May 22nd...There's not a person in this world that shouldn't be waiting in line!
Indiana Jones
Monday, May 5, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Stumble!
By far, the greatest thing since facebook when it comes to wasting time....I found this during my daily stumbling.
A Stumbler's Day
A Stumbler's Day
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Video Game Overkill?
It started years ago with Luigi and Mario, and eventually we were participating in the Olympics, running on a powerpad (now most would reference it to dance dance revolution). There was nothing wrong with the basic video games that we being produced. And even today, they get more complex and enjoyable to play. But what point is too far? Do we really need to play scrabble on the Wii, 360, or Play Station? The boardgames of yesterday are now being produced in the masses to bring in more revenue for the video game industry.
And why can't we simply pull out the box and play with our "real life" friends? Oh, right, because then we won't be able to find the best competition possible. But seriously, is it that difficult to play Monopoly? Why would we need to find more competition online for a game based almost completely on luck...? Because that is what we are told to do....Will future youth be glued to the television screen, or will they learn to have common sense about what type of games are really worth playing on a console?
EA Banks Monopoly
And why can't we simply pull out the box and play with our "real life" friends? Oh, right, because then we won't be able to find the best competition possible. But seriously, is it that difficult to play Monopoly? Why would we need to find more competition online for a game based almost completely on luck...? Because that is what we are told to do....Will future youth be glued to the television screen, or will they learn to have common sense about what type of games are really worth playing on a console?
EA Banks Monopoly
Monday, April 14, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
A Gamers Nation
Not only is it completely ironic that I was discussing this just last night with a group of friends, but Yahoo! Games obviously sees the same thing as us. World of Warcraft isn't just a simple game; it's a world all on it's own. Having a higher population of players than most small countries. Actually, I think it would rank in the top fifty nations with the 10 million people signed up to play...
Read this, enjoy it, and pass it on:
WoW, Inc.
Read this, enjoy it, and pass it on:
WoW, Inc.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
The next wave in video games?
Over the past few months, "Rock Band" has become one of the most popular games among casual and hardcore gamers alike. The game has an interface that is easy on the eyes and in my opinion is far better than "Guitar Hero". Having the Drums, Singing, Bass and Guitar makes it easy to involve everyone. However, the game is still missing something....
After bringing my Xbox360 and "Rock Band" home for my parents to play, I received the most interesting response; they loved it. Not because of the graphics or the UI or any other small detail our generation would look at; but because of the general idea. The game is, in its own way, educational. The microphone teaches vocal skills as well as the proper lyrics to the song (did anybody know that was really what they said in "Dani California"?). The drums obviously teach rhythm, and are actually just the basic practice pad any parent would buy their children to put ease on their ears until their child got better. And then the guitar... no, it's nothing like the actual guitar; but it has the same idea and teaches the player what hand-eye coordination really is.
However great this game seems, have you ever wondered what happened to the keyboard in all of these songs? Half the songs have a completely empty solo for the keyboard; but there is nobody to play it. So instead we all sit there and watch our screens flow blankly across the screen. Wouldn't it be nice if Harmonix Music Systems would stop fooling around and create the game we all want? It wouldn't have to be a full size keyboard, but having something that could eventually teach children how to play piano or even the basics of what a keyboard is could be an incredible advance to modern video games.
After bringing my Xbox360 and "Rock Band" home for my parents to play, I received the most interesting response; they loved it. Not because of the graphics or the UI or any other small detail our generation would look at; but because of the general idea. The game is, in its own way, educational. The microphone teaches vocal skills as well as the proper lyrics to the song (did anybody know that was really what they said in "Dani California"?). The drums obviously teach rhythm, and are actually just the basic practice pad any parent would buy their children to put ease on their ears until their child got better. And then the guitar... no, it's nothing like the actual guitar; but it has the same idea and teaches the player what hand-eye coordination really is.
However great this game seems, have you ever wondered what happened to the keyboard in all of these songs? Half the songs have a completely empty solo for the keyboard; but there is nobody to play it. So instead we all sit there and watch our screens flow blankly across the screen. Wouldn't it be nice if Harmonix Music Systems would stop fooling around and create the game we all want? It wouldn't have to be a full size keyboard, but having something that could eventually teach children how to play piano or even the basics of what a keyboard is could be an incredible advance to modern video games.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Beer Pong
There tend to be so many slogans online when it comes to beer pong. Every person you talk to has their favorite and of course they find it extremely humorous even after repeating the line more than fifty times. So what I want to ask the world is this....
When is somebody going to come up with a new slogan?! They're all good, but they've been done before. We need newer, fresher ideas. Is there no creativity left in the world?
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
LAN a way of life...
How many of you have gotten together with friends to play video games? It's always easy when the game is on a console. Everyone gets to play together with the same screen, and there's not much effort needed to participate. But the more elaborate version of this form of gaming is the LAN party.
A LAN party is a temporary, sometimes spontaneous, gathering of people together with their computers, which they network together primarily for the purpose of playing multiplayer computer games. They vary in size from a few people to tens of thousands. Every party is different and but they all entail the same thing. Computers and gaming.
Generally, casual gamers are detracted from LAN parties because of the setup required to bring your entire computer to the location. A small list of items required are shown below...
* Computer
* Monitor
* Keyboard
* Mouse and mouse pad
* Headphones/Speakers
* Microphone
* Power cables for monitor and computer
* Surge Protector
* Network cables
* Network hub or switch
While this seems to be a difficult process, the growing popularity of laptop computers has made it much easily set up computers on the road is getting ever simpler. Basically, the time has come for casual gamers to enjoy with their friends.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Defiance
Have you ever wondered why people are so eager to grow up? While in school, every person constantly complains about not being able to spread their wings and fly away from our parent's grasp. I personally have never understood it, but I guess it makes sense...
Everyone feels they deserve the right to privacy, and to freedom from control. Parents tell us we can't drink, so we go out at 15 years and start binge drinking off the unfiltered Albertson's Vodka we got the homeless man to buy for us. We're told drugs are bad for us, so we go out and find the sketchiest person possible and give them ten times the value of their product only for it to be gone in a few puffs of smoke. Now I'm not saying that every person does these exact things...but every person has defied their parents in some way, and it's because they want freedom.
That is why college is such a wonderful time. It's a place where we have the freedom from our parents, without having to pay for anything. They send us checks in the mail and make sure our rent is paid on time. But after spending three and a half years in heaven, not having any responsibilities to anything but class (which we only attend on test days), we realize that this heavenly experience is about to end. Graduation is rolling right around the corner and there is no slowing it down. Our parent's have informed us that our room is no longer available having been turned into an exercise room for our father. (Wait a minute, I didnt know dad knew what a push-up was...) So there will unfortunately be no room for us at home. Therefore, it is time to get a job. Not working at the Starbucks down the road....we have a degree now, there is more expected of us.
So after three months of applying to "real" jobs and binge drinking as much as possible to make sure we've had our fill before school's over. We realize that there could have been a solution to this mess. If only we had spent those quarters with taking 12 units instead of 16....maybe then we could have drawn it out more.
Everyone feels they deserve the right to privacy, and to freedom from control. Parents tell us we can't drink, so we go out at 15 years and start binge drinking off the unfiltered Albertson's Vodka we got the homeless man to buy for us. We're told drugs are bad for us, so we go out and find the sketchiest person possible and give them ten times the value of their product only for it to be gone in a few puffs of smoke. Now I'm not saying that every person does these exact things...but every person has defied their parents in some way, and it's because they want freedom.
That is why college is such a wonderful time. It's a place where we have the freedom from our parents, without having to pay for anything. They send us checks in the mail and make sure our rent is paid on time. But after spending three and a half years in heaven, not having any responsibilities to anything but class (which we only attend on test days), we realize that this heavenly experience is about to end. Graduation is rolling right around the corner and there is no slowing it down. Our parent's have informed us that our room is no longer available having been turned into an exercise room for our father. (Wait a minute, I didnt know dad knew what a push-up was...) So there will unfortunately be no room for us at home. Therefore, it is time to get a job. Not working at the Starbucks down the road....we have a degree now, there is more expected of us.
So after three months of applying to "real" jobs and binge drinking as much as possible to make sure we've had our fill before school's over. We realize that there could have been a solution to this mess. If only we had spent those quarters with taking 12 units instead of 16....maybe then we could have drawn it out more.
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