I guess it’s too late for me and Kyle, but still good for you guys on the West coast.

Just wanted to point out that neat fact that 25 in base 10 (decimal) is 31 in base 8 (octal). In other words, Oct 31 = Dec 25

There’s an interesting article here about video game reviews:
Video Game Reviews Are Broken, Please Fix

I think the key point it makes is that Art reviews (books/movies) are an evaluation of whether it worth your time, whereas Product reviews are an evaluation of whether it is worth your money. It’s an important thing to consider if we want to move towards video games are an art form, we need to move towards evaluating them as art.

Secondly, as I think we are moving on in our lives, our priorities are different. I don’t really need a time-sink anymore. Different games serve different functions. WoW and other MMORPGs can take up as much time as we give them. An important consideration is how much time they require… Cano told me one time that it’s not really that fun to play WoW unless you play it a lot, enough to be at the top. I remember that one of my favorite things about FFXI was exactly that we were addicted and we were all addicted together. Halo can take up plenty of time as well… but the main function of it for me now is as a vehicle for having fun with friends, namely, you guys. I rarely play single-player games anymore. But I still look back on games like KotOR or Prince of Persia as something awesome, that I really enjoyed playing regardless of how many hours it took. And now, as I look forward, I’m actually looking for games that won’t take too many hours, but will give some sort of unforgettable experience.

But what do you guys think? Moreover, what would you guys think of writing our own reviews, and trying to evaluate the games based on separate criteria, rather than trying to combine value, length, multiplayer, artistic merit, etc, into one generic 1 dimensional scale? (Hopefully more successfully than last time Ryan, Joe, and I tried this.)

I don’t know if any of you get nostalgic at 1:30 in the morning on some idle Tuesday, but I did tonight and decided to peruse classic.definitelynotsafe.

Would it be possible to get our icons back? And a more conversational flow as opposed to our much more Bloglike system we have now? Maybe I’ll wake up in the morning and not even care about this, but I miss some of those features of the old DNSH like the Team pages and the Journal of Science. Also, people need to learn how to post. Dylan used to post ALL the time, but he hasn’t hardly posted since the new system sprang up. Also, those old comments are gone aren’t they? Cause that’s a crime. We’re missing soo much conversation onthose old subjects….

RecycleYourPets

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OK, so now that a lot of the new car smell has evaporated from Halo 3, it’s now getting harder and harder to play with friends (that aren’t your roommates). So I’d like to nominate a playdate. A Gabe’s house of sorts. But electronically, over Live. Let’s say once a week, or every other week. Pick a day that (this semester/quarter) works well for everyone, a time, and just hop on and play some Custom maps. Why Custom? Because they’re fun, and that’s what the game’s all about. If we only have four that log on (or five even) we can take the carnage to Matchmaking, but I say the aim is to just hang out, banter, and kill each other — while having fun.

You in?

found this shirt whilst parousing the intertubes. thought youd like it

http://www.mlgpro.com/?q=node/164811

This is kind of rediculous, we’d better get our game up

Meet Mona Shaw. Comcast gave her the runaround, so she took a hammer to their office.

So if you all saw my first suicide video post down below, and then saw my own personal experience with the Spartan Laser and a turbine (check out Dylan or my File Shares’), then this new video now completes the trifecta. Enjoy!

P.S. I didn’t want to make a whole new post for this, but my computer monitor just, well, blew up for no reason. So I’m gonna be computer-less for awhile (but rockin’ it on my Wii’s browser (thank God they added keyboard support last week)).

Time to crack the books, guys.

Here’s a good article pulled off an M$ internal email list.