I’m thinking about starting a blog devoted to exposing scientific inaccuracies in children’s programming. I am currently watching Mickey Mouse, who’s in a rocket ship that appears to be roughly 4 times the size of planet earth, “jump” over other planets as if they were balls on the floor. Where is this gravity that he’s jumping against coming from?!?!?! And why is that spaceship so stinking huge!?!?!?!?!
Does this kind of thing bother anyone else?
You guys might recall that I have a bit of a fondness for Halo 3.
One of the coolest things about Halo 3 was that after a match, you could go back in and re-watch it. You could see things from your perspective or the perspective of the guy that killed you. Or, you could just move the camera around and zoom around and look at whatever you wanted. It’s a really REALLY cool feature.
You could also create short film clips and share them with your xbox buddies. You could tell them to go look at something and they could download it to their Xbox and watch your awesomeness. Sadly, though, there was no way to share your videos on the internet with all the poor xbox-less people out there.
UNTIL NOW!!!!!!!!!!
There’s a new service that can get your videos online into a youtube-like player for all the world to see. I’m giddy with excitement. I’ve already got two videos of my gameplay posted. Allow me to introduce the first:
ATV Destruction
A couple of guys are charging me on the back of an ATV. They want to try to run me over to kill me. I’m armed with a sniper rifle and a shotgun. I manage to shoot the first guy off the back of the ATV with the sniper rifle while they are charging at me. I put another sniper round into the driver and then I move over so that the boulder is right behind me because I know he’s trying to run me over. I time my jump perfectly so that he misses me and crashes into the boulder and gets knocked off his ATV. I pull out the shotgun, blast him a time or two and punch him in the face for the kill. I shoot him one more time for good measure once he’s down, just to let him know who the boss is.
http://www.gamevee.com/viewVideo/613236
Come from Behind Victory
Me and a friend of mine were playing 2 versus 2. With around a minute to go, we’re losing 19 to 14 (score is in lower right corner, we were blue team). Not good. But, I manage to get a couple kills and grab the shotgun and we make a stand in a central room. Thanks to my heroics, we come back and win the match, 22 to 21. I’m awesome.
http://www.gamevee.com/viewVideo/Halo_3/GeeVee/Comeback/609856
So, I have written before about how Tyler likes to play the Wii. To date, he has played Wii Golf and Wii Bowling. For his bithday, we got him Mario Kart (which his Dad likes a lot too!). So far, the only game he showed anything approaching skill at as boxing, and that is only because all it really requires you to do is punch with you hands. When it came to golf, Tyler understood that you had to swing it like a golf club, but he thought that the amount of fun you had was directly proportional to how hard you swung the controller. Not the most successful tactic when putting. With MarioKart, he doesn’t get that he’s supposed to try to go around the course, so he likes to just try to run into the cows that are on the course I always gets for him.
That changed last night. He asked to play some golf, so I set it up for him. Like I always do when he got on the green, I told him to “Try to hit it just a little bit.”
To my utter shock and amazement, he kinda bent over at his waist (like a golfer), focused really hard on the screen, and just barely twitched the remote for a nice smooth putt. A stroke or two later, and he got it in the hole.. the first time he’s every actually hit one in the hole himself. There was much rejoicing on my part and he got really excited about it too cause he understands that the goal is to hit it in the cup. Usually though, the game would “mercy rule” him after he hit it 150 feet past the cup for the 8th time… but with his newfound ability to put softly, he actually made it in!
A few holes later, he made his first honest to goodness no-help-from-daddy-other-than-cheering PAR. A PAR!!! He was thrilled. I don’t think he really understood what par meant, but he certainly understood that dad (and even mom) got really excited when he did it. He proceeded to play probably another 15 to 18 holes. He made quite a few bogeys and I think a grand total of 2 or 3 actual pars. He was having a BLAST. This morning, he was already asking about playing golf, so we’ll probably be doing it again this evening.
I may shed a tear when he makes his first birdie.
Further proof that the nintendo wii will one day take over the known universe. Also, further proof that I’m a dork (and so’s this guy). But serious, how cool is this?!?
This past weekend marked a great event in my life: the purchase of my first big screen TV. It will be going down in my basement and will become the chosen device on which I will display high def movies, HD games (Halo 3, anyone?),my computer display, and high def football. I got a great deal on the TV. It even came with a free Blu Ray player. Woo!!!
The only down side is that it was out of stock, so I have to wait a couple of weeks for it to come in. Once I’ve got it set up, you can be certain you will be seeing pictures of it! 🙂
Many of you know that I own a Nintendo Wii and I’m a pretty big fan of it. So, you can imagine my heartbreak when it stopped working a few days ago. Disc read errors and I couldn’t play any games. I don’t know what happened… my only guess is that Tyler managed to cram something into the disc slot. So, I got online and did a little searching. I quickly found out that all there was to do was to send it back to Nintendo and have them fix it. I imagined a $75 handling fee and weeks of waiting. But, that was better than buying a new one. So, I called them up. Within a few minutes, I was talking to a real person. Within a few more minutes, she was telling me to keep an eye out for the pre-paid FedEx label she was sending me so that I could send my Wii back in for free repair that should take 7 to 10 days.
Wow. I love you Nintendo.
The earth is safe once again thanks to my hard work and sacrifice. All the bad guys have been defeated. Here’s a picture of me laying some righteous smack down on some bad dudes with a FLAMETHROWER!!!!!!!!
(click for high res version)
Halo 3’s campaign has been defeated. Now it is gonna be all about beating 13 year old brats on Xbox Live. Wheee!!!
It’s kinda sad that my life can be summed up in a simple flow chart, but yet, here it is (click for the big version):
I have owned Halo 3 now for around 48 hours. All of them have been wonderful.
This game is phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal.
Today is sort of a religious day for me. I say “sort of” because it doesn’t actually deal with anything actually spiritual, but the term religious holiday is the only one that seems to convey the proper sense of reverence that his day is held in.
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