I’ve been pretty slack on the posts as of late, so watch this a thousand times and let the adorable cuteness swim through your soul. Seriously, watch it over and over. Actually I dare you to try and stop watching it, it’s like a cute spanish plague that takes over your attention span. Dance damnit, DANCE!!
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOHe_VjspVs]
Assassin’s Creed is a fairly new game by Ubisoft that is getting somewhat mixed reviews. Being that I am trying to start some game reviewness on the cynical times, I decided that this would be a good game to start with. The game is about an assassin who blah blah blah…here’s my problem. So here I am, at the last level, and suddenly my assassin falls through the fucking earth into an everlasting void of white, eventually dying.Upon his resurrection, he has been cloned with both versions of him moving together in a strange dance of frustration. Did I mention this was the last fucking level? What makes this so god-damned frustrating is that it renders the game in-fucking-playable and un-fucking-finishable. So, alas, my first review as a budding game enthusiast will have to wait until the supposed patch is released. I really, really want this game to be good. I mean, up until this point, I only had a few minor gripes about the repetitiveness and a certain assassination that is damningly frustrating. This glitch shouldn’t effect my eventual review, but how the fuck can Ubisoft release a game that can’t be finished! I know that it isn’t everyone who is having this annoying problem, but I’m not the only one. See the video after the jump. Continue reading »
The A.V. Club has a hilarious post about the worst band names of ’07, and I gotta tell ya, I fucking rolled on the floor with some of these names. Let me give you a glorious taste:
Gay Witch Abortion
Statutory Grape
Harmonica Lewinsky
Slut Barf
Ima Fucking Gymnast
This shit goes on for 3 pages. Seriously, this is one of the funniest things I’ve read all day, and that’s pretty damn good cause I read the Bible today…..too soon?
Some students from the Tampere University of Technology in Finland thought it would be a cool idea to create a giant-ass tetris. They used a bunch of know-how and a cell-phone to have a couple nights of fun. This proves that even Finish college students have an assload of free time to play video games.
In case you haven’t heard about it, the internet publication Gamespot recently fired one of their lead video game reviewers shortly after giving Kane and Lynch, a game that was then being heavily advertised on the site, a relatively bad score. The forums then exploded with accusations of Gamespot firing Gerstmann solely based on the game review and the ensuing fallout from Eidos Interactive, the publisher of “Kane and Lynch”.
The bad press has finally got Gamespot speaking on their own behalf, by way of this special report that “answers” many of the questions being asked by livid gamers. The real question being asked is whether or not publishers have an influence over game reviews. Big publishers like EA, Eidos, and the new behemoth Activision/Blizzard spend a ton of money on sites like Gamespot and IGN, making me a bit skeptical over whether or not that money does not in some way influence the outcome of these game reviews.
The guys at Penny Arcade have a wonderful way of expressing their opinions on these issues by way of their hilarious comic and blog, and usually have a good point hidden in-between the lines. This debacle raises some of the inherent problems with review scores, not just for video games, in general, something I hope to discuss on this blog in much greater detail soon.
The guys over at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies recently showed off this amazing spinning mirror that can display 3D rendered images and video in 360 degrees of space. It’s basically a new nerdy thing that will make star wars/video game fans shoot a load. It would be cool if there was some way to play around with it, only problem is that the mirror would slice your hand off while it spins at ridiculously high speeds. It’s also hilarious that the guys who invent this thing choose a Tie Fighter as one of the first things to throw into an expensive 3d mirror. I mean…they must get all the ladies…
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It’s quite possible that you’ve already seen this, but what the hell. In another one of those “proud to be an american” moments (you now have that song stuck in your head) Kellie Pickler, of American Idol fame (if you can even call it fame), challenges even the most patriotic of americans faith in…america. If not to top it off, Jeff Foxworthy heaps in a helping of sexism! It’s like a microcosm of the south, just without the inbred banjo players.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/v/HHXbvzlVv14&rel=1]
note: I was born in Atl., so I’m allowed to make fun of inbred banjo players.
For my first of what will hopefully be many posts, I come bearing gifts! Well, I come bearing videolemon.com, which is what has held my world together since the fall of tv-links.Videolemon isn’t itself a link site, but a search engine for link sites. So if there is some show that you have to see, videolemon can usually find it somewhere, but not always (one day Twin Peaks…..one day…)