Archive for December, 2008
Buffalo Bills - Raising Idiocy to Lunacy
Marshawn Lynch has come on strong this year after his off-season “mis-hap” with a stolen, not stolen, SUV that fortunately fell way short of the “glove” story a former Bills RB is hopefully regretting. On a team that has been fairly weak offensively Lynch is averaging an excellent 4.2 a carry and is over 1000 yards on the season. This past Sunday he managed to totally out due himself with an absolutely staggering 6.0+ yards a carry on 21 touches and totaling 127 yards on the ground. When you add-in receiving yards, Lynch was actually responsible for 46% of the total net yards the Bills had as a team. So, why in the frackin’ Hell do the Bills throw the ball on 2nd and 5 with a tick over 2 minutes to go and the lead?
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The Day The Earth Stood Still — Hold the Logic
I don’t know what it is, but any time Keanu Reeves comes out with a new movie, I immediately get this weird feeling in the pit of my stomach. In my eyes, a role either calls for Keanu or it doesn’t . If you need a weird, aloof, gothish freaky person, it’s a Keanu role. So I guess an alien with no understanding of human emotion or behavior in a human clone body pretty much screams for him.
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No More Heroes
It occurred to me that I might be done with Guitar Hero. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the game. I got on board with the original Guitar Hero when it first came out, driving to about a dozen stores in two states on my way home from Christmas at my folks’ house to find a copy, and I played the hell out of it. Having absolutely zero musical talent, here was a way to feel—admittedly in a somewhat cheap, plastic way—that I was able to shred a six-string and play some killer tunes. For a musically inept metalhead, this was a dream come true. I introduced my fiancee to the game and she wound up “borrowing” it for several months. We snapped up Guitar Hero 2 when it released, and later, with dwindling enthusiasm, Guitar Hero 3. We also grabbed Rock Band, because I was seriously stoked about playing the drums, much to our downstair neighbor’s lament.
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Heading Home
Well, after multiple delays, eternal beta testing, and lots of excuses, Sony finally released Home, their much-hyped online socializing space, in a public beta for the PS3. Was it worth the long wait?
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BART SIMPSON MUST DIE!
A few weeks ago I took my four-year old boy out to Burger King so he could get some Mac and Cheese and a Simpsons Toy. WORST SIMPSONS TOY EVER. You have to see and hear it to believe it.
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Holy Frak, Galactica’s Back!
The 10 part Battlestar Galactica web series The Face of the Enemy premiered today with part 1. One thing about Galactica, it’s easy to lose the taste once you get it too far behind you, but once the first minute or so graces the screen you can feel the love flowing back.
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Keeping up with the Keflings: XBLA Review
A Kingdom for Keflings is one of the first games to utilize the new Avatars on Xbox Live and makes “you” a playable character, er, Giant. This is easily a game that could be overlooked and forgotten or found and obsessed over. Take your pick. Anyone who liked Animal Crossing or the first Sim City will definitely get into Keflings.
What can I say, I got suckered into Keflings after playing the trial to the point I had to pay. I didn’t mind since I had 2200 MS Points and Keflings was only 800. It is a quick and small download. What is it? If you imagine Warcraft 2 without the fighting then you pretty much have A Kingdom for Keflings.
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Super Colts - My AFC Super Bowl Pick
It’s almost here, playoff time. The time of the mystical frozen tundra. The time of “WIDE RIGHT!” The time that sets teams apart and I think it will, once again, be Manning’s time. The Colts are getting on a roll at just the right time.
Indy has 3 games left this season and should end up in a real nice spot for the playoffs. Lions, Jags, Titans are how Manning will be finishing the year up. The Titans have already won the division but the Colts will easily earn a playoff spot and that’s all they will need.
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Gears of War 2 Online Multiplayer: Just Plain Broken?
I’m following up my initial Gears of War 2 review to cover some things that have come into focus as glaring issues that hopefully can be addressed by Epic Games. While there are many criticisms from GOW fans right now of certain aspects of the game play mechanics themselves, most of those are issues of taste and preference. Instead, I think the issues that are killing this game for me and many players is the entire online multiplayer system. Right now, my perspective is that it is a failure of epic proportions — no pun intended. Is it too broken to fix?
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Heroes: Our Father - has someone been praying for this show?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote that I could no longer muster the effort continue to pound on this poor, misguided mess that the television show Heroes had become. There’s only so many different ways you could describe a weekly recurring train wreck. Since then, there have been some developments. First and most interesting is that Bryan Fuller, the writer behind some the strongest episodes of Heroes season 1 was contracted to script the final few episodes of season 3 since his other project Pushing Daisies was unceremoniously canned.
This in itself is not that promising.
Even the most skilled surgeon can’t bandage a gaping head wound with a box of band-aids.
However, this news is in addition to the fact that with tonight’s episode, Our Father, we have had the two best back to back episodes of the series since the first season.
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