H3 (TGWSNBN for long..)

Well, this post goes out to Hoji.

I totally missed last night.

I got to confirm that I'm not all that bad at Grifball, I feel as if I "almost" beat your friend there but well..you know how that goes. I still can't believe I got a melee kill with the ball, he's really good heh.

I've been playing WoW a little bit, helping a friend get started actually, so that's going to take up quite a bit of time this weekend but I'm moving the Xbox back into my room so I can at least see who logs in if/when they do.

Ah, random thought!

My dad, after seeing and getting to know my computer, appropriately named "Gaming-Dream-01" has decided to get one as close to it as possible without breaking the thousand dollar mark. He ended up getting a decent computer, a little slower than mine at 2.2ghz dual core (amd) instead of 2.4ghz quad core (intel), and other than that "about" the same... at least we both have 2 gigs of ram, are running Vista Home Premium, and have GeForce 8800GT's as our video cards.

Oh No!

Well, it's my first stumble with my blog, I actually forgot to post anything almost all of this/last week. To those who might actually read this, Sorry!

Anyways, time for some updates hm?

1. New cable is in! I had a line ran for my computer from the router and a new cable line ran to another wall in my bedroom, 20 bucks for each run, the cables alone cost about that much, let alone if you had anyone else do it besides myself it would've cost a lot more.

2. No new tv yet, turns out I want to get new tires for my car first, I hate being so darned responsible... bleh.

3. Not sure what's going on with the girlfriend honestly, haven't heard from her for the past couple days even, guess I'll have to call her up and get her attention sometime this afternoon.

4. Our IT dept. now has a "work order" system for internal purposes, not in use yet but it looks like it will work out just fine, I just got done making the instructions for it.

5. Haven't played Xbox much lately, I actually went out and bought Age of Conan...and...it's good, suprisingly good.. Note: Slow down, read the text and savor the story because it's a good one.

Some of the coolest things about AoC though have to do with the fighting, everyone gets mortal kombat style fatalities (on chance), set someone aflame and watch them crumble to the ground screaming in pain, take a swing at someone's crotch and as they fall down bring your sword around in an arc, cutting off their head, swing left, taking out the left arm then right taking out the right arm and finally the head, crazy stuff like that.

Also, it actually matters WHERE you swing your sword, you have options for directions and even when doing a "special ability" some spells and abilities make you swing in certain directions, which can mean more damage if they're not actively guarding the side that you're swinging at.

Guarding: Everyone has three "defense points" or shields, default is that one is in front, one is to your left, one is to your right (can only swing left, right, forward so that's all you can block from). You can change these shields around (not suggested) and so can your enemy, sometimes you can fool an enemy into guarding one side heavily by focusing your attacks to that side of them before then switching sides to a completely unguarded side of their body, this works with combos too and can be VERY deadly. I haven't done PVP yet so I'm sure that's freaking crazy with people moving shields all the time, but in PVE, simply trick them into going 2 shields left, 1 shield up, and then lay into them with combos that make you attack their right side, boom, they're dead in no time.



Hoji, if you have a computer that meets minimum requirements, I'll buy you this game just so you can see it for yourself, it's cool. If you're interested email me at jihalizad2004@gmail.com

Minimum configuration (1024x768, detail reduced)
OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz or equivalent (Any dual core)
RAM: 1GB (Hopefully you have 2?)
Video card: NVIDIA Geforce 6600 or ATI Radeon 9800 (Would suggest at least Geforce 7000+)
DVD-ROM: Quad-speed (4x) DVD-ROM drive
Hard drive space: 32GB

What have I created...

Although at first my father had given up trying to learn the controls of the xbox, he's been watching me have too much fun trying to kill the flood... So he's back at it! My father is a bit weird, he started my gaming habit at the age of four fighting the british, spanish, french in the original, Pirates! for Commodore 64 (We still have the console, and yes it still works!). Now, on top of what I've already said, he's also played the Call of Duty series religiously, at least when I actually buy it (skipped number 3).

He's come a long way, from Commodore 64, Atari, NES, SNES, Gameboy, PS1-2, PC, Xbox, and I've followed him for the most part, leading him back to consoles with the Xbox, I can't wait to play Gauntlet with him in fact, we used to play that all the time to the point where I would just stare at him funny if he started running off to kill some ghost monster thing while I was waiting for him to come unlock a door, eventually it would end up getting us stuck.

Update on the Greenville LAN Queue messages: I logged in this morning, and found that three issues had been escalated and issued to me from Greenville, South Carolina. I'm sorely tempted to tell my boss (The plant controller [head accountant, deals with all the money]) that I need to take the company van and drive down to South Carolina to go fix a printer apparently, since I'm not hired yet though, I think I'll just keep that to myself and as a joke to my co-worker Jerry.

The Delay!

Sorry for the delay, long weekend and all combined with no work on monday means that I didn't have all sorts of time to kill at work. My job, while a good one, can sometimes get boring... Sometimes I'm working on a project, and that is time consuming leaving me a bit frazzled with no time to spare for a deadline or the like and sometimes...well sometimes I'm just kind of waiting for something to break so I can go put on my cape and mask and fly to the rescue like Freakazoid... Yeah, that's right... I said it.

Anyways, this means I have time for a blog...you got it, I write this thing in my spare time at work. Sometimes I wish I didn't have any spare time while at work, but I'm glad that I get to read other people's blogs and keep up to date on a few choice pieces of work, namely...

www.hojimoto.com <- Funny guy, who still owes me some skulls in Halo 3 XD lawl..

http://cranialhyperossification.blogspot.com/ <- Also funny, both him and Hoji work at some...megacorporation one... sounds like OCP to me. At least they have air freshner (ours are always out or broken, don't ask me how).

http://www.elfination.com/ <- You know that one person, who can always come right back with a quick comeback that seems perfect for the situation? I think it's her... not like I can be sure though, it is a blog. Overall she's quick and at times a bit...angry, but everyone gets that way sometimes, I hope things change for the better for her, moving again or something? I haven't kept good track.




Btw Hoji, I was doing the highway and got through the portal, getting a pickup to attack the towers, I died SO MANY TIMES it was pathetic, and on normal too, here's my death equation.
(Me + 3 sniper rounds - second weapon ammo + 3 grenades) X (2 wraiths [anti-air with gunners] + 2 ghosts) = Me + DEAD D E D DEAD!

The Good Ol' Days

Thinking about things lately, and doing my daily check of ICHC have really led me to believe there is no time like the present. I'm going to look back and say "Ah...those were the good ol' days." I just know it.

Between Kangaroo's getting fed while in...compromising positions, and seeing Leeroy Jenkins remixed into all sorts of settings (including Jeopardy) there's really too much funny with the world for things to seem all that bad.

On a side note, I need to play WoW more... and see if anyone wants to join me on there.

Surgeon General's Warning: It can get addicting if you simply can't manage your time, but honestly, I don't think I have any friends who would hop on it at some internet cafe and play nonstop until death like those weirdos in china, no wonder why they added "anti-addiction" code to their video games, guess life over there is just that bad that they'd rather play a game till they die than get up to get a drink and a sandwich or something.


Oh oh, update on the TV front!

The parentals...who have decided I cannot put the 42 inch flatscreen in the living room, have now hijacked my xbox and planned out the next few weeks of movie watching using dvd's that my dad burned off of all sorts of movies. You heard right people, the reason why they don't want me hooking the tv up in the living room (because I'd want my xbox on it), might now be null and void with the fact that they're wanting my xbox on the living room tv for their movie watching pleasure. We even watched "In the Name of the King" (awful in my opinion, very gimmicky, like watching a very very bad kung fu film) and "Music and Lyrics" (great movie, funny, and usually I hate that guy from some sort of strange...instinct)

Windows Media Center Extenders!

Well, judging by the title you probably wouldn't have guessed this post was about an Xbox huh? huh?

Anyways, for the past few days I've been experimenting with my router(Belkin), my pc(Vista), the family pc(XP), and my Xbox(Guess...). What for you might ask...well...to play all my favorite tv shows and movies over my tv via wireless link to my Xbox that's what for! I didn't even know this when I purchased my Xbox360 but it doubles as a "Media Extender" what that means is supposedly you can use it as somewhat of a tivo with playback from your PC that you connect it to.

After 5 hours of talking with both Belkin and Microsoft, I finally gave up trying to use it as an extender and settled for being able to have it look through My Documents, find videos, music, pictures, and display/play them on my TV. Sure I lost some functionality, but at least it works darnit! (By the way, as a Media Extender the Xbox can only hook up to ONE pc, but as just a normal Xbox, it can view and play any files in any shared folders on ANY computer in your network!)

What this Means: I can now download my favorite anime from www.dattebayo.com (Currently Bleach ep. 170) and play it over my TV (or any tv in the house) using my xbox while I'm on the PC doing other things, chatting it up with friends, grinding/fishing in WoW, all that good stuff.

Also, no Blu-Ray Drive on your Xbox? No big deal! You can stream HD content EASILY.

Basically, I'm getting a 42" Toshiba LCD here in...about 3 weeks, I can set that tv up in my room, hook my xbox up to it, and play anything I want on it from my computer Note: I'm buying a DVI to HDMI cable as well ($35) so I can play PC games over it if I want.

Just for Reference

Hey, before you start asking questions look up *points to the title* this is for anyone wondering who I am or what I'm playing on my Xbox 360. By the way, feel free to add me if you play any of the same games as I do.

Gamertag: Carve Her

Games: GTA IV
Multiplayer Preference - LOTS of fun, have hardly touched single player.

Army of Two
Looking for a partner for Multiplayer

Gears of War
Looking for a partner for Multiplayer

Halo 3
Looking for a partner for Multiplayer

Beautiful Katamari
I'm awful at it but thought it'd be fun, it is a little bit but it would be better if it weren't always timed... I just wanna roll man, I don't want to fight a clock while trying to pick up certain sweets...I just wanna roll! *cries*

Iron Man
Simple game, a lot more fun than I thought it would be, it's nice and graphically gorgeous, at least...the actual gameplay is, the cut-scenes kinda suck which is very odd..

Devil May Cry IV
Haven't even played it yet! I have it, I liked the first one, hoping to like this one too but having way too much fun in GTA IV running around with my helicopter.