Uncharted 3 is the latest installment in the wildly successful Uncharted series. It follows Nathan Drake, a modern day fortune hunter, … you know what, screw this. Behold Uncharted 3, my biggest gaming disappointment of 2011.
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I didn’t know I had any firsts left in World of Warcraft. Then again I was pretty sure I was done raiding, so what the hell do I know. =P
Yup, for the first time ever, my warlock has her four piece tier set bonus. What makes this even more amazing is that it’s the current highest gear level. That’s right, tier 13.
The highest gear was only ever available to high end raiding groups, this means militaristic 25-40 people, methodically dying week after week, until the gear and learning curve were sufficient. Then it’s just grinding through the raid over and over. Sounds fun right?
Most like torture really. Loot hasn’t been much of a motivator to participate in such masochism, since the days of EverQuest anyway. And so I have forgone set piece completion in favor of sanity.
But with the latest patch, Looking for Raid (LFR) was added to the game. This is a cross server collection of 25 people, very much like the looking for group system. What makes this really work is that they dumbed down the encounters to such an extent that hardly any coordination is required and completing the event takes very little time.
So lots of success to be had in LFR, high end gear is finally available to all a wider range of players. But like all LF experiences you still have to deal with 24 other random people, replete with ninja looting, complaining, afk-ing, quitting, failing, and so forth.
Thankfully my warlock now has her 4 piece tier bonus, so I never have to LFR with her again. Sadly my druid isn’t quite as lucky.
This movie was an automatic add to my queue when I spotted it on the new release list. I am a total sucker for hot Asian guys in fantasy movies. Needless to say my queue is filthy with random Asian movies.
Blame Chow Yun Fat (love Hard Boiled) or maybe Ekin Chen (of the fabulous Storm Warriors). Whatever the case, the little otaku in me goes weak in the knees when served with sword wielding, martial arts masters of the Asian persuasion.
Like most of these random adds, this movie was a complete mystery. Watching these is always a crapshoot, as a pretty poster (or actor) will only take my interest in a movie so far. Sadly, not all that many live up to expectations, though finding out is always entertaining. =)
But the Warrior’s Way was stroke of luck. The poster did not lie, swords, ninjas, and action abounds!
So I might have been a bit hasty in declaring all my Xbox problems solved. It turns out that the warranty is expired, which means it costs $99 to send it in to have fixed. Plus they dont guarantee anything. Red ring of death happens a month later, gotta pay another $99.
Our Xbox is like first generation 360. It’s huge, it’s loud, it’s old. Not really worth fixing.
But then the husband came back with this trick. (The multitap guys told me about it too, but I ignored them so husband gets full credit.) Wrap the whole console in towels to overheat it, thus rebooting the chip (or something like that anyway.) The video is a bit long and has strange filler, but I can tell you that it works. =)
Xbox is back to functioning, for a while anyway. Enough for me to at least get my saved game off the hard drive. But this means we will still eventually have to buy a new one. Now I just need to figure out what to get.
Yesterday, the whole world changed. Steve Jobs died.
The news took me by surprise, I hadn’t known he was so ill. What surprised me even more was the acute sense of loss I felt.
Although I never knew Mr. Jobs personally, he contributed to my life in significant ways. He contributed to everyone’s lives in such incredibly visionary ways. It’s difficult not to wonder what he would have accomplished with more time.
His genius and charisma can never be replaced.
Week one of Fantasy Football is over and my opponent had the highest score in the league. Its not looking so good for me this year.
(>_<)
Behold my starting line up. For this past weekend anyway. My team is far to mediocre for this line up to remain.
QB – Matt Schaub
WR – Mike Wallace
WR – DeSean Jackson
RB – Chris Johnson
TE – Kellen Winslow
W/R – Maurice Jones-Drew
K – Stephen Gostkowski
DEF – New York
D – Shaun Smith
Weak links currently are Quarter Back, Defensive player and Running Backs. Tight End isn’t so hot either, but its a low scoring position. Don’t think there is anything I can do about QB since all the good ones are taken already.
Time to find new players. Any good ones out there?
They invited me back for the podcast, suckers! Muaahahahhahaha! They being the guys (and gal) over at theMultitap.com.
Go listen, http://themultitap.com/?p=774, but remember NSFW. (Possibly NSFB either.)
And for the record I do not endorse anyone’s opinion but my own! Don’t get paid nearly enough for that. =P
The guys and gal over at theMulitap.com were nice(crazy) enough to invite me to be on their podcast.
If you do decide to listen to my virgin podcast experience, take note it is NSFW and filled with name calling, hair pulling, bowel movements, and maybe a bit of game news.
I did laugh a lot. What I didn’t do was enhance the quality of the project. Not sure why they invited me. =P But hey if they are desperate enough to invite me again, how can I afford not too?!
Beware what information you share with your Words with Friends opponents, they may find occasion to KCUF you.
<<—- My latest WWF game is proof. Trusting little me announced, quite happily surprised that, hey I could make a word, and looky here, its ‘guide’. Neato right?
It would have been, had I not been sharing my joy with my fiendish Words with Friends opponent.
This Frienemy clearly had it out to use up my already claimed G and succeeded in locking up the only usable G in the game. /cry
Foolish me to think I was playing with friends. It really should be called Words with Frienemies.
