My Demo Bash

Well I had a play around with the Medievil lords demo today and I have to say I quite liked it. Nothing spectacular but it just seemed to have the right balance of economy and control that really meshed well. Go grab the demo and give it try.

Well arccording to my sources the highly anticipated Rome: total war. Comes out tommorow.Yet another Demo I have been playing to death, I never really touched the Total war series. But I have this to blame for resurging my interest in RTS. Which lead me to go and get the Warhammer: Dow demo. Now after about Three weeks of trying to get the damn thing to install I am at a loss. I mean the damn game is coming out next week and I'm still fluffing around trying to get this damn thing to work. I HEAR it is good.

Oh yeah and there was another demo.... Oh yeah stupid War Of the Ring. what a bunch of shit. Some stoopid Dungeon Siege wannabe. Which is sad as Dungeon Siege is the most lamest RPG out there

I might do the blog thing.

After some thought I might give This whole blog thing a go. Update it once a week and such. Might Just fill it up with gaming and Geek Bullshit that's happening on the web.

So here we go. Until I get my website done.

Things In games that Get me pissed

Well I had bit of a shoddy weekend and now I feel venting some steam. So here it goes:

Things That Peeve me off.

- Cut-scenes, the only thing worse than a long drawn out cut-scene is an unskippable one. If I wanted a movie, I would of gone and bought one (or played D or Myst). Not only that why the hell can’t you pause movies???? i remember needing to take a leak during MGS2, only to find that holding it wasn't such a good idea as the cut-scene dragged on and on and on......

-X,O Yes or No? This is REAL annoying. I wish developers could come up with a standard for menu navigation. Although I can always push triangle for help, or is it the select button......

-Repetitive voices. You know the ones, where you hear those stupid one liners that do nothing but get up your wick. DS: LOA is a prime example. After playing through Dungeon Siege. Playing Legends of Arana Expansion had some welcomed improvements. Too bad the Phrases weren’t one of them. WHY OH WHY is a smart arse comment when I order the character to move, but not attack? It is sooo lame hearing some mage blurt 'with honour' when all he is doing is moving down a path. The one that really tops it for me is that dumb giant to say 'Do you think that is wise' when I tell him to move. Of course I think it is wise. I JUST BLOODY TOLD YOU TO GO THERE!!

- Which bring me to games that claim to be RPGs. Where all these are is find the object, move from point A-B, find another object..... Have a battle, win some money, go to a shop...... Oh congratulations you levelled up!! Now you can go from piont B-C WOOOO. Wait a sec this is almost every PC 'RPG' out there. No wonder I stick to consoles.

-The "X-Treme" attitude of some games. Take Your X-TREME marketing and shove it.

- DOOM 3. Using the latest in rendering technology, shaders and Graphics engines. Doom 3 is a great bunch of dark. No really, no wonder my 9800 pro has such a hard time with this game. Observe the following screenshot:

DOOM

It takes a lot to display black. Well according to ID any way. Yes there is a duct tape mod but the damage has already been done. I can't stand this game.

- Progressive scan and 16:9 please developers!! It only takes about 20 lines of code and you get the satisfaction of not being a lazy tard.

- L_O_A_D_I_N_G. Just in case I forgot, console manufactures kindly remind me what system I just turned on by displaying a 10 second animation of their logo. Then the publisher reminds you who published the, then the development team, then the production company. So nice of them of them all to jog my memory every time I start up a game.

- Please wait.. Loading. Well no sh!t?? How about something a little more interesting?

- Please wait.. Saving. I guess not <_<

- Tony hawk 5,6,7,8,9; Final Fantasy 13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20; Gran Tourismo 5,6,7,8,9; EA*insert sport here* 2006,2007,2008 well you get the idea.

-Bad Music and sound. I really can’t stand the bland punk/rap crap they put out on EA games. And lame engine sounds? WTF is with that? Here's a tip Car Game Gods: take a micro phone, stick it near the car and record the sound it makes. It is quite surprising that cars don't make sounds similar to a drowning cat. Lame voice acting also really gets to me. But bah I have had enough moaning meh No I haven’t:

-5-10. Not a real peeve but a mystery. 90% of all games reviewed get a rating over 5, 50% or whatever, implying that most games are above average. Well I'm no math whiz but if nearly all games are above average doesn't that mean that the average no longer stands at its current value? Therefore an actual 'average' game would be about 7 or 70% wouldn't it? I don’t know.

- Phantom console. Buzz off, I have a PC

- GTA san whatever, after whoring the majority of voters in gaming awards last year. I have no respect for GTA. This over hyped, average gameplay, and lame arse story of-a-game needs to die already

- Oh yeah that reminds of people moaning about Sony and Microsoft destroying the industry, introducing the 'mainstream' gamer or 'mainstream idiot'. The only things worse than these idiotic sheep are the people who constantly whine about them. Going on about how the play station destroyed the gaming industry and killed the hardcore gamer and oh bring back the old-school-return to 2D blah blah. Well I am a hardcore gamer, and I'm still around. Newsflash hotshots: When things go mainstream, there is more of stuff, including bad games, good games, magazines and yes, idiots. Get over it. Just play the damn game, there a more of them nowadays then there ever was and a lot of them a pretty damn good.

- 'This game was way to short. I finished it in less than 30 hours' here is another newsflash hotshot: You need to get out more. 30 hours is usually enough leisure time for a full time, working family orientated individual. Usually only people without lives moan about this. I have no life, I play too many games. And I still can’t be Fucked playing 100hrs+ Games. Go figure.

-Online gaming. Oh I need the 1.1 patch to join server A? Ok. Well that was fun......... Hmmm Oh I need patch 1.6 to play on server B? Ok........ What’s that? I can't play on server A anymore because they all have 1.1 patch and I have the 1.6?........ *2 weeks later* Ohhhhhhh A fix. hmmmm 128 megs, That's OK Ill just go play something else.

So yer those are some of my rants. I feel better now.

Got bored so so I mucked around with paint... can you see it??? PHEAR TEH PWAAARR O TEH 1337 ChaOtiX!!!!
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Lack Of Brains

Greg's "home penile self-surgery procedure" Male Initiation and Identity: The Passages to Manhood, the Taboo on Adhesions, Phimosis Frenulum Breve.

This is REAL sad. If it is true then this guy needs some serious help maybe go visit a local shrink or join a church or something. Would you believe that I was looking for PS2 games when I came about this link? No? Well tough s**t thats my story and I'm sticking with it.

Whoah I have a blog!!

Yeah well I forgot that I had a Blog and also THAT PEOPLE WERE READING IT!!!!????!!!? I mean WTF? I got about four emails asking where all the new content was and if there was a problem. Oh well. Suppose I better keep updating this Blog then. I mean I only have about three million things to do so what is another one 'thing' to do?

Oh yeah if you spam me again i'm going to fly up to auckland and kick your arse. You know who you are (*COUGH*Brian and G-Liz*COUGH*)


Oh yeah and I'm still broke.

Sheesh I'm broke.

OK I found out the total liabilities Owing and shit it is a lot. man I going to have to set up some sort of online piramid scheme where lame people are conned into giving me money. Yeh. That's what I'll do.

Heh This is the way you should handle lawsuits. not bad vodka either. If you want to read it go here
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Tribute to shenmue is coming soon!!
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Heh I remember looking through those old 8 Bit gaming mags and seeing these somewhat suggestive ads for Neo Geo. I feel like playing cyber lip now.......
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OBEY!!
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Church of Fools

Church of Fools: "Not many churches have Satan hijacking the pulpit, or over 8,000 visitors per day." This site rocks. Although I would not call a real church (and niether do they), it has alot cool articles and semons for an online christian site. Check it now!!

Penny Arcade!

Penny Arcade!

Musicology is shit. Just Listen to his older stuff.

Musicology is shit. Just listen to his older stuff.
OK. I will admit it. I have ALL of princes songs and albums. Even the online only stuff he released. Now I put myself as a loyal average Prince fan. BUT FOR FUCKS SAKE DID HE TEST MY LOYALTY. Not only did he test it, I think it would've been easier to be married to Paris Hilton during a gang bang. I know it is sad to own all of his music, but what can I say? I am a consumer whore and I have issues.

Musicology ain't' that shit. It just isn’t as shit as his previous stuff. And when you compare it to the Rainbow children It is bloody brilliant. However 'Musicology' is a kind of flawed redemption, neither inspired enough to be a true classic, nor insipid enough to make it unworthy of your attention. It's like Prince was told by the record company 'Do anything you want but what was in Rainbow children'. And if that wasn't't enough, Prince more than delivered and boy did he deliver: not only is the product musically conservative, chocked full of soul ballads and tame funk workouts, there's nary a trace of the devilish sense of risk that has permeated even his worst material. In the end it is all just well, boring.

So Musicology is a robotic, over-generic album but I will give it some credit. The song Cinnamon Girl is about a Muslim/Arabic woman in America post 9-11- the lyrics are brilliant. OK so the dude is married which probably means that songs like 'Jack you off' are not due for a comeback. So although there is no Prima-Donna quirks, no veils, no "Slave" on the cheek, no Jehovah's Witness stories or vault releases, (which has been the only redeeming quality of all that aural garbage he created) you can sense a trace of that Prince that we all know and love. "Life O the Party" is almost redeemed by a chorus that harkens back to the good ol' days. But that's part of the problem: whether it's the reappearance of the squiggly synth, or the all-too-literal clips of Prince's greatest hits at the end of "Musicology", the record's moments become stale almost just as instantaneously.

So in the end I wouldn’t go out and find this album. let it find you. If you are one of those lucky loaded buggers that can buy anything he wants then by all means grab it. If you are among the saner of the population who remember Price for 'Crème' and 'Raspberry beret' then run away.

Although you could download like it all the rest of his donkey crap that's out there.

Holy shit I just wrote a whole lot of shit for no apparent reason. I must be tired.

David Bowie Rocks!!! The Labyrinth rocks also.

I bought The Labyrinth DVD today. Shit it must of been about 6 years since I last saw this, amazing what you forget oh yeah. This has got to be my favourite fantasy film ever. Oh yeah and David Bowie rocks. in fact I'm going to pay tribute to Dave by posting up a Little bio:

A consummate musical chameleon, David Bowie created a career in the Sixties and Seventies that featured his many guises: folksinger, androgyne, alien, decadent, blue-eyed soul man, modern rock star-each one spawning a league of imitators. His late-Seventies collaborations with Brian Eno made Bowie one of the few older stars to be taken seriously by the new wave. In the Eighties, Let's Dance (#1, 1983), his entree into the mainstream, was followed by attempts to keep up with current trends.

David Jones took up the saxophone at age 13, and when he left Bromley Technical High School (where a friend permanently paralyzed Jones' left pupil in a fight) to work as a commercial artist three years later, he had started playing in bands (the Konrads, the King Bees, David Jones and the Buzz). Three of Jones' early bands -- the King Bees, the Manish Boys (featuring session guitarist Jimmy Page), and Davey Jones and the Lower Third -- each recorded a single.

In 1966, after changing his name to David Bowie (after the knife) to avoid confusion with the Monkees' Davy Jones, he recorded three singles for Pye Records, then signed in 1967 with Deram, issuing several singles and The World of David Bowie (most of the songs from that album, and others from that time, are collected on Images).

On these early records, Bowie appears in the singer/songwriter mold; rock star seemed to be just another role for him. In 1967 he spent a few weeks at a Buddhist monastery in Scotland, then apprenticed in Lindsay Kemp's mime troupe. He started his own troupe, Feathers, in 1968. American-born Angela Barnett met Bowie in London's Speakeasy and married him on March 20, 1970.

Son Zowie (now Joey) was born in June 1971; the couple divorced acrimoniously in 1980. After Feathers broke up, Bowie helped start the experimental Beckenham Arts Lab in 1969. To finance the project, he signed with Mercury. Man of Words, Man of Music included "Space Oddity," its release timed for the U.S. moon landing. It became a European hit that year but did not make the U.S. charts until its rerelease in 1973, when it reached #15.

Marc Bolan, an old friend, was beginning his rise as a glitter-rocker in T. Rex and introduced Bowie to his producer, Tony Visconti. Bowie mimed at some T. Rex concerts, and Bolan played guitar on Bowie's "Karma Man" and "The Prettiest Star." Bowie, Visconti, guitarist Mick Ronson, and drummer John Cambridge toured briefly as Hype.

Ronson eventually recruited drummer Michael "Woody" Woodmansey, and with Visconti on bass they recorded The Man Who Sold the World, which included "All the Madmen," inspired by Bowie's institutionalized brother, Terry. Hunky Dory (#93, 1972), Bowie's tribute to the New York City of Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground, and Bob Dylan, included his ostensible theme song, "Changes" (#66, 1972, rereleased 1974, #41).

Bowie started changing his image in late 1971. He told Melody Maker he was gay in January 1972 and started work on a new, theatrical production. Enter Ziggy Stardust, Bowie's projection of a doomed messianic rock star. Bowie became Ziggy; Ronson, Woodmansey, and bassist Trevor Bolder became Ziggy's band, the Spiders from Mars.

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (#75, 1972) and the rerelease of Man of Words as Space Oddity (#16, 1972) made Bowie the star he was portraying. The live show, with Bowie wearing futuristic costumes, makeup, and bright orange hair (at a time when the rock-star uniform was jeans), was a sensation in London and New York. It took Aladdin Sane (#17, 1973) to break Bowie in the U.S. Bolan and other British glitter-rock performers barely made the Atlantic crossing, but Bowie emerged a star. He produced albums for Lou Reed (Transformer and its hit "Walk on the Wild Side") and Iggy and the Stooges (Raw Power) and wrote and produced Mott the Hoople's glitter anthem "All the Young Dudes."

In 1973 Bowie announced his retirement from live performing, disbanded the Spiders, and sailed to Paris to record Pin Ups (#23, 1973), a collection of covers of mid-Sixties British rock. That same year, the 1980 Floor Show, an invitation-only concert with Bowie and guests Marianne Faithfull and the Troggs, was taped for broadcast on the TV program The Midnight Special.

Meanwhile, Bowie worked on a musical adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, but was denied the rights by Orwell's widow. He rewrote the material as Diamond Dogs (#5, 1974) and returned to the stage with an extravagant American tour. Midway though the tour, Bowie entered Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios (the then-current capital of black music) and recorded the tracks that would become Young Americans (#9, 1975). The session had a major effect on Bowie, as his sound and show were revised.

Bowie scrapped the dancers, sets, and costumes for a spare stage and baggy Oxford trousers; he cut his hair and colored it a more natural blond. His new band, led by former James Brown sideman Carlos Alomar, added soul standards (e.g., Eddie Floyd's "Knock on Wood") to his repertoire. David Live (#8, 1974), also recorded in Philadelphia, chronicles this incarnation.

"Fame," cowritten by Bowie, John Lennon, and Alomar, was Bowie's first American #1 (1975). Bowie moved to Los Angeles and became a fixture of American pop culture. He also played the title role in Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). Station to Station (#3, 1976), another album of "plastic soul" recorded with the Young Americans band, portrayed Bowie as the Thin White Duke (also the title of his unpublished autobiography). His highest charting album, it contained his second Top Ten Single, "Golden Years" (#10, 1975).

Bowie complained life had become predictable and left Los Angeles. He returned to the U.K. for the first time in three years before settling in Berlin. He lived there in semi-seclusion, painting, studying art, and recording with Brian Eno. His work with Eno -- Low (#11, 1977), "Heroes" (#35, 1977), Lodger (#20, 1979) -- was distinguished by its appropriation of avant-garde electronic music and the "cut-up" technique made famous by William Burroughs. Composer Philip Glass wrote a symphony incorporating music from Low in 1993.

Bowie revitalized Iggy Pop's career by producing The Idiot and Lust for Life (both 1977) and toured Europe and America unannounced as Pop's pianist. He narrated Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra's recording of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and spent the rest of 1977 acting with Marlene Dietrich and Kim Novak in Just a Gigolo. The next year, he embarked on a massive world tour. A second live album, Stage (#44, 1978), was recorded on the U.S. leg of the tour. Work on Lodger was begun in New York, continued in Switzerland, and completed in Berlin.

Bowie settled in New York to record the paranoiac Scary Monsters (#12, 1980), updating "Space Oddity" in "Ashes to Ashes." One of the first stars to understand the potential of video, he produced some innovative clips for songs from Lodger and Scary Monsters.

After Scary Monsters, Bowie turned his attention away from his recording career. In 1980 he played the title role in The Elephant Man, appearing in Denver, in Chicago, and on Broadway. He collaborated with Queen in 1981's "Under Pressure" and provided lyrics and vocals for "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" (#67, 1982), Giorgio Moroder's title tune for the soundtrack of Paul Schrader's remake of Cat People. His music was used on the soundtrack of Christiane F (1982) (he also appeared in the film). Also that year, Bowie starred in the BBC-TV production of Brecht's Baal, and as a 150-year-old vampire in the movie The Hunger.

In 1983 Bowie signed one of the most lucrative contracts in history, and moved from RCA to EMI. Let's Dance (#4, 1983), his first album in three years, returned him to the top of the charts. Produced by Nile Rodgers with Stevie Ray Vaughan on guitar, the album was a slick revision of Bowie's soul-man posture. It contained three Top Twenty singles -- "Let's Dance" (#1, 1983), "China Girl" (#10, 1983), and "Modern Love" (#14, 1983) -- which were supported with another set of innovative videos; the sold-out Serious Moonlight Tour followed. Bowie's career seemed to be revitalized.

What first seemed like a return to form actually ushered in a period of mediocrity. Without Nile Rodgers' production savvy, Bowie's material sounded increasingly forced and hollow; his attention alternated between albums and film roles. Tonight (#11, 1984) had only one hit, "Blue Jean" (#8, 1984). Bowie and Mick Jagger dueted on a cover of Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street" (#7, 1985) for Live Aid. Although Never Let Me Down (#34, 1987), with Peter Frampton on guitar, was roundly criticized, it made the charts with "Day In, Day Out" (#21, 1987) and the title song (#27, 1987). Bowie hit the road with another stadium extravaganza, the Glass Spiders tour; it was recorded for an ABC-TV special.

Bowie had scarcely better luck in his acting career: Into the Night (1985), Absolute Beginners (1986) (a Julien Temple musical featuring some Bowie songs), Labyrinth (1986), The Linguini Incident (1992), and Twin Peaks -- Fire Walk with Me (1992) were neither critical nor commercial successes.

Bowie set about reissuing his earlier albums on CD. Sound + Vision (#97, 1989), a greatest-hits collection, revived interest in Bowie's career; the set list for the accompanying tour was partially based on fan response to special phone lines requesting favorite Bowie songs. Bowie claimed it would be the last time he performed those songs live. Later reissues, with previously unreleased bonus tracks, brought the Ziggy-era Bowie back onto the charts.

Bowie formed Tin Machine in 1989. The band included Bowie discovery Reeves Gabrels on guitar and Hunt and Tony Sales, who had worked with Bowie on Iggy Pop's Lust for Life album and tour in the Seventies. Although Bowie claimed that the band was a democracy, Tin Machine was perceived as Bowie's next project. The group debuted with a series of club dates in New York and Los Angeles. Their eponymous album (#28, 1989), a rougher, more guitar-oriented collection than Bowie's previous albums, received better reviews than Bowie's last few recordings. A second album, Tin Machine II (#126, 1991), lacked the novelty of the debut and was quickiy forgotten.

In 1992 Bowie married Somalian supermodel Iman. Black Tie White Noise (#39, 1993), which Bowie called his wedding present to his wife, received generally positive reviews, but failed to excite the public.

Born David Robert Jones, January 8, 1947, London, England


1967 -- The World of David Bowie (Deram, U.K.)
1970 -- Man of Words, Man of Music (Mercury); The Man Who Sold the World
1971 -- Hunky Dory (RCA)
1972 -- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
1973 -- Aladdin Sane; Pin Ups; Images 1966-67 (London)
1974 -- Diamond Dogs (RCA); David Live
1975 -- Young Americans
1976 -- Station to Station; ChangesOneBowie
1977 -- Low; "Heroes"
1978 -- Stage
1979 -- Lodger
1980 -- Scary Monsters
1981 -- ChangesTwoBowie; Christiane F soundtrack
1982 -- Cat People soundtrack; Baal
1983 -- Let's Dance (EMI); Golden Years (RCA); Ziggy Stardust/The Motion Picture
1984 -- Fame and Fashion; Tonight (EMI)
1987 -- Never Let Me Down
1989 -- Sound + Vision (Rykodisc)
1990 -- ChangesBowie
1993 -- Black Tie White Noise (Savage)
1994 -- Sound + Vision with CD-ROM (Rykodisc) Tin Machine: (Formed 1989, Switzerland: Bowie; Reeves Gabrels [b. June 4, 1956, Staten Island, N.Y.], gtr.; Hunt Sales [b. Mar. 2, 1954, Detroit, Mich.], drums; Tony Sales [b. Sep. 26, 1951, Cleveland, Ohio], bass)
1989 -- Tin Machine (EMI)
1991 -- Tin Machine II (Victory)

Well there you go. I'm off to to go listen to David Bowie. Who rocks.

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

A really cool idea.

Well on My travels through the web I came across www.dvdUnLtd.com. The idea of it that you make a list of DVD's you wish to rent and then a set of three are sent to you. Watch these for as long as you please and when you return them, the next three come. The bueat part is that it only cost's $35.00per month no matter how many DVD's you actually order. More incentive for me to get a DVD writer and CloneDVD.
Anyway's here's my list of movies that I would give a shot.

Cabin Fever (My sis ain't seen it yet so I'm gona spoil her)
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (THE BEST book and the film ain't bad either. READ: It Rocks)
Day Of The Triffids (Real Funny)
Chopper (As above)
Identity (Sis ain't seen this one either)
French Connection, The (If you don't know about this then your are a dumass)
Ali G, Aiii (4 teh Sis again)
American Beauty (One of the best films of all time)
Sneakers (Not that realistic, but funny hackerish kinda movie)
Gigli (Next to they came from outa space, this is the best 'so bad it's good films of all time. I want it but there is not a shit shoe in hell that I'm going to fork out for it. So this will be the first movie that will be copied)
Citizen Kane [Black & White](Same as French connection)
Days of Heaven (Haven't seen it. Heard it is good. What the hell)
Go (How the fuck did this get in here?)
Great Dictator [B&W] (This has got to be the best comedy of all time, well it is until I can remember what my favourite comedy is... Oh yeah it's hitchhikers guide to the galaxy)
Angela's Ashes (This is so moving, I actually had this distantly remote idea of being sad and upset. I'm getting this for the Sis so I can watch her boil her eyed out for my entertainment. And Yes I know)

So um yeah I will keep you posted on how this site turn's out.

Well I Rule. Alot!!

happy anniversary for my blog. I will put somthing else up here... if i can be bothered.