You know you're a geek when... Cubecraft

- You laugh at chemistry jokes

- The best news of the week is that Ricky Gervais is appearing in GTA IV (!!! FUCK YES!!)

- You spend literally minutes constructing some like This


I made it thanks to a template from Cubecraft, who give a new template once a week. Naturally i had to make Zoidberg...


And all without any glue!! Very cool. And you may notice he lacks a left arm, as i cocked it up...

Death note - Sorry, Dexter

Having missed it on ITV the other week, i downloaded the first two episodes of Dexter (unfortunate name - it reminds me of that crap cartoon, Dexters laboratory) and watched them. Now while i am 100% loving it and am extremely impressed, i have one little gripe... i'm getting a serious case of Deja Vu.

To quickly explain the basic premise of dexter, it's about a man who appears to lack real human emotion, who, unknown to his friends and family, is a serial killer who goes around killing criminals and other such bad dudes. meanwhile, his day job sees him on the 'other side'; working as a forensics guy who looks into blood splatters. So no doubt he'll end up doing the whole 'chasing himself' charade at some point in the series. Add to this the fact that his father (and sister) are on the police force, that he is extremely clever, annoyingly good looking and is seemingly a bit of a ladies man, and if you are a fan of anime, you will most likely be raising an eyebrow around now... Basically, this is Death Note, only without the Deathnote.

The similarities to Death Note, the geniusly gripping japanese manga and animation which ended it's 36 episode run late year are painstakingly huge. Not like this is a bad thing in any way; Death Note completely fucking rocked, and so does Dexter.



So download it, ITV it, just watch it. If you loved death note you'll be right at home. And if your loving Dexter, seriously, check out death note on the web sometime. If only to see what the Dexter writers watch in their spare time.

Edit: Oh and if you do, make sure you watched subbed not dubbed. Because a quick look on youtube has shown me that they made Ryuk have a ridiculous voice.

I summarize the week

- N+ (aka xbla version on N game (make sure you download it for free by the way)) is truely as fun as ever. The online is kick ass, and the levels are addictive as ever. Then there's high scores, a level editor.... I've spent more time this year on just the live arcade than i have on my wii... way more

- Noein continues to be awesome

- Lost, on the other hand, does not, with a slightly dull episode about kate and her baby-stealing antics. Not enough of the god that is Daniel Faraday. Except he has memory problems, or something.

- The Brits were shits, and i should never watch them ever again. Though i only really tuned in for the last ten minutes, in which i saw Paul McCartney cruise onto the stage for getting his retard award for being a retard, much to the pleasure of the Ozbournes and Kylie minogue*. At this point i practically threw up.... sorry, but im allergic to sell outs. Good on the arctic moneys though... dressed as farmers and insulting the awards ceremony - kick ass



- Music theory can fuck right off

- Leonardo Dicaprioo is making a live action remake of Akira... o.O Yeaahh.... might not have been too bad if it wasn't for the fact that he's doing it. Oh and it's now in 'New Manhattan'. Fuck out.

- Xbox live can fuck right off aswell, as my friends crackdown won't connect, thus rendering the reason i bought my copy useless. I did get a good game with some geek american kid though; were quite fun. And N doesnt seem to want to let me online anymore. By anymore i mean that i got a day of play in before it wanked itself up.

- Facebook doesn't suck so much ass now that i've discovered that you can play Risk on it

*She's not as bad as 'macca' or 'ozzy' mind

Fucking Blogger and stuff

*is still pissed off about the fucking password restrictions*

Anyway heres a fun game i found on the internet

The Never Ending Level game

See how far you can get. I got to lv29, where i had to stop, as macs lack the # sign which i need to pass the level. I checked, it ain't like im just doing the wrong thing. So i feel slightly pissed off. Anyway give it a go. Kinda like Not Pr0n, expect alot less complicated, and easier.

Also,

- Finished Bioshock; man that was good, overtook Galaxy as GOTY for me. Shame for the sodding fetch-quests in the second half though. 9 .5/ 10
- Downloaded Rez - and played the hell outta it. Missed out on ps2 version, so than god again for xbla. Killer game, area four in particular was brilliant. Strangely weird and a rare instance of me actually listning to game music rather than just putting on itunes and muting the volume...
- Lost season 4 is fucking incredible so far!! Best it's been since the first season. Hopefully it'll keep this up. Can't be much worse than the first few s3 episodes anyways... So many questions from the first two episodes!! And it looks like they're gunna be answered, which is nice... The flashbacks in particular have worked well so far, especially in the 2nd epsiode; 'Confirmed Dead', being short, consise, and, cruicially, not disrupting the flow of the episode. Good to see more of theatAbingdon (sp?) bloke,, very intriguing character.
Oh but they need to get rid of the annoying english woman. We do not sound like that.

And now i have a week off working, aahhhh relaxation.......

Warning this blog is rated R and WHA THE FUCK!!!??

Lol, good site.

Also, i have...
45% chance surviving a zombie apocalypse
I can name 36 countrys in 5 minutes
26 Colours in 5 minutes
I'm 62% Geek
There are 2,157,120 germs on me keyboard right now
I'm 58% addicted to apple
and i 'barely passed' the 2007 internet test wif 62%. yaaay.
http://www.justsayhi.com/bb - click for them

And lost...
'So it begins...'


Seriously.... WHAT THE FUCK!!?! o.O!!!
3 more days... I CANNOT WAIT!!

Futurama DVD Review - Bender's Big Score

It's finally here (well, it was a couple months back), years after the Fox (Box) network cancelled it, futurama is back in the form of the first of four feature length DVDs, Bender's big score.

It is around about the length of 4 episodes at 80 minutes, and the main plot follows planet express getting 'scammed' by a bunch of scamming ultra nerd aliens, with side amusements such as Hermes temporarily being confined to being a head in a jar. Really up until the end, it just seems like a great big episode of the Futurama that we've all come to love and miss. The ending is different from the normal comedy fare and is rather sentimental, but it's actually really well done - maybe i'm just a sucker for that kinda ending.

'You know, it's funny' 'what?' 'Your weiner' heh heh

I don't really know how suited it would be to a non-futurama fan though. It's rammed full of in-jokes and brief re-appearances of hundreds of old classic futurama characters; the robot mafia, Scruffy the janitor, robot santa and an all too brief appearance from Zapp and Kif.... oh and the hypnotoad is back, did i mention that? Awesome. In fact on the dvd there's menna be a full length episode of 'everyone loves the hypnotoad' with adverts, which just sounds plain kick ass. Sadly I haven't been able to check it out yet due to the dvd not being out here yet. Back to the point though, non-fans might miss out on the in-jokes, and references to past episodes - the pilot in particular is referenced multiple times.

Anyways it's definately worth a watch, and if you're are or ever were a futurama fan its unmissable. Hell, the cameo from Al Gore makes it worth a watch in itself... 'finally! I get to save the planet with deadly laser blasts instead of slideshows!'
Great DVD, i very much look forward to the second, whenever the hell it's released...

Did i mention that Bender goes back in time to kill Fry, ala the Terminator. You NEED to watch this film.
+ Classic futurama
+ Killer in jokes, old characters
+ Cute ending
- The bloody songs...
- Confusing time travel ;)
9 / 10

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...

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.

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...

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)

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...

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.

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.

Heh

Nice Boat!


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