True Blood

I was skeptical, I admit it.  And, unwillingly I’ll admit that the news of Anna Paquin’s change of roles is what brought my attention to the show.  But now I’m here to tell you that after watching the first two episodes of “True Blood” back-to-back, I’m kinda liking this show.

There are two days left in this weekend and I plan on watching as many episodes on Comcast’s OnDemand service as I can before Monday.  Luckily, the last episode of the season is finally up, so I can watch all 12 without interruption.  That’s the way I like it!

If it continues to work for me, I’ll post more later, but right now, I’m giving it a thumbs up, even if the acting is a bit over the top and the accents … well …  It’s the story you have to go for here, and with the lack of top notch television these days, I’m a sucker for something new.

Word of warning, though, as expected with any cable television show – especially one on a “movie” channel – it has graphic language and some nudity, so don’t be surprised if you tune it expecting something too clean.

The Official HBO Website for True Blood

Xbox Live Continues Their Dis’ing of Silver Members

The other day, Major Nelson posted on his site the Black Friday deals Xbox Live was having on some DL content.  The catch?  This is available for Gold Members …  Nice … So to get a discount on games, you have to spend $50 a year to be entitled to such deals … 

Meanwhile, on the PSN Store, while the content may not be as wide and varied, the discount on their Price Promotions are available to all … 

Slowly the scales are tipping … ever … so … slowly …

ZOMG … The New Trek Trailer …

Apple Trailers – Star Trek Trailer 2

Ozzy Osborn: The Prince of Darkness

Because I Hate Wal-Mart So Much …

This video is excellent …

Wal-Mart Intercom Prank

15-Year Old Suffers Epileptic Seizure from “Wrath”

This is what gives games and gamers in general a bad name …

From 1up.com’s Kyle Stallock:

A 15 year-old Swedish boy may have had the drive to follow in his fellow European gamers’ footsteps of reaching level 80 in World of Warcraft in one 27 hour marathon session, but his body wasn’t nearly so keen on the idea. According to a Times report (via Kotaku), after playing Wrath of the Lich King for 24 hours straight, he "suffered what appeared to be an epileptic seizure." Doctors would later reveal the boy’s body systems "had been disrupted by a combination of sleep deprivation, lack of food, and the prolonged period of concentration playing the game."

Understandably, the boy’s father plans to place limits on the amount of time his son can play videogames after he makes a full recovery.

Let’s make something clear; marathon gaming sessions aren’t fundamentally bad since they have the potential to facilitate positive social interaction. But when Ho Hos and gumdrops become substitutes for spaghetti and meatballs and people start having seizures, it might be time to put that hot pocket down and reassess the situation.

I’m Alive …

That’s right, I haven’t died … yet.  I am playing the crap out of Wrath of the Lich King, though, and enjoying every moment of it.

Like everyone else, I created a Death Knight, but he’s just hanging out, chillin’ while I level my main.  Shavelle, my Draenei Hunter, is 73 and 4 1/4 bubbles in on her way to 74. 

The first day of release, Thursday, and most of the morning and afternoon of Friday was fine.  Even Friday night was decent.  But when I logged in Saturday morning to get in some play time … oh my God …  It was chaos.  You had 20 people trying to complete the same quests with limited resources and long respawn times.  It was crazy.  People were ninja’ing your materials right out from infront of you.  Oh … and the queue times for many realms was in the “hour” wait range. 

As of yesterday, Monday, things were calming down.  I expect next weekend to be a bit of a rush again, though.

Other than that, I have no complaints, so far.  The expansion is great, Northrend is beautiful, and the starting zone quests are fun (if not more of the same we’re use to) and interactive.  Great job, Blizzard … now see if you can fix my pet’s sudden fear of water.

Colin and Ishmael in the Dark

Podcastle is a fantasy fiction podcast.  It features audio works of varying lengths and most are very well done.  I recently subscribed to the podcast, after having listened to some of its sister sites works.  Pseudopod is a horror fiction podcast. 

Anyways, Episode 31 of Podcastle features a short work, "Colin and Ishmael in the Dark.”  Very good tale, and the first one I picked to listen to from the downloads.  Check it out, won’t you?  Download it to your mp3 player and take it with you on a run, walk or at work.

Beginning to Enjoy Fallout 3

I put in Fallout 3 this morning around 12:23AM and have been playing it now for about … 4 hours.  I am really, really starting to enjoy this game.  The first time I put it in, I was running around trying to do everything and shoot anything that moved.  Can’t do that, evidently … well, you can shoot pretty darn much anything that moves, but that’s not always a good idea.

This time, I’m taking it slow, doing side quests and leveling up my skills.  For the most part, I’m playing the good guy this time and helping everyone I can.  Well, almost everyone, there is the one fellow that wanted me to blow the entire first town I discovered off the map.  And from what I hear, you can actually do that!  May try that one next time around.

But right now, I’m getting a hang of the controls, how to use certain equipment and how to better utilize the VATS system, which is a targeting system that lets you select your shots ahead of time (i.e. – headshot, bodyshot, left/righ arm, left/right leg or attempt to shoot the weapon from their hand). 

Also leveled my 17 Paladin in WoW to 20.  Put my Hunter’s boar in the stables and tamed me an Un’goro Crater Stomper (a gorilla) and currently leveling him up.  Thanks to the new patch, pets of any level are automatically leveled up to 5-levels beneath your current level.  Max, as I’ve come to name him, is now at 68 from 65.  Good times.

Let’s Just Call Him, “The Democrat”

A new message from “The Democrat,” complete and uncut.  I assure you, I have not edited this in any way, it’s here for your viewing pleasure …  Click Here to view his last message (scroll to the very bottom of the link to view his comments to a MoveOn.org newsletter)

OK first off im an Obama supporter.i like most of his ideas and what he hopes to do .what is really bothering me in the amount of people that voted and didn’t have a real reason for why they voted for their candidate.i have yet to meet a McCain voter that has a real reason.one thing ,people ,you should not vote for or against someone because of the color of thier skin color ,if you do you don’t deserve the right to vote ! you should not vote for a group because of issues like abortion or gay marriage. one, those are laws the states decide for the most part .you should educate yourself on both candidates .On what they plan to do "not what one party says the other plans to do "because they both twist things to get you to think what they want you too.its politics people its mostly lies. don’t listen to the idiots on the radio"phil valentine" they do the same thing. research how your guy normally votes and if you like what he has done in their jobs so far.
also dont vote against someone because of their religion,its call freedom of religion for a reason. so many stupid people i meet think Obama is Muslim "One he is not" he is christian but that should have no place in our government .just because his dad wrote on his birth certificate "Muslim" does not make him one .im sure mine says im christian but i am not nor have i ever been! now if someone said to me that they voted McCain and they make more then 200k a year then id take that as an OK reason because McCain like most republicans are looking out for the wealthy , and you should be voting for the person that is looking out for your best interests .i would like to think that people would look out for the many instead of the few but we are a world of greedy and the ignorant.
with that being said ill move on to an idea Ive had. that maybe our new president could use.this idea is to help our unemployment problems that are getting worse by the day.
1st we need to shut our borders .
2nd all illegal immigrants that are already in our borders are given the option to server 2 years in our military or go back to their country. my ancestors fought for my place in this country . so i believe they should too.
i have nothing against them being here but they need to earn their right to be here and not break our laws and abuse our system. if i was them i would want to be here too ,but i would do it legally and i would be willing to do this to be in our country .
by doing this we would be freeing up millions of jobs. also to those of you that say "they are doing the jobs that we don’t want too"YOU ARE WRONG . i see American workers everyday losing their jobs to illegal immigrants that have fake social security cards and IDs. once again id like to say i have nothing against them but they are causing a lot of our economic problems at this time.they are not paying taxes ,they are causing our pay rates to go down for those of us working in the same fields. so by doing this plan more Americans will have jobs and the immigrants will have a chance to become legal so this really is a win win situation.
on to another issue. if our government continues to go the way of BUSH .we as a people need to stand up together and fight this injustice. our government in the past 8 years has done nothing but work towards making us FEAR them .they continue to take our rights away and RAPE our way of life. i am a firm believer that BUSH and his people belong in jail .there have been many times in history that "the people" that’s us lol stood up against the Evil governments and i feel that one of those times will be upon us soon if things don’t change .we should not Fear our government they are there to work for us but it seems they have lost sight of that! this is partly our fault sense we sat back and let them become more of a Mafia then an government .they want us to fear them because if we fear them we do nothing .
so they get rich and we all starve. so everyone out there that feels this way ,you can repost this or what ever you want to do bitch at me i dont care .
BUT STAND UP USE YOUR VOICE AND RIGHT TO BE HEARD!
I HAVE HOPE … THINGS WILL CHANGE!