I don't know what happened downtown this past weekend, but almost every block around my building reeks of garbage; the lobby of my building smells like a seafood processing plant; and, there are industrial size portable air filter units all over the floor. On my way back from grabbing lunch (yes, it's another late lunch as usual), I kept looking around for the garbage dumps but never found any. Now, City of Atlanta is well know for it's crappy sewage system (no pun intended), but it's never smelled this bad before. Pee-eww!
l8rs.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
The E3 "Business Summit".
It has begun. The once highly coveted mecha of all video gamers has now gone corporate media. My opinion of this transition is it's just another mass marketing ploy to get gamers all hyped up about hardware and or software they won't be seeing for probably another 6 months to a year. As you can tell, I'm all wrapped up in that hype. ;) Pretty much the only tracking point for us gamer lackeys is G4TV's and GameTrailer's coverage. Other than looking forward to the release of Halo 3 (and any media related to it), the Unreal engine v3, and the next-gen version of Ratchet & Clank, I don't really know if there's anything worth looking forward to. Hence, I have my eyes glued to G4's coverage.
I'm stuck playing my original Xbox and PS2 for the next month. My 360 has fallen victim to the gremlins that most have. No, not the red rings of death, just a simple dying DVD-rom. I don't see what all the biotchings have been about. I called their tech support; 15 minutes later, I had an RMA and a box on the way to ship it to them. Admittedly, I'm not to happy with the turnaround time (5 days shipping the box, 5 days returning 360, 7 days in the shop, and 5 more days returning it back to me). But, I can't complain too much if this 30% failure rate is true. There's no proof in that #, but Microsoft has bitten the bullet, and announced yet another extension of the warranty to 3 years. I need a bigger hard drive. Yes, there is a seemingly continuous price drop in hardware, lately, (including the console drops), but I still have no desire to drop that much for a 360 Elite. I don't have HDMI, and won't anytime soon.
Also, I'm still trying to convince myself of a good reason to get a PS3. The discounted price and Heavenly Sword (along with other seemingly empty promises) just haven't been enough to convince me to make that type of "investment". Sony probably would have done a whole lot better if they had taken their time and waited a year for the game producers to get some games made. ...Oh, this is new..... I just found out that all future PS3's will not have the emulation chips for backwards compatibility. They're using a software solution this time around (like the 360). That blows. I hope that all games are backwards compatible and not just a select few (like Xbox titles). That has been Sony's bonus, in my opinion.
Ok. I've been trying to type this for too long. Not to mention, I went link happy in this post. I'm gonna get back to the end of this E3 coverage, then go to bed drooling over the all the hopefuls I might get to see in my local store in about 5 months.
l8rs.
I'm stuck playing my original Xbox and PS2 for the next month. My 360 has fallen victim to the gremlins that most have. No, not the red rings of death, just a simple dying DVD-rom. I don't see what all the biotchings have been about. I called their tech support; 15 minutes later, I had an RMA and a box on the way to ship it to them. Admittedly, I'm not to happy with the turnaround time (5 days shipping the box, 5 days returning 360, 7 days in the shop, and 5 more days returning it back to me). But, I can't complain too much if this 30% failure rate is true. There's no proof in that #, but Microsoft has bitten the bullet, and announced yet another extension of the warranty to 3 years. I need a bigger hard drive. Yes, there is a seemingly continuous price drop in hardware, lately, (including the console drops), but I still have no desire to drop that much for a 360 Elite. I don't have HDMI, and won't anytime soon.
Also, I'm still trying to convince myself of a good reason to get a PS3. The discounted price and Heavenly Sword (along with other seemingly empty promises) just haven't been enough to convince me to make that type of "investment". Sony probably would have done a whole lot better if they had taken their time and waited a year for the game producers to get some games made. ...Oh, this is new..... I just found out that all future PS3's will not have the emulation chips for backwards compatibility. They're using a software solution this time around (like the 360). That blows. I hope that all games are backwards compatible and not just a select few (like Xbox titles). That has been Sony's bonus, in my opinion.
Ok. I've been trying to type this for too long. Not to mention, I went link happy in this post. I'm gonna get back to the end of this E3 coverage, then go to bed drooling over the all the hopefuls I might get to see in my local store in about 5 months.
l8rs.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Did I mention how much I like sake?
Mmmmm.... Nothing like taking the edge off with a bottle of sake. The sad thing is, I always end up drinking the whole bottle. Good thing I found one that's pretty cheap. ;) Speaking of Japanese influences, I won a contest! Now I just need to figure out what I'm going to spend my gift certificate on. I've always wanted one of those pvc figurines. Or, I could be nice and finish my sister's Madlax DVD set. My friend told me she wants Pocky. Either way, once I get home from work early enough, I'm sure I'll find enough to spend it on.
Speaking of, being on the patch (yes, I'm trying to quit smoking, again), I'm concentrating waaaay too hard when I sit in front of the 'puter. My usual mid-afternoon break no longer happens, so I catch myself leaving work between 7:30 and 8 the last 2 weeks. Oh, well. At least I'm finally concentrating on that project I've been devising over the last year.
Enuff of work. I've decided I need some sort of regimen in my spare time (and I need to try to keep up with this crazy blog), so I'm going to try to start commenting on specific genres during the week. One devoted to video games, one to computers, etc. Besides, I have a good list of other blogs I try to keep up with that I want to rant something or other about at least every couple of days. This should be the motivation to do that. Either this or I need to get off my arse and start working on the comic. Gotta pee.
....
Ahhh... better. I know; TMI. ;) Newayz, I'm gonna get back to my sake, and Outlaw Star (finally got it on DVD). This and Cowboy Beebop on the original Adult Swim many a years back is what turned me into the Anime fanatic that I am today.
l8rs.
Speaking of, being on the patch (yes, I'm trying to quit smoking, again), I'm concentrating waaaay too hard when I sit in front of the 'puter. My usual mid-afternoon break no longer happens, so I catch myself leaving work between 7:30 and 8 the last 2 weeks. Oh, well. At least I'm finally concentrating on that project I've been devising over the last year.
Enuff of work. I've decided I need some sort of regimen in my spare time (and I need to try to keep up with this crazy blog), so I'm going to try to start commenting on specific genres during the week. One devoted to video games, one to computers, etc. Besides, I have a good list of other blogs I try to keep up with that I want to rant something or other about at least every couple of days. This should be the motivation to do that. Either this or I need to get off my arse and start working on the comic. Gotta pee.
....
Ahhh... better. I know; TMI. ;) Newayz, I'm gonna get back to my sake, and Outlaw Star (finally got it on DVD). This and Cowboy Beebop on the original Adult Swim many a years back is what turned me into the Anime fanatic that I am today.
l8rs.
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