You can see from my ‘live blogging’ experience that the Spike TV Video Game Awards show was the worst show I’ve seen all year. At least one of the presenters, Patton Oswalt, tends to agree.
The producers wanted me to do “a little bit of stand-up” before I presented the award for “Most Addictive Video Game”. Oh wait, I forgot — “The Most Addictive Video Game…Fueled By DEW!” That’s because Mountain Dew was “sponsoring” the award. I had to say “Fueled By Dew”. I will also be saying it on my deathbed, when I’m begging my relatives to unplug by respirator.
I still don’t really know who Patton Oswalt is, and don’t really care about the reasons he did the show. I do find it illuminating that at least one of the people involved in that train wreck of a show stood up and said what I’ve saying all along, but with a little more force behind it.