Archive for August, 2009
Ads on xbox 360 premium service?!?!?!?!
Aug 30th
Ok ,,,,so when did it become ok to put ads on a “PAID SERVICE”, I mean i pay because i want to have the most enjoyable experience there is.
xbox live community,seamless online gaming ….when while playing games will i ever worry about car insurance?…i mean damn most of the ppl who own a xbox CANT EVEN DRIVE YET but that’s not what’s worried me the most. Whats got me scratching my head is why am i paying micro$oft 50$ a yr to shove ads in my face?
if i was on silver then yea i would understand but premium really? so all that money that micro$oft is getting from the ad revenue where is that benifting us i mean do they think that there a cable company now? OK when the cable company shows ads those are the sponsors that help make what ever show your watching possible now how is that the same for xbox? There are NO place for ads on a gaming console specially when im shelling out hard earned cash for an ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
Why do we feel its ok? in my opinion this is just a tease as to whats coming, ads everywhere there are already in-game billboards advertising up and coming movies ….yea i really need to know when the new batman is coming out right before i get a head shot on this guy……..yea …its that important thanks ad people without that billboard i would never of known that movies exist………. im fed up with all this but it will never change because kids are never going to rebel in fear there live will go away and no one will ever question why things keep disappearing.
like remember when after awhile maps would become free..or at least discounted….not anymore how about being able to put personal pic in the background so that when u logon u have a personal dashboard.. lol not anymore they blatently do things and no one seems to care or complain and not only that they refuse to maintain anything why does it feel like there working in the dark but im the only one that can see them?
When did GTA turn into a cesspool?
Aug 27th
Grand Theft Auto by any means is the most detailed game i have ever seen, right down to the roaches you can see running around the bathrooms. Today im not going to talk about the game nor am i going to explain how long I’ve sat in one place obsessing over the many things you could get into in the free mode of this game. No, today im going to talk about the aggravation of trying to enjoy this game without losing my temper.
Im talking about all the 8 yr olds with squeaking voices saying the most vial things over in-game chat …..wtf…..I firmly believe that any parent willing to go out and buy there 8yr old this game needs to get handcuffed and led into the woods to be shot execution style. Eh that’s just my opinion these days the few that stick around to play this game tend to be bombarded by 8 and below year old kids that are so excited that they can curse and try out every little word they learned on the unexpected gamers in the room. It is no long a surprise to me that there is yelling and screaming before my game has even loaded me into the room.
Now this is at no fault to Rock Star *creators of Grand Theft Auto* In Fact its not up to them to regulate chat at all it’s Microsoft’s responsibility to maintain and regulate things like this …..but they don’t what they do is give the players the choose if they want to report the player which im sure is bombarding them with thousands of complaints many from people who are just mad that they lost ……… so they mostly go unnoticed and unenforced which brings games like gta going down the drain not because its a bad game no…its because people don’t normaly like to play while there being called every racial slur in the book ….now Yes im fully aware that this can be said with alot of games on xbox live but non are as concentrated as they are in gta and i dont thing that will ever change ….well lol untill gta 5 i guess
But does that come with the culture of the game ?
And why is it so easy for an 8yr old to get a copy of gta 4 ?
Electric Sheep (screen saver)
Aug 23rd
“Electric Sheep is a collaborative abstract artwork founded by Scott Draves. It’s run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers “sleep”, the Electric Sheep comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as “sheep”. The result is a collective “android dream”, an homage to Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Anyone watching one of these computers may vote for their favorite animations using the keyboard. The more popular sheep live longer and reproduce according to a genetic algorithm with mutation and cross-over. Hence the flock evolves to please its global audience. You can also design your own sheep and submit them to the gene pool.”
Electric Sheep does something different with screen savers , It brings them to life a “sheep” if its voted on as good the sheep will grow and make more “sheep” the program uses your idle time to connect your pc to there server and uses your processing speed to help run this project in turn you get stunning screen savers that are guaranteed never the same you can check out this awesome invention and snag your free copy of Electric Sheep here http://community.electricsheep.org/download
Cristal (User interface)
Aug 19th
CRISTAL (Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces) is a extreme simple user interface for controlling multimedia devices and home automation systems.
Which seems like and extremely clever idea imagine trying to figure out what movie to watch by simply spreading digital copies of the video library out on the digital table then passing them over to each other by touch then watching a preview right on the table O.O how about games? dinner arrangement if this is connected to the internet the usefulness is endless.
Scooter&Jinx takes it’s first breath tomorrow!!!!
Aug 14th
Scoot&jinx, The brain child a well known and talented friend has finally come to fruition. What is Scooter&ndJinx? I hear time and time again can easily be explained by going to there new and revamped website Scooter&jinx.com in short it’s where you can pick up unique vinyl toys from known designers in london.
This easily makes me excited to see what you might find by walking into this epic store and im sure you cant find anything like this anywhere else (japan maybe).I’m secretly wishing that this store becomes a huge mass chain of stores around the world but i guess it would lose its uniqueness then right? lol well here are some more pre-opening pictures of the store and i can’t wait to see what comes next!!!!
originality ….gotta love it!!
Arma 2 lanparty CANCELED!!!!!!!
Aug 7th
I am sorry to everyone who was waiting in anticipation for the epic lan party that was suppose to take place Aug 11th but it has been CANCELED due to my pc deciding it wanted to lay its head down and never wake up. So i am now saving for a new powerhouse pc that will run arma 2 on max while playing other games at the same time ie a beast that deserves a spot in my thermaltake Armor + case 
Again i am sorry and will plan to reschedule this event as soon as i have a pc together thnx everyone and plz check back for updates
