shivaSite

Welcome to my private little Kingdom here at GameSurge. Here is where you will find the ravings of a lunatic, and some the other various things that I have done over the past little while. I decided that this was the best way to collect "my stuff", and since I'm the webmaster, I get what I want. :P

So, down to business... Some of you may remember my old tripod account, which is still up, and a small feature called "shivaJournal", which was my site diary of my first month of existence. (Hard to believe it was less than 6 months ago) Well, I thought I had deleted it, but I found a copy of it, so I decided what the hell, lets entertain the masses and put the thing up. This is a prime example of what not to do when starting a webpage, but it's a funny read (I laughed myself sick thinking of all the stuff I went through just to keep the page up).

I also gathered up "The Truth" articles. The first one was the infamous "elite" site's article that really seemed to piss off Simple.Craft so much that I got banned from their site, and by the looks of it, their cronies sites as well.

The second article was just as good, but it came at the exact time that I started having problems with the Blizz-Obiv server, so very few people got to see it. Damn, it would have caused a lot of trouble as well. Mind you, it's still pretty current, so have a read.

The rest is a collection of my stuff that is scattered around this site, all in one place for you to read (or make fun of) and I even found copies of my last month's worth of posts before I moved here. Heh, it's quite entertaining, and some of the stuff I came up with is damn terrific. :) Have fun, and send me some feedback

The Latest Updates

E3 Crystal Ball
"Hmm, who's gonna be the first victim of the evening... Ah, lets pick on Nintendo, shall we? As you know, I have been doing a Top Story on the E3 expo. This is the big show for all the retailers in the industry, and a good or bad showing could make or break a manufactors year. With the world press well represented, and thousands of retailers and industry professionals to attend, if you have a important product to promote, this is the place to do it. Sega will be hawking their Sega.net, and promoting their Dreamcast rebates, and Sony will of course have the PlayStation 2 all over the place. Even the Evil Empire, Micro$oft, will rush out a beta unit of X-Box for everyone to admire. And Nintendo? Despite the fact that the Video Game industry is the largest entertainment field in the world, and the industry does BILLIONS of dollars every year, and we are at the most important retailer's show of the year, Nintendo has decided not to show the Dolphin or the Game Boy Advance." - April 28, 2000 -

The Truth v5
A close look at my true opinions on the various new systems for gaming. Why SEGA always shoots themselves in the foot, the PlayStation problems, and who is Bill Gates really? - March 16, 2000


A new Beginning
The return of GameSurge, what the design process was, the present state of the site, and what the future holds for both GameSurge and the viewers. - March 11, 2000 -


The Truth Returns
Chapter 4 of The Truth has returned, with a brief history lesson on shivaSite, and why I think there is no such thing as a StarCraft community, and why the big sites are responsible.

shivaSite articles

• shivaJournal - My site diary of the first month of shivaSite, where I dove into doing a wbsite without even knowing what a <br> tag was.Warning, not for the faint of heart.
• The Truth volume one - The infamous "elite" site article. If your a fan of Simple.Craft or any of the other "elite StarCraft sites", parental discretion is strongly advised.
• The Truth volume two - Alas, one of my best works, unseen till now due to a server problem. I talk about those bandwidth stealing pirates Extreme StarCraft among others.
• I Hate Newbies - Just some of the more common mistakes found among rookie StarCraft players, and why I hate playing them.
• The Small Site Survivors Guide - How to survive the onslaught of the larger sites, and the huge sucking sound of all your hits going there.
• By Violent Means - My take on the recent spats of violence in today's schools
• Timeshock Game Review - The great computer Pinball game gets the FULL shiva treatment and review. Complete with screenshots
• The Week in Review v1- A top Ten list of StarCraft fan sites, done the way I like it. :)