Carless to immediately get involved and ask for my side of the story before saying that the matter will be discussed on the approvers’ forum, which regular users don’t have access to… Which I guess is another sign that the new management pays a whole lot more attention than the previous one, even if actual work on the site has ground to a halt yet again for quite some time now and the direction they chose after initially reverting to the old design is one I firmly oppose.
Of course, I won’t accept any sort of compromise, much less any attempt to enforce the asshole’s rules as they are, and if he didn’t over the past year and a half, I’m definitely not expecting him to budge now either. As such, there’s no reason to hope for any good outcome, the only thing that may perhaps happen being what has been suggested last year as well, namely for him to agree to simply ignore my submissions and let others deal with them. However, as things stand that means nobody’ll look over any of them and they’ll simply be stuck in queue for who knows how long, making it rather pointless to keep submitting them and quite unlikely that I’ll manage to continue doing so for any significant amount of time. After all, mobyranks aren’t particularly useful submissions and only a handful of users care about them at all.

Otherwise, I obviously didn’t get around to writing that review for Blades of Heaven and I’m quite sure I won’t be trying to do that this weekend either, especially since I have ideas for both a shorter and a longer post, depending on how much I’ll manage to push myself. Of course, the shorter rant is the one likely to get written, while the longer one may well get delayed until I’ll completely give up on the thought of writing it, as is happens most of the time, but an ideal scenario where it and the review will be next week’s two posts isn’t exactly impossible… But it definitely is highly improbable.