The next media hungry Britney Spears?

Its about time republicans ate their words. Because no matter what your opinion is of bush and his decisions, his incompetence as a president will be known in the history books, screw the unlucky part, and that’s fucking awesome.

Now what I will never understand is the medias obsession with complete idiots. In the last few days, Sarah Palin who was running for VP with McCain, has received more media attention that McCain does. Most of which is dragging her through the mud because no one can understand how a republican like McCain could let such a dim wit get so close to the White House. Heres a few amusing articles for anyone left in the world that still thinks they should of voted her in. Now there are a TON of scandals revolving around her, from her pregnancy’s, legal issues she’s been taken into court, and clothes bought during the campaign, just Google: Sarah Palin Scandals and you’ll find the majority of them. But I want to focus on how she’s a general idiot for someone in such a political position, let alone wanting to achieve a higher position.

• “Sarah Palin has been forced to apologies after she mistakenly claimed she had met with British ambassador Nigel Sheinwald at an event which he did not actually attend” How do you mistakenly talk about a meeting that never happened with the British ambassador? Lol
  

• Sarah Palin didn't know Africa is a country and not a continent.

• She couldn’t even name the three countries in the North American Free Trade Agreement - Canada, the United States and Mexico.

• Palin takes prank call from fake French president, really 2 radio DJ’s

• AND FINALlY!! (cause i'm done writing about this shit cause there is so damn much of it) McCain even asked her to step down from being VP

Alright well I’m done, all ready I’m sick of writing about this. How the hell does the media do it? Lets say some things are rumors (even though there’s video proof) when so many scandals and events come up with one person – there’s obviously SOMETHING wrong to have so many vultures at your doorstep to even question it. It’s like saying Britney Spears isn’t a white trash, horrible, unoriginal, singer who feeds off the media, AND making a living from being the looser known to man. Really though – even just looking at her face is insulting to females. Speaking of white trash, how is the Klue Klux clan even still around in America? These retards need to grow up. Man anytime the UK even hears about some kind of gang or group - cops are raiding their place and shutting them down from the country. Yea sure the UK is smaller than the US, but nothing is new about which states the KKK reside in.

In any case! the reality of RL keeps detracting me because it will always amaze me what people can still get away with in the world. But to end this blog - My favorite Sarah Palin quote: November 11th: Sarah Palin "Plows through doors" to attack "bloggers in their parent's basement."
-Later Days!

MMORPG Blood money!

I just got done watching G4 talking about WoW and I needed to get this dork nerd rage out of my system. Since I haven’t posted in a while, I figure I’ll make this one about a few things. First off is regarding the release of WoW’s new Expansion “The wrath of the lich king”. Blizzard has a good reputation when it comes to making games and expansions, and are well known for taking their time when making a game… I.E. Starcraft 2, but when they do finally make it, its badass. So their either lazy, or really slow at doing their job. Now me and Jen use to play WoW, went to level 70 – so this review isn’t really bias. In short, the World of Warcraft has become the short bus and the Wal-Mart of the MMO world. Short bus – because kids as young as 10 are playing this game and talking trash, anyone is able to pick this game up, and mash a few buttons to play it –Hence why it’s so popular, people like simplicity, which is pretty much Apples motto (however I’m not saying apples suck, just saying they’ve gotten as far as they have because of user friendly material.. well and everything they make is sexy and clean).

When it comes to WoW being like Wal-mart (stick with me) A lot of Wal-mart goods don’t last long (at least they haven’t for me) and they’re made with poor material so they can mass produce items at a low price (not to include their work ethics that have been taken into court). Blizzard has been nothing but reproducing the same idea in every expansion and creating it in low detail, It always consist of “Here’s a wicked item to make you bad ass – and you have to do X, Y and Z to get it, and that will take you one month’s worth of grinding” it feeds off the basic human need of reward and pleasure just like any MMO – However the problem with WoW is that month it takes – on top of having to do it with 5 other people running an instance just for 1 of 6 set piece items. In which of course by the time you get the entire set, next month they will be releasing a new update/expansion that will void out how awesome that set was. The reward system shouldn’t be monotonous. But if it is – it gets people hooked, wanting to complete the next simple task, because the next ones going to be just as simple, but time consuming. Meanwhile blizzard this year will be making a mind blowing (and quite unbelievable) 195Million dollars a month off your subscriptions around the world – and 2billion 340million total this year alone off your wasted time grinding.

Here’s another area they’re shorting you, They give you a little taste of every MMO out there, but not the full pie. Here’s some specifics if you’ve played WoW and have made it this far in my wrath fighting WoW. In Azaroth there was one (only 1) area where you could capture towers to hold rights to that land, it was pretty lame had could have had much better potential. In the following expansion however, after realizing people liked that idea “The Burning Crusade” entirely consisted of the capturing land idea which isn’t anything new to MMO’s before WoW. Now Blizzard is releasing “The Wrath of the Lich King” which will consist of Siege weapons, and a book of knowledge along with titles. Can they think of anything more original? I’ll tell you now though that the users will get hosed once again though, because even though they’re just copying other MMO’s now, their new ideas will never effect the main land of Azaroth, and only be used on the small new lands they create with the expansion, which is lame as hell. Its like playing in a cage. Point with this is – Users loved these ideas in games such as Dark age of Camelot in 2001, now being used by the same creators with the MMO Warhammer. However WoW players wont be experiencing the full intent of such an idea.

As for Warhammer? What can I say, it just came out, they’re having less bugs then when WoW first came out, and a million less gold spammers because they actually care and implemented a proper filter for them. The entire game gives you a feeling on constant war and fighting which is cool. And you can latterly go anywhere all over the world to fight with our restrictions. Not to add they have level buffs for PVP scenarios (Battle grounds) so everyone’s the same level and items get buffed to the same level. SO no more loosing because you’re out leveled by the other team. There’s thousands of the Tome of Knowledge unlocks, item unlocks, the ability to change color levels on your items, each piece seems to have several levels which is awesome (WoW hasn’t stolen that idea yet). Oh and how could I forget, you can also Level in PVP Scenarios. So you can latterly join a scenario right when you make a character, and be fighting and killing people as a level 1 (if you’re lucky cause you won’t have a lot of spells) but you can still do it! There’s also cool things called public quest which are everywhere, and each of one of them drop X amount of bags (one for how many people it should take to beat it) it’s usually 6 bags it will drop, sometimes being a purple or a more rare one. Point is you never even have to be working with a group to do them. You can just be running by, and see a bunch of people doing them, and just tag along killing shit for it. Nothing sucks more than not being able to group up with people to do something. Warhammer wise that problem doesn’t exist, not only can you just jump in on a public quest or castle take over. But you can see who has open group in your zone so you can join them for whatever instead of having to ask in a channel which always sucks and usually leaves you with no response.

In the end I’ll never go back to WoW, there is one thing I will always love about that game though, and that’s the idea of the flying mount which was released in the burning crusade, Awesome! But I refuse to go back to a game which is based around grinding for hours. Warhammer had one of the smoothest MMO releases and is starting out just as big as WoW did, and I can only hope it gets the respect and millions of subscribers as it deserves (its at 1 million now). Spells are a little bit more complex to understand for a kid who’s 10 year old, so I’m glad I wont be seeing any of those in WAR and WoW can keep them.
-Later days - WAAAARGH!!!

President Barack Obama w00t!!!

Jesus I hate math! Tues and Thurs I pretty much just get off work and go to class, then head to bed!! So I haven't been blogging =\ But hey! Barack Obama won the election, more so owned the election, while McCain got spanked with only 163 Electoral votes, and Obama with 249. In other news Russia is still playing the old school card "I have a bigger dick"by wanting to play with their missiles. Serioulsy its almost 2009 Russia, grow the fuck up and play nice with the rest of the nations, quit being gay. I would be the most immature president ever.

So im also cleping a bunch of test too for the hell of it. getting all kinds of sexy credits and will have my degree by the end of the year if one of my cleps pass. What can I say, its free for us cause the gov pays for it. Gotta milk it while I can! Anyways im gonna go chill out and play warhammer and study math, cause math.... is just a big immature word.

Oh hey we did go to Nottingham for the Robinhood fest 2 weeks ago, and the Norwitch beerfest this week! was awesome. Just a quick little plug about that :P always doing stuff every weekend now! atleast trying to.
Later days!!

Ugh! FREEEEDOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!

So my freedom of 15 days off work is over, works started and all is going to hell there. Its getting better now though, I aparently cought the tail end of everything going downhill I guess. Either way we worked Sat, then me and Jen went out Sunday to Nottingham. I'll post more about it later. I just got off work, and classes will be starting up tomorrow. But i'll type things up at work so I can just copy and paste when I get home. Then - pretty much crash after class.
Later days

You Sir, are a retard -

What is You Tube known for? It is the epitome of all public copy write infringement known to man.. This is the email I just got -

"Video Disabled
A copyright owner has claimed it owns some or all of the audio content in your video World Of Warcraft Raid on Tarren Mill by NSS. The audio content identified in your video is Name Of The Game by The Crystal Method. We regret to inform you that your video has been blocked from playback, due to a music rights issue."

So a video that i've had up for 2 years now with almost 100k view, is just NOW getting nailed for "copy write infringement" (CI). Besides I thought it was CI only if you made a profit with it. Are you serious though! at least 90% of all videos on YouTube have some well known artist music in the back ground, and theres no way in hell some kid got permission to. And you don't need to pay some half-whit member of the "YouTube Content Identification Team" to do a retarded job like that. If your going to go after some guy like me who's just having fun with video - than ban that other 90%, cause if you did - YouTube wouldn't be anywhere it is today.

On the other hand - according to their web site, someone who owns permission to the copy write has to report it in order for a video to get taken down. Which would explain why YouTube is so flooded with copy write awesomeness. But that also means someone who own the rights to The Crystal Method song Name Of The Game, saw my video and went "You son-of-a-bitch" and was SO mad - they actually took the time out of their day to get it taken off a well known media source of the internet, Which I think is actually pretty cool. In any case - Piss off! and go find something honorable to do you smuck!

OMGZ NEOPETS

Actually I know nothing about neopets, but Jen has had a neopet online for years. So now that she found out they are selling Neopet toys at Burger King, its Da-Ja-Vu for me, and were constantly getting kids meals lol. DaJaVu cause when I was around 12 my mom went to every BK in Illinois for beanie baby toys. Lets just say she now has an entire plastic container (the kind you save a shit load of wrapping paper) full of beanie babys. Fast food as a kid was no "treat" for me though, and I didnt get fat so dont blame it on them! well after seeing the movie super size me, you can.

Took this awesome picture of our cat in the window last night. I love our new camera, it makes taking pictures more fun with clicky noises and ticks. Anyways here it is! Also just added a pic of my AV in SL to the right. Honestly though.. its to subtle and not me at all. Theres no explosions in the background, no sexual references defacing pop cultures in the background, AND NO COW BELL! Its alright for the first one though, I just now found that add-on. DarRrr

Me and Jen hung out for a bit in SL. And played warhammer of course, we keep trying to wake up at 8 am but that never works out... think I have to find a job that will accommodate to my sleeping needs and wants... guess thats not the Air Force huh? lol

Later Days!

Old logic with new wrapping paper = sexy time!

So after getting back from Iraq a couple weeks ago, I've subconciously decided to fall off the radar of society, and into the human natural habitat of lazyness, and it rules... lol I mostly blame this on MMO's because they're addicting as hell. My English research essay on video game addictio says so, and since I got a "B" on it, I must of said something right in it. In any case im slowly getting back into my groove of doing things and making stuff. Jen's all ready been doing a BUNCH of paintings. All of which you can see on her Manic Static blog (she still needs to add a bunch), which is cool. I've been dancing around the world of sculpties, and I think I made dinner last night! that means im being productive again!

So check it out, we always get asked to film more weddings in SL even though we havnt done it for over half a year. And we get comments all the time saying thanks for the tutorial videos which is wicked. But no one has actually shown us what they've made after watching our videos. And check it out, Tosebari Serpente in SL hooked us up with his first build - Carrot Armwarmers bitches! Which is better than the first peice of crap I built when I started (see right side picture). So hey great job, and keep it up! BTW I make saw arms and shit now... so dont think im still making these kick ass discolored wood men! DONT JUDGE ME!

As for the title: Ive decided to stay up all night instead of going to bed at 6am like me and Jen have been for the past week. I need to start getting into that daytime awake time thing again If I ever plan on not falling asleep at work :P just another week and 1/2 of free leave! w00t!

Later days!

I hate you with an iron fist....

I've never denyed the face that Macs are great. I just dont like them because of the limited about of software I can "aquire" for a Mac. With that said, I join sides with my fellow OS haters, in saying "Up yours Windows". After I installed a new hard drive a couple weeks ago, I randomly recieved a "Missing Ntoskrnli.exe" file. After googling on Jen's computer, and trying all the fixes, nothing worked. Having several hard drives I simply reinstalled it and lost nothing in the process.

This is besides the fact though. The only reason why windows is so popular and we all grew up with it, is because Microsoft was what they call "The first to market". The first big company of its type to hit the big market. Just like coke, and how many people in the South area of the US call any kind of soda "Coke". Either way, with all your money - make something worth a damn, and a product you can be proud to put your name on. Its not like this is my first run in with some BS Microsoft OS problem either.
Thats about it, I just needed to vent because I'll never understand how some products make it to market and are distributed to the masses. Kinda like the American Penny. I think once a year for the past 8 years someone has told me they are still trying to phase it out. Because the penny cost more to produce, than its even worth.
In any case! Its 1.70 a pound now!! w00t!! it was $2 bucks to the pound when we first got to the UK. Later days!

And WARHAMMER WINS...the MMORPG war

The past few days me and Jen have been playing WARHAMMER Online, its only right to finally do a proper post regarding how much more awesome it is than the slow bus of WoW. (which we also played to lv70, so we have a good grasp).

Eve looses because - even though its a great idea, sexy looking, and has one of the most wicked death penalty in the history of MMO's, it is also the most tedious games probably ever made. World of Warcraft is child's play, and after playing Warhammer, it feels like your playing a dumb down MMO for kids. While on the other hand.. Warhammer is constant war, fighting, and always watching your ass. The skill professions are even more fun than WoW's. Not to add the RVR is the way to go, and its much easier to raid the other teams side's of the world and raise hell. Granted it has just been released, so there are a bugs just like every game ever released. Speaking of which, what a better segue than now to upload my own WAR glitched pics.


So I keep attempting to get back into the graphic designing but Warhammer keeps destracting me lol. Im just dabbing into the programs, nothing to serious cause im learning it on my own which is a pain in the ass. Oh and Jens birthday was 2 nights ago, YAY! she didnt really wanna go out and do anything but I did buy her something while I was downrange. Its hard to buy birthday presants when your gone!

Anyways im going to continue to milk these free days I have off work by just being lazy for now! lol Have a good one! ...WAAAGH!!!

3D Graphics is a GO!

I just got done finishing my crash course into creating sculpties for Second Life, and damn is it a lot to learn. Making sculpties is easily one of the most intimidating things you can do in SL. Mostly because you see awesome graphics real designers do, and SL isnt use to that kind of bad ass work. Heres an example of good shit-

Now: my n00b attempt - Its a penguin with a mow-hawk thing... or just a melted down bird.

In any case, my first time building was just as bad. And if you know me, I've come from that - to now a store with random cyberpunk stuff that is actually making me money! so Yip Yip! Either way I dont think it gets worse than this atleast, so I cant go downhill very far. Not bad for my first day though!

After being downrange in Iraq for 4 months, ive fallen far behind everything that is going on. Theres nothing I hate more than joining a trend when it hits the peak. Either way I have a bunch of new 3D graphic programs I've been playing with, and i'm just seeing what I like to use best. The biggest challenge is making sure the model is even able to upload into SL. With Zbrush it seems to be the easiest, and also Lightwave, but I havnt jumped into that yet for texturing.

After hours of reading up on Sculpties and watching videos, I have to give a HUGE thanks to http://www.shiny-life.com/. Where they have some great tutorials, and the Zbrush converter you will need to upload into SL. I'm pretty burnt out with that crap now so it looks like me and the wifey are gonna hit up the WARRRHAMMERRR!!!.

Later days!

Weee!! Crap load of updates

First off I'm work until the 23ed of October!!!!! SoI'm gonna start hardcore geeking it up.
Now that I'm finally home I've been working at getting back into the groove of things. Me and Jen have been around each other each second of the day, started playing video games together again, and now hanging out in our office that we organized. To include Jen getting her new computer!! and of course it has a million LED lights on it.

I also bought all kinds of goodies for mine. 3 new hard drives, and 2 new hard drive coolers, which look more like a car stereo amp. This also means I made a total mess of the living room. The coolers also come with 2 LED fans each in front.


and HOLY CRAP, for someone like me, you don't realize how much you missed bass until you go on a 4 month deployment. I've been constantly listening to Winamp techno, house, and electronic music every moment I get. I also just got 3D max studio again, i'm looking at really getting into it and possibly make something of it, Its just shit I really enjoy and have a passion for. Just like film, I just have to learn this first.

And just like many geeks, I gotta have a variety of gaming going on. In which case me and Jen started up WARHAMMERRRRR \m/ so far its pretty bad ass, why? Because its constant war! and you dont have to wait for it. Unlike WoW (even on a PvP server) you dont have to wait for battles, more so a group to play with because War sets you up automatically.

**Major dork alert**Now with the game just releasing we have seen out handful of bugs. which is great because they're always amusing to run into. Heres 2 of which we and the wifey ran into. 1st one is a jacked up avatar running. 2ed one is a rock spell that was cased on her, and it just sticks constantly even when running around and jumping.
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I will be updating a lot more than I use to finally! Laterdays!

I'm Home!

A quick update
Finally just arrived home and I have a million pictures to upload. It feels SO good to finally be home. I'm still waiting on a few more boxes that I sent my self APO to APO for free. I still have my computer to work on since the hard drive took a dump, and we are still waiting on Jens new computer in the mail. When she first got it, the computer has a bad motherboard. I also have a few boxes to mail out to the guys back in Iraq. Just a few inside jokes and goodies. Also I have to mail out my boxes to Eric and Rico with a few things from down range. Nothing illegal! Anyways, I gotta go and continue to hang out with my wife =)
Later days

Hey everyone!

Hope all is well in Second Life and your other gaming worlds. I've been responding to my Second Life messages through my email. So feel free to continue contacting me in Second Life. I'm counting down the days I have left in Iraq! and cannot wait to get back home.
Take care fellow g33ks!

finally! Internet!

So much for trying to catch up with Massively.com, every time I try to access it, the page will start to load, than crash. With all the filters on every computer and limited access here, the only place I've been able to get gaming news is CNN. Well and also the magazines they have at the PX. On a differant dorkie note, I bought all kinds of goodies for when I get home – Special thanks to Newegg.com, Cyberguys.com and some other website I found in one of those magazines. It's going to be like a super geeks Christmas. Only 1 more month in Iraq w00t!

Also I've been trying to keep up with friends on my facebook and myspace, but the Internet is so temperamental here, its damn near impossible. So if you guys are reading the blog, WHATS UP! As for NaturalSelectionStudios.com the site will still be down for at least 2 more months. After it got hacked for no reason – I have a lot of recovering to do and a backing up when I get home. Hopefully I can still get a lot of my “unfinished videos” off my old hard drive since it also took a dump.

On the bright side my college course is over in 1 week, and I'm one more class away from my degree. I've gathered over 60 gigs of music from everyone at work here. Oh and I got to see the new Batman, WALL-E, and Wanted (which is an awesome movie).

Think I'm done with this little update because it has at least taken me an hour to do it with this Internet.
Later days!

+1 for Addictions

Last night I found out something that me and our commander have in common, and thats “Scrubs”. Before I left me and Jen watched seasons 1-3, last night I found out our commander has 4-6 with him. Like a catatonic hospital patient, I sat and watched seven and a half hours worth of scrubs last night. To top it off, one of the other guys bought seasons 1-3 of House. After watching 4 hours of House today, I realized I might have a problem, I'm addicted to smart ass hospital shows. Yes this does also include Gray's Anatomy, that was the time I cheated on Scrubs. Never the less I quickly found my self relating to Zack Braff from Scrubs once again, and wishing I was a level 23 wizard master like him. Instead im a level 70 Dwarf Hunter in World of Warcraft, which is like saying i'm 53 in a kids hacky sack race.

Which reminds me I have a research paper I need to write, what is it on? I thought you'd never ask – video game addiction! Not saying I have one, I'm more of a virtual world addict. But I'm also addicted to bubble wrap and putting pens in my ear. Which does remind me of the time I got fired from my job. It was the first 3 days I played Second Life, didn't sleep for either day, I decided to stroll into work randomly during the week. Hey I was living with my parents still DONT JUDGE ME!

Time to go and pretend to write my paper! One more class and I have my degree! YAY! No idea what hell I'm going to do with it ... but hell why not!
Later days fellow addicts!