I was looking at some satellite data when I came upon this strange image. It looks like some sort of weird alien.You can see the beady eye, the sharp teeth and extended jaw. Weird, huh!
And in case anyone's wondering, he's about to eat Texas.
I dreamt that beanjo and EM were coming over to my place for a party or something. It's weird that EM was there since I've never seen his picture before, but he was there and looked a bit like Derek and LL. Beanjo looked like he did in those pictures (though in normal man clothes). Anyhow, beanjo had to drive for two and a half hours to get to my town, and halfway through my dream I found out that we couldn't get together for some reason (it involved my younger brother), but I hesitated to cancel since beanjo was already on his way here. Anyhow, just in case I made a bunch of food for them (eggs and bacon or something like that), and then sometime after that we were all at this weird shopping center/ranch, talking about playing some Donkey Konga (I only brought one bongo with me) and Four Swords. We never did get to play any games there, but we did hang out and talk about stuff.
Just the latest of many such occurances in Austrailia and New Zealand, a game banned from sale (in this case Postal 2's expansion). So you say "that'd never happen here!" ... but it could. Listen to what Senator Leiberman is saying, he says that free speech should be curtailed if it's stuff like this that is so bad... scary. Yes, Postal is extreme (and a bad game), but still... it doesn't take games that go that far to get banned there, I'm pretty sure...
On a related note, about a week ago the group Media and the Family released their yearly report card on the gaming industry. It was shown on C-Span last Tuesday night or so. I happened to be watching TV at the time and ran into it right at the beginning and watched the thing (you can watch it too, on the C-Span webcast link I link below)... it was interesting. I found myself disliking Leiberman's (he was there too) position all over again, but what the guy from Media and the Family was saying was much more reasonable (and interesting). He talked a lot about "bad" content for kids, but did not support federal action to make some games illegal. He focused on enforcement of retailers' blocking children from buying games (very interestingly, when they sent clearly underage children to buy games in retail stores while 50% of boys could buy M-rated games only 8% of girls could -- clear sexism on the part of the clerks and a interesting result...). He definitely also talked about the developers themselves and the rating system, but they pretty much support the ESRB rating system, with the exception that they think that a lot more games should be getting AO ratings instead of Ms (since AO is really unused and their opinion is that it should either be actively used on games that are "worst for childeren" or abandoned)... but really my description of their opinions won't do the job of explaining what they are saying all that well. Instead, I recommend that you watch it yourself. What, go wish for it to show up on C-Span? Nope. Just watch it. C-Span webcasts a lot of stuff. But watch it soon, because I don't know how long they keep stuff (after it's been on C-Span)...
Link to the C-Span video segment (realmedia streaming video link -- did anyone else know that C-Span has a full webcast of all three of its channels? And video of past C-Span segments?). 55 minuites. http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?R...ge1=Submit
Hmm... to attract more people to this post (and to watch that video), at the end they have a video segment they've put together with clips from various "offending" games. The most interesting part is that they've got footage from two ... adult ... games that managed M ratings: The Guy Game and Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude. That is, footage of the worst parts. Including nudity. Yeah. And this was played on national (cable) television... probably in primetime too... kind of goes against their message... :)
NIMF report website (for those who are morally opposed to watching videos or with whose pitiful bandwidth don't want to wait for it to download -- but be aware that the video is a lot more interesting)
I was looking and I need sites that have job listings for the game industry. Since I'm finally wrapping up my degree, I figure might as well try to work for a game company which would kick ass. Any sites you could list to help me out would be appreciated. Thanks :)
We all know (well anyone who cares does anyway) that the Seattle Mariners' largest shareholder for a few years now has been Yamauchi (he bought the team in the mid/late '90s to save it from being moved out of Seattle), but he just sold his share... to Nintendo of America. They already owned part of it, but now NOA owns over 50% of the Mariners...
Anyone else think Jim was nuts to stay anywhere near that psycho woman. She chopped up some guy because he might have been infected. After watching the whole movie several times he clearly wasn't. The infected people show symptoms nearly instantly. (Spasmly angry movements, angry yelling) He showed none of those. He acted off slightly probably out of horror knowing she was going to brutally murder him infected or not. If I was in such a situation I'd be like "I'm outta here you psycho hope you rot in hell". On another note why not use guns instead of meelee weapons far less risk.
I got two PS2 demo disks. At first it looked like a double send to the same person, but upon reading the titles on each demo disk it was clear there were a decent number of unique titles on each one, and those were the only ones on the disk I wanted to play at that.
I will forgo mentioning games that are already out like MGS3 (even though I don't have it yet, and it adds some decent stuff to the same classic gameplay, also the demo resets almost as soon as you get to play if you actually let the cinema scenes play out).
Instead, I mention a game I think isn't out just yet, Viewtiful Joe 2. That game is basically more of the same, but in a good way, because the original was a good game. They added a new character from what I can tell, some nerdy girl who is somehow a perfect match to the guy I guess... Anyway, maybe she was in the original or something (I only played some of it, never owned it...) but they say "we're back" when on the scene. Also, apparently Dante is in there somewhere in the full version. Not much else to say really.
Then I played Prince of Persia 2. Fun game actually. The theme is a bit... well... Honestly I think they went too immature with the whole "is da bloooodddyyyyy" thing. For example, the loading scene is a symbol that forms from blood bleeding from the top of the screen, which is the sort of thing I thought had finally faded away in the mid 90's or so when people finally got sick of Mortal Kombat. Also, the whole thing has a way too "to the extreeeeme" feel to it. The original I liked because it really wasn't all about looking cool (oh who am I kidding, the main reason I did most of the moves wasn't due to it being good strategy but rather so I could finish them off in the most awesome LOOKING way possible, but you know what I mean... well maybe you don't...), it actually had an interesting... silence... to it. I dunno how to put it...
Eh, anyway the thing is the game is very action oriented compaired to the first. The fighting is as good as ever, plus you can, you know, pick up the enemy's weapon, which as of yet hasn't proven to do much more than mildly affect range and power and let you throw it at someone. Anyway, it took a long while before I finally got to a nice acrobatics scene. Fortunatly, there IS some good acrobatics. Hopefully that'll remain the case through the whole game. As it is, it seems like more of the same, but with an emphasise on action and a worse theme.
Sup guys. Do any of you have WoW? I've been playing and having a great time. It's the first time I've been gaming in a few months. It would be fun to play with those of you who have it, so look me up. I only have one char right now, but will probably be adding more soon.
I am on the Durotan server (East) and playing as a Human Rogue named Shandala. Look me up and we'll go questing sometime. And let me know where you are so I can make a character there too.
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