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Ninety Nine Nights (N3) - Review

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:41:21 PST

The Xbox 360 is an amazing machine for sure but in Asia especially the Xbox and its sequel have never really taken off at the level these consoles have achieved elsewhere. N3 was Microsoft’s attempt to lure the Asian market towards the 360 by hiring the famed game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi.

By all accounts it was successful in capturing the attention this market, so much so that Microsoft decided that us Westerners should have a go too, and all I can say is yippie!!

N3 is one of those games were you are the super-uber warrior leading your forces into battle against mind staggering odds and basically single handily destroying anything that gets in your way. Its simple, its violent and it is a guilty pleasure for sure. This is the type of game you sit down with and turn off your brain and just enjoy. Oh and the graphics? They are excellent! Sure they could do with a little gore, but apart from that they really do start to show off the true power of the 360, especially if you have a decent HD capable TV.

Make sure you do turn-off your brain though or you could find yourself laughing at the ridiculous fantasy placenames and character names that put Tolkien to shame in their silliness. You also risk many groans and headshakes at the corny dialog and silly situations your mostly teenage heroes get themselves into. If you are a fan of Asian media however N3 might be right up your alley with its teenage angst ridden heroes and ridiculous, and in the case of the females, revealing outfits.

It’s not all hack and slash fun however, there are some problems with the game. The first is your ally AI, its stupid. Horribly, horribly stupid. Basically the only thing you can rely on your AI allies’ do is stand around, get in the way and get into trouble. Oh and stand there and cheer ever so often. But hey when you can decimate whole armies by yourself what does that matter? So then there is the second and most serious problem, the save system. Basically you can only save after missions, and there is no check point system during the missions. On the later levels this leads to undue frustration as you are forced to begin levels right from the start just because the boss who took an hour to reach managed to get the upper hand. Thirdly the combat is basically about learning which combo does the most damage and then using it again and again… personally I recommend X X X Y Y for most characters.

All and all however N3 is a great game when you just want to slaughter several thousand enemy in beautify rendered surroundings and not have to worry about mind-bending puzzles or difficult strategic situations.

Overall score 3.5 out of 5

Kong hits Wellington

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:41:57 PST

Well Fi and I headed down to watch the Kong goings on last night, and here is what I have to say;

First of all the day itself was bloody hot! The sun was baking!

We got there about 5:45pm and most of the good spots were gone already but after a bit of walking around we did manage to find a place were we could just see over the heads of some of the crowd and make out the red carpet.

At the start there were a few of what passes for a celebrity in NZ but then the real stars showed up and by real stars I of course mean Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor and Andy Serkis. Naomi who? Adrian what? Peter Jackson certainly got the biggest cheers and was in the highest demand for autographs from the rather chilled out Wellington crowd. It must be interesting for big name stars to perhaps not be treated as they are used to. Adrian Brody was certainly WAY too cool for school, and basically was chilly and somewhat rude when interviewed by the excellent Jackie Brown.

But yes, people were really there for Peter, and that leads me into a story (I like stories!)

There was a little girl (10 perhaps) hanging out of a tree (rather monkey like) next to us with a big blow-up banana and she was there for only one person. Peter Jackson. So when he came down infront of us she leaned out, only just holding onto the tree, over the heads of the crowd for him to sign her banana. At first it looked like he wasn't going to see, but then he looked up and looked slightly surprised and then looked right into this little girls eyes and gave her a huge smile, his eyes even light up and all that. Well she was ESTATIC! She didn't really know what to say, I think she was trying to tell her mother that "Peter Jackson is signing my banana" but all that really came out was "peter... peter..."

Of course the funny thing was as soon as she got her banana back, signed, see flung it back at her mother ("don't fall out dear") and grabbed the digital camera ("don't break it dear") to take photos of Peter as he slowly moved away.

I myself did not get close enough to the action for any signing (I am sure a Peter Jackson or Richard Taylor signature on my weta King Kong hat would look good) but it was still a good experience. Now I just have to wait to see it on Friday. Jesse went to the Weta crew screening and insists that Kong is the best film he has ever seen, better even than StarWars (and Jesse loves StarWars). He says it is WAY better than any of the Rings films... we shall see.. we shall see.. Its going to be great though!

Oh and yeah I did see Narina. Its a kids film, and I am sure they will like it, but it lacked emotion, it lacked impact and it lacked good special effects. That's all I am going to say really.

To Blog or not to Blog?

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:42:19 PST

I have a problem...

I have this blog, and I do like posting to it and keeping the 4 or so people that actually read it up to date :) But I have a problem, not actually I have two;

1. I am now a public servant, that means basically I cannot talk about my job or about road safety as anything I say, and I have some strong opinions on road safety, could be taken as either the offical MoT line or as critism of the government in the transport area. This is a big no, no in the public servant area and we have been warned that blogs are considered to be published and advised to basically "not go there". So that is a huge part of my life I can't talk about, but such is the life of the servant of the public ;)

2. I get paid by Macguide to write about Macs... and since a blog is published, and not to mention free material anything I say on here, say about how excellent a game the Stubbs the Zombie is, makes it then hard for Macguide to pay me for statements around the same line (look out for a review of Stubbs in an upcomming Macguide.. be the zombie!).

Now of course that does leave quite a bit more for me to talk about, but it has also taken two large chunks of my interests out.

But anyway, that is my problem.

In other news, I have tickets for both Narina and KONG! So I will be seeing Narina this friday with Fi and my brother and I will be seeing KONG with Fi next Friday. Yay!

I am sort of looking forward to Narina, though it is a "kids" story and is very christian based, which can get in your face... but we will see what we will see.

As for KONG there is no question, I am looking forward to it, and by all accounts the Kong vs T-Rex fight is an epic event that will go down in history..

Last but not least I have an Xbox360 on preorder, its expensive but I figure if I get one I can review games in TONE and it will pay for itself!

Xbox 360 Info

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:23:38 PST

I swear I posted this last night right after the information arrived in my inbox.. ah well here is the Xbox 360 press release.. March 2nd people, March 2nd..

"Auckland, November 22, 2005 - It’s only 99 sleeps until New Zealanders can get their hands on the world’s most powerful games console, the Xbox 360.

Microsoft today announced that two versions of the console will go on sale from 12:01am on March 2nd, 2006. Consumers will be able to choose from the Xbox 360 at RRP$719.95* and the Xbox 360 Core System at RRP$549.95*.

“Amazingly realistic gaming experiences are now within our reach,” said David McLean, Regional Director, Entertainment and Devices Division, Microsoft Australia and New Zealand.

“Xbox 360 ushers in a whole new generation of gaming. Game characters and environments are just like the real world or as fantastic as the imagination can dream up. The New Zealand lounge room has not seen richer or more detailed games.”

Xbox 360 is the first console that lets gamers enjoy the freedom of wireless gaming, as standard. The Xbox 360 offer will include the console, 20GB hard drive, media remote, wireless controller, component high-definition cable and Ethernet cable. Xbox 360 Core System delivers the same powerful gaming as Xbox 360, but starts with the basics and lets you expand at your own pace. The Xbox Core system includes the console, composite AV cable and wired controller.

Both packages come with a complimentary Silver subscription to the world’s leading online gaming service Xbox Live, which provides gamers new ways to compete and hone their skills.

There are currently more than 200 games being developed for the Xbox 360, with 18 titles now launched in the United States and other markets. A full list of titles available on New Zealand launch will be available in 2006.

A wide range of Xbox 360 accessories will be available on launch. The current list includes:

· Wireless (RRP$89.95*) and wired (RRP$69.95*) controllers
· Play charge cable (RRP$39.95*)
· Rechargeable battery pack and cradle (RRP$59.95*)
· Battery pack (RRP$24.95*)
· 20Gb hard drive (RRP$189.95*)
· 64MB Memory unit (RRP$59.95*)
· Wireless networking adaptor (RRP$189.95*)
· VGA cable (RRP$59.95*)
· Advanced AV pack (RRP$44.95*)
· High Definition AV pack (RRP$59.95*)
· Headset (RRP$59.95*)
· Faceplate (RRP$34.95*)
· Universal Media Remote (RRP$59.95*)

Xbox 360 consoles, games and accessories will be available from leading retail outlets."

Conference and DOOOOMMM

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:32:30 PST

Well all of this week so far I have been at the Australasian Road Safety conference in Wellington. Its been a great time with lots of interesting speakers and of particular interest to me Professor Frank McKenna has been in attendance and speaking. Frank's work was very important to my thesis so it was great to meet him and he has to be the most interesting speaker at the conference.

The main message that seems to be comming out of the conference is that we have the technology and the know-how right now to solve our road safety problems. There has been a lot of talking about attitude change, in that the ability to speed is seen as a "right" much like smoking whereever you are or drunk driving used to be also seen as "rights". This will have to be changed if people ever expect to get speed limiting engineering solutions into place.

Anyway its been a good couple of days and I am looking forward to going back again today.

Moving away from serious issues like Road Safety, I saw DOOM the other day...

Its a markedly average film, which is actually better than I expected. I thought it would be awful but as it is it seems to almost reach the point where it might have been good but then falls down on several points. I again have to say how amazed I am that the Rock can actually act. I stand by my statement that he is taking the kind of roles that the Governator would have taken if he was young enough today, and pulling them off.

So what could have made it great? Well if they had kept to the DOOM storyline a little more (like actually having demons and experiments with teleportation) it might have been better, and also they needed to get it going into action faster and keep the tension level much higher. There weren't enough deaths in the marine team until too far into the film. Also the reason why people became monsters was horribly flawed in that near the end there were heaps of "monsterfied" people running around.. they all were potential psychopaths? The lab workers and their familys? Really? And the guy with the troubled past nicknamed Reaper who chooses to kill people for a living isn't? What? Huh?

Anyway, it was average but made somewhat worse by fringes of potential that stuck out. The First person scene (they only did it once and for a limited time) was actually pretty good, I get the feeling though that there was going to be more but they cut it down, perhaps they had some motion sickness issues or such.

Star*Drive, Enterprise, Saw 2 & Eating Media Lunch

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:24:02 PST

I have recently been re-reading some of my Alternity books, specially my Star*Drive RPG books (I have basically everything ever put out for Alternity). And as always I am struck by how alive and well written these books are. I have always thought it was a really pity that I never really got a game of Alternity going, it was a nice system and both the Star*Drive and Dark@Matter campaigns were some of the best I have ever read.

Star*Drive is particuarly in my head at the moment has I have been watching quite a bit of Sci-Fi, and even though it was written in 1998 the simularities between the Star*Drive setting and say, Firefly are quite close. There are even "reavers" in Star*Drive, except they are just people who have installed too much cyberwear. Its great stuff though.

Perhaps once I have a regular roleplaying group I can float the idea or something... Much to think about really.

Moving on, I have also been watching my way through the series of Enterprise (I have finished series 1, 2, and 3 now) with Fiona. It does have its problems, in that the first two seasons were kind of weak "exporing" stuff that had been done before, with some temporal cold-war stuff thrown in, which never did mix. Plus it would appear that womens lib went down over time to when the orgional Star Trek is set, but never mind. Also the ethic mix of the ship could do with a bit more cultures. BUT series 3 (apart from the awful change of start music, which was even worse than the first 2 seasons) was really good. The show had purpose and it was interesting, especially because the crew couldn't afford to stay on the Moral High Horse that can be so annoying in Star Trek (has anyone else ever been bothered that this Utopia is actually run by a Starfleet run dictatorship? I mean did you see that episode of Voyager (I think) where one of them was back on earth and running from the law, but people just keep teleporting in whereever he went? I call that a terrifying view of the future!)

I will hold judgement on Series 4 until I have seen it, but I hope it doesn't stay in the past long. The whole Nazi thing has been done to death.

Hmm what next? OH yeah I saw Saw 2 the other day. Hmmm worked out the twist about 10 minutes in, the less said the better.. I am not even going to link the film title.. that's right! No link for you! Instead have this one! (Oh NSFW)

Lastly Eating Media Lunch is back and its as funny as ever. Sure I enjoyed the unauthorised history of NZ, but EML is really just the bestest thing on NZ TV at the moment. Collecting dontations on the street for El Qaeda? excellent stuff...

Because Pa says

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:31:06 PST

Hi All, My Dad says that I should post in more blog more often.

Perhaps I shall, but I am pretty lazy :)

Anyway, what's been going on here?

Well I went along to a Xbox event where they were showing off the Xbox 360 but more so they were saying to all the retailers there "pllleeasssee keep selling Xbox until the 360 arrives.. please! PLEASE!". I have to say it was rather funny... The highlight of the night was probably seeing the King Kong game (for Xbox not Xbox 360).

The game looked very cinematic and you couldn't really tell by watching when the guy was or was not in control of the action on the screen. Very seamless transitions, and the Kong vs T-Rex fights looked great!

What else?

Oh yeah for fireworks Fi and I went down to the Habour, it was very cool, we had our backs to the city so everytime a firework went off the "BOOM" bounced off the skyscrapers behind us, as Jesse said it made it sound like the city was under attack.

Finally I am still looking for people to Roleplay with! I am having to luck at all.. my sign up in Graphic has had "contact me" tags ripped off it, and the RPGcentral website thingy in Wellington must be hosted in Iraq or something from how often it is up and down. Though when the forums there are up the answer seems to be "no room in current games and no interest in new games".

Looks like I am screwed really.

Wireless

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:43:46 PDT

Its interesting to live in the inner city because I am actually in range of at least 3 other wireless networks at one time..

G-560
ZyXEL
and an apple brand one that I forget its name..

Its interesting. The ZyXEL one is actually unsecured but I haven't really played with it :)

RPG group search is still going no place. I know I keep saying, but roleplaying was an important part of my life and I miss it.

Talking of Roleplaying there is a 2nd edition of Mutants and Masterminds! oooo pretty! I have to say that M&M is the best super hero RPG I have ever played and I imagine that the 2nd edition will be better. Oh, oh and have you seen Dragonmech? It looks like a bunch of fun, I might have to get my dirty paws on it.

Oh and for those out there that are WoW interested? I am dealing with not having it with only minor pangs of wanting it back.

bye bye WoW

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:25:54 PDT

High level play is just not doing it for me, I can't get enough raiding and PvPing with the time I have so I have just canceled my subscription and deleted WoW from my computer.

I am sorry to go, but the game just isn't giving me my money's worth and hasn't been for a while.

In other news my pen and paper Roleplaying withdrawl is getting to me!

Fran and Peter do Halo

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:34:49 PDT

Peter Jackson and his wife Fran Welsh will be exculitve producing Halo, which will be filmed in good old WELLINGTOWN!

I wonder if I can be a grunt? I run in fear well.. and can make funny sounds and die

blarg!

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:37:15 PDT

Blarg I say..

Well I am getting close to quitting WoW again, the problem is that at high levels it takes ages to do anything that feels worth while. I get on, I farm shards (woo the thrill that is) then I wait for an hour or so as a Raid forms and then I play through a Raid dungeon and often come out with no phat loot at all..

Don't get me wrong, its not all about the loot, its just WoW is quite a "who has the best stuff" wins game and my time to getting good stuff ratio is ass..

Ah well, I still enjoy the actual game its just the outcomes that irk me sometimes.. only sometimes.

Plague

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:05:33 PDT

Ok, I just want to briefly talk about he plague that hit WoW after 1.7 was released. I know its somewhat old news but basically what happened was in 1.7 Blizzard put out a new High End dungeon. At the end of this dungeon is a boss that curses your party with a disease, which bounces from ally to ally.

It was intended to be a pain for lvl 60 characters, but what actually happened is on some servers (not Silverhand) it ended up being transmitted back to the major cities where it started killing low level characters left and right.

Of Course Blizzard moved to stop this with a Hotfix.

Personally I think its an interesting example of what can happen in a social game like this, especially the reaction of many in the community calling it a "great world event" instead of a "huge cockup by blizzard".

Interesting stuff

The Duke boys

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:42:20 PDT

When I was a lil boy I loved the Dukes of Hazard, I even had a General Lee toy and boy was it spiffy. So last night me and my Girl and my brother went and saw the new movie.

All I have to say is Yeeeeeehhhaaaa! Well not thats not all..

For me, all that this movie needed to be good was a freeze frame of the General Lee jumping and a voice over.. and that is delivered in the first few minutes. The rest of the movie is nicely entertaining with lots of laughs.

Now, fans of that great stoner film Super Troopers may be particularly interested in this film as it is directed by the same guy. Well you won't be disapointed because his touch is in there and there is even a couple of Super Trooper tributes.

That said, as far as the "Duke" feel goes, it was a little strange for at moments it switch to the "Stoner" type film, especially the moments that are at the University.

One last thing that I particuarly liked was a couple of times in the movie they have people reacting to a car called "The General Lee" with the confederate flag painted on the top in a way that such imagery would probably be confronted in todays society.

Oh and I should probably join the crowd and say something about the new revolution controler.. but I don't care. Not even enough to link to anything..

Wellington

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:46:08 PDT

Well heeeellloooo to anyone that still reads this blog.

What the hell are you doing here? You must have some determination to be sticking with this blog. You know what? If I am ever trapped someplace, like everest or something, and I need someone who will just never give up and keep me going you are that person.

Well I have been really, really, really slack.. and I have not been posting.

But things have changed in my life. I know live in Windy Wellington where I have a job as a Behavioural Scientist for the the Ministry of Transport thats right I am a public servant!

I have to say that Wellington is a very cool city to live in. Infact its the best city I have ever lived in and I highly recommend it!

That said I miss all my friends back in Hamiltron, and I miss having a good group of guys to roleplay with. Anyone know of any Roleplaying groups in Wellington? Because I sure don't.

What else? Not much really.. I am still playing WoW though I spend less time on it than I used too. To remind those out there I am Laglgortag, lvl 60 Warlock on the Silverhand server. Oh and my old guild has merged into another guild, Darkspear Voodoo.

Oh and how about those Election results aye? Pretty darn close.. I am personally dissapointed that so many suckers voted for Don, that the Greens didn't get more votes (too many suckers voting for labour) and that Act still exists.. Poo Poo I say! Winston getting beaten in the Old T was a highlight of the night though, pitty NZ first didn't drop below 5%!

Oh and one more thing, have you seen Katrina:The Gathering its awesome.. very well thought out and funny.

Apple moving to Intel

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 11:41:04 PDT

Wow its happened..

I think this calls for a statement about Brave new worlds..

hmm

Revenge of the Sith

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Mon, 30 May 2005 01:21:40 PDT

Funny I am sure I posted my review of Revenge of the Sith after I saw it.. I am sure I did.. perhaps it was the whole midnight showing thing and tiredness and sickness..

Anyway I have to say that I enjoyed Revenge of the Sith. It was better than the other prequels and that on a whole the acting and script was better. Of course the romance scenes were still aweful, aweful shit.. damn their eyes and my ears..

Other people have pointed out that you cannot allow your children/whatever to watch the StarWars movies from ep1-6.. because well 4-6 rely on the fact that you don't know the whole "I am your Father/You have a twin" stuff... so yeah good point I say, good point.

To go back to the film at hand, I loved the fight scenes, especially the final fight on the lava. Great, great stuff... and it was good that Lucas didn't chicken out and try and go for a PG rating like the other StarWars films.

So yeah I have seen it twice, and I did like it...

I have to agree with Scott of PvP when he said that it would have been cooler if you started with ep1 with Anakin already a padawan, then have him fall in ep2 and then devote ep3 to the Jedi Purge, you know some real Darth Vader action. That would have been cooler..

Revenge

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Tue, 17 May 2005 11:26:45 PDT

I will be there tonight/early tomorrow morning to see the Sith get Revenge.. will you?

I will be wearing my "Han Shot First" T-shirt to boot...

Nerd out..

Helsinki and Finland

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Mon, 16 May 2005 11:20:26 PDT

Well it looks like things have changed, and unless I want to put everything off for another year and a half (at the very lucky least) I am not going to go to Finland to do my PhD.

Bummed? Sure am..

World of Wacraft Again

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Mon, 16 May 2005 01:49:22 PDT

Ok here is news that should be of no surprise.. I am still playing World of Warcraft and I am still loving it!

Sure I am not 60 yet (51st at the moment), but I have other stuff to do..

Sure I am a Warlock, the class that a) whines the most and b) probably has the most reason to whine.

But it is still fun! Especially when I can get online with my friends and hit an instance, do a quest or go PvP.

I am looking forward to the battlegrounds as a place to prove extactly how powerful a Warlock with infernal can be if he isn't scared to use it.

Nerdary Redesign

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Sun, 15 May 2005 03:02:45 PDT

I thought maybe I should go more into this idea..

What I would really like to have is my own hosted website running my own blog. But for this I need:

- Webhosting
- A blog setup.. I don't really need much, just post tracking and such. Oh and comments, I like comments. Comment notification is also good.
- Some graphics that I am happy with.
- Domain name

Not too hard for the Webhosting and Domain name I guess.. but the other stuff is a bit of a pain because to be honest I just don't know much about coding and such that is required to setup even a simple blog that allows commenting and such.

So can anyone give me any suggestions? That would be great.

Posting from the Dash Board

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Sat, 14 May 2005 21:33:43 PDT

This post comes directly from the dashboard in Mac OS 10.4 Tiigggeerr thanks to the wonder that is dashblog.

That is right my friends, with a press of F12 I can blog from anywhere, anytime!

Does this mean I will resume blogging? Well maybe..

Why you ask? Because I am deeply dissapointed with appearance The Nerdary. I don't like how it looks, I don't like it at all.. I need to do something about this. But I am balls at design... but I am working on it!

So in other words, where is the the nerdary? Well its still here and I shall try to post more often. But I am also looking at a redesign and relaunch, hopefully in the very near future.

Not gone

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:12:14 PST

I am not gone.

I will be posting soon.

At Binding

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:23:32 PST

Ok..

My Thesis is at binding! WOOOOO!

yeah...

To those of you I txted to say "woot!" sorry I couldn't reply but it took all my $$ just to send the "woot!" message..

So answers to txt questions:

Warmachine - Yeah I might have time, though I am moving back to Te Awamutu, and I will be working full time.
What is my thesis about? - Behavioural adaptations in drivers, that is where a driver reacts to something being safe by being unsafe.. yeah..
Can I read it? - sure you can read it, I am working on getting it down from 15mb to a more e-mail sendable size. Then I can e-mail it to you.

Thats all folks!

Lagl

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:46:06 PST

You are in the middle of the wilderness seemingly alone, when from the shadows of a rock comes a deep Orcish voice "hey, want to see something?". From the Shadows steps a large Orc dressed in blood red robes, from which talioring impliments of various kinds are bulging, his hair is in disarray and his eyes glimmer with more than a touch of madness. Trailing behind him is an Imp, fire dancing around it as it pulls on the Orc's robes, seemingly attempting to get them to ignite.

"You do want to see.. don't you, you do.." the Orc insists, and before you can answer he gives the Imp a vicious kick and then picks it up and throws it against the rock a couple of times. While he does this the Orc shouts loudly "Show the images! Show the images!" each shout being accompanied by a sickening thud as the Imp hits the rock.

Finally, when you think that the imp is about to expire the Orc puts it down, it staggers and then begins to wave its hands and images start appearing in the air above it. The Orc turns to you and gives a statisified smile and then begins to speak.

"Ah yes, in this image, I had Woolen bags at the time, yes, red ones. In this image my companion and I had paid a visit to the training grounds to hand out bags, linen bags, to those who were just arriving.. and to dance with them.."

"At this point, I have silk bags, yes.. many.. and I am a sheep. It was an interesting experience, though I couldn't help but think about shaving myself to make more woolen bags.."

"Still on silk here, been with silk bags for a while in this image.. I was hunting wolves to kill and cook.. and these Kodo, they got in the way."

"I call this my transportation period, all woolen.. all transport. I enjoy the fluttery feeling that being in the lift gives me, especially in high winds. It is also a great place to drop Imps from, especially near the top, you can hear them scream all the way down"

"Another silk bag time period, and an interesting portal. My druid friend Tarique informs me that it might have lead to the emerald dream. Though it did nothing for me. It left me feeling a little let down" the Orc goes to move on to the next image and then remembers something "oh, you will notice here I have gone for a more traditional "Orc" look rather than the robes.. I must say it was very dashing.."

"Back to woolen bags in this image, the woolen bags have this real, real.. homegrown feel don''t you think? Anyway, those humans may die easly under the withering power of my curses, but they can build a visually impressive sheild.."

"Hmm I don't seem to remember this image very well.. it brings a painful feeling right in my back.."

"Still on Silk here, though I could make Mageweave bags at this point.. here I am getting ready to put Horsey through his paces.."

"A much more recent image, mageweave and silk combo here.. The events are a little bit of a blur, the rogue fell, we followed, and a swarm of death appeared. There was screaming and the sound of grinding gears. It still gives me nightmares.."

"After the last images, we instructed the rogue to be more careful.. through the use of some carefully aimed blows of our own. Defeated the bagless fools and here we are heading home."

"Finally this is the most recent image, still a mageweave and silk combo I must report. There was this nice pup in the auction house that I tried to throw sticks for, unfortantly it was having none of that carry on. Belonged to a Tauren named Pattie."

The image shown by the imp then starts to change and just as you catch a glimpse of the next image, in which you get the impression of far to much green flesh the Orc gives the Imp a swift kick to the head and the images stop.

"That is all I have to show you, now.. go.. go slay the bagless ones!"

With that the Orc leaps into the air, a demonic horse appearing with a burst of flames under him. The horse rears up and brings its hooves down onto the prone form of the Imp, crushing what was left of its life out of it and then the Orc rides off. The only thing left behind being the twisted body of the imp, and a small mageweave bag...

The new catch phrase for 2005

noreply@blogger.com (42) — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:01:19 PST

"...Peltzman (1977) responds to this by accusing Robertson of selectively editing his data to produce these results, and dismissing Robertson’s findings as purely statistical fiddling without intuitive theoretical backing. In reply Robettson (1977) suggests that Peltzman is “…throwing rocks from a glass house” and criticises Peltzman for being selective in his own analysis..."

Just a taste of my thesis, who says that academics are boring?

I think "I dissmiss your findings as pure statistical fiddling without intutive theoretical backing" should be the catch phrase for 2005

Someone diss your motha? Dimiss their findings as pure statistical fiddling without intutive theoretical backing! Did they call you fat? just pure statistical fiddling without intutive theoretical backing..

Mock you for your lack of leveling in WoW? well.. no, there just no excuse there! ;)

I dismiss your findings as pure statisical fiddling without intutive theoretical backing, use it in a sentance (or as a sentance itself!) today!

Oh.. I have nearly finished my thesis, going to be handing it in tomorrow or thursday in its penultimate form as my supervisor put it.