I refuse to consider Naruto a cartoon. It devalues my whole career path and I can do that on my own!

It's NOT out today. It's out on Wednesday or something. As I said, it was an "advanced screening". I get these all the time from work, but it was a big weekend and I forgot.

And this is what they do, they do it every time but I've never been too late and not for a movie  I was REALLY excited for; They always put out more passes than seats. Always. It's to ensure that people come, radio stations give them out and places like my store get them sent from whoever makes the movie I guess. It makes sense for movies like Love Guru and such, but it's stupid to do it for the movies that will obviously fill up.

So I should totally get Mass Effect.

YAH!
If I'm thinking about doing a second playthrough, you know it's good. Plus then we can gaybar gamer gamerscore compete.

I watch sports on a court so I won't benefit from this grass business.

But yeah, an HDTV is amazing connected to an XBox 360, PS3, or a computer with a decent graphics card.

Weird. When I was at the video store some kids wouldn't shut up about it. And I was like "I'm pretty sure that's not for kids dad who is renting it" in my head. I obviously didn't say this. I don't really like movies BY Clint Eastwood since I saw the piece of ##### called Million Dollar Baby.



Anyway I'm beyond #####ing pissed off right now. On friday I got a ticket to see the new Transformers movie tonight, which I REALLY want to see, but I forgot about it. I get a called from my friend at 6:30 reminding me and saying that they're saving my seat right now. So I race over to the theatre with my admit one advance screening pass and there's a line because they overbooked. I stand in this line until there's ten minutes before the movie starts, and they're not telling anyone #####.

Ends up they're letting no one in and then best they can offer is you write your name down on some sheet and they'll give you a free one later or something. Well I said ##### that and came home, I want to see it with people, not #####ing alone. And it's total bull##### because I know for a fact that my seat is saved.

They movie  started 13 minutes ago.
I'm beyond pissed off at myself and everything.

I couldn't play or watch a Blu-Ray if I tried, I have none of the necessary components and while I think my friends' HDTVs look incredible for gaming I think it's a bit too much def when looking at real people. There's something I don't like about my TV looking MORE clear than real life. Maybe that's just me not wanting change, I don't know, but I'm willing to wait. I always do.

And yeah I agree with Edge about the packaging thing. It used to be awesome. Today it's not as common that something has great packaging, so it's kind of easy to see that going away completely. It reminds of me the sound lost between vinyl records and CDs.

And yeah I still buy movies and music physically.

I honestly never disliked Shia Thebeef except for this. I realize that I'm in an odd percentile of people who can tolerate him.

This reminds me that I hate everything "MLG".

I like having lots of gamerscore.

I feel dirty.

I know what you mean. I hate the idea of gamerscores, but if I'm playing a game that one of my friends has, I tend to try and top their score (within reason, mind, as I don't go out of my way to do it and I rarely do multiple play throughs). It's stupid but I can't help it. After I finished Mass Effect last night (which I did spectacularly for one playthrough), I was compelled to look through everyone's gamer profile to see what they'd done. I think I have like the second or third highest score of all my friends, but really who gives a #####? It was the same with Fable 2. So dumb.


Moving on, as I said I finished Mass Effect last night and I see to have done very well for a single playthrough. I am so excited for Mass Effect 2 that I cannot use contractions or anything but a monotonous voice when talking about it because any crack will cause the dam to burst. Thinking about getting the downloadable quest.

Anyway I went to rent Prototype but no dice, they were all out. Maybe later.

"Everyone who likes MegaMan come in here, haha."

And you know, that's still wrong. "Come in here" just doesn't fit.

I've only seen half of Ichi The Killer but I liked it.

Medium well? Eurgh. Mikero or not, that is simply too tough for any but the most hardcore of customers.

You're crazy.

Medium well is best steak.

You're correct.

"Really" well is the only kind of steak.

I like my steak charred.

You're cgross.

"Teachers" is great but I love the Laidback Luke edit much more.

It's not just you.

Yeah bonehead!

I'm pretty sure I can take a picture of someone while their jumping. It wouldn't be my first time.

Anyway I love that Snare's signature used to be called "happiest day" but now it's "asrsmack".

If "incinerated" means cooked to a parfeck medium well with pepper corns and served next to a lovely bouillabaisse to the last remaining Prometheans on Atlantis , then yes.

Truer words.


Oh I saw Napolean Dynamite for the first time today. It stank.

Daft Punk - "Teachers (Laidback Luke Edit)"

I can't stop rocking to this track.
Saturday night, after breaking away from a birthday party at a bar, some of us went to the club I've mentioned where we know the DJ. The guy played "Phantom Pt. II", "Warp", and this for us.

We had an absolutely ballistic hype night.

Right foots (yeah foots) are for pussbags anyway. I replaced mine with a George Foreman grill years ago. No regrets.

I don't know if it's OK to say "lip-sing" in society but it's NOT OK in myciety!

Mikerociety? Collymociety?
Blegh.

Yackityyackdon'ttalkback.

Lip sync.

He's grounded, that's the point.

And so are you for back talking!

I really don't think he'll care much.

We all know that new BN and Star Force are crap, it's not like anything is getting ruined here. It's not even remotely surprising.

That was an incredible sentence.

I used to always sing one of the songs from Newsies but now I can't for the life of me remember how it went. I'll have to watch it again, I remember loving it.

Look at me, I'm the king of New York.

You're not in the air at all!

It should work fine either way. I'm pretty sure you can basically tell the computer where to do what, or at least that's how it works when my friend does it on his laptop.

Seems like a game to bridge BN and Star Force.

I don't care, either way.

Fair enough. I don't feel really affected by it either since I'm probably not going to play New Super Mario Bros. anyway but...

I don't know how Edge does it. 'Cause I can't talk to strangers about games at all. I can barely talk to some of my friends about gaming because they are, unfortunately, horribly wrong. And I don't mean they don't have the right to their opinion, I just mean that they have no idea what they're talking about. I mean the sort of people, as mentioned in another thread, that don't want a story and/or just want it to look good. You know, just stupid people.

Oh wow.

Wow, that would be awful.


Although isn't there a mode in that game that gets rid of the red? Of course that's mainly for people who've already played through it at least once.

I say "funny" mainly because I have never played TF2 and don't have authority on whether or not that's clever. Of course it's not funny to me, but maybe it's better in context. Though I'm pretty sure I'm getting it fine enough (every time), so maybe not.

Nice.
Nice.

The only reason I'd want to do one is so I can do that W hand, but I can just do that anyway and not in a photo soooo....

I don't think there have been many games these days that stack up to the oldies in terms of difficulty, or if not difficulty then the amount of skill or practice you need. Effort. At least I haven't met them. I mean, the only thing "difficult" lately is just when a normal not-so hard game gets either retardedly cheap or just weird. I equate bad adaptive difficulty with poor game design. It's not that the game is challenging, it's just not worked on enough.

But even still, they really don't making anything so insurmountable you need the computer to do it for you. I mean, going and watching someone do it on youtube (which you could have been doing for years) never comes up. And having to look at a picture of the scene or anything like that is a rarity.

I think he meant the idea of having the game play itself, rather than the discussion of said topic.

I should have caught that. I've had beers tonight.
That's no excuse really, but...

I'm with Edge. I don't think this actually HELPS anyone.

Meh. It's not like you're forced to use it.

Let the lamer gamers do what they want. As long as they're not ruining MY gaming.

They will. Think about it. Gaming is already oversaturated with people who want graphics over gameplay and such, and games are being made that reflect that. This ruins any challenge. And just imagine talking about playing whatever game with someone who used this thing to play the game, they might as well have just watched it instead. It's stupid.

I'd sum up this topic with just this one word:

: Mikero  19 June 2009, 06:21:02

STUPID

How is this TOPIC stupid? I mean, sure, the thing they're doing is dumb, if that's your opinion (as it is mine, obviously), but why is talking about it stupid?

Why is every "funny" TF2 image I see the same joke?

I actually act more like what Edge said but I'm trying to not make people #####ed up like me.

Too bad, Newsies is so awesome. If my VCR worked I would watch it RIGHT NOW.

No one will be able to.
Not even the Grimace.

Usually one rests their case when they feel they've proven themselves correct beyond a shadow of a doubt, but sure.

Nice of them.
I guess... I mean they're rich enough, I'd be pretty pissed if they didn't do it.

To bad all time duplicates are DOOMED!

DOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMED!

That just reminded me of who killed the dinosaurs...


MMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE E!

I have one because it's green, pretty much.
It was like eight bucks as well. Steve & Barry's.

But I also often back the Spartans in NCAA, though neither had anything to do with the other initially. Used to be the Tar Heels when I was a kid but that was just 'cause I liked the colours and had a hat.

It's so thickly indicative of 2009 gamers, I can't stand it.

... is this? I don't get my game news from anywhere else but here really, so can anyone explain what this is?

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/innovative-nintendo-game-help-system-to-debut-this-year/1326709

I don't get it. It sounds STUPID and I've heard nothing about it until my friend sent me this link yesterday.

It's the story I dislike in MMZ the most, so putting it on a console doesn't change that. Gameplay-wise it just felt glitchy, or at least unfinished/unpolished to me, not overly hard or cheap.

Just kickin' it in my Michigan State letterman jacket, no big deal. Was reminded I have it when seeing VERY similar ones whiles rewatching Freaks And Geeks.

Yeah I often ALMOST say it but realize people don't tend to get the reference.

•

Was that in Bender's Big Score because I really don't remember that one, or Fry going back and living his life in the others.

The Futurama movies were all good but something about watching Futurama for that long doesn't agree with me. I don't know why, I love it, but I often forget the movies and/or fall asleep in the middle. But that might just be my friend's apartment doing that. The only one I've ever watched at home was Bender's Game on TV, but I'd already seen it once before.

TEARS OF LAUGHTER : The end of "The Ocean Walker" - Arrested Development

Definitely.

: Mikero  17 June 2009, 22:09:34

There is no such thing as "normal". Everything is different from everything and it's amazing.

Thank you for being a cool dude.

Anytime!

Weird.

Mike, where should I start?

I don't know much Aphex Twin, actually. I couldn't recommend anything.

Haha Animaniacs, I miss 'em.