Wednesday, September 30, 2009
PS3 hater?
Having waaay to much fun with the web cam....I want to add on to my previous post, about hatting the Ps3 so much and selling it. Couple of friends (who are PS3 fan boys) called me a PS3 hater! I just want to say I don't hate the system, It has a great Blue Ray player....and that's about it. My breaking point was when me and a couple of friends tried to join a party together and play Call Of Duty 4, an be able to talk to each other and not the other people in the game. I guess you can't do that on the ps3. You can Invite people to the game your playing, but you can't have a private conversation with them. I almost lost it! I paid a few hundred bucks for something that sucks &^%*&!! Not to mention the constant network disconnection problems it would have at least every ten minutes. I will jut stick to buying a Blue Ray player, and I posted the ps3 on craigslist for almost 100 dollars more than what I paid for it, and guess what? someone bought it! So I didn't loose anything. In fact because of that sale I was able to get a laptop. Will I miss out on anything coming out for the ps3? sure. But Down the road if I find a ps3 that's pretty cheap or a used one at Gamestop, and when the games I missed out on a year later are dirt cheap then I'll try it again. The ps3 is good for ONE thing, BLUE RAY...THAT'S IT. I'll stick to the xbox 360 where it's easy to gather friends and play a game in a private party.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
New lappy
Got me a spanking new laptop!I sold my piece of crap no good PS3, and I got 100 more than what I paid for it on Craigslist. I headed over to best buy and got me this bad boy. Its not a hard core gaming laptop or anything but it can can play like WOW whenever I return to it, and it has a web cam integrated it in. It's sexy and red and i'm happy with it. that is all.
Short Video Game break
Here's another pic I really liked with my kid. he was about 6 months at the timeAfter a really weird and Interesting day (Don't feel like typing it all out) I came home and relaxed. I rented Too Human kind of out of the blue without hearing much about it. I got to say it's a love-hate relationship so far. The controls are weird at first, instead of button mashing, you use the two joy sticks on the controller, one to move and the other to attack, this is kind of the games downfall, but after a while you get use to it. The battles are awesome, your taking on dozens of enemies at once is cool, and with a hit of a button you can slam your fist to the ground and burn them all up. This is an RPG game, so there are different classes to choose from, talent trees, loot drop, etc. it gives a cool touch to the game. That being said THIS GAME S IS HARD! I died allot, now when I say allot, I'm not talking 2 times during a level, i mean 10 times at least during each section of a level, the good thing about that, or maybe bad depending on some people, is that when you die there isn't Anny repercussion, an angel type of goddess comes down SLOWLY...dear got it takes about 45 seconds for her to resurrect you, after that your back at the exact location you died and you continue fighting. I like this game so far, it looks beautiful, and yet I dislike some parts maybe I'll finish it before the game is due back or maybe not!
Played some more halo odst with a friend. We tried to do the campaign on Legendary mode. It was HARD. We died every other minute or so, definitely doable. i can see it taking about 6 hours to complete it.
I went to the lady friends house and went swimming...It was COLD, but felt good.
After all this game talk, I will be taking a little break from hardcore gaming. i play waaaay tooo much and it's starting to give me headaches starring at the screen all the time. I need to focus on other things like school and my girlfriend! I'll play about an hour a day instead of the 3 or 4 I usually do. I love games, but when you feel like its a chore instead of having a good time, maybe it's time to step back a bit...uck. Don't want to burn myself out when there are 2 big games coming out on the 13th of October. Brutal Legend and Uncharted 2.
it was a good season start for californication and Dexter. My Sunday nights will be watching that instead of VIDEO GAMES! again...uck
Played some more halo odst with a friend. We tried to do the campaign on Legendary mode. It was HARD. We died every other minute or so, definitely doable. i can see it taking about 6 hours to complete it.
I went to the lady friends house and went swimming...It was COLD, but felt good.
After all this game talk, I will be taking a little break from hardcore gaming. i play waaaay tooo much and it's starting to give me headaches starring at the screen all the time. I need to focus on other things like school and my girlfriend! I'll play about an hour a day instead of the 3 or 4 I usually do. I love games, but when you feel like its a chore instead of having a good time, maybe it's time to step back a bit...uck. Don't want to burn myself out when there are 2 big games coming out on the 13th of October. Brutal Legend and Uncharted 2.
it was a good season start for californication and Dexter. My Sunday nights will be watching that instead of VIDEO GAMES! again...uck
Monday, September 28, 2009
Old School
Was going trough and organizing my photos last night and stumbled onto this one, this picture always cracks me up. Liam was 8 or 9 months old i think
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Short ass awesome game
Saw Fame on Friday night....It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, and it definitely was 10000 times better than Mama Mia...that movie hurt my brain after i saw it.
I hung out with the Lady friend during the day, then Played Some more Dirt 2, never really been a fan of racing games but this one is pretty fun and addicting.
Watched some more episodes of Smallville season 7 so complex and very entertaining.
Went to Old Chicago with David and Hong, had some orgasmic pizza talked for a bit and headed home.
We had a long night ahead of us playing and beating Halo ODST. A buddy of hours was online and tagged along and we played co op mode. It was fun, it made us start from the beggining, we where kind of bummmed but we went along with it. Since there where three of us playing, we where breezing trough the missions pretty quickly. Our third player had to leave. So me and david thought we had 3 or 4 hours ahead of us to complete the game. not really, an hour and a half later we where watching the end credits and where left with...wow this game can be beaten in about 3 hours. it takes 6 hours to play solo from what i've heard. But it's ok we only went trought it the first time on Normal mode, We will try for heroic and legendary next time. We also got new characters and levels unlocked for Firefight mode. So it wasn't a complete dissapointment. I'm glad Xbox makes games where you can play together with 3 of your friends and share a fun experience. Ps3 doesnt make it easy for you to do that.
Finished the night off with some more episodes of Smallville s7. I was getting into it but I was so tired! I have one more episode left to finish and I want to get into season 8 right away! I'm one season behind from catching up to the new season which started Friday.
I hung out with the Lady friend during the day, then Played Some more Dirt 2, never really been a fan of racing games but this one is pretty fun and addicting.
Watched some more episodes of Smallville season 7 so complex and very entertaining.
Went to Old Chicago with David and Hong, had some orgasmic pizza talked for a bit and headed home.
We had a long night ahead of us playing and beating Halo ODST. A buddy of hours was online and tagged along and we played co op mode. It was fun, it made us start from the beggining, we where kind of bummmed but we went along with it. Since there where three of us playing, we where breezing trough the missions pretty quickly. Our third player had to leave. So me and david thought we had 3 or 4 hours ahead of us to complete the game. not really, an hour and a half later we where watching the end credits and where left with...wow this game can be beaten in about 3 hours. it takes 6 hours to play solo from what i've heard. But it's ok we only went trought it the first time on Normal mode, We will try for heroic and legendary next time. We also got new characters and levels unlocked for Firefight mode. So it wasn't a complete dissapointment. I'm glad Xbox makes games where you can play together with 3 of your friends and share a fun experience. Ps3 doesnt make it easy for you to do that.
Finished the night off with some more episodes of Smallville s7. I was getting into it but I was so tired! I have one more episode left to finish and I want to get into season 8 right away! I'm one season behind from catching up to the new season which started Friday.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Flash Forward
So this is how much of a nerd and gamer I am. me and a friend lasted nearly 2 hours, (115 minutes, 1 hour 55 minutes to be exact) We did Firefight on easy. It was pretty awesome. This is the longest I've played on this mode, our previous attempt was 40 minutes on Medium. Wave after wave got harder and harder. Even got an achievement for reaching 200,000k in points. Going to attempt to do the xbox all nighter on Saturday with friends and try to complete the campaign mode.
Watched Flash Forward last night, I've been anticipating this show for a while now. I can say it delivered, So much mystery just like Lost, both done by the same people. Everyone in the world dropped and passed out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds, When they awoke they all recalled having a FLASH FORWARD, living their lives 6 months into the future. One of the FBI agents played by John Cho, who did not have a Flash Forward fears that he didn't have one because he will be dead, anyways hes called over by another fellow agent, who is reviewing surveillance tapes and spots something weird during the time everyone blacked out at a baseball stadium during a game, they spot a man walking about the stadium among the uncounsious people. The episode ends! And was followed up with a trailer on what to expect in the coming weeks, which in my opinion was epic. I hope the series last and we find out what the hell is going on!
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
ODST
So after doing some research and watching reviews on the net. I broke down and decided to get Halo 3 ODST.
Watched the season premiere of house with the lady friend, and it was pretty freaking cool. It looked awesome in HD. Sadly we had to leave about half an hour before it finished, so i could go reserve Halo OSTD before 9pm and come back and get it at midnight.
Came back home an did some Nazi Zombie killing in World at War with Chris, until David came and picked me up to go stand in line for Halo. We got there and there where about 4 people there. Stood in line and cracked jokes about how half the nerds there where with their moms awwwwwwww. there was this white nerd kid who was ranting on and on about how Mortal kombat didn't have enough violence and pissed him off to no end, the kid appeared to be drunk and high.
Got the game and came back home to play some campaign with David it was cool, we did a couple of rounds of firefight, where they send waves of bad guys at you and you try to survive as long as possible. Also the game came with a second disc that has all of the halo 3 multi player maps and a couple of new ones, it ain't no call of duty but it's still decent. All in all for what i got and how much fun it is so far, I'm glad i picked it up.
Watched the season premiere of house with the lady friend, and it was pretty freaking cool. It looked awesome in HD. Sadly we had to leave about half an hour before it finished, so i could go reserve Halo OSTD before 9pm and come back and get it at midnight.
Came back home an did some Nazi Zombie killing in World at War with Chris, until David came and picked me up to go stand in line for Halo. We got there and there where about 4 people there. Stood in line and cracked jokes about how half the nerds there where with their moms awwwwwwww. there was this white nerd kid who was ranting on and on about how Mortal kombat didn't have enough violence and pissed him off to no end, the kid appeared to be drunk and high.
Got the game and came back home to play some campaign with David it was cool, we did a couple of rounds of firefight, where they send waves of bad guys at you and you try to survive as long as possible. Also the game came with a second disc that has all of the halo 3 multi player maps and a couple of new ones, it ain't no call of duty but it's still decent. All in all for what i got and how much fun it is so far, I'm glad i picked it up.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Light rail MADNESS
Saturday me and the fam decided to ride the valley light rail. It goes from mesa to Phoenix. I had Liam with me, of course I had to hold him with me because he couldn't keep still. It was pretty cool...Well until we starting getting into downtown Phoenix. All the crazy people start to come out. On our way back from Phoenix. A drunk Native American older lady came on with I'm assuming her boyfriend, who looked like he was just a kid. She started screaming and yelling at him that they where going the wrong way on the Rail. the guy was trying to calm her down, and at the next stop they both got off, with her cursing at the guy. We stopped right by the Diamond backs stadium and a few fans got on, including a very drunk native American older man, (WHAT IS IT WITH THESE PEOPLE?) he sat all over the place, and finally sitting next to my sister and tried to get frisky with him, that's when i lost it and shoved him to the ground, the next stop arrived the doors opened and I shoved him outside....he was to wasted to fight back. The rail continued on in to Tempe and finally to our starting point, our CAR!
We where all pretty tired, we stopped at McDonald's to get food for my fam, my kid got a happy meal.
I got ready and was picked up by friends and for some F&^%*& reason we arrived 2 hours early to see Jennifer's body. Ate some chipotle and ran into an old friend who was a manager there. Even after all of that we had like and hour and a half before the movie started. Since we all worked there back in the day, we talked to a friend of hours who was working for about half an hour. Jennifer's Body which was written by Diablo Cody, responsible for Juno and the united States of Tarra. It kind sucked...I liked the dialogue...but the story was stupid DONE BEFORE.
i came home and my kid was having trouble sleeping, i laid with him in bed and he fell asleep. Watched a couple of episodes of Smallville season 7 on Blue-ray.
the Next day we just chilled, watched the rest of the episodes on the first disc of Smallville, it was pretty entertaining, Even though clearly the show has gone on wayyyy to long. Played with my kid until he had to go home.
the Emmy's where kind of boring this year, But happy that Alec Baldwin won AGAIN! he is my favorite actor on TV, cracks me up ever time i see that show.
Was pretty close to reserving Halo ODST today, even pulled up to Gamestop, but then realized, if i didn't really like part 3, I'll probably not like this one, i will just stick to renting and if I like it then maybe I'll buy it. I won't buy a game that's 60 bucks until Modern Warfare 2 comes out. Also thinking of selling my ps3! if i can get more than what i paid for it then I'll get rid of it.
We where all pretty tired, we stopped at McDonald's to get food for my fam, my kid got a happy meal.
I got ready and was picked up by friends and for some F&^%*& reason we arrived 2 hours early to see Jennifer's body. Ate some chipotle and ran into an old friend who was a manager there. Even after all of that we had like and hour and a half before the movie started. Since we all worked there back in the day, we talked to a friend of hours who was working for about half an hour. Jennifer's Body which was written by Diablo Cody, responsible for Juno and the united States of Tarra. It kind sucked...I liked the dialogue...but the story was stupid DONE BEFORE.
i came home and my kid was having trouble sleeping, i laid with him in bed and he fell asleep. Watched a couple of episodes of Smallville season 7 on Blue-ray.
the Next day we just chilled, watched the rest of the episodes on the first disc of Smallville, it was pretty entertaining, Even though clearly the show has gone on wayyyy to long. Played with my kid until he had to go home.
the Emmy's where kind of boring this year, But happy that Alec Baldwin won AGAIN! he is my favorite actor on TV, cracks me up ever time i see that show.
Was pretty close to reserving Halo ODST today, even pulled up to Gamestop, but then realized, if i didn't really like part 3, I'll probably not like this one, i will just stick to renting and if I like it then maybe I'll buy it. I won't buy a game that's 60 bucks until Modern Warfare 2 comes out. Also thinking of selling my ps3! if i can get more than what i paid for it then I'll get rid of it.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Liam and the park
I got home and waited for my kid to arrive, I got a surprise call from my dad telling me that he was going to come and see Liam. Liam got here and we all hung out for a bit. Since it's my older sisters birthday, my dad and mom and the rest of the family went to the D-backs game. Didn't want to take Liam because he will not be able to sit still for long periods of time and would be running around the stadium and probably onto the field during the game :)
I took him to the park instead. We walked to my local park smack in the middle of our neighborhood. They have this huge play area with slides etc. and a few feet away they have the exact same thing but half the size, for kids around Liam's age. Which is cool. We spent a good hour there and we where both tired. came home we both passed out on the couch, and i put him to bed.
Played some more Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 with David. It's a fun game but it's starting to get repetitive and drawn out. Kind of looking forward to the new Halo game that's coming out on Tuesday I have a few friends who I can go trough the campaign mode with.
I took him to the park instead. We walked to my local park smack in the middle of our neighborhood. They have this huge play area with slides etc. and a few feet away they have the exact same thing but half the size, for kids around Liam's age. Which is cool. We spent a good hour there and we where both tired. came home we both passed out on the couch, and i put him to bed.
Played some more Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 with David. It's a fun game but it's starting to get repetitive and drawn out. Kind of looking forward to the new Halo game that's coming out on Tuesday I have a few friends who I can go trough the campaign mode with.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Flagstaff hangover
Recapping my trip to flagstaff last week.
I always love going up there, Mainly because the weather is a hell of allot better than down here in PHX. And one of my good friend's and his family live up here, so I have a place to stay and someone to visit. This time around we went for my friends birthday. We planned on going out that Friday night and head out to the Grand canyon the next morning.
So we headed out for sushi, and I immediately got buzzed on Sake bombers. Next we went down to the downtown area, where all the college kids where. We went to a sports bar to have some more drinks and shoot the shit. After about an hour we headed over to a popular bar, we actually visited a few months back. It was crowded, and they had 2 for 1 drink specials. I had a blast, and the music the Dj was playing rocked every time He would put a song on. We where pretty gone at this point. But we did have a Designated driver so we where safe, except the part on our way to Denny's he almost hit a car coming into the turn lane. Why we went to Denny's? I don't know!? But I think i ordered a Burger with a Sunny side up egg in the middle of it...ew.
I woke up pretty sick, and the burger didn't help either. We cancelled the trip to the Grand Canyon because we all felt like shit. So we just chilled and ate some hangover sandwiches from Safeway that made me feel a little better. Hit up a best buy and headed back down to PHX. Flag is a great place to visit just not a great place to Live. I love PHX even though its hotter than a witches tit, I can't see myself living anywhere else.
I'm getting too old to do shit like that anymore, I think i will cut it down to getting completely wasted to 2 times a year.
I always love going up there, Mainly because the weather is a hell of allot better than down here in PHX. And one of my good friend's and his family live up here, so I have a place to stay and someone to visit. This time around we went for my friends birthday. We planned on going out that Friday night and head out to the Grand canyon the next morning.
So we headed out for sushi, and I immediately got buzzed on Sake bombers. Next we went down to the downtown area, where all the college kids where. We went to a sports bar to have some more drinks and shoot the shit. After about an hour we headed over to a popular bar, we actually visited a few months back. It was crowded, and they had 2 for 1 drink specials. I had a blast, and the music the Dj was playing rocked every time He would put a song on. We where pretty gone at this point. But we did have a Designated driver so we where safe, except the part on our way to Denny's he almost hit a car coming into the turn lane. Why we went to Denny's? I don't know!? But I think i ordered a Burger with a Sunny side up egg in the middle of it...ew.
I woke up pretty sick, and the burger didn't help either. We cancelled the trip to the Grand Canyon because we all felt like shit. So we just chilled and ate some hangover sandwiches from Safeway that made me feel a little better. Hit up a best buy and headed back down to PHX. Flag is a great place to visit just not a great place to Live. I love PHX even though its hotter than a witches tit, I can't see myself living anywhere else.
I'm getting too old to do shit like that anymore, I think i will cut it down to getting completely wasted to 2 times a year.
"Freshness." WARNING nerd rant
Starting brand spanking new here. I will add a custom domain name to this in the near future. I also wanted to keep this only to friends and family. I made the mistake of posting a link to my other blog on twitter. Of course the x and mother of my child regularly checks my twitter and reads my blog.
Ive been working (part time) and going to school. Which is actually allot of fun.
The court ordered visitations have been going very well. I see Liam every other weekend, which works perfect. His mom drops him off at 5pm and I return him Sunday at 5pm. every time I see him. he is a bit bigger, I am able to take him on kiddy rides, WHICH he enjoys. My kid rocks.
I saved up a while for a HDTV. I did about a month or so of research of what I wanted to get exactly. There are so many different options sizes, brands, LCD or PLASMA and the newly released type LED. Since I'm a gamer LCD would be the best way to go. Plasma was the first type of HDTV to come out and burns out faster. LED cost waaaay to much right now. Naturally I chose Best Buy and found a great selection. I was about to walk out with a 32 inch Samsung 1080p. Then I saw a 42 inch LG 1080p LCD for $100 dollars more. So with protection plan and tax etc. It came out cheaper than what I saved up for. To enjoy the full HD I had to purchase an HDMI cable. But they where $40+ at Best Buy. I called Game Stop and they had a used one for 20 bucks. So after everything was plugged. I fired up my Xbox 360 and I was blown away on how amazing it looked. I was able to enjoy Fallout 3 to it's full potential. Every game I play now looks beautiful. Not to mention that it comes with a built in digital converter, making my local channels look sexy. I watched Bones Tonight and I was blown away on how it looked. Sadly my cable channels are analog so it doesn't look that good. Maybe one day I will get digital cable.
Naturally since I got the HDTV, I was on the hunt for a Blue-Ray Player. The cheapest one I found was a $78 dollar one at walmart that was on clearance. It had been marked down a few times from $120. Then I said screw it I'll just get a PS3, since I can get the blue-ray player and be able to play games that I missed out on. I went to Fry's electronics, and got a bundle special they where offering for a good price. It was a Drake's Fortune Bundle 160gig model. When I brought it home and opened it up, I got more than what i was expecting 2 wireless controllers, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, and a voucher for a free game online. Plus Drakes Fortune which is a great game. Pirates 2 looked great when I popped it in and sounded great (With optical cable) I got band Of brothers on blue ray and WOW. Loved how it looked and sounded. I saw all ten episodes with my family out in the living room with the sound system over 5 days. I will buy my blu-ray's used unless its something awesome like Lord of the rings trilogy coming out soon! I got Call of Duty 4 and finally got Metal Gear Solid 4 for really cheap like $15 bucks used. I have to say that MGS4 has to be one of the best games ever made. It's really hard to put the controller down when playing. Also the PS3 up converts regular DVD's to 1080p to make it look sexy on your TV. But with all the Blue-Ray stuff that the PS3 can do, the system is no way near as good as the Xbox 360. Long story short, the other day me and some friends wanted to play a game on the PS3, we spent almost an hour trying to figure out how, only to find out we couldn't be in a party while playing Call of Duty 4. Now...Xbox 360's version of Call of duty 4 can, and with a push of a button we can have all our friends in a party. I will always be an Xbox fan boy.
Ive been working (part time) and going to school. Which is actually allot of fun.
The court ordered visitations have been going very well. I see Liam every other weekend, which works perfect. His mom drops him off at 5pm and I return him Sunday at 5pm. every time I see him. he is a bit bigger, I am able to take him on kiddy rides, WHICH he enjoys. My kid rocks.
I saved up a while for a HDTV. I did about a month or so of research of what I wanted to get exactly. There are so many different options sizes, brands, LCD or PLASMA and the newly released type LED. Since I'm a gamer LCD would be the best way to go. Plasma was the first type of HDTV to come out and burns out faster. LED cost waaaay to much right now. Naturally I chose Best Buy and found a great selection. I was about to walk out with a 32 inch Samsung 1080p. Then I saw a 42 inch LG 1080p LCD for $100 dollars more. So with protection plan and tax etc. It came out cheaper than what I saved up for. To enjoy the full HD I had to purchase an HDMI cable. But they where $40+ at Best Buy. I called Game Stop and they had a used one for 20 bucks. So after everything was plugged. I fired up my Xbox 360 and I was blown away on how amazing it looked. I was able to enjoy Fallout 3 to it's full potential. Every game I play now looks beautiful. Not to mention that it comes with a built in digital converter, making my local channels look sexy. I watched Bones Tonight and I was blown away on how it looked. Sadly my cable channels are analog so it doesn't look that good. Maybe one day I will get digital cable.
Naturally since I got the HDTV, I was on the hunt for a Blue-Ray Player. The cheapest one I found was a $78 dollar one at walmart that was on clearance. It had been marked down a few times from $120. Then I said screw it I'll just get a PS3, since I can get the blue-ray player and be able to play games that I missed out on. I went to Fry's electronics, and got a bundle special they where offering for a good price. It was a Drake's Fortune Bundle 160gig model. When I brought it home and opened it up, I got more than what i was expecting 2 wireless controllers, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, and a voucher for a free game online. Plus Drakes Fortune which is a great game. Pirates 2 looked great when I popped it in and sounded great (With optical cable) I got band Of brothers on blue ray and WOW. Loved how it looked and sounded. I saw all ten episodes with my family out in the living room with the sound system over 5 days. I will buy my blu-ray's used unless its something awesome like Lord of the rings trilogy coming out soon! I got Call of Duty 4 and finally got Metal Gear Solid 4 for really cheap like $15 bucks used. I have to say that MGS4 has to be one of the best games ever made. It's really hard to put the controller down when playing. Also the PS3 up converts regular DVD's to 1080p to make it look sexy on your TV. But with all the Blue-Ray stuff that the PS3 can do, the system is no way near as good as the Xbox 360. Long story short, the other day me and some friends wanted to play a game on the PS3, we spent almost an hour trying to figure out how, only to find out we couldn't be in a party while playing Call of Duty 4. Now...Xbox 360's version of Call of duty 4 can, and with a push of a button we can have all our friends in a party. I will always be an Xbox fan boy.
END OF NERD RANT
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