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What week is it now? 9? OK then. It's week 9 of the mobisodes.
But first, Lost news! ABC are relaunching the Oceanic Airlines website, apparently it should be online now... but it doesn't appear to be up yet. ("Yet" as in, the time of me writing this.) The website is Flyoceanicair.com.
Back to the Mobisode. It's entitled "Tropical Depression." This week our people are...
Michael and Arzt.
Arzt is catching a Medusa spider in the jungle when Michael comes up and asks about the weather conditions for launching the raft. Then Arzt admits that he completely made up the story about the monsoon season. He claims it's because he wanted them to get help with the raft as soon as possible. Arzt then, much to Michael's pleasure, tells him that he went to Sydney to meet a woman whom he had met on the Internet, but that she disappeared during their first diner in a restaurant. Azrt then says the worst part is that he could have stayed and visit some bars in Sydney, but instead he booked an early flight back to Los Angeles: Oceanic flight 815. Michael says that he would feel sorry for him but everyone has a story like that and that no one wants to be on this Island. Arzt acknowledges Michael's response and apologies for lying. Michael leaves, saying the raft is finished and they will bring back help.
IS THAT IT?
Mobisode Rating: 2/5 - This isn't good. These Mobisodes have hit a peak WAY to early and progressively getting worse. Hence the title. Good Right?
Epi/Mobi-sode References.
- Monsoon season's coming: Born to Run - Michael will get help using the Raft: Exodus: Part 2
Next Week - Episode M10 - ...Title hasn't been announced yet.
Time for part 2. For those unaware this was Part 1 and we can all agree that it was a humdinger of a list. But I believe this part is much better than the last part. There's nothing really else to say other then, I hope you all like the Christmas/New Year/Pumpkin Pie theme at the moment and I hope you are all enjoying the new "Translation" section on the slide-thing on the left.
Oh and where it says "Nemesis" it means you unlock that character when completing arcade mode with the respect opposite. Eg. Complete with Mario you unlock Bowser, complete with Dr. Kawashima you unlock Dr. Lobe.
OK then, here is Part 2 of the wish list.
Mii Nemesis: PS3 and Xbox Live accounts Reason: Basically we believe that Miis really should be playable characters in brawl and think it's a travesty you can't. As for the nemesis well that's just a joke as Miis enemies are other Miis.
Pokémon Trainer Nemesis: Team Rocket Reason: But this time, it's not limited to just 3 pre-set Pokémon. It's a choice of all 493 (or whatever number it is at the time) Pokémon. Meanwhile Team Rocket (NOT Galactic) only get a choice Pokémon like wheezing, arboc, mime jr. etc.
Lara Croft Nemesis: A dinosaur Nazi who is a specialist in breast reduction and can cook. Reason: "YOU SEXIST PIG!" Yeah, spam me. But come on with all the gravemaking and gunsligning (Coheed?) when could she learn to cook? It's mealy an observation that she should be in the Kitchen. Damn. I was so close to not being sexist. It could of been worse though, I could of said "cooking" at least I made more of a satire of the entire series.
Pac-man Nemesis: Ghosts Reason: OK, maybe the moves will be limited to... eating but I think that would be cool. I'm not so sure how you would jump but that's not my problem. It's Shigeru Miyamoto problem. And I guess that problems the same for the Ghosts. Hey! It's just a wish list I haven't sorted any of the gaming kinks out yet. Surely that's obvious as Nintendo could never get the rights to all these 3rd party characters.
Cloud Strife Nemesis: Sephiroth Reason: Oddy again. I have no idea who they are, what they do and where they are from. To Wikipedia! Arh, Final Fantasy. Should of guessed.
CJ Nemesis: Officer Frank Tenpenny Reason: From the, unfortunate, GTA San Andreas part of the franchise. I say "unfortunate" because It really should go back to the original top-down approach in the 1, 2 and London. So if it was up to Dee I would pick Claude Speed. But I doubt as many people would know who I meant compared to CJ.
Sam Fisher Nemesis: That Guy that makes him drop the soap in double agent. Reason: OK, for this nemesis I have no idea what his name is or if even has one. Oddy came up with the nemesis as I don't play Splinter Cell. Mainly because all that sneaking around bores the hell out of me. Button-basing shot-em-ups are better.
Agent 47 Nemesis: Giant Contract with 47's name on it. Reason: Same as above really. Plus the controls on the xbox were tediously annoying. Combing both of them meant I could never really get into the series. Though the nemesis is a stroke of Dee-like genius.
Luigi Nemesis: Waluigi Reason: The unwanted sidekicks of Mario and Wario (respectively) have to be here so the game can keep the same name. Without them there are no "Bros." in the game. Well played Luigi.
Heihachi Mishima Nemesis: Kazuya Mishima Reason: Both from the best button-basher Tekken and to be more exact the best in the seires Tekken 3. The ones before Tekken 3 were to clunky while since have had no real soul. (Although that is when ignoring Tekken Advance, which was quite a port. Except for the stunning which I used to ignore you could do.) Anyway I wish Tekken would come up for the Wii.
And with that rounds up part 2. Look out for the final section soon.
Rough patch of Season One over and I'm rollin' once again.
- Shannon attempted to become a killer in an angsty fit over Boone's death and... well, failed. Wow. Go write some poetry.
- We all knew Kate was a bloody fugitive. Quit covering old ground for the sake of audience knowledge, writers. Get on with the fucking story already!
- Finally! More Rousseau! Lovely stuff. Finally we're seeing some sign of the real plot developing and some of the ends tied up. Excellent. Although it being done via a creepy French woman isn't exactly the greatest device, but heck, LOST is all about originality!
- Claire's baby was kidnapped! Who woulda seen that coming!?
- Walt's a pyromaniac. Caaaaaare? What was the point of that event, eh? Why destroy the raft when it was rebuilt three episodes later anyway? For a bit of premature character development, perhaps, but was it worth the set design?
- Hurley's unlucky! OH NOES! So the significance of The Numbers has shown through at last. Wonderful. Now what?
- Sawyer needs glasses. Can this series of episodes get any worse!?
- And then we hit the big time. Boone dies and Claire has the baby. Boone's death makes about as much relevance as frogs on crack to the entire plot, and serves nothing more than to... oh, what's that? Portray Locke in an even worse light! Sayid's being a pervert which Shannon but heck; who can blame him?
I'm sure you're all pleased to know I've regained the use of a DVD player (got a Xbox 360 for Christmas), so I'm back to ploughing through Season One. This time with the above-mentioned episodes.
- Boone gets chased by the Smoke Monster. I'm assuming this is the most exciting thing which happens to him all series, because the whole 'incest is best' scene really is simply boring me. We all guessed it would work out something like that, so why do the creators have to drag it on by making Locke a semi-bad-guy with interfering in the whole business and have Boone be chased around like a mad man for no real reason?
- Michael is also boring me to death. So what if he's a reluctant father? My empathy is spread so thinly between all these sorry cases I'm not sure who's worth caring about and who's just desperate.
- However, the scene where Ethan gets killed? Beautiful. A great piece of drama which involves - in my eyes - all the key (and heck, worthwhile) characters of the show doing what they all do best; use guns. Charlie = Pointless murderer? Yeah, but who cares!?
- Sawyer vs. Boar? Loved it. Funniest part of the series so far? Hoyes.
No! Of course it isn't. I really doubt we will ever see Nikki and Paulo again. Though this week is quite like those characters. Odd and Unnecessary. It's a...
Michael and Sun affair... literally.
Sun is burying an American drivers license when Michael runs by looking for Vincent. Micheal sees the license in the ground and he picks it up. Sun tries to explain that she was going to leave Jin for Jae Lee (The bold guy, Sun had an affair with him... Jin killed him... ring any bells?) Michael comforts her telling her it will be okay and gives her a hug. The two lean in to share a kiss but Vincent appears barking before anything can happen, prompting Sun to leave.
YAWN!
Mobisode Rating: 2/5 - Yeah, I understand it's supposed to be adding fuel to the "Micheal's the Dad" fire, but that sucks. Everyone wants Jin to be the father.
Epi/Mobi-sode References.
- Sun's Preggers: The Whole Truth - The Reason Sun didnt leave Jin: The Glass Ballerina - Vincent's Missing: ...all of season 1?
Next Week - Episode M09 - ...Title hasn't been announced yet.
So yeah. I decided to jump on the bandwagon and make my own post about what my favourite songs of this year have been. Although take note: Mine may have not necessarily all been released this year, for some of the selection listeners like me have been forced to put up with from the past 12 months have been abysmal compared to the following. But I won't include random tunes from like, the 90s or anything.
Slipped out at the top: Avril Lavigne - Hot, Take That - Patience, The Fratellis - Flathead, Alice in Videoland - Radiosong.
5) Tracy Chapman - Telling Stories
Look at that! She's fucking awesome live! A great ballad about falling apart, featuring the most soulful guitar riffs since Santana crossed with the most delightful lyrics. "There is science fiction in the space between us." Truly a great chillin' tune.
4) MC Frontalot (featuring Optimus Rhyme and, on the official release, MC Hawking and Lars) - Nerdcore Rising
Slick riddimz here sported by MC Frontalot and Optimus Rhyme here at PAX 2007. The quality of the vocals in the above clip is a bit bad, but who can question too truly geeky guys rapping about their new genre of music, backed by a funky beat and surrounded by hundreds of fans doing 'the sign'?
3) EVE 6 - On The Roof Again
That was recorded at their comeback gig earlier on this year. Eve 6 are a great band, and you've all (unknowingly) heard their single 'Rescue' from a few years back. But On The Roof Again sports what they're best at: Progressive riffs, upbeat lyrics about suicidal men and having sore throats at live performances. 2) Justin Timberlake (featuring Timbaland and T.I) - My Love
I apologise for the quality of the video; but the live version was damn awful and the official channel didn't allow for embedding. Regardless of that, this song is a true beast. It won a Grammy for this year's best rap/song collaboration and there's no wonder why. Justin's singing his best, Timbaland is amusing and T.I has more soul than my boots (read it aloud). When commenting upon this song, people call out for parts to be cut. Whether that be the prelude or T.I's bit. Personally the introduction provides a great setting for the song, and at least some build up to the main part. T.I's appearance is worth it for the tongue-in-cheek rubber band references.
1) OK Go - Here It Goes Again
Added to YouTube one and a half years ago. With baffling lyrics and musical backing which sounds more garage than covers of the Pixies, this song is the most widely acclaimed on YouTube. Winning hundreds of awards for the creativeness of the video alone, this song is an instant classic. The one reason why you should buy Rock Band. Bring on bubblegum rock!
Well as stated earlier here are my top singles of the year to go along with Dee's. It was hard as in all honesty the music I have been enjoying nowadays is mostly nineties era, but looking back, I've managed to decide on a few. Though the way I'm feeling I may do my top albums of all time, such is my current obsession with 'mewzikk'.
Fell at the final hurdle:
Sick, Sick, Sick - Queens Of The Stone Age, 3's & 7's - Queens Of The Stone Age
Misery Business - Paramore, Roc Boys - Jay-Z and She Builds Quick Machines - Velvet Revolver.
5) Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm
Indie isn't usually my preferred genre of music, wasn't the powerful booming sound I often craved from metal and its various deviations, but the infectious riff and quickfire drum of this song is too innovative not to enjoy. You can say what you like for the softer tone of indie, but songs like this I would definitely bet sound good on the dancefloor.
4) White Stripes - Icky Thump
White Stripes sure know how to write riffs, they basically wrote nearly every good riff that never existed this year and incorporated them into this song. AMG described it perfectly as 'plain heavy, dominated by primal, stomping rock that feels like it's been caged for a very long time and is just now being released.'
3) Coheed and Cambria - Running Free
The first single released from an amazing album. Agreed with Dee, the first song in a while on Kerrang involving actual guitars rather than the stylings of names such as the 'Gym Class Heroes', save hiphop for 'Kiss' in all honesty. Well written and riff laden, just as rock should be.
2) Nickelback - Rockstar
An old song re-released and for good reason. Probably the best 'Drinking' song ever, a song with relatively easy lyrics that even if you don't know the song, the chorus could be easily managed. Though I've never actually sung this song whilst drunk, heh one for the future.
1) Kanye West - Stronger
Its been a while since I gave any attention to hip-hop ever since I left my gig-going ways with regards to Eminem and Cypress Hill (Yes, hard to believe). But no matter you're stance on music, not to recognise Kanye West as a true musical prodigy is plain stupidity and ignorance. Such hiphop neo-classics as 'Jesus Walks' and 'Workout Plan' outline his lyrical mastery and as can be seen by this offering, a deft fusion of hiphop's foottapping beats and houses sonic innovation into quite possibly the most likeable and uber stylish track ever released, and made it work mainstream.
Well it's coming to end of the year and it's been quite a year for music, we've seen an ironic Umbrella stay at the top for the duration of the 2007 UK floods, the worst dance remix ever created (Mr. Oizo must die.) and every band under the Sun reform to varying degrees of success. So I've decided I am going to tell you my personal top 5 songs of 2007.
The rules are the song must have been released in the 2007, so no unreleased album songs. And only one song per artist.
Record of the Year
Just Missed Out: Foo Fighters - Long Road to Ruin, Paramore - Misery Business, Sharpey Evans (Ashley Tisdale) - You are the Music in Me, Kanye West - Stronger, Sum 41 - Underclass Hero, Enter Shikari - Jonny Sniper and Velvet Revolver - She Builds Quick Machines.
5) Take That - Shine
The song is infectiously catchy and it's simply a great song. Simple as, to be honest. It's definitely a song which will be around for ages, even if it's on the extremely patronising Morrisons adverts. And, for the record, anyone who says they don't like Take That is lying. It's a fact.
4) Coheed and Cambria - The Running Free
Coheed and Cambria really put themselves of the map with this song. (Saying that, I heard Ten Speed before I heard this but just didn't realised it was them!) And it's possibly the newest ROCK song on Kerrang, though that may be because they are headlining the Kerrang Tour. (£15 for 15 minutes of one decent band, whilst having to sit through three shit bands? No thank you, it's just not worth it.)
3) Still Remains - Dancing with the Enemy
"Sell outs! They don't even scream anymore!" Grow up. All they have done is improved their music. Unfortunately Still Remains' "Stay Captive" is not in the chart due to the "One song per band" rule. And if they have sold out then its one of the best sell outs changes ever performed by a band, unlike the now generic "pop-metal" Avenged Sevenfold.
2) Deftones - Mein
Just missing out on the top spot is the single from my personal favourite album of 2006... possibly ever... (And yes, 2006. The single was still released in 2007.) The Deftones really flex their melodic and heavy muscles in this song to extraordinary effect. Also this particular song involves a cameo from every ones favourite Turk Serj Tankien.
1) Avril Lavigne - Hot
"What? Avril Lavigne? Are you gay?" Unfortunately, I get that too much. But I think this is the best song of 2007 (And I know Scott would agree, or at least vouch for it's obvious greatness.) It's catchy and effortlessly cool in one fall swoop. Come on. Admit it. You love it.
That's all from this post, maybe I'll make another one next year for 2008 but that does count on the Three Rs still being active and remembering to do so. (I have a really poor memory.)
If I'm correct Ste will be posting his top 5 of singles soon, so we/you/anyone can compare. Maybe it will entice Scott and Jordan to post their lists for further comparison.
Anyway I hope you enjoyed the best 5 songs of 2007.
1. Find a dark room, at night (not hard if you're in the northern hemisphere at this time of year).
2. Make sure you can see your monitor clearly.
3. Figure out what's wrong in the below images.
Mindfucking (God I hate calling it that on such a 'U' blog) is an art in itself. Sometimes, personally, I can get what's wrong straight away. Other times I sit there and stare at an image for hours without realising what's there whilst others pick it up in seconds. It's all about perception, I guess.
It's Christmas time, as apposed to November Christmas, and that means shopping.
So basically me, Melaisis, Prodigy and loyal disciple Andy 'Tick went Christmas shopping. I was obviously the camera man, and this is written from I, Dee's, point of view.
After gallivanting through many of shops, we arrived at Borders. This is when the night began... not officially, just in terms of photos.
What Scott had "forgot" to tell us is that he had been talking about the Three Rs to the media behind our very our (Bringing sexy) backs. (Or maybe he was talking about Angsty Me... as if, Google Analytics says different.) Anyway from all the talk of fans, Ste got Wood...
...magazine down from the shelf. It was quite hard... to grasp... the need for a magazine about wood. Surely the target audience is Trees and Ents? Which are being chopped down to produce this magazine. Much like Soylent Magazine. And talking of ground up humans mushed to form a magazine, we needed a well deserved break. All the shopping was tough, it's not a mans' job. TO STARBUCKS!
Clearly shopping had drained the very heart and soul of Scott. (Or he was annoyed I took a picture of him eating. I like the first better.) And I apologise to everyone you could only see the back of Ste's head. I tried to get him to turn around at the right time but there is a stupidly random delay in the taking of the picture. Before venturing back into the abyss known to the locals as... Leeds, Scott picked out his next victim.
...Sexually of course. Ahum. Now, to prove that the city of Leeds is the city asking all the BIG questions. We present the Starbucks toilet notice.
"Watermarked?" I hear you cry? Why? That's because the vultures from websites like, including but not limiting to, eBaums world will try to steal it. Go us. Hmm, right, where next? Oh yes. TO PRIMARK! Where Andy wanted to get the ever popular "Grey Hooded Jacket thing for a fiver."
But, from prior notice, I knew and warned him they only had XL and XXL left. (OK, maybe I wanted one too.) So, as he carried on searching, I found something unheard of in Primark...
...the Second Digit. "Right, are we done in here? Good, let's Grohl." And with that poor piece of word play from Dee (And he's still got it!) We dashed to the elevator. Which, as ever, is the best time for a pose.
But the door opened and they all tried to act as natural as possible. The doors closed and we went for take two.
Though, on looking back, I do enjoy my manically, but heart pumping gorgeous, face I'm pulling there while holding the camera. While Scott is really piling on the sex appeal with that pose second from the right. We realised we had to re-intensify our manhood's (Double Entendre Overload.) We headed to an obviously manley shop, PC World. But something outside the shop took out attention, which could only called for a picture.
I'll let you guys decide which word goes with who. Finally, to PC World! After a "What the deuce? Five port USB? It only has four!" session, it was time for yours truly to get his picture face on.
Spartan John-117? After I'm done with him it'll be John-69. Trust me, that woman starring at me believed so. Whilst Ste doesn't seem so impressed by the very idea of the Master Chief being gay... or human. But what did seem to catch his attention was either a great game or some sort of Cat-Juggling-Fire-act.
This calls an abrupt end to this post, maybe we'll make another one next year. You'll just have to keep checking back. In the meantime I shall try to
(That meant dig) myself out of the gay hole I've just put myself in. (And it doesn't help with sentences like that.) Anyway, it's ciao from Dee and to those unluckily enough to be caught in the crossfire of the these pictures...
Yeah... I come under the header of European. Which for Wii gamers only is a bad thing. Super Smash Bros. Brawl has been delayed... until april-ily-june-y time. OK, the news is a few weeks old but do you know how hard it was to come up with a decent pun for this title. The answer is very hard. When you've done the amount of pun titles I have, you begin to run out.
So how do I carry on a post in which the point has been said? Easy. I change the point of the post to what it was originally going to be. An "If we ("We" referring to me and a non-Three Rs member known as Oddy. The first guy that gets shoot in our, ultimately cool Gun video...) made Super Smash Bros. 4" post.
So for this one Master Hand is back, Crazy Hand is back and of course the Sandbag is back. Basically just think Brawl with these characters.
Right, here's Part 1 of the character list.
Mario Nemesis: Bowser. Reason: I guess it kind of goes without saying doesn't it. Mario, every one's favourite Italian plumber, is no different than he is the the first two and probably the third. (But we won't find out about that until... I've exhausted Mario Kart Wii. Get it? "Exhausted?" "Mario Kart?"...)
Wario Nemesis: We couldn't think of Wario's nemesis, so we decided that Wario would unlock Paper Mario. Reason: The coolest of the Mario series and has much better spin-off games then Luigi. Come on, Luigi's mansion sucked while Wairoware is just too weird not to be deemed as excellent. Off-topic slightly: I have a question... Is Wario a plumber? Or is he like Cillet Bang: Stain and Drain to Plumbers?
Sergeant Cortez Nemesis: Timesplitter... possibly Besurker Splitter or a Monkey. Reason: One of the best FPS ever released in the sixth generation. It has monkeys on it! And has sequels which are better than the previous. With number 4 well on the way, I can't wait.
Dr. Kawashima Nemesis: Dr. Lobe of Big Brain Academy. Reason: He revolutionised gaming (the term "gaming" used loosely) for the better. (Well, that's what Nintendo would have us believe.) Basically the only reason we decided Dr. Kawashima should be in the game is we thought it would be funny to have a character who was just a head. (We are easily amused.)
Solid Snake Nemesis: Oddy decided "Big Boss" would be his nemesis... I have no idea who that is... Reason: Well the box loving gun person is already on Super Smash Bros. Brawl so I guess it would only make sense for his character to be back on the fourth. He will probably become the favourite character for everyone (Except me as I have never played Metal Gear Solid and I don't plan to. Yeah... spam me.)
Samus Aran Nemesis: Mother Brain Reason: I have a love-hate relationship with Metorid. I loved Metroid II: Return of Samus on the Gameboy Pocket, but hated that I could never complete it, like that opening level on Driver 1. I love Metroid Prime 3 on the Wii, but I hate it's lack on online multiplayer... Either way I only want Samus for Master Chief fights.
Sonic Nemesis: Dr. Robotnic or whatever he's called... Reason: Mario vs. Sonic. It's going down. And we a real fight, not some running and jumping.
Gordon Freeman Nemesis: G-man Reason: This was a selection of Oddy's and therefore have no idea who the hell he is. All I know is that he is from Half-life. I don't care for Half-life. Yeah... Spam me.
Knuckles Nemesis: Rouge the Bat... Yeah we know we're scraping the barrel for nemesis(es) here. Reason: Knuckles is cool, much cooler than Sonic. He's the James "Sawyer" Ford of his day. Maybe Tails' dad killed Knuckles' parents using "Tom Knuckles" as a pseudonym. Lost?
Spyro Nemesis: Ripto. Reason: The greatest trilogy game character ever? Possibly. This PS1 legend is here as a memorial to the Spyro of yesteryear, as apposed to the PS2 in carnation and the "New Beginning" incarnation we see today. I haven't played any of the "New Beginning" games, so I can't give my opinion. But from what I've seen he's way too serious and loses the naive-ness and ignorance of the PS1 days.
That's it for part 1. It only gets better from here on, so look out for Part 2.
Two things this week. A mobisode and information reguarding the Lost Season 4 return. I'll do the Season 4 return news first. It's been confirmed that 21st January 2008 is the date Lost returns, which is a Thursday in America. So that means the reviews will be up, as always, on Saturday/Sunday-ish times (No Promises.) Right, now to the actual point of this post. The Mobisode. This weeks Missing Piece is entitled "Arzt And Crafts" and is the Eighth in the Series. Which could only mean one thing...
more Arzt! (I'm not complaining I like Leslie, he has a bitchin' name.)
This weeks mobisode is set early season 1 before Sun has revealed she can speak English. Sun and Jin are sitting on the beach looking through clothes. They are discussing Shannon and Boone's relationship. Jin says that he thinks that Shannon and Boone are lovers. Sun corrects him, saying that Shannon and Boone are actually brother and sister. Jin asks her how she knows, since neither Shannon nor Boone speak Korean. (As far as we know... no reference, I just thought I'd through it in for good measure.) Sun tells him it was just a guess. They are interrupted when Arzt comes running up to them, asking them if they are moving to the caves. Hurley, who is sitting nearby with Michael, shouts to Arzt and tells him that Sun and Jin don't speak English. Arzt then tells them about Jack and his decision to move everyone to the caves. Whilst the others seem to trust Jack, Arzt doesn't think that moving to the caves is a good idea at all. Arzt tells Micheal and Hurley that he thinks that Jack is be a nut-case. He tells them that one day whilst having a slash (British slang for urinating.) he heard Jack running through the jungle "crying for his daddy." Arzt then tells the others that he is going to stay put on the beach, but just as he finishes his sentence a loud noise is heard from the jungle and Arzt quickly changes his mind about the caves, saying he will move there after all.
T'alright!
Mobisode Rating: 3/5 - Hmm, not sure about this one... Arzt back good! Mobisode bad!
Epi/Mobi-sode References.
- Sun speaks English: ...In Translation - Jack wants to move to the Caves: House of the Rising Sun - Jack thinks he can see his Dad: White Rabbit
So I wrote a parody to The Killers' 'When You Were Young'. It's my favourite song on Guitar Hero III at the moment. I'm not sure how sad that makes me.
When We Were Nerds You sit there with your PC, Waiting on some great designer to, Save you from your boredom, See it now, go subscribe!
It doesn't play a thing like Guild Wars, But it feels like a FPS, Like you imagined, when we, were neeeeeeeeeeeerds!
Can we raid tonight? I think so. Further in than ever before, I hope we can if we grind before we go, Let's start, be heroes, Hurry now, down that foe!
We're grouping through this shitty dungeon, Rolling for loot which we don't even care about, When we were nerds, When we were nerds!
And occasionally you think, And Fraps the place you used to play, When we were nerds!
They say that Blizzard's titles; they ain't that great, You don't have to play them now, But you can get the trial, Just use a different e-mail.
You sit there with your PC, Waiting on some great designer to, Save you from your boredom, See it now, go subscribe!
It doesn't play a thing like Guild Wars, But it feels like a FPS, Like you imagined, when we, were nerds! (But it feels like an FPS, like you imagined when...) When we, were nerds!
I wrote it doesn't play a thing like Guild Wars...
It doesn't play a thing like Guild Wars, But more than you ever knew.
...was not created for the Three Rs. And I doubt the other two people in this video knew I was going to put it on here... but I also doubt they would complain about it too, seeing as one of them was a guest writer and the other is going to be on here soon too (Look out for that!) So here, without further ado, is the first (adoptive) video by the Three Rs...
Bit of history for you now; I got bored and thought you lot needed culturing, thus I complied a list of history's mass murderers (thanks to the likes of Google and Wikipedia) for us all to renounce the names of. Tomas de Torquemada - Born in Spain in 1420, his name is synonymous with the Christian Inquisition's horror, religious bigotry, and cruel fanaticism. He was a fan of various forms of torture including foot roasting, use of the garrucha, and suffocation. He was made Grand Inquisitor by Pope Sixtus IV. Popes and kings alike praised his tireless efforts. The number of burnings at the stake during Torquemada's tenure has been estimated at about 2,000. Torquemada's hatred of Jews influenced Ferdinand and Isabella to expel all Jews who had not embraced Christianity.
Vlad Tepes- Vlad the Impaler was a prince known for executing his enemies by impalement. He was a fan of various forms of torture including disembowelling and rectal and facial impalement. Vlad the Impaler tortured thousands while he ate and drunk among the corpses. He impaled every person in the city of Amlas -- 20,000 men, women and children. Vlad often ordered people to be skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, hacked, nailed, buried alive, stabbed, etc. He also liked to cut off noses, ears, sexual organs and limbs. But his favourite method was impalement on stakes, hence the surname "Tepes" which means "The Impaler" in the Romanian language. It is this technique he used in 1457, 1459 and 1460 against Transylvanian merchants who had ignored his trade laws. He also looked upon the poor, vagrants and beggars as thieves. Consequently, he invited all the poor and sick of Wallachia to his princely court in Tirgoviste for a great feast. After the guests ate and drank, Dracula ordered the hall boarded up and set on fire. No one survived. Note: Every Romanian who contacted me said I should remove Vlad from the list. They said he was not evil and seemed to like him. In an effort to understand how our views of evil can be so different, I reproduce an exchange I had with Marius who was born in Romania. Perhaps this will help us understand more generally how the perception of evil can differ from person to person. Other strange discussions on this same web page focus on Bill Clinton and those people who truly believe Clinton was more evil than Adolf Hitler who exterminated millions.
Adolph Hitler- The dictator of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, was born on April 20, 1889, at Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary. Using the Nazi Army, killed six million Jewish and about 4 million other "imperfects".
Ivan the Terrible - Ivan Vasilyevich, (born Aug. 25, 1530, in Kolomenskoye, near Moscow) was the grand prince of Moscow (1533-84) and the first to be proclaimed tsar of Russia (from 1547). His reign saw the completion of the construction of a centrally administered Russian state and the creation of an empire that included non-Slav states. He enjoyed burning 1000s of people in frying pans, and was fond of impaling people.
Adolph Eichmann- Born in March 19, 1906, Solingen, Germany he was hanged by the state of Israel for his part in the Nazi extermination of Jews during World War II. "The death of five million Jews on my conscience gives me extraordinary satisfaction."
Pol Pot- Pol Pot (born in 1925 in the Kompong Thom province of Cambodia) was the Khmer political leader whose totalitarian regime (1975-79) imposed severe hardships on the people of Cambodia. His radical communist government forced the mass evacuations of cities, killed or displaced millions of people, and left a legacy of disease and starvation. Under his leadership, his government caused the deaths of at least one million people from forced labor, starvation, disease, torture, or execution.
Mao Tse-tung- Who killed somewhere between 20 and 67 million (estimates vary) of his countrymen, including the elderly and intellectuals. His picture still hangs throughout many homes and businesses. Mao's own personality cult, encouraged so as to provide momentum to the movement, assumed religious proportions. The resulting anarchy, terror, and paralysis completely disrupted the urban economy. Industrial production for 1968 dipped 12 percent below that of 1966. In short, the Revolution led to the destruction of much of China's cultural heritage and the imprisonment of a huge number of Chinese intellectuals, amongst other social chaos. This policy is usually regarded as a complete disaster.
Idi Amin- Idi Amin Dada Oumee (born in 1924 in Uganda) was the military officer and president (1971-79) of Uganda. Amin also took tribalism, a long- standing problem in Uganda, to its extreme by allegedly ordering the persecution of Acholi, Lango, and other tribes. Reports indicate torture and murder of 100,000 to 300,000 Ugandans during Amin's presidency. In 1972, he began to expel Asians from Uganda. God, he said, had directed him to do this. (Acutally, he had been angered by the refusal of one of the country's most prominent Asian families, the Madhvanis, to hand over their prettiest daughter as his fifth wife.) Over the years, Ugandans would disappear in the thousands, their mutilated bodies washing up on the shores of Lake Victoria. Amin would boast of being a "reluctant" cannibal - human flesh, he said, was too salty. He once ordered that the decapitation of political prisoners be broadcast on TV, specifying that the victims "must wear white to make it easy to see the blood". One of Amin's guards, Abraham Sule, said: "[Amin] put his bayonet in the pot containing human blood and licked the stuff as it ran down the bayonet. Amin told us: 'When you lick the blood of your victim, you will not see nightmares.' He then did it."
Joseph Stalin- Born in 1879. During the quarter of a century preceding his death in 1953, the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin probably exercised greater political power than any other figure in history. In the 1930s, by his orders, millions of peasants were either killed or permitted to starve to death. Stalin brought about the deaths of more than 20 million of his own people while holding the Soviet Union in an iron grip for 29 years. Stalin succeeded his hero Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1924. From then on, he induced widespread famines to enforce farm collectives, and eliminated perceived enemies through massive purges.
Genghis Khan- The Mongol Temjin, known to history as Genghis Khan (born 1162) was a warrior and ruler who, starting from obscure and insignificant beginnings, brought all the nomadic tribes of Mongolia under the rule of himself and his family in a rigidly disciplined military state. Massacres of defeated populations, with the resultant terror, were weapons he regularly used. His Mongol hordes killed off countless people in Asia and Europe in the early 1200s. When attacking Volohoi, Khan convinced the city commander that Mongols would stop attacking if the city sent out 1,000 cats and several thousand swallows. When he got them, Genghis had bits of cloth tied to their tails and set the cloth on fire. The cats and birds fled back to the city and ended up setting hundreds of fires inside the city. Then Genghis attacked and won. At another time, Mongols rounded up 70,000 men, women, and children and shot them with arrows.
As with last week the pun orientated title is rubbish and I apologise. Anyway it's mobisode number 6 this week and this weeks it's a real cracker!
That's Ben and the hair you can see is, the mobisode crazy, Juliet.
The mobisode begins with an alarm whirling in Room 23, Ben enters to see what is going on. Juliet is there, Ben and Juliet begin talking while a number of people are seen fleeing Room 23. A person, Walt, is inside the Room and has done something that has frightened all of the Others present, except Ben. Juliet refuses to go into the room and claims that neither will Bea Klugh, Tom or anybody else. Juliet then goes on to say that the child's father, Michael, is out looking for Walt as they speak and that they could bring him back. Ben says no. Juliet tells Ben that this situation is his responsibility, but Ben corrects her saying that Jacob wanted Walt brought there. Juliet tries to convince Ben that Walt is dangerous and Ben replies that Walt is only a child. Juliet then takes him outside the building where she shows him a pile of dead birds on the ground under a boarded up window. Ben then turns to Juliet with a troubled look on his face.
Woo!
Mobisode Rating: 5/5 - Now that's a mobisode! Episode worthy!
Epi/Mobi-sode References.
- Takes Place During: Beginning of Second Season - Mid Second Season - Juleit Wants Walt Gone: The Deal
Next Week - Episode M07 - ...Title hasn't been announced yet.
You're a studio with a whole team of actors, casters, set producers and animators, just sitting around. No place to go because the forbidden den known as the 'Writers' Room' to some and 'Hell on Earth' to others has become so overloaded by pizza crusts and visits from the Devil that there's not a creative mind in the house. What better way to get all these people up and working again than to gain the licence for a game-into-movie. After all, most of these games must have good plots, otherwise people wouldn't play them, right? Plus you have the audience already there, and finally a whole, working, visual model upon which to base any ideas on.
We play games to interact with the story, certainly. But personally, I am one of those guys who prefers an exceedingly linear, nicely-scripted plot (HL2, Portal, Bioshock to an extent) to one which allows meaningless playtime sucked up into 'free-roaming environments' which fail to accomplish little but add to frustration with irate side-quests and shallow NPCs (STALKER, Oblivion). At the end of the day, I play the vast majority of my collection for the great (albeit faux) character interaction which the scene is giving the impression of presenting to me as a player. Of course at the end of the day, I'm still being pulled along on a very thick rope to a goal which is imminent and final. But I still have fun on the way.
Films based on games are for people like me; true listeners to the story. The problem with movies being used as an alternate medium to connote the message originally put out on the former format is this: It lacks that level of satisfaction and does not provide enough time for the finer details to be appreciated. We all loved the credits of Final Fantasy 8 because you've just spent the last thirty hours of your own life using and learning about those characters whose tales are now concluding. I certainly absorbed more of Eli Vance's death sequence in Episode Two of the Half Life saga (sorry for the spoiler if you've been hiding under a rock for the past three months) because of the epic battle that preceded it. Plot and development has always been a way of rewarding players and forcing them to go on just that little bit further with the game.
Movies are your reward for paying the guy at the counter six pounds for a ticket into the screen.
Sorry for my recent lack of posts. On top of my computer being temporarily broken, my DVD player has stopped working completely. Hence, my epic Lost saga has been put on hold. Until then, I present you with two of the weirdest things I've ever come across on the Internet. Well, they're maybe not that weird...
Dee4leeds doing a non-Lost related post? It's true. I thought I would... erm... express my opinion of Christmas 2007. (Vent some steam sounded to angry rant-esque... or is it just me?)
The title of the song is a reference to that truly awful song released 3 times in the course of 20 years. And it has, some how, got worst every time. But that song is not the point of this post though it brings me nicely to a question asked in that very song. "Do they know it's Christmas time at all?" The better question is "Do they care?" And by "they" I mean me. So the real question is "Do I care it's Christmas Time at all?" The answer is no.
Bah, Humbug.
A week ago today, my birthday for the record, I was sat in my Sixth-form common room watching a bunch of "Chavs who say they are not chavs because they have Meatloaf on their phone" put up cheap and tacky Christmas decorations to the sound of cheap and tacky Christmas songs. What did I do? I got my scrooge on! I sat down, pulled my Nintendo DS Lite out of my bag and played Pokémon Pearl (Which I would recommend to any former Pokémon fans as it really recaptures the magic of Red and Blue.) As with my refusal to do or accept anything Christmas-sy related I was barraged with people saying "Bah, Humbug." I'm sorry, but it was STILL NOVEMBER!
Bah, Humbug.
If it was up to me, the first sign of Christmas in the media, streets, schools, Internet, everywhere should be on December 24th. This is the day schools should break up for the record. (But that's more because there is nothing to do in that gap between School and Christmas day.) What annoys me is Christmas adverts in October. Yes, October. Why not just go the whole nine yards and never stop showing Christmas adverts? I feel this is the conclusion of this stub of a post. The moral of the story is Scrooge was right. (Before the ghosts appeared.)
Of late, instead of indulging into what I usually so with hours of gaming, questionably unhealthy eating and the occasional vid, I have been attempting to broaden my musical horizons. In retrospect, these bands don't deviate that far from my normal music tastes if not at all, but I thought them so different and worthy of mention that I would put a little about them. This is in part thanks to Scott's recommendation of Pandora, especially with regards to White Zombie.
Coheed and Cambria: Yeah OK, so you've probably seen me mention them before, but they really do deserver a reiteration. Admittedly I wasn't keen with this type of music at first, my usual tastes deviating to the much heavier end of the rock spectrum. However, after hearing the music and understanding the creativity behind it, I became much more accustomed to it. Bringing metal (Tenspeed, Welcome Home), prog rock (The Hound) and concept based rather poetic lyrics into an intelligent and wonderfully unique mix. They even do power ballads now (The Road and The Damned, rather randomly described by one forum poster as the song he/she listens to after orgasm, I can kind of understand in a wierd, not really understanding kind of way), shouldn't be long until they break into the mainstream as the musically intelligent band they are, but then maybe its best they remain a bloody brilliant secret.
Rammstein: Yeah, I've DEFINITELY mentioned this band before, but recently I decided to dabble into their other works, not just the odd single. And I was rewarded with the most powerful, foot stomping music I've heard if not ever, in a long time. They may be German, they may dabble in a bizarre mix of pyrotechnics and bondage when on stage and you may also not be able to understand a word they say, but who cares when the guitar is crunching and the sonic boom of keyboard/drum fusion pummels at your own ear drums. Perfect for when you feel like head-stomping someone, Rammstein vents your rage sonically.
Rob Zombie: I've been a minor fan of Rob Zombie since about year nine (Me and Dee being fans of the Hot Rod Herman Mix of Dragula featured on the Matrix) but again only a few months ago did I really start to go for his albums, and I was pleasantly surprised. Meaty, heavy guitar riffs, darkly modified electronica and synthesised sound bonded to create head-banging tunes of the macabre that really owe a lot to their horror film inspiration. One of the best (and most consistent)artists I'm aware of that can adapt songs and instruments and create new and completely original tracks. Maybe just losing out to one other group, and not by much.
White Zombie: Rob's old stomping ground, brilliant timeless music influenced by deep Sabbath style guitar, Metallica style vivacity and of course with Rob, a fascination of B movie horror and grindhouse flicks. Groovy almost funk metal riffs at times mixed with extremely schlocky anti-semitic lyrics make this band a must and satisfying listen for metal fans.
Faith No More: By far my biggest musical surprise, ingenuity like I had never seen. A mix of hip hop's bounce, heavy/death metal's destructive guitar and the funky synthesisation of a keyboard, combined with Mike Patton's flexible voice create an amazing array of startlingly random, yet individually excellent songs. Each one is so strikingly different that you'd think fans of the metal genre, to which it was aimed, would only truly enjoy a few of the songs as typically heavy metal, but they (in particular the albums Angel Dust and The Real Thing) have such an overpowering fusion that you can't help but enjoy the songs immensely for the super-innovative slices of creative musical perfection they are. Especially with regards to Angel Dust ( the departure of guitarist Jim Martin seemed to herald the loss of FNM's strength), going from alternative metal in 'Midlife Crisis', to full on death metal in 'Jizzlobber', and bizarrely to quite enjoyable country/folk sort of metal in 'RV'. The album is literally perfection, and an outstanding achievement that shows how random, different and sexually pervasive ('Be Aggressive' is a song relating to gay fellatio xDD, thought none of them are homosexual) music can beat most of the general formulaic crap that people listen in their thousands. Be sure to at least sample some of 'Angel Dust' and 'The Real Thing' and you will understand why I speak with such praise for them. Truly a diamond in the rough that is awfffffullll generic metal.
Yeah, a day earlier than the norm... don't ask us how we got it. Because I really wouldn't know the answer. I think Verizon may have released it a day early, or was it always released on a Monday? Oh it doesn't matter, either way it's new Lost material. So now it's time, as always, to announce who it is about.
It's a Jack/Juliet affair this week... you can feel the tension already. (If you didn't realise that was sarcasm.)
Jack is asleep, when Juliet wakes him up. She tells Jack that since he brought her to the Survivors camp Sayid, Sawyer and the others have not trusted her at all and think she is only there to hurt them like Ethan. Before Jack can say he will protect her, Juliet tells him that they are right to not trust her and she is still working for Ben. She explains to Jack that she has been sent to the camp to find out which of the women are pregnant. Jack asks Juliet why she is telling him this. She replies to him how she saw Sun's baby the night before and that she is sick of following orders from Ben via an analogy of dreaming.
Mobisode Rating: 1/5 - Wow! They succeded! "Operation Sleeper" had that been a full length episode it would of been quite a snoze fest.
As always (for the seeable future on these Mobisodes) Episode References.
- Takes Place During: D.O.C. - The Brig - Sun finding out about her baby: The Whole Truth
Next Week - Episode M06 - ...Title hasn't been announced yet.
You see, this is usually where I place some sort "It's Back" message and... this time it shall be no different.
It's back. With a Vengeance. As always. I need new mannerisms. And this full stop typing is annoying to read. I shall stop now. Now. OK, now. Now.
What happened to the first 6 UP's?
Oh yeah! 7up. It's been a while, I was hooked on the stuff as a child. Erm, marketing. I don't know, that's a good question. And something the "always reliable" Wikipedia cannot answer, all it does is list theories about the name's origin. Well you live and learn... you live and learn. So thanks to Wikipedia (Google rest it's soul) I cannot answer this first (For once, not) dumb question.
Why is the word dictionary in the dictionary?
Because it's a dictionary.
If God dropped acid, would he see people?
Lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD, LSD-25, or acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the tryptamine family. Probably the best known psychedelic, it has been used mainly as a recreational drug, an entheogen, and a tool to supplement various practices for transcendence, including in meditation, psychonautics, and illicit (though at one time legal) psychedelic psychotherapy, whether self-administered or not. It is synthesized from lysergic acid derived from ergot, a grain fungus that typically grows on rye and was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann. The short form LSD comes from its early codename LSD-25, which is an abbreviation for the German "Lysergsäure-diethylamid" followed by a sequential number. LSD is sensitive to oxygen, ultraviolet light, and chlorine, especially in solution, though its potency may last years if it is stored away from light and moisture at low temperature. In pure form it is colorless, odorless and mildly bitter. LSD is typically delivered orally, usually on a substrate such as absorbent blotter paper, a sugar cube, or gelatin. In its liquid form, it can be administered by intramuscular or intravenous injection. The threshold dosage level needed to cause a psychoactive effect on humans is of the order of 20 to 30 µg (micrograms). Introduced by Sandoz Laboratories as a drug with various psychiatric uses, LSD quickly became a therapeutic agent that appeared to show great promise. However, the extra-medicinal use of the drug in Western society during the mid-twentieth century led to a political firestorm that resulted in the banning of the substance for medicinal as well as recreational and spiritual uses. Despite this, the drug is still considered in some intellectual circles to show a great deal of promise as a medicinal substance. A number of organizations—including the Beckley Foundation, MAPS, Heffter Research Institute and the Albert Hofmann Foundation—exist to fund, encourage and coordinate research into its medicinal uses. So there.
How did Claudio Sanchez, of Coheed and Cambria fame, get such a clean straight blonde strip in his hair?
Now that's a good question! His hair is so large and thick you would think it would be more of a splodge of colour than a line. Whatever way it was done, it must of taking ages. And I mean ages, not "half an hour ages" like the time it took for my hair to be died blue. Yes, I've died my hair blue.
If rabbits' feet are so lucky, then what happened to the rabbit?
Erm... you know... the productiveness... of the erm... YO MAMMA! Swish!
What happens when a (somewhat) respectable blog resorts to "Yo Mamma" jokes?
Those Fatcats in Washington.
Is it possible to submit my own questions to the Three Rs?
The answer is YES!
I shall be taking in your entries for dumb questions you would like to see on the Three Rs. All you have to do is email the Three R's at the-3-rs@hotmail.com with the e-mail title "Dumb Questions" a list of however many questions you want, your name and a place of link if wanted.
The best 5 shall be featured in the next Dumb Questions. So get your entries in.
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