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Tag Archive | "Opinion"
Thoughts on Transformers 2 and Big-Budget Sequels
I’ve been wanting to see Transformers 2 since it was released, but noticed that every few days I watched the IMDB score, it would drop farther and farther down. Checking out Metacritic was even more dissuading, with a 35% overall score. I couldn’t believe how bad this movie sounded. I read comment after comment about how [...]
Continue reading...Thoughts on Windows 7 After 3 Days
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Introduction It is no mystery that I’ve been part of the parade yelling “Vista Sucks!” since it’s inception – I’ve even taken the time to review Vista’s shortcomings for everyone willing to read it by only taking a look at changes in one program as an example of the half-assed decisions made throughout the entire OS. The [...]
Continue reading...Why the Resident Evil 5 Versus Mode is Scarier Than the Game Itself
Friday, April 10, 2009
One of the selling points of all of the new systems, particularly in reference to their various online services, is the ability to download extra content. This extra content varies from new levels, modes, characters, costumes, and anything else you can imagine. One of the first offerings out of the gate of Microsoft’s Xbox Live [...]
Continue reading...This is Why Linux Will Never Compete on the Desktop
Friday, April 10, 2009
About a year ago I started writing an article titled “Linux on the Desktop: 10 Years of Wasted Time”. I was trying to summarize why Linux does not compete on the desktop for the mainstream computer user. As a Linux user since RedHat 5.0, then a Gentoo user for years then a Mandrake user for [...]
Continue reading...IGN Game Reviewers Love Everything
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Reading through the Kotaku “Frankenreview” series over the last year or so I’ve unscientifically noticed a trend… IGN seems to love most everything. I noticed with high profile titles more time than not IGN tends to love them and in polarizing titles they also tend to lean towards the upper-end of the scale. There are [...]
Continue reading...Killzone 2 Gameplay Video Not Selling Me
Thursday, December 4, 2008
I don’t know if I’m just worn out seeing shooters that are technically beautiful but lack the micro-bits of polish that are the difference between “meh” and “holy shit”… I think these bits of polish are video-games equivalent of getting over the Uncanny Valley. Not that the models have to look more and more real, [...]
Continue reading...Mercenaries 2 Mini Review, Definite Rental (Skip Buying It)
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
We love hate to say it, but we were right: Mercenaries 2 is a rental (not even a “must rent” at that), not a game for buying. While this isn’t an official review of it, we will hit the highlights for anyone interested right now: The Bad The overall fidelity (graphical, audio, etc.) of the game is about [...]
Continue reading...Lost – New Episode Impressions and Theories
Thursday, April 24, 2008
OMGZ, ok if you watched the episode of Lost last night and haven’t read the Time Loop Theory yet, then you really need to in order to make sense of it, and honestly, I think enjoy the show a little more since you won’t be so goddamn confused. That was an awesome episode last night… I [...]
Continue reading...An Ultimate Theory for Lost
Saturday, March 29, 2008
If you watch Lost, used to love it, and now hate it I’ve got pretty much the best information for you ever… but some folks would consider it a spoiler so I’m going to post it after the jump:
Continue reading...Condemned 2: Scary Fucking Game
Monday, March 24, 2008
Ok so I got a chance to download and play the Condemned 2 demo from PSN (I never played Condemned 1) and I have to say… that is a scary fucking game. Remember how Jericho was suppose to be super scary and it ended up just being a mindless shooter that didn’t do any 1 thing [...]
Continue reading...Review: SpinRite 6.0
Sunday, February 24, 2008
A friend this week had her laptop give her the dreaded blue screen every time she booted. After a trip to the Theif Geek Squad who told her if would be $1500+ to recover the data from the drive, I gave SpinRite a try first. I booted to the disk and ran a [...]
Continue reading...Is 64-bit Vista Stable And Why Should I Care?
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
If your a Mac person your not going to care either way, but for you Windows user 64-bit Vista has some things to offer…… A 64-bit computer can theoretically process twice as much information as a 32-bit computer. This makes a 64-bit computer a good choice if you’re working with video, large database searches, or games [...]
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
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