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• 20Jun 09

  Modern Auto Safety is Over-Rated

  I drive (present tense) a 1979 Ford Ranchero GT. It is old in every way, no power windows, no A/C, no airbags, etc. Recently, I wrecked the thing. It hydroplaned into the back of a semi (impact speed was about 20 mph) during a major rainstorm that started up just as we left and ended just after the crash. Now most of you will probably assume the thing was totaled out, it did hit the back of a semi afterall and we all know how sturdy those things are. I will then point you to the first four words in this post, "I drive (present tense)," and laugh.

  After fighting the semi, the 'Chero came back with a missing tooth and a broken nose. The front fiberglass was destroyed and the bumper fell off (though the bumper itself is mostly undamaged, the mounts bent upwards and snapped). However, everything mechanical is perfectly alright. We had to tear off the plastic fan shroud, but other than that is is fine. I am only worried about the transmission cooler (which is mounted low on the front of the radiator) and if the hood latch will hold at higher speeds (45 was no problem, but 65 might be). I can't drive it at night anymore.

  Me and my passenger (a friend I was ironically taking to pick up his car from an atuo shop) survived unharmed (minor sorespot on my arm from teh steering wheel, my friend was a bit woozy right after the wreck but was ok after the rain stopped and we were able to get out and walk around). I credit this to the lack of safety features. A new car's front end would have crumbled and the car would be totaled. An airbag would have went off and broke a few ribs. Also, the cop who came to the wreck told my step-mom (who was the first famly member on-scene, it seems family has a sitxh-sense that makes them know whenever a member is in a crash and fills them with the unstoppable urge to call them) that I was lucky to be in such a beast because I would have been badly hurt in a new one........ or a Chevy .

  So suck on that burn sauce automakers. A 30 year old beast you deemed obsolete proves to be uber-l33t and outperforms your modern vehicles in a safety test AND drives away from it. Plus it gave the semi the business as well, the back-bumper-thing was noticably hurt.

  I am glad I didn't try steering away from the thing. I would have hit the less armoured flank (side, for all the stupids) of the car and someone would have been hurt. By keeping the impact square on the front, I kept the damage to a minimum to everyone.

  • Posted Jun 20, 2009 9:49 am GMT
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• 31May 09

  inFamous Review

  This may be out of character, but I am going to do a review of my newest addiction, inFamous.

  Since I am known to rant about things that I hate, lets start off with the bad.
  First complaint is minor texture and object pop-in, only really a big deal to those who only play games if the graphics are border-line real, but still noticable. It can be forgivien since the only loading is done when you first turn on the game.
  Sometimes you get rushed by so many enemies, it turns into a perverbial cluster-f**k. That only gets more irritating when you get hit by a rocket launched by someone off in the distance you couldn't see. I also F**KING HATE how the bad guys (who are mutated street thungs, hobos with bags on their heads, and then one professional group each with their own island) have perfect aim from any range even though they lack any real training with AK-47's that are inaccurate at at distances more than 50 ft. Combine those last two and you get some some frustrating moments.
  Last complaint is that Cole (your character) sticks to objects to make platforming easier, not a problem in and of itself. Problems come along when he doesn't stick to what you want or sticks to something you don't want him to. I have had a lot of trouble in certain missions because of this, though it helps more than it hurts.

  Now onto the good.
  It is one of the few games that doesn't lovingly render everything with only the colors of the dirt spectrum (which means there are more colors than justshades ofbrown and grey), and is pretty colorful. Lightning effects are the best I've seen, which they should be since the game revolves around the lightning powers. The graphics aren't too stellar technically, but artisticly they fit quite well with the story. The atmosphere is very well done, it feels like the city is in a major crisis.

  The gameplay is top-notch. Minus the above issues, the climbing works really well.The animatiosn are excellent, and you can shoot from pretty much anything. The cover system isn't the best in the industry, but it works. Circle makes Cole attach to an object, but only those that are below teh waist line, he can't attach himself to a corner or something tall like that. He can however, grab onto a ledge, and reach up and blast baddies that way.
  You can't drive cars or shoot guns, the electricity in your body makes them go boom. I do't understand why youw ould though, you an shoot lightning, throw static greades, or launch rockets (among other powers). Plus you can grind on rails or powerlines to get around quicker. Guns and cars are pointless when you can do all that.
  Except when you are running low on juice. You can absorb energy from most anything electric, including lightposts, gerenators, TVs, cars, and people to name a few. When peopel are on the ground wounded, you can either heal them, restrain them, or suck their life out and fully replenish your health and energy.
  That adds to the games karma system. While not the best system out there, is it well done. You can be good or evil, and the city will reflect on your chocies and so will the story. Minor things like healing people or killing pedestrains chagne your karma slightly, but there are Karma moments that have a big impact. Cole weighs the pros and cons of each choice and it is up to you to decide to do teh evil thign ordo the right thing. One example is a trash golem is holding a fuel tank. You can either blow it up and destroy on of the beasts arms, but it would also kill a lot of wounded bystanders in the area. I of course took the evil path in my first playthrough, but I will do a good playthrough as well.

  I barely scratched the surface of the possibilities, so if you have a PS3 you MUST get this game. 360 players will have to go to their 3 year-old Crackdown for anything even remotely close to this experience, but Crackdown is nothing compared to inFamous so they still lose.
  inFamous gets a 10 outta 10 and is a good candidate for my game of the console generation.

  • Posted May 31, 2009 9:57 am GMT
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• 14May 09

  Gaming Originality (and the lack there of)

  Recent gaming news shows that Treyarch is working on the next historical Call of Duty game, though Modern Warfare 2 is still in development. It is very sad that 2 games from the same series are in development at the SAME F**KING TIME!!!! Wherever happened to originality? Is there a law against it? We have an abundance of space marines kicking alien ass (a trend started by Quake in the early 90's), WWII shooters, and sequals with increasingly absurd numbers on the end (FF13!!!!).

  Mirrors Edge is probably my favorite title of the past year, not because of gameplay (it sucked in that respect) but because it is a completly original experiment with some good ideas. It did things differently. A respectible uniqueness in this era of bland-ness and mini-game collections.
  Fighting games (for example)last changed on the N64 when Smash Bros was first introduced. Since then, NOTHING has really changed. MK tried a new system, but went back to the old system with a few new mechanics (they get special commedation for at least trying, though they got rid of the brutality because DC doesn't want their God Superman having his immortal head ripped off by Sub-Zero). Street Fighter has stayed as spammy as ever, and Smash Bros has not really evolved (just had stuff added on). Tekken and Soul Caliber have stayed the same (Tekken bosses keep getting cheaper and Soul Caliber keeps adding 3rd party goons).
  Nowadays there are really only 3 genre's that matter, beat 'em ups (blades optional, blood manditory), RPGS, and shooters. Racing games are down to niche appeal and Mech combat games have disappeared outside the AC franchise (which took a major turn away from sim-styIe it used to be for more Anime-like action). RPG's stay strong because everyone loves doing repetitive-mindless tasks endlessly. City-Combat games like C&C and Halo Wars are rare, and RTS games being even more rare (Total War is the only one I know of).

  In short, creativity is non-existent. All gamers nowadays only want samey-sequals of space marines killing alien monsters for no real reason other than they are there. That or Americans killing Nazis (our last real war, the rest have been "conflicts").

  I wish the COD franchise would be split in two. The Call of Duty name cast aside for more fitting names for each side. One dealing with the Modern fake wars, the other with the historical ones (if the next historical one would be in WWII again, I would say call the modern one Call of Duty and the past one World At War, but with it being in Vietnam instead it kills that idea).

  • Posted May 14, 2009 11:38 am GMT
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