Archive for September, 2007
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Blog Update!
Geez Sarah! Update your blog already…
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Still sick, and Zero Punctuation.
Howdy people, still sick today! If you enjoyed yesterday’s review of Bioshock you can visit the Zero Punctuation website that’s now linked in the “Hot Links” to your right. I’m sure you’ll find the rest of Yahtzee’s ramblings just as entertaining.
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Birthday’s, Work and being Sick…
Well I haven’t updated my blog in quite some time so I guess I should fill you in with what’s been happening. On Saturday the 15th of September Jo and I had our conjoined 23rd birthday parties at John’s Buddha Hut. We had a unique celebration for our circle of friends as all Video Games were banned by penalty of Death, and the entire night was focused around played Board games instead (I know, I know, it’s just one typing of gaming to another). It was pretty damn great, we dabbled into some new games like “The Analyst” which totally failed, and also into Absolute Balderdash which really took off. By the end of the night there was some, how can I put it, negative energies at the party, you know who you are… Overall though, I enjoyed myself, and continued to enjoy myself with HeroQuest the next morning. Oh! How could I forget, CAKE CLUB the next morning was pretty damn great, and that’s all I can say about it.
The following Tuesday was reclaimed to me as a day off, because we had moved too fast at work. I ended up spending the day with Shane, where I convinced him to buy a Samsung 40” 1080p LCD TV and he convinced me to buy an Xbox 360 HDDVD Player, fair trade I would say… Maybe… Regardless we had a great time researching what would be best and getting me addicted to HD DVD’s, which I bought ‘V for Vendetta’, ‘First Blood’, ‘First Blood - Part II’, ‘Rambo 3′, and ‘Total Recall’ all which look fantastic I might add.
Now this is where it all goes downhill. I come into work on Wednesday feeling a bit off, my throat feeling a bit raw. This was only further compounded by the fact that my arch nemesis at work would be supervising me today. I don’t hate her per se, but she just has little quirks that annoy the fuck out of me. The Gods of Work must have hated me that day because as we were split up into teams, and I was assigned with her. I do admit we got along okay, but there was always that tension between us, and by 12:30pm I was feeling like utter ass, so I told May I was going home. I felt quite bad for leaving actually, because we were so down on staff that week and she was so stressed out. At the end of that day though, I have to look out for myself.
Oh man, how did I forget about TF2?!? That’s right ladies and gents Team Fortress 2 BETA was released last week and everyone has been having an absolute blast with it. At the moment I am enjoying the Medic, Sniper, Spy, and Heavy the most out of all the classes, but I haven’t really put in much time with any class other than those just listed. Spy is getting used the most at the moment for the simple fact it seems to be so damn ‘hax’, I have no problem using it to get behind enemy lines and decimate their base. There is an annoying bug in the game that is affecting people across all hardware specs where they cannot run the game using max settings. If they do, soon into the game it will crash for no apparent reason. Valve have released two sets of bugs fixes meant to combat this situation but so far none have worked.
On the weekend I had James, Tristan, Brian and Mickey D over to play some board games, which quickly turned into TF2, followed by Pizza, followed by a VERY long game of Absolute Balderdash, which included such Dashes as “Male Erectile Fraud Clinic”, LOL! Sunday was filled with X-Files as I have now finished three seasons, and will be starting Season 4 quite soon, and later that evening John, Debari and Woodford came over where I showed them a bit of HDDVD and after Woodford left to ’study’ we started our viewing of the Evil Dead trilogy.
Which leads me to today, still being sick, but I will leave you with a nice video review of Bioshock!
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Demo, MAX SPEED!
So I thought I would leave the demo downloading this morning before I went to work, but at this speed who the hell needs to wait? This puppy was going at a blistering 2158.3KB/s, with a screenshoot for proof! Enjoy!
Monday, September 10th, 2007
(Warcraft Orc Voice) Work, work, work…
Yup! Work was ghey today, had a total bitchfest with my manager in the morning, and didn’t talk to her for the rest of the day, DISS! Pretty much she was shitty with me towards the end of last week, and this morning singles me out for a trashing so, I… Uhh… Made my emotions know… I scored some awesome Halo 3 posters from the Microsoft rep, but I left them behind the layby counter, along with (thankfully) Season 3 and 8 of X-Files which now completes the entire collection for me to grab.
Totally grabbed Subway for lunch today with Debari, because he’s awesome, and we investiagted the latest Target Epic DVD Sale Catalogue, with nothing much of interest found. It also happened to be the only day Comic Box was closed, and to the Comic Box guy:
I WANT MY FUCKING X-MEN COMIC WHORE!
Enemy Territories: Quake Wars demo comes out tomorrow (1:00AM WST 11th September) and I can’t wait to give it ago. I just wonder if this game actually turns out to be good if it’ll be the next big thing? I don’t think I could handle this and Team Fortress 2 being crap, where else am I going to get my FPS Multiplayer fix from? Call of Duty 4 maybe? Urrgh, damn you gaming world.
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Wooo! It’s my Birthday! Catalyst 7.9 Beta shaken with some S.E.T.I (not stired)
23 years ago to the day I was born into this world, who thought I would survive? I just woke up and it’s been a pretty great 15 minutes of wakefulness because no one is home! Presents to far include a AUD$150.00 JB HiFi voucher from James, Brian, Tristan and Mickey D from which the claim they caved into getting after several laps of the entire JB HiFi Myaree store, thanks guys! From my Momma, I got two pairs of pants, which probably means I can expect two shirts or similar from my Poppa. I awaiting in growing anticipation the forgetfulness of my sister, and the lateness of my brother…
Yesterday also marked the day that ATi released their new Catalyst 7.9 Beta drivers for the Enemy Territories: Quake Wars, which gladly also fixed the visual artifacting I was getting with my monitor, thanks ATi! This means that I can get hard into Bioshock and start to properly organise my PC for maximum efficiency. (Nerd alert?)
As you might know I am an avid participant of the SETI @ Home Project, not that I necessarily believe in that sort of thing, but I enjoy my CPU crunching data all the time and going towards some useful cause. Anyway, the past week has been stale for the project with declining work units at the beginning of the week, meaning my CPU sat idle, to today where I have not received a single work unit for at least 48 hours! I don’t ever remember the project having so many issues previously.
Before I go, check out this awesome Screenshot of my City of Villains character, Count Geiger with John’s character Electrojogger in the back! Thanks Tim!
Friday, September 7th, 2007
Joh-OWNED!
LOL! A chat not long ago… Oh John how you owned yourself.
SubElement says (9:07 PM):
i reckon we watch casino royale
SubElement says (9:08 PM):
1080p
SubElement says (9:08 PM):
visual and audible delight
John says (9:08 PM):
neh
SubElement says (9:08 PM):
not to mention the movie is great
Tim says (9:08 PM):
Also fucking great theme.
Tim says (9:08 PM):
/afk Food Man Chewing
John says (9:09 PM):
yep, i dunno though
John says (9:10 PM):
not that hot for watching casino royale again
John says (9:10 PM):
but yeah
Debari says (9:10 PM):
its not like theres not eno to choose from when we get there
John says (9:10 PM):
that sounds like a “when you get there we’re forcing you to watch casino royale!”
SubElement says (9:10 PM):
lol
John says (9:10 PM):
and can your teevee even do 1080p
SubElement says (9:10 PM):
no it can’t
Debari says (9:11 PM):
did i even say anything about casino royale?
John says (9:11 PM):
well we’ll watch it when you get a hdmi tv!
John says (9:11 PM):
dissssssssssss
SubElement says (9:11 PM):
i do have a hdmi tv
SubElement says (9:11 PM):
so we watch it tonight
John says (9:11 PM):
ohdiss
John says (9:12 PM):
i thought that was only for 1080p
SubElement says (9:12 PM):
nope
SubElement says (9:12 PM):
you just owned yourself
Friday, September 7th, 2007
Ratatouille and X-Files!
So, I watched Ratatouille last night and let me say it was pretty damn great. As per usual with Disney/Pixar films it had it’s own brand of comedic value and it was also touching to the heart. Something interesting to note is that the cinema was using a Digital Projector for the screening, and DAMN, was it bright and sharp. The image was beautiful except for one minor artifact that keep on occuring. On edges such as the rat fur, or white letters there was a red/green colour bleeding, which was really annoying,
At work today I also picked up Season 1 and 2 of X-Files for AUD$29.99 each, and have the rest of the series (Season’s 3-9) on hold! I totally can’t wait to relive the series, mostly becuase I can barely remember any of it, so it’s like watching a new series again.
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Work was GHEY, going to watch Ratatouille!
Phew! Work was uber shizen today, don’t even want to talk about it really. One thing I will bitch about though is the fucking dust, it’s just everywhere and I am always sneezing! I just got home though and I am about to go out and see Ratatouille the new Disney movie from Pixar, which I love I might add! I really hope the movie is good, and quelling my doubts is that The West Australian newspaper movie review guy gave it 5/5 stars which is pretty damn good.
Well, now I am waiting for Debari to come and grab me and then we are on our way, I’ll let you all know what I think of it when I get back!
P.S. GH3 HYPE!
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Harry Potter Questionaire!
The Books in Order from Favorite to Least Favorite:
- Prisoner of Azkaban
- Order of the Phoenix
- Half Blood Prince
- Deathly Hallows
- Goblet of Fire
- Philosopher’s Stone
- Chamber of Secrets
Number of Times You Have Read the Series:
At least five times! Don’t really keep count, and even more with Audio Book listening.
Favorite Chapter from Your Favorite Book:
The chapter in PoA, where everyone meets in the Screeching Shack
Five Favorite Characters:
Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, Voldemort! (and Sirius!)
Three Least Favorite Characters:
I didn’t like Crabbe and Goyle that much, I think they were too stereotypically stupid, and all the “Who the hell are you Death Eaters” we know nothing about.
Favorite Member of the Trio:
Harry, DUH!.
Three Favorite Magical Creatures:
Thestrals, Elfs, Boggarts.
Favorite Family:
The Blacks
Favorite Villain:
Even though he wasn’t REALLY a villain, I am going to have to say Snape. That’s what made him the best Villain, you REALLY didn’t know until the very end.
Favorite Death Eater:
Belatrix Lestrange, she’s just so friggen awesome.
Favorite Non-Hogwarts Magical Building:
The Burrow!
Favorite Diagon Alley Location:
Ollivanders
Three Favorite Spells:
Expecto Patronum. Crucio, Avarda Kadavra.
Three Favorite Potions:
Felix Felicis, Vertia Serum and Skelegrow.
Favorite Unforgivable Curse:
Crucio.
Favorite Department of Mysteries Room:
The room where Sirius died, with the doorway.
Biggest Surprise:
Siruis dying! Oh man, I still hate her for doing that.
Biggest Letdown:
The final battle between Voldemort and Harry, just didn’t live up to expectations.
Favorite Mode of Transportation:
The Floo Network.
Favorite Weasley:
Mrs. Weasly, she’s awesome.
Favorite Order Member:
Sirius Black!
Favorite Pet:
Fang.
One Character You’d Bring Back to Life:
SIRIUS!
Moment That Will Always Make You Cry:
Not a moment per se, but the general loneliness that Harry has to endure.
Favorite Hogwarts Room:
The Room of Requirement, like holy shit, greatest room EVER.
Favorite Class:
Transfiguration
Favorite Teacher:
Professor McGonagall
Favorite DADA teacher:
Remus Lupin.
Least Favorite Teacher:
Prof. Quirrel.
Favorite Non-Human Hogwarts Resident:
Fawks!
Favorite Hogsmeade Location:
Honeydukes Sweetshop
Favorite Triwizard Champion:
Harry!
Favorite Triwizard Task:
Save your friend underwater Task, total mindfuck!
Which Character You’d Ask to the Yule Ball:
Hermione!
Which Character You’d Like to Use a Love Potion On:
Eh? Lame!
Which Character You’d Like to Use Veritaserum On:
Severus Snape!
How Long You Have Been a HP Fan:
2001, movie made me read the book!
Favorite Wizard Rock Band:
The Weird Systers (its the only one i remember :P)
Number of Midnight Releases You Have Attended:
0
Favorite HP Website:
Pfft, I don’t like other peoples opinions!
Most Ridiculous Potter Theory You’ve Heard:
That a nuke was going to explode in Hogwarts…
Character You’re Most Like:
Ron, but smarter.
House You Think You’d Be Sorted Into:
Griffendor or Ravenclaw. They say the hat takes what you want into count, so hopefully Griffendor!
Your Patronus Would Be A:
I dunno! Wolverine or something! LOL!
To You, Amortentia Would Smell Like:
My shoes after work, in a hotbox after 100years!
You’d Use Felix Felicis To:
World Peace, DUH!
The Job You Would Most Like to Try:
Teacher at Hogwarts!
Which You Would Rather See — a Sequel or a Prequel:
Neither! A new original fiction from JK!
The Movies in Order from Favorite to Least Favorite:
- Order of the Phoenix
- Philosophers Stone
- Prisoner of Azkaban
- Goblet of Fire
- Chamber of Secrets
EITHER/OR…
Animagus or Metamorphmagus: Animagus
Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans or Chocolate Frogs: I would choose the beans Sarah!
Black or Lupin: Sirius Black!
CAPSLOCK HARRY or Emo!Harry: WTF?
Death Eaters or Dumbledore’s Army: DA!
Draco or Lucius: Neither!
Durmstrang or Beaubaxtons: Umm, single sex schools? Stupid question!
Floo Powder or Broom: Floo!
Fred or George: George, cause hes alive. <- I like that answer.
Grimmauld Place or The Burrow: The Burrow
Herbology or Care of Magical Creatures: Herbology
Hippogriffs or Thestrals: Thestrals!
Invisibility Cloak or Pensieve: Invisibility Cloak.
Mermish or Parselmouth: Parselmouth.
Occlumency or Legilimency: Both!
Peeves or Nearly Headless Nick: Peeves!
Peter Pettigrew or Mundungus Fletcher: Neither
Professor Binns or Professor Umbridge:Neither
S.P.E.W. or the Inquisitorial Squad: S.P.E.W!
The Ministry of Magic or Gringotts: MoM
Three Broomsticks or The Leaky Cauldron: Three Broomsticks!
Werewolf or Inferus: Werewolf!
Whomping Willow or Flying Ford Anglia: Flying into the Willow?
Yule Ball or Quidditch Championship: Quidditch, Duh!
There you go Jess! Enjoy! 
