You sound a bit frustrated in that opening paragraph, Syd. I think you're being too hard on yourself I understand your aversion to doing things that have been done before (It's a big problem for me in my own creative efforts), but don't be so against using suggestions (so long as they're actual good ones, not lame shit like "Review Action 52!" or stuff like that), and don't be afraid to take something that has been done before and put your own personal spin on it. I'll use the Bucky O'Hare article as an example: The game gets reviewed all the time. Hell, I even did a review of it myself way back when. But Val's piece was still interesting because he did it in his own way.

Also...just do your thing, man, and don't worry about how people react to it. It's not like you have advertisers to worry about, or people paying you to crank out article after article. Do what you want, when you want, and if we don't like it, we can go to hell.

Oh yeah...nice article.