madbassman39

My friend bought some Blue Label to celebrate his California Bar results (he bought it ahead of time to either celebrate or forget his woes, he luckily got to celebrate). He shared some with me, a person who drinks beer, beer and more beer. I can start to taste the difference between good and bad vodkas, almost between good and bad wines, and even some rums (!). Scotch, whiskey, and bourbon I cannot tell the difference between the good, the bad and the ugly. Anyhow, Blue Label was lost on me. The only difference between that and other bottles was that it didn't quite burn when I smelled it. I tried to appreciate it like he was, but I couldn't. I went back to drinking my cervesa and eating tacos

I actually am on the fence with that movie. In some respects it improved so much on the most recent spiderman movies. Gwen Stacy was actually a worth while love interest, captain Stacy was a bit of a defensive prick for no reason. I on the other hand felt like the Lizard felt almost like a re-imagining of the Green Goblin, but no where near as good as DeFoe was. (I may have this opinion because he resembled the Ultimate Spiderman Goblin. Bendis having been a major part of writing the script may have something to do with this) Overall I felt that even though this was a better move than the previous intro to spiderman (the way Peter discovered his powers was very funny and somewhat more reasonable than it was in the first intro movie) I just couldn't get behind it because I had seen this movie already. I do think that the sequel will feel new and fresh and we will start to get a great series from there.

Just bought this and Seasons for 20 bucks a piece on amazon yesterday. Im a sucker for the Sims.

My thoughts exactly. If the PC version exists and is only a few months away, I'll wait. If the game comes out with no PC confirmation, PS3 all the way.

I get a big kick out of the secession campaigns. I know a lot of people are doing it symbolically, but there are a few hundred people (or more) who actually believe this is the right thing to do. Its great, they claim they love this country, but when they don't like who is in charge they abandon it. Nothing Obama does will threaten our freedom, everything Obama does has a limited effect on us if we want it to. Obama only has 4 years in office, and the last 4 years (good or bad) flew by and we are still not Nazis... surprising. I saw a Romney Campaign ad that really got under my skin. It was an anti-socialism campaign. Talking about how socialism is a threat to the America we know and love. Problem is, when they talked about socialism, they described communism and were basically fear mongering. To set things straight: A socialist government does not stop the country progress, it does not mean that you can not become an entrepreneur, it does not mean that you are enlisted in your job. It means that the government has a bigger hand in business. I look at companies like Volks Wagen, and think of that as proof that through socialism you can be successful. VW is right now, the worlds largest car manufacturer, recently just surpassed Toyota (the tsunami had a lot to do with Toyota not keeping number 1, but thats beside the point) GM is number 3. The most successful car companies, VW and Toyota both come from socialist countries. Surprising. The CEO's and top dogs of those companies are still in the 1% category. They are wealthier than what most of us Americans (roughly 99% of us) can ever hope to be. Toyota and VW lead not only in sales, but bleeding edge driving tech (TDI/Hybrid). So if socialism really stifles people from moving forward and being successful, then tell me how on earth have two companies from socialist countries beat out all three major companies from a capitalist country? Could it be that they have government funding? Nope, because GM and Chrysler have both had government funding. So what could it be? I'll tell you, those companies wanted to be larger and wanted to be number one, so they worked at it, and socialism in no way inhibited it. I could ramble off a number of companies that are from socialist countries, and all of them would be up on the list of bleeding edge tech and world leaders. I don't think America needs to go to a socialist government, but I hate when people are mis-informed and when someone who should know better (like a candidate to run our country) is spreading mis-information in order to spread fear to be successful. I know the election is over, but it still bugs me. Even in this thread I've read mis-information about socialistic governments and how it does not allow one to create a mighty successful company, which just isn't true.

Honestly, it looks pretty fantastic. I want to see how they render all of skyrim and cyrodil in the MMO, but after seeing that video I'm intrigued. It has a lot of the same ideas that GW2 has, and right now GW2 is my favorite MMO.

IF there is anything that makes me feel better about my life, its this picture. Is that you pirate?

I think moving the power button to a new "Charms" bar makes no sense. So you had to go to the start menu to turn off your computer, but as much as that was silly, its been the norm for a very long time. If you struggled with that, then you have never used a computer in your life. Mac OS has the same system as windows, except they had it under the apple button on the top left. What Windows did in Vista and 7 was eliminate the "start" part and just made it a Windows button, the placement was the same and hadn't changed and became habit. Now we are expected to stop thinking like I have been thinking for almost 20 years, and do something different, because semantics. Thats just dumb. Its dumb and it makes no sense to move it after this long. We have to not only know that there is this pop out menu that never existed before, and turn off our computer, because of the name. People will adjust, but it doesn't make it less dumb

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31747_7-57537541-243/ipad-mini-vs-google-nexus-7-vs-amazon-kindle-fire-hd/ Looking at the competition, the iPad mini seems a bit over priced. Unless that A5 processor is blazingly amazing, it just doesn't seem to match either the Kindle Fire HD or the Nexus 7 for bang for your buck. I guess the bigger screen would cost some extra cash, but it has a lower resolution than the smaller screens. Either way, I'm a Kindle fanboy so I wasn't really going to look at the iPad Mini, I am just surprised to see iPad mini to be so non-competitive.

I haven't played since I got X-com but I want to hop back on

Argo. The dialogue was good, the actors were great, the story and premise was good too. It suffered from an identity crisis, it was funny and almost Oceans 11 at times, then it was serious and really dark, then funny again, then serious. It also suffers from being based on a true story, so the ending is known before hand therefore the tension has to be exaggerated in the middle. Over-all the movie is one long suspense movie, meaning that things always go wrong at the worst possible times, and its very predictable. The movie drags on the suspense so long that I started to really get irritated at the end.

When using a character creator I do one of two things. 1) try to make the character look like myself, or 2) allow randomization and see what comes up. Hell, my Saints Row character I nicknamed "Fat T" because character randomization made a very large Mr. T character, and he was great. My big thing about characters is they need to be interesting. If they are interesting enough then I can get behind them, their race, gender, sexual preference, doesn't matter to me, as long as that character is a strong character. This means that I have to either identify with them or find them different enough to make me care. The things I find interesting is that race can determine a character, if we consider the culture that the story takes place with. Some areas, such as a modern urban location, race and gender don't matter as much, because ideally people have grown past those things. Games set in historical periods or even fictional worlds, or even racist locations, can make a characters race and gender tell their backstory. Hell one of the most exciting things to me about Connor was his backstory, being raised in a Native American culture during the American revolution. That already tells you his character, does not like the colonies or English, he is automatically treated poorly by those surrounding him, he has no interest in the conflict, but he has to care about everything that is going on around him because what will happen after the war will affect him and his people. Now throw in that he's also half English and you've got even more depth to him. Does he respect the English because he is one of them, or does he resent them more because they are not like him, yet he is a product of them? All of this can be said by his cultural background, and if none of that is touched on in the game, frankly AC3 dropped the ball on a very interesting character development opportunity.

I bought plus to get my hands on LBP 2, Warhammer 40k spacemarine, Saints Row 2, and Lara Croft guardian of Light. Those 4 games were worth $50 dollars to me, and everything else beyond that is an added bonus to the Value.

My favorite part in ID4 is when the President of the United States gets in a jet fighter and saves the world. What a silly concept. I captured my first alien last night. One of the berzerkers. I only captured him because he was about to smash my chick in one turn so I stunned him. Easier than I thought. That berzerker I captured though, was a cheater. The game cheated twice on me last night. The first was a downed UFO, and after my turn the aliens made a move, the camera paned to the left and then BOOM right in the middle of my squad the berzerker appeared. He wasn't there before, and now he was, AND it was treated as if I found him so he got to move twice and pummeled my only support. This happened again in another mission, but with the drones.

This game gets really frustrating. Especially when you have three crystalisks found and 18 civilians, then on the next turn you have the damn disk thing, followed by one of the little guys, 6 crystaliks and 2 zombies... that is fucked up!

I started today... Lost my first soldier in the first mission I could control... I accidentally hit the wrong button on my controller and ended a turn causing the death of a soldier Got to my first hard mission, a ufo crash site. I did fine for the first 6 enemies, but then boom 6 more came out, of every direction, the damn mission killed everyone. I reloaded like small girl.

UGGGH I WANT THIS GAME SO BADLY! I'm not a fan of super hard games, nor am I a huge turn based strategy games, but I played the demo and can't stop thinking about it. The only reason I haven't bought it is because I have too many games already

Never had a lucid dream... I've had dreams where I've woken up from and enjoyed them so much that I've slept lightly while trying to put the dream back together in my imagination, but I am always fully aware of my surroundings. I've always been a light sleeper, where even the door can wake me, which I don't know makes for good or bad lucid dreaming techniques, but I feel like I can remember my dreams in great detail more than my friends. Any how, this is a dream I had on May 23rd 2011. I wrote it down because it was awesome. I was traveling through time (theoretically nothing in my dream had been proof that I had actually time traveled, it was just "hey lets travel through time) to find a golden disco ball, smaller than a volley ball but larger than a baseball. In order to find this golden disco ball I had to use a crystal monocle that was given to me. During my hunt there were people who were attacking me, chasing me through time, and my only attack was to use the monocle by throwing it in the air where it would float and catch people on fire and then return to me. After a short fight I find the golden disco ball (from here on out I will shorten as the GDB), but unfortunately one of the attackers had ambushed me and took the GDB and my crystal monocle, only it wasn't one guy anymore but two. The man who took my crystal monocle turned to crystal and he and the other guy with the GDB start jumping through time. Eventually the crystal man was known as the Crystal Emperor and the man with the GDB was known as "The Emperors Hand". I start to jump through time to find them, and I get at text telling me exactly where they are, so my brother, sister and I jump through time and end up on this train. My brother and sister had no idea about my goals to find the Crystal Emperor and The Emperors Hand, they just thought they were on a train ride. During my train ride, my sister thinks its funny to steal my sunglasses (all heroes need sunglasses) and accidentally de-rails her car. Fuck her, I have more important things to do, like find and kill the Crystal Emperor. Turns out my sister isn't a loss cause in my mind because she was able to re-rail her car and catch up to the train somehow while the train was stopped at the train station. The problem with the train station was that it was uphill and the only way to walk to the front of the car was to walk in a certain way, which the young conductor (like 9 years old young) was trying to show us. I kept falling down and was getting very frustrated (even though I realized how funny it was). My sister and brother didn't realize why I was getting so angry, and I told them that I was supposed to find and kill the Crystal Emperor, which they didn't believe, until I explained that the Crystal Emperor was made out of crystal and he got that way by stealing my crystal monocle. They realized I wasn't making things up, because that made sense to them. Eventually we got the train moving again and it was going smooth until the train stopped dead in its tracks on the edge of a cliff to one side of the train, with a cliff wall on the other. All of a sudden this fireball comes crashing next to the train leaving this huge crater and I look inside and see the GDB. I jump in to grab it when another fireball comes down on the other side of the train and lands softly. In this fireball was the Emperors Hand, who was chasing the ball because maybe he lost it. I decide to put my hood on my jacket and tell the Emperors Hand that I'm here to kill him. We both draw swords and start a fight inside the train cars. I am doing well, naturally, so I start to show off and get a little cocky and fall off the train and cliff, grabbing on at the last second but loosing my sword. Freaking out I manage to get back up and punch the Emperors hand in the face, take his sword and stab him. The Emperors Hand begins to stumble and falls off of the train, still holding on. I decide to finish him by stabbing his hand, but he wouldn't let go, so I kept stabbing his hands trying to get him to let go, but he wouldn't let go. I get mad and start to stab harder, and eventually the Emperors Hand falls to his death. I pick up the GDB and turn around to my dad who says "Good. You have the GDB, now lets go kill the Emperor"

I haven't seen looper so maybe they thought of this or solved it... but if I was an assassin in the present killing people in the future, I would be a scam artist. Instead of killing my targets, I would tell them that they are special and I will let them live but only them, (everybody would think I was doing them specifically a favor, but really I'm just scamming everyone). I would take my future money and be like "yea, I killed them all"