It been a bit long since I posted so I thought I’d just give a quick run through of the past two months.

Two months ago I got made redundant, so the first thing I did was cut a mohawk as in the last entry. Since then its pretty much been a big holiday. I’ve applied for a few jobs. Had an interview at Woosh for 3rd/4th level System Engineer but unfortunately my networking experience wasn’t up to it. That would have been a sweet job. Applied for a 1st level support position at AUT supporting students and staff, but they haven’t contacted me back on them so I’m still looking.

Here’s what I’ve been up to:

Read more »

Fail.

Played it for about 5 minutes and quit.

You could liken it to Most Wanted. Except with crappy car control, crappy graphics, dumbass police AI, and no difficulty level. It is made for n00bs.

What the fuck are you up to EA?! You fucking butchered this series from Carbon, maybe even earlier.

EA sucks ass.

Edit: OK, I actually gave this a decent go and although its really “arcadey” its not too bad. The car models are good, the cop AI is not so bad. But the graphics are a little choppy.

Man, Treyarch has failed us. COD5 is a peice of shit.

I was reckoning this release would suck due to the fact a console developer was making it, and because we’re going back in time. And COD5 does suck.

• The guns sound like cap guns. Absolute crap.
• The graphics suck. I don’t understand how they could fuck that up using the COD4 engine but it looks almost exactly like COD2
• It feels like a console port. Fine for all you people using a controller, but COD is originally a PC game.
• WW2. I tried to like the setting, but its just been done before too many times. You could argue that they had pacific levels, but MoH: Pacific Assault already covered this.

COD4 was so awesome because it was set in modern times. Modern weapons, terrorists, and a fucking AC-130 Spectre.

So yeah, in short disappointing. Play it, see what you think.

This game kicks ass.

First of all, the shadows, and the sun, works pretty much exactly as you would expect it to. I was walking into the sunset and the sun in my eyes almost made me squint. So I got out my map and held it up infront of me and the suns rays shone through the ring binder holes in the paper of the map! Where the edge of the map was half covering the sun there was glare!

Also what I thought was cool, was the jamming guns. If you pick up an old crappy gun off some dude, it is likely to jam and you have to hold down the R button to unjam it. It could happen in the middle of a gun fight or just as you are about to pop some guy. Definitely gets the adrenaline pumping. I even had an Uzi misfire and explode in my hand. My character yelled and threw it away which attracted the attention of the guys I was hiding from.

Read more »

Went to the Psycroptic concert on Saturday night. Was mean! Unfortunately Saturday morning I got a killer ear infection and went to the doctors. Had to pay $75 for him to tell me what I already new and get a script for some amoxycillin. Plus I still had a bit of headache and stuff from my sickness before that. So I didn’t drink or mosh to hard.

Shelley’s friend Ella is apparently into pop and stuff but she came anyway. Didn’t ask her if she liked it though. Pretty sure Shelley liked it, Nick and Brad just thought it all sounded the same, and didn’t like the growling vocals. Everyone is like that at the start though. They played Colour of Sleep and Skin Coffin and Lacertine Forest but unfortnately not my favourite song in the whole world, Cruelty Incarnate

Was still good though. Dawn of Azazel and Metal Tower supported them. The bassist in Metal Tower had a Warlock Bass Guitar.

Anyways, here’s some of their tracks if you haven’t heard them before:

They were out of shirts by the time we got there too which sucked. I was going to buy a hoodie for $40 but forgot… (??)

Unfortunately, I am a lazy fuck and I never got around to putting my speakers and central locking cable through, before Sunday but no one else but Nick came with me. Brad went riding, as did Shelley and Tesh. It was a mean sunny day, had a bit of a jam, got yelled at by Nicks mum for distrubing the neighbours, and left at about noon.

I love roadtrips. Grabbed some subway at Bombay. Got down there at about 3, met the dude in New World carpark in a suburb called Gate Pa (wtf?). Checked the guitar out, no wobbly neck, sweet as. Dude gave me some cash for gas which was cool of him, and we decided to go for a drive and check out the Mount (Manganui). Quite a few people on the beach. Nice girls everywhere, including one of my types (black tshirt and jeans on a hot day) lol.

There were tonnes of dicks just driving round and round in their peice of shit cars though.

Left there, Nick had a sleep in the back, while I stalked some chick in a white skyline all the way back to Papakura. Don’t remember what time we got home. Tried out the guitar, its got a mean sound but only on that amp for some reason. Sounds like crap on Nicks amp.

Then stayed up until about 4am playing Far Cry 2 (awesome game).

Man, lots to do this weekend.

Finish at 7am this Sat morning, I’ve gotta get some sleep, then get up, install my front speakers in my van, change the oil, hook up the drivers door central locking, and tune the amp for all the speakers.

Then going to the Psycroptic concert with Joe, Nick, Shelley and her friend Ella, get drunk off my nut, and mosh the fuck out. Should be mean. Gotta buy a Psycroptic Tshirt too. My brother wants to come but he is not 18 for another 15 days. Shame.

Then on Sunday (hopefully not hungover) road trip it down to Tauranga to pick up my gat and amp and hang around Tauranga if its nice weather.

Then on Monday I can install and play Far Cry 2!! Dave bought it in for me tonight, going to be SO mean! Thats another one I can scratch off my list Plus COD5 came out yesterday so hopefully I’ll get my hands on a copy of that soon.

Shit just remembered its my dads birthday on monday too… what am I going to get him… also skinny leaves for Wellington…

Been busy lately making a new site for Telescum, one that will pull telecommunications industry stories from rss feeds into a database automatically tagging them as it goes. It’ll work on a cron so I don’t have to touch it. Because I was to busy/lazy to keep updating the current site I’d rather have one that updates itself. Should be good.

I can scratch one of the games off my to get list. Skinny kindly got hold of Pure, the quad racing game. Is pretty mean. Makes me want to get a quad even more. I’m currently trying to save up $5-6k for a Yamaha YFZ450. Should be fun. Want to get a matching covered and alarmed trailer for my van to keep it in too lol.

Unfortunately I want to buy a guitar now, but I think I’ll just wait until after I get the quad. I been jamming with Nick a bit, he’s got a guitar and I’ve got drums but we swap most of the time. He’s pretty mean on the drums. Cranks out some wicked blast beats. I’m… below average on guitar. But I’m trying. I want to downtune it to play some real brutal chords, but I don’t think it is the right kind of guitar. I borrowed it the other day when I got off nightshift and played all day at full volume, was mean.

Been helping Nick a bit with his truck as well. He bought another Hilux. Already got a Van and a V8 Hilux (the project 88), and now he got another Hilux (for free) and is going to do that up (thats what we went to get the engine for). He’s redoing the rusty panels and stuff in it. Pretty much doing a panelbeaters job, reckons it would be about $2000 work from a professional. Brochanics all the way.

I think lately I’ve been a bit extreme on the attacking religion front. Each to their own and everyone is free to take up a religion of their choice (or not) as per the human rights. So, sorry if I offended anyone.

Also had to say goodbye to a friend today . Shit was just fucked up between us. Sad that I won’t see them again, but thats the way the cookie crumbles.

Oh man, so excited. Bunch of new games coming last month, this month, and November, for the annual release-right-before-xmas bullshit. I’m just gonna make a list here so I remember to get them but put some links to videos for you:

Read more »

You know whats funny? When you hear a new word and then suddenly you see it everywhere…

My brother was telling me about the game Timeshift tonight, and he was saying how it was Steampunk style or something I dunno I don’t usually listen to his rantings… but thats the first time I’ve heard the term.

But just now I was reading this story off Digg and it said something about steampunk.

This has happened to me a few times, I suddenly learn a new word and suddenly it starts appearing fukin everywhere?! Does anyone else get that?

Bet I’ll hear this word at least 6 times tomorrow.

Damn… Lilley’s got me so hooked on Guitar Hero… just thinking about it everywhere eh (and that makes me think of her lol!), see all the colours coming down the screen, the patterns for the riff of every song I listen to. Today I was listening to Black Label Society (as you may have picked up from the last post).

He would be hard to play I reckon. So many swapovers between the strums and the long strums (??). Shit that reminds me, gotta get my ticket to the Chimaira/Korn/Biohazard/Throwdown/Bloodsimple concert. That’s going to be mean.