We've been playing some serious burnout lately, jumping through planes flying off cliffs, taken eachother out and basically just fucking around way to late to be "effective" the next day at work. Theres one thing thats integral to the burnout franchise that is not as obvious as crashing and thats music. While playing we were thinking how great it would be have a personalized play list that we could call up and drive around the city with. Here is what we came up with.
Dale:
1. Operation ground and pound - Dragon Force
2. Steam Machine - Daft Punk
3. Like a White Bat in a Box, Dead Matters Go On - Melt Banana
4. Black Is The Color - Nina Simone
5. Jesus built my hotrod - Ministry
6. Art Star - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
7. Ping Island rescue op - Mark Mothersbaugh
8. So Haunted - Cut Copy
9. Ride the Sky - Lightning Bolts
10. My friend Dario - Vitallic
11. Nitrous Burnout - Man or Astroman
12. Here Comes The Hammer - MC Hammer
(Note from Mike: Dale, I have only even HEARD of three of your songs.)
"Holy shit this new car driving around is awesome I gotta take that shit out. If this new car is a stunt car I will shit in my hand"
-dale
In the two months since I wrote my half of this post mike never did so I am posting mine.
F-ZERO to F-HERO: A list on Friday (supposed to be out sometime in August)
How the WoW Patch is like an NHL game
There are many great things about WoW, but one of the best is how they constantly release new content to keep everything new. Granted, this balances out with paying monthly fees, but it's still pretty awesome.
Case in point, the latest patch that was released ON MY BIRTHDAY. Now, most patches for games do things like:
• fix bugs
• fix a monster that is 100x harder then it was designed to be
• fix your fireball spell that instead of shooting fireballs kills you dead
This is what most patches are. Game fixes. However WoW patches are insane. They release new areas, new monsters, new items...they release more in patches then some games do in entire expansions. Because hardly anyone I know plays WoW I will explain it in terms as if you were at a home game for your favorite NHL team.
1. You're at the game and before it starts, they tell you the power will go out after the first period and it will be down for an hour. (WoW was down for a day while they updated and after we had to download a massive 2.5gb patch.)
2. The lights come back on, and the hockey game starts up again. You notice all the jerseys got overhauled and look better now. (WoW graphics got tuned up noticeably.)
3. In addition to being able to skate, shoot, pass, hit, and fight, the players are now able to turn back time. (After years of having a set number of professions such as blacksmithing, enchanting, alchemy, Blizzard introduced a new one called Inscription which is changing the entire game. It is like Diablo's gem-slotting system, but for actual abilities instead of gear.)
4. Whenever someone does a drop pass, their team gets a bonus penalty shot. (Blizzard made some of the old professions grant special bonuses, like extra health or an improved critical hit chance.)
5. You know that 4th line scrub on your favorite team that plays approximately 13 seconds a game? Yeah he got traded. For Alexander Ovechkin. And every other player on your team also skates harder and shoots faster. (Every class got huge power/enjoyment boosts, and Dale and Shaun's favorite class - the Paladin - went from being one of the weakest classes to one of the best.)
6. Speaking of players, you know the prima donna player on your team who is really good but gets in trouble off the ice, complains all the time, and causes fights in the dressing room? Well, he's had a change of heart and is now a perfect teammate, took a pay cut to help the team, donates huge amounts of money to charity, and offered to paint your house. (The Hunter class gets an animal pet/companion who fights with you, but before it was pretty flawed - you had to keep feeding the pet to increase its happiness, capture other animals to learn special pet skills, and not all pets were equally good. But now, the happiness system is gone, all pets already come with their skills, and each of the different pet types are all good. PLUS, they added more tame-able pets. PLUS!!! they gave each type of pet their own special skill tree to customize. It's insanely awesome.)
7. Earlier you bought a hot dog, but now you wish you had gotten some nachos instead. Well, turns out the arena now lets you pay like a buck to switch! And to top it off, when you're choosing your new selection, you also see new things on the menu that weren't available before, like an ice cream sundae! (There is now a barber shop where you can change the appearance choices you made when making your character, and you can also select hairstyles that are not available at the character creation screen.)
8. During the game, fans start doing the Wave. You take part, and a nearby security guard hands you a little souvenir pin. Later on, you buy a game program and receive a second pin. Curious, you ask the program seller and discover that now when you do certain things at the game, you'll receive these useless but fun pins. (WoW took a page out of the XBOX 360's book and introduced Achievements, with many of them being retroactive. At current count there are over 900 TO GET.)
9. Last week, your team announced that during the playoffs, every fan in attendance would receive a free ice cream sandwich each game. Well, it's still the regular season, but now the team has decided to start their free ice cream promotion early, and everyone gets free frozen treats! (In the WoW expansion coming mid-November, the level cap is being raised from 70 to 80, which means new higher-level skills will be available. Blizzard decided to make these higher-level skills available now, for free!)
10. If you smoke or have to leave the arena in the middle of the game for whatever reason, you used to have to keep and show your ticket stub to get back in. But now, the security guards memorize your face, and when you come back, you can just freely re-enter the building. (Riding mounts and pets used summoned from items, which meant you had to keep them in your inventory, taking up a bag space. But now they become spells, meaning no item, meaning no unnecessary bag clutter.)
RPG's and infinite Undiscovery
As you may have heard I have been playing WOW lately and as you also may have heard it is a very big time consumer of an action RPG. So I have been weighing with the options of giving up on RPG's right now and moving onto another genre maybe that new Horror Survival game Dead Space. But really can it even compare to how amazing Bloodshot 2 was really.... because that shit was amazing. Well maybe I don't know. I really wanted to try Infinite Undiscovery about 2 months ago but now that it's actually out am I still feeling it? The characters look a little kiddie and I am kind of over leveling up guys and shit. Well I guess I should at least do some research and see what the game looks like. So on Xbox.com they have some screen shots of the game and they are not entirely thrilling EXCEPT THIS ONE.
Ok... shit ok thats awesome i have to play this game now based on this screen shot alone. THAT IS THE HAPPIEST FUCKING BEAR I HAVE EVER SEEN. AND YOU RIDE IT. AND ITS IN YOUR PARTY. AND IT HAS A HORN. AND IT HAS JEWELRY. AND YOUR MAKING THE OTHER CHARACTER WALK BEHIND YOU IN THE DISTANCE. THATS THE HAPPIEST BEAR EVER. THAT BEARS SMILE JUST FILLS ME WITH JOY WITH THE FEELING THAT EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALLRIGHT. That was all in caps because I was actually screaming that when I first saw the picture. Ask mike he was there
Indesign has crashed and your fucked
Oh great now my indesign desides to poop out and I lost all my work.
"A crash report has been generated. To provide us with the best chance of fixing this problem, please select Continue to add a detailed description that includes the steps required to reproduce the crash.
Adobe will use this crash report to help find a future solution to this problem."
OH lovely I can tell them exactly what happened and they can fix it.
"I tried to save :|"
waiting for wow patch
Well we're sitting around Mike's house waiting for his shitty internet to let the newest Wow patch trickle through. Besides cursing our non hakerz abilities and being outsmarted by whatever firewall is making Mike's "dial-up" make me wait to play the delicious game I am actually starting to wonder what I did before wow.
Wow is already ruining my life as you probably guessed by the fact that I am sitting around waiting for it to download. I could play xbox I guess but since it has been about 2 months since I got a new game that is very unappealing. Looking at internet dating sites (which i guess could be considered a time churner) is also out but for different reasons. It's depressing. Apparently no one wants to have sex with me. Worse yet they aren't even pretending they do. At least give me that build up with no follow through even that is better than an empty in box. It gives me the fear that my virility has withered and wasted away.
Back to more important matters--namely why I am waiting for the wow patch. I guess I am officially one of "those weirdo gamers" we all pretend we aren't. I am pretty stoked for the patch because they made the Paladin a way better class. Apparently everyone in the world hates the paladin besides me so Blizzard decided to juice that particular class a bit by making even more badass. They increased the healing spells a bit but most importantly they made the Judgment spell so that it doesn't break your seal which is a pretty fucking big deal in baseball town. Also the seals last 2 min instead of 20 seconds so its actually worth your time to use them besides the fact you can throw as many hammers as your little hearts content.
On a side note the other day mike glitched on the deep way tram or whatever its called between the human and dwarf cities and he got booted. When he tried to sign in again he kept getting booted. I decided to do what anyone in my position would feel compelled to do.... Kill rats.
I killed 35 with my cleaver but then got bored and switched to punching them and when i got bored of that i switched back to the cleaver by the time mike got back i had killed 63 rats.
so i started playing wow
Yeah its ruining my life. Its true when you hear about people talking about wow and you look sideways at them with disdain. I'm not going to tell you to stop doing that because really i am not trying to defend or condemn wow. Were all sick of that anywaw. I mean the game has been out for about 5 years and that has given everyone enough chance to fully cement their opinion of it and feel the need to share that opinion.
My opinion of the game is it is just like other action rpg games. Its all the regular stuff you would expect from one of those its just really really really really fucking long.I've been playing for about a week now roughly 18 hours and my highest level guy is 15. Yeah my highest level because as if the game isn't long enough you feel compelled to go through it with multiple characters. So you can try out all the stuff you can do in the game.
What this turns into basically is fetch quests... go here kill this bring me that. Its pretty annoying and if i hear "bring me so and so's head" I might have a redundancy stroke.
But the game does have its fun factors. It is an action rpg and to me thats really all it needs to be and if I get bored of running around going to a lake and killing murlocs to gather crystal pond frons well then i can just go fuck around.
Like making a macro to say this because my weapon is a shovel.
Scramble
After literally MONTHS of trying to beat Dustin at Facebook Scramble, I have succeeded. The funny thing is I just today had a conversation with Dale about how when I finally beat Dustin it would be the beginning of my reign as champion of Everything. And unlike Dale's month-long Movember bliss, mine would last an eternity. (or until someone beats my score.)
I think I might take tomorrow off work to celebrate!
