DarkGamerOO7

Derek
- One sexy Lad with i smoken hott bod; Built like a Diesel pickup with sex appeal that makes the femals drip; Amazing in bed with a rather large sex rod; Most likely to become a ninja trained to kill whan older
 
I win. :-)

Wow, I have such bad dyslexia, I read this title as "Senator Bill Clinton to be unveiled on April 26th." What is wrong with meh? *cry* :P

Half-Price Books is the closest thing I have to a record store around here, I didn't want to spend any money because my shitty fisher price turntable broke the other day so I needed to save up for a new one. So I go in with my mother and end up walking out with:
 

1. Queen: The Game
2. Styx: Killroy Was Here
3. Styx II
4. Styx: Pieces of Eight
5. Styx: Cornerstone
6. Supertramp: Famous Last Words
7. Buddy Holly: Greatest Hits (Double LP) - I didn't realize this until I got home but the album is a German release of the album.

Sounds like a job for Mythbusters!

I recently came across this quote of mine from 22 years ago:

” What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?”

I believe this is still a supremely relevant question and the jury is out. There is a lot of commercial clutter on the net, and a lot of propaganda, but I have a sense that just beneath the surface understanding is gaining ground.  We just have to keep blogging, keep twittering, keep communicating, keep sharing ideas.

30 Years ago when I wrote The Wall I was a frightened young man. Well not that young, I was 36 years old.

It took me a long time to get over my fears. Anyway, in the intervening years it has occurred to me that maybe the story of my fear and loss with it’s concomitant inevitable residue of ridicule, shame and punishment, provides an allegory for broader concerns.: Nationalism, racism, sexism, religion, Whatever!  All these issues and ‘isms are driven by the same fears that drove my young life.

This new production of The Wall is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to all the innocent lost in the intervening years.

In some quarters, among the chattering classes, there exists a cynical view that human beings as a collective are incapable of developing more ‘humane’ ie, kinder, more generous, more cooperative, more empathetic relationships with one another.

I disagree.

In my view it is too early in our story to leap to such a conclusion, we are after all a very young species.

I believe we have at least a chance to aspire to something better than the dog eat dog ritual slaughter that is our current response to our institutionalized fear of each other.

I feel it is my responsibility as an artist to express my, albeit guarded, optimism, and encourage others to do the same. To quote the great man, ” You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”

- Roger Waters, 2010 
 
I will try and get tickets to this show if it kills me, no word yet on who will be performing on stage with Waters *cough*DavidGilmourandNickMasonPlease*cough* I know it isn't likely to happen but if Nick Mason and David Gilmour joined Waters I would be the happiest man alive. Also from my understanding, this is the Wall Tour from the 1980's, where they actually built the Wall on stage and then tore it down as the album progressed.
 
EDIT: Ironic lame pun time: Roger:  " We just have to keep blogging, keep twittering, keep communicating, keep sharing ideas."  -- In other words....we need to " Keep Talking".  Alright there I had my fun, ironic lame pun time is now officially over.

This are my thoughts on the campaign copied from a blog I posted:
 
 I also managed to finally finish Battlefield: Bad Company 2's Campaign yesturday as well. Technically there was nothing wrong with the campaign, the story was interesting and well told, the characters were there, the levels were well designed and the game was a blast to play. Like the first Bad Company, the campaign felt as cinematic as a movie. I did have some issues as a fan of Bad Company though, I felt DICE went a little too far on try to make the campaign serious, I wanted more "You smell very clean" and a pyromaniac redneck invading a neutral country screaming "THERES GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS" moments. There were a few funny moments in the campaign but most of them you had to sit around to listen to, and they weren't a main part of the plot like they were for Bad Company. It is really odd however that the last part of the campaign feels truly Bad Company and you can really see the characters and laughs come to life, which makes it more of a shame that the rest of the game wasn't like that. I also think the swearing felt forced and overused in spots, I like the fact that DICE included swearing (well more of it) in the game, and swear when used right can make something absolutley halarious. A prime example of this would be in the first episode of Red vs Blue, where (I can't remember the people who were talking) were asking each other why they were in there, and one responds "If we pulled out today they would have two bases in a box desert caynon, whoopy-fucking-do." Adding in that "fucking" made the statement more hilarious than if he would have just said "whoopy-do". But every other word out of Bad Company's mouth was a swear and it just felt overused, forced, and out of character, especially for Sweetwater, who is a momma's boy, so he really wouldn't swear. I also noticed that towards the end of the campaign the characters swore less, and the game felt more funny.  The other part of the campaign that felt off was the linear levels. I enjoyed the first Bad Company so much because it played out like Halo: Combat Evovled and Halo 3 did, you fought in open pusedo-sandbox environments on foot, then jumped into a vechicle and traversed to the next checkpoint or level. It felt solid and fun, but DICE chose to make the game linear like Call of Duty, which I feel is a step in the wrong direction, but like I said, other than my nitpicks and comments as a fan of the Bad Company series, there was nothing technically wrong with Bad Company 2's campaign and while it may not sound like it from this post, I thought it was great, and a well made campaign. I think if DICE makes a Battlefield: Bad Company 3, they need to bring back the humour and silliness of the first Bad Company. 
 
"You're in Bad Company now bitches!"
 
-DarkGamerOO7

I've heard lots of praise about Crysis, but story wasn't one of them. Also while the story in the Halo games may not seem to all that great to some people, if you do explore the universe through the novels and look deeper into the story you will find a deep and meaningful story, similar with Star Wars. Yeah on the surface it looks like your typical fantasy story in space, but if you dig deeper, there is a more powerful and complex meaning to everything. Also I hate how people criticize Master Chief as being a bland and generic character, but never seem to criticize Gorden Freeman for the same thing.

Cliffy B is cool guy, he makes games about shooting aliens and doesn't afraid of anything.

Star Wars was a beautiful trilogy with philosophical message about becoming the very thing you fought against. The ultimate irony with the Star Wars movies is that it's creator went from being a fantastic independent, movie maker that focused more on the story and characters than the special effects to a terrible corporate movie maker that focuses more on the special effects than the story or characters. The Star Wars Prequels are a joke and an insult to the Star Wars universe, they make no sense, have lame and senseless plots with one-dementional characters that go against what Star Wars was originally about and the remastered versions of the Original Star Wars Trilogy are a joke. Stop shoving more shit on the screen, removing shit that is important to characterization (Greedo didn't even shoot at Han, Han just killed him) and over-dubbing shit in your movie Lucas!

Coffee > Tea.