so i decided to pick up a copy of fallout 3, and i must say that it is very very awesome! It really represents post apocalyptic united states very well, and the environments are vast and beautiful. the story is a big fragmenty right now but all and all it really sucks you into the world rather quickly. its a bit slow at times though, which is a problem for us with all of our busy schedules (as kyle said(was it kyle? i wasnt completely paying attention to names in the spore post comments) a game is less about hours per dollar as gameplay per dollar) but a game like this makes you willing to try and sneak in as many hours as you can to explore and find new things. certainly will be stealing my time for a while. theres really no multiplayer at all.

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mega man 9 rules h4rdc0re

you should all get that too. its perfect for picking up and playing for short periods of time and fun as heck

So I have spore, and i happen to think that it is very cool. Its very easy to download if your into that sort of thing (thats what brandon did) but its also well worth a purchase. I’m sure you have already heard a lot about the game and how it works. The first four stages of the game are all fun (very fun if you are into customization and creation which i personally really enjoy). You may have heard that they phases are short, but this is an easy fix. Simply don’t play on normal or easy difficulty and things become a lot more challenging. In my opinion though the first three stages of the games are really glorified tutorials so that you can effectively play the civilization phase (which plays like a quicker simpler version of the sid meir game) and the awesomness of the space stage. The space stage is incredible, and plays like a love letter to all those sci fi films and books we grew up with. It plays sort of like EV meets harvest moon meets civilization meets star wars/dune. The space phase is so large (populated by 50,000 user generated planets and species) that its staggering and there is always something interesting to find. Primarily this phase tasks you with acquiring spice, by terra formation (my personal favorite thing in the game) or conquest or trade. Empires are militaristic, religous, or economic which effects how you must deal with, trade with, or if you would like, go to war with your neighbors. And then once you are well established in the phase and have built a fleet of ships to accompany you, Your task is to trek to the galaxy’s center. It is at this place that you meet the completely evil and powerful grox creatures. The massive endgame charges you with either wiping them out, or allying with them (causing all other races to declare war on you) to obtain the secret the grox posses. Very cool game.

November 15th Apple is hosting a 24-hour film making festival. Each team has 24-hours to make a 3-minute film according to certain requirements that will be posted on November 15th. Winners get a whole bunch of mac goodies.

What do you guys say? Wanna try to do this together?

http://www.apple.com/education/insomnia/

“Cartoon Lounge: Tell us a little bit about yourself and XKCD.

Randall Munroe: Well, I draw XKCD, a webcomic about stick figures who do math, play with staple guns, mess around on the Internet, and have lots of sex. It’s about three-fourths autobiographical.”

From an interview with Munroe on The Cartoon Lounge. They just had a lil’ Cartoon Off, pretty funny. You can check it all out here

I don’t mean this to be a threat or a dig in anyway. Just want to know if anyone would really care if we stopped using this? Overall it’s Dylan and I commenting on each other’s posts– we live together, we talk about this stuff, we don’t need to use this to do that. I know Dylan’s made the comment to me that he wanted to use this to talk to people he doesn’t get to talk to as often as he used to. I know when I post on here it’s not for Dylan or Jeff or people I talk to almost daily on AIM or in real life, it’s for Cody and Brandon and anyone else that I don’t get to talk to that often (why Cody and Brandon aren’t on Aim I dunno).

So the point I’m trying to ask is this:
If you want to keep using this site, and have KG keep working on it and spending money on it and Joe doing things on it, write something in the comments. If only Dylan posts, I’m just gonna remove it from my bookmarks and stop posting things. It’s frustrating to get so little responses off of things that are bothered to be shared with everyone.

Apparently Battlenet won’t be free in the future, most likely after they launch Starcraft II and Diablo III. Also Starcraft II is already planned to be a trilogy each race’s campaign being a different game. I don’t see myself buying Diablo III if the subscription is more than 50 dollars a year, they already have 400+ of my money from WoW.

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The weirdness in this world will never cease to amaze.

So it looks like after all the confusion with my Rock Band drums EA is just letting me keep my old kinda broken pads. So, anyone want to fiddle with them? All the pads work cept the yellow which is cracked and only registers like 80% of the hits. Holler at me if you’d like em.