The carterblog

Eh, I hate going back to school.

2006-03-19T02:13:00.000-06:00

Eh, Spring Break is ending, and I have to go back to school. I hate it, because my family is really emotional about me leaving, which gets me sad because I know that they'll miss me. That, and my dad just built a new room in the house for me, which kicks ass, that, and I know that it's going to suck when I come back because I [i]know[/i] I'm going to lose my scholarship, and I have to lie to him about my grades, and all the crap like that. It really sucks, but I'm probably going to transfer to UT-San Antonio in 2007, because they have an actuarial science program, which Texas Tech doesn't, and it might be better to be part of a set degree plan for actuarial science. The only thing I'm worried about is that I have no clue whether or not I still want to do that, as I've considered going to pre-pharmacy. I still have time, but, I don't know what I want to do, and it's not like I'm all [b]THAT[/b] motivated to do anything with my life, which scares me. But I just don't know what I want to do, and school just doesn't really interest me. Sociology really interests me , based on the class I'm taking this year, although I don't know. I still have time to think about it, but I need to make the decision before too long.

Life sucks as a hardcore gamer, I guess. Heh.

I'm famous!

2005-07-01T03:11:00.000-05:00

Game Boy: GBA Gems: Jet Grind Radio

Scroll down, my reader review was quoted. WEE!

Congress Proposes PBS Pimp Slap

2005-06-18T16:01:00.000-05:00

What did the five fingers say to the face?

Greatest title for a news article ever.

How to destroy the Earth

2005-06-07T06:19:00.000-05:00

Sam's Archive - How to destroy the Earth

This is pretty damn cool. Now I know what to spend my graduation money on.

If you can't beat them, make them gay

2005-05-29T14:04:00.000-05:00

Pentagon reveals rejected chemical weapons - News | Print | New Scientist

Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.

I have no comment.

Dr. Claw's Face Revealed!!!!!

2005-05-25T00:31:00.000-05:00

WARNING: MAJOR INSPECTOR GADGET SPOILERS

My childhood is now complete.

CLASS OF 2005 BITCHES

2005-05-24T23:05:00.000-05:00

w00t, graduated from high school, now I get to wait almost 3 months for college to start, and I need to start working this summer...

Damn. It's incredible when you think about it...13 years of public school education are over. Wow. It's mind-blowing. I'll miss some of those guys :(

Guess what, you get funny baseball news.

2005-05-23T01:14:00.000-05:00

ESPN.com - MLB - Not-OK computer: Cubs tell Zambrano to cut back on use

Carlos Zambrano says that it's due to e-mailing his brother for 4 hours a day. I say, the internet is really really great...FOR PORN!

The Transaction Guy: A's Disable Harden, Recall Etherton

CART MASTER: Bring out your injured!
LARRY DAVIS: Here’s one.
CART MASTER: Ninepence.
RICH HARDEN: I’m not injured!
CART MASTER: What?
DAVIS: Nothing. Here’s your ninepence.
HARDEN: I’m not injured!
CART MASTER: ‘Ere. He says he’s not injured!
DAVIS: Yes, he is.
HARDEN: I’m not!
CART MASTER: He isn’t?
DAVIS: Well, he will be soon. He’s very sore.
HARDEN: I’m getting better!
DAVIS: No, you’re not. You won’t be able to stand up in a moment.
CART MASTER: Oh, I can’t take him like that. It’s against regulations.
HARDEN: I don’t want to go on the DL!
DAVIS: Oh, don’t be such a baby.
CART MASTER: I can’t take him.
HARDEN: I feel fine!
DAVIS: Well, do us a favour.
CART MASTER: I can’t.
DAVIS: Well, can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won’t be long.
CART MASTER: No, I’ve got to go to the Cubs. They’ve lost nine this week.
DAVIS: Well, when’s your next round?
CART MASTER: Tomorrow.
HARDEN: I think I’ll throw on the side.
DAVIS: You’re not fooling anyone, you know. Look. Isn’t there something you can do?
HARDEN: [singing] I feel happy. I feel happy.
[wrench]
DAVIS: Ah, thanks very much.
CART MASTER: Not at all. See you tomorrow.

Also check out http://cubsfun.blogspot.com. RAGING Z!

So yeah, don't buy a Pelican Power Brick

2005-05-21T00:51:00.000-05:00

Stolen from IGN:

It can kinda explode. Just kinda. I smell a lawsuit...and hot mercury. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, mercury, sweetest of all trasition metals.

Wow, High School is over.

2005-05-19T23:01:00.000-05:00

It's slowly hitting me. High school is over, it ended at 2:10 PM Wednesday for me. The more I think about it, the sadder I kinda get about the whole thing, because there's going to be people I'm never going to see ever again, I won't get to see my friends much (except for that crazy emotionless robot, Bobby Dunning, whom hopefully I will be rooming with up at Texas Tech...now there's humor in the making!) being so far away, and....I don't know. It hasn't hit me yet.

Oh well, I can't wait for college so that a new chapter in my life can start, me being on my own, away from my family. That's going to be great, these people drive me crazy. But I'm sure I'll miss 'em...a bit.

E3: The Conferences

2005-05-17T00:50:00.000-05:00

If everything I've heard has been true so far, Nintendo still has a chance to sell me the Revolution. How disappointing.

I don't know, the PS3 seems nice, the Xbox 360 seems nice, but I don't know, I'm not convinced that we either need these systems just yet, nor if they're that big of an increase. I haven't been completely impressed just yet. It's been, "Eh, looks nice", not "OMGWTFLMAOBBQ" on the graphics.

But then again, PD0 on the 360...we'll just have to see. Can we really trust Rare? Ha, no. And the game wasn't even at the conference. Silly Microsoft. And what the hell is up with the PS3's boomerang?

Equilibrium...

2005-05-14T23:18:00.000-05:00

...was pretty cool, I guess. It's like 1984 meets The Matrix.

Except that a guy gets his fucking face cut off. That was the coolest part of the movie right there, you just see his face fall right off his head. Yeah, it was pretty damn awesome.

On a scale of 7.9 to 2600, I give it a 1776.

Wow, I haven't posted in a while

2005-05-13T22:51:00.000-05:00

Not like anyone's reading it, eh?

So, uhh...how about that Octavio Dotel?

My PSP, like a swarm of locusts, prepares for its arrival

2005-04-06T21:07:00.000-05:00

UPS Tracker Page

Tracking Numba: 1Z R32 61W 02 8827 652 0

I'm soo excited ^_^

The Router Can't Bring It!

2005-04-02T15:06:00.000-06:00

Ach, mein Bloggen!: The Router Can't Bring It!

This was funny as hell. Also, to reboot the router, I typed in "bah" to reboot it. It's as if Dave Chappelle and the Baron von Vijginmaster made the Cisco Router IOS. Funny as shit.

The more you know...

2005-03-31T17:54:00.000-06:00

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!

2005-03-24T00:16:00.000-06:00

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

2005-03-23T00:03:00.000-06:00

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.

2005-03-21T23:15:00.000-06:00

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.

2005-03-21T23:05:00.000-06:00

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

2005-03-20T01:36:00.000-06:00

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

2005-03-19T17:12:00.000-06:00

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?

2005-03-17T21:25:00.000-06:00

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

2005-03-11T22:23:00.000-06:00

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.

2005-03-08T23:21:00.000-06:00

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...

2005-03-07T22:47:00.000-06:00

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

2005-03-06T23:51:00.000-06:00

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...

2005-03-06T23:45:00.000-06:00

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:

2005-03-03T00:00:00.000-06:00

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...

2005-03-02T22:01:00.000-06:00

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

2005-03-02T15:13:00.000-06:00

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

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN.

MLB 2K5 8-team league

2005-03-01T00:49:00.000-06:00

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

pwn3d

2005-02-28T18:20:00.000-06:00

I beat a guy on MLB 2K5 today, 9-0, Giants v. Dodgers...and I got a no-hitter/perfect game against him...save for an error by Omar Vizquel in the 7th on a grounder hit by Jeff Kent. I proceeded to retire him on a double play, and ended up giving up no hits, no walks, and faced the minimum 27 batters, but it's only a no-hitter, not a perfect game, according to the minds at the IGN Baseball board. That's a shame, as the game seemed to think that it was a perfect game, not a no-hitter. Oh well. I still pwn3d him well (thanks to some great catches by Moises Alou and Joe Young, aka Barry "BALCO" Bonds)

Does Nintendo want me to buy a damn PSP, or what?

2005-02-28T16:00:00.000-06:00

New Game Boy this year? (CNN)

Apparently Nintendo might just be releasing the new GB before the end of the year.

I'm sorry, Nintendo. I bought the GBA, GBASP, and the DS. In a period of 3 and a half years. I'm not going to buy a 4th system a year after another one comes out. I'm sorry. I'll buy a system that the creator is going to support for a long time - the PSP.

Of course, it's based on "analyst's opinions," and those are usually bullshit. So I guess I'm not TOO worried.

So MLB 2K5 came out today...

2005-02-23T23:05:00.000-06:00

...completely unexpectedly. Apparently Take-Two decided that it would ship out its copies that were already made just yesterday, to coincide with the release date of MVP Baseball, which shipped yesterday as well.

Sadly, the rosters were made back in like, fucking December, and there's no official roster update yet. Bleh. I hate making all the moves myself anyway, because it's just too damn time-consuming.

The game? Yeah, it's cool so far, but it takes a while to really realize how good of a game it is, by playing lots of them to find out how realistic the game is.

Linux on Xbox

2005-02-21T18:59:00.000-06:00

...is really, quite brilliant. I helped install it on my friend Adam's Xbox, and it's something I would love to do if I didn't have to sacrifice Xbox Live functionality. The dashboard programs that run on it let you do cool stuff - you can run emulators (we installed an SNES and N64 emulator - Super Punch-Out!! is truly awesome. The N64 games can be a bit glitchy, though), run homebrew games (mostly crap), listen to music and watch videos (with the Xbox Media Player Center, or something like that, you can watch video files and also DVDs, without need of the $30 DVD kit), and even backup games to the harddrive (you'd probably need to install a bigger harddrive for full functionality - most games are too big for even the normal Xbox harddrive, but KotOR fit on Adam's HD, but it took most of it up, like 90% of it), and run them off of there. Shweet.

Selling my GameCube and games just for another Xbox never sounded so good. I'd love to have one to install Linux on there - although the Xbox Media Player Center supports the X-Link Kai LAN tunnelling service, so it's really not THAT big of a sacrifice. And it's free. Shweet.

If you want to know how to install it, I'd have to show you a few links - you need to get on IRC, to get the really cool stuff, though. And you need the Xbox USB adapter to even get started.

New Elder Scrolls: Oblivion screens

2005-02-18T22:02:00.000-06:00

OMGWTFLMAOBBQ

Other pics here:
http://www.elderscrolls.com/images/art/obliv/obliv16B.jpg (full-size of above)
http://www.elderscrolls.com/images/art/obliv/obliv17B.jpg
http://www.elderscrolls.com/images/art/obliv/obliv18B.jpg

Holy shit. The next gen is going to be crazy...DAWG.

Uwe Blog

2005-02-17T22:48:00.000-06:00

http://www.livejournal.com/users/uwe_boll/

Needs no explanation.

Virtua Quest = pwned...err, not pwned, really

2005-02-17T22:37:00.000-06:00

January NPD Numbers:

Virtua Quest (GC) - 321
Virtua Quest (PS2) - 258

Those are HUNDREDS. Holy fucking shit. I'm almost tempted to buy a copy, because it'll be incredibly rare some day...or not.

My God, What Have You Become, Sega?

Various Thoughts.

2005-02-17T20:35:00.000-06:00

Zoo Keeper is pretty fun, but it's a good thing that it only cost me $30. And did anyone realize that the guy on the box looks like Hitler before they made the box?
Green Day's American Idiot album is pretty cool, but some of the songs blend together and sound the same. It's still pretty cool.
March 1st is when The Mars Volta's Frances The Mute comes out. De-Loused in the Comatorium is a masterpiece of the "On Crack" genre of music - can their next album repeat the success at being completely incomprehensible on the surface?
I can buy 3 plastic replacement DS stylii for $8-$10 from Nintendo...or just buy Pelican's stainless steel stylii that are heavier (which just feels better), are a tighter fit (these suckers will not come out of the stylus slot, EVAR), and match the top of the system better. And I did that.
I never knew Uwe Boll went by the pseudonym Larry Guterman. But I mean, a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes? That's like a fucking record or something.
I walk alone, I walk alone...
This guy is a crazy artist. Jose Lima's wife's breasts are dramatically smaller in this comic than they are in real life, though. But Milton Bradley going crazy in every frame is awesome, though
My God, who the hell made it so damn hard to find retractable earbuds?
4-day weekends are teh pwn. Much Halo 2, Unreal Championship 2, and whatever the hell else I feel like shall be played over teh intarnet.
Will the world explode or implode if Keanu Reeves ever wins an Oscar? And will the first word he says be "Whoa?"

...but not any longer

2005-02-16T19:50:00.000-06:00

It was supposed to be a secret. I wanted you to remain discreet and subtle about it. Instead, you go blabbing off about it to one of the least discreet people on the planet. The security of myself and this site have been compromised because of it. So I've decided to eliminate the problem. Only those I trust will get the goodies. And nowadays, that's a short list.

So thank the one who is at fault for this. You know who he is, and you should give him the gift of death. Revengeful death, even.

A good opportunity wasted

2005-02-14T22:59:00.000-06:00

The Matrix: Path of Neo. Instead of a Matrix game that follows-up on and expands the series' storyline, there's a cheap cop-out with just making a game based on the trilogy. I mean, I'm sure it'll be decent, and have it's cool moments, but...I just think it would be cooler if it was based on new material.

It might be worth it just to do the Burly Brawl. That would be sweet.

(And on another note, Unreal Championship 2 > Halo 2. 'nuff said.)

It's kind of sad when...

2005-02-14T12:13:00.000-06:00

...you consider only buying 5 games in a 2 month span is limiting your purchases.

Wario Ware: Touched! (2/15)
MLB 2K5 (3/1)
MVP Baseball 2005 (3/1)
Wario Ware: Twisted! (Sometime in March)
Unreal Championship 2 (April 11th)

And I'm considering importing Donkey Kong: King of Swing from Europe. God, am I sad. Oh well. Want to buy some games?

You heard it here first!

2005-02-12T02:37:00.000-06:00

Unreal Championship 2 will be the Game of the Year. Yes, it is THAT DAMN good...and the full version isn't even out yet!

It is also the best video game representation of The Matrix seen yet. You can do some crazy shit in this game - and the secrets seem limitless. I'm wetting my pants in anticipation.

If you have Xbox Live, go either get the new OXM, or preorder the game to get the demo. IT IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE. End of story.

I mean, holy frickin' crap!

2005-02-11T17:24:00.000-06:00

Unreal Championship 2 is really fucking insane. There's a lot of button mashing, but damn, this game is wrapped in bacon, going 130 through a hospital zone, and the ambulance is on fire, and is being chased by ninjas, who are also on fire. This game is fucking FAST. And crazy. And pretty much impossible to make sense of. There's a lot of high speed randomness going on, and you won't even really know what's going on. It makes Halo 2 (a fast game itself) look like it's running through molasses. Damn. Can't wait till April, for more maps, and 8 player action (4 players only currently)...

The best petition...EVAR

2005-02-10T23:51:00.000-06:00

The Stop Ashlee Simpson Petition

I mean, she's hot, but also a moron and even fucking worse singer. This petition is for the good of mankind.

300k+ people can't be wrong, can they? :0)

Somebody call the suicide hotline...

2005-02-10T22:23:00.000-06:00

Word has it that the Unreal Championship 2 demo doesn't support "HD", according to some asshole on IGN. I mean, it better fucking be only for the demo, or he was referring to 720p/1080i, because if it doesn't support 480p (like every other Xbox game worth a shit), which means it won't run on my monitor using the VD-Z3 Component->VGA Transcoder, which means that the game I've waited for since it was announced, I couldn't play. My life would have no more meaning - this has been what I've looked forward to most this year. And not being able to play this game would make me cry profusely. So someone better hope that that fucking asstwat wasn't referring to "HD" meaning 720p and 1080i, not 480p, or there will be death, including possibly my own. :(

UPDATE, 11:36 PM: Apparently the back of the case the demo's in says that it supports 480p. So you may resume your plots against me. The clouds will be happy to hear this.

"Tomorrow, we strike. And I really mean it this time."

Metroid Pinball DS

2005-02-10T22:14:00.000-06:00

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/255933.asp

I mean, this could be cool if it's done right. But...I don't know. I'm kinda scared.

Well, God damn it

2005-02-09T21:09:00.000-06:00

Now MLB 2K5 and MVP 2005 are coming out on the same fucking day. Do they want my head to explode or what? I mean, trying to figure out and keep seperate two different pitching, hitting, and fielding systems is going to be a living hell. At least it's a living hell that I'll only have to pay $50 total for on March 1st. So I guess I can live with that...DAWG.

Why pay $2.4 million when you can get it for free?

2005-02-08T18:14:00.000-06:00

Well, with the fuss over GoDaddy.com's second running of their Super Bowl ad (OMG, her strap came off! MEGATON!), a windfall has come from the free publicity they're getting on news shows and PTI, where I'm surprised that the "Safin's Babe" toss-up wasn't Marat Safin's girlfriend vs. the GoDaddy.com girl (Those sleuths on the internets have deduced that it might be her, but the commercial made her boobs look alot bigger... http://www.candicemichelle.com/). Hell, even I don't know who wins that one. Although Marat Safin's girlfriend is wicked hot. That's a toughie.

But to get back on track, GoDaddy.com is at a free publicity high. There was ALREADY controversy over the slightly 'racy' ad, which is a send-up of the whole Janet Jackson 'Nipplegate' fiasco (was I the only one who was just a little nervous when Paul McCartney took off his jacket? Heh heh...ugh.), and NOW you have the controversy over having the 2nd airing being pulled. Which is helping to get the GoDaddy.com name out more and more.

Some people are having wet dreams over all the free publicity they're getting. And hey, it's a good service...I'd certainly use it (here's to the financial backing being there for uwebollmustdie.com...).

Uwe Boll Must Die?

2005-02-07T19:24:00.000-06:00

Well, I got a crazy idea. Using a $9 domain name from GoDaddy.com, and $1/month hosting from gametied.com, I register uwebollmustdie.com. It'll get the point across, I'll achieve internet infamy, and I'll get a nice convenient file hosting service for whenever I need to host a file or such. It's pretty neato.

Should I? Well, if I can get a friend or two to split the pot with me, then fo' sho'. Keep reading here to keep abreast on the latest details.

The Super Yawn

2005-02-06T23:58:00.000-06:00

Has there ever been a less exciting Super Bowl that was this close? I mean, it was tied going into the 4th quarter, and my God, it had little to no excitement whatsoever. It was an interesting game, but if it weren't the Super Bowl, I'd probably change the channel.

None of the ads were really that spectacular. Now, my ad awards

Worst Commercial, actual content: Pepsi's second iTunes giveaway commercial. Which was nearly identical to the first, except with some annoying Gwen Stefani song playing throughout. (By the way, I've read that Gwen Stefani had breast implants recently. Isn't it hard to have breast implants when you have no breasts in the first place?)
Worst Commercial, "We get the fucking point already": Ford Mustang commercial with the frozen guy in it. This ad aired like 5 times. Someone needs to tell the car companies how to make actual good commercials, and how to properly advertize them. Like not 5 times in the same Super Bowl.
Best Commercial, hot chick category, drama: Tabasco commercial. That was hot. No pun intended.
Best Commercial, hot chick category, comedy or musical: GoDaddy.com. Go Daddy Go Daddy Go Daddy Go!
Best Commercial Sequel: NFL Network, "Tomorrow": Same concept as similar ad that aired year before, but still effectively funny. And hey, it had Ben Roethlisberger and Joe Montana doing backflips. The only thing it didn't have was Peyton Manning, aka Javier Lopez.
Best Commercial, Overall Excellence: FedEx Kinko's, "10 Cliches" - A dancing, talking bear giving Burt Reynolds a kick in the family jewels to Burt Reynolds? Brilliant!

Also, The Simpsons was funny (especially the Mario and Pac-Man sequences), and American Dad...well, let's just say I'm glad they have until May to fix that one up. A tad bit disappointing. Or maybe it's just because we have the connotation to Family Guy. I don't know, I wasn't a huge fan.

It's a good time to be a baseball gamer.

2005-02-05T01:05:00.000-06:00

EB Games has MLB 2k5 listed as $20.

Now there's rumblings on IGN that EA will price MVP Baseball 2005 at $30.

I think my feelings on the matter can be summed up simply as this - :)

Guy falls asleep in Halo 2, hilarity ensues

2005-02-02T15:39:00.000-06:00

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=scut

This is piss-your-pants funny. I mean, this is fucking hilarious. Comedy gold.

Just make sure you watch it with the sound on - that's what makes it great.

Help Protect Against Prostate Cancer!

2005-02-01T21:16:00.000-06:00

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4861

9 months old, but basically, if you never got the memo, here's the good news:

Frequent sexual intercourse and masturbation protects men against a common form of cancer, suggests the largest study of the issue to date yet.

The US study, which followed nearly 30,000 men over eight years, showed that those that ejaculated most frequently were significantly less likely to get prostate cancer. The results back the findings of a smaller Australian study revealed by New Scientist in July 2003 that asserted that masturbation was good for men.

Feel free to celebrate as you choose. Just don't let us see it, OK? Besides, if you do, you might end up like this guy. Damn Canadians.

BloodRayne trailer...

2005-02-01T18:04:00.000-06:00

As an update to my post from the other day, the trailer to the latest videogame movie from this generation's finest director of high-quality cinema, Uwe Boll, BloodRayne, has been released.

http://media.cinema-post.de/BRay_TTeas.mpg

'. . .'
DOT DOT DOT.

How the fuck does this man get any work? It boggles my mind. And was Kristanna Loken really THAT desperate for work after Terminator 3 came out?

Toilet Boll comes through again!

We're all screwed

2005-01-31T19:31:00.000-06:00

http://www.againsttcpa.com/tcpa-faq-en.html

One can only hope and pray that this idealistic little 'Trusted Computing' initiative fails, just like everything else that comes up...

"25. So a `Trusted Computer' is a computer that can break my security?

That's a polite way of putting it."

Halo, too?

2005-01-31T18:11:00.000-06:00

So I got bored this afternoon, and decided to pop back onto Halo 2 online (XBL Gamertag: WondrousHippo) just for shits and giggles. And I wondered why I stopped playing in the first place. Honestly, with all the people that bitch endlessly about Halo 2, I think even I forgot how much fun it was. I should be popping back on daily now, since it's still a rather enjoyable experience. Well, I haven't run into any cheaters, but that's because I suck too much to get up high enough that cheating matters.

That, and what the Halo 2 haters also forget about the game that makes it so great:
1) The gameplay is refined down to a sharp point. Other than the occasional silly glitch, Halo 2 is still a generally tight-playing game. Can you name a stupid control complaint about the game? The game is of high quality.
2) The game gets its atmosphere done right, including the graphics and sound.
3) Really, it's just plain fun. So what if other games have done what Halo 2 does? Halo 2 puts all those elements together in one smooth running package.
4) Game consoles != PCs. Bringing what a PC does into a console argument is inexcusable. Like bringing a gun to a knife fight.

So in short, shut the hell up, get on Xbox Live, and kick my ass. The world will be better place for it. Although I did come back from craptacular lag to get the sword and go on a 14-kill Running Riot in my second game back, but still lost, so I'm on fire. Or slightly warm, or something.

I liek me teh free games

2005-01-30T01:35:00.000-06:00

http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/index.html

Free downloadable copies of GTA, Wild Metal, and GTA2. I've downloaded Wild Metal so far (I've always wanted to play it since it came out on the DC), and plan on downloading GTA2 sometime. Guess R* can pay for the bandwidth thanks to the giganormus sales of the entire GTA series... :0)

Alowned in the Dark

2005-01-28T22:39:00.000-06:00

"The three stars have seen better days, but I'd like to think they could still do something classier and more dignified than this. Like gay porn."
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM

Can someone please enact a law to keep Uwe Boll from anally raping video game franchises with piece of shit movies? Next up is BloodRayne (although I'm interested to see who the lead is...I do like me a redhead with a nice rack...but Toilet Boll will likely fuck that one up too), later is Far Cry, and a SEQUEL to House of the Dead. That's right, a SEQUEL. To an already shitty movie.

Killing morons like this shouldn't be a crime - you should get a medal, or something.

RIP, MVP: Part II

2005-01-27T19:45:00.000-06:00

So now that the Big N has announced Nintendo Pennant Chase Baseball, MVP Baseball is pretty much dead. Sony and Nintendo won't likely release a product that's competing with their own, and if Microsoft wants to make a baseball, they'd get their ass off the High Heat license they've owned for a while now. Although that seems to be EA's most likely discourse. Microsoft could basically get free money for releasing a game someone else makes. Not bad for that, and I think the High Heat license was cheap (5 digit figures) anyways.

But still, prospects look bleak. Which is a shame, because MVP is a really good game of baseball. The one thing that perplexes me, though - why does Nintendo use David Ortiz on the cover of their game when they could probably use someone from their Seattle Mariners, like Ichiro, or Adrian Beltre or something? Who knows. I guess they decided to go with one of the more popular figures around (and with all the Red Sox publicity, I guess he was the best available option).

It's Mr. Pants

2005-01-27T19:25:00.000-06:00

First of all, finding this little GBA game was a quest in itself. Apparently the Canadians are hoarding them. gamediva.biz (eBay seller) is your best bet (with a 20% markup, too!).

But man, is this game zany. Mr. Pants, ubiquitous Rare mascot, sings. Yeah, it's mostly just humming, but it's pretty funny. And he has a bunch of zany sound effects. The game is just tripped up, and the entire graphics style is something that likely took several recreational drugs to create.

Sadly, the game is just a puzzle game - a wacked-out platformer would be awesome, no? But it's pretty fun -you have to form blocks of the same colors, using Tetris-esque pieces. Like other puzzle games, it's better to watch videos of it than to try and have someone explain it to you. So here's the IGN page I'll link you to - just beware. This game will blow your mind at how off-the-wall it is. I mean, just wow.

http://gameboy.ign.com/objects/572/572937.html

IGN user sells DS; World leaders express distress over tragedy

2005-01-26T21:23:00.000-06:00

http://boards.ign.com/Nintendo_DS_General_Board__/b7585/77697645/?49 Insider Only

Oh yeah, that's right, no one gives a shit. There's ten of these posts every single day, complaining about how they sold their system when there's no good games out there. Yeah, someone forgot to check the release lists, and how they all said, 2005. Bunch of whiny bitches. Yeah, shut the hell up.

In other news, low-flow toilets are the devil incarnate. Fuck the damn conservationists; screw the whole lot of them. I don't think I need to go into the messy details.

I jest, Cubs fans

2005-01-26T17:28:00.000-06:00

This was too good to not post it here. I stole it from kctiger23 on IGN. Enjoy.

20 major events that have occurred since the Chicago Cubs last laid claim to a World Series Championship:

1. Radio was invented; Cubs fans got to hear their team lose.

2.TV was invented; Cubs fans got to see their team lose.

3. Baseball added 14 teams; Cubs fans get to see and hear their team lose to more clubs.

4. George Burns celebrated his 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th,70th,80th, 90th and 100th birthdays.

5. Haley's comet passed Earth - twice.

6. Harry Caray was born....and died. Incredible, but true.

7. The NBA, NHL and NFL were formed, and Chicago teams won championships in each league.

8. Man landed on the moon, as have several home runs given up by Cubs pitchers.

9. Sixteen U.S. presidents were elected.

10. There were 11 amendments added to the Constitution.

11.Prohibition was created and repealed.

12. The Titanic was built, set sail, sank, was discovered and became the subject of major motion pictures, the latest giving Cubs fans hope that something that finishes on the bottom can come out on top.

13. Wrigley Field was built and becomes the oldest park in the National League.

14. Flag poles were erected on Wrigley Field roof to hold all of the team's future World Series pennants. Those flag poles have since rusted and been taken down.

15. A combination of 40 Summer and Winter Olympics have been held.

16.Thirteen baseball players have won the Triple Crown; several thanked Cubs pitchers.

17. Bell-bottoms came in style, went out of style and came back in style; disco did the same.

18. The Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox and Florida Marlins have all won the World Series.

19. The Cubs played 14,153 regular-season games; they lost the majority of them.

20. Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Oklahoma and New Mexico were admitted to the Union.

MVP, oh how little we knew ye

2005-01-24T20:20:00.000-06:00

Yup, appears that EA's MVP Baseball might just be dead now that Take-Two/Visual Concepts hath bought the MLBPA license. The problems?

1) It's 3rd-party publishers only, so EA could still swing a deal with a 1st-party publisher to get MVP out. Sony's a no-go since they have their own series, Microsoft has the High Heat license (but has unused it), and Nintendo owns the Seattle Mariners. So there's still hope - but not likely on the PS2, probably.
2) EA could still swipe the MLB license, which Take-Two hasn't swiped yet - but just imagine how stupid that would be. It'd be piss-your-pants-oops-now-all-baseball-games-are-crap funny.

And the NFL started it by taking bids...now the entire sports game market has been fucked over. Thanks alot, Tagliabue. A plague upon your house!

Proxies2

2005-01-24T13:37:00.000-06:00

3/21/05 UPDATE: Websense/the school admin thinks that they can block my proxy page. Good job, y'know, only blocking http://carterman.blogspot.com/2005/01/proxies.html, is a stupid idea, when I can easily change the title of the post and subsequently the URL. Good job. :0)

Here is a list of free proxies that I've found so far. Mostly for my own personal enjoyment, maybe you can get some good use out of it.

BLOCKED BY WEBSENSE
http://anonymouse.ws/anonwww.html
http://www.unipeak.com/
http://www.realscifi.com/cgiproxy/
^^^ Username: proxy Password: password
http://poweredbysamspin.jayssite.com/nph-temporary-duff-thingy.cgi

NOT BLOCKED BY WEBSENSE
http://jaysproxy.samspin.com/ (Presently down)
http://www.jayssite.com/web

#1 in the NBA, bitches.

2005-01-22T00:43:00.000-06:00

Spurs 128, Suns 123, OT.

That was one hell of a 4th quarter comeback. I'll remember THAT for a long time for sure. Manu is a helluva player - 48 points!!!!!

I'm just in shock from how awesome the game was...I just knew there was a comeback in the Spurs, I just knew it. This is truly just incredible. I still can't believe it.

That's for all those years you tortured us, Steve Nash. Suck it down!

Games that be for sale

2005-01-21T18:27:00.000-06:00

http://boards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=77269165&replies=0 - a few Xbox games
http://boards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=77267750&replies=0 - A good selection of GBA games

Please buy them. I could use the money. And you could use my excess games ;)
Comment to this post and get 10% off. ;)

That took way too damn long

2005-01-20T23:57:00.000-06:00

Well, I finally got my setup with a 256 MB SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB drive, Xbox USB cable, and my computer to download memory card files to the USB drive connected to the Xbox via the USB cable. The 256MB drive cost me $30 (wiith $18 mail-in rebate), the USB cable $12 on eBay, and A FUCKLOAD OF TIME TO FIND A FUCKING TUTORIAL TO FIND OUT HOW THE FUCK IT WORKS.

After the MegaXKey program didn't work (which is supposed to work) with 2 different drives - with 3 different versions. So after combing through craploads of useless archives on how to run Linux on an Xbox (many of the pages referenced using Linux on a PC - which, if you already have a Linux PC, why the fuck are you trying to install it on your Xbox? Don't you have anything better to do?)

Well, I finally found a page that had some actual info on how to get it to work (granted, it was to help install Linux using one of those USB drives - but it sets it up as a memory card nonetheless), and now I can download...baseball rosters and completed MechAssault game files so I can finally use the damn Ragnarok online, because the single-player still sucks.

So, here's the shtick, so you don't have to suffer as long as I did:
Compatibility List - Check to see if your USB memory stick will work - but the USB UltraDrive 32MB didn't work, although the list says it does, but it might be the earlier version of Action Replay I used, instead of the latest on the Codejunkies.com website. I'll have to toy around with it some more.
The Tutorial - Only follow the 1.x steps unless you want to do some Linux shit or something. I'm sorry, I'm just jaded from wasting all fucking day on this thing. And profane. :0)

The Spurs scare me.

2005-01-19T22:31:00.000-06:00

Spurs 80, Clippers 79. The Spurs are this great, elite team, but it always seems like they can't close out games, they always find a way to let an opponent hang in way too long. I'm not even comfortable with a 20 point lead in the 4th quarter watching the Spurs.

But hey, they're winning, they beat the teams they're supposed to beat by a good margin, and they're the best team in the league. Sorry Phoenix - great teams don't just disintegrate when a key player goes down. (Yes, 1996-97 Spurs do count here) - Indiana lost 3 of their best players for 15 games, when they ALREADY had a shitload of injuries, and just got back O'Neal and look at them - they still are contending (in the Eastern Conference, sure, but hey, not their fault...).

Nash goes down for Phoenix and it's the fucking apocalypse - this team can't even break 90, much less 110.

So the abridged version of this blathering? I'm paranoid and angry. Same as always :0)

PS: I'm going to put a bunch of games on sale soon, to replenish my moneys. I haven't touched some of these games in months, and they're in good condition, so once I take stock of what I've got, I'll put 'em on IGN and post them here - as if anyone is reading this at all. If you are, leave a comment, or something...please? Just to know that there's SOMEBODY out there?

If you can't beat them...

2005-01-17T14:42:00.000-06:00

...steal the license to their top-selling game, and then steal their namesake away from them.

EA: Monopolize Everything

Electronic Arts, ESPN hook up in exclusive 15-year deal

At this point, it really wouldn't surprise me if EA went and bought out Visual Concepts as well...for shame, EA. FOR SHAME.

DoucheS

2005-01-15T21:28:00.000-06:00

That would be the population of the DS General Board at IGN. They're the biggest group of whiny little bitches (besides myself :0) ) you'll ever meet. They bitch about everything. Article that says something bad about the DS? People bitch up a storm. Have a suggestion, some asshole will shoot down your idea, and say it's fine as it is (Here's an example). You have the occasional PSP trolls that stop in and try to say how the DS is crap. Of course, they're not as bad as the extreme DS fanboys, such as GCNobserver, who tries to put down the PSP, and anything said negative about the DS. He's at least consistent.

I guess the natives are restless due to the lack of a lot of good games (although Wario Ware Touched will be awesome, and Polarium (aka One-Line Puzzle) is an awesome game. Hopefully, there'll be more announcements in the coming weeks, including some more details on Metroid Prime Hunters, and hopefully some stuff from Squenix...and online plans, just maybe? But some people would have a problem with that as well.

I guess that's what happens when you unleash a sample of the GCNGB's hostile population upon the DSGB, and not the generally more docile GBGB population... :(

BLEAHRG!!!!

2005-01-15T02:19:00.000-06:00

I just made the realization that I need to import Kururin Squash for the GCN. And with my freewheeling spending coming to a close soon enough, this will be tricky factoring in buying that, Unreal Championship 2 (I have a fetish for killing people with melee weapons - it's more fun that way, although I also like big explosions. And M-67s.), Wario Ware Twisted, and Wario Ware Touched (God bless the DS being barren this time of year...although, really, there isn't much at all)

Looks like I'll have to do something I hate - sell the games I don't play anymore, and wouldn't miss. Anyone want Spider-Man 2 DS, Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Xbox), Pokemon Leaf Green, and Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (GBA)? ;)

Show your damn face, my evil twin

2005-01-14T20:45:00.000-06:00

Who the hell is the other 'carterman' on the internet? I mean, come on, who else could have this name? And why the hell do they seem to register on services where it'd be nice for to use carterman, but they've already taken them -

AND DON'T FUCKING USE THEM.

One of these days, I'm going to go crazy Swede* on them. Think they can use my name that I've been using for years?

THINK AGAIN, FUCKERS!

umm...I'm going to go calm down now... *walks away slowly*

*: M-67s...I love M-67s.

GTA: North Korea

2005-01-13T19:41:00.000-06:00

So I picked up Mercenaries today. After waiting an eternity to buy the game from Best Buy (had to wait on the guy ot get some more copies from the back of the store, had to wait an inordinate amount of time in line, and then had to wait some more as the cashier's computer froze...all in all, it was a most aggravating experience. People will be kicked for this), and going home and having to restart twice (once because the game froze before I could save, the other because I chose to cancel the first mission, and when I chose not to retry so I could save my game, it spit me back out to the title screen), I've found it to be as fun as advertised. Hell, any game where you can blow stuff up with a crazy Swede is cool in my book.

But basically, yeah, it's like GTA - run around, do missions for factions, steal vehicles, yadda yadda yadda...but you can blow up vehicles and buildings, and get PAID to do so. For the 2 hours I've played so far, it really is quite fun. Here's hoping it stays that way...

AND ALSO...

Reports say that Midway's going to price their remake of NARC, bad cops doing drugs and all, for only $19.99. Has Sega's price drops for the ESPN games insired other publishers to think, "If we want sales, we'll drop our prices?" I'm certainly interested - at $50, I couldn't give a crap - at $20, I'm interested. Here's to other publishers doing the same.

Will Sega learn their lesson?

2005-01-12T23:48:00.000-06:00

Here's to ESPN MLB 2K5 being only $20 - there's no official price, and current estimates have the game not being $20, but anywhere from $40-$50. Having bought the previous 2 versions of the series at discounted prices this past year, I feel like this tradition should continue. I want my baseball to be $20, dammit!

Besides, I don't want to drop a Benjamin on 2 updated baseball games (MVP and ESPN) :(

Ancient Vestige = teh suq

2005-01-12T16:08:00.000-06:00

If you've played Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt (My God, that's a lot of subtitles) in multiplayer, you'd know that it's pretty cool.

Except when you play in the Ancient Vestige.

It's just a crappy map to play on - granted, some may like it because it's out in the open, and you can't run like a coward. However, the map just doesn't work. For one, if you can control the energy tank and missile powerups, and get to them first, no one stands a chance. And getting to the missile is just annoying - you have to get up on the jump pad, then jump over a barrier, go into morph ball mode, go down a tunnel, and then hopefully roll onto the narrow ledge where the missile powerup is. Which if you don't have, you can be killed with the greatest of ease.

This is where MP:H:FH (Bwah!) falls short of other deathmatches so far - there's no real balance to the weapons. Even in a game like Halo 2, the powerful weapons still have drawbacks. Not so in First Hunt. If you have the missiles, you are God Almighty, and shall wreak havoc upon your unwilling subjects. Hopefully the Digipen grads at NST will fix the game up a bit in terms of weapon balance, and adding a few more (the Electro Lob doesn't appear enough to have much use, and when you can use the more-plentiful missiles, why?) would be nice. Otherwise, I'm sure hoping that we see a Goldeneye/Perfect Dark port, or TimeSplitters, or SOMETHING FPSy.

And with Wi-Fi and single-pak play? I'm soiling my drawers already. It's not like it isn't possible (see: Ridge Racer DS)

It's thinking...

2005-01-11T20:11:00.000-06:00

Woohoo, first post. Here goes nothing.

Well, I got a nifty little adapter that converts Yellow baseband video signals to S-video, primarily for my TV games thingies on my crappy VGA adapter (I do use a VD-Z3 for my Xbox). I then got a CRAZAY idea - why not hook up my old Dreamcast? So, believe it or not, I...did. :O

I got to enjoy some Worms World Party, Jet Grind Radio, Crazy Taxi, and that classic time-dumper, PSO. I just realized, that despite being Level 56 (with a hacked S-rank Spread Needle at +99 O_O), with 86 hours invested in the game, I never got around to beating Dark Falz on Normal. Maybe I'll do that later tonight. But probably not - I'll just end up cruising the IGN Boards like always, and neglecting the mountain of games I have yet to play. Including Viewtiful Joe 2, which I HAVEN'T EVEN OPENED YET.

Damn, I need to quit doing things on my computer and start playing my games...all bajillion of them :p