I was more than ready to see friends tonight. I'd finished work early, planned a shopping list to bring some stuff over, even snagged Kevin's swim trunks in case of impromptu swimming.
Damned if I didn't just start spacing out and feeling endorphins like I'd been up for 72 hours.
Making mistakes, leaving things half finished like making a sandwhich, having a conversation, ect
Seriously I'd ask Kevin a question and part way thru his answer I'd have a completely off topic question revved up that I was stifling.

I am considering ritalin.

I'm tired but find I'm fighting sleep. Now why is that?

THIS IMAGE IS OFFENSIVE TO MUSLIMS





Just fuck off already. You're acting worse than Christians. I feel other Muslims deeply embarrased by you.


I want OUR Muslims to go over to Britain with Cricket bats and sort those jerkwads out.

This is exactly like someone moving to Texas, hating beef, and getting all insulted over the amount of steakhouses.

The Brits are renown dog fans. You don't move there and then expect THEM to not use puppies in their adverts.

We've all been leery every since it was purchased by a less than stellar company.

Now I went to the chat area and found my faith in buying the product plummetting each minute I waited for my answer. I only asked 2 questions.

"Will the XP OS still be an option next month?"
(answer - I do not have any information on that at this time)

"Well how about this month?"
(anwer It is on some systems, which ones were you looking at?)


I would almost assumed this was a BOT if not for the lenth of time it took to reply to me.

I honestly think she was taking my questions, putting them in BabelFish, figuring out the translation, looking up the answer, putting her answer into BabelFish, pasting the response into Word to straighten it up, and then pasting it to me.

The entire conversation took more than 10 minutes.

And that answer to my first question was unacceptable. The operating system impacts what parts you get. If the sales group doesn't know, I take that as a bad sign.

WOW. This is really neat. Many of you will like this link.
Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.
But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech made the spine tingle.

If death had a sound, this was it.

The slide show on the next page features multiple whistles created by the man mentioned later in this article. The first one is the death whistle and it does play the sound.


O_O

I didn't know that sound could come out of a whistle.

I want to know how to put it back.

A 1st Impression review of Gears of War (360)
A 1st Impression review of Mass Effect (360)
A 1st Impression review of Alone in the Dark (PS2)
A mini review of Condemned (1 not 2, we don't have 2 yet)

A recovery from a quick breakdown I had at work, thankfully the call center was nearly abandoned.

Our anniversary (we celebrate it on the 4th).

I try to figure out how to drag a friend back from the abyss all the while unsure if anyone else has bothered to try - or if too many have. If I approach you on a topic multiple people have talked to you about already, leave my head on. I have no way of knowing and if anything you're proving you're not listening to them anyway.

Hopefully I find out if I'm cleared for my week of vacation.

Hopefully we discover if Kevin's employed (5 interviews? EACH? For Fuck's sake! I should have had him apply for unemployment if we'd known the interview process was going to a month!)


and last ... Hopfeully we can find out how 16 people - 15 of which were civilians including a 3 yr old boy - were hit by live ammunition during a hostage freeing technique demo.

As for me, I'm off to bed early for hopefully the LAST week of 9+ hours of overtime that I'll see for some time.

I got a buddy at work who lives in Lewisville and needs a roommate badly. The roommate gets their own room and their own bathroom right next to it.
This is in Lewisville in a highly restaraunted/fast food area with a Target in walking distance.
Disadvantage to some is that he lives on the 3rd floor.

Guy LOVES Rodney Carrington, guns, rude jokes, Jack Daniels, and hunting. He sits next to me at work every day and I actually look forward to it.

His current roommate walked out and rent's due. And I don't think they were on the lease...

I've finally finished Lost Odyssey on the Xbox 360 and I must say - I didn't know what I had stumbled into.
For starters someone seemed stunned when I told them it was four disks. I didn't think anything of it because I was use to older PS2 games that can require multiple disks.
But those were disks and this ..THIS IS 4 DVDS.

So yeah - A LOT of game time. I was rather disappointed to hear that the trailer with the Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit" song actually turned folks away. That wasn't the first trailer I saw, but I thought it was Awesome.

Good Stuff:
This was a decent game. It didn't seemed forced. You didn't have to swallow half as much crap as you for Final Fantasy 6-10 to get to the plot. I mean some things in them there Final Fantasy games really stretched. We're talking Epic Plotlines of the likes not even TeleMundo has seen.
( And let's talk about FF and these guys for a bit )

As I said before, if you ever loved FF - this is the game for you. Even if you walked away from FF like I did. This game has what you liked. And FF fans will enjoy the heck out of this game.
Remember - you can't rabidly call it a FF rip-off, the creator of FF made it.


This is an In-Game shot. And I will LJ cut this is you need me to

The animation is great and the story is easy to follow. The voice acting is in multiple languages and everything sounds great (I, ironically, prefer to not hear the characters in English. I gave them a try ... shudder). I enjoyed switching thru the various languages.
Any article you give the characters will actually show up in "matinees" which are like cut-scenes only with a more in-game feel. You'll also see them in combat.

No talking animals try to join your party.


The Bad:
It must be modder's curse, but I can tell it was rushed in some areas. Places where apparently they just got tired of fucking with it. Also despite it being on 4 dvds, when someone has a flashback, it's an effing text story. I ranted about it at length over here.
Face it, we love the cut scenes. To suddenly have to read jumping and wiggling text on the screen while the background changes color is rather a bit of a let down after everything else. Thankfully you can put these off and they don't have to interrupt the flow of the game. They are there to help you understand the character and add a little flavor to the game. Plus they went to a lot of trouble to make sure it matched up with most people's reading speeds.

A few sound glitches were found on Disk 4, that's just nitpicking.

Das Score
Out of 10, I give it an 8. An awesome game but there was noticeable room for improvement in some technical aspects.

Playability: Yes, very easy.

Plausibility: Very good. Everyone has a valid reason to stay in the party throughout the game. It's never a hyper creature bouncing up and down saying "I'll join you!" for no reason at all.

Likability: For the most part, you will like most of the characters.

Freedom to roam: Yes. While there is some railroading, you are free most of the time to move about the world as you uncover spots. This makes grinding a tad easy. Also the music in the Map screen where you choose your destination is an excellent Andean song (though it does bring on the electric guitars for no reason if you stay on that screen too long). And whoever has borrowed our Markuhuasi - we'd like it back.
Note* this is probably also why there are so many disks. Places you went to on Disk 1 are still open on Disk 4.

Would I play this again: Yes. Yes is rare. I rarely say yes which is why this Yes is important. I hardly replay games. I can give a game a 10 and not want to replay it.


( Onto my rants and possible mini spoilers that are actually warnings )

So all in All - a definate BUY recommendation.
I'd loan it to you, but corzican is starting his game on it.

And I wanna play it again...


( Trailers found here )

Ok! This is idea is better than Bubblegum icecream.

And the jokes... oh so many jokes from this here story.


Miami Beach police made 75 arrests as part of a prostitution crackdown meant to clean up the city.
According to police, Christina Morta was operating what appeared to be a brothel on wheels; a bus with five prostitutes on board that made regular stops along South Beach.

"One of our undercover officers saw the bus driving up and down Collins Avenue, was able to get on the bus for a certain amount of money, and saw the illegal activity going on inside," said Miami Det. Juan Sanchez.
Morta allegedly charged $40 for patrons to board the quarter million-dollar bus. Once on board, prostitutes received even more money for performing lap dances and various sex acts, police said.

Police said Morta, the so-called madam, was also one of the prostitutes.

The police department conducted the sweep from Thursday, June 19 to Saturday, June 21 in what they call a prime example of the department's commitment to public safety.

In addition to the arrests, police collected a large amount of evidence from U.S. currency to narcotics and firearms. A missing person was also located.



Bwahahahahaa - a missing person was located?


Here's my joke: Meals on Wheels.
Run With It!