Thursday, March 24, 2005

If only I were more profound.

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Shin- Yeah, but mine was posted first, so I win. >:O

Tony- It wasn't drug-related or anything like that, to my knowledge. It was something natural.

Ken- Her mom came to school on Tuesday to pick up her PE uniform. From what I heard, it was very sad and dramatic and so on. There was a sort of vigil (or maybe just a large gathering of people) or something outside of her house that day, too.

lunox- I don't recall any students dying at my elementary school.. But one of the teachers shot himself in the head in sixth grade. It wasn't my teacher, but I now have a lot of friends who were in his class that year.

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My friend and I were messing around with my brother's previously useless headset/microphone today, quoting famous monologues from movies and editing them to sound funky, which grew tired quickly, so we got on Counter-Strike instead.

Now, he and my brother have this mind-blowing obsession with talking on CS. My brother has the idea that people like it when eleven-year-olds harrass them online (be it a GuildWars beta or CS), but thus far he has also been unable to figure out which button is talk, which is good for me.

My friend has better intentions- his poor, poor mind is under the influence of Xbox Live (which he doesn't have- our other friends do), and from his limited experience, if you're online you must talk. As wise as communication is, most people around those parts are anti-minors and don't like in-game chat at all.

Combined, they somehow got me reported to Valve, even though they didn't really do anything. Valve has nothing against me, though, so I'm not really worried.

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If there's one reason that I would ever get Xbox Live (or an actual Xbox, come to think of it), it would be for Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Of course, I haven't played it yet, but the new trailer for co-op mode (I'd link it, but my searches are turning up nothing right now) is absolutely amazing.

I'm assuming there will be a lot of asses dedicated to messing up games, and/or are too stupid to actually play it right. But that's what system link is for.

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People are going apeshit over the PSP, but I have absolutely no desire to buy one. Seriously, they've even been promoting it on the KTLA Morning News, and yet somehow I can't help but think the people they interview about the product don't know anything about it. Half of the people at some celebrity endorsement party were just going on about the screen and how HUGE it is!

People seem to forget that it's a game console.. From what I've gathered, even Sony is hyping it as a simple Universal Media thing (though, with UMD, that's pretty obvious). A very expensive flash-based MP3 player, one could say. You can get an iPod with 6GB on it for the exact same price.

And let's face it, UMD is not going to become the brand-new way of viewing films. They're hardly getting any support for it, and if people want movies on-the-go they can buy portable DVD players starting at around $150. They might not be that compact, but whatever.

But even as a gamer, looking at the hardware, and how mind-boggling it is to see this level of graphics in a handheld, I still see no excitement in it. The problem is in the games. Thus far, the games have appeared as nothing but dull.

512MB iPod shuffle = $99

Initial IDM portable DVD player = $151.94

Same price, better buy, the way I see it.

I don't mean to bash it, really. If decent games are eventually released, and there's a significant price drop, I'm sure I'd buy one, but for the moment it's a big, indifferent "meh."

Well, that carried on for longer than I anticipated. I've gotta bail now.

EDIT: Wow, an entirely game-related update. I apologize to you non-gamers reading this.
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