No seriously these things are wonderful. I got no beef with Obama. If he didn't win president The Boondocks wouldn't have made an episode where Huey calls him OBEEZY. WHich I think just the funniest f*cking name you can call a president. So to me he's President Obeezy. But the general nature of these gifs is just too funny. I honestly imagine someone is that fed up that they just blame every little thing on Obeezy. Thanks dick. lol





___________

Anyway I've been writing stuff for GUFUyourself. Mostly TV stuff so hopefully I'll have my Season 2 review of Homeland ,as well as my current thoughts on the Justified season. I'll link them when they are up. I know spoilers are an issue with these things so I fully expect them to be ignored a bit, but hey I like being able to write all my thoughts down. I figured since award shows all the rage these days I'd do my Champies. For successfuly entertaining Champ. So here we go.

I'll be doing runner ups.
_________

BEST TV SHOW ON TELEVISION THAT ISNT A COMEDY IN THE YEAR 2012 GOES TO



That's right Mad Men. I know I know. Let me get the easy stuff out of the way. I didn't count Breaking Bad for 2012. Simply because it was half a season, and the other half of that season is this year. Thus I'm going to lump the 8 episodes we saw in 2012 with the 2013 episodes. I don't like judging only half a season, because I only got half the story they were telling me. So there. I'm doing that with all 22 episode shows as well. So the seasons that count towards 2012 for shows like Supernatural/Parks and Recreations are actually last season. Because those seasons finished in 2012.

Now that we got that out of the way even if we counted Breaking Bad's 8 episodes I say Mad Men had the most complete year. While the season finale is weak by finale standards(and Mad Men standards) it put a satisfying conclusion to the themes and stories of the year. We further got to see how the American dream of old can just absolutely suck as members of SCDP got just about everything they wanted, and were left unhappy. Competitors like Boardwalk and Homeland struggled either with sluggish filler or glaring plot holes. But Mad Men stayed strong through out the season. And frankly how much more needs to be said about the acting on the show?

Jon Hamm continues to be one of the best leads on TV(I say one of, because him and Bryan Cranston seem to be duking it out for TV king supremecy), and the rest of the cast was on their A game as always. WIth Elizabeth Moss quite possibly putting up the best season by a woman.

Runner Up: Sons of Anarchy season 5. Yes Boardwalk is smarter, yes HOmeland had an excellent first half, but Sons again was more complete this year as a drama. SO that gets #2 spot.

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE ON TV THAT WASN'T JON HAMM OR BRYAN CRANSTON BECAUSE THOSE TWO ARE DECORATED PLENTY AND AT THIS POINT WE MIGHT AS WELL START HAVING THE AWARD FOR WHOEVER IS THIRD BEST



It was a toss up between Timmy O's Raylan vs Charlie's Jax. Both had some powerful performances this year, and in Timmy O's case he did it without the typical manipulative nature of most TV shows. His more conservative approach to showing his emotions is what made that final scene with him and Winona in season 3 so poignant.

But in tmers of grand character progression Charlie Hunnam took our righteous Jax Teller and showed us a monster. We got to see a nice range of emotions from Charlie(as well as the typical Jax yelling for no reason), and what can I say I have soft spot for watching someone take a darker road even though they had good intentions.

4th place(because uh these 2 are below the runner up): Timmy Olyphant as Raylan Givens on Justified.

______________

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE GOES TO



After Q&A I was sure Claire Daines had this on lock down, and trust me when the Emmys come by she has it on lockdown. But as fantastic as she is I have hard time forgetting where they took that character. I know I should technically separate actor from writing on the show, but that's what we usually award? It's not just the performance, it's what they were actually performing. And while Daines is fantastic I had hard time accepting the 2nd half of that season for what it was.

Now Glenn Close as Patty Hewes was still the magnificent, cold hearted, borderline sinister, and frankly dark character I've enjoyed on Damages. The show's final season was a nice throwdown between Patty and Ellen, and watching Patty basically have Ellen go down a path she didn't want to was some captivating TV. And while Rose Bryne had a fantastic season(and frankly a great finish to her characters journey on that show) it's Glenn Close who frankly continued to dominate. She's been that good, and I urge all of you that have netflix to watch it. That first season is that f*cking good. Admittedly theres some drop off, but ultimately it was a good show that got overlooked.

Runner Up: Elizabeth Moss on Mad Men. A case could be made that she should have won(and I feel Snipes is going to argue for it), but I voted against her on the premise that women named Elizabeth are the worst. True story.

________

BEST COMEDY SHOW IN 2012 GOES TO



It came down to Community(of course) and Parks and Recs for me, and while I love season 3 of Community. I mean absolutely love it. Especially because Gus Fringe(don't care what his real name is) was on it this past season I just gotta give the edge to Parks. That season finale had a lot of heart to it frankly, and the psych out by Ann Perkins to Leslie was one part kind of funny and another part kind of cruel because I genuinly felt bad for Leslie. Community has always hit it out of the park every season, but I'm gonna go with Parks and Recreations by a hair.

Runner Up: Community

BEST LEADING MALE ON A COMEDY SHOW GOES TO



In the spirit of Ron Swanson. Ron Swanson wins

Runner Up: Troy and Abed on Community

BEST LEADING FEMALE ON A COMEDY SHOW GOES TO



Vote Knope B1tch.

Runner Up: Aubrey Plaza as April Lovegate on Parks and Recreations

And because I'm lazy I'm not doing support characters. Because I don't want to think about it. Top shows of 2012 in orderish(sort of). Not counting Breaking Bad or the 3rd season of Walking Dead(long shot of making my list)

1: Parks and Recreations Season 4
2: Community Season 3
3: Mad Men Season 5
4: Sons of Anarchy Season 5
5: Justified Season 3
6: Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 8
7: Damages Season 5
8: Boardwalk Empire Season 3
9: Nikita Season 2(yes that Nikita, now shut up and go watch it)
10: South Park: Season 16

The end. I would do movies, but I don't watch a lot of movies. I replace that all with my tv watching. And cheers to 2013 TV. Justifieds 4th season, Breaking Bad's final season, Mad Men, a walking dead season that so far doesn't suck, a Supernatural season that's actually been good for the first time since season 5. I'm just giddy right now. Oh and we get Community back for 13 more episodes.

____________________

VIDEOGAMES



The videogame addition of the champies are gonna be as lazy as videogame devs are. SO I'm just gonna do my top 10 of what I played, and call it a day. I will let you all know I did not play the following alleged heavy hitters of 2012, but understand that videogames are a lesser medium so I don't care if I forgot something you really liked. If you have a problem then you can f*ck off. Games I did not play:

-Mark of the Ninja
-Xcom
-Fez
-Far Cry 3
-Sleepign Dogs
-Most Handheld games because @ handheld games

#10: Spec Ops The Line: Cool story stuff. An average at best game though because it as by the book of a shooter as possible

#9: The Walking Dead: Again great story stuff, in fact that ending is really well done. On the other hand actually doing anything that this game would call gameplay is f*cking boring.

#8: Spelunky: So it's like a rogue like platformer, with some castlevania esque stuff going on here and there. Tons of fun. I suck at it

#7: Binary Domain: It's so hard for me to not call this kind of another by the book shooter, but it's just so much fun in spite of all that. The story is surprisingly entertaining in a just cheesy enough to be funny, but just serious enough that I'm interested also. YOu should totally play Binary Domain.

#6: Trials Evolution: It is crack. It is painful to watch yourself fail all the time, but that feeling of getting a gold medal after all that hard work is SO GOOD.

#5: Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown: Dat Fighting engine is awesome

#4: Dishonored: Okay so the stealth is like for mentally challenged people. The actual game is tons of fun though. Giving you all these abilities creates an experience where I legit have some options on how to handle things. Unlike those other "option" based games, where fighting my way out is usually done via poor action mechanics. Also blink is the t1ts.

#3: Tribes Ascend: A free 2 play multiplayer shooter has a much higher skill ceiling, is better balanced, and flat out more satisfying to play than big triple A mp franchises like Battlefield 3, Halo 4, and Call of Dookie? Step your game up please.

#2: Hotline Miami: I love hate this game.

#1: Journey: DUH why else would I use the pic?

I know I know "what a hipster pic" champ. It was cool, it was interesting, it was something creative, and unlike some of the other more powerful story games on this list(spec ops and walking dead), Journey conveys what it wants to via gameplay. SOmething Walking Dead doesn't do, and frankly something SPec Ops doesn't do anywhere near as well. Unlike Dear Esther, this is experimental/minimalistic gaming done correctly.

And in a year filled with plenty of good, but not really all that many straight up excellent games Journey stands tall as something unique, effective, and worthy of just about every bit of praise that its given that doesn't enter the realm of hyperbole(you know like controlling a poem nonsense).

Years from now when the dust settles, and we're looking back at 2012 Journey to me is the game most equiped to still be something special years later. And that's not something I'm willing to believe will happen with Spec Ops, Dishonored, or the likes of Mass Effect 3.

______________________

Ending

I wrote a Shadows of the Damned review.

It's really old, kind of saved on my PC since like last year. I don't remember why I never posted it on gufuyourself. But Hey whatever. I posted it here to give myself an idea of things I need to work on. So if you guys could give it a look that be nice. OTher than that I do have a wench to end the blog on.



I'm gonna get some sleep. Night/Morning/etc.