We have blogs from people saying they've played the game for 17 hours straight.....


(On an off topic note, stop this bullshit support of people whom make claims to playing video games in excess of 10 hours or more. This isn't something that can be considered an achievement, it's a grand waste of time and it's unhealthy. Seriously people, playing a game for 17 hours out of 24 is not a fucking accomplishment. Even the most socially inept person would see that as sad.....seriously.)

 Now that that's out of the way!


Here are my predictions for this Little Big Planet "Craze".

 Much like Spore, Age of Conan, and which ever other games people clinged to for about a week and then stopped caring about.

You will buy Little Big Planet. You will realize that the editor requires too much effort and (No offense) actual knowledge of design to make anything "good". You will probably enjoy the game just fine, making random levels of stuff that really doesn't make any coherent sense, but once that tides over, back to the shelf it goes. Sigh......I'm not hating on the game itself, I'm just tired of these one to two week excitement bits that seem to fade once the actual game is out for a bit. I mean, people talked about Spore in the same vein, and I can't think of one person who started playing Spore, who still IS playing Spore. 

 Just my thoughts >_>

 

 So I obtain Rock Band 2.......and my Xbox dies. Since the Xbox was given to me modded, I can't send it in to Microsoft. WONDERFUL.

 I'm a patient guy and all, but C'MON..........god....this is such bullshit. Oh well, I'll write something up after school for you guys.

ToysRus, K-Mart, FYE (They suck balls) and NOTHING!


 I really wanted to play Psycho Killer too.....well, guess I can wait until NewEgg ships my order.

If you know a key plot point to a movie, do you go and see it any way despite that?


(Let's just say, some mother fucker on the IMDB main page posted a major spoiler to burn after reading.)


 What do you guys think?

72 Degrees as a high for two days in a row in New York City this week. Finally. some cold.

 ^_^ happy.

- I have obtained the "Chinese Democracy" leak everyone has been "Raving" about. My thoughts? After listening to about 3-4 songs, (This is going to sound insane but....) imagine if Axl Rose sang Billy Joel's greatest hits with some guitar backing him up. YEAH.

- I was given an advance copy of "Death Magnetic" by Metallica and after listening to a 9 minute instrumental called "Redemption & Suicide", I can say, it's Metallica alright.

- I've discovered two new modern groups. The first is MGMT. Here is a great song by them, entitled "Time to Pretend". Some say the song is about Global Warming. (I call bullshit on that)but  I THINK it's just about the endless cycle of what hoping for more than you'll ever have can lead to. In other words, absolutely nothing.

 Here I am at a crossroads in my life. I have Mercs 2 on one side of the proverbial fence. A full priced sixty dollar game which isn't really DEEP in any way, and also has several wonderful glitches that make trying to play the game at times, a little rough to say the least. On the other side of this metaphorical fence I speak of, I have "Runescape HD". Runescape HD allows me to click  some stuff, fish some Lobsters, do some quests, and it's free. Mercs 2 on the other hand, is very shallow, not very fun, is unpolished as all hell, and makes me mad at times. ^_^

 I believe I'd rather play Runescape.


 So, let's talk about Runescape for a bit. A friend of mine IM'd me about thirty fucking times to sign up for an account on Runescape. This happened roughly eight days ago. I started playing the game and leveling up my fishing skill. After playing for only an hour, I was already level 15 or so. I continued playing for about 1 to 2 hours a day and eventually ended up with a character that reads as follows.

Level 48: Full Rune Equipment

40 Str
40 Def
40 Atk
54 Fishing
50 Cooking

and about 200k in the bank in addition to all my nice baby blue Rune equipment.


 Don't you just love a game that's all about instant gratification? In 8 days I've already obtained all the stuff that most players take months to be able to afford. Fishing Lobsters works!

Here are my other thoughts and views on stuff.

- Mercs 2 is not worth any amount of money. It's a decent rental, but canned explosions and pretty fire does not make up for shallow game-play, bad animation, very bad camera, controls, THE FUCKING LIST GOES ON!

- I saw Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder. Both are good movie comedies. The "Brokeback Mountain" esque fake trailer featuring Robert Downey JR in the beginning of Tropic Thunder was worth the ten dollars alone.

- I purchased the Diablo 2 expansion from Ebay for five dollars. I installed it, and it deleted my character saves. I did make a new character, but since Runescape is so similar to Diablo, I find myself not playing it as much.

- Bands with members in their mid-40's need to stop......I mean, Metallica has about 9 studio albums (I think), why can't you just pick any one of them to listen to? In the end, do we really need a new Metallica album?

- The NBA Live demo is pretty good. They're trying to slow the game down this year, make it seem more like 2k's game. I was shocked when I saw that they fixed most of the animation issues that have been a consistent problem with the 360 versions of Live. I LIKE SPORTS, SUE ME!

- I actually enjoyed the demo more than Mercs 2 to be perfectly honest. :)


Here's a nice little video to tide you over while I finish homework and make more money in Runescape.