Herd of Cats

What the hell is all the hype about this damn movie. I just came back from watching it and frankly I was not too impressed. I give it a 6/10.

Shaky Cam is just some shitty gimmick and is certainly not original, since it was used in the Shit Witch project (I mean Blair Witch.). The shakiness wasn't even the worse part. It was the fact that the camera was always tilted at an angle.

The movie was short as hell too, I guess those fine art students ran out of money. This was a good thing since as I said before, it was only a 6/10. Read more

Ragz to richez or so they say
Ya gotta-keep pushin'
for the fortune and fame
It's all a gamble
When it's just a game
Ya treat it like a capital crime
Everybody's doin' their time

It's on! Burnout Paradise tonight!

Guba saves the day again! She is a super hero, just ask Rolly.

UPDATE: It's on! See above story.

Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home (Oh, won't you please take me home)

I know you all remember our Burnout Paradise plans for tonight.

Except, of course, that maybe...

...ummm.

...err Read more

Does anyone play TF 2 (on PC)?

The GRAW 2 Co-op Collection is now available for download through Xbox Live Marketplace.

No! We are not changing Thursday night!

We are committed to Burnout Paradise for Thursday (sorry Stormblade) but this GRAW2 expansion looks like a good option for our next LAN event – virtual or otherwise.

Thermaltake now offers an external Sata docking unit.

Just place the drive into the dock and you're running. It's just too cool, awesome to try to explain.

More info at the ThermalTake official site. Coxxorz will let us know how it works because he is ordering one as soon as he reads this...

Dear Diary,

I did it. I broke down. I abandoned my convictions - the very core of my being - and succumbed to the peer pressure of my so-called friends.

I went to Walmart and forked out 60 bucks for, yes I am sad to say, Burnout Paradise. I just couldn't handle the pressure! I was being mocked, ridiculed and ostracized by those I had once considered my friends.

They laughed.

They mocked.

It was just too much to bear. Read more

Burnout Paradise makes me rethink my position on the Xbox 360 Camera.

I haven't really thought much of the Xbox Live Vision other than borrowing one to setup my Angelina Jolie avatar for Rainbow Six Vegas.

My only experience with Burnout Paradise's use of the Vision camera was this comment from Tim Buckley at Ctrl-Alt-Del:

"I plugged in my vision camera to take a picture for my Paradise City License, which was cool. Then I realize that if you leave it plugged in, it tries to take a new picture every time your license is updated (which is a lot), so I yanked that sucker."

So I decided, yet again, that I didn't need one.

And you guys mocked it, but here it is in black and white!!

Er, well, whatever the Internet equivalent is ...

Welcome to Herd of Cats' Craft Corner™, with your host Blackwalt.

So last night Rolly and I pulled out the bin of K'Nex. Rolly just wanted to play, and did so. Moving K'Nex from the bin to a dump truck and back. He continually handed parts to me with a "here." I then proceeded to use said piece as creatively as I could, usually pocketing it as soon as he turned his back.

But I, I had something more practical in mind.

And after the second period of the NHL All Star game, here is what I had:

Let’s go through the process of a hypothetical clan member buying his next game.

This shouldn't be too hard. Let's pick between two games.

Okay, first game: What's new and Highly rated?

Burnout Paradise. Sounds good, let's look it up.

Download Xbox LIVE Arcade Game Undertow NOW!

Dark Nightowl phoned me at home to remind me!!

Undertow is the free game offered as an apology from Microsoft for the bad Live experience over Christmas.

I don't care if you want it or not, IT'S FREE!!!!

FREE!!!!

IT'S A FREE GAME!!!! Go get it!

Don't know if any of you have been following the battle between the morons at Fox News and Bioware's Mass Effect, but apparently a whole mass of gamers were.

And they took their revenge.

F'ing Bill Harris has a lot on the development of the story on his blog (which is worth reading anyway).

So I was at Best Buy in the west end last light, looking for a replacement bluetooth headset for my cel phone (which I lost at an official HoC function, BTW), when I decided to play around with the demo iPods.

The Xbox (or I should say, the Xboxo 360) has finally made money. It's only for the second quarter though, fuled by the price cut and Halo 3.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/the-xbox-turns-a-profit/