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6Oct/110

David Hinkle doing stand-up comedy

I love comedy. I love to laugh. My entire life, I've been making people laugh. In high school, I was class clown. When I was younger, it was the same thing.

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4Jan/113

A Funny Thing Happened in 2010…

Bad Company 2 Team [JOY]I'm not an emotional guy. I don't find myself freaking out over a lot of things (only occasionally) and I don't plan my day based on my astrological sign or whatever. But, I gotta say, I love my [JOY] pals.

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3Jan/110

Best of the Rest: Dave’s Picks of 2010

The following originally appeared on Joystiq, the site I write for. It is reprinted here in its entirety.

1 vs 100
This summer, something terrible happened: Microsoft canned 1 vs 100, its experiment in live trivia gaming. With two seasons under its belt, I became quite enamored with the free game. Honestly, my Tuesday and Friday nights will never feel the same again. Also, it's sad I'll likely never get to use the above image in a post on Joystiq again.

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3Jan/110

Left 4 Mario: A Must-Play Left 4 Dead 2 Mod

Left 4 Mario -- Left 4 Dead 2 modThis weekend, I spent some time getting reacquainted with my PC (blame the crazy Steam sales) and, more specifically, Left 4 Dead 2. After tearing through The Passing and The Sacrifice, me and a few friends decided to check out some custom campaign mods and stumbled upon Left 4 Mario, a very odd fanservice that is quite fun.

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3Nov/100

There is a War Between the Humans and the Machines and the Dogs and the Cats

Before Steven Janowski became the plucky assistant to the greatest baseball player who ever lived, Mr. Kenny Powers, he had some problems. He lost his way and as you can see in the above clip from the police documentary series, Reno 911, things could've turned out a lot worse for the guy. Personally, this is my favorite segment I've ever seen on the show.

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2Nov/100

Halo: Reach: Sniping Domez, Yo

Since Bungie still hasn't gotten back to me about my file share problem (in short: my problem is that I can't upload anything to my file share), I thought I'd post up one of my highlight videos. Funny thing is, I never was a good sniper in previous games, but I seem to have the touch here in Reach.

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17Sep/105

San Francisco Update: Busy Bee

Union Square San FranciscoWow -- San Francisco, I'm never leaving.

This town is amazing, everything from the people to the mixture of cultures to the wealth of things to do. I'm sorry I haven't updated this little place of mine here, but boy have I been busy. The night beckons, sometimes for gaming-related stuff (see: work), but most nights just for socializing. And beer. California, you make a tasty brew. Many tasty brews, to be exact.

On the work front, I've done a ton of previews. I thought that I might have to hit some of these moving out here, but I wasn't prepared for the sheer quantity of what's in the Bay area. Within the span of a month, I've whipped these little pieces up for Joystiq:

Oh, and then there was PAX Prime 2010:

For my first 30 days in a strange city, it's quite the increase in work load -- in addition to these previews, I still have to write every day. It's a challenge, but one I welcome with open arms. I need to grow not only as a games journalist, but as a writer. I need this challenge and, slowly, I think I'm improving my craft. But not only that, I'm much happier. Have I told you how awesome this town is yet?

My only regret is that I haven't had more time for this here blog of mine. Hopefully I can find a way to produce some more content here. For more immediate happenings in my going ons, keep up with me on Twitter: @davehinkle

[Image: Union Square, San Francisco]

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6Aug/103

I’m Moving to San Francisco

Ask anybody privileged enough to know me in my youth and they'll tell you I talked a mean game about San Francisco. When I was growing up, I loved the 49ers (big Joe Montana fan) and I always told people I'd live in that town one day. As I grew, the idea I'd ever get there took a backseat to life -- circumstances just never lined up to make my dream come true. For the second time in my life, I feel so damned lucky -- the first, obviously, that I get to do what I do for a living -- and, honestly, I'm just waiting to get hit by a bus or have a piano fall on my head. I feel like the universe will discover that I'm this happy and correct it somehow.

Regardless, on Wednesday, I fly out, leaving the east coast and my current stomping grounds, York, PA, in the dust. While the myriad things I need to do seems to grow larger by the day, no matter how much I've accomplished by then, I'm flying out. It's, like, set in stone and stuff.

So some people on Twitter have asked me (among others) just why I decided to move across the country. Hopefully this helps to explain it.

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Hi! I'm David Hinkle, Contributing Editor for Joystiq, former Lead of DS Fanboy and Wii Fanboy and co-host on the Xbox 360 Fancast. Basically, I write about games, talk about games and play games -- all the time.

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