Faster Than a Speeding... Something

So after my parents consulted the Hughes Net people we now have faster internet. It is actually pretty damn fast, I smile when I surf the internet as opposed to groaning (kind of like when I play any Halo game). So now that the internet is fast I have to celebrate. How will I celebrate you may be asking yourselves, well I think I'm going to download some game demos... I'm bored out here and I've beaten Jedi Knight 3 times and stopped caring when I was attempting to beat the game with all secrets. Anyways I think I'll try to find the demos for "You Are Empty" and "Postal 2" and if anything else grabs my attention then that.

More Things That Anger Me and a Little More.

So as I've been surfing the internet (it has gotten surprisingly faster from drunken turtle to turtle speeds) and living life I have found some things that tick me off... and I'm going to rant about them sort of... in a list.

1. Forum A-Holes: Forum A-Holes are the people that normally have a black and white picture of a live action film star as their avatar and always feel that there opinion is final and if anyone says otherwise they respond with either, "Go die," "You're a f**," "fail," etc. No matter how logical the other persons opinion is he still thinks his opinion is final. I'll try to be friendly with them or avoid them, so that I don't get on their bad side, but they'll always just continue to be the jerk that they are.
2. The Cost of Macromedia/Adobe Flash: So I kind of want to jump start my animation "career" if you want to call it that and start doing Flash cartoons. There is a road block in my way and it happens to be the cost of Macromedia/Adobe Flash. The cost for a brand new copy of Flash (either CS3 or 8 or something) is $800. Jesus Christ that is expensive. Even Flash 5 is $150, which isn't too bad, but I'm afraid to save my money, get it and find out that it is just not what I want. I guess I'll have to use MS Paint and Windows Movie Maker to do an animation... or just save up for Flash 5... which I may do.... and then get a friggin' tablet because those are just plain hardcore... you don't even know.
3. Buzz Killers: I hate when people suddenly become buzz killers, like you'll be telling a joke you heard on the [Adult Swim] show "Robot Chicken" and once done or midway through telling it the person stops you and says, "That joke originated on 'Futurama.'" The only thought crossing my mind is, "I DON'T GIVE A RATS @$$!" I'll kind of clue them in on that and some people just won't get it.
4. Summer Reading Bull Spit: So for some stupid reason Illinois schools think it is a wonderful idea to have students read the world's worst literature over their break, which takes out the entire point of having a break at all. The book I have to read now is so boring and is so choppy I have no idea what is going on in the book, if it's an introduction or if the book is like this the entire time. I should probably mention the fact that I'm three chapters into the book. Anyways back on topic, the whole idea of a summer break is to give everyone a nice breath of fresh air and hang out time before starting the next school year. Also most of us are getting jobs or are busy during summer.
   ...Friggin' morons.
5. Mindless Games: I LOOOOOOOOOVE Video games (if you didn't already know that). I like those games that have thought put into them and aren't just stupid. Let's look at Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. I LOVE this game, it's a true military shooter. They have a mission where you have to guard a camp and make sure there Soviets don't infiltrate it. Now in a mindless shooter they'd throw tanks, jeeps, and all sorts of infantry at you like the U.S.S.R. has an infinite amount of troops. What do they do in the REAL mission? There is just one guy you have to watch out for, kill him and the mission is complete. No one really knows about this game (even though it got the Game of the Year award), but let's drift from that and go into Halo, a very popular series. If you don't know what Halo is you must be living under a rock. Anyways, I try my hardest to like Halo and... I just can't. There's no logic to it. There's no... challenge, it's kind of like the game Painkiller (which ownz all kinds of ass) except with a story going on at all times. My friends always want me to play Halo with them and I always want to say no, but they're my friends and they're cool, so I endure it. Why do people like Halo so much? I don't understand it. Call of Duty 4 is pretty fun, but not as fun as an older military shooter like the Delta Force series.

Yeah, whatever, I'm tired, happy 4th of July, I'm gonna sign off.
And by the way, I'd like all readers to post a comment on this post because I noticed that I have more than 2 readers (yay!).

My Wireless Internet in Colorado

So my second house in Colorado does have wireless internet (thank god), however it sucks some serious balls. It's not the fact that it's "satellite" internet, though I find that a bit interesting, it's that the commercials claim that it goes at blazing fast speeds. When I see that commercial for Hughes Net my jaw drops and I yell, "BULL SHIT!" The internet here is about as fast as a drunken turtle. Comcast goes at Cheetah-like speeds and hotels go at Jack Rabbit-like speeds (And clear out your bookmarks and memory of homepage) and then Hughes Net goes, like I said, at Drunken Turtle-like speeds. By the time I am finished loading a five minute video I look down and realize that not only have I grown a Father Time sized beard, but my hair has turned gray, and I'm all wrinkly. My dad called Comcast to see if they could hook us up with a new connection and they said, "Sorry, we don't have construction in your area and we don't have any future plans to do construction." I find that rather odd because just the other day I saw a Comcast van driving through the neighborhood. Anyway, yeah, that's it. There was a dirty spoon.

Missing "Dark Knight" Will Suck

So I'll be in Colorado for all of July and I really want to see "Dark Knight," but there's a problem. In the area that I'll be staying, within a 50, possibly 100, mile radius there is only 1 movie theater. Now hold on a second I'm getting to the problem, it only shows ONE movie and it'll probably be showing "Wall-E" by the time I get the chance to go see a movie. I know everyone is going to be talking about it, all I want to know is if it's better than "Batman Begins."

oh and by the way, I think this blog will start to get more personal, due to the fact that I'm kind of out of the loop on technology, but fear not I will make a post about E3 and all the coverage.

Morrowind

So I got Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind the other day and now I'm addicted to it. I was up until 2 AM last night playing it. While on the way to complete a quest I did two more. Holy crap, this game is amazing. A unique thing is the whole reputation system and how people treat you and how easy it is to persuade them. I love it... yet I kind of hate it because as I walk through the mage guild they all just hurl insults at me. If you're a warrior/knight/crusader or whatever definitely keep a bow and arrows handy, they will make things a lot easier at times. I highly recommend this game to everyone.

New Schtüff

So... yeah.... I haven't posted much and I'm trying to do so. So John (my movie making buddy) and I have finished CSC 1.5, which is somewhat a trailer to CSC 2. Now... let's go back shall we? CSC or Cataclysmic Space Catastrophe was our first movie that was made in 48 hours with just John and I. When I say it was made in 48 hours, EVERYTHING was made in 48 hours, we wrote, directed, and edited the thing or two whole days. It ended up being just terrible in our eyes, but to others it was pretty good. If you want to keep up with our movies and stuff go to one of our sites (listed at the bottom) feel free to do so. We are supposed to make CSC 2 this summer, but I don't even know if it's possible, we may have to hold off until next summer and make our two other movies that we have on the drawing board.
So I made a post earlier about that song I made, well my friend and I are going to attempt to make an album this summer and post it up on our myspace.
Aside from that, nothing else going on, I plan to get some serious gaming in too, but we'll see.

Links:
YouTube (personal)
YouTube (production group)
Production Group website
Band Myspace

Extra Volume 1 [Review]

So I recently got the new KMFDM album "Extra Volume 1," which is a bunch of songs from their singles put into 2 CDs. You get almost everything from "What Do You Know?" to "Money." It's really cool, unfortunately you don't get every song from the singles. Like one of the singles is "Naive + Days of Swine and Roses" and you don't get the song "Days of Swine and Roses" which is kind of upsetting because I love that song. I guess they're saving it for Volume 2, but I kind of doubt that since there are a lot more singles to go.
Anyways, I love all the remixes in the album, like "Money (Radio Mix)" which is in the "Money" music video. This 2 disk set is great, but compared to other KMFDM CDs it isn't all that great. I do recommend it though, since most of the songs are brilliant.
...Okay I suck at doing reviews, deal with it.

KMFDM Extra Volume 1 gets a 7/10.

"Essential" Packs at GameStop

I was at Gamestop tonight with some friends and after I had purchased Warhammer 40k Dawn of War Soulstorm I had glanced at the PS2 section and saw the two coolest things, the Devil May Cry and Metal Gear Solid essential packs which included the first three games of each series. They were seperate in case my wording had confused you. Each are roughly $30, I think these are both a must buy, I don't care what games you are into, you must buy them DMC and MGS are great series (hopefully that's the word). MGS in particular is so amazing, I love all of them, but mainly the first one, the one to start it all, I love it. As for DMC, it's great, but not as good as MGS, DMC 1 and 3 are the best. Anyways, yeah, pick these box sets up!

Click here for the Metal Gear Solid box set.
Click here for the Devil May Cry box set.

Music

I've started to get more into music and as a result created the song that can be found here.
I hope you all enjoy the song and I am hoping to make more music in the future.
(The song is a remix/edit)

As for the music I listen to, I highly recommend all my readers pick up:

1. "Schweinstein" by Schwein
2. "Nihil" by KMFDM
3. "East Side Militia" by Chemlab
4. "Artificial Soldier" by Front Line Assembly
5. "Sinsation" by Pig

And in music news KMFDM is releasing an album called "Extras Volume 1" which is simply put, a bunch of songs put on the original 12" and the CD also comes with a 24 page booklet that shows off art and other good stuff.
I know this is all jumbled just deal with it you nerd, you know what happens to nerds on the moon? Their pants get pulled down and they are spanked with moon rocks!

Anti-Compaq

I have become seriously anti-Compaq because my laptop is crap and I have to deal with all of its problems. My laptop is two years old and my graphics card and mouse are slowly dying. When I first got my computer my mouse would randomly double click (my friend had the same problem), it would have a spaz attack with clicks, that slowly went away, and now the mouse just won't move on occasion and I have to give my little rectangular mouse pad "pimp hand" to make it work (I have to hit it hard!). My graphics card used to let me play Anarchy Online and System Shock 2, now it's as if my graphics card snuck out of my computer and left a piece of paper that says "I is teh graphiks card" so my computer won't let me play those games, even sadder it won't let me play Command & Conquer Red Alert.
I was trying to use one of my USB ports on my laptop and the port... WAS DEAD!!!! Nothing was recognized at all, so I used the other port and it worked just fine. I have also lost a bolt in the bottom of my laptop. WTF.
My friend has a Compaq laptop as well and he has had the same problems. Oh and by the way, who the hell designed integrated graphics cards? What a dumb idea.