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Posted on 11.30.05 by A 47 Danger @ 10:02 am
Holding your breath hurts. The human body needs oxygen. In that sense, Microsoft is trying to end my life. I don’t appreciate that in the least. Day 9 in my Xbox 360 watch finds me stuck in a state of hope and fear. A call could come from GameStop at any moment saying that my Xbox 360 has arrived. Then again, I might not get that call for another couple weeks. It is all up in the air, and I’m a fool for getting my hopes up. That won’t stop these foolish thoughts though. “It could be today,” my brain states. “Why do you hate me,” I ask my brain. “Because you don’t read enough,” quips my brain. Ahhhh, brain. You’re just hungry. That’s why you’re so mean. I’ll pick up a gamer magazine for you on the way home. Then we both win. Filed under: A 47 Danger and Rant and Xbox 360 Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 11.30.05 by A 47 Danger @ 8:12 am
Sony reached a landmark in PlayStation 2 sales yesterday.
Not to diminish their success, but let’s look at this in the larger sense. Putting all of the PS2s sold end to end would only get you 8% of the way to the moon. They’d only fill of the Grand Canyon 0.00001321% of the way. Heck, they’d only make it 76% of the way around the Earth. Give me a call when you can get to the moon and back, Sony. Then we’ll talk about landmark sales. Filed under: A 47 Danger and PS2 and Rant Comments: 2 Comments |
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Posted on 11.29.05 by A 47 Danger @ 8:56 am
USA TODAY, the newspaper with a stuck caps lock key, reports this in regards to the next Xbox 360 shipment:
The number of Xbox 360 units in this shipment is still a mystery. A GameStop employee told me that the Xbox 360 systems ship in boxes of two. At a minimum, it seems that each store should get at least two units. Premium or core? Nobody knows. My fingers are crossed for more than two units. It is, in fact, day number 8 without my preordered Xbox 360. I have found myself at Best Buy looking at accessories and the like that I don’t intend on buying. Maybe I’ll feel more like “pimping” my Xbox 360 when it’s in my hot little hands. Pimping. Hmmm, Wikipedia, help me out.
So instead of telling children they are each unique and individual snowflakes, you can call them pimp snowflakes. I will start calling people pimp snowflakes starting today. You should too. Filed under: A 47 Danger and Rant and Xbox 360 Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.29.05 by A 47 Danger @ 8:13 am
This may be pushing the definition of video games, but this is just too cool to pass up. The Music Genome Project has produced a fantastic website that will make your life so much better. It’s called Pandora and it will make you happy. Pandora is a device that claims “to help you discover new music you’ll love.” It works as follows. You plug in the name of a band or song that you like. This band or song has been analyzed for it’s music properties by musicians and music-loving technologists. The looked for minor or major keys, acoustic and/or electric guitar, mild rhythmic syncopation, and so on and so on. Pandora then matches up songs to the musical properties of your initial input, and plays the matching songs in your own specialized radio station. You can even save your “radio stations” and teach Pandora. Did you enter Weezer and it played the Bodeans? Bad Pandora. Just click on the Bodeans and give them the thumbs down. Pandora won’t make the same mistake again. This is certainly something you could play with all day. Which I intend to do. Enjoy Pandora right now! I command you! I would command you to smile as well, but Pandora will take care of that for me. Filed under: A 47 Danger and General Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.28.05 by A 47 Danger @ 1:45 pm
There is a lovely little article over at The Detroit News (yes yes, it’s a very unoriginal name for a newspaper, let’s get past it) titled Just what we need: Video games link Detroit, gang crime. The first thing that comes to mind is more “video games cause crime” gum flapping. A little Jack Thompson style video game bashing. That is not what the article is about. It’s a little more absurd than that. We’ll take this step by step, so I don’t loose you. This quote comes early in the article. Apparently, Detroit is a terrible city.
Eeee, yuck. I knew Detroit was a dirty stinky hell hole. I didn’t know there was so much danger there. Anyway, nothing about video games yet. Maybe later on. Oh, here’s something.
Okay, I see what that has to do with Detroit. Not that the “German arm of a Japanese company called Konami” sentence wasn’t confusing. The game features D12 from Detroit. Cultural to Detroit. Let’s read on.
Ummmmm. So the violence that you’re admitting exists in Detroit is being touted in a video game that doesn’t take place in Detroit? Even if the video game took place in a city called Detroit you couldn’t get angry, because you live in an admittedly terrible city! What the hell kind of article is this?
Phhhhht, Detroit Institute of Arts? Screw that business. I’ll pack up and leave town, thank you very much. Take your hypocritical opinion and shove it, The Detroit News. And get a better name for your newspaper. Heck, spell “news” with a “z.” Anything! Filed under: A 47 Danger and GameCube and PC and PS2 and Rant and Xbox Comments: None |
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