Court awards $16.5m in 'Hold Your Wee for a Wii' radio stunt death

I have no words...

DJ Hero: Gametrailers Video Review

I don't know about you, but this video review makes me really want to buy or try this game out.

Video Games | DJ Hero | Review HD

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Who Needs a Real DJ?

I wonder if this guy will fly out for my party on Friday night...

Edit: Sadly this link is now dead, but it was a guy saying he would "DJ" a real party using DJ Hero. All he wanted was $40 and a chicken dinner for 5 hours of work. He would bring his own gear. Xbox 360, DJ Hero and a TV. Wow...

Where the Minnesota Wild things are

Saw this when I was at the game on Saturday, thought it was funny. Maybe its just because I enjoyed the movie as well as enjoying the Chicago Blackhawks, but the former is for another post soon.
Enjoy,
Blackhawks Commercial on Youtube

I was right....

Just finished Uncharted 2. Best game I have played this year....if only I were better at the multiplayer

Random

I was reading through an old band blog and found this post I had created. I felt it would be good to share this because....wtf

Forrest Gump = Angel of death

I mean think about it, everybody that guy comes in contact with either gets seriously messed up or extremely dead. Lets start out with dear old Lt Dan, yup im pretty sure that he loses his legs, and becomes a crazy shrimp boat captain. Bubba, yup im pretty sure that he ends up dead.....sure some can say that Forrest "saves" him, but you dont see him commandering a shrimp boat of the crazy style now do we. Famous presidents, first there was JFK and think we all know what happened to him. Then there is good ol president Nixon and I think we know that not only did Forrest call the cops on his little scandal at the watergate cause he couldnt sleep but Nixon also ended up dead as a......well something that is dead. Famous musicians? How bout Elvis? the good ol king? He basically went all nuts and ended up dead too. Lets see who else am I forgetting? Jenny, the love of his life?.....yup you guessed it, dead. His dear old mother? Im pretty sure she died as well. The morale of the story is, if you see Forrest a comin, you best be a runnin

Does Swine Flue Turn You Into a Pig? This and all your most pressing questions answered within.

I've met some pretty smart people in my time. I went to a pretty good school, studied some pretty difficult subjects, and been posed some pretty difficult questions. It befuddles me that of the people I've met so many are vehemently opposed to vaccination.

This is topic is heavier than what I generally think about on a day to day basis (sports, TV, boobs, TV, boobs, etc.) but I think it's worth discussing. Wired.com has a great section right now about vaccination and the ignorant, uninformed celebrities posing as experts. For instance, one of the most outspoken voices on the subject is Jenny McCarthy, whose child has autism. McCarthy, and others like her, have blamed a certain chemical in the vaccination perservatives for causing a spike in autism. The claims have been studied by the CDC and apparently refuted, but to no avail against the masses of fear mongers.

I get the flu vaccine every year and while it may be proven at some point down the road that we are creating some sort of super virus that is imprevious to all but a vaccine made of pure Kryptonite, at this point there's no proof and I'd personally like to stay healthy during the winter. That way I can watch more TV and, God help me, more boobs.

What's so "super" about these stores?

So typically I make it a habit to avoid places like Walmart. The same thing as anyone else, they move in, sweep competition, then jack prices, etc. That's not the point of this rant though! These "Super"stores really freaking piss me off. We'll start with Walmart and move to Meijer shortly thereafter:

I have recently bought a couple of watches that obviously come too big than needed. Also have an older one that needed a battery replacement. No hard task for a trained jewelry professional at any megastore, right? Since it was on my way home, I caved to my standard avoidance of such places and pulled in.
Well, apparently the new policy is "we only work on Walmart watches." Are you kidding me? Either way, its a customer, its service, and its profit! It takes all of 2 seconds with the right tool to take out a link in a watch chain and so long as you have the battery its a standard procedure to replace that as well! And look at it this way, if it breaks, and the person acknowledged that this is a possibility upon requesting repair, you can then sell them a new watch! In what possible scenerio is repairing the watch a BAD idea?

Now for Meijer: I took some photo's there to have them printed so I can hang them on my wall on Monday. 3 8x10's. There were NO problems with this situation at all, everything went well, I bought 1 hour pick-up cause they were cheaper, glossy prints, and when I picked them up, they looked great (and are on my walls, lookin good).
Fast forward not even a full 48 hours. Seriously, 2 days. I went in on Wednesday afternoon to print more pictures: 10 4x6s and 2 8x10s. Something seemed weird this time, like I had less choices, and at the end of submitting my pictures I realized that the 1 hour photo option was gone. Also, my 8x10s were matte prints, and the glossy option was also missing. I asked, and the lady said in the last 2 days, they changed their entire system. Aparently shipped off their "one hour photo" printers. Seriously? You're going to FORCE people to pay more, even when the print options are more limited?!?
I discussed this with the guy that sold me the prints and he agreed with me, not good business. Don't they realize that people who select 1-hour photo then turn around and shop their store for an hour? Don't they realize that people also buy WAY more if they have to wait an hour than their normal shopping list? Certainly the last time I'm utilizing Meijer for any photo needs.

These stores make the most unethical business practices their MO when they move into towns, but they don't make the smart business moves when it has to do with the day to day services and sales? Unbelievable...

Is Halo really that great?

I write this post having just finished playing through the single player of ODST. I followed that up with reading through the plot of the first three games to try and refresh my memory and connect the dots to this newest adventure.

The Halo series has been dealt its fair share of praise for each of the games in the primary trilogy and again with ODST. While I have purchased each title, I frequently have questioned whether they deserve all the awards. The setting and the story itself I have no problems with. The universe is interesting, the aliens unique, and the weapons fun to use.

Yet I have never been fully drawn into any of the games. Maybe it has been the lack of a cast of characters that you care about, or maybe it is the often repetitive map layouts (the library was a dreadful level in the first game). Halo 3 and ODST have done the best but still not anywhere close to their storytelling potential.

Thoughts?

Movie that is far from Expendable

I intended my first post here to be something slightly more serious than this, but upon realizing the trailer has been released, I don't think I can afford to wait until I make a real post to discuss this with you all:

Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Steve Austin, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. If those names don't sound like a match made in heaven, I don't know what will. I think my head explodes when I think about a movie staring the first 5 names, features at least cameos by the latter 2, and written and directed by Rocky himself.

Imagine if you will that The Terminator and Rambo (any, if not all versions) were real people and could reproduce. (Or better yet, if you could put the VHS of one and DVD of the other into a multifunction player and hit REC to make your own movie.) Their offspring would be this movie, and would also qualify for a TLC show called "I didn't know I was pregnant with septupletes who are also action heroes." (Last Action Heroes maybe?) The idea that a movie of this nature could even come out is what is both right and wrong with America today. Get ready for a mind blower people...(have 911 on speed-dial in case you really do have a brain aneurysm)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhHL3lhBn5A

Dead Space & a Glitch to Rant About

So I am playing Dead Space. (I will just skip the part about how awesome this game is and how everyone should play it. Its not that scary. Great game experience.) I'm about to finish the game (I'm on chapter 9 out of 12) before I have to return the game to Blockbuster in a few hours. I kill a boss and I'm running down a hallway till I reach a locked door with a slot to plug in a battery to open it. I begin my search for said battery. Nowhere to be seen. I run back the way I came to a locked door. I pace back and forth between the two doors three or four times and see no battery. Thinking its just a easily fixable glitch I let myself die and reload the area.

I do this and there is still no battery. I then turn off my game and load my last save game. I beat the boss again, get to the hallway and there is still no battery to open the door. What the eff? I pause the game and hop on my computer to search the web. I find that this is normal and that people have fixed it by going back to chapter 8 and playing through chapter 9 all over again. Some people said they had to restart the game completely. I was about six and a half hours in. Awesome. I popped the disc out and returned it to Blockbuster.

Something like this should be found as a bug during development and testing. Or, since this game has been out for a year, should have been patched by now. A simply amazing game broke so I couldn't advance any further and wouldn't let me finish. Sad news bears.

Seriously though, pick up this game, its only $20 now and you probably won't have this happen to you. If I would have paid to rent the game I would have complained for my money back, but meh.

Uncharted 2 + How to fix Indiana Jones 4: Crystal Skull

Uncharted 2 comes out tomorrow which is a game that I am very excited for. The first game had a great story-line, one that was much better than the last Indy adventure. This got me thinking of the eight (or however many I come up with) steps to fix that debacle.

1) No prairie dogs

2) No "I like Ike" quote

3) No surviving a nuclear bomb in a fridge (I would let this pass if it wasn't tossed in the air and crashed into a truck)

4) No Indy's son and more Marion: Marion was badass in Raiders and she was pointless in this film.

5) Part of getting rid of Indy's son: No using of a snake to get Dr Jones out of a sandpit, no swinging from an endless supply of vines with a monkey army, no hair combing

6) No gigantic piranha ants

7) Have the raft go over ONE not three waterfalls

8) No backstab/secret agent/backstab friend of Jones

OR they could just copy either the story from Uncharted or Uncharted 2 and be all set

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