Author: Sharkey

I know that Bioshock is good and all, but if I were a gaming journalist, I’d give it a 9.9 just to be a fucking dick. Unless they paid me off, of course.

Speaking of games, Bongweasel reminded me that I’ve yet to say anything about Beautiful Katamari. Now I’m saying it. It’s as excellent as you’d expect from a game where you roll a giant ball of everything around, sucking people and puppy dogs into the eventual fiery cosmic sacrifice that you intend to make of them. Go download the demo.

I’m very disappointed that I purchased Golden Axe for the Wii when I could have had it on XBLA. I want multiplayer and achievements goddammit. Also, I’ve become incredibly addicted to Rainbow Six Vegas again, so if anyone wants to get in on our fake clan, hit me up with your tag in an email or something.

I’m going to be removing some of the ads. I put this Amazon thing on there because it seems to be effective, provided some of you jackasses who buy stuff at Amazon decide to be nice and use our account id. I figure if I’m going to post once a millennia, I may as well make your experience of it a little more tolerable.

Yet another ill-timed death in the world of the WWE, it seems that Crush (Brian Adams… not that one) has been found dead in his Florida home, according to the Tampa Police.

Adams’ wife called 911 after discovering her husband in bed unconscious and not breathing, but paramedics were unable to revive the 43-year-old World Tag Team champ, who retired from competitive wrestling in 2003 after suffering a spinal injury.

An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday to determine the cause of death and authorities and an investigation is underway. The police’s incident report states that there were no visible injuries on Adams’ body.

I don’t have many constructive things to say here, but I will say that Crush was a pretty damned good guy to use in the old WWF Royal Rumble game for the SNES. That game was fucking awesome, because it’s the first wrestling game I can remember where you could smash opponents over the head with metal buckets and folding chairs. When I was 13 or so, a friend of mine and I stayed up for three days straight playing games, and Royal Rumble monopolized the majority of that time. Why be a good teammate when you can sneak up behind your own buddy and clock him with a bigass chair? There was something oddly satisfying about that level of betrayal, even as a kid.

Plus that clang noise was just perfect.

Tonight at around 2AM, we’re all going to get a pretty good look at the Perseid meteor shower, which is usually obfuscated a bit by light reflected off the moon. Not this year though. And if you’re not in the vicinity of 8 billion streetlights like I am, you won’t have to retreat to the boonies just to catch a glimpse.

Since I’m bored today, I’ll be updating this thread with random videos and shit that I find interesting. We’ll start with another one of those “Lost” orientation videos that was released at the comic-con last week. I was surprised at the lack of interest across the net (comparatively speaking) until I remembered just how much season 3 sucked, with the exception of those last 1.5 episodes. Oh well, they did check off a few items from my list.

Let’s talk today. Share your feelings or problems with the site or whatever the fuck you want in the comments. I swear I will… at the very least intend to respond to all of them.

Sweet Jumping Jesus. (thanks Peaches)

Would somebody care to explain to me just what the fuck this jerkoff is babbling about?

For those of you who wanted the Picsel Browser that I mentioned earlier in the week, have at it.

Also, I put in the latest release of the Sirius Satellite Radio program for Windows Mobile for myself, so I figured one of you might appreciate it.

In the future, any Mogul owners might want to go ahead and bookmark this site and get yourself a nice account so you can download shit.

So after a nightmarish experience trying to get my broken phone replaced last week, I decided it was time to get myself a little upgrade. I wound up ordering the Mogul from Sprint, and after a bit of adjustment I’m really starting to like this little bastard.

The Good

First and foremost, it’s got a little slideout keyboard, which reorients the screen to landscape mode. It’s also got internet everywhere, and on a faster network than the iPhone. The combination of the touchscreen and keyboard is pretty handy, although I still haven’t quite gotten used to using the little alt key to enter numbers quickly though, I half to retard my way around the keypad until I remember how to do it.

I downloaded a bunch of cool free shit, like Pocket Putty and Google Maps Mobile which work exceptionally well. I hear that we’re getting a firmware update soon that will unlock the GPS thingy in there so that it can pinpoint your directions like the iPhone does.

Speaking of which, they’ve got Picsel on there, which pretty much emulates the rad point and zoom functions of the iPhone’s browser. Pretty keen. Right now I’m doing my best to get Windows 98 emulating on this thing so that I can start playing Warcraft 2.

Another plus is that it’s mildly complicated. Not so much that I can’t get around it, but it’s officially too much for someone like my girlfriend or sister to handle properly. This means that you don’t have to deal with people asking you to “check their myspace” because they’re the type of people who only browse to shit on their computer through the desktop icons. That little Windows insignia in the corner is just as mysterious on a small screen. Believe me, if they release some sort of iPhone-menuesque Today page (that’s the little desktop) I’m going to install that fucker and not tell a soul.

The Bad

This thing can be a bit frustrating. Touchscreen phones are just as annoying as you’d expect, so get used to using the voice dial button. Speaking of which, that voice dial button is the work of Satan himself. They put it in the exact spot where your fingers wind up a lot of the time, so you are constantly hitting it by accident and hearing the stupid beeping noise. I just remapped that motherfucker, I didn’t have time to figure out how to be more graceful with the thing.

I also can’t figure out how to get it to ring and vibrate. It seems to want to do one, but not the other.

Since a lot of the software is open source third-party and not ruthlessly controlled like anything for the iPhone, there’s a lot of it that doesn’t run perfectly well. Some things were designed for different types of phones and then just ported on over, because who’s got time to test these fucking things on 80 different phones?

That’s about all I have to say at the moment. Once I get Warcraft II running on this fucker, I’ll most likely buy a tin shed somewhere and begin my slow descent into mildly insane hermitude.