Mazzer La Swede

My NBA 2k11 Story

2011-06-18T22:12:00.004+02:00

My relationship with NBA 2k11 and its "My Player" mode has turned into a marriage. I love it because it's a ton of fun and really addicting, yet it annoys the crap out of me and is the first game ever having me automaticly yelling shit out IRL.

For you who don't know: In "My Player" mode you create your own basketball player, and start off by trying to get drafted to the NBA. If you play good from the start you might end up in a NBA-team, if you're bad/mediocre you end up in the D-League (farm-league). Then you play for big numbers and bringing home wins for your team by playing smart (it's not all about scoring as good passes that leads to scores is also important, and the game understands that). It is in fact the best basketball-game ever made, it's very realistic. Yet it still gets really annoying. Let me tell you about my experience so far.

I started out as a complete noob. Learning the controls, learning the game. It was really hard to put out any good numbers. But with time both me and my character got better. So after a while I finally ended up in my favorite NBA-team: Denver Nuggets. That was great. It was really awesome being on the court with the players I had only seen from highlight reels and the occasional live game (the games usually end around 5.30 or 6 AM in Sweden). But it wasn't all good. Some games the team played really bad. I was fine with it though as that's how it is IRL aswell. BUT sometimes it was just pure annoying.

The NBA finals between Nuggets and Heat is a good example: I'm running 6 min quarters with 6 min simulated quarter length. As the Heats is a really tough opponent with players like LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade on your ass. So I focus and work really hard and do my absolute best FOR THE TEAM to keep us in the game. After four minuters in the first quarter it's 14-14 between the teams, 12 of those points were made by me, and coach puts me on the bench (which is usually fine - it's normal). Two minutes into the second quarter coach puts me back into the game. Can you guess what the score was? Miami 27 to Nuggets fucking 14... Nuggets had scored zero points and had let the Heat bring home 13 points unanswered. I abondoned the game and took a break before trying again. Didn't want to risk punching a hole in the wall. Nuggets ended up winning the entire playoffs ofcourse. ;)

And then we come to where we are today: It's a new season that has just started. And as in real life trades and changes are made in the teams between the season. We ended up losing a key player: Happened to be Melo who's actually not with the Nuggets IRL today either - but he was a good scorer and assist-cow in NBA 2k11. Instead we get these completely new guys who can't do shit. I do awesome passes, most of them that should lead to assists. Do they? No... They miss, and miss, and miss... And chance after chance is wasted. The team now relys on me doing most of the scoring. But even if I put up 25 points - we lose because of the newbies shitty play. Then we have Ty Lawson who seem to have nothing else in mind then aiming at the highlight-reel, Billups and Nenê who can't hit shit anymore. It sucks SO bad that I have decided to request a trade to Clippers, Heat and Bulls. It sucks that it has come to this. I love the Nuggets. But I just can't let them ruin my gaming-experience like this.

I still recommend this game to anyone who is remotely interested in basketball, or even sports-games in general. Sure it has its flaws and it is going to annoy you a bit, but it's realistic and fun most of the time.

Barbeque - CHECK!

2011-06-18T14:16:00.000+02:00

FINALLY i fired up the grill yesterday and barbequed the shit out of a steak (a "Flintastek" as we call it in Sweden). I made it too hot though so I burned the steak pretty hard but it was still eatable - And it tasted awesome. Tiny bit too salty but still really good. Had some potato sallad with that. Had great company by a couple of friends. We had some beer - I had a few too many and managed to pass out on the bathroom floor, which is turning into a thing for me more or less (I really need to start controlling my drinking sooon lol). However: Barbeque, Steak, Potato Sallad and Beer = Proper Swedish Summer!

Picture is not mine. You can tell by the steak not being burned enough.

What's happening ya'll!

2011-06-17T11:49:00.002+02:00

Thought I should post something here out of boredom. Not much going on. Waiting for the Firelands patch in WoW. Not sure why as the guild I'm in isn't actively raiding at the moment. They are trying to get raids up and running now, but the leaders can only raid during weekends. I guess I'll try to help out and host some mid-week raids.

Alot of people has quit WoW. Not only people that I know, but about 600 000 people have cancelled their subscription. And I get why. There's not much to do in WoW nowdays other then clearing content that you've already seen a ton of time, or do PvP. However BG's are mostly lame in my opinion, and it's just a way to farm honor. Arena requires arena-mates, and I'd prefer doing Arena with IRL-mates. The only person I know IRL who plays WoW atm isn't even max level so that's out of the question.

But... Screw WoW! The summer has hit and the time for BBQ's and hanging out at the beach is here! Well... I haven't been doing any barbequing yet (my own fault and it pisses me off). And my body doesn't allow me to go to the beach at the moment. I've decided to start exercising this summer, so I'll be ready for beach 2012, and start feeling a bit better about myself. :D

I'm going to start my exercising as soon as I've moved back home to mom, which I'm doing for several reasons. One being I'm not so sure how things will turn out with work. Not doing too well lately and I'm getting tired of it. So I will start applying for new jobs now.

Well that's it... I'm leaving you toady with a trance-tune that is more then freaking awesome!! It's Markus Schulz and Jochen Miller with Rotunda.

Peace!

Scrub Life

2011-03-19T12:40:00.003+01:00

Oh yeeaaa! Finally it has arrived: Scrub Life! Wax's latest release. It's hosted by DJ Skee, and features 16 sick Wax-songs and one song by Dale Firebird (Wax's alter ego?). The songs are produced by Wax himself, EOM, The Fyre Department, Nobody Famous, Finatik & Zac, Jim Jonsin and of course: Dale Firebird.

The mixtape overall is sick as F***. One of the best things so far this year for me. Some songs have been available on Wax's YouTube-channel for a while (like Red and Wax Goes Bananas). They also put out a studio-recorded version of New Crack which was one of Wax's first videos on YouTube where he was spitting it while driving a car through LA, it was his first video to hit over 1 million viewers.

My personal favorite at the moment is Dispensary Girl. I want to type more about this song and the mixtape in general. However I'm lazy as fuck so this is what you get. Click the image below to go to the download-page of the mixtape. Oh, I forgot to mention that the mixtape is FREE!

New Year and Cataclysm!

2011-01-21T10:09:00.001+01:00

What's up people!

Only took me 3-4 months to publish a new post on here. When I haven't been working hard on my job, I've been working hard on running a WoW-guild called Jinx with some friends. The whole WoW-part is going better and better, while the work-part is suffering. However I am pulling myself back up on top and I'm planning on showing my employer that I'm the best and what I do, because I am.

Anyhow I'm mostly writing to show people I haven't died. And I'm planning on making a new blog that will be in Swedish and about World of Warcraft. You will find it here.

I'm not giving up on this blog however. I will be posting updates here every now and then. Just have to find something to write about.

Since I didn't make any post for new years I wish you a Happy 2011. Follow my blog(s) and I'll talk to you soon!

Peace!

Entourage Season 7 - DONE!

2010-10-01T17:48:00.001+02:00

Recently I have been very busy with work combined with leading a WoW-guild which has taken up alot of my time. However I finally managed to take some time off to relax and update the latest Entourage-playlist.

The 7th season of the HBO-series "Entourage" came to an end a couple of weeks ago. And boy, what an eventful season it has been! As you might have understood from the post I made when Entourage was on again I wasn't too happy about the first episode of the season. However it didn't take more then 1-2 more episodes for the show to make me very interested in it again. All characters have been stuggeling with something (and still was at the end of the last episode). Especially Ari who's in a deep family crysis, and Vince with a drug-addiction. I can't wait for season 8 to come out!

However the Spotify Playlist for Entourage Season 7 is complete. As usual there are songs missing that isn't on Spotify. I might post song-lists soon with info on which songs that are in the playlists and the ones missing. However this might take a while. Season 7 is the only playlist I was smart enough to write down the missing songs when putting the playlsit together.

Anywhoozle! Here it is! The playlist that is: Entourage - Season 7 (URI: spotify:user:dassetzo:playlist:6x4GoZldiHnUijrMacY2EC).

Peace!

Sorry Folks!

2010-08-08T10:37:00.003+02:00

I'm WAY too inactive with the blog right now. I think I'm going to update the season 7 Entourage-playlist today as I'm far behind right now. I'm also working on playlists for Greek but don't know when it will be released.

To bring you something awesome that you might've wanted before the weekend:

Asher Roth! What a freakin awesome guy that makes awesome music. His latest single is called G.R.I.N.D. (Get Ready It's A New Day), a really nice song that fits for both parties and hangovers. :D

Another song that might not be very "new" to Americans is I Love College. What a party-song! The chorus goes like this:

That party last night was awfully crazy I wish we taped it
I danced my ass off and had this one girl completely naked
Drink my beer and smoke my weed but my good friends is all I need
Pass out at 3, wake up at 10, go out to eat then do it again

Now, THAT'S how life should be! ;)

And I doubt you have missed this last one. The perfect hangover-tune in my opinion: Eminem feat. Rihanna - I Love The Way You Lie. The collab and the song is perfect. The video features none less than Megan Fox (Transformers) and Dominic Monaghan (Lost). I haven't seen such a well done video to that good of a tune in a long time. Enjoy it!

Peace!

Entourage Season 7 Playlist In The Making!

2010-06-28T14:49:00.001+02:00

Finally Entourage is running again. The first episode of season 7 finally arrived the other day and it was an ok episode. I wish they started more of a story that continues through upcoming episodes. But it was still ok. Vinces story in this one is all about if he should try his own stunt or not (the director and producer tries to push it on him). We get a inside look on Turtle's new business. And Drama struggles with getting his own TV-show.

Anywhoozle, I've started putting together the playlist for Season 7. As there's only one episode out there isn't much songs in it just yet. As usual not all songs from the show is on Spotify so it's never 100% complete. However if you find a song on Spotify that's in the show but not in the playlist then feel free to contact me either thruogh comments or the mail-form under contact.

Entourage Soundtracks - Season 7

Facelift!

2010-06-12T20:24:00.000+02:00

Yup yup! New design on the blog. I love it because it feels so "summer". :)

I was out celebrating my cousin who graduated yesterday. Congratulations to him! I had a blast and got a widdle bitty drunk.

Else... Uhm... Two episodes left on my 2nd run on Greek. Then I have no idea what I should do. I refilled my WoW-account the other day so maybe I should push that warrior to 80 and PvP a bit? I really don't feel like raiding anymore during WotLK. Ruby Sanctum seems cool but I'll be happy with running through it once or twice and then just slack until Cataclysm.

Ah well... That's it for me for tonight. Time to open a beer and pewpew with some lazors in Quake.

Peace!

When? When...? WHEN!!?

2010-06-10T00:19:00.001+02:00

Geez I hate waiting for new episodes for tv-shows. What bothers me even more is when companies like ABC and HBO post news like "Guess what! This show is returning for a new season! Awesome right?". And no more info... So yea it's great that the shows is returning BUT WHEN!? It's annoying enough to wait for episodes. Having the companies tease you like that without even adding something like "...and can be expected in the 3rd quarter of 2010" is just mean annoying teasing.

Anyway... Not much going on right now in my eyes. Still waiting for Forsaken World. Not playing WoW at the moment. Greek, Entourage, One Tree Hill, Scrubs etc is all on breaks. All I can do is enjoy the Swedish summer. Nothing wrong with that though. Hanging out with your friends by a campfire drinking beer a nice clear summer night in Sweden is just pure awesome. ;) So yea maybe I should start doing that now...

That's it for me for tonight.
Peace!

Forsaken World - Vampire Gameplay

2010-06-02T19:51:00.001+02:00

Wadduuupp! As I mention in my post about Forsaken World the Vampire and Barb classes seems very unique in many ways. Now there's finally a gameplay video up for Vampires. It's posted by a FW fan-blog (check it out). I really like what I see. :)

Two new David Guetta songs!

2010-05-29T15:04:00.002+02:00

David Guetta is back with an awesome remix of Kelly Rowland's song "Commander". This remix will most likely be played on the clubs all over the world during this entire summer as Mr. Guetta delivers good this time. Enjoy!

Guetta have also been working with Afrojack on a new pretty chill house-tune. Definitley worth checking out:

I am angry!

2010-05-27T17:41:00.001+02:00

Okay I am seriously getting angry with this. Spotify or the record company decided to remove three awesome Bob Dylan songs: All Along The Watchtower, Mr. Tambourine Man and It Ain't me Babe. Why the F**K do you remove songs at all? It's so annoying! It has happened to other songs before aswell but it seems like the amount of removed songs have increased recently. I bet they have reasons but still...

Better not remove more now... Or they will have a pure PISSED OFF Mazzer CALLING them and yelling his throat out!

I'm out! -.-

Forsaken World

2010-05-26T16:20:00.008+02:00

Hello dear readers! (chea' like I have any readers, lol ;) ) Last night I was scouting the Perfect World Entertainment (PWE from here on) site to learn more about a new MMO i started playing recently called Battle of the Immortals. The game is awesome but needs alot of work at the time. But as I accidently click myself into the official PWE-page I start checking out their other MMOs. I've played Perfect World before and I knew they had some other games aswell. However one thing that caught my eye was a new Free-to-Play (F2P for short) game under development that's called Forsaken World. I checked out some videos on youtube, spent an hour reading tons of information and damn it! I want to play it!

Official Cinematic Trailer:

The graphics and design is amazing! As long as it isn't another grind-for-hours-because-you're-out-of-quests-mmo and it has some decent end-game content once it's done, it's going to steal my WoW addiction and make it into a FW addiction.

I'm just going to write about a few things the game offers and what I think seems cool. If you want details on the pretty awesome lore of the game you should check out the official site.

The game offers 5 sweet races:

- Stonemen - Big ass stone-creatures.

- Elves - The usual pretty creatures thats in many fantasy MMOs.

- Dwarves - Male dwarf looks awesome and brutal, while the female dwarfs is suprisingly cute.

- Humans - The most disliked-by-Mazzer race in all MMOs as it just feels so non-creative to play them

- Kindred - Which is basicly the result of a slutty demi-goddess and a human guy having unprotected sex.

They all look very nice in one way or another, but my favorite is probably male dwarf so far. To see more of the races in different classes check out this video: Character Creation in Forsaken World (Chinese Closed Beta) (embedding was disabled).

Forsaken World also offers 8 uniqe classes:

- Warrior: In FW it's a melee DPS class with heavy health. Can be played as Human or Elf.

- Protector: These guys will act as the main "tanking"-class of the game, with massive defence and HP. Can only be played as a Stoneman.

- Assassin: Another melee DPS class. Not much to say then that it's basicly a rogue. Played as Human or Kindred.

- Marksman: Long-range physical DPS class that can only be played as a Dwarf.

- Mage: Like in any other MMO it's a long-range magic DPS class. Played as Human or Kindred.

- Priest: The healing-class of the game. Low defence. Nothing unusual. Played as Human or Elf.

Now we get to the two most interesting classes in my opinion:

- Vampire: It's a mid-ranged class that uses it's own blood (its Health Points in technical terms) to damage the enemy or heal a friendly target. It seems like it's a medium DPS class with a couple of AoE-skills aswell as the possibility to heal teammates with the cost of their own life. It seems like a really fun class to play and that they have done some pretty fresh thinking on this one. More info in this topic about CB Vampire Skills. Can only be played as Kindred.

-Bard: The Bard is using the magical melodies they play on a harp to activate their skills. It seems like a nice combination of buffing and AoE-skills. In fact a Bard seems to be the main AoE-class of the game. It can bring several buffs to the party and should even be able to heal a bit. More information about the Bard-skills in this topic. Played as Elf.

Except for five races and eight classes, you have nine subclasses to chose from. This is a really cool feature in my opinion. I won't list them all but to give an example you can become a Tamer. Throughout the game you can recieve pets (any race or class can do this), but as a Tamer you have the ability to catch stronger and more special pets that others can't catch and tame (like rare elite-mobs and so on). Another cool subclass is a Socialite. A Socialite have two special abilities: Persuade and Coerce. These abilities lets you persuade NPCs into giving you quests that other non-socialites can not get a hold of. If you party with a Socialite you will recieve more XP and the rate of currency acquisition is increased.

For more information you should visit the official FW-site. If you want to know more of what the game looks like you can click here for a seach on YouTube. Also check out A Forsaken Journal which is a fan blog by some fellow Bogger-users.

That's it for me. Hope I didn't bore you too much. I will post a proper review of the game if I get into closed beta. Or maybe when open beta is out.

Until next time: wabble wabble wabble...

All Entourage Seasons are D-O-N-E!

2010-05-24T00:22:00.002+02:00

Yes! It's true! Playlists for all the six seasons of Entourage is finally done. Huge thanks to HBO for listing the songs on their official Entourage site. Now I'm just going to wait in excitement for season 7 which is supposed to start airing on the 27th of June according to HBO and IMDB. It's going to be pure awesomeness!

Anyway. You'll find the links for the Spotify playlists with the tracks from all six seasons below. When this post gets old you will find them on the Playlists page. Tracklisting will be up there aswell in the near future (just going to find a good system for it). Anywhoozle: Enjoy!

Spotify Playlist: Entourage - Season 3

2010-05-18T00:37:00.004+02:00

I've spend the last hour putting together the playlist for Entourage season three. As usual not all tracks from the show is in the playlist, since Spotify doesn't have all the songs. I would also REALLY appreciate if you contact me in case you find a song on Spotify that's in season three but not in the playlist.

One last note: A few songs might be remixes, live versions or remastered versions. If you find that one of those songs shouldn't be in the playlist, you can also contact me about that (either use the comment-section or the form under Contact Me).

Other than that, I hope you enjoy!

"Entourage - Season 3" on Spotify.

A batch of free Don Diablo tracks!

2010-05-14T20:54:00.008+02:00

Thanks alot to Houseplanet and Don Diablo for giving these tunes out for free. The songs I'm posting is songs that I like. If you're into House you should check out Houseplanet.dj for more free songs.

Download Links:
Don Diablo - I Am Not From France (Linus Loves Remix)

Don Diablo - Teen Scream Machine (Nightriders Remix)

Don Diablo - Song For MJ (Remember The Time)
Don Diablo vs Missy Elliot - Teen Scream Control
Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - These new knights (Don Diablo Remix)
Don Diablo - I need to know
Cassius - Youth, Speed, Trouble, Cigarettes (Don Diablo Remix)

Have a wicked weekend!

//MazZer

LittleBigPlanet 2 trailer with hypnotizing song

2010-05-14T14:30:00.007+02:00

Four days ago my friends over at PowerGamer.se posted the Announcement Trailer for LittleBigPlanet 2. I haven't played LBP1 but after seing this trailer I really want to play both of them. What sucks is that I don't have any console for it. Anyway, the game looks AWESOME and the song in this trailer is so darn hypnotizing and beautiful it's gonna make you want to buy the game aswell. Enjoy! ;)

Entourage soundtracks on Spotify

2010-05-13T18:19:00.006+02:00

I've been spending most of this day finding songs on Spotify from one of my all-time-favorite tv-shows, Entourage. So far I got season 1 and 2 set up. Season 3 will hopefully be done in a few days (whenever I can be bothered to make it).

The playlist offers a wide variety of genres. It's more or less a perfect "mix tape" that got something for every taste. Everything from Hiphop and House to Rock and Disco. Enjoy!

Entourage Soundtracks on Spotify - Season 1
Entourage Soundtracks on Spotify - Season 2

Please keep in mind that these lists ain't 100% complete. Spotify doesn't have ALL the songs that appear on the show. However if you notice some track is missing from the playlis but you know it's on Spotify, please leave a comment saying which song it is and submit a spotify HTTP- or URI-link. Also say which episode it's from (if you can figure it out).

Thanks to HBO for listing the songs.

//Mazzer

How To Make It In America Soundtracks on Spotify

2010-05-13T18:07:00.005+02:00

One of the best TV-shows I've been watching so far this year is How To Make It In America. First episode didn't make me go "Wow this is awesome!" but it made me think that this show got good potential. So I kept watching it. After 8 episodes it's on a break, and I really hope there will be more because now I love the show. You kind of have to learn to know the characters to appreciate the show.

However I went through howtomakeitinamerica.com to find as many of the mentioned songs as possible on Spotify. And here is the result: Spotify Soundtracks of How To Make It In America, Season 1.

Feel free to leave me a comment if you find something that's wrong with the list. Or if you find songs on Spotify that's in the show but not in the playlist (it would be well appreciated).

Regards, Mazzer.

Here we go again...

2010-05-13T17:04:00.002+02:00

Once again I'm starting up another blog. Last time I used another service but stopped blogging as soon as my url (www.mazzerprod.net) ended as I wasn't interested in paying for another year. However this time I'm going to start of with a free service and we'll see where things go.

About me:
I'm just a regular, yet wierd, guy from Sweden whos currently 21 years old. My main interests is gaming, music, movies and tv-shows. So that's what I will be blogging about most of the time.

That's all you get for now. ;)
I'll see you around.
Hit me up on Twittaaarggrhghh: http://twitter.com/mazzer88

Peace.