Play-Asia Banners Added

I've added banners for play-asia to the rotating banner script, so you should see their stuff from tiem to time. If you DO see one, why not check 'em out? If you buy something i get a commission 'cause of their awesome affiliate program - so i get store credit or even money from your purchase and it doesnt cost you any more. Other than clicking the banner... If it isnt showing up, then here's one that will ALWAYS be the play-asia banner:

WTF are Rapidshare Doing?

UPDATE: Ah. Some are dogs... right. Rapidshare: Please, make that FREAKING OBVIOUS!

Do me a favour: Take a look at this picture, and tell me WHICH LETTERS AREN'T ATTACKED TO A CAT?

Yeah. WTF?

If you're wondering, i'm trying to download a theme for Foobar2000. Best Windows Audio player EVAR. Period.

Stupid rapidshare. Guess ill jsut have to wait for "Happy Hour" again...

...And the new...

That's right, folks - I'm in possession of one reasonably powerful machine. Didnt take that long, now did it?

The reason the CPU is running at 2GHz in the screenie is, of course, due to SpeedStep (Or whatever they're calling it now) - the BIOS is set up correctly (Trust me - i had to set the multiplier to 9x manually)

So yeah. Its farking awesome. 2Gb of DDR2 800 RAM, too. I can actually do two things at once with the appearance of it actually multi-tasking effectively!

Anyway. Coming up next: "WTF are Rapidshare Doing?"

The old...

Xbox 360: SD Crisis averted, GvG and The Orange Box.

Just thought I'd make it known that i figured out the Xbox's problem. It wasn't the Xbox at all, in fact it was my monitor. For some reason it had stopped accepting the signal from Component or Composite. The solution was unplugging it completely for aobut ten minutes. Shame it did that, really, but i guess leaving it "on" 24/7 isn't really good for it.


Anyway, i've acquired Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights for the 360, which, really, isn't as good as i expected, but far outshines Need for Speed: ProStreet. It's in the vein of NFS:U, which means its far better, and doesn't try to control you.

In soviet Russia, you control Need for Speed: ProStreet!

Anyway, A few friends and myself have formed "Clan CFWF" - Standing for Crazy Fools With Firearms. We're currently in the planning stages of creating a machinima series based around Halo 3. Now, i know it sounds like a blatant rip off of RvB, but we love those guys, and think of it as an homage. The first episode probably won't seem that way, but trust me, it is. We love Rooster Teeth a bit too much.

And finally, the orange box. I acquired this later than Juiced (Having gotten bored of it =)) and holy hell, this is some awesome shit. Portal is epic win, though far too short, at least in the main game. Half-Life 2 episodes 0 to 2 are all spectacular, and Team Fortress is a brilliant game, though I haven't played a great deal of it. I will definitely be doing a review of one or more of those games. Portal is most likely. <3

Along with the Orange Box, I also acquired a copy of Naruto: Rise of a Ninja. Now, this is one of the best fighting games i've ever played. It's just... fun! And that's what I want..
Not only does it follow the first 80 episodes of the anime pretty faithfully, it also maintains its humour and personality. No mean feat considering the previous outings.
Fights are smooth, easily accessible and look pretty damned good in HD, though there are some texturing issues, and some glitches to be had in some circumstances.
The game could've used a bit more playtesting, because i've found some MAJOR bugs in it, thankfully they don't ruin the whole game, but they're annoying.
Also, the fact the game restarts entirely even when you just reconnect to Xbox Live is ridiculous. It then sets you through the UNSKIPPABLE Ubisoft logo animation, as well as the logos of the technology under the hood. All well and good if it played ONCE when you boot the game, then never again until you reset like most games, but no. It's forced upon you even when you just happen to drop out of Xbox Live and want to reconnect it. Make sure you save your game beforehand, because it doesn't care. That's some seriously bad programming, Ubisoft. Considering its an Xbox 360 exclusive, you'd expect better integration.
A review might also come of this. Stay tuned!

Also, holidays! Yay! Time to get stuff done!

Finally, I think I've enabled OpenID using blogger, so i SHOULD be able to use it everywhere OpenID is available now. Hell, i thouight i might as well get in on it. =)