EDIT: sorry, i should be clearer, this is based on the Game informer article lol.
 
1) The idea of having it in a city (which looks very cool) with elementary schools, office buildings, shopping centers, and churches. 
 
2) Making Isaac more prepared, but not making him some super Leon Kennedy guy. 
 
3) Making the controls more reliable and open, so the game depends on your skill more than restrictions of control. 
 
4) Peng is back in billboard form. 
 
5) They are trying much harder to make the game scary. 
 
6) They want us to be scared. 
 
7) *cough* multiplayer *cough* (What? the more I can get, the more fun I'd have. Also if it's dumb, then I won't play it... which... you know... is what everyone should do) 
 
8) Knee Jet Booster 
 
9) The idea of not making this a haunted house, but rather a strategy game in which you and the enemy are kind of playing it cat and mouse game (It's not a strategy game, literally, don't worry... they'd be pulling a Tim Schaffer BUR-) 
 
10) A Javelin Gun 
 
11) Much more back story (but I kinda don't like the idea of Isaac talking... lets hope he sounds good) 
 
12) The weapons will be more useful, even if it's for specific enemies (I'm looking at you, flamethrower) 
 
13) Gaining more control when shooting through areas in Zero-G 
 
14) Children Necromorphs (k now it's like Space Silent Hill XD) 
 
15) More focus on the combat, which was already pretty good in Dead Space, so I'm excited to see how this turns out. 
 
This game is now totally my most anticipated game of 2010, right next to Heavy Rain and Dead Rising 2

So during summer vacation, my friends began marveling about this show. How it was so professionally well done, how subtle it is, how well written it is, etc. But I ignored them, and went back to watching South Park (HAHAHA, IT'S LIKE CLOVERFIELD, HAHAHA). Anyway, fastforward to 3 hours ago, when I watched a Malcom in the Middle marathon. During so, I said to myself, "Boy howdy that Hal is funny... I wonder what Bryan Cranston is doing now?" So went to IMDB, where people make me feel bad about liking certain movies they don't, and saw on Bryan Cranston's page that he's a part of Breaking Bad. 
   
I then went to the iTunes to download the Pilot and watch it. Jesus f*cking Christ, this show is brilliant. I mean damn, this is good. It felt like a toned down version of a Chuck Palahniuk story, and really had the anti-hero with morals; a good cause (or not) thing going on. I felt a sense of satire, and even noticed layers of subtle humor and themes, like humans changing and doing bad things with good in your heart. It was kind of heart-breaking seeing what Bryan's character had to do just to keep his family happy, and him trying to figure out what to do when he's been thrown into a jam. It's so human and sometimes relatable on a huger slope. And oh the times when Bryan took charge and kicked ass (in smaller to even literal ways), man even I get an adrenaline rush. The show knows how to show relatable human beings in these ridiculous situations, and having them make really hard decisions, with true emotion conveyed. It kind of reminds me of Niko Belic's adventure in GTA4, but to a lesser extent of course.  
Even the way it's shot has this kind of Spike Jonze, organic feel when everything is going down. Kind of like each action doesn't seem smooth or well delivered, which adds to the realistic aspect of the show. The one qualm I'd have against it is the way some of the meth dealers are... Now I don't know if meth dealers are like that, really, but if they're just trying to convey "gansters", then it was kind of weak. Actually, several of characters were definitely kind of hammy, like certain high school students and these "bullies" that are shown later in episode 1. Maybe it's a parody on the people you probably know (other than said gangsters... or not). If so, kudos, well done. If not... well... it's just a small aspect that should not get in the way of the overall experience that is entirely enjoyable. 
But I did like what I saw in the second episode, in which one of the meth dealers is brought down to this state of desperation and he just kind of lost his entire persona and was a regular person. He's lost a lot of important things to him, and he was on the brink of death. Both people in this situation acted so well on deciding how to deal with it at hand... it's just so... brilliant. God this show is great. 
Anyone else to give their opinion on the show? I'm personally putting the season 1 dvd on my xmas list for sure, and plan on getting season 2 in January, before checking season 3. Anyone know of any other shows like this? Anybody dislike this show? Discuss!

Huh... f*ckin' a... apparently there is going to be one. Weird.  
 
 I feel the only way I'd appreciate this is if it were like the ACDC thing, rather than something similar to the Beatles: Rock Band... I don't know I feel like Green Day doesn't really have enough... I don't know... something would just feel a little wrong. They don't have legendary concerts or moments that you'd be able to play out through cutscenes (atleast in a creative way). Also I hope they consider keeping it uncensored... it'd be weird playing through a lot of their stuff without the cursing, because it already is kinda awkward with dlc and such (but I tend to bend the rules when it just seems right... Creep, I'm looking at you). 
 
Then again this could be a good thing... Basket Case... Brain Stew... King for a Day... Jesus of Suburbia (which is a great song, imho), etc. They have a lot of good songs 
 
Then they have a lot of really dumb stuff like Holiday, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, When September Ends... etc. 
 
Basically I feel they must pick the setlist wisely (especially the new stuff)... but hey... It's freakin' Harmonix. They have our back and know what would be fun and what wouldn't... I hope o.O And hell, maybe there are some interesting events and concerts, so fi to me, i suppose. We'll just have to wait and see.
 
Anyone care to share their thoughts?    

Just a funny... analysis from [ http://www.engr.mun.ca/~whitt/humor/santa.html]. 
Saw it last year on scorehero and decided to bring it to the fine community here. It's a good laugh and fun read. Enjoy!  
 
 1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop our of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh an move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purpose of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75« million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding, etc.

This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 time the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, the conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting the "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload -not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.

5) 353,000 tons travelling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.

Merry Christmas!

from Scorehero.com: 
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-19134-Pittsburgh-Concerts-Examiner~y2009m10d26-Sublime-reunite-with-new-singer-at-SmokeOut-Festival    
  
 " It was May 1996; movie goers were clamoring about Tom Cruise's action-packed adaptation of Mission: Impossible, Atlanta was working feverishly to prepare to host the Summer Olympics and Sublime, one of the biggest ska-rock groups in the world was getting ready to release their masterpiece, Killin' It , upon the world.

Shortly after his marriage to Troy Dendekker, lead singer Brad Nowell went out on a short promotion tour with the band. After a night of playing a show and partying, drummer Bud Gaugh woke up to see Nowell half in bed. Gaugh investigated further and after failed attempts to wake Nowell up, Gaugh noticed that Nowell had overdosed on heroin.

The band went on to release their album just a month later, but changed the title from the eerie Killin' It to simply keeping the album eponymous. The album went on to go 5x platinum and featured such career-defining hits as "Santeria" and "What I Got". Shortly after the album's release, Sublime disbanded, deciding not to find a replacement for Nowell.

This past weekend, Sublime took the stage once again, marking only the second time since Nowell's death that they performed together. They took the stage with Rome Ramirez, a 21-year-old, back in February and the results were so great that when they were invited to perform at Cypress Hill's marijuana-friendly SmokeOut Festival, which was held this past Saturday, they invited Ramirez to come along and continue filling the void left by Nowell. While the reviews of how Ramirez sounded were generally good, not everyone was happy with the performance.

Nowell's family has protested the continuation of the band's use of the name "Sublime", claiming that Nowell owned the name, and with his death, the name should die too. There is truth to that claim, as Nowell registered the name under his name, therefore his family now owns the name.

As the legal battle continues, Sublime continues performing with Ramirez on vocals. Check out the video and judge for yourself if Ramirez is a rightful heir to the spot left behind by Nowell."

   A friend of mine and I were at the local CVS looking for drinks and we came across these glass bottle doo-dads. Basically, they were floats (one root beer, one an orange icicle) and they seemed GOOD!! We payed for them, went outside, and opened them up. 
In general, they tasted exactly like they should've. They were very sweet, milky, and felt like a float.

Around the middle of the bottle, we began feeling bad. We realized that there was way too much sugar in those things (I think 2x a monster). It began to feel like we were drinking the syrup for a slurpee... and thats it. Something kept us drinking them though, but every gulp left us grimacing. We couldn't finish and we threw them away. Although we did keep the bottlecaps for the nuclear apocalypse.

In general, these were okay drinks. These probably won't settle well by theirselves. Try having it as a beverage for a meal if you do grab one. It seems like these would go in the same vein of a Five Dollar Shake... I mean it's a pretty fuckin good shake, maybe not worth five dollars, but a pretty fuckin good shake (/reference. )So if you see them, pick one up, and enjoy it for the time being. Because you WON'T want to drink several of these in rapid succession.

3/5
    
Has anyone else come across these A&W drinks? I was tempted to try them again, but did not want to risk another stomach ache. If you have tried them, opinions?    

"Tell Carl to load my elephant gun with buckshot... We're gonna hunt down these sickos." 
 
I tried making a blogspot. I tried using my facebook notes. Nothing ended well or continued properly. This will be my new hub for reviews, opinions, etc. I'm sure this will make a fine home... hopefully people will read some of my stuff o.O 
 
WELL I've been quite lazy and have some stuff still in process: 
REVIEW: Gamer (Neveldine/Taylor. 2009) 
REVIEW: Where the Wild Things Are (Jonze, Spike. 2009) 
REVIEW: The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, Wes. 2001)   
 
I took a small break on video games for a while, because I found my calling (I want to be a filmmaker) and wanted to build my DVD collection and basic knowledge of cinema. I love movies lol.  So in retrospect, I might do some small stuff on video games, I'm not sure right now (if it makes for any consolation, all I've been playing is Resident Evil 4... that's right... 4.) I still want to buy SAW, Borderlands, Silent Hill: Shattered Dreams, and Brutal Legend
 
I hope ya'll will be welcoming and read some of the stuff I post :P I'll also post some reviews I already finished. 
Thanks, and have a good day!

I've seen alot of movies since my last post... so I'll just like... mini review them all

Observe and Report: I loved this movie way to much. The soundtrack was amazingly well picked, the direction was excelent with all of the cutaways, and it managed to be darkly funny... while still being light heartedly funny at points. Jody Hill... I salute thee (also I know officially know Seth Rogen can ACT and not just be... like... funny).
Might be too dark for some (failed due to false advertisement, this is more of a drama then a comedy) so it's a love or hate thing.

The Big Lebowski: I can see why alot of my friends like this. So many funny characters and such a hilarious storyline. Oh god, so many things to quote. The Coen Brothers have done very well. I love Fargo and Burn After Reading, but this movie  has tickled me rough, and I fucking love it. SHUT THE FUCK UP DONNY

Terminator Salvation: I feel like this movie didn't do a good job sumarizing the Terminator storyline up to this point. Alot of my friends were confused (despite some of them being fans of the saga) and it just felt confusing. MCG did a good job directing and Christian Bale was still gruff, angry, and raspy. Decent performances all around (Sam Worthington or other was really good). FUN ACTION!!!! :D

The Soloist: It ended up being a better drama than I expected, and even had some light hearted humor. I love the music even though I'm not a huge classical music fan, it all sounded beautiful and really fit each scene and character (it was it's own set peice). Could be boring for most, but it's got it's fans (it'd be good as a book IMHO).

Star Trek: I did not hear "Beam Me Up, Scotty" once. Anyway, great action and just pure fun. The movie was just pure fun (might not really service the true fans, but there are enough refrences and the actors do their parts well enough to suffice for a little).

X-Men Wolverine: I feel like it was an awesome action movie, but they really did a less than decent job building up the characters like Dead Pool and Gambit. If you're a big fan, you'll probably spew alot of WHAT THE FUCKS but it's a good action flick none the less.

Angels and Demons: A pure popcorn flick that has you think, but not too hard. I walked in without reading the book, and I still enjoyed it alot. Really intese (some parts were even kinda scary).

Dance Flick: I know... They did Scary Movie 1 and 2... but... no... I walked out of it in the middle... just no... I'm sorry

Up: This movie was HILARIOUS! The script is so well done and the voice actors do the characters justice. The story could and basically is really sad! XD Honestly though, you'll laugh hard and shed some tears. Amazing movie, also an amazing score. Just letting you folks know, 3D is kind of pointless beca- SQUIRREL...

Next Day Air: Pineapple Expresses challenged cousin. Funny at points, and decent action. A movie to watch if you're bored.

17 Again (According to my friend): NOT BAD

Adventureland: A victim of false advertisement again (just because Greg Motolla directed it, this will not be like Superbad). A really good drama with an excellent cast of newly graduates in the late 80's. Funderful soundtrack and is hilarious in some parts (due to the comic relief character, look out for him).

Burn After Reading: In the same vein of stupidity and violence as The Big Lebowski and Fargo. Maybe a little to smart for some teenagers because alot of my friends didn't understand it for some reason (plus some critics are saying it's an extremely adult movie... but fuck it). If you're a fan of the other two I mentioned, watch it and enjoy.

Almost Famous: This movie really suprised me. I was expecting a comedy of sorts and came out applauding loudly. While it was funny at parts, the story was great and the actors were brilliant IMHO. It just felt like a really well put together movie. Everything was top notch.

The Wackness: Kinda like Juno, but he's not pregnant. While it's not a comedy by any means, the drama aspect really can hit you hard as well as the extremely well compiled soundtrack containing an amazing amount of 90's hip hop hits. Excellent movie (Great performances from Josh Peck and Ben Kingsley).

28 Days Later: One of my current favorite movies (along with the Big Lebowski and Observe + Report). Direction is beautiful and some small things (like the characters driving on top of a painting) just really pack a punch and make you say (oh shit). The score is beautiful with a good mix of piano play + hard rock. Really appropriate at parts (except for the ending)

AND that's it... yeah... I'll watch alot more movies and then do this again.