Let's face the facts: I'm a Metallica fanboy. On the face of it, I like Death Magentic, and I especially like how DM seems like an effort to put the Metal back in Metallica. Of course, there are a few things I can complain about, like the clipping issues and how the record seems to have been practically suffocated by the loudness wars.

I've been a part of the online world for so many years now. I started my online "career" playing on the Red Dragon Inn, a local BBS role-playing game (now long since dead) in 1986. I was four years old. Since then, I've traversed The Sierra Network, merged with the ImagiNation! Network, played on Prodigy, America Online, Erols Dialup Internet, and finally finding my way to a broadband Internet connection.