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SCAMMED!

1. Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
2. School
3. Epic Video Game Fail/SCAMMED!
4. Ubisoft, EA, Activision Blizzard, and Starcraft II

Lots of things are changing. The most prominent is that I'll be getting a site up in the next few weeks. My blog will officially move there as well. I'll link here. So... sorry for lack of updates. Let me give a quick update of LOLic proportions.

1. I'm playing Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. I played the first one through, and... well... most of you know I'm not a fan of FPSs so it may seem weird that I'm playing it. Well, to its credit, it's a Tom Clancy game, and I'm a sucker for anything with a "Tom Clancy" in front of it whether it be my beloved Splinter Cell or this tactical FPS I'm working my way through now. Let me tell you, it's not an easy game. I should've known from when I opened it up and it had three difficulties: easy, normal, and "realistic." Damn me being an epic gamer, but I started playing realistic right off the bat. For someone with the dual joysticking skills of an animal without opposable thumbs, this is quite a challenge. I ended up going through the first mission before switching to normal. Much more managable now although I still rely on my team quite a bit. Also getting a bit of a headspin from too many button changes. I mean, I went from playing Prototype to Assassin's Creed to Bully in the span of two weeks, and the controls in all of the games are just... well, obviously, they're all different games.

Anyway, I don't want to say anything else. A review is coming once I finish it... which won't be this weekend since I'm busy for the 4th and 5th of July.

2. I'm about a month and a half away from going back to school. D'oh.

3. So my brother tried to ween himself off WoW, but I think he's completely getting pwned in the process. He tried playing a couple of console games. I let him play Assassin's Creed, GTA IV, and a couple of other misc. games I figured he would enjoy until he stumbled upon Prototype. The thing was... he kind of epic failed at it. He played it for three days straight (no joke) and had to come to me about every thirty minutes to ask me how to do something. I don't know how many of you guys have played Prototype, but it's the most linear sandbox game ever, imo. They tell you what to do. I mean... Jesus.

Well anyway, he finally did get through it with a lot of help and cheat codes (pathetic, absolutely pathetic, imo), and he asked me to borrow his paypal and some cash. So I said whatever. He started playing Gunbound, a game which I was actually better than him at after a week of playing it back when I was a silver double axe blade or whatever I was when I played that game. He wanted the money to buy gear. Holy shit. Just play the freaking game. It's free.

People who pay for games that are free are lazy tools.

So I told him no. So instead he wanted something else so I gave up and... he ended up paying some guy 20 bucks for a BOT! LOLOLOL. Needless to say he was scammed. The only sad thing was he did it under my paypal and wrote a complaint or whatever. I told him "if you get your money back, that's fine, but I want *my* money back tonight." So... wow. What kind of a retard do you have to be to pay for a bot without checking up on it first... or at all?!

4. I'm a Ubisoft fangirl. I know. It's terrible because they produce games like "Baby Party" or whatever the hell it's called... so I'll revise and say maybe specifically Ubisoft Quebec. I've been replaying Rockstar and Ubisoft games up the ass. I don't know. I think a part of it stems from the fact that every time I pop in an EA game, I feel like my soul is being sucked out. And... what the hell is going on with Activision Blizzard... Actizzard... Blizvision... whatever? Come on Blizzard bitches, give me Starcraft II!

Graphics with a side of half-decent gameplay

It's been a while since I've blogged exclusively about video games. I've been tweeting a lot (I'm GenericWit on twitter, by the way) with folks about them, and I've been commenting on a lot of video game blogs so I'm kind of video game'd out. It's sad, really, considering I spend a fair amount of time each week playing video games regardless of my status as a full-time college student, a prospective pre-med with a GPA to maintain. So, I'm just going to do a quickie.

First off, plugging http://www.concepticate.com/ because... wow. Interesting blog. I'm not even plugging to get a plug back or anything. I'm just plugging because it's a good blog. Better than mine at my best.

So, I'm ashamed to say, but until today, I've been making due with the original Xbox 360 I bought back before there was a console war (you guys remember the days when the 360 was the *only* of the current gen consoles out?) with composite cables and all. Well, I finally RRoD'd about a week ago, folks. And wow, what a week it's been. First of all, let me express my deepest LULz that years after getting a console that's been known to get a problem, I finally get said problem, roughly halfway through its life expectency (consoles are living longer and longer these days, huh? Must be diet and exercise!). So, instead of paying 20 bucks to get it fixed or looking up a fix myself, I simply sold it off for spare parts and bought myself a box with an HDMI output. It's about damn time.

So, I got said Xbox today, and after playing a couple of my games, even on my nice, new expensive tv, I still can't tell the damn difference. I don't know if it's the aging eyesight of an 18 year old college sophomore who spends too much time on the computer and staring at tiny text in a textbook or if there is no difference. To be fair, the t.v. I'm playing on is just under 40 inches, and if I hooked it up to someone's 50something incher, it might make a difference, but I really don't see what the fuss is about.

Hell, half the time I don't notice the difference between an HD channel and a regular channel. The only times I really notice a difference is when watching something like National Geographic. I can see the freaking veins on leaves from a tree that a monkey is in that a tribal dude is shooting at from 30 feet away. I can see the difference on shows like Bizarre Foods where the shit he's eating is even grosser than before, but for most shows, I can't (even if Family guy does look particularly crisp).

I think it's all in gamers heads, and furthermore, when did graphics start mattering so much anyway? That's a loaded question, obviously, as graphics have always been rather important. Even in the 8 bit days it was important. However, I've played games with stunning graphics before that have disappointed me. I've played simplistic games that I've loved. Sure, a lot of the time, stunning graphics are a sign of effort which usually goes hand-in-hand with a good concept and good execution. However, it's not always the case.

This obsession with even the tiniest differences in graphics for some gamers really has me worried that developers are going to start sacrificing great mechanics and execution for a more realistic shadow or wrinkle in the protagonist's shirt. Grrr. I hope that doesn't happen.

Anyway, off to replay Assassin's Creed. Nothing's stopping me now, bitches!

-GenericWit

Serious Conversation about Judaism

Conversation:

After a friend told me how he was friend-pricing a cosplay prop I commissioned from him:

Awesomocity0: the materials alone PLUS labor charge!
Awesomocity0: i should've asked for it before you went selling crazy
Jdp898989: haha,
Jdp898989: before i got the booth you mean ;-)
Awesomocity0: that's right
Jdp898989: charlas keyblades were 100
Jdp898989: oblivion and oathkeeper
Awesomocity0: 100 total or each
Jdp898989: total
Awesomocity0: i was gonna say
Jdp898989: if she wasnt a friend id have charged more
Awesomocity0: stop being a jew!
Jdp898989: do you know how long those suckers took to freaking make!?
Awesomocity0: JEW!
Jdp898989: D:
Awesomocity0: that's right
Awesomocity0: LOL you jew
Jdp898989: D':
Awesomocity0: jew cries tears of gold
Awesomocity0: jew says what?!
Jdp898989: WHORE BITCH CUNT SUCKER
Jdp898989: ..thats what
Awesomocity0: ... so what i'm hearing is that you admit that you're a jew

Anime Overload! Can't. Breath.

Junjo Romantica

It's almost five a.m., and I just finished reading Junjou Romantica Volume 11 (skip on to other anime if you don't care about JJR). I'm going to get Volume 10 in the mail next month since I pre-ordered it, but I was browsing around the web when I found what appears to be the only scanlation of Junjou since it got licensed, going up to act 18 or whatever. Here's where my panic comes in:

It starts up three years later. Misaki's now 21 which means that Akihiko is 31. Does this mean that the other couples are shot three years into the future? And furthermore, what the *fuck* is going on with the other couples? I haven't read a decent Egoist chapter since volume... what? Seven? Six? I don't even know. I feel like I haven't even see a progression in Terrorist enough to know what would happen to them three years later. I'm just so fucking angry (raaaaaagggeeeee) that the mangaka pulled that shit. God, if you have to propel the story line into the future, it's time to end the series.



I've been rooting for Junjou Romantica for years now (and I think most of us have). I've been absolutely in love with it, and it has topped my charts as my favorite anime (tied) and my favorite manga even with all the flaws it has. I've overlooked them all, but this? This is just... this is ridiculous.

I'm going to say this: just like I was hoping that the anime wouldn't have a third season, I'm going to be bold and say that I hope JJR wraps up within the next three volumes. I want to see volume 12 include a very short Romantica chapter and a long egoist chapter. I want to see volume 13 wrap up the whole "Misaki's competition moves in with them!" storyline and then focus on expanding Terrorist's storyline. I want to see volume 14 split all three storylines equally and wrap it the fuck up. This is a drag.

It's not even funny anymore.

I want to see this end before my favorite manga becomes any more ridiculous than it's gotten in the past volume. Volume 10 was brilliant. Volume 11 was... God. No comment. I don't want to say it so I won't.

Other Anime

As for everything else, where is all the good anime? You know what? Shangri-la: disappointing. 07 Ghost: Code Geass ripoff. True Mazinger: *yawns* Everything else: BLAH!



THERE, I SAID IT. Spring 2009 anime is not delivering on any front. Where's my break out anime? Where's my Toradora!? Where's my Mushishi? Where's my Lucky Star? Fresh out of an anime convention, and all anime is pissing me off.

If it weren't for manga, I'd just give up animation as a whole and stick with literature. Here's to hoping something like Bukiyou na Silent gets turned into an OVA or something. Meanwhile, maybe I'll go rewatch Lelouch or D.Gray-man or something.

-GW

P.S. Blogging up a storm lately, huh?

How to Argue with the Ignorant

Living in an area inhabited by people generally leads to at least some encounters with buffoons. Hell, more often than not, these encounters will happen every day, sometimes multiple times a day depending on who you live, work, or go to school with. Ignorance is everywhere, and there's nothing you can do about it because even intelligent people can be ignorant, uninformed, and stubborn. However, I'm not here to talk about those people. I'm here to talk about how to deal with those who are stupid and blissfully unaware.

For example, today I had the pleasure of being asked about the fatal Air France flight that's been all over the news lately. When I first heard about this, I was interested. I was shocked and horrified, but interested nonetheless. My research started when I heard that it was nowhere near the most deadly passenger incident. I checked out horrific stories of planes crashing into each other, into mountains, and pilots simply fucking up with fatal consequences.

As someone who watches the news and reads the news from reliable sources (aka cnn.com, the New York Times, and sites not run by Billy Bob's House of News and Pancakes), I was pretty up to date on the scenario. I was up to date on the flight route (pretty straight forward besides the chunk where there was no contact), possible sources of error (like storms), improbable sources of error (like terrorism), and the status of the flight. I watched carefully as I knew it was only a matter of time before people got in there and confirmed that the spotted wreckage in the Atlantic was that of the missing passenger jet.

At the point when my parents asked me about it, it had been confirmed, and I told them just that. What I was not expecting was my father to immediately scoff at me and tell me he had read that the wreckage suspected was probably just that of an old boat or other flight. I tried to tell him it had been confirmed- the keyword being confirmed not suspected. My mother meanwhile still fully tried to convince me that the flight path was crooked somehow and that the wreckage was somewhere in Africa, as in, the continent, not the waters of.

Oh God.

After trying futally to tell them I had reliable information and listening to them telling me their information was correct, I gave up. I told them they were right and walked away with my new friend the headache.

So, what do you do when you have to argue with someone ignorant? Here's my advice: don't. If someone stupid asks you a question that you know the answer to, but they think they know the answer to, just tell them that they are right and walk away.

Alternatively, spend the next five hours poking flaws in their faulty logic until they cry. Either way, your goal is to get out of their as quickly as painlessly as you can. The idea here is that you have brain cells to harm, and the other person doesn't.

-Awesomocity0

P.S. LOL at the new PSP, LOL at Yoko being on stage with the Beatles, and LOL at the notion of the iphone being a competitor in the handheld market. Oh God. I forgot how awesome coverage of E3 could be.

This week is epic, and here's why:

No joke. Today I watched a rerun of Jay's last show, and it was a fantastic show (as expected of a legend). It was so funny to see Conan talk about being plucked out of television obscurity and suddenly having to go on Live TV to talk to Jay Leno. Then, the clip they showed was just perfect. You could definitely tell Conan was inexperienced, and it's no wonder his first couple of years were rough at best. My favorite part was Jay mocking him about two seconds into that first interview from sixteen years ago.

He also really ended the show in a good way, saying that the legacy he was leaving behind was the kids who were born "on" the show. Then again, it was all a little melodramatic. For those of you who don't know, the announcement that Jay Leno was leaving The Tonight Show was made a couple of years back, and he said it was something along the lines of "because I want to end on a high note" or something equally pretentious. What happened soon afterward was that he said "ONOS! J/K!" but at that point, Conan had already signed a contract. So, there was a network scuffle where just about everyone channel in the world tried to get him to sign a contract from doing primetime to daytime to weekly and bi monthly specials.

NBC, of course, didn't want to let go of its cash cow so they ended up giving him the infamous 10 p.m ET slot he'll have starting in September. That was a good move on their part since it costs substantially less to produce Jay's new show and pay Jay than just about any given primetime drama. Yay Jews at NBC!

So, really, he's not leaving. He's getting a better time slot. Meanwhile, Conan's moved up, and we all know Jimmy's had the 12:30 ET slot

Speaking of, this week is also epic because CONAN starts TONIGHT! (everyone catch that pun? Good.) 11:30/10:30 CST! Where will you be? I will be in front of the FUCKING TV watching. Damn straight. I'm glad to see Andy back on the show, glad that Max is back (because Conan and Max do the best sketches together), and I'm excited to see what Conan has in store. Probably a full-blown blogpost to follow later this week.

Thirdly, E3 09 coverage starts TODAY! Bummed that I'll most likely never get to go into E3 since it's no longer open to the public, but from sites like gamespot to GI to G4, etc., it's easy to get pretty in-depth coverage conveniently. So, I'm looking forward to big announcements from all three of our major players. I'm also looking forward to some small-time publishers and Indie developers. What I'm *not* excited about is a plethora of sequels and games that aren't innovative. Alright, I'll bite on God of War and Zelda, but I'm done with everything else.

Also, I've got my final for my first summer class tomorrow, and guess what? I decided I'm dropping my one that starts next week. I want a break!

So, in conclusion, this week is epic so all of you fanboys can go fap now.