| Alien vs. Predator Requiem |
| June 23, 2008 |
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I recently watched Alien vs. Predator Requiem. I didn't go into the movie thinking it was going to be anything great and I'm really glad. Be warned, there are spoilers here. It wasn't even anything good. I'm not entirely sure why they made this movie.
The movie featured some of the basic items from the previous Alien and Predator movies. The Predator had two shoulder weapons instead of one. In fact, the Predator had all of the weapons out of the previous movies plus a few more. I thought it was neat when one of the shoulder weapons was removed in order to be turned into a space aged sawed off shotgun.
AvP:R also featured an Alien Predator hybrid. Certainly different, but not all that great. The Aliens went kind of nuts in the town they dropped into. They killed, something like, 90% of the town in about a day. The U.S. Military managed to take care of the rest.
While the action scenes were well done, I never felt like the Predator was in any real danger until the end. Then, instead of giving us a clear winner, everyone was blown up. If they make another movie, I hope they will finally give us a winner instead of copping out.
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| Notepadit |
| September 13, 2007 |
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Below are links to a zip and a rar of Notepadit v1.0
Download Rar
Download Zip
This is a small program that sits in your SystemTray. Right click on it for a menu.
Todo
Add delete button for individual notes
Convert links to clickable links
Export notes to text file
Export and mail note(s) to an address
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| Skate. |
| September 13, 2007 |
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I've been playing the Skate demo on 360 a lot lately. In fact, aside from a little counter-strike last night, I haven't been playing anything else. There is a good review over at 1up, it was linked in yesterdays post, that you can read if you want more information.
What I want to talk about is how much more interesting the game is than the Tony Hawk series. Everything about it from the camera angle to the difficulty of the tricks is so much better. Even when landing a trick there are differences.
In Tony Hawk you always realized you were going to bail before it happened. If the board was sideways or a trick wasn't quite complete you were going to fall. In Skate, you have control over your board and your avatar independently with the right and left thumb sticks. If you land and your weight is uneven on the board, front or back, you may fall. If you use the left stick to adjust your weight in the other direction, you may save yourself from bailing.
Unlike Tony Hawk, there is no balance meter in Skate. If you are grinding your balance on the pipe, curb, or edge is mostly dependent on your momentum. Even if you stop completely you can save yourself by ollieing off before you bail.
There are things in Skate that aren't really possible like they were in Tony Hawk. When grinding in Skate, you can kickflip or heelflip to another grind on the same rail but you can't do it 20 times. You have to be careful with shuvits as well. A big difference between the two games is that when you are grinding in Skate you can use the thumbsticks to readjust the board into different types of grinds or just slide off onto the ground. In Tony Hawk you had to pay so much attention to the balance meter you couldn't really look at the grind you were doing.
Air is different as well. In Skate getting big air is a bit more difficult and doing more than one grab in the air is dangerous. By the same token, you can't do 5 kickflips in a row while you are in the air. Physics just doesn't work that way, you would simply kick the board away from yourself.
Skate is more about timing and physics and it makes the game more of a simulation. While this can be unforgiving when you don't ollie over a curb (and bail), it makes for a much more interactive experience when it comes to the world. You won't be grinding power lines in Skate, but you won't be bored after 20 minutes either.
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| New way... |
| June 13, 2007 |
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| Ive added a Twitter style functionality to the site. Now i can update from my phone too. Yea, that will happen. |
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| Sepak Takraw |
| April 17, 2007 |
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| If you get a chance, check this sport out. Look for it on YouTube or Google it. The sport started out in Southeast Asia and has spread slowly across the globe. It is, essentially, soccer, volley ball, and footbag combined. It is not a sport I could ever play, but it is very entertaining to watch. |
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