Weird dream.

It starts out with Jesse calling me to come to Japan with him.

We go, but that part was skipped in the dream, the process of getting there that is, it just warped me there. Anyways, I'm hanging out at his house, and it looks like an American house in all regards, and for some reason, his whole immediate family is there, including his sister, and a couple of her friends. So it seems like everyone is there hanging out. I then say I've been wanting to go to a legitimate Japanese restaurant with things you can't get anywhere else. He says okay, so we go to this place. The weird thing is, the host is some white guy with blonde hair, some big tall fat guy. He speaks Japanese perfectly, he then speaks English perfectly to us as well, instantly recognizing the gaijin and applying correct political discretion. He then tells everyone to be quiet in Japanese, which I didn't realize I knew this phrase so well, until I heard it in the dream, and I instantly recognized it. Weird how the brain works that way.

So Jesse tells me to hold onto this weird glowing fork that he had in his pocket. I'm kinda stranged out by this, but not too much so. Then my dream skips again, after the man inquires about the fork, and we both trade clever wording I guess with each other, a battle of vocabulary and wits. Then we "warp" to this sort of gym/playground. They have virtual reality games that are also exercise games, like one which makes you switch from having a huge gun, to driving a tank, flying a plane, and running from the enemy over and over again. The game we play is just a simple bicycle game. He then tells me what the fork is for. The fork is a time traveling machine. I can't contain my laughter after I'm typing this, but yes, it was a time machine. You squeeze the handle and think of where you want to go, and you will go there to that time and place. That's how we have been warping. The foreigner heading a prestigious japanese restaurant in Japan was a side effect of the future (the westernization of Japan set in place). The gym with realistic virtual reality games with no headgear or anything you have to put on to participate in (trek-holodeck style).

Then I go back in time because I think and squeeze the fork. We go on adventures through time that I couldn't recall when I woke up. But yeah, to summarize, I have fun with Jesse in Japan with a time-traveling mind-reading squeezable fork. And he had an autistic child living with him, that I built a bond with for some reason. That was a weird moment as well.

http://www.ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=20553

'nuff said...

First time drinkin' Whiskey. It's pretty darn good. I guess that's the Irish in me talkin.

Not only did this make all my DVDs look a tad better and play smoother, but it also enhanced the look of all my PS1 and PS2 games. Great stuff. Now there is another thing they added in which I thought was even cooler. They added in DLNA support. DLNA is a wireless internet media sharing protocol so-to-speak. Basically, I set my PC up, and it can transmit data to my router to stream my videos, music, pictures to all compatable hardware. It streams it. So what does this have to do with me? Well I can send it to my PS3 now! Streaming music downstairs from my PC upstairs in PCM format (highest quality, so it doesn't get bottlenecked at all). Not only that I came up with an idea. I can do everything on my PS3 through remote play (except for play PS3 only games), right? I can do that all through the internet. Well I decided I would set my PS3 to remote play, and see if I can stream the music from my PC onto my PSP using the PS3 as a hub. It worked... It's pretty sweet. Any place with free wireless internet, I can listen to all my music and watch all my videos on my computer. That's 20 gb of music so far, and about 10 gb of video. It rarely lags too. Cool huh? Still wanna doubt Sony's prowess?

I decided to back up why I own a PSP and not a DS (yet). Well one thing is I do like a lot of the PSP games so far. The other is integration with my PS3. And finally it is veritably a media playing powerhouse that is wirelessly connected to the internet. All in a portable device with a nice highish-definition widescreen display.
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Just a few things that I have done before in my weblife. Not only have I had this livejournal for a very very long time, and if you read through that you will see how bad a person I was (and I'm sure I will be saying that a couple years from now as well), and how confused I still was, being young and all. Well I just kinda reflected on my website life I have had. The work I have done with sites that is. Semi-short summary here.
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Now for another addition into console debate editorialism is the value. I couldn't go into full detail on my previous post on this so I will. Let's compare each console, and how much it would cost to get 1 game, 1 extra controller, and the necessary peripherals to fully enjoy the system. I will use ebgames.com as my source for pricing since this is typical retail that almost everyone is paying.
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BTW, I always forget to post a lot of stuff here, just a single post that is huge as I was recently reminded. Anyways, I broke my ankle last month on the 9th. I had surgery. 1 pretty big plate on the right side of my left ankle, and 2 pins on the left side. Finally in a cast (thank god, splints don't offer enough support, for the sake of getting swelling down), no more pain meds (withdrawals from Vicaden were a bitch, so you guys popping vic's illegaly, stop, it's a seriously bad drug for you), when I recovered morphine actually did nothing for me (yeah that's right, I'm hard), and beforehand I almost passed out from the lack of pain meds. Eventful month so far. Getting setup for a prosthetic boot on the 25th for physical therapy and getting around crutch-free eventually. This was a serious break. Bi-malleolar fracture. None of the bone in my ankle was connected to my foot, it was completely seperated, that's why they needed all the metal. It feels strange, my ankle is still getting used to the metal in there. Weird sensations, hard to sleep, but whatever getting through it. So yeah that's my status for all the unknowers hehe.

The Playstation 3 and Sony as a whole has been under scrutiny. And why shouldn't they? They were the most successful, starting as a long shot for being successful at all, and showing the world that there are a lot more gamers than previously thought. They proved that a game system doesn't have to be just for games with the PS2's playability of a format predicted to be doomed by many skeptics. They set the new standard for systems and the thanks they get is all the media companies doing their best to give them bad press in light of a favorable gimmick to their much-to-old-to-be-representing-most-gamers selves. Here's some arguments against next gen gaming I get all too often.
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I am now registered for World Cyber Games 2007 for the game Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. Basically I haven't played it yet, but my match will be scheduled near the end of next month. I'm going to practice like crazy on the demo for a while, having unlocked the NOD side before I have downloaded the game (cracked .dat file that opens up the NOD and all their tech trees as well). Everything about this game is exciting for both the player and the spectator so there is no doubt in my mind it's the next step in evolution for e-sports everywhere.

So I got a PS3. I'm being called a tool and idiot by all the gamers at the LAN cafe, since they are proponents of the Wii. I say I got it for the games coming out, since games matter to me. I say the RPG's. He brings up there is going to be a remake for Chrono Trigger on the Wii. O rly? Well then I see the sketchy story of tidbits in an interview stating there just might be a possibility maybe if Hironobu Sakaguchi decides to stop working for the company that is makin games for the X-BOX! Okay he also says there is going to be a sequel and there is a story up on 1up as well. Let's see what a search for that yields! NOTHING BIATCH! So what other leg does he have to stand on.

I say brawl is about the only reason I want the system. Super Smash Bros. Brawl that is. But my friend Tyson already "has" a Wii and will be getting Brawl, and we generally only play when it's Tyson, Daniel, and me playing together. Literally, to me, every title right now and in the future for the Wii looks gimmicky, last gen, and wouldn't hold my interest for more than a few hours. I say I'm going for RPG's he says, "Hello, Zelda. That game is the best RPG ever made." I really cracked up when he said that. I tried out the demo, I couldn't see myself playing that trash for such a long time. It's like a slightly more serious version of Zelda 64 way back when, and I went all the way through and disliked it a lot. Sorry but 3d Zeldas have always been and will most likely always be shitty to me. I told him when I was faced with having the easily gained funds to access one of all three competitors, I actually had to critically think. I got an HDTV recently. Have you seen an HDMI capable tv play REGULAR dvds in 480i before? IT'S PRETTY SHITTY. You can see all the little artifacts. 1080i is pretty close to perfect on mine. Blu-ray movies are sick as all hell if you have high-def, so that was my main reason to consider getting a PS3 NOW. For later there are plenty of blockbuster games coming out for it.

Virtua Fighter 5
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy Versus XIII
Resistance: Fall of Man(Which is out already but hard to get since it sells out of stock on the first day at every store, being the only good game at the moment)
Metal Gear Solid 4
Lair
Heavenly Sword
Ninja Gaiden Sigma
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
Ridge Racer 7
Sonic the Hedgehog
Flow
Warhawk
Armored Core 4
Monster Kingdom: Unknown Realm
White Knight Story
Devil May Cry 4
The Darkness
Team Fortress 2
Army of Two
Fatal Inertia
The Club
Alone in the Dark
Assassin's Creed
Resident Evil 5
Endless Saga
Ni-Oh

Okay is that enough reason to get a PS3? Let's see why I would get a Wii.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Final Fantasy Crystal Bearers
Metal Slug Anthology
Harvest Moon Wii
Fire Emblem

***Do not read if graphic depictions of bad horror movies is not your thing. I mean this is fucking graphic!!!***

Lotsa spoilers as well!

This was possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. And the worst considering how many people thought it was so great. Are they all as braindead as the zombies in this film?

Now, a lot of reviewers write this movie off as a funny, witty, scary, creative adventure with a great story. I'll be one of the first to say that is absolute BULLSHIT. This movie has proven to me that critics have no fucking clue what they are talking about, and most likely make their decisions with their wallet in mind.

Slither does a typical start where they establish a couple characters, show one character who's having family problems going into the woods and get stabbed in the chest by an alien egg that rode to earth on an asteroid earlier. His body starts transforming into this nasty as thing throughout the beginning of the movie. Finally we start to see his goal, to impregnate a female host for the aliens with his literal CHESTACLES. He has tentacles that are shaped obviously phallic sticking out of his chest. He goes to some random whore's house and sticks them inside her stomach and it shows the tentacles pumping fluid into her. During this scene the now alienated man (Michael Rooker) looks like he has just finished having sex with 5 prostitutes and came all over their faces.

Anyways we find that he being an alien and she now being an alien they eat lots and lots of meat. Somehow the alien grows their host bodies a new appendix that actually works since they eat raccoons and dogs raw etc... The cops find him trying to kill his wife with his tentacle shaped arm by choking her, they get so freaked out they don't shoot him (like that would ever happen). They make it their goal to find him since they suspect him of kidnapping the random whore. A redneck cop says "it's like looking for a needle in a fuckstack." Now was that what the reviewers said was witty? A NEEDLE IN A FUCKSTACK? You've got to be kidding me. It's like hollywood doesn't care what the script is, as long as they can make a preview for it that will get people to buy tickets they will buy the script. I am convinced of this now.

Anyways they find their needle in a fuckstack by baiting a cow for him to eat. Since they are too busy talking about their incestuous activities, being a redneck small town and all, the guy comes along and takes the cow and kills it and eats it while there are 8 people waiting for him. Unbelievable. Finally they confront him, they have no way of shooting him since they are once again in disbelief of his figure, he murders some trucker-hatted redneck by slicing him vertically down the middle with his razor-tentacle. They find the girl she's all gigantic and spherically filled with the product of the alien love scum and her revolting eating habits. She cries about how she is hungry, expels more cuss words, rips open from the severe pressure of the aliens who have impregnated her ripping out of her body. The aliens go on the attack. They are little red slimy worms.

This scene involves many of these red wiggly phallic worms shoving themselves down the throats of anyone they can. And their weakness? If you cover up your mouth they don't know your there. Impossible to defeat! When I first saw an alien rape someones mouth with it's whole body I nearly vomited. Nothing in this movie was scary so far, and I believe the reviewers are confusing scary with fucking disgusting. I guess that's a common mistake. Scary things make you jump out of your seat or raise your heart rate. They don't raise the level of your stomach acids only.

So we continue on with many a aliens ravaging the town, turning people into zombies. Including, one smoking hot young girl's family. Omg this girl was the redeeming factor of the movie. Redeeming for only a second when the alien worm tries to rape her mouth in the bathtub as well. She learns all their thoughts and plans as aliens, decides to go with the cop after allegedly scary zombie scenes. They are the last 3 heading out to kill the motherbrain, the other hot-girls husband, who was the first inseminee. I literally predicted that they would be saying that soon and not but 2 seconds later he detailed how they will stop the aliens. The reviewers are completely wrong about a good story. And so far almost vomiting is not what I consider a fun movie. Watching aliens inseminate others with the phallic tentacles eminating from their chest. I might as well watch hardcore hentai.

They get to the house, along the way letting the alien's wife get kidnapped by the strategic-sloth movements of the zombies. They find all the zombies willingly being absorbed by the motherbrain's body. The former wife tries to kill him, the cop tries to kill him, a huge couch is thrown at the super hot girl (which made me wince because she's like really hot and stuff). All in all pretty standard "we can't beat the motherbrain scene". Here's where I almost vomited again. The motherbrain alien unveals his chestacles once again and invades the stomach of the cop with one of them. He holds the other one off. As he pumps his alien love scum into the stomach of the male cop, the alien rolls his eyes into the back of his head out of pleasure and so do all what's left of the absorbed zombies, moaning out in ecstacy the entire time.

At this point I'm a little sick to my stomach, not yet gagging, but it gets worse. He finds a way to kill it. Seeing a broken propane tank he puts the other tentacle into the hose opening of the propane tank and forces gasses into the monster alien. Shoots him, he explodes in a heap of love scum, blood, and guts. Still bearable. Not gagging yet. The cop falls to the ground passing out from the tentacle rape, and a bunch of white alien love scum flies out his mouth. I'm not joking, he vomits the alien semin! Now I think these reviewers were blind and just didn't think of the possibility that it was love scum. It absolutely was. You were witness softcore tentacle porn this whole movie. Softcore gay rape fantasy tentacle porn no less.

This movie certainly is a needle in a fuckstack and I hope it stays that way. FOREVER.

1/10 (the girl was really freagin hot, gotta give it a 1 for that)

I don't know why I write these things. Maniacal rants on videogames when only about 3 friends read this blog, and 1 plays videogames. That 1 doesn't play the one I'm going to talk about either. On to business as usual...

Command and Conquer 3 has a set release date finally. The series that made me take gaming more seriously, that put me in competition with random strangers from around the world, and showed me how to strategize. I have applied the strategies from Red Alert 2 in various other games, life experiences, and philosophy. When you hit the peak of your abilities and try to move past that. The beyond of the beyond. When that is achieved your able to put it all in perspective. When I got to that point, I no longer shook with anticipation, my heart beating out of nervousness. Trying to overestimate the enemy's abilities for each match. Sure I played about 300-400 matches a month, but each one had a large build up. When I achieved this beyond the beyond point in competitive gaming though, each match got me excited not fearful. The "bring it on" mentality starts to flow. I guess growing up has something to do with this, but not everything. It seems trivial to talk about gaming this way, but someday I'm sure gaming will be just as legitimized as professional sports, chess, etc... Then these feelings that the nerds and jocks share for a small moment will finally be brought into the mainstream. I almost want it, but I also feel the commercialization will make it unpure etc... At least steroids would actually hinder your performance, thus drug intervention won't be a problem like it is in pro sports.

Why am I talking about E-Sports? Well Command and Conquer, despite all of it's numerous stereotypical features; 3 factions, great graphics, new system. This game has put E-Sport functions into it's design. E-Sports are going to embrace this game easily if they so see a need. There are 2 spectator slots open for every game. There is an administrator slot open as well. The administrator can force the spectators to watch an area of the map. The administrator can also use voice-over-ip technology to discuss what is going on in the match. To top this all off, the administrator can draw on the screen, just like a sports-caster, to more accurately depict what he/she is talking about. This is groundbreaking. So far the leagues have had to create their own infrastructure and distribution for the viewing of their tournaments. Now they have it built into the game with the possibility of spectators screens and audios being direct broadcasted over the internet and television. Much more organized. This technology will push the legitimacy of E-Sports. That is the main thing that has excited me about the game. I will most likely play it obsessively as I do with any Command and Conquer game. But if not, I want to become involved in pushing it as an E-Sports candidate for many leagues. Hopefully EA hasn't cut corners on balance and harmony in the game...

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Does it really sound so stupid to want a girlfriend who is interested in the same things as I am? I mean lots of people mock me when I talk about being into video games, and then they turn around and talk to their friends about sports stats and all these things you have to OBSESS over to know anything about the subject matter. Now they mock me for wanting a girl who is into video games. They don't realize, a girl who doesn't like video games will be willing to only play them like 20-30 minutes a day without getting pissed. I mean how many musicians have successful relationships with women who don't know a single thing about music. How many sports nuts have SUCCESSFUL relationships with women who don't like sports.

Similar interests give you an activity to do together on a regular basis. I play bass obsessively. I play games obsessively. Maybe I screwed myself in "picking" my interests but this is who I am. I don't have interests that help me physically at all really. And as for the mental side, of course it just helps me in those subjects. What girls really like a bass player? What girls really like some guy who pwns face at video games and works hard to do so? And everytime I find a chick into video games, she's usually not my type. Or she won't give me the time of day because she most likely thinks I'm shallow. I'm not shallow for searching for someone with similar interests. I'm DESPERATE. I've screwed up before any chances with at least 3 girls that were right for me, and now I don't think I can find anyone else.

Even my brother, despite all his awesome weirdness, can break up, and find a girlfriend that suits him perfectly within a few months. I mean jesus christ how is it so easy for others. Most of you don't know I search every online personals thing imaginable for at least a couple hours a day and send out messages in hopes someone replies. Every day for almost the past two years I have been doing that. I got one person who responded. I thought we could have a relationship, but nope she didn't want to, so yeah that sucked, but whatever, I got over it.

And finally an acquaintance from work refers me to a girl, and I guess I tried too hard, I dunno. Somehow I must have screwed something up because she just started outright ignoring me. I don't even know what I did, as usual. Everything seemed alright, then she just ignored me for like a week straight. I made a depressed blog about it, and he mocked me by calling it just myspace drama. I'm going to have to resort to going to bars and picking up a floozy there or something, being lonely SUCKS ASS. Crying yourself to sleep everynight SUCKS ASS. Being jealous of everyone who has a relationship SUCKS ASS.

Oranjeboom is some crazy dutch lager. It's extremely SMOOTH. I haven't liked a beer pretty much ever, but this is really good. Gonna try the Irish one, Fat Weasel Ale, next. God bless Trader Joes. Or Satan. Whoever could be most likely the responsible one.

This is the one con I defenitely will go to. The real gamer con for gamers by gamers. And well generally any nerd out there. i had been meaning to go last year but didn't plan it out. Anyways, who wants to come with.

Gonna post this at myspace as well I suppose.

For those of you that don't know, This is PAX.

I might even try to apply for omegathonnage.

My beautiful Border Collie Pochi just passed away today. Mom was playing with her, and she got a ball stuck down her throat, and she couldn't get it out, so she suffocated to death. I'm more worried about mom being deeply depressed since Pochi was a blessing of a companion for her, but I really do miss my dog. Such a silly nice dog who was excited at the right times and cuddly at the night times. So weird to go off on my dog, doesn't seem so manly, but she was so young, and I named her, and I have a really strong attachment to animals. Gonna post this on my myspace blog as well. God, I can't believe Pochi is gone...

If any of you play world of warcraft this will strike your funny bone quite well. I made a joke topic about the new boss in Blackwing Lair and how to approach strategy. The topic started with me saying:

"Okay our Firemaw strat is... stand back, do dps! Go team Go!"

Then one of our class leader's stated:

"This is a more detailed breakdown of the fight for hunters.

Stand at max range from firemaw.
Hit autoshoot once.

After all this hard work its time to go make yourself a sandwhich.
The most important part of this fight is making sure you pick the most desirable selection of bread/meat/cheese/condiment to compliment each other. I suggest a white torpedo roll with salami, pepperoni, ham, and swiss cheese, slightly heated to melt the cheese. Once you are done making the sandwhich and its to your liking, return to the computer where the rest of the raid should have finished off that boss. If they haven't, bitch at them for not doing their share, hell, you did most of the work anyways... dunno why they are even there. If all goes well, you get your phatlewts and enjoy your sandwhich!"

And we got all sorts of replies from the other class leaders for other classes that are allowed to see our forums, and they were all angry about how easy it was for us in some fights and such lol. I love it.

This is me when I finally get to go to Molten Core after 4 weeks and then they trick us all and get us to go to Blackwing's Lair and I get about half the DKP and I don't get my leaf after over a month.