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Wii: First Impressions
Yeah, that’s right: I played with one. Jealous? Ha!
The EBGames at Redmond Town Center had a kiosk set up already, so anyone can.
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Silence?
Whoa, no posts for over three days??? Yeah well I’ve been busy with stuff. In fact, I’m in a cafeteria near the 30’s – guess who else is here having lunch?
Dash: How Good Is It?
My last post was type in on a thumb keyboard. Wait, didn’t I say I’d never bother with one of those? Yeah, I did, but that wasn’t because there was a keyboard involved – it was because all of the devices that had keyboards were bricks. Or touch screens. Or both. Ew.
Obviously if I just bought a new T-Mobile Dash, that has a thumb keyboard, it much be small… right?
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Whoo! I’!! Mobile
Guess it was a good idea,this SmartPhone version of SharpMT after all – I just picked up my T-Mobile Dash…still a painful typing experience but so much better than T9 on a regular phone.
Pretty great device so far, actually!
The New Hotness
Apple.com: The new Mac Book Pro.
The specs are impressive, especially on the 15″ – keeps the size and weight manageable but can be pimped out to almost match the 17″ specs – it looks like the only things exclusive to the 17″ are an extra USB port and speed of the SuperDrive… the 15″ can be bumped to the 17″ class with Core 2 Duo @ 2.33GHz, 3GB RAM, 200GB HDD, X1600 256MB (which can drive the 30″ monitor), and all the trimmings – impressive. Heat? No idea, but I’m hoping Apple learned how to apply the thermal grease that was the scapegoat for the original MBP – if not, this thing should be hot enough to fry an egg steak in under five minutes.
What I do feel I have to point out is that this unexpected release highlights my ongoing gripe with Apple and their obsession with secrecy: how sorry do you feel for the people that decided to buy a new Mac Book Pro, just last night? Can’t use the “oh, they didn’t do their research” argument here: while people expected a new model of the MBP, there was no indication that it would hit today. This cloak and dagger game that they play just sucks for the end consumer.
Harder to swallow than broken glass.
Star Wars: I II III IV V VI
Looks like Cinemax is running all six episodes of Star Wars from end to end, starting on November 10th.
Not so much that they running it, but what I thought it’s neat how they’re advertising it: they did a really nifty montage of all six movies to Coldplay’s Fix You which is not a song that you’d usually think of when you think of the “Story of Anakin.”
Should be interesting, although I do have all six movies on DVD already…
Job Satisfaction Rating
How do you define a good job?
To me, there’s a few different levels of questions that need to be answered.
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MP3 Nightmares
Since I’m a beta tester on a new device, I thought it would be a good time to clean up my collection of MP3 files…
What. A. Nightmare.
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Zune Beta
This is a Zune Beta: :|
This is a Zune Beta user: :)
This is a Zune Beta user, when a bunch of my cubemates are not: :D
Any questions?
They’ll Have To Wait
Oops. Guess I need more free time.
A while back I buckled to peer pressure and bought Deadrising. Great purchase. In fact it was the first game that was able to pull Call of Duty 2 out of my 360 in a long while. A week after that I bought Saint’s Row. And two weeks after that I bought Lego Star Wars II.
Well then. Deadrising actaully had a story and it kept my attention longer than I thought it would, so I opened the two other games, but haven’t played either one yet. Then I was out of town for a fistful of days over the last weekend. Now one of the devs at work just gave me The Godfather for the 360 from our inner-department library… no Zombies, Gangstas, or Jedi for me tonight, I guess.
Ya know. Priorities and all.
Beta Testing Research
Don’t mind me – this is a post to help gather information for Windows Live Writer…
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Talk about Guitar Hero has been swirling around me lately. It’s what happens when you work with gamers. Someone had a copy – I call it DDR for your fingers. I tried it out. I suck at it. And got my ass handed to me – payback after all those Halo 2 games, I reckon! After all, I don’t play guitar; I play bass. What worse, some of the songs in GH I’ve played on the bass. Like, for real. When I hear those songs, I’m listening for the bass line – it’s what I’m used to. Makes trying to play along with the lead guitar harder than it should.
Anyway, the latest rumor I’ve been told about GH is related to Guitar Hero II: the next release is supposed to let people play along with the bass line, rather than just the lead guitar. I was happy to hear that – might make me more competative. Either way, once you bring bass into the mix my first though goes to Rush, but I knew there was no way GH would be smart enough to get the rights for a Rush song… a million reasons why.
Enter Joystiq’s article on the music list for GH II… YYZ is listed.
Guess I sold my PS2 too early… although, I can always buy another one.
Am I A Gamer?
A report from PAX 2006, one that has forced me to ask a very simple question:
Am I a Gamer?
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Gamefest ’06: You In?
Anyone out there going to Gamefest next week?
I can’t tell you what my team’s T-shirts look like – they won’t be in until this afternoon – but I’m nearly 100% certain that our logo will be on the back: see a short black haired dude with a glowing Xbox 360-green grenade on his shirt, stop and say Hi :)