I temp got my laptop back after I sold it, I gotta work on it. As my promise, 'if anything goes wrong I'll fix it'. unfortunately, they guy whom I sold it to, he bought it as a gift for a friend of his.
nice guy (relative to 'Rogue For Hire'), but really he shouldn't have messed with it, now I gotta reload everything
Saw Tron last night. It rocked!
I thought I was going to be disappointed after reading some of the mostly really negative reviews of it... but I thought it was great.
My lady started feeling icky after the film, so I let her take a nap in my bed before her long ride home. But there really wasn't any room in it for me. (It's a twin bed...) So, probably needless to say, I didn't get much rest last night.
It's gonna be a very long day...
I got 11 hours of sleep last night and still managed to completely sleep through my alarm and get up an hour late. I guess I needed it, but dang.
K_K, back to an earlier point, I said the Patriots beat 5 playoff teams after the loss to the Browns. They beat 2 other playoff teams, the Ravens and the Chargers, earlier in the season, so that makes 7 playoff teams the Patriots beat...far from "average." :P
EDIT: I just realized the Chargers didn't make the playoffs, which, along with the Hawks beating "Who Dat Nation" today in the playoffs, goes to show you how crazy this season has been.
Well, well find out today! Playoff start! WHooo!
on a pace for 2900+ posts this year... I really doubt we'll make it as busy as we've all gotten.
I slept from about 7 last night until about 9:30 this morning. Ugh. But at least I don't feel sick anymore.
It's snowing out. Wonderful. I have to get to work today in it too...
again, lookin at this thread thinking "I really don't have anything decent enough to call 'post-worthy'." >.>
Neither do I at the moment... but I do try to put an interesting spin on my boring existence whenever I can...
on a pace for 2900+ posts this year... I really doubt we'll make it as busy as we've all gotten.
Don't worry. I still have absolutely no life.
So my picks are out the goddamned window. Good job Seattle.
upset saturday. Go 'hawks and go Jets!
As for me, I was at a curling tournament in a town of 3k with two sheets of ice, lots of food ,and lots of booze. 3 dead soldiers were accounted for. A bottle of Capt Morgan, Widsor Canadian Wiskey, DIckels whiskey, and a half a bottle of fleshmann's vodka over two nights. had a lot of fun and met some great people
Glad i get to sleep in tomorrow before football
Oh by the way, I did curl, only won our second game, and lost our 1st and third. :( But i did win a bottle of Bicardi Limon rum for $2 !
Oh yeah, I just remembered!!!
as my 2nd anniversary of my "new years 'thing'"
if ANYONE says that Jedi Academy is Jedi Knight 3, you are F***ING DEAD TO ME.
which means that I have minimal or no respect for you.
Elvis impersonator at work last night.
Yeah. :dozey:
Easy show, and he's a super nice guy, and he's good at what he does... but really?
He had a magician with him. That guy was pretty impressive.
Spending the day with family... since we were snowed out when we were supposed to get together for Christmas this year. GF and her kids are coming too.
if ANYONE says that Jedi Academy is Jedi Knight 3, you are F***ING DEAD TO ME.
Why? Because that's not in the official title, and you are super-correct about these things or because you feel it is not worthy of the other Jedi Knight games?
my mother was visiting from VA for the last 10 days. Took her to the airport at 4:30 AM. Was nice to have her visit, but it is also nice to get back to "normal".
Have a "new" laptop after my old one had an untimely "accident" with some soda... repeatedly... and maybe some cleaner with bleach in it... At least my extended warranty works :)
Happy new year to all you degenerates!
Had a good time with the fam... even though I got totally robbed by my aunt of the super-awesome set of Sony noise canceling headphones I was aiming for in the Yankee Swap.
I got gift cards to Target and Olive Garden instead... which isn't bad, but... I'm always a sucker for any piece of high-tech tomfoolery to show up in one of those things.
Off to bed soon. Alarm set for 4am.
Kill me now...
HA! Packers won! Sealed it with 2 Akers missed FG and a INT. GO PACK GO!
With a running game they might even have a chance to meet up with the Bears
I'm awake... And all kinds of unhappy about it too.
:dozey:
Major Richard Winters, Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division passed away January 2nd of this year.
;_;
Major winters is regrouping with another band of brothers in heaven.
In other news... it is snowing again here. Tho I am laughing at the people in Georgia.
Looks like no work tomorrow... maybe Thurs. too.
But I'm sure I'll be busy working hard anyway... shoveling. :rolleyes:
Can't remember if I mentioned it, but I played through Force Unleashed II. Not bad, but disappointing compared to the first - this one was shorter, simpler, and easier, and the story wasn't as good. Still, it's always fun to hurl stormtroopers to their deaths with the Force.
We need another truly AMAZING Star Wars game to be released soon. :(
It's been too long since the glory days of the X-Wing and Jedi Knight series.
It seems like everything since has been: "OK... but..."
We need another truly AMAZING Star Wars game to be released soon. :(
It's been too long since the glory days of the X-Wing and Jedi Knight series.
It seems like everything since has been: "OK... but..."
Empire at War is epic
eyes.... glued.... to TV.... green hornet.... scifi..... @_@
Green Hornet, also know as the "Kato show" in China because of Bruce Lee.
Today at work I loaded up 2 railcars with almost 100 tons of frozen peas EACH. Going to Georgia.... perhaps to help with the epic snowstorm? make them into Snow Peas? I donno, don't care. Just rather interesting.
Day off tomorrow.
Yay for sleeping in! :)
Boo for having to spend all day moving a mountain of snow. :(
Empire at War is epicCould be... I haven't tried it... but I generally dislike RTS games. Plus: I'm amazingly terrible at them. (Actually... those 2 things are probably pretty closely related...)
But that's one game out of how many released in the last 10+ years from Lucasarts that can be described that way?
There's been quite a few "good" ones... but not all that many "MUST PLAY!!!" ones.
Once upon a time, practically EVERYTHING Lucasarts put out was a "MUST PLAY!!!"
I have acquired a Snuggie. I now have no reason to leave the couch ever again.
no offense niner, I used to think you were a little bit of a douche, but DAMN!
j/k XD
Luca$art$ in the last 10 years has done really nothing but come out with some kiddie console game, slap their franchise name on it, and send it out. Galaxies has only been great because of the huge hype and large investment fans have put into it just to be able to play it, but otherwise has been a huge disappointment to a lot of fans.
There is no reason LA could have come out with a clone wars era space flight sim if they really wanted to. problem is, IMHO, they dont think there is money in the PC market anymore
Well, theres money alright, like myself, but a clone wars game? really? another shamless kiddie game
There is no reason LA could have come out with a clone wars era space flight sim if they really wanted to. problem is, IMHO, they dont think there is money in the PC market anymore
It's not that there's no money in the PC market anymore, it's just that flight sims are a dead genre.
Everything is FPS or RPG's. Platformers are making a comeback thanks to Super Meat Boy, but other than that, welcome to the modern age of gaming.
The only genre that's not completely dead is RTS, but that's because Blizzard keeps making boss RTS games. The. Only. Reason.
Everything is FPS or RPG's. Platformers are making a comeback thanks to Super Meat Boy, but other than that, welcome to the modern age of gaming.
The only genre that's not completely dead is RTS, but that's because Blizzard keeps making boss RTS games. The. Only. Reason.
Don't forget the hybrids like Borderlands, and upcoming Brink
3rd person adventure/shooters are big too. The new splinter cell rocks.
and there are tons of other RTS. You certainly can't claim its all blizzard. they released their first RTS in what, 10 years?
TA/SupCom, the C&C's(not as good as they used to be, the total war series..all been pumping them out.
The real saving grace of RTS the last 5 years has been the total wars and the Dawn of War's. period.
There are some more interesting games coming out, like Brink, Firefall(kind of a borderlands/mmo hybrid), global agenda went PVE but keptits PVP elements.
I will add that I (a)have heard nothing but great things about SC2
and (b) look forward to having time to play it sometime in the next 2-3 years :p
Total War and the Dawn of War series appeal to a very small niche market. Like flight simulators when we were doing XWA heavily, we were not a main target demographic, and if we were, we were dissapearing.
SC2 kinda revitalized the genre. Props to Civ 5 too though. I've heard good things about it.
Total War and the Dawn of War series appeal to a very small niche market. Like flight simulators when we were doing XWA heavily, we were not a main target demographic, and if we were, we were dissapearing.
SC2 kinda revitalized the genre. Props to Civ 5 too though. I've heard good things about it.
I guess. I don't really agree though. Sure the name blizzard sells more than Warhammer, but the comparison with XWA and flight simes doesnt make alot of sense.
The DOW's sold TONS, and so do Total Wars, I also left out COH Company of Heroes which has also done quiet well. As its even simpler than the others.
There was nothing wrong with the RTS Genre, and I certainly don't think SC2 brought anything remotely new to the table. The only rela thing wrong with it was SC2 is 5 years late, and the Supreme Commander 2 was a step back from SupCom1, and EA destroyed C&C. 2-3 great games in the genre being around at all times certainly doesnt say its dead. who wants or needs 5 AAA titles out in a calendar year?
I have also heard civ 5 rocks but I have less time for it than I do to try SC2
I have acquired a Snuggie. I now have no reason to leave the couch ever again.
dude did you get one of the leopard print ones
Or an Official New England Patriots one?
About 4 to 6 inches of nasty heavy wet slush here. Unpleasant, but not too bad to clean up.
A couple of miles from here people are dealing with almost 2 feet of snow. I guess I got off lucky... though it means I have no excuse not to get to work tomorrow. :(
My league got called tonight...last year, I benefited from a similar situation b/c I happened to be sick w/ the flu that day, but this year, I'm not so lucky, at least not this time.
(Some background: my league gives a small cash bonus for perfect attendance, so I said I benefited from the snow-out last year b/c I wouldn't have had perfect attendance otherwise)
What's the snowfall count out your way, Wildstar?
My buddy in Dedham thinks he got at least a foot and a half. My girlfriend is in Lowell, and they got about the same.
Got about 3 inches so far here in Upstate NY. about another inch or two is slated for the overnight.
Zargon: I was more so refering to the perception and sales of RTS games VS. FPS and RPG games. Companies no longer "FOCUS" on RTS as a genre, with exceptions, of course. It's not a publishers "Money maker" like Call of Duty, Half Life, Medal of Honour, Final Fantasy, or World of Warcraft are. More and more RTS games get less press, and less hype, relying on an aging fanbase and stagnant growth.
Yes, Starcraft II didn't bring jack didly **** to the table that is innovative and new. It's a refined, prettier, faster version of Starcraft: Brood War. I'll also admit that Blizzard missed the bus in re-inventing the series and the genre as a whole, but in their eyes, if it ain't broke, DON'T ****IN' FIX IT. (See C&C.... sad.)
What Starcraft II did do though is bring hundreds of thousands of nerd eyes on to a genre that has been realistically losing to the FPS and RPG Console Wars. No, RTS would never die as a genre, I think in the end, it will be the last surviving genre in our gaming lives. Older gamers like myself remember Warcraft: Orcs and HUmans fondly and Command and Conquer with reverence. The newer generation though... sad, it is, their mindset.
Starcraft II also finally started to legitimize Professional Gaming here in the West. Major League Gaming just got another $10 Million to fund it's operations this year. We hope it will translate into bigger prize pools, and better venues.
God save Gaming! :D
hehehe
yeah I totally agree with you there.
they shouldnt have changed SC much, and I am glad they didnt.
it just sounded at first like you thought it was dead for the last 6 years and now we have RTS again :p
I got about 4-5 inches yesterday. getting some light sno wnow too :( tired of it.
Oh no, RTS has been alive and doing OK in our corner of the Gaming Universe. Not as well as World of Warcraft or the FPS domination of the Console Wars, but alive and doing ok.
SC2 was the shot of adrenaline the genre needed, honestly.
And if they changed too much with Starcraft, you'd have 48 million angry South Koreans coming to the U.S. and taking on Blizzard Entertainment in a massive Zerg rush. :D
Platformers are making a comeback thanks to Super Meat Boy,.
of course if anyone has played Super Meat Boy, will know that, that game will infact 'truly' eat you and then spit you out, only to see if you are ok to be digestible in order to eat you once again.
if you haven't, get it and play it.
imho, those guys are bud's w/ Minecraft for a reason. (well it's basically for the same reason, but not exactly the same reason, but at least 'insanity' is among the top reasons)
I've been meaning to try Super Meat Boy, but haven't gotten around to it yet.