2007....... THE LOL-TREES AWARDS!!!

It's what you've all been waiting for. Seeing as every website (mainly videogame related) is doing awards, i thought id jump on the bandwagon...

Best Episode of TV
Lost Season Finale - Many YEAH NICE! moments, and a killer ending that reminded us why, despite all the filler, slow pacing and crap flashbacks, we still watch lost.

Runners up - Heroes: 5 years gone - Aahh this was awesome. Pointless, yet awesome; incredibly well made for a tv show - Greys Anatomy -That one with the Bazooka shell... - The episode that made this show go from a fun little hospital show to a real good drama

Worst Episode of the Year
Doctor Who - Christmas Special - jesus, why would anyone voluntarily watch this bullcrap?? Awful in every way, and, as ive been forced to watch them before, even worse than previous years.

Runners Up - lost - That one with Jack and the tatoos... - Any Episode of Big Brother this Year; it was even worse than normal...

Game Of the Year (GOTY YAY!)
Super Mario Galaxy - In the words of Reggie, 'the true successor to Super Mario 64'. Textbook platforming at its finest, imaginative worlds, bosses, and the best music and graphics seen on the wii... its just awesome fun!! Still, i havn't actually finished it yet...- Then again, i haven't actually played a whole load of the games in this 'golden year of gaming' - Bioshock, COD4, Orange box, i all need to be buying...
Runners up - Okami - great painty-wolfy-Zelda released early in the year - Assassin's Creed - Come on admit it, it was good fun

Pre-2007 GOTY
Resident Evil 4 - Thought id add this catagory as i spend half the year playing old GC and PS2 games. Anyways i just got to the final boss of this today, and by god its so damn good!! Kicking Zombies heads off, kneecapping and cutting at their heads, and the kick ass 'WOTCHA BUYING.... STRANGER' Dude

Runners up - Pokemon Yellow, Shadow of the Colossus

Album of the YearKlaxons - Myths of the Near Future - Well it shouldn't have beaten Bat for Lashes for the mercury prize, but this was a good exciting album with some pretty cracking tunes. And wow good keyboards in rock music!!

Runners up - Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightware - Good 'tricky second album' - Enter Shikari - Take to the Skies - Bloc party - Weekend in the City

Anime of the Year
Death Note - Probably the easiest choice of all these awards, Death Note a brillaint twisty turny plot, well thought out, intricate and clever from beginning to end, and with some of the most memorable characters - ok mainly L - which i have ever seen.


Runners Up - Baccano!, Nice Pulp Fiction-esque mafia story, kinda confusing - Darker than Black - Stupidly erratic in quality, that nonetheless had some of the best episodes i have ever seen; episodes 13 - 14, aswell as a fantastic ending and beautiful soundtrack.

Virtual Console Game
Gunstar Heroes - Now my friend was very much unimpressed by this in co-op, but really he's mental; the game is crazy, a kick ass run and gun shooter with some crazy weapons that you can merge together. Pretty hard aswell and and awesome board gameish final level.

Runners up - Lylat Wars, Pokemon Snap

Art Exhibition
Andy Goldsworthy in the Yorkshire Sculpture park- Don't really feel like writing about this since writing 10 pages on it for an art thesus, but trust me he makes some incredibly interacate natural sculptures, out of raw materials; sticks and stones.

Runner Up - Millais at tate Britain

Best Surprisingly good thing
Mario Strikers Charged - Just fun gameplay and great 2 player per console online made for surpising amounts of fun and swearing on the wii earlier this year.

Runner up - Extras Christmas Special - Not only was this 10000x better than fucking Dr Who, but it was all very moving in the ending - nearly made me cry - and was actually close to Office quality

Nicest thing i ate
Fish in San Fransisco - Aahh it was so good. Went to the same resturant twice in a row cause most the rest were always full. the waiter remembered our drinks and everything. Anyways the meal was gawjus

Runner up - Clam Chowder in Monterey

Oh yeh, and i'm annoyed; nearly got 1000 (unique) hits on this blog, but nearly all of them have come from a measly 3 line post moaning about fireworks. Maybe i should just not bother doing good posts anymore...

Woo lets steal some links!!!

Stolen from other blogs... (Im far to lazy to find stuff myself)

the Excellent Thule Trail

http://www.thuleroadtrip.com/thule_trail/thuleTrail.html

Basically a road trip simulator, which is way more fun than it sounds. Use names of people you know for extra amusement. I got 2495 final score...
(thanks to www.screwyouhippy.com for finding that)

And a Brilliant survey - How many Five year olds could you take in a fight?

http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/

This short survey will tell you approximately how many five year old children you could fight at once. Results are based on physical prowess, training, swarm-combatting experience, and the flexibility of your moral compass. Here are the ground rules:

You are in an enclosed area roughly the size of a basketball court
There are no weapons or foreign objects
Everyone is wearing a cup (so no kicks to the groin)
The children are merciless and will show no fear
If a child is knocked unconscious, he is "out." The same goes for you.

I can apparently take only 19. I think i could take way more than that.... gee...

Which leads me to talk about the excellent Dead Rising, which is practically Dawn of the Dead: the game. I picked it up cheap today, as part of the huge backcatalogue of 360 games i need to get, and from the moment i picked up a bench and tore through hundreds of zombies, i knew it was brilliant. Plantpots, Kitchen knives, coat hangers and teddy bears can all be used for comic amusement to make this a great game.


Aaahhh yeaah

Christmas and other such awesomes. And some shit.

The Awesome

- Pulp fiction, Kill Bill, and (surprisingly) Love Actually
- The ending of extras - surprisingly close to office quality.
- Macbook rules the roost in every way
- Gift vouchers and the like to buy Bioshock and Dead rising in the sales
- A cardigan, heh
- Classic stocking... Chocolate and satsumas alike.
- Heima - Sigur Ros Dvd

The Shit

- Forgetting your fucking passwords. Can't use the same godamn one every time cause differnt things have different rules about password lengths. 7 characters is enough alright!!
- My fucking cousin. He has a wii, an elite 360, a ps3, a psp, and a ds. Oh and a laptop. Did i mention he's about 12?
- Msn on leopard
- Having to transfer everything over from pc to mac. Errggh...
- Being forced to watch Dr Who with family... man that program is shit!!

Also, this amused me about the Safari browser...

'When private browsing is turned on, webpages are not added to the history, items are automatically removed from the Downloads window, information isn't saved for AutoFill (including names and passwords), and searches are not added to the pop-up menu in the Google search box. Until you close the window, you can still click the Back and Forward buttons to return to webpages you have opened.'

They may aswell call it 'porn browsing'

Oh yeh and...

Promo for lost season 4...



Looks fucking MENTAL!!

There was some people who didn't like the ending of season 4(cough screwyouhippy cough) But i myself thought it was about the best 2 hours of TV i seen for years. Roll on 31st of January, it's going to be immense. So long as it's better than the first few episodes of season 3 anyway...

And unrelated, i'm playing resi 4 again now, god it's good...

Futurama and other thoughts

Bender's big score is out?? Since when?
Oh wait, thats right, it's not in UK cause we never get anything on time.
Still, it looks good, i expect i'll watch on veoh within the next few days...

Also i now have pokemon snap on the virtual console. it's awesome :D



Also, someone needs to invent a website which lists average playtimes of games. Cause i can't be bothered with long games these days, and also i wanna see how long left i have in the numerous games i need to finish see below

And since yesterday, i have a new favorite film in Fight Club. It' so fucking awesome, if you havn't seen it yet go buy the dvd. I'd always thought it was just about two blokes who form, well, fight club. It's so much more...


Ain't a huge amount i can say without divulging the mega-twist, but believe me it's amazing. And The Pixies' Where Is My Mind fits the ending perfectly.

Meanwhile, theres a hell lot of good films on TV this xmas. Motorcycle diaries, Amelie, Pan's Labyrinth, the Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, all among the goodness. Oh and theres the Extra's Christmas special, which hopefully will be alright. Not a patch on the office though, obviously.

Top 10 games i never finished playing

Looking though my fairly large libary of games yesterday, i realised just how many of them id never got round to finishing; a bad habit mainly due to getting bored of them.
So heres my favorite games-which-i-never-beat. Maybe this'll convince me to get round to finishing soma them off...

(not counting games i have recently bought)

10 - Jak 3 - This first one wasn't so muych my fault, as my ps2 decided to cock up and die halfway through playing it. I kept the game but gave my memory card to a friend, to get it back a year later, when i bought a new system. But i'd lost all my saves for all my games and didn't much fancy playing through it all again
9 - Dark chronicle - Sequel to the awesome Zelda clone Dark cloud, this was a pretty good game that was for much of the time essentially a dungeon crawler; something i got bored of before the end. Nonethless, fish racing was pretty sweet.
8 - Link to the past - Just kinda forgot what i was supposed to be doing and gave up.... QUITTER!
7 - Final Fantasy X - The only Final Fantasy i have owned (apart from tactics), and as i bought it a for a tenner a couple years after it was released, i just couldn't be bothered with seeing the 50 and whatever game through... Looked good though, from the tenish hours i put in.
6 - Zelda Majora's mask - I'm now waiting for this on VC. I was fairly youngish when i got this, and not the fully fledged gamer that you needed to be to beat this, the hardest Zelda evaarr
5 - Lost in Blue - I actually really enjoyed this game, and got so close to escaping before i gave up. Think it's cause i couldn't be bothered to trek all the way across the island and back, and prepare food and ect. And all with that slow blind girl aswell... (sexism in videogames!!)
4 - Legend of Zelda - Wind Waker - Hey wow another Zelda! Thats right, i couldn't be bothered with the shitty, crappy, bollocks triforce hunt...
3 - Resident Evil 4 - Yeh, thats right, i never finished this. In fact, again, i bought it on the cheap years after it's release, and was damn glad i did. But somewhere on the 4th chapter i got meself a 360, and got distracted by that instead. I'll finish one day though...
2 - Tales of Symphonia - Ok this game was f***ing awesome; if ida finished it woudld proably be one of my top 5 games of all time. The combat system was real fun for an rgp, great cel shaded graphics, and the characters where great (if cliched). But it was another game that i bought years after it's released, and i relaised that i'd probably never have time to finish it when i remembered that, after 30ish hours in, i was still only on the first disk...
1 - Shadow of the Colossus - Regarded by many as the ps2's best game, GOTY and so on, whilst others are completely oblivious to it. For those who don't know, its a game where the only aim you have is to track down and defeat 16 enormous beasts, of 'colossus', in a bid to rescue your girl - and i got stuck on the sonofabitch 11th. No towns, no mundane quests, no sidequests, just killing em. Now this is another which i really, really need to go back and finish playing through, as it again is potentially one of the best games i have ever played, epic and beautiful in every way. It also has apparently one of the best endings ever in a game, though i have been partly spoiled...


Fuck yeh

Heroes season 2 roundup

As you might have noticed, i didn't bother with reviewing the last heroes of season 2, mainly because to be frank i was a little disapointed. Not to say it was bad, but after a friend kept describing it to me as if it were the second coming of jesus, it was abit of a letdown.

In fact, it made the ending of s1, which was shown last week on bbc, seem pretty good, and i remember thinking it rubbish. Still corny though... 'all you need is love'...


Yeh i know, irrelevant image.... but it's cool.

They tied up the Adam storyline nicely, but not very interestingly, and, again, too predictiably. His plotline was pretty sucky anyway. And i still think he'll be able to dig out of that grave, i mean what else is he gunna be doing in there? Expect him back mid season 4 (hopefully not)

They've given us some nice stuff to theorise about aswell; was Noah the killer? Why did he suddenly become 86% less of a badass? And yeh, sylar's baacckk...

Anyway, season 2 was average to poor in comparison to the first, but im still looking forward to volume 3, whenever it will be coming out...

Baccano! - Impressions

Well as you might but probably don't know, i been looking for a decent anime to watch ever since i finished Death Note, but nothing has come close to being as good as it, and i kept giving up on shows after the first episode. But the other day i remembered about this one that id been meaning to watch; Baccano! (yes, the ! really is part of the name)

Anyways its freakin awesome, i mean how can it not be, its an anime about the fucking mafia!!

It has great animation and character design, fitting Bebop-like jazzy music, and decent action scenes, with not shortage of blood and gore. Most cruicially, though, it has an interesting and dynamic plot.

There is a huge ensemble of characters; especially for such a short show of 13 episodes, as you can see from the OP below. The plot cuts between them frequently, as they cross paths and shiz.



So then, Bacanno! seems to, unlike many certain other animes i have watched, have a plot that every episode seems to be contributing to; rather than just a bunch of mini arcs; it almost seems more like live action drama shows like 24 or the sopranos at times than your average anime.
It revolves around this bunch of dudes who have the power to regenerate, this giving some awesome scenes as people are literally ripped apart with miniguns, only to get up, unphased, just a few minutes later.

I shall have to see if this greatness can be retained through the rest of the show... i shall most probably finish by sometime later this week... (!)

Why Opera > your internet browser - Review of sorts

Opera is pretty much the one thing that keeps me from picking up my computer and chucking it accros the room on a regular basis. Heres a screenshot of me running it and a list of 5 awesome features it has.



1 - Tabbed browising - Actaully works, brilliantly, unlike ie, which dies once you have more than about 3 tabs open. Also it had it before ie and hence they copied it...

2 - Mouse gestures - (not seen) Just hold right click, move the mouse to the left, and let go, and voila, you go back a page!! So much easier and quicker than pressing back, or backspace. Also you can clone pages to a new tab just as easily.
This feature warrants the download in itself; saves so much time, becomes invauable.

3 - You can customise EVERYTHING - I made mine red with this nice theme. You can have it looking like ie / firefox if you prefer, or download whatever theme you liek on the site.

4 - Speedial - main page shown - opens when you click a new tab. Practically like having 9 homepages

5 - Add shortcuts to sites on the toolbar; incase opening a new tab wasn't quick enough

Of course there are many more great things; saving sessions, widgets, much more, and it just seems generally faster, and in every way better than internet explorer. Do yourself a favour, ownload it, NOW

Ha, wikipedia

This website shows the top 100 most viewed articles on wikipedia in november

Here are my favorites
8 - Deaths in 2007 (Why are so many people searching that?
17 - List of sex positions
18 - Sex (evidently many people are unsure what this is and need to read up on it
29 - Masturbation
32 - Sexual intercourse
43 - Anal sex
68 - Pornography
75 - Penis (again, people need to find out what this is?)
98 - Vagina

Bear in mind that these all got at least 2 million hits
Basically the internet is full of a bunch of freaks

New Banner ^.^

As you can see, i have a new banner, made by reader Jonny using frames from my old (crud) comics blog.

I then preceeded to mess it up
It didn't fit the required dimensions, and so i had to do some shoddy ms paint editing to make it fit the blog header. And while i was at it i added some spots and spike things round the edge of the light orange. Basically ruined it then.

Anyways why am i still up, i need sleep.

Urban dictionary

Here are just 4 of the many defintitions from urban dictonary

Emo

Like a Goth, only much less dark and much more Harry Potter.
My life sucks, I want to cry.

Geek

Not to be confused with Nerd. A geek does not have to be smart, a Geek is someone who is generaly not athletic, and enjoys Video Games; Comic Books; being on the internet, and etc.
Only a geek would waste their time on the internet, defining geek on urbandictionary.com

Trees

A word for pot, parent friendly
Mom: where are u off to
Kid: to get some trees
Mom: o thats nice

Myspace

Why myspace sucks and so do you

1) Cool New People - No. These schmucks are not "Cool." The fact that they are the first thing you see when you log on is a fucking travesty. Why anyone would label these folks "Cool" is beyond our comprehension. At this point we wanted to turn back, but we forged on through the terror in the name of science.

2) Your Goddamn Pictures - "Hay guyz i hav this gr8 idea i think i shud take a pikkchur of myself in da mirrur holding teh camerah at a weiurd angle isnt that original guyz? Am i rite?" Believe it or not, we've caught on to your little tricks. We know that you are fat, ugly, have one eye, and shitty skin, and the crappy emo picture isn't fooling anybody. If you have the inclination to be really artsy, alternative, and original, and if you feel that taking a photo of yourself in the bathroom mirror is the way to do it, at least have the decency to wipe your dried jizz off the mirror. Oh but wait, there in the "View more pics" section you have those cute pictures of you and your buddies with beer in your hand. OMG GUYZ ITS BEER AND WE'RE LIKE 2TALLY UNDERAGE HOW BADASS ARE WE. Grow the fuck up, no one cares. And then you selfish bastards crop your friends out of the pictures so we all know who the attention whore is. We can clearly see their shoulder floating next to you.

3) About Me - Chances are no one comes to your MySpace to learn about how you "dont hav much 2 say" about yourself. These over-glorified AIM profiles contain some of the most useless crap ever to bombard our eyes. If you feel it is appropriate to contribute any information to this section, you're wrong. Save everyone the trouble of reading about your generic, pointless life and do something more productive. Like getting hit by a bus.

ect ect

Thats right, i copyed and pasted a loada stuff so you all thought id done a proper entry, ha. Bitch.

On a completely unrelated note,


Dunno how they're selling so good, i've had one for a couple years, and iv only bought about 5 games for it...

And lastly some dude said he'd make me a banner this weekend. How sweet will that be!?! Not very.

RSS Hugger

So apparently this is going to help me get some views for my blog. Hey, i need to get more than the 3 / 4 regular readers that my stats would suggest i have.

Anyway i need to tell you all to go here http://www.rsshugger.com/ and rave about how great it is. And to be fair it looks like a good site, neatly laid out and slick lookin'. Remains to be seen whetehr it will actually help atall but we shall see...

Heroes and more.

So there was new internet heroes the other day, 2nd last one before the strike. I can't be bothered to write anything up proper, or find a pic, so...

I was less than impressed, especially after last weeks megaton

Hopefully it will end good-ly though.

Meanwhile i have a new aim fo rthe end of the year; finish 4 games.

Cause i always get games and give up / get bored halfway through.
So i shall aim to finish...
- Super mario galaxy
- Assasin's Creed
- Resident evil 4 (thas right, still aint finished it)
- Sin and punishment

Wish me luck. ... ...

IM MR T AND IM A NIGHT ELF MOWHAWK

WHATS YOUR GAME?

Heroes 2x09 - Also known as INSANITY

Well im writing this a full 2 days after watching, so i won't bother saying much, but basically, just watch it, watch it NOW.

Its absoloutly brilliant. Mr Bennet gets more and more awesome, and even West is pretty cool (exception: *feeble voice*'mr butler, what are you doing??') The whole episode was twisty and turny like all good tv should be, especially including the mega twist at the end, which i won't say in case someone hasn't watched... but phew!!


Badass

The whole episode is generally edited really well; elle's electric coming out being awesome, as with Hiro finding the identity of his father's killer. And its all silenced anyone (me included) who had thought that season 2 was starting to go abit downhill.... (heh yeh, that includes me)
Anyways, point is that it was almost the best heroes ever, coming second too...

... Five years gone, which was on BBC last night. Hopefully not too many people missed it due to the football, 'cause its the best damn episode in the world. I have it recorded to watch tonight (having seen it on tvlinks a few months back)

Fuuucck

Cocking hell.

Knocked outta the euro 2008... before we even got there...

At least the keeper redeemed himself (very, very slightly)

SHITE

Our goalkeeper SUCKS!!
SUCKS!!!

DAMNIT we better start playing better!!!!!

Im off to watch proper'

Tissues at the ready

Well i saw this at Gonintendo the other day, and it honestly nearly reduced me to tears, so i thought id share it.

http://gonintendo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/1195228363024wj2.jpg

Ghost Hound first 4 episodes - Impressions

Well i was trying to hold up on writing about Ghost Hound until i'd got some sort of grasp about whats going on in it. However, it soon became apparent that that wasn't going to happen any time soon.

For those of you who don't know, (read: everyone), Ghost hound is an anime (yeh, sorry) that started last month, and will be running for 22 episodes. It has been hailed already as the 'gem of the fall season' so i tought id try it out.

The plot focuses on the paranormal, following Toro, a kid who, after being abducted with his sister 11 years ago, has had OBE's in his sleep (outter-body experiences) that he trys to make sense of. The whole him and his sister storyline seems to be the main one throughout the show.

The characters range from great to fairly generic; the feeblish underdog in Toro, Makoto as the cool grumpy kid, the mysterious Miyako, and the brilliantly camp Masayuki; who is later revealed to having a very interesting dark past...
All the characters, like like Toro, experience OBEs throught the show, achieved by a variety of means; Makato, for example, getting them through use of his guitar.



Sound is a key part of the anime, all setting an extremely atmospheric tone that fits the genre well. Speaking of sound, check out the op, its one of the best i've seen^^

Anyways, Ghost hound is an anime with alot of potential, and i havn't quite decided if its extremely boring or extremely interesting. Time will tell....

Galaxy & Creed

So i went and bought both games earleir today, and have so far had about an hour and a bit on each. GOD THEY'RE BRILLIANT

Assassin's Creed - Prince of Persia meets Hitman meets GTA meets Shadow of the Collosus (sorta) Doesn't get much better. The whole freerunning stuff works a treat and is fantastic fun to do. Even the story seems somewhat interesting, with the whole duel-timelines thing; reminds me of 'Spies' abit; book im reading atm. Apparently the game gets pretty repetitive after a while but we shall see...

Super Mario Galaxy - Eek and squeak it looks great so far. The whole mini worlds is just awesome Best looking wii game so far. In fact best wii game in general it might seem. Probably why its currently holidng the top gamerankings average score ever then.

Anyways id love to stay and write some more, but to be honest id prefer to go back to playing them. Or more likely, getting some sleep... o_o zz

What a Game!!

Just incase anyone hasn't wasted at LEAST 15 minutes on this game, here we go.


Slimeathlete are a bunch of rubbish-looking flash games that actually really kick ass. Theres football & volleyball, rubbish ones like cricket & rugby,
and crazy ones like power slime. They are generally awesome and 2 player which is even greater. Go play.


Slime Soccer - Happily far better than it looks

http://www.slimeathlete.com/show.php?page=index

NARUTO: Shippuuden ep. 34

Okay so im banking on the fact that pretty much everyone who has somehow stumbled accross this blog and read it couldn't give less of a flying fuck about anime. But you know what? Screw you okay?

Because lately Naruto Shippuden (or should i say shit-uden, ahahaha... no) has been wasting hours of my life and i want them back. Particularly evident with the last episode; 20 minutes of absoloutely nothing happenening. Fucking waste.

For a little background on naruto, it began with a series that ran for an original 220 episodes, which up until 130 were, on the whole, seriously good. Then there were about 20 years oif filler, or 90 episodes, half of which i didn't bother watching. This ment that litterally nothing happened to advance the plot in any way. Then, earlier this year, a new series begins called Naruto Shippuden, set 3 yearsish after the original series.

So everyone has been looking forward to it, but so far it's been laregly a load of spun out fucking drivel, exceptions of a couple of good episodes.



This guy was looking to be a good new character, but then in the last episode, he started wearing this extremely mind-scarring-disguisting-tank-top type thing. WHY?!?!

Meanwhile, after seeing the original series being completely ruined, destroyed, murdered by the horrendous cartoon network dub while i was in the US, i feel even more like a loser for watching it.
/rant

Anyways i should be picking up Super Mario Galaxy and Assassin's Creed laters so maybe i'll do some impressions....

Heroes Episode Review

Four Months Ago - Episode 8 - Season 2

Well i must say i'm slightly let down. Heres the good and bad

- Good - Peter's story continues to be pretty watchable, and Adam has gone from an annoying character to a potentially awesome one in just one short episode!!

- Bad - Nikki's story - Largely unnessasary. Id have prefered fro DL to have died after Linderman shot him an all.

- Bad - Maya and Alejandro - pretty much a complete waste of time. We already guessed how it more or less started. Not even very exciting.

Meanwhile, that new woman is pretty hot. & extremely annoying but then that's the point.

Also, Zachary Quinto was in 24????



I will have to watch that season again...

Hand mangeling

I thought ID had a bad weekend. I...
- Cut real deep into my thumb when i was trying to open a sachet of stir fry sauce with a knife
- Cut it with sharp lino cutting tools whilst cutting for a lino print
- Cut it on a big ass thorn in the garden



This is a friends after paintballing.
Good times.
Sucker.

ARG FU** £)^&£%)^*£"%

CUNTS.

Pretty much the sole FUCKING reason that i got Tom clancy goes to Vegas (yes thats what im calling it) was for the 4 player co-op. You know, the one thats only available on fucking system link and live?! CUNTS.

And it says 4 p splitscreen on the box; i CHECKED IT in the shop before i bought it. Then the otherday, couple friends round and we set it up.... oh, 2 player maximum. So we all got annoyed and we played the botless, offline, but at least fucking 3 player halo instead (360 really needs some good offline multiplayer)


Lies!! the Boxart Lies!!!


and so i check on the internet. Search a forum to find;

Originally Posted by muddy_rope (sorry, who calls themselves muddy rope anyway?)
on the back of the boxs it says 4 player split
--
Correct!!

But it's a mis-print!! I couldnt do it so asked ubisoft and they told me it is wrong!!

FUCKING HELL. What a complete WASTE of money. Well okay, sngle player's good, and the 2p co-op is admittedly fun, but they cant be getting away with this!!

To repeat my point, CUNTS.

Tree of the Week

Don't go thinking i've forgotten about this feature, no sirey, no was jóse. Here we go for tree of the week #2

TREEBEARD

To quote wikipedia
"Treebeard Fangorn is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. He is the oldest of the Ents, tree-like beings who are the "shepherds of trees". Very tall and stiff-limbed, with bark-like skin and leafy hair, he befriends Merry and Pippin after they escape from orcs. Under their influence, he causes the downfall and imprisonment of Saruman, the head of the Istari. He lives in the Forest of Fangorn, which is named after him, or he after it."


Treebeard was sad to hear that nobody bothered reading far enough to know about him

I can't pretend that i'm a Lord of the Rings geek; having started reading the trilogy only to give up during the Two Towers (god they were so boring!!) But i can remember Treebeard and his mates being COMPLETE BADASSES in the film, and being mates with Merry and Pippin... which in itself puts him on the Tree of the Week list.

Also, with a name like 'Treebeard', how could you not love him? Treebeard. For fucks sake....

'Nintendo turned me Noob'

I recently got a 360, and with it halo 3, and now oblivion, perfect dark (avoid, its shit) & most recently Tom Clancy blah blah Vegas. It became clear whilst playing the later that over the past couple of years i've lost my knack for being, ya know, good, at video games.

And i blame it all on fucking Nintendo.
With their lack of any properly decent games for Wii and last years of the gamecube, i've become out of practice, and as a result, been getting my ass handed to me by Vegas. Lets have a look at the good proper wii games out in Europe. Theres Zelda, aka ocarina 1.5, the relitavly lackluster Red Steel, and - Hang on, thats about it. No wonder i've been slipping.

The good news is that finally some good wii games seem to be coming, (Galaxy, Brawl, No more heroes) but after a 3 - 4 year drought of barely buying anything, im suddenly overloaded with choice, especially considering the mammoth catalogue of good 360 games that i should be getting.



& then hopefully i'll have some serious practice for by the time i get round to bothering to buy a live subscription (fucking microsoft, why isn't it free??)

Meanwhile in the world...

- Life drawing, aka naked people drawing, is be the most awkward thing in the world.

- I really need to get proper handwriting

- I really need a new fucking computer. This one has 256mb ram. For the non-geeks, thats absoloute shit.

- Thanks to the bloke at screwyouhippy.com for the link to me.... yeh.

Zero Punctuation - Phantom Hourglass

Gotta love abit of Yahtzee



Hope everyone gets the Okami reference at the end an all

Make sure you check out his halo 3 review aswell.

Heroes, episode 7, season 2

OUT OF TIME

Well this episode was just AWESOME. Heroes is just AWESOME. If you've never seen it, GO WATCH it, and don't come back 'till you have.

A happy moment came in this episode in the form of the end of Hiro's rubbish going-into-the-past story arc, and they even made it vaguely useful to the rest of the story at the end, as we met the mysterious Adam. A pretty obvious twist (and obvious end to the plotline altogether), but it was all very well excecuted.


This is Masi Oka on hearing the news that his character's rubbish storyline has finished and he can go back to being awesome.

Elsewhere, Peter went into the future, which perhaps wasn't quite as good as i was hoping it to be (considering the amazing good-ness of '5 years later' in season 1) But it was still interesting in setting the theme for the rest of the season.

Even West didn't get on my nerves as much as he usually does this time, and Claire standing up to 'Noah' was pretty cool to see.

I'll be looking forward, as usual, to the next episode (and no, i havn't seen the promo, must stop watching them...)

Episode rating - 9 / 10

Tv-links hath shutdown - alternatives

As im sure you know, the popular neat and generally kick ass tv-links.co.uk was shut down a couple weeks back. To people like me, who had been watching stuff like heroes and lost via it, this came as some fucking annoying news. But here we go with a list of alternative site to replace tv links. God im too kind to you invisible readers.

1 - Alluc.org - I was actually using this beforetv-links and its very good. Not quite as clearly laid out and not as regularly updated, but a good 2nd best.

2 - http://flickpeek.com/ - Adverty cluttered and messy but still does it's job

3 - http://powerflv.com/ - Has like tons and tons of stuff, seems pretty sweet.

and not forgetting the sites the they all link to; dilymotion.com , divx at stage6 (Sweet quality), and the best, VEOH.com
Veoh is awesome, but sadly their now making people download their web player thing to watch videos. Which is shit. But, it works well so it's not too bad.

Point is, with all them sites, your streaming needs should be covered. Sweet.

YES its a linkdump

http://www.screwyouhippy.com/ - This dude practically inspired me to start a blog. Only differnece between our is his is better and people actually read it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m7Jh1BV1EOc - Canon rock 2 'cause this guy is fucking awesome

http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/n.html - Like best game ever. Your like a crazy ninja who runs around and stuff. I'll do a proper post on it later.

http://projectrockstar.com/index.asp - cos its 'teh shit'

http://comicsfromthemoon.blogspot.com/ - Blog i did with a friend a while ago. Actually don't bother its balls

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_FXJGirhDtE - This is the only successful internet thing i've ever done. An yeh, its bullshit, i actually feel sick when i watch it. Well that was the point, but there we go...

Cybertwin = DUDE! WIN!

So this thing, it's actually properly awesome. It's like one those robot personalities that you, once in your life, probably wasted 5 minutes on.

But yeh, you can like, set your personality to it an stuff, which is great. And then you put it on your myspace or whatever and it records the conversations people have with it.


Sweet.

EDIT: Shit, the embedding won't work. What a loada cock. Try this http://mycybertwin.com/chat/dan%20lol%20trees You might need an account. Totally worth it an stuff though.

Why th fuck do i bother with this

Well there are 3 reasons why your average blogger bothers to blog (and im talking about the shit variety like me, who have never had any traffic) Cause obviously people who do traffic can actually, liek, make money. Shock shock.

1 - ANGER RELEASE. Despite not yet havn't a good swear-filled post
2 - If you donb't have stats you can trick yourself into thinking that you're actually real popular
3 - ...Ah shit, i cant tink of one.

The annoying part of blogspot is that, despite it being a good site an all, there are so many fucking accounts that nobody will ever find lol-trees amongst them. I mean what kind of cunt is gunna search for lol-trees?

I'd be happy is i just had one dude sitting at his computer and reading this shit. That would be awesome. Not gunna happen though

Jazz Punk = awesome

Anyone see Later... last night?
Just me?
Oh right, thats cause im talking to meself.

Well anyways there was this band, Soil and "Pimp" Sessions were playing. They were the best thing on the program byt far, and it was amusing to hear their cheer after hard fi's much smaller clap.

Heres the music video with Avalanche



Killer.

Not really sure where people have got Jazz / Punk from though. I see no punk.

Fireworks...

... are always a humungous letdown.

I been looking forward to the fireworks all week, which is real sad. Then they arrived and were a big failure.....


Like this but nothing like as good

Bah (humbug)

Artpad at Art.Com

So i rediscovered the best site ever the other day

ARTPAD

http://artpad.art.com/gallery/?jqunf3lwhsw

Basically its a site where you draw whatever, then get its saved and once you click the link it plays it back to you, kinda like a timelapsey thing. The site is nice and easy to use, especially once you got the hang on the whole opacacy whatnot.

That link up there goes to one by me. It's Nyu from the anime Elfen Lied. Im pretty chuffedish. yeh....

Tree of the Week

So, to make the blog address and name slightly less random and pointless, heres first of a weekly feature, tree of the week. Lets start with one of the all time videogame greats

The Great Deku Tree



Basically this dude is the biggest & most badass tree you'll likely meet. Not only does he rule over this freakish race known as the Kokiri, but he has an entire first dungeon inside of him!!

And monsters, and lets not forget that freakish Spiderthing boss at the end of the level. Ya know, the one that was completely ripped of in Twighlight Princess? Queen Gohma. Excelleeennntt.

He sure has 'great' in his title for a reason.

Heh

Nice Boat!


Epic. James May, Jeeremy Clarkson, and Richard Hammond (of top gear) cross the British Channel in amphibious cars... youtube it

Review - Babyshambles - Shotter's nation

Well, i say i'll do some reviews on here, so why not start with something i really love?

Babyshambles - Shotters Nation



First things first, there are pretty much two people in the world; the type who think Pete Doherty is the idiot junkie ex - boyfriend of kate moss, who gives cocaine to his cat (see here - http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a73182/dohertys-pet-cat-took-cocaine.html ) , and the other, more musically knowledgeable ones, who recognise him for his incredible music, in both the Libertines and now the Babyshambles

Suffice to say, i fall into the later group.

The first Babyshambles album, albion, is widely regarded as being an 'unlistenable mess', but i have to say, i quite liked it,and after a few listens, songs like 'La Belle Et La Bete' 'What Katie did next' and 'Albion' being well up there in my favorite songs.

The new Babyshambles effort is certainly alot less sloppy in terms of production, and has as a result become more critically successful. The first single from the album; Delivery, a great heavily Kinks-esque song, sets the album as being a far tighter effort than any of the band's previous work. My initial worry was that this was going to make tha album somehwat generic, dull, boring. After a few listens i was very much reasurred.

The album draws influence from all sorts of bands, if its the Cure on the brilliant 'There She Goes', or hints of britpop in 'Deft Left Hand', giving a varied sound not disimilar to their debut with Albion.

Pete's lyrics are, as standard (if a little egocentric... Don't always have to write about yourself, ya know?') with lines like 'She's far too good looking / to do the cooking' in Baddies Boogie

So, seems Pete's done it again, and this time, the Babyshambles have pleased not only me, but the critics and fans aswell.

9 / 10

Download

- Side of the Road - Baddie's Boogie
- There she goes
& don't forget the very Ska influenced 'I Wish' (Blinding B-side)

Random t'internet's game of the week

Lets get things kicked off with a serious awsome internet flash game, from candystand

VECTOIDS



Basically the aim of the game is to stop these crazy vectoid things from going through this tunnel thing and out the exit. You do this by putting these canon weapon gun things, called towers, on prime locations on their path, and watch as your guns (fail to) blast them apart.

It starts off fairly easy, but by about half an hour in (yeh, it can last for ages), you'll be putting special slowing towers in, to give your red rockets more time to kick their asses, and sweating it ouyt about where to put your extra power bonus.

The sound and stuff is pretty lame but then who listens to the sound on flash games? Not i. And it pretty much defines repetition. But there we go, its SERIOUS FUN, so give it a go eh.

Blog time!!

So, i have a blog eh. One of millions of blogspot accounts, which nobody will ever find. Well, suits me i suppose.

Never mind, i'll be my one avid and loyal reader.

What will i be blogging? i ask myself

Well, abit of tv, videogame stuff, fun internets stuff and videos, maybe some serious film reviews here and there, and some anime to top it all off, cause like, im less than 1% off being a major geek (so says the geek test - http://www.innergeek.us/geek-test.html ) WOW WON'T THIS BE FUN!!