Archive for December, 2008

A Bright Spot on a Dark Day

I was over joyed when I returned to Grand Haven last night and found so much of the snow melted. I was so annoyed by the snow I took a couple of photos before we left Friday afternoon to document my struggle. And, when I go home, since so much melted I decided to take follow up photos to chronoical the miraculous meltage.

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Ding Dong the Bitch is Dead!

I just found out the fantastic news that Topps is closing down Wizkids. This move was long over due, and completely welcome in my book. I have had a slow burning hatred for Wizkids ever since I had to deal with the players of their games. Those people were seriously the most offensive human trash I have ever encountered.

Now, I wonder what these obsolete burdens on soliety will do now that their precious games are cancelled, and they don’t have to keep up with daily rule changes and the continued obsoletion of their expensive collections.

Good riddens. And, if a single person speaks up in defense of Wizkids, or the poeple that play their games their comments will be deleted because that position is invalid.

UPS is Getting Sloppy

UPS Wrong Address and Time

I have heard of UPS accidentally delivering to the wrong location. But, I think this takes it to a whole new level. Apparently, UPS can now not only deliver it to the wrong place, but it can deliver it to the wrong time. Take that space time!

By my reckoning, the package was delivered roughly 1,334 miles away from where it was supposed to go. And, 541 days, 10 hours, 21 minutes before it was shipped.

Hide Your Comments

Comments are getting out of control. Sure it is nice to receive feedback on your well thought out carefully worded posts (or in my case, unproof read rants). But, when you get too many comments it make the page unusable. It drive me nuts when I am trying to grab a code snippet from someone, or just trying to read their post, and their post only consists of 5% of the page. To see an example offender just checkout this link (it almost crash firefox for me):

http://avi.alkalay.net/2006/11/google-maps-plugin-for-wordpress.html

So, I think in a show of good faith, I am going to by default start hiding comments, so you have to click on “Show Comments” in order to read the comments on a post. Javascript exists for a reason people: use it.

Fallout 3 First Impression

As many of you know, I have very little time to squeeze in any video games these days. But, over the past couple weeks I’ve been able to put a few hours into Fallout 3. So, I gathered a few thoughts on the subject. Granted, I have barely scratched the surface of the game here it is:

  • Anyone used to typical shooters are going to be frustrated playing this game. I think I now know how a storm trooper feels. When you are aiming directly at an enemy, and your bullet are whizzing all over, hitting everything but the enemy…yeah, good times
  • Keep what you kill. I don’t like that houses are triggered by game events rather than just releaving individuals’ of corporal forms
  • Restricted skills suck. I’ve grown used to advancing the skills that I use. I don’t know how I feel about this more tradition and ridge granting of limited skill points upon leveling up.
  • Fast travelling is cool. Its nice to be able to go to the world map and just say go here. Way too many RPGs waste your time by making you spend forever just getting from place to place. 
  • This game is basically Oblivion with guns. Which, ironically is kind of better than Oblivion. I never really thought that melee battle lended itself well to 1st person. And, the third person in the game is quite bad. Although, I suppose if youwanted to you could still melee everything

Anyhow, that’s all I have the time to say at the moment. Hopefully, I will be able to write again. At the pace I am playing I expect to be done some time in 2012.