Downer

It's never a good idea to start an endeavor on a down note. Fortunately Pry Five is not about good ideas. It's about awesome things like giving high fives with crowbars, or strapping a brick onto your feet and giving someone a good kick. Mostly It's about video games, but those are pretty awesome.

First though: some things that suck.

Garnett Lee is leaving 1up.com to go to GameFly Media. This is good for him, but bad for people who like to listen to the podcast Listen up, formerly 1up yours. Sure Garnett was cheesy and a little predictable, but damn it he was comfortable and funny. Here's hoping 1up won't lose any more of the excellent personalities that work there.

Battlefield 1943, while often the pinnacle of rad, can at times be reminiscent of a hate crime. Let me set up a scenario. Spawn, head-shot!; dead. Wait. Spawn, grenade!; dead. Wait. Spawn, bombing run; dead. Wait. Wait. Still waiting. Wait just a little longer. Spawn: head-shot! "FUCK!" When this happens, and it happens more than it should, it's hard to remember why you bother playing with human beings.

And getting tortilla chips jammed into your soft vulnerable gum. That completely wangs chung.

Just to be a little positive here is a list of things that don't suck: being the guy spawn killing in Battlefield 1943, potato soup, ogame.org, one crowbar, popcorn, most things with PixelJunk attached to the name, and having more than one crowbar in a social setting. Pry Five.