| 1-800-4-MY-XBOX |
[Jan. 3rd, 2008|08:22 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  angry | ] |
God damnit. My fucking 360 just crapped out on me. It worked just fucking fine yesterday afternoon, but now when I wanted to get on and see if anything new is on the Marketplace, I get the fucking Red Ring of Death. Fuckin' A, Microsoft.
It's especially awesome that this would've been past my warranty period if they hadn't realized that nearly every system they shipped was gonna do this at some point, and therefore extended the warranty another two years. It's gonna be like four weeks now before I'll have a 360 again. I have games to play, goddamnit. Mass Effect and Rock Band aren't gonna play themselves! Plus I just got some HD-DVDs from Amazon that I can't play now. I guess I wouldn't mind so much if the PS3 had, y'know... games. I guess I can play Star Trek: Conquest, or something. Maybe find a Wii game that isn't just a bunch of shitty minigames sewn together.
I'm so pissed right now. |
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| On links. Of the day. |
[Nov. 19th, 2007|09:36 am] |
Yo yo. Here's some sweet link action, comin' at ya.
Progressive Boink is an awesome website. For one, its name is a Calvin and Hobbes reference. Secondly, it's peppered with references to professional wrestling, which I can appreciate, being the gigantic nerd that I am. Third, it's home of The Dugout and NFL Pictochat DS, which are also pretty flippin' awesome. These are not the reasons I come to you today, however.
In honor of Alan Moore's appearance on The Simpsons last night, I link to you...
The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings!
Have fun!
Oh, also. Rock Band comes out tomorrow. My friggin' GameStop won't be having a midnight launch, but I'm already paid off there, so I'm not going to Best Buy's launch. Anywho. By 10am tomorrow, Rock Band will be in the house.
Toodles. |
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| On pretending to be in a band. |
[Oct. 28th, 2007|06:40 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  Rock Band... ed. | ] |
I stayed up late last night to get Guitar Hero 3 at GameStop. I ended up waiting there for 45 minutes, 10 of which was time spent actually getting my game. They opened at 11:30 so we could wait around for midnight in order for them to sell us our games. It's a lot of fun. You can play co-op online I think... it hasn't worked for me yet. There's also a co-op career mode, which would be cool if I had someone who wanted to play that with me...
But this post is not about Guitar Hero 3.
This post is about Rock Band.
Today, I went into Best Buy because I had heard on the intertubes that they were putting out a Rock Band demo as part of the GH3 release shenanigans.
For once, the interwob hasn't lied to me.
I went to the mall under the pretense that I would see if the demo was up, but mostly to get something for lunch. I headed in through the Best Buy entrance and walked over towards the video game section, and lo and behold, what do I spy but the Rock Band drum kit. Hell motherfuckin' yes. Amazingly, there was no one there, so I picked up the drum sticks and played Weezer's "Say It Ain't So". I guess everyone was too chicken to try it themselves or something, because once I started playing a small crowd started to form. I finished up my turn and handed off the sticks, wandering around the PC games looking like I wasn't waiting for another turn. That's not cool, y'know? People came and went, and eventually there was a group of three or four of us that just kept playing multiplayer. The game had one guitar, drums and a mic, but I don't think that the mic was hooked up, which didn't matter because who the hell is gonna sing in public?
Long story short, I spent about three hours there playing the demo. Holy fuck. Tons of fun. And lots of songs, too. The demo has 15 songs, which is phenominal. The Rock Band guitar is also just about the finest gaming peripheral I have ever laid my hands upon. Makes the Guitar Hero controller seem like the plastic toy it is. The drums kinda sucked, but only because you had to stand to play them, as there was no stool, and the sticks were of course bound to the drum kit with plastic wires, which ended up getting tangled up during one of my many rockin' drum fills.
Now, two things. Rock Band can be played over Xbox Live, so I can jam with my 360-owning friends who pick it up. I think you know who I'm talking to. Also, this game comes out the week of Thanksgiving. I don't have school OR work that Thursday and Friday, and fuck if I'm gonna go shopping on Black Friday. So, I'm calling for an assembly of the Motherfuckers to break this shit in. Hell, that'll be our band name.
Let's do this. Peace out!
Also, I may go back and do this again tomorrow. If anyone wants to raid some Best Buys for some Rock Band action, let me know. |
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| On pretending to play guitar(updated). |
[Oct. 23rd, 2007|05:36 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  accomplished | ] |
It appears I will have obtained a copy of Guitar Hero 3 by Sunday. GameStop is having a midnight release party, and seeing as how I'm off of work at 11, I'll be just in time to pick it up. So if anyone wants to get their six-string throwdown on, consider it brought. |
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| On pretending to play guitar. |
[Oct. 22nd, 2007|11:30 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | cautiously optimistic | ] |
So I have the demo of Guitar Hero 3 on the Xbox 360. Apparently you can download it from the internet, burn it to a disc and it works in your console. Alternatively, you can wait until it comes on the Xbox Marketplace tomorrow.
Let me be perfectly honest here. Originally, I wasn't planning on buying Guitar Hero 3. The game is no longer being developed by Harmonix. Neversoft, creators of the Tony Hawk series, have taken over their duties. They've added a bunch of silly power-ups and Boss Battles. What the hell? The Guitar Hero series is about battling the music. About working at it and working at it until you can bang out all the notes with the best of 'em. But I digress.
I've played the demo. It contains five songs, most of which I enjoy. I'm not really feeling Tenacious D, though. I dunno. I guess I'm over them. Anyway. The songs were good, and I was still on the fence until I took a long hard look at the list of songs featured in the game. One song managed to convince me to buy this game.
This leads to my next bit of info. It seems this game is going to be released this Sunday. No, I don't have it reserved yet, but that's something I can quickly correct tomorrow. If I do manage to snag a copy on my one free day, I do believe some sort of get-together shall be in order. Granted, it won't be the national holiday style shindig that the release of Rock Band will warrant, but it should be good fun anyway.
I'll keep you posted.
Stay frosty. |
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| On disappearing. |
[Oct. 16th, 2007|08:40 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  depressed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Something emo. But really nothing, as it's 8:30 in the morning and that's quiet time. | ] |
In a little over 6 hours, I go back to work. This is something I am not looking forward to. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the fact that I'll be earning income once again, but my work and school situation is going to basically make me disappear off the face of the Earth. My days will consist of waking up at 6:30, going to class, getting home around 1-ish, having lunch and taking care of whatever else needs to be taken care of, then leaving for work from 3-11, and coming home and sleeping. This will be Tuesday through Saturday.
So, so awesome.
At least I'll have Sundays to not do anything. |
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| The Orange Box |
[Oct. 10th, 2007|08:07 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | giddy | ] |
Who went and beat Portal 3 hours after getting it unlocked? I did! Whoo! The story mode, anyway. Still have challenges and whatnot to finish. Great game, great ending, and great ending credits theme by Jonathan Coulton. So far, this package is making it worth the money I spent. Now, time to take a break, eat and watch some hockey. Go hockey. |
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| On Procrastination. |
[Oct. 7th, 2007|10:01 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | cranky | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Dethklok - Briefcase Full of Guts | ] |
Yeah... not rockin' this school thing like I should be. I've been home alone practically all weekend, and I'm just now getting started on re-writing my English stuff. Went and hit FallCon today. Finally got caught up on Invincible, and bought the President Superman figure from Red Son. He's just chillin' here next to my monitor, Braniac's head in hand. I've got about half an hour to bang this out before Robot Chicken and Metalocalypse come on. I think I'm gonna end up blowing off my first two lectures tomorrow to get this stuff finished. It's okay. They're lectures about stuff I already know. Man, I just love sleeping too much. Like, I'll start on work I need to do, and then halfway through I'll be all "Y'know what, fuck this, I'll just go to bed right now and get up a couple hours earlier and finish." And then morning rolls around and I'm all "Y'know what, fuck getting up right now. I'll get up and hour later and finish." And then an hour goes by and I'm all "Y'know what, fuck this, I'll just blow off my first two classes and finish this." And then that's what happens. I feel that coming on again. Rarrgh.
Dear Lord, I promise if you get me through this this one time, I will NEVER, EVER do it again. Until I inevitably do. Love ya lots! |
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| Tryin' to get a head count. |
[Sep. 18th, 2007|10:12 am] |
Got some time between classes today, so I'm taking time out to get a head count for people going to the Jim Gaffigan show at 10pm on October 13th. Two tickets are accounted for, so I'm sitting on 6 more at 50 bucks a piece. I know there are a few people who expressed interest, I'm just trying to figure out how long I've got before I need to try and sell these things off.
Stay frosty. |
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| So who wants to party... all of September?! |
[Aug. 27th, 2007|05:25 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | chipper | ] |
Well, it's been decided. I talked to my co-worker about switching hours just for next month, and she turned me down, because she needs the extra money that comes with the shift differential. It's like an extra dollar an hour. I understand. No big deal. However, this means...
I'm not working at all next month! Woooo! I can stay up as late as I want, since I don't have to be to class until 9am, and even if I'm totally tired, the latest I leave class is at 1 in the afternoon! Woooooo! I get paid on Friday, and I'll have one more paycheck coming before the well runs dry. Thankfully, living expenses are minimal, even with setting up shop at Casa de Kevin/New America Headquarters.
I still think it's fucking retarded that they couldn't get this shit worked out in the three months of time I gave them. I still think it's stupid that this morning my boss told me to call Human Resources about getting my things together to request a Leave of Absence. And it's especially stupid that after calling and leaving HR a message at 8am, they were unable to call me back the ENTIRE DAY. I mean, I don't mean to sound like a dick here, but I'm better than 99 percent of the employees at the impound lot. You mean to tell me you can't at least make it SEEM like you want me to stick around? I feel like I'd be better of just quitting outright. Save myself the runaround. I just get this feeling that when October scheduling rolls around, they still won't have a clue. Call me crazy.
But whatever. Focus on the good. I won't have to dick with that shit for a month. Of course, I'll probably end up calling or going in or whatever just to check up on where they're at, and I'll get this same shit. Focus on the good. I have a kickass TV, a sweet new bed, and Rock Band comes out in November. Good times... |
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| I haven't posted in a while. Update. |
[Aug. 23rd, 2007|08:29 pm] |
Work is still dicking me around. Today, though, my immediate supervisor was nice enough to take up my cause. I gave him a copy of my school schedule and he'll also talk to the boss, so both of us will be bugging him and hopefully we'll get this thing figured out by the end of the week. I really don't like my options, though. Option one, the best possible option(therefore, the one that won't happen...), is that I get put on a schedule of 3pm-11pm Mon-Fri for as long as I can stand it. Option two has me taking the month of September off until they can work this schedule stuff out. The third option, as given to me today, and what seems like the option the boss is pushing me towards, is switching schedules for September. Instead of 8am-6pm Mon-Thur like I work now, I'd be working 4pm-2am Fri-Mon, and I'd have to use vacation time to leave early so I could get enough sleep to be able to function at a 9am class. So not only would I be either working or schooling 7 days a week, I'd be burning at least 16 hours of vacation just to do it. Exasperated is the word I'm looking for here.
Well, at least the weather was nice enough to pretend like I was in Seattle. *sigh* |
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| I haven't posted in a while. |
[Aug. 22nd, 2007|09:02 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | depressed/surly | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Rock Band gameplay videos on IGN | ] |
Man, I don't know what to say anymore. Tonight SHOULD be the night where I'm all packed and ready and excited to get on a plane and fly to Seattle for PAX. Instead, I've got this badge I'm not gonna use. Hell, I haven't even opened the envelope, like if I couldn't physically see it, maybe I never really got it and I don't have to think about what I'm missing. So many cool musical acts. Johnathan Coulton, Freezepop, MC Frontalot, Optimus Rhyme, The NESkimos, The Minibosses... cool panels, games galore, and Wil Fuckin' Wheaton. I don't know if I'm gonna get back there any time soon. Especially considering the bullshit work is running me around with.
They've known since May that beginning in September my hours were going to have to change. So September's schedule comes out, and what do you know? They haven't changed a damned thing. So I talk to my boss about it, and he says "Hey, this isn't my fault..." What, like it's my fault I've decided to go back to school and made sure you had plenty of notice? I don't make the schedules, dude. I gave you plenty of time to work something out. I've talked to you about needing to alter my schedule several times, looking for suggestions that would let me still work full time. I get told that hours may change and to check back. Then the fucking bridge falls down and now no one has any time to talk about changing hours, and we won't know any more until the end of September? What the fuck am I supposed to do now? I'm considering just taking the entire month of September off of work. Fuck them. I'm thinking about just quitting outright.
To be honest, I really don't want to quit. I like most of the people I work with, the work is pretty easy, and it would give me plenty of time to study while I was there. But the sheer ineptitude of these people really pisses me off. You couldn't have called me in the office one fucking time before you put out the schedule? It didn't cross your mind at all? I mean, you guys are gonna look pretty silly when September 4th rolls around and I'm just not there for work at 8am. It's like they have no respect for all the work I've done for them for the past 6 years. Whenever you need someone to represent you to your bosses, it's me. I help you write e-mails to them because you're scared that they'll think you're an idiot because you're not the most computer-savvy person in the world.
I mean, you're all accommodating for this other woman I work with who goes to school for fucking bible studies or some shit. What, is she gonna get a doctorate in Jesus? Might as well go to fucking clown college. At least then you'd have a marketable skill.
So fucking pissed right now. Grr. |
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| Holy crap, this is unnecessary. |
[Jul. 22nd, 2007|07:00 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  nerdy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | case fan... clicking... I gotta move that wire outta the way. | ] |
I was having a bit of compy trouble a couple of weeks ago, and I thought my hard drive might be dying, so I did what any self-respecting nerd would do. I went down to Micro Center and bought two 750 GB Seagate drives. When I got home that night, I turned on my machine and everything fired like nothing was wrong, so I figured I was panicking for no reason. Did I return the other drives? Hell no. I just got around to installing them tonight, so when I'm done formatting, I'll be sitting at nearly two terabytes of space, not including the other drive in there that doesn't want to work for some reason. It feels... nice. |
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| Random nerding out. |
[Jul. 20th, 2007|04:18 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | nerdy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Aquabats! - Nerd Alert | ] |
Jon Lovitz beats up Andy Dick. Awesome! This is an awesome story. Lovitz rules.
So, I meant to post this the other day, but I was too busy buying comics to post it. I've become a comic book nerd. Kind of. Since last we broached the subject, I've read more graphic novels and trade paperbacks than I have adequate space to store them. Watchmen, Wanted, Sandman, Powers (book 2 coming later this month), Invincible (book 3 coming later this month), Walking Dead, Y: The Last Man, Nextwave (you can find me on a certain social networking site now that you know this. Clues!), Ex Machina, Runaways, a little Superman, a little Batman, some Astonishing X-Men, a few books of the Fables series, and some 100 Bullets. Oh, and Marvel Zombies. I dunno. I'm probably missing stuff. But yeah, because of all this, I've started buying comic books, too. What was I thinking? I mean, there's not a whole lot I follow. I started with Countdown, now I'm following World War Hulk, because the idea of Hulk coming back and wrecking shop on the entire Marvel Universe is pretty awesome. On top of that I'm buying Runaways when it comes out, Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, oh, and Sinestro Corps, Shazam Monster Society of evil, Green Arrow Year One, umm... I should start picking up the X-Men: Endangered Species stuff... and then I started buying Cable and Deadpool just soon enough to see Cable buy it. So, awesome there. Still, I'm open to suggestions/recommendations. I feel like I have too much money that I'm not blowing on things that I ultimately don't need.
I picked up the Deadpool/GLI Summer Fun Spectacular the other day, so then I ended up buying GLA: Misassembled to learn more about the GLA/GLX/GLC/GLI. I just like the idea that the team that protects the midwest are a bunch of people with shitty superpowers based out of Milwaukee.
Is it wrong to think Squirrel Girl is hot?
Does that make me a furry?
Man, there's a lot of Sonic the Hedgehog porn on the internet. Why does it all make Tails the biggest gay that ever came to Gaytown? What's up with that?
I just figured out the other day that Tails' real name is a terrible pun. Miles "Tails" Prower. Miles Prower. Miles per hour! Why didn't I figure that out sooner?
I got my PAX passes in the mail yesterday. This sucks.
Okay. I think I got it all out. Trying to post more nowadays. My L.Jo is probably all surprised. It's used to being neglected and misused. |
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| And into the eyes of the jackal, I say ka-boom... |
[Jul. 17th, 2007|06:24 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | music-y? reminiscent? | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Smashing Pumpkins - Tarantula | ] |
So I bought the new Smashing Pumpkins album (do they say album anymore? Is album the correct terminology?) last week. I mean, they call themselves the Smashing Pumpkins, but it's only two of them. So it's like half the Smashing Pumpkins. What would you call that? Smashing? Pumpkins? Smash Pump? Shing Kins? Anyway. It's a pretty good CD. Not every song is a winner, and really, none of them stand out as super-awesome songs, but they're all very solid, and they harken back to an era of music I miss.
Listening to the CD is like putting on an old jacket you dug out from the back of the closet. You forget why it was back there, maybe you bought a new one because the old one had a stain on it, or the fabric was starting to wear or something. You put on that jacket, and it's just as comfortable as it's ever been. You slip right into it like nothing ever changed. You dig around in the pockets and find stuff you had forgotten about, an old ticket stub, a couple of wadded-up dollar bills. Perhaps a superball. And it brings you back to those times you had.
I dunno. I guess I'm rambling. I mean, I was never the world's hugest Pumpkins fan. I don't have all their CDs, but some of my most fond and interesting memories involve them. And I miss rock music.
Okay, I love you, buh-bye! |
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| Hey look, webcomics! |
[Jul. 16th, 2007|05:05 pm] |
Thanks, XKCD!
He puts alt-text on all his comics, and I don't know if it shows up on L.Jo, so you might wanna head over to his site to check 'em out, along with all the rest of 'em. |
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| You are sitting there, thinking your thoughts. |
[Jul. 15th, 2007|11:12 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  pensive | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Cake - Commissioning a Symphony in C | ] |
And I am sitting here, thinking mine. Here are some of them.
I saw the greatest bumper stickers in the world today. I was on University, on my way home from the store, when I saw a Jeep in the turn lane. I couldn't make them out right away. I caught "(something-something) is my co-pilot", and something that was read like "WW(somebody)D", so I immediately wrote them off as something bland I've seen a hundred times, either actual religion, or a "clever" parody. Then I looked harder. The first sticker read "Dog is my co-pilot". I realized this after I noticed the icon resembling Dog from Half-Life 2. The second sticker read WWGFD?, with a picture of a crowbar at the end. It was then I realized that this person is the awesomest person on the road.
So I went to the Valve store to see if they were the ones selling these stickers, and indeed they were. It came as part of a pack that also included a Black Mesa parking permit! Sadly, these have all been sold out for who knows how long. I totally would've bought them.
Man, I should go to the gym tomorrow, but I probably won't because I have to be to work at 7, and I hate going in the afternoon with all the dudes that eat several small mammals a day, rending the flesh with their giant biceps, and chewing it into tiny pieces with their muscular jaws, only to wash it down with the warm blood of their fresh kill.
Also, I'm going back to school this fall. I figured it was time to get it out there. I've told more than one person now, so it's like everybody knows.
A couple of weeks ago on my way home from work, I saw a homeless guy with a yo-yo. He was just chillin' on the corner, walking back to his crew and slingin' some 'yo. I thought about it, and if I was a homeless dude, I would totally have a yo-yo. Lots of fun, good entertainment, no mechanical parts that can break. Just some string and an axle. Plus if someone steps to you, you can probably swing that sucker hard enough to do some serious damage. And if you're in a situation where you need some string, you got it right there. Hell, you might be able to trap some food, or knock it out or something.
I used to totally hate the self-checkout at the grocery store. I figure that they have people that they pay money to to ring you up, so why should I do it and not get paid for it? Now more and more I find myself using it. Chalk it up to my never-ending quest for maximum efficiency. I can grab my things, of which there are ultimately four or five, go up to the self-check, and burn through that business in a matter of a minute or two. No register monkey chattin' with me, just me and my purchases. Beep, bag, beep, bag, beep, bag, pay, leave. Ba-boom. But for some ungodly reason, Cub likes to shut those things down at night.
What the fuck? It's one in the morning. Let me check myself out. If I am in your establishment at one A.M., I probably don't want to have to deal with other humans. There is a reason I am up shopping at a time when most people would be sleeping. And because the self-check is shut down, I get stuck behind a person with a bigass cart full of stuff compared to my five things, and they're trying to pay with some archaic method of payment that only works during a certain phase of the moon after you recite the ancient words and assemble the statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. Man, I just wanna buy my ice cream and go home.
Okay, that went on longer than I was expecting. I just kinda got on a roll for a second there. LOLWORDS! |
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| I can post YouTube videos, too! |
[Jul. 1st, 2007|10:24 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | bored | ] |
Here's a few clips of Bill Bailey. I was vaguely familiar with him before, then I spent all last night watching his clips. Very funny comedian, talented musician to boot. I remember him from watching Black Books, and apparently he also showed up in Hot Fuzz, which I have yet to see.
Portishead sings Zippity Doo Dah
TV news themes
Pub joke
Drum and Bush
The only problem is I don't think any of his DVDs have been released here in the States, so the ones you find online are Region 2 encoded. Curse you, DVD region encoding global conglomerate! |
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| TGI Thursday. Which is my Friday. |
[Jun. 28th, 2007|05:14 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | contemplative | ] |
Driving home from work today, I saw a homeless guy wearing one of those camouflage shirts that say "You can't see me." on it. Subtle social commentary?
Nah, probably not. He looked WAY too wasted for social commentary. |
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