Warcade Time

It's time again for some good ol' fashioned WiFi gaming (as olf fashioned as WiFi is)


SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!!




<=====THIS WEEKS GAME OF CHOICE

All Day, make your reservations and call me out, as well as your fellow Warcadians.





Frisby: Tetris DS
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Paid support pays off

Linux support? Ha! Just get help from the online community, right? Well, twice now I have relied on some Red Hat Premium Support and was it ever nice. I had always been against that sort of thing .. you just Google for answers! With little time for screwing around online, I picked up the phone and called the toll free number. A real person answered, asked for my ID, and asked what problem I was having. At this point, I fully expected to be handed off to any number of people in 'another department' without any doubt that my call would be lost. But this guy immediately starts asking questions, having me look at various system files and processes. Maybe he's just making a list to put in their system and will have someone call me back. Oh, he's giving me something to try right now and it works .. the first time. Total call time? Less than five minutes.

Sometimes a solid lifeline is worth the price.

Saga's give life meaning

It took me a while, but I am officially pissed. And I know its for a stupid reason. Legend of Zelda: Twilite Pricess.

Stupid I know.

I feel soo freaking hungry for it. I have a pain in my stomach. Its just a effin game.

Why should I care?

I feel screwed over. Its like maybe its done for Game Cube but not for Wii. I feel like it will never happen.

Someone at Sony is going to hack Nintendo and delete all the code. It will be lost.

I feel sick. Over a effing game. Someone put me out of my misery.

I finished watching all of season 2 of Lost. And now I need something more.

I am a saga fiend.

No new Potter books, no more Zelda, no more Lost.

I need a release date.

I need something.

Im gonna get drunk tomorrow night, and have a board game party.

Thats it.

Frisby

Snakes on my Blog!

Alas, last night was the nationwide premiere of the film that has become the poster child for viral advertising, Snakes on a Plane!

Even before ticket sale figures are announced, this film has proven once again that you don’t need to make a great movie in order to have a successful movie. This time, however, it was in part due to some clever interaction from the producers with internet bloggers, to the point of making additions and changes to the film up to the last minute based on comments found on blogs. Trend, or once-in-a-lifetime occurrence? This blogger thinks that, like with the indie fake documentary The Blair Witch Project, you are not likely to see this kind of thing happen ever again, at least not with this kind of success.

In any case, I did attend the film premiere at the Chicago downtown loop last night, and let me tell you, I hadn’t seen an audience have this much fun with a movie since The Rocky Horror Picture Show! But unlike the famed rock opera farce, don’t expect Snakes on a Plane to maintain the party atmosphere for decades to come. You only got one shot to enjoy the celebration, and that is this opening weekend… if you like that sort of thing. Me? I had a blast! And like Randal Graves from the much better film Clerks, “I hate people, but I love gatherings… isn’t it ironic??”

Counter Counter Strike

On the outskirts of the savage jungle i´m living in, my cousin operates a cyber cafe. It´s completely overrun with the kids of the neighborhood who play Counter Strike ALL DAY, and as i type, the 2 PCs next to me and the 3 behind are all blazing guns with terrorists.

Since i game and come from ''The Power Up North'', i wanted to suggest 1 or 2 new games for them to make some extra dough. Something as exciting as Counter Strike but not so intense as to warrant a total overhaul of the machines. I thought of Half Life 2, but they already have Half Life and it´s not too popular. I´m thinking another FPS that´s more recent yet a few years old to ensure decent performance.

I´m not a PC gamer at all, so i need y´all to gimme some good-uns. Doesn´t need to be FPS, just as long as it´s a few years old, won´t crush the CPU, and is fun. They also have Gunbound, to sort of give you a picture of what they like. Shooting and death. Y´know, cutesy stuff.

PS- NO RTS.

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Update- I wrote this a few days ago but the time ran out before i got to post it. Give me what you can in these last 30-somethin hours.

Why does everything Sony makes have to cost so effen much?

Holy F***ing crap. Sony pushs blue ray on its faithful who just HAVE to have their PS3 and charge them up the a$$.

"The players alone would cost $1000, LOL".

Yeah, right now since Sony sits on the technology, of course they won't let other people sell stuff cheap, or even affordable when they can get tools to buy a $500-$600 PS3.

But this is what the rant is really about. Remember when a spindle of 10 DVD's cost as much as a 50 pack of CD-R's. Yeah well one...ONE Blue ray disc will cost $50

Hit the warp and be offended.

Frisby

All I wanted was a game, but thats not good enough

GameStop
Sunday, August 13th 2006. 12:23pm
Liberal Kansas

After a delicious Spicy Chicken Crunch Wrap Supreme (a longer name than any food item should have) I say to my loving wife "Honey, I am really hankerin' for a racing game, a hot, nasty racing game with great crashe and speed effects". My wife smiles and says "That would be nice dear, but you still haven't beat Paper Mario". I reply "But honey, you and I both know racing games are only good in 20 minutes spurts. I will just get it out of my system and return to a game with some serious game play". She smiles and says "Okay honey" and we pull into Gamestop.

You walk in and you hear a low ominous boom as you realize you are the only people in the store...and the salesman has an itchy trigger finger.

"WELCOME TO GAMESTOP!!! DO YOU HAVE ANY GAMES YOU WOULD LIKE TO TRADE IN FOR STORE CREDIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I look down at my hands, my pockets and around myself and my wife, then look at him and say..."No?"


"WELL IF YOU NEED ANYTHING JUST LET ME KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Thanks, will do." I reply.

I walk over and grab Burnout 3 and Burnout Revenge on Xbox.
"YOU KNOW IN A MONTH THE GAME COMPANY WILL BE RELEASING A NEW BURNOUT TITLE!!!!!!!"

"Yeah, I like it because it's cheap"

"WELL IT WILL ONLY COST $30. GAMES ARE GETTING CHEAPER"

I snap back at him,"Actually since its a EA game and its made for a dying gen console it will just be the same game and the same game engine and will have maybe a new feature or two that would not be worth $10 extra or the wait"

He is stifled. I grab Revenge since its newer.

I get up to him and hand him the game.

"YOU KNOW IF YOU BUY IT USED YOU CAN BRING IT BACK AND GET A FULL REFUND IF ITS NOT THE GAME YOU WANT"

I think to myself, "Support a retailer instead of a game company to save $3 and keep EA from making 20 lame games to 5 good ones!!!!"

I Actually say, "No its cool". I have already snapped once, i don't need to do it again.

"WHAT KIND OF GAMES DO YOU USUALLY GET????!!!!!"

"This is just a game to hold me over till Zelda comes out"

"HAVE YOU RESERVED IT YET!!!"

"A year and a half ago."

"DO YOU HAVE A DS"

"Yeah"

"HAVE YOU RESERVED PHANTOM HOURGLASS"

"Does it have a release date yet, so I know when it is reserved for"

"I THINK JANUARY!!"

"Yeah, 2007 until I get another automated call saying its been delayed, I try to reserve one game 2 years in advance at once"

"WELL SINCE YOU RESERVED THE TWILIGHT PRINCESS WOULD YOU LIKE TO RESERVE A STRATEGY GUIDE FOR THE GAME AS WELL, THAT WAY YOU CAN GET BOTH AND KNOW FOR SURE THEY WILL BE HERE WITH YOUR NAME WRITTEN ALL OVER IT."

(Best part)

"Naw, strategy guides are for pussies. Ocarina of Time took me 3 months of hardcore gaming because didn't have a guide. I want to get the most out my game. Strategy guides make non-linear gamplay into linear gamplay. "

"But it helps you find the secrets and hidden quests"

"They wouldn't be a secret if some book told me now would it."

I grab my game and leave. It felt good to tear into an annoying Gamestop CSR suggestive selling me into a rampage.

Boredom is DOOM3D

Well I gave up on Fable due to boredom, and if I was called "Chicken Chaser" once more I would kill every Britt in site. So I returned my borrowed games and wasn't in the mood to keep going with Paper Mario so I hit the used game section. $10 a tough decision, and 5 minutes later I have officially bought my first XBox game titled: Doom 3.

Anyone who grew up with computers around my age may have not been able to type fast but you know damn well you can type "doom.exe " on your DOS prompt without hesitation.

So I loved Doom growing up, big deal. Doom on N64 was a nice remake, that's nice. All I have to say is after playing many games recently with in dept plots and nonlinear sandbox game play, Doom 3 was very refreshing with.

The game is excellent. Great controls, great graphics, scary as it needs to be, and pretty damn cool too. Many people say "It's better on the computer", and I have to agree but...

When I look at a computer after a long day of editing, motion graphics, web, blogs, free lace work and "Do you think George Bush is a good leader" pop ups, all I want to do is plop my ass down on my big cushy couch, grab a controller and start having a good time. While I agree I would prefer hitting 7 to get my plasma gun rather than taping some XBox button I really don't know, I have to say I still prefer consoles.

Back to the game.

A great game play resurrection. 5/5. It is what it is.

I have to say I had a friend in college that told me something really cool. I heard rumors when I lived in Dallas that Doom was made in Mesquite (a Dallas suburb 1 mile away from my house). Turns out this guy's brother is a coder for Doom 3 and he does in fact live in Mesquite. While playing I smiled at the repeated use of the code 972 on the storage lockers. 972 being Mesquites area code, it felt like home... wellllll... almost as much as when I was wielding the yellow chainsaw.

Get Doom 3, its cheap and well made.
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Frisby

You better cry for him...HE REALLY IS DEAD!!!

Once I saw this Polaroid, I knew something was fishy. We aren't seeing everything that is there. For instance...

Pictured below is what I believe was confidently cropped out.

His hair is actually pulled back and held up by a bloody knife that was used to open his chest cavity so the damn refuges could take a big bite out of his heart.

He was caught by on of there oh so clever "arm traps" which i believe Rollin had to chew his arm off to escape but he was too late. They beat him to death with his own arm, and were careful not to bruise his face so we would be lead to him, to go by and see whats up, thus falling into their evil Hostel-esque trap.

I am pretty sure a Wii controller was the bait for the arm trap. I don't blame you Rollin, I would have fallen for it to. R.I.P.Homes.

Frisby the Detective

Don´t cry for me

I´m already dead.

Someday, you can all be invisible, too!

Ahhh... Now that Rollin and Frisby are out, we can play posting silly stuff on this 'ere blog!

Anyway, in case some of you were wondering: Yes, you can all achieve invisibility someday, just like MisterI and me, if the physicists at St Andrews University in Scotland are correct! It won't be by taking off your clothes and your skin-colored mask and gloves like in my case, but by means of a force-shield, like Jessica Alba in the Fantastic Four.

Now, if we could just get these scientists to work on something more attainable and actually practical, like, say, a cure for AIDS or cancer...

Anyway, this reminds me of the age-old question: If you were given a choice of having one of two super-powers, invisibility or the ability to fly, which one would you choose?