The "Farkers" on the Fark.com boards were arguing about Star Wars since Lucas has seen fit to release another DVD of the original trilogy but without the extra bonus features disc. One Farker made a very interesting point about why so many fans are angry about the whole "Han shot first/Greedo shot first" change:
"And what is wrong with Greedo shooting first?"
This.
When Han shot first, it gave the audience the impression that he was a true scoundrel. He would kill, lie, cheat, or whatnot to save his own skin. He was in it just for the money. That way, during the "trench run" when the Millenium Falcon comes out of nowhere for the save, you get the feeling of Han making a decision to do the right thing, even though its against his prior nature.
Now, it doesn't give nearly that same feeling.
In my opinion in the end, the scene itself isn't the point. The hardcore fans don't even care about the scene itself. What they're pissed about is their perceived notion that George Lucas is messing with "their" classic fairy tale. It's like Spielberg swapping guns for cellphones. I guess it's considered some sort of geek blasphemy. Personally, I just liked the thought of Han being a dangerous guy who could do what had to be done, not a pansy. :P
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
All that waiting for the big "announcement" on http://www.origenxbox360.com/ and it turns out to be a stupid damn contest. Bastards. I was hoping they'd announce something huge like Halo 3 or something "revolutionary," (ha-ha). Guess not. Instead after watching stupid migrating white bunnies and asexually reproducing green apples for months we get silly music box music that sounds like it belongs in a Harry Potter movie. Bahhhhhhhhh!
Britney Spears receives $1.5 million for baby pictures, $3 million for birth video and $1.5 million for baby home movies
Remember, it's not enough to prostitute yourself, you can push your kids into it, too!
/disgrace to the human race
/Start the countdown till this kid is addicted to crack and sniffing blow off a hooker's ass....3...2...
/bets this will net better profits than her last album.
I heard someone say this the other day: "What a whore. Not attention whore, just a whore." Lol it fits.
Remember, it's not enough to prostitute yourself, you can push your kids into it, too!
/disgrace to the human race
/Start the countdown till this kid is addicted to crack and sniffing blow off a hooker's ass....3...2...
/bets this will net better profits than her last album.
I heard someone say this the other day: "What a whore. Not attention whore, just a whore." Lol it fits.
Today we offer a 30-second "Cone of Silence" for Don Adams, 86'd at 82
Article from: "Don Adams: I Believe Prayer Alone Saved My Life in 1943,"The National Enquirer.
"When you're only 16 and waiting to die --- you're scared," TV star Don Adams told The ENQUIRER.
It was 1943. Adams, who had enlisted in the Marines, had caught blackwater fever on Guadalcanal in the South Pacific.
"After being flown to a hospital in Wellington, New Zealand, I was told nothing much could be done for me," he recalled. "I was just left to die.
"That's when I started praying. I prayed night and day that my life might be spared.
"Five days later I woke to find the fever and all its symptoms completely disappeared.
"Before that my body was so badly bloated that it was more than twice its normal size. The doctors had not scientific explanation for what seemed a miraculous recovery. Logic told them I should have died.
"Today there are no physical indications that I ever suffered from such an ordeal.
"It is as though I never had blackwater fever.
"I believe that it was prayer and prayer alone that saved my life.
"At a time like that I knew the only help I could expect would be from God.
"He was my only hope for survival."
"Since that time I've been convinced someone up there is watching over every one of us.
"Miracles have only one origin."
Article from: "Don Adams: I Believe Prayer Alone Saved My Life in 1943,"The National Enquirer.
"When you're only 16 and waiting to die --- you're scared," TV star Don Adams told The ENQUIRER.
It was 1943. Adams, who had enlisted in the Marines, had caught blackwater fever on Guadalcanal in the South Pacific.
"After being flown to a hospital in Wellington, New Zealand, I was told nothing much could be done for me," he recalled. "I was just left to die.
"That's when I started praying. I prayed night and day that my life might be spared.
"Five days later I woke to find the fever and all its symptoms completely disappeared.
"Before that my body was so badly bloated that it was more than twice its normal size. The doctors had not scientific explanation for what seemed a miraculous recovery. Logic told them I should have died.
"Today there are no physical indications that I ever suffered from such an ordeal.
"It is as though I never had blackwater fever.
"I believe that it was prayer and prayer alone that saved my life.
"At a time like that I knew the only help I could expect would be from God.
"He was my only hope for survival."
"Since that time I've been convinced someone up there is watching over every one of us.
"Miracles have only one origin."
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Paris Hilton...a lying ho.
Paris Hilton recently bragged to US magazine that she and her family had donated 6 million dollars to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
And according to Radar Online, "Some US staffers were skeptical about the boast - as were Hilton's own handlers, who sources say warned her about repeating the sketchy-sounding claim. 'She just flat-out lied,' griped one incredulous reporter. "Did she think no one would bother to check?'"
In reality, a 6 million dollar donation was made through the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, a charitable trust set up by the Hilton family patriarch in 1944, back when kids in knickers played that game where they run with a hoop and a stick, and never in a million years did he imagine that any blood of his would turn his name into the punch line of every slut joke told in the next millenium.
Needless to say, Paris has no affiliation with the trust. She sits on no board, she has no access to the funding and has no say in when or where funds are distributed. And, more to the point, the donation didn't cost her a dime. That 6 million didn't come from her bankroll. So, Paris may do something that helps the Gulf Coast, but only incidentally. In a Butterfly Effect kind of way. Like if she swallows some guys semen, and then they guy has to go to a doctor for the burning and then the doctor has a breakthrough in treating dysentery. So, in that sense, if Paris can help by having a guy pee on her or write their initials on her back, she's more the willing to help.
Way to go Paris...you still lose at life.
Paris Hilton recently bragged to US magazine that she and her family had donated 6 million dollars to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
And according to Radar Online, "Some US staffers were skeptical about the boast - as were Hilton's own handlers, who sources say warned her about repeating the sketchy-sounding claim. 'She just flat-out lied,' griped one incredulous reporter. "Did she think no one would bother to check?'"
In reality, a 6 million dollar donation was made through the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, a charitable trust set up by the Hilton family patriarch in 1944, back when kids in knickers played that game where they run with a hoop and a stick, and never in a million years did he imagine that any blood of his would turn his name into the punch line of every slut joke told in the next millenium.
Needless to say, Paris has no affiliation with the trust. She sits on no board, she has no access to the funding and has no say in when or where funds are distributed. And, more to the point, the donation didn't cost her a dime. That 6 million didn't come from her bankroll. So, Paris may do something that helps the Gulf Coast, but only incidentally. In a Butterfly Effect kind of way. Like if she swallows some guys semen, and then they guy has to go to a doctor for the burning and then the doctor has a breakthrough in treating dysentery. So, in that sense, if Paris can help by having a guy pee on her or write their initials on her back, she's more the willing to help.
Way to go Paris...you still lose at life.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
A huge pet peeve of mine of mine is when I'm at a stop sign waiting for a pedestrian to cross the street, and they don't pick up the pace. It infuriates me. (My other pet peeve is what a douche I sound like using the phrase "pet peeve.")
All I ask is the people crossing the street show a little hustle when they know there's a car wating on them. I know they don't have to, but I would like it because the rage I feel while they saunter along is going to give me a coronary.
I'd even be happy with the Coach's Trot-- you see that in sports when the players are all running to their lockers, and the fat old coach just moves his arms around to make it "look" like he's running.
I bring all this up because I keep seeing a commerical for the new VW Passat. In it, two guys are playing football on the street and one of them goes long, dives to catch the ball and lands hard on the hood of a Passat. He then rolls off to the ground, unhurt.
The announcer goes on to talk about Passat's new "Front-End Pedestrian Saftey System" which apparently makes it safer if you hit somebody. This is the best news ever. It seems to me this is a license to mow people down at will.
The Passat people are geniuses.
The next time someone is taking too long to cross the street, I can playfully knock their asses across the road for them. Life just keeps getting better.
All I ask is the people crossing the street show a little hustle when they know there's a car wating on them. I know they don't have to, but I would like it because the rage I feel while they saunter along is going to give me a coronary.
I'd even be happy with the Coach's Trot-- you see that in sports when the players are all running to their lockers, and the fat old coach just moves his arms around to make it "look" like he's running.
I bring all this up because I keep seeing a commerical for the new VW Passat. In it, two guys are playing football on the street and one of them goes long, dives to catch the ball and lands hard on the hood of a Passat. He then rolls off to the ground, unhurt.
The announcer goes on to talk about Passat's new "Front-End Pedestrian Saftey System" which apparently makes it safer if you hit somebody. This is the best news ever. It seems to me this is a license to mow people down at will.
The Passat people are geniuses.
The next time someone is taking too long to cross the street, I can playfully knock their asses across the road for them. Life just keeps getting better.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Yet another article about political pandering over violence in video games.
If there are any politicians, consultants or aides reading this blog, print this post and tack it up on your wall.
Here’s my warning. If you propose legislation about violence in video games, I will vote against you. If you blame video games for the next school killing, I’ll vote for your foe, Democrat or Republican. If you make a speech in which you blame society’s ills on video games, I will donate $200 to your rival, even if the race isn’t in my district. Hear that, Ms. Clinton?
Why should you take me seriously? Because I’m in my mid-20s, I live in an affluent suburb, I pay very close attention to the school ratings in my neighborhood, I look at my tax bills closely, I vote in every election — and I know “violence in video games” is a favorite bullshit political tactic to draw attention away from what politicans really should be fixing: underfunded schools and lack of decent health care for poorer kids.
Another reason to take me seriously: I know I’m not alone in disgust as an adult gamer. At this point there are more adults playing video games, including those who have kids, than innocent, impressionable fanboys. We’re perfectly aware of what to expect when a game has an “M” ESRB rating. We know what our kids can play.
So thank for your concern, Governor Granholm and Assemblyman Yee. But get the @)@#! out of my living room — and out of elected office.
If there are any politicians, consultants or aides reading this blog, print this post and tack it up on your wall.
Here’s my warning. If you propose legislation about violence in video games, I will vote against you. If you blame video games for the next school killing, I’ll vote for your foe, Democrat or Republican. If you make a speech in which you blame society’s ills on video games, I will donate $200 to your rival, even if the race isn’t in my district. Hear that, Ms. Clinton?
Why should you take me seriously? Because I’m in my mid-20s, I live in an affluent suburb, I pay very close attention to the school ratings in my neighborhood, I look at my tax bills closely, I vote in every election — and I know “violence in video games” is a favorite bullshit political tactic to draw attention away from what politicans really should be fixing: underfunded schools and lack of decent health care for poorer kids.
Another reason to take me seriously: I know I’m not alone in disgust as an adult gamer. At this point there are more adults playing video games, including those who have kids, than innocent, impressionable fanboys. We’re perfectly aware of what to expect when a game has an “M” ESRB rating. We know what our kids can play.
So thank for your concern, Governor Granholm and Assemblyman Yee. But get the @)@#! out of my living room — and out of elected office.
This entry is dedicated to Jay Benati...and the Rap Snacks we discovered in Syracuse, NY.
There was a Fark contest recently to photoshop Rap Snacks...and I thought he'd get a kick out of this.
There was a Fark contest recently to photoshop Rap Snacks...and I thought he'd get a kick out of this.
Monday, September 19, 2005
Lost Garden has posted an awesome article regarding the video game life cycle as it pertains to marketing, hardware, controllers, and system design. Check it out. I hope Nintendo can really change the way people game...they're not dead yet!
Friday, September 16, 2005
So gas is finally going down! The local Hess station had $2.99 gas last night and by the time I went to get some around 8pm they were sold out. That's never happened to me before lol but at least the next cheapest was $3.05. I can deal with that.
So today at the Tokyo Game Show conference the Nintendo Revolution controller details were released! Fanboys rejoice! There had been a lot of speculation...(Build Your Own!)
And definitely some *over-speculation*
Here's the keynote speech minute by minute.
And IGN's hands-on with the controller.
"For months, years even, we've been hearing Nintendo reiterate that it does not want to be part of the same battle that Sony and Microsoft are deeply entrenched in. This was an important message from Nintendo in our meeting. It wants to explore uncharted waters, be a blue ocean company, and not find itself sailing the bloody waters where the competition resides."
Main controller features:
* 3D Pointing. Sensors understand up, down, left, right, forward and backward.
* Tilt Sensitive. Controller can be rotated or rolled from side-to-side.
* Buttons Included. Has a trigger on its backside, face buttons, and a D-Pad.
* Multifunctional. Has an expansion port which can be used with different types of controller peripherals. Analog stick with two trigger buttons planned for left hand.
* Wireless. Totally wire-free. Currently there are no details on the max distance, source or power, or otherwise.
* Rumble Built-in. Included as a standard in all the controllers.
Here are some more "fake controllers" designed by Nintendo fanboys. A few had me really cracking up.
Nintendo For Women
Nintendo For Men
Atari Oldskool
Actually a good design
Lol
Overdoing it...
So today at the Tokyo Game Show conference the Nintendo Revolution controller details were released! Fanboys rejoice! There had been a lot of speculation...(Build Your Own!)
And definitely some *over-speculation*
Here's the keynote speech minute by minute.
And IGN's hands-on with the controller.
"For months, years even, we've been hearing Nintendo reiterate that it does not want to be part of the same battle that Sony and Microsoft are deeply entrenched in. This was an important message from Nintendo in our meeting. It wants to explore uncharted waters, be a blue ocean company, and not find itself sailing the bloody waters where the competition resides."
Main controller features:
* 3D Pointing. Sensors understand up, down, left, right, forward and backward.
* Tilt Sensitive. Controller can be rotated or rolled from side-to-side.
* Buttons Included. Has a trigger on its backside, face buttons, and a D-Pad.
* Multifunctional. Has an expansion port which can be used with different types of controller peripherals. Analog stick with two trigger buttons planned for left hand.
* Wireless. Totally wire-free. Currently there are no details on the max distance, source or power, or otherwise.
* Rumble Built-in. Included as a standard in all the controllers.
Here are some more "fake controllers" designed by Nintendo fanboys. A few had me really cracking up.
Nintendo For Women
Nintendo For Men
Atari Oldskool
Actually a good design
Lol
Overdoing it...
Thursday, September 15, 2005
So I'm planning a new blog design, but it's going to take awhile. It's so much easier when you can grab graphics from somewhere but I've got to actually design this site the way I want it or it will look like middle school crap.
FFO fun continues at work, and the traffic morning and nightly makes me want to scream. It's not that there *is* traffic but it's like "phantom traffic." Anyone else from NJ will know exactly what I mean about 18, 287, 80 and 380. You'll be driving along driving along driving along, BAM....dead stop. You don't see any flashing lights, dead deer, crazy nuns on acid blocking the road. You crawl forward playing the stop-and-go game. Suddenly the cars in front of you JET FORWARD in a Red-Bull Taurine induced rush! And you continue on as normal with still no cause for the backup. Frustrating...to the max.
Thank God I've got an iPod.
So everyone here at Pfizer's been super nice so far. Ed and I switched offices about a week after Dendrite found out Pfizer would not be renewing their service contract post 2005. Dendrite didn't want us there anymore, (raising questions of if they ever did), and my 10 minute commute became the former grueling hour. It's literally down the road a few minutes from where I used to work at AIG. A couple former co-workers and I may meet up for lunch sometime. It would be good to see Regina and Trish again. They were cool my 3 1/2 years at AIG. Time to order updated business cards though...kinda pisses me off that the 200 I've got left are kind of useless now :L
Back to the grind!
FFO fun continues at work, and the traffic morning and nightly makes me want to scream. It's not that there *is* traffic but it's like "phantom traffic." Anyone else from NJ will know exactly what I mean about 18, 287, 80 and 380. You'll be driving along driving along driving along, BAM....dead stop. You don't see any flashing lights, dead deer, crazy nuns on acid blocking the road. You crawl forward playing the stop-and-go game. Suddenly the cars in front of you JET FORWARD in a Red-Bull Taurine induced rush! And you continue on as normal with still no cause for the backup. Frustrating...to the max.
Thank God I've got an iPod.
So everyone here at Pfizer's been super nice so far. Ed and I switched offices about a week after Dendrite found out Pfizer would not be renewing their service contract post 2005. Dendrite didn't want us there anymore, (raising questions of if they ever did), and my 10 minute commute became the former grueling hour. It's literally down the road a few minutes from where I used to work at AIG. A couple former co-workers and I may meet up for lunch sometime. It would be good to see Regina and Trish again. They were cool my 3 1/2 years at AIG. Time to order updated business cards though...kinda pisses me off that the 200 I've got left are kind of useless now :L
Back to the grind!
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
"I heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25 foot deep crater under the levee breach. It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry," Farrakhan said.
Ok now we're getting ridiculous. I actually heard people say that Bush caused the hurricane now. This is ignorance at its greatest form. Can we get rid of Farrakhan...and please someone take the shotgun away from Sean Penn. He doesn't need to be in New Orleans.
Ok now we're getting ridiculous. I actually heard people say that Bush caused the hurricane now. This is ignorance at its greatest form. Can we get rid of Farrakhan...and please someone take the shotgun away from Sean Penn. He doesn't need to be in New Orleans.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil.
These companies import Middle Eastern oil:
Shell.................... 205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco........... 144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil............. 130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway........ 117,740,000 barrels
Amoco..................... 62,231,000 barrels
If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now $55-$60 a barrel)
Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:
Citgo..................... 0 barrels
Sunoco.................... 0 barrels
Conoco.................... 0 barrels
Sinclair.................. 0 barrels
BP/Phillips............... 0 barrels
Hess...................... 0 barrels
ARC0...................... 0 barrels
All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing. Choose carefully where you fill up.
These companies import Middle Eastern oil:
Shell.................... 205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco........... 144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil............. 130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway........ 117,740,000 barrels
Amoco..................... 62,231,000 barrels
If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now $55-$60 a barrel)
Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:
Citgo..................... 0 barrels
Sunoco.................... 0 barrels
Conoco.................... 0 barrels
Sinclair.................. 0 barrels
BP/Phillips............... 0 barrels
Hess...................... 0 barrels
ARC0...................... 0 barrels
All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing. Choose carefully where you fill up.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
This is absolutely horrible...what's worse is that it makes you laugh your ass off.
Mexican Immigrant Prank
Mexican Immigrant Prank
