Xbox 360

Dan now has one! After many months of these things being near extinction, he FINALLY located one using Bestbuy.com... who would've known.

Now time for one Mr. Ryan Garwood to get his ass into gear and get one. I guess that's what the summer is for.

Xbox 360... hellz yeah. Fuck PSP.

Out

Back in the saddle

Made it back up here in Columbus all fine n dandy. Installed my super, uber DVD/RW drive. Got my 360 jacked in to the 'net so I should be set until the summer.

Class starts for me at 9 am now on MWF and 10:30 am on TR. Mother of God....

10

The number of weeks until summer break.

I go back tomorrow and there's a part of me that really doesn't want to. It's because I know what's in store of the weeks to come. Homework, lab, homework, lab, midterm, homework... you get the point. This quarter I had better not fucking fail anything. In fact, I hope I never fail anything ever again. Nothing makes me feel more defeated than failing a class.

George Carlin was pretty good. Apparently Eric had heard almost all of it on HBO so I guess that's the only benefit for not having it. I'm not surprised though because of all the comedy I've seen, when I see a comedian do stand-up at two different venues there is always something they repeat. Jim Gaffigan, Dane Cook, Dave Chappelle, Pablo Francisco, and in this case, Carlin. There's a limit to everything.

His opening act, Dennis Blair, was hilarious and a little funnier because I'm a fan of laugh out loud comedy. There are many types of comedy and I enjoy most of them. Carlin isn't so much lol comedy though some of the things he says are hilarious. Most of the time it's pretty sick, but that doesn't mind me. For instance, here's a nice little joke he told us.

The little 5-year old daughter walks into the bathroom and asks the dad, "Daddy, when am I going to get a penis?" and the dad replies, "Just as soon as mommy leaves."

Fuck morals.

I find that funny and anyone who thinks it's "wrong" can fucking choke themselves.

It's getting late and I still have to pack up my clothes. Dan gets his 360 Monday so all hell breaks loose on the Internet that day.

Out

Wrap it up

It feels so awkward not having a computer with internet access at my fingertips every waking minute, but I guess that's a good thing. Though the only problem is not being able to regularly communicate with Dan. I only get to use this computer upstairs late at night because it's my sister who's on the computer with internet access every waking minute.

Spring break is what it is... a "break." A break from classes for a change, not having to do homework seemingly every single day for 3 or 4 hours at a time. I found out my grades and the results are as follows:

• Rifle Shooting I: A (really, really easy and highly recommended to take for any easy 1 credit of an elective)


• Math 366: B+ (easy enough, but go difficult at the end. Avoid Professor Nagassie at all costs. Was late to both midterms and late to nearly every class that's only on MWF. Also, really sucked at teaching and didn't speak perfect english.)


• Physics 132: B- (I'm as surprised as you are.)


• Math 254: E (Not all that surprised. Saddened that I failed my first class in my entire life and pissed off I have to take it again next year. This was mostly as a result of my professor being a total douchebag and cutting students 0 slack when it comes to grades.)

Lately I've been playing a lot of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and Burnout Revenge for the 360. GRAW I just decided to buy because I've really been needing a new game besides fucking Perfect Dark Zero, which sucked so much ass and was probably the biggest disappointment in gaming history for me. While I was out, I also purchased Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion because I thought the game looked really awesome. I remember the third one being really neat, but I think I just didn't have the attention span to play it at the time. Soon enough I'll be sending Burnout and GRAW back to GameFly and be getting in Quake 4 and The Outfit soon enough. Isn't like I have much of a choice right now for 360 titles.

The last few days I've been hittin' up a bunch of retail stores looking for a Premium Xbox 360 with Dan because dammit he needs one, but to no avail there haven't been any at all. The 360 certainly is a shroud of secrecy if I've ever seen one. Another problem... the asshole eBayers who find this shit in masses, buy them all and have them up on eBay with the price marked up by %250 before the general public even have a chance to wake up and have breakfast. Though recently I just found out Dan had been able to purchase one from Bestbuy.com and will be delivered hopefully by Saturday.

So awesome.

To cap off our Spring Break, we're going to all go see George Carlin up at the Taft Theater on Friday at 8:00 pm. I'm hoping it'll be a good show.

P.S. Bought an awesome DVD-burner at MicroCenter a few days ago for really cheap. Has LiteScribe technology which lets your engrave pictures and text on the top of the CD or DVD. Just can't wait to install it and see how it performs next to my no-name Dell burner o'crap.

WTF Blogger... WTF

Hokay... so. I think because my blogger is old and dusty, it's having some problems with the servers. Seems like everytime I go to post something or republish, sometimes retarded happens and my blog is down for maintenence

OR

only my archives show up at my blogspot

OR

my blogspot appears with no layout or UI and is just a white background with links and posts

OR

I can't republish at all because of some half-retarded java IOException error.

FIX ME GOD DAMN YOUS. GOD DAMN YOUS ALL TO HELLLLL!!!

w00t audioblogger

GRAW is finally in!!!

Thus far with the game I must say that I'm reasonably impressed with the game. Here's a list of things I've noticed about the game while still trying to make my way through single-player:

+ The Crosscom HUD thing where it acts almost like a wallhack pin-pointing enemy positions isn't as cheap as I thought it looked on preview videos. If any enemy runs in behind somewhere where you can't see him, the red diamond over him disappears too until he pokes his head out of hiding.

+ The presentation of the game is pretty awesome. The graphics, the sound, and the environment makes you feel like you're there.

+ Halo-esque transitions from level to level with no real lame-ass loading spots. I like that part a lot to add more of a sense of realism.

+ You're actually in some city you've heard of... Mexico City. Not Grapsdfplehas, Koeoasrlea over in the Middle East killing teh Taliban or Al-Queda or whoever doesn't play nicely. Not to mention, this place definitely looks like a city. So awesome.

+ No need for 27 bullets to empty your health bar here. Depending on where you get shot, you'll either get severely wounded or die. Probably just die.

+ Gatling Gun.

- Sometimes the AI leaves you screaming at your teammates "WHY THE FUCK DID YOU RUN OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET IN FRONT OF A TANK WHEN THERE'S SOME COVER 5 FEET BEHIND YOU YOU BIG STUPID!!!" though it doesn't happen enough to make you throw your controller down in agony questioning the existence of God or some other deity.

- Some graphic flaws here and there. I haven't discovered the "Jesus" bug though I'm sure that'd just be hilarious, just a couple things bother me. One is the fact when you reload, you only do the animation. There is no removing of the cartridge and replacing it with a fully-loaded one. The other is the mouth animations during parts where the player or whoever is speaking where you sometimes feel like they're communicating via brainwaves... what the fuck people. C'mon.

- At certain points, the game can get a little hectic and make you feel like you're playing an RTS when you're being rushed by the other team and you have to control ten things at once. "Apache helicopter moron, you go there and destroy obvious tank in the square shooting at us. Bradley, you go there and shoot stuff making your purpose much more important. Squad, stay here near me, but don't get behind cover if you feel like getting shot by crossfire so I can come heal you and then die because of it." This all happens while getting orders via your Crosscom from your commander, enemies closing in on your position with machine guns and grenades, and while having to keep the special targets alive.

I think that's all I have to say about the game so far. More to come later.

Peace

*Update*

Ok, now that I've gotten further into the game (and I must say, it's longer than I was expecting) there are a few other things to throw in about GRAW:

+ It had the Wilhelm scream. I was very happy when I heard it.

+ The shit that blows up in this game blows up super awesomely cool (as in, very realistic). Meaning not so much fire (John Woo style lol) and more of the sense of the compressed gases of an explosion doing the damage. Like in other games, grenades are big fireball. Well, realistically there isn't suppose to be any at all. Now if there's gasoline involved, that's a whole different story.

- On the roof level, the sun is rediculously bright. Now I know I'm in Mexico, but for the love of christ I'm not stoned with my pupils the size of Texas. My eyes should eventually adapt to the brightness, but in this case... no. It's hard to see damn near anything, really. At least clearly lol. Could be a pipe, could be mindless henchman with big gun pointed at you.

- Still one of my biggest pet peeves about any video game ever is enemy guard omnipotence meaning they know where you are at all times. Though not as bad as Sniper Elite, it's still noticeable to the point where you're lying there with a sniper rifle 200 meters away and just want to punch the TV. Other games or series with omnipotent AI... Hitman, Splinter Cell, Medal of Honor, Jedi Knight, and Far Cry just to name a few. The very few "shooter" games that don't suffer from this horrible setback in AI would be Half-Life 2, Halo and Halo 2(aside from Jackal Snipers ARGGGG). This is because the programmers actually THINK about what to program for AI instead of just taking a shit on a blank file and calling it AI.

Burnout Revenge got here first though...

...so I reckon I'll play it first. Thus far has been a fun experience albeit only after being played for an hour or two. Looks just like Burnout 3: Takedown and is virtually the same for the core elements. Sound has been much improved (though not much improvement was needed) and doesn't feel as challenging as now traffic going the same way as you gets tossed aside like last week's garbage. Not worth throwing down $50 or $60 for (assuming you have played and/or own the third one) so I'd rather just wait for it as something like a platinum hit. The question is, will there ever fuckin be a price drop for the games of Xbox 360 caliber? Mmmmmm I don't know, though that day will be a glorious one. Just because EA releases some good titles, still doesn't mean I don't want to punch them in the asshole.

When I get home tomorrow from taking two... yes I said TWO... math exams hopefully I'll have Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter waiting on me. If not, more Burnout I suppose. That's all I'll be bringing with me too... just meh Xbox 360. I'm hoping that's all I'll need for a week and a half.

...and I thought a "screaming orgasm" was just some kind of mixed drink.

God damn was I wrong LOLOL... NSFW. That video had Dan and I dying of laughter after watching it because of how insanely rediculous it is and how the chick is obviously laughing about the whole thing too. God, just watch it.

LOL women driving

In light of my sister's birthday today and her turning 16, this will be what is in store for the years ahead.

Man... sometimes people just fucking rule too much. But that right there is awesome, thanks to Google and some creativity out in "the sticks." 

Springbreak - Finals = YAYYYYYYYYYYY

Well, it's winding down to a close on another quarter here at OSU. This one I was pretty much struggling to just get by with minimal effort. Mainly because I know it'll be my last calculus class evar when this quarter ends and I will be estatic when I have to take no more calculus-based math classes. You know, two and a half years of that shit really fucks with your mind.

But spring break will help take everything off my mind and just let me do whateva for a couple weeks. There's a sixth and final season of The Sopranos is starting and it... is going to be... so. fucking. awesome. Not only does that start on our spring break, George Carlin happened to stop by Cincinnati to perform before he dies and we all decided to go see him before he keels over.

In other news, still no place of residence for next year picked out yet...

Well since it's early on Monday, I've got nothing to do until Tuesday evening for my first exam... I'm going to call it quits for now.

Peace

Get yah ass to mars!!!

So I just recently found out that Google has released another type of Google Earth... except this time it's for mars. What will they think of next!??!?!11

Gamefly

Yes that's right, I finally got fed up with renting games at video stores because of their shitty ass selections... especially for the Xbox 360. I've always been interested in trying this service out, but I wasn't sure how long it'd take to ship the games or how much it'll cost me. Well, I already found the pricing (2 games out at any time for $21.95 per month or 1 game out for $14.95). Now, how long will it take them to send me my games? Guess I'll have to wait and see.

Ugh.

9.2 for GRAW? Will it pass the BS test?

This is what GameSpot gave Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. Does this mean that it's an actual GOOD game? Or will we have another Perfect Dark Zero on our hands? Because my god did Perfect Dark Zero suck so much ass and FYI, GameSpot gave it a 9.0. Yeah fuck you too. Well, I'll be sure to say something about it when I get my hands on GRAW.

Initially looked interesting, but Eric and I agreed it'd be some a game focused on too much of the "omg new feature kekekekeke" and not much on the gameplay/story/atmosphere/squad-based elements of the game. Well maybe our assumptions were wrong... or maybe GameSpot are sacks of shit who lie.

Back into the swing of things?

LOL fat chance. I had decided (after 6 months of inactivity) to somewhat resurrect my blog here that I've had up for a few years now. This is mostly because of Dan Wagers starting up a new blog of his own and I figured "AHHH WHAT THE HELL?!" This, of course, doesn't mean I'll be making a pledge to make a post a day or a post a week or any of that bullshit. I WILL BLOG WHEN I HAVE SOMETHING TO BLOG ABOUT ARGGHHHHH. I don't do this for the viewer, I just do it for something else to do aside from movies, gaming, and internet trolling (see picture in two posts below LOL).

Now that I have become more Google-oriented with Google Talk, Hello!, Picasa, Google Desktop, and Google Earth, I find blogging to be much more fun if not just for the fact I can post random and absolutely retarded pictures here. It's awesome though. I can send any picture I want with any caption for it to this blog in a matter of seconds (see previous post). Not to mention it's Google that owns Blogger so I know I virtually have an infinite amount of space to post pictures.....which is flippin' sweet.

Also, one more thing, comments have been turned back on because Blogger got smart and now have it so you can turn on an option that makes comment-ors verify a word-picture to prevent spambots. TAKE THAT YOU FUCKING SPAMMERS AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Ok, enough typing for now.

Peace

Hey hey hey hey... smoke weed everyday.

Deepest Sender

Also cocks.

Yay for being able to publish something stupid and irrelevant in a matter of seconds now.

Why the Internet rules...

...and why it never makes any sense ever.

P.S. Google and Picasa fucking rule. 

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Testicles... that is all.