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America’s Best Dance Crew Season 5: Week 4

AC Slater — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:50:41 +0000

And we’re back! Sorry for missing out on last week’s Lady Gaga challenge, but we were relaxing by the pool in Mexico and I wasn’t about to spend my vacation watching ‘Dance Crew’ and writing about it, sorry. But lets jump right into this week’s disco performances a little differently than the past… I didn’t have time to post last night like I normally do so the order of the performances may be off a little bit and they may be a little shorter than usual, but you’ll get the gist of it.

Blueprint Cru got immunity last week so they were up first and I thought they did pretty well. They had to incorporate the “funky guitar” into their performance and did about as much with it as one could expect considering it’s kind of a lame move. Overall a solid, well rounded performance, which is good because I was worried these guys were starting to slip a bit after the first couple weeks. (They were my favorite coming out of the regionals).

Saltare had to incorporate the hustle into their performance and maybe it was just me, but I completely missed it. I like that they tried to incorporate some actual dancing into the routine, but again, I can’t get over the fact that every performance turns into a jump rope demo… why are these guys still around? Sure the jump rope tricks were hard and it was kind of cool (and also kind of hokey) that the ropes were on fire for the end, but this is still a dance show and I don’t feel that they are actually dancers…

Poreotix is up next and I believe they had to incorporate the robot (?) into their performance. I only question that because it’s pretty much what they do every week and I can’t remember their move exactly. I though the performance was ok, I’ve liked other ones in the past much better, they just seemed a little out of a sync this time which is odd for them, I did like the sexy robot as J.C. called it, and the wave thing they did across the stage was cool. My girlfriend still thinks they are terrible and doesn’t like the style of dance, but to each her own I guess…

Hype 5-0 had probably the worst move to incorporate into their performance, the electric slide… ugh. Again, like Saltare, I didn’t really catch the electric slide part of the routine, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t there, I could have just been distracted by some other move. I think it was a well rounded performance, a little slow at times, but I think these guys have potential and hopefully will blow us away in the coming weeks.

Heavy Impact had to incorporate the strut into their performance which I wasn’t worried about, it was the lift that I was worried about. I’ll be honest, without the performance in front of me I can’t remember much about it. Since we watched both the Lady Gaga and the Disco shows last night, I seem to be confusing them in my head. So with that being said, I guess the performance wasn’t that memorable to me, but then again I haven’t really been a huge fan of these guys all season.

Static Noyze was up next and they have been one of my favorite groups so far this season. I can’t remember what move they had to incorporate, but I do remember that one of their members could not compete due to a back injury, which probably threw off the whole vibe of the group. I thought they did pretty well, there were a few sloppy moments and a few hiccups, but overall a decent performance.

Jungle Boogie was the last group of the night and they had to incorporate the bump (?) into the routine. I thought overall these guys and Blueprint Cru had the best performances of the night. This performance had tons of energy, they all seemed to be pretty in sync and smooth. The lift was cool since the girl lifted one of the guys which is the opposite of what we normally see, so that was clever (she’s also pretty tiny too). So between the 3 groups in the bottom, Heavy Impact, Static Noyze and Jungle Boogie, I had no doubt that Jungle Boogie was going to be the ones saved this week… based on this week alone though.

So there you have it, Heavy Impact and Static Noyze are headed home, which is sure to upset a lot of people. I personally would have rather seen Static Noyze hang around for a bit longer, but sometimes it doesn’t work out that way.

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Playstation Move…And Other Motion Sensing Gaming

AC Slater — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:45:48 +0000

Yesterday at the GDC Sony gave a more in depth demo of their motion sensing controller dubbed Playstation Move. Basically it’s a rip off of the Wii controllers with large glowing balls on top. Now I don’t really care for this type of gaming, sure the Wii was kind of cool when it first came out, but how many of you actually still play your wii? *chirp* *chirp*… Count me amongst those that bought a Wii when it first came out, played it for a month and then went back to real gaming on my Xbox 360, PS3 or PC. As much as I feel there needs to be some sort of new breakthrough as far as how we control and interact with game systems these days, I don’t think that these motion sensing controller wands are the way to go. And honestly I don’t think Microsoft’s Project Natal is necessarily the way to go either. I just don’t think motion sensing controllers of any sort, whether it has a wand or not, is going to get the hardcore gamers to put down the normal controllers that they are used to.

For one, based on demos of the Playstation Move and my experience with the Wii, there’s not the same sense of accuracy with a motion sensing wand that there is with a controller. I tried to play Call of Duty 3 on the Wii and just found myself getting a wicked headache due to the fact that my screen was constantly flashing red from getting shot at. Maybe I’m just bad at utilizing this type of input controller for a first person shooter, but it seems more of a distraction and annoyance to have to point and aim a controller at the screen to get your gun to aim… not to mention way too tiring. There’s no way I could sit there for hours and play a Wii game like I can with a normal Xbox controller, and this is going to be the same for Sony’s Playstation Move.

Didn’t Sony revamp their Dual Shock controller with motion sensing capabilities (or at least accelerometers) once they realized what Nintendo was doing with the Wii? How well did that work out? How many games out there actually utilize the accelerometers in the six axis controllers? I can think of one, Lair, and from what a co-worker has told me, it’s a little hard to control and there’s no way to turn off the movement control and just use the thumb sticks.

There’s also a problem with lag in these games, the Wii seems to handle it pretty well and is actually fairly responsive, but it’s still there. And now from what I’m reading and what I caught on G4 yesterday regarding Playstation Move, there is quite a bit of lag between when you perform the actions and when your character on screen reacts. This would totally kill the immersion into the game for me. The brief demo I caught on G4 yesterday, before going to dinner, was some fighting game that resembled something like Final Fight (I don’t know any recent fighting games, not a fan), but obviously a bit more updated. The movements that the guy demoing the game did were fairly accurately performed by the character on the screen, but about 1/2 second after the guy did them himself. That seems like a whole lot of lag, and while it could have just been lag from the fact that it was a camera recording a TV I still feel like there is going to be some lag in games like that.

I don’t know, overall I’m not a huge fan of this “motion sensing” gaming revolution that Nintendo started, but I am kind of curious to see where it will lead. I know there’s got to be a different way for people to interact with gaming systems, but I don’t think this is the way to do it. Maybe Microsoft’s Project Natal will come out and blow everyone away, but again from the articles I’ve been reading lag seems to be a bit of a problem, so we’ll see.

What are your thoughts on all of this motion sensing that is making it’s way into modern gaming? Do you feel like these companies are abandoning their roots and their original fanbase to try to cater to the more casual gamer? Obviously it’s a business so if they can round those people up and get them to buy a PS3 or Xbox 360 they are going to, but do you really see this as the next revolution in gaming? I mean the Wii has been out for years now and most people that I talk to don’t even play theirs anymore unless they are having a party or something, otherwise it sits and collects dust…. like mine.

Modern Warfare 2 DLC aka Expansion Pack To Be Released March 30th, 2010

AC Slater — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:07:27 +0000

You can finally stop wondering when we’re going to get some new content for Modern Warfare 2 because the date is official, March 30th, 2010, although we still don’t know what we are getting. I think it’s safe to assume that we will be getting at least some new maps based on the new viral site that Infinity Ward has setup to promote the DLC, www.mapathy.com , but other than that it’s still a mystery. I’ll keep everyone posted here when more info leaks or you can keep an eye on the site mentioned above as I’m sure that’ll be the first place to have the info. If anyone hears anything else let us know!

Oh yeah and this is just for the Xbox 360, the PC and PS3 DLC will come at a later date…

LOST: Season 6 – Dr. Linus (3/9/10)

AC Slater — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:33:38 +0000

And I’m back! Here’s the very very short synopsis for tonight’s episode of LOST which looks to be centered around Ben. I’ll be back tomorrow to discuss easter eggs, theories and more…

Dr. Linus

Ben must deal with the consequences of a lie.

Alright, this will probably be a pretty short evaluation of last night’s episode as I can’t really think of too many interesting things to write about… Sure the episode was decent and we got some incite into some things, but I don’t feel that a whole lot moved forward. The main thing I got out of the episode is that Jack is starting to realize that he is on the island for a reason and he now wants to figure out what that reason is, just as Jacob had hoped. Along with that, people that Jacob have touched somehow are not able to kill themselves and possibly develop special abilities. Richard was touched by Jacob and does not age, so maybe Miles was touched by Jacob which gave him the ability to speak to the dead (or listen rather) and maybe when Hurley was touched it gave him the ability to see dead people…. I don’t know though. The idea of those that were touched [or something] by Jacob not being able to kill themselves could just be until they have fulfilled their purpose as well. Take Michael for example, in the past he tried to kill himself by shooting himself in his New York apartment, but the gun jams. Later on though, after the people that are supposed to get off the freighter, do, he ends up dying from the C4 explosion. Now I’m not sure if he’s the one that caused it to go off or if he just happened to be down there when it did go off, but if he caused it then it would make sense that you could die after your purpose was fulfilled, but if he didn’t cause it to explode, then it would still follow the idea that they can’t kill themselves.

The other thing that was interesting in the episode was the fact that Ben and his Father were on the island and part of the Dharma Initiative in the alternate reality. We obviously know that something has happened to the island in the AR which causes it to be underwater, whether it sank (how an island sinks I don’t know, considering islands are usually underwater mountains) or the water level rose, flooding it… but whether or not the H-bomb that the Losties blew up in 1977 caused all of that, I’m not so sure anymore. It seems that the AR may be completely different all the way back, I’m not sure how that works but hear me out. Ben was shot prior to the H-bomb going off and was brought to the Others to be healed, so he was separated from his father, so how could they have gotten off the island before the bomb went off [if that is what caused the island to be covered in water]? I guess if the bomb isn’t the reason the island “sank” then Ben’s father could have gotten him back somehow and gotten him off the island after the explosion, but it seems a little odd. So the whole fact that the island existed in the AR and that Ben and his father were on it, yet managed to get off at some point is a little confusing to me, but I’m sure things will be cleared up as we move through the season.

As far as easter eggs go not a whole lot of hard-to-spot things, just a lot of obvious deja-vu type moments. Alex is obviously still a part of Ben’s life in the AR, Ben’s father is alive and Ben has to supply him with oxygen which is a bit different than the mustard gas he used to kill him before. One of the books found in the tent on the beach on the island, not the Booty magazine, is called The Chosen which seems to have a plot based on religion, mathematics and a reunion between father and son… and of course the most obvious thing, not even an easter egg but I don’t know where else to mention it, Widmore is coming back to the island in a fancy new submarine. Is he the guy that Jacob said was coming to the island? Is he good or bad? Is he bringing Desmond back with him? Who knows… so what did you guys think of the episode last night?

Blur Xbox 360 Multiplayer Beta Impressions

AC Slater — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:37:50 +0000

Yesterday I received a code which gave me access to the multiplayer beta of Bizarre’s new racing game Blur. I’m going to be honest and say that I really don’t know a whole lot about the game, but I’m a fan of arcade racing games (don’t really care for the sim ones) so it looked interesting and hey, free beta so why not. The downloaded clocked in at a little over 1 gig and seems to include 4-5 tracks (?) and a handful of cars. I haven’t had time to mess around with all of the customization or anything like that, but I did get a solid hour and a half of playing time in so that’s basically what I’m going to be telling you about.

So seeing as how I knew nothing about the game going in I wasn’t really sure what to expect, but right off the bat I figured out that it’s kind of like Mario Kart, but with real cars. Essentially you are racing through a city, shipping yard, whatever, against other players trying to finish first, but along the way you can pick up different power ups to use against enemies or to help yourself. Just like in Mario Kart you can fire these power ups forwards or backwards, you can cycle between the different things you are carrying and the power ups themselves are similar to what you would find in Mario Kart. There’s a gun of sorts that gives you 3 bullets to fire off at people, there’s a red bomb type weapon that seeks out the person in front of you and hits them, there’s another red bomb thing that goes backwards and sits on the track waiting for someone to run into it, there’s a shockwave weapon that emits a pulse that damages any vehicle around you, there’s speed boosts, there’s shields, etc… you get the point.

So the muliplayer beta is basically just a handful of courses where you race around trying to finish first. You get different amounts of points depending on what place you finish and these help you level up which I’m assuming nets you different cars and mods and stuff. The menu interface is very clean and easily navigated, the game lobbies don’t seem to have any problems, there’s a nice voting system to choose which track will be next, overall the menus seem pretty thought out. The gameplay itself is actually pretty good, I didn’t have any problems with it although a lot of people in the game were complaining about the drifting, which I felt was alright, just took a little getting used to. It also took a few races to figure out what each of the power ups does as they are just colored icons without any description of what they are, but it’s easy enough to pick up on. The cars handled like I was expecting them to handle in an arcade racing game and I actually had a lot of fun playing online. So overall the beta seems pretty promising, but I’m not sure whether I’ll be picking this one up or not. I have quite a few games to play at the moment and am still having a hard time pulling myself away from Modern Warfare 2, so we’ll see. I’m always up for a good racing game and I’ll probably pick this up eventually, but I won’t be running out on release day to get a copy.

Is anyone else in on the beta? What do you guys think of the game so far? Does the drifting seem off to you or do these other people just need to get used to it?

Aventura Spa Palace Riviera Maya Mexico

AC Slater — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:05:21 +0000

We just got back from our 1st vacation in a couple years and I wanted to make a quick post regarding the resort that we stayed at and the service we received. Normally when you hear an article starting off like this you immediately think that something terrible must have happened, because why else would someone else take to the internet if not to bitch about something… Well I assure you that our experience at the Aventura Spa Palace in the Riviera Maya area of Mexico was anything but terrible and I just wanted to take a minute to post about our wonderful experience.

When we first started looking at resorts in the area we only had a few stipulations; had to be all-inclusive, there needed to be a direct flight, and it had to be adults only (gf’s choice, I didn’t really mind either way at the time). We didn’t want to stay in Cancun because we’re not 18 anymore and I didn’t really want to go to Cabo and my girlfriend had just been there last year anyways, so we knew that the Riviera Maya would be a good choice, but we had no clue how to pick from the hundreds of resorts in the area. We did the normal research, trip advisor, expedia, etc, to try and find a good deal and a well reviewed place, but it seemed like people had gripes about every place we looked at. We finally ended up going over to a travel agency in town and talking with them about what our options were and what our best bet was and it was there that we decided on the Aventura Spa Palace.

The ‘Palace’ had everything that we wanted, it was an hour south of Cancun, Adults Only, All-Inclusive and there are plenty of direct flights out of O’Hare to Cancun. The only thing we were a little worried about was the price, it was a little more expensive than some of the other places in the area. This actually wasn’t a problem though, after we discovered that the resort includes a “Passport” deal where a bunch of excursions are included in the overall price whether you go on them or not. So while we would have paid upwards of $100 per person to do the ziplining tour and the Mayan ruins at Tulum, through this resort we paid nothing extra. So that right there sealed the deal, we booked up through the travel agency and awaited our departure. (click through the jump to read the rest).

Upon arriving at the airport in Cancun we were told not to talk to anybody on our way out as they would just try to sell us a timeshare. So as much as we tried to ignore everyone a few people stopped us, but it turns out that they worked for the airport and not a timeshare company (My girlfriend still tried to walk past them). So with the help of a nice airport staff member we were able to find the company that was setup to take us down to our resort. We were told that the van ride down there would take about an hour and 20 minutes and were very surprised when he managed to get us there safely in about 50 minutes.

As soon as we stepped out of the van, our luggage was unloaded and tagged by the bellhops at the resort and we were given a wet towel to wash our hands with (I’m not used to that). They then informed us that we should go check in and once we were done to come back and give them our room number and they would take us and our bags over there. So we walked up to the registration desk and were greeted by a nice young woman who had all our paperwork ready to go, as well as a welcome drink. Check-in took no time at all so we decided to meet with our personal concierge and setup our excursions for the week (zipline and Tulum). The concierge lady was very friendly and helpful and we had our plans for the week set in a matter of minutes. We then made our way back to the entrance and headed to our room.

This may have been the only minor drawback to the resort. The fact that the property is so large and we were on the very edge made it a little bit of a hike to get to the pool and the restaurants, but considering we had pretty good weather the whole time I would say it’s a minor complaint. Upon entering the room we were greeted by a jacuzzi, a liquor dispenser and a fully stocked mini fridge all of which are included, free. Room service was available 24 hours a day and breakfast can be ordered the night before by simply filling out a door hanger and placing it outside the room. The only complaint about the room was the view. Since we were on the edge of the property all we saw was a fence, the jungle, a wedding gazebo type thing, and a little bit of the ocean, but again we did not pay for the ocean view so just a minor drawback.

The resort itself is huge, but it’s broken into two parts; the Spa Palace, which is where we stayed and is adults only, and the Cove Palace, which allows children but they cannot cross into the Spa side where as the adults can go between the two. There are 7 or 8 restaurants spread throughout the entire resort, 4 on the Spa side and 3-4 on the Cove side all of which are included with no reservations needed, which is nice. I remember going to another resort in the area with my family 4-5 years ago and we were only allowed to eat at 2 of the 5 nicer restaurants during our 5 day stay, so to be able to eat at the nice places at any time at this resort was nice. There were also breakfast/lunch buffets in two of the restaurants near their respective side’s pools as well as a poolside bar that had snack type foods like nachos, hot dogs, burgers, etc.

The pool itself was a little bit on the cold side, probably due to all the rain they had gotten the week before and the lack of heaters in the pools, but seeing as how I’m not really a big pool guy anyways it didn’t really bother me. The main pool, with the swim up bar, filled up fast (as far as chairs go) so if you want to get a good seat there you had to wake up pretty early and at least put a towel down, but the side pool, which is almost attached to the main one, always had plenty of room to sit. There are also waiters/waitresses that will come by your chair and get you drinks so you never even have to get up to go to the bar…. plus there were at least a dozen or so bars on the Spa side alone, so finding a drink was never a problem. The pool wait staff was extremely friend and even remembered us after only 1 day. There was also a few guys walking around and leading pool activities like water aerobics and water volleyball and these guys were awesome. Very friendly, always excited about getting people to do things, never pushy if you don’t want to do something, just all around nice guys (thanks Eddy). The main lobby also hosted a wine and cheese bar every day at 5pm which my girlfriend loved along with more snack type foods at some point (we never saw the food just always saw them setting it up).

As for the restaurants, since we were only there for 5 days we didn’t get to eat at all of them and we actually ate at the same one twice because we enjoyed it so much. The first night we just did room service since we over did the drinking a bit early and weren’t up for a nice dinner, but the 2nd night we tried out the Japanese place. Our waiter, Andres (or Alejandro, as I thought his name was) was an amazing waiter. Very friendly, very apologetic when the place got really busy and he took a few more minutes to take care of us, but overall a great server and the food was amazing. Since it’s all inclusive you can order as much as you want, and since my girlfriend loves sushi she went nuts and ordered about 20+ rolls. While I don’t mind sushi I wasn’t really feeling it that night so I got the beef teriyaki and it was amazing. Everything from the appetizers, to the soup, to the welcome drinks were also extremely good. We recommended this place to anyone that asked after that.

The next night we tried to go to one of the restaurants in the lobby, but they were full due to a convention being at the resort that night, so we went to the Italian place instead which was good, but not as good as the Japanese place. The appetizers were the best part of the Italian place, it was some sort of pizza, but I don’t think it had any sauce, with pineapple and ham… a-mazing. For the entree my girlfriend got some sort of stuffed fish thing which she said was really good and I got some sort of steak thing which was decent, a little too fatty for me. So overall the Italian restaurant was good, but didn’t mirror the food we had the night before. Our waitress was, again, very friendly and attentive so no complaints at all with the wait staff. Then our last night there we went back the Japanese place since it was that good.

For breakfasts we ate at the buffet near the pool and it had a large array of different foods, everything from bacon and eggs to pancakes to some random stuff I would never eat but my girlfriend seemed to love. So as far as food there are plenty of choice and all of what we had was very good, so no complaints there. All the wait staff was incredible and friendly so a big thank you to them.

As for our excursions, we went on a zipline tour that was closer to Cancun so we had to take a bus. It was a half day tour and was a lot of fun. Everything is very well structured and on time so no complaints what so ever. Our trip to Tulum was also very good although I would have rather cut out the stop at the other ‘Palace’ resort and just had them take us back to our resort 2 hours earlier, but it was kind of cool to see one of the other resorts and hang out and drink by a different pool. Our tour guide for the Tulum tour was extremely well educated and an amazing guide, thanks Hector. So if the other excursions are anything like these I would highly recommend taking advantage of whatever you can, there’s no reason not to considering they are all included in the price of the resort.

The last thing I want to mention, which is probably the biggest complaint that we read on trip advisor, is the lack of a beach. Personally I could have cared less that the resort doesn’t have a beach, but I guess it would annoy me too if I planned to go to Mexico to sit on the beach only to find out that there was none. I guess I shouldn’t say that there was “none”, there was sand and water, but it’s more a lagoon area enclosed by rocks. So while it is beach feeling, it’s not a clear shot to the ocean. This area had people kayaking and snorkeling in it, but again if you’re going here to go snorkeling don’t waste your time in this lagoon, go out on the reef snorkeling excursion.

So that was that, the Aventura Spa Palace was a great resort to spend a few days away from the cold weather in Chicago and Travel Impressions did a great job in getting us where we needed to be. So on that note I would highly recommend this resort if you’re looking for a nice little getaway. We had a great time and are looking forward to going back.

DVD & Blu-Ray Releases For March 9, 2010

AC Slater — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:30:17 +0000

Here are the DVD and Blu-Ray releases for Tuesday March 9th, 2010. Notable releases for this week are Old Dogs, Planet 51, Up in the Air and Precious, all of which I have not seen so I can’t make recommendations. However, I have seen Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day and while it doesn’t stand up to the original at all, it’s still entertaining. I don’t know if I can recommend it as a ‘buy’ for those of you that aren’t hardcore fans of the movie, but definitely check it out.

DVD Releases

Blu-Ray Releases

What Problems Do You Have With Modern Warfare 2?

AC Slater — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:35:40 +0000

It seems that this blog attracts quite a few Modern Warfare 2 players (probably because I write about it so much), so since that seems to be the core audience here I wanted to post this and get your ideas of what some of the problems with Modern Warfare 2 are. Over the past few weeks all I seem to be reading on Twitter (#mw2), Buzz and other blogs, is how Infinity Ward should fix the game before even thinking about releasing DLC or expansion packs, and my question is, what problems are you people referring to?

Sure, when the game was first released there was the big issue with the lack of dedicated servers on the PC version and the smaller game sizes. Whatever, the servers is not a game play issue, get over it. You knew that there was not going to be dedicated servers before buying it, it made major news outlets (which seems weird to me) so it’s not like Infinity Ward straight up lied and said there would be dedicated servers and then changed their minds at release time. There may have been rumblings early on in production about dedicated servers being there, but it was a well known fact long before the release that they would not make it to the final product.

Now for the in game glitches, mainly multiplayer. I see a lot of people upset that there are so many glitches and they are blaming it on the fact that there was no public beta for the game. They say that if there was a public beta, many of these things would have been discovered before the game was released. I’m sure some of the stuff would have been figured out, but majority of it would not have. IW has a slew of in house testers that are paid to sit around and try to break the game, but when I say a “slew’ I mean it’s maybe 30 people (I really have no idea how many testers they have), but when the game is released, how many people bought it? Millions! So therefore, obviously millions of people are going to be able to find things that the 30 or so in house testers happened to miss. And to be honest, I think Infinity Ward has been doing a pretty good job of getting patches out there to the consumer.

The first major glitch that was discovered was the javelin glitch that allowed you to become a walking bomb. When you would die your body would explode with the radius of a javelin missile, destroying anything around you, it was quite annoying and eventually Microsoft stepped in and started banning people from xbox live, which they have every right to do since it’s part of the ULA you accepted when you signed up for Xbox Live. The next big glitch was the unlimited care package glitch which was a bit more of a problem. There were a couple methods for pulling off this glitch, 1 that was pretty easy and another that was more difficult. IW went ahead and patched the easy method, but the harder method still existed causing them to pull back the initial patch from MS approval and fixing it once and for all (it took a little longer to push out the PS3 version, PC was pretty instant I believe). But in the end it was fixed and as far as I’m aware there is no method that still works (until someone finds one). The other glitches were fairly minor like being able to place a sentry gun inside walls so that it could shoot out, but you couldn’t shoot in and same with player collisions and objects. I’m sure some of these still exist, but they have always existed in games for those willing to seek them out. There are also some elevators that they patched, but there are still a few of them that are accessible in the game. For those that don’t know, elevators are glitches that allow your player to basically float way up into the sky and shoot down or access places they shouldn’t be able to.

So in my eyes the major GLITCHES were fixed. There were some other issues that people had with gun balance that were also changed around, in particular the range of the Model 1887 shotguns, but I don’t consider those glitches or an issue really. I never had a problem killing people that were running up on me with the Model’s. Sure I’ve been killed up close by them many times, but they are an up close weapon. I understand the issue here was the range and power, but I never found it to be an issue. Same goes for the complaints people have with Marathon, Lightweight and Commando. Sure it’s annoying to be killed by one of these guys, but it’s also not that hard to kill them. In my eyes the problem here is skill, there are some good players online in Modern Warfare 2 and if you can’t kill the guys running around like this, you obviously aren’t as good as them. Personally my only issue with the game is those damn thermal scopes… but it’s not a problem with the game itself, it’s just the fact that I still get killed by them… oh and noob tubes also… haha.

I know there are also complaints about the lobby times and getting booted out of games and I’ll agree that sometimes it takes a couple minutes to get into a game, but it’s not a ridiculous amount of time… And at least when the host of a game leaves it usually tries to find a new one, I know it doesn’t always work, but at least it tries which is more than I can say for CoD 4. And I know there are also some hacked lobbies with super fast movement and stuff like that, but I have yet to run into one of these lobbies and, as sad as it is, I usually play for a couple hours every day (Xbox 360), so I don’t know if it’s just a PC issue, but I have yet to run into one of these “hacked lobbies”.

So I’m curious as to what everyone’s problems are with the Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer? Why all the hate towards Infinity Ward? I know it comes off as if I’m trying to defend the game as a whole, but I’m actually just curious as to what problems other people have with the game since I don’t seem to have any… I really just want some new maps!

LOST: Season 6 – Sundown (3/2/10)

AC Slater — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:10:34 +0000

Below is the synopsis for this week’s episode of LOST. As you know, I usually come back the next day with thoughts, easter eggs and theories, but we’re headed to Mexico in the morning so I may not be able to post an update. I’ll try to do it tonight, but that probably won’t happen. So if you notice anything or have any theories regarding the episode make sure to come back and post in the comments.

Sundown

Sayid must make a difficult decision, while Claire has a warning for the temple inhabitants.

DVD & Blu-Ray Releases for March 2, 2010

AC Slater — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:05:44 +0000

Here are the DVD and Blu-Ray releases for today, March 2nd, 2010. Looks like the big release of the day is 2012, which was pretty terrible so I wouldn’t recommend picking it up. Other smaller releases include the original Clash of the Titans and Bitch Slap.

DVD Releases

Blu-Ray Releases

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