The more you know...

My God, someone on Phantom Dust had the sickest move ever - Dance of Death, which does damage based on the strength of your Ki close-range moves. This guy must've had 3 sick moves, as he did 19-21 damage in 2 seperate matches. He was fucking sick.

Need to get some more sweet moves, I'm just a n00b compared to them :0)

UPDATE: Bono's will thwarted! High-stakes poker match for Eidos ensues!

http://xbox.ign.com/articles/598/598047p1.html

Now SCi has put in a $10 million higher offer for Eidos. Bono will not take this, to be sure!!!
No one stops Bono! EVAR!

You fuckin' disappoint me, maybe you're better off this way

Who the hell is running things over there? Right now, Namco is going to release Soul Calibur 3 exclusively for the PS2.

By the way, the PS2 version of Soul Calibur 2 sold the fewest copies of all 3 versions.

I am speechless. Who the fuck is running things over there in Japan?

I guess it's to be expected from the developer of the newest Star Fox game...that made most of the game not take place in the Arwing.

God bless American business sense.

BREAKING NEWS: Bono buys Eidos, The Edge to star in epic action-adventure for future consoles.

Just kidding about The Edge part, but it'd be awesome if it were true. Why, because he's The Edge. He's just The Edge, nothing more. But yes, Bono pretty much now owns Eidos. Or well, he's part of the firm that bought it. Same thing.
http://ds.ign.com/articles/597/597814p1.html

Sega is dead to me.

Will somebody please put Sega out of its misery? I mean, who the hell thought that it would be a good idea to put the sequel to Phantasy Star Online, which came out for Xbox and GameCube, on the PS2? Guh? What the fucking hell?

Frankly, Sega dying sounds like a good thing. They somehow find a way to fuck EVERY SINGLE FUCKING THING THEY DO up. Ever since the Dreamcast died, Sega's been like Terry fucking Schiavo - brain-dead, only being maintained by a feeding tube of fanboys (and fangirls, typically lesbians - or at least that's what they are on IGN) clamoring for the past.

Sorry Sega, but this supporter is no more. Get some fucking sense or just die peacefully. Stop fucking up the Sonic series, and every other damn thing you do.

Oh, and I fought the man today - and I won. Kind of stupid to block a single web address, which can summarily be changed, eh?

The USB Flash Drive to Xbox Memory Card FAQ

I finally made it, and here it is (turn Word Wrap on in Notepad to make it look better):
http://www.geocities.com/super_carter/memcardfaq.txt

Fuck Gonzaga, and those Oklahoma bastards too

I had them both going to the 31337 8, and guess what they both do? LOSE. I shouldn't have trusted Gonzaga after they anally violated me last year, losing in the second round, but GOD, I could at least expect them to go farther this year, RIGHT!

Oh well, at least they lost to Texas Tech. If they win the National Championship, I'll go there. Why? Because I like to reward success.

Also, my pickups for today:
iPod Shuffle 512MB
Phantom Dust (Xbox)
Ice Climber (GBA)
Iridion 2 (GBA - lost my first copy)

Halo 2 Expansion Disc?

World exclusive! According to e_penguin on the IGN Xbox General Board, well, read it for yourself:

this item (Halo 2 Expansion Disk) has appeared in Game Crazy sales systems under "Xbox" with a list price of 19.99 and a launch date of May 24th.

lemme get this out of the way: if this is old news, forgive me. i just found out about 10 mins ago.

no details are shown in the system, and the compture has been wrong before. it could be a PC expansion mistakenly put under the Xbox category. it could be an early rumor and we wanted to take pre-orders so we pre-emptively put the item into the system.

IGN- if you are seeing this- ask MS what's up! i want details.

Hmm. Would it just be a disk with the DLC on it? Or is it something slightly more devious? Maybe we'll get some answers in tomorrow's Weekly What's Update.

Or, knowing Bungie, we won't.

The N64 hasn't aged well, graphically

Wow, I played some during my Calculus BC class today (w00t Spring Break!), and wow, the games look fugly nowadays. From Mario Kart 64 to Smash Bros. to some WWE game, it's hard to adjust back to them old framerates, crappy textures, and weird-ass controller.

The games are still frickin' sweet though. And besides - I got to kick ass in Halo 2 later on in the day (2 on 3, final score: 50 to 10 :0)), so it's all good.

Also, fat free brownies are the worst shit ever. I mean, seriously, those things taste like ass.

Shadow the Hedgehog.

http://cube.ign.com/articles/594/594565p1.html

Shadow has a fucking uzi. Who was the drunkard who approved that idea? Hopefully Sonic Team will get this game down right - more action, less bullshit, hopefully.

MLB 2K5 hitting woes...

Bleh, I lost my 3rd game today. I'm more and more convinced that my record was a fluke, since I've mostly faced mediocre pitchers, and have just recently started facing guys who are good. Granted, I had a 13 run explosion against a guy who was ranked in the 800s, but against >500 ranked players, it seems that I can only usually get 1 run off - in a recent 3-1 lost, the guy robbed me at the wall of a David Ortiz HR, but I gave up 3 runs in the bottom of the 8th, but if Manny Ramirez hadn't mysteriously dived, I probably could've held it to 2 runs...and I missed a good SlamZone opportunity that went pretty far after I just gave up on it, trying to get a bloop single. If I had kept going, it could have been a 2 run HR. Bleh. At least I won my league match 6-2, but that was against a guy I could actually hit against.

Well at least until he pulled out his secret weapon, backup Shortstop Neifi Perez, wielding a deadly 70MPH fastball. He pitched a perfect inning and struck me out once. It was the damn lag at the time, I swear! I hate my goddamn sisters.

But still, I need practice in being a smarter hitter. I need to be more patient, and not be afraid to take a few pitches - even if they're strikes. I need to be getting more runs on a consistent basis - these higher ranked guys are pretty good, and I can't just shut them out like I can some n00f.

I also need to be unafraid to not pitch the corners so much. They're good pitches, but I need to mix up some nasty pitches in unexpected places, like middle in and middle outside, tailing in and out, so that the hitter won't exactly know to just go for the corners. I tend to do worse in later innings pitching, since I can't get as many swinging strikes on balls thrown. I should get better, and I can still beat down those lower ranked than me :0)

MLB 2K5...teh online

Well, after rattling off a 13-0 record (one of which was a game where I was down 2-1 in the 8th inning, but the guy's connection sucked so he got dropped), I finally lost to a guy playing as Cincinatti, 6-5 in the 11th inning. The guy got 2 runs on the board before I ever recorded an out, but I managed to hit a 2-out HR in the top of the 9th, so I prolonged the game to the 11th, where Armando Benitez gave up a SlamZone HR to lead off the inning. I was lagging it up at the time, and had like 3 SlamZones that I surrendered to the guy that inning, but none left the park at all, so I was able to last. I probably should have switched to someone else, but I don't know. He was my best option, but that guy wore down my pitchers. I went through 2 starters (Jason Schmidt, 4 innings, 4 runs; Kirk Reuter, 2 innings, 1 run), and I gave up like 4 or 5 walks (the guy was a wicked hitter), but I thankfully mowed him down for 3 innings with Jesse "The Manchild" Foppert, before I pulled Foppert for a pinch-hitter. Benitez gave up a hit and an intentional walk of Ken Griffey Jr. to face Bobby Abreu (that was smart - but I didn't want to face Griffey at all), but then he gave up the bomb to lose the game for me.

My next match, I lost 2-1 to a guy playing as the Giants - he pretty much pwned me, I had only 2 or 3 hits, one of which was a homer, and the runs I surrendered thanks to Jason Schmidt were both doubles. Bleh.

I then got a drop after a MUTUAL quit against the guy I got a win against 2-1, even though I was the 1, but that might be corrected today. It dropped my rank from like ~180 to like 413, which was crap. I then pounded on that guy again to the tune of 6-0 (shoulda been 7-0, but he got dropped like right before my 3rd guy scored), so my record is 14-2-1-0 (Wins-Losses-Drops-Quits), but hopefully it'll 'drop' the drop, and my rank will go back to where it should be. But my 13-0 was a fluke - I was pwning people for a long time. And I'll pwn some more before I'm done.

At least I clobbered the guy in my first league match, 9-0...but he was admittedly under the influence of 3 or 4 beers, but still...I pwned him good and well. And my next opponent, ButtseckzMan, is shaking in his boots just from watching my shellacking of my opponent. Who should I start against him? Kirk Reuter? Noah Lowry? Brett Tomko? Jerome Williams? I love Jesse Foppert, but using him as a reliever is much better, since he's da shiz. But if my matches end up being similar to my first one, then I won't need much of my bullpen (Schmidt got a shutout).

And to think, I'm talking about a damn videogame! MLB 2K5 is my favorite game I've played this year, fo' sho'.

I'm now convinced that...

The Mars Volta's Frances the Mute is one giant mindfuck. I mean, from reading all the people trying to figure out what the hell the whole story is going on in the album, the more it seems like a joke. Oh, and the fact that the title track (the 'decoder' single - not even on the album)'s final lyrics are:

This never happened, but I saw you leave,
And crawl into a bed of broken windows

Really just seems to say that "You've been duped for 90 minutes by a couple of crack-heads. Have fun, come again." And still, no one will want to believe it, so people will keep trying to make sense of utterly incomprehensible bullshit.

In fact, that should be the name of the next Mars Volta album: Utterly Incomprehensible Bullshit. That would be awesome.

Memo to self:

MLB 2K5 match tonight, 8 of the clock. Be there.

http://leagues.espnvideogames.com/t/league.php?l=87686 - Der Leaguen

And in other news...

Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta is the most fucked up, weird album ever. It's also the most sexually explicit ever. They just get away with it by using metaphors. Lots and lots and lots and lots of metaphors. And they need to learn how to cut down on the extraneous noise - when your album's 76 minutes long, and you still can't fit the title track on there, which is another 14 minutes, well, you need to hire a producer to cut down on the bullshit. FTM makes their first album, De-Loused in the Comatorium, seem like a Linkin Park album in terms of structure and radio friendliess.

Oh, and Antonio Alfonseca has 6 fingers. Yay!

Voltron Got Served

http://jarvssen-percival.50megs.com/voltserved.wmv

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN.

MLB 2K5 8-team league

Feel free to join, bitches.
http://boards.ign.com/Xbox_General_Board/b5076/80595535/?0