BalekFekete

Name: BalekFekete
Joined On: Nov 15, 2006
Maintag: BalekFekete360
Age: 35
Occupation: Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance
Location: Holland, PA
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Last seen: 11/17/08

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04/20/07

Life Lessons By Comic

Well, not necessarily anything to learn from this comic per se, just a bit ironic to have come up as there’s a chance I’ll be taking up racquetball again after a … oh 25 year hiatus or so. Way back when I used to play a fairly regular game with my father for a few years before other items caught our attention and/or demanded our time more so than the weekly outage to the local racquet club.

Now, I can’t claim that this could happen because of my own good will and forethought. Nope, it all stems from the fact that my wife likes to talk.

/me ducks the virtual shoe that is flying towards his head as she reads this…

Yup, it’s true. My wife doesn’t just like to talk, she loves to talk. Unfortunately, the prick who runs the gym she had been going to for the past 2-plus years isn’t a fan of talk…to the point there is a rule there called “Be Seen, Not Heard”. He outlawed talking while people work out. Talk about someone who really is in the front running for my annual Scumbag of the Year award.

It doesn’t matter than he’s collecting money from people just to use the exercise equipment. Nope, the dick has such a God complex that he has stupid rules over how things run like this one, or…get this, you can get kicked out for working out too much. That’s right…go to the gym more than 5 times in a week and you can find yourself booted right out. Everyone with me now.

Gimme a D...
Gimme a I...
Gimme a C...
Gimme a K...

DICK! That’s what you are you douche! I seriously hope you catch the first known case of terminal herpes. (No…I’m not a little bitter at this at all… ).

Anyways…after getting her walking papers, my wife had to go on the search for a new gym. Unfortunately none are as close as this other crapheap of a facility, but it looks like she’s worked it down to two, one of which includes a racquetball facility. For less than she was shelling out for this other place (primarily because she’ll be dropping her weekly trainer sessions…she can do it all herself now thankfully), we might pull down a family plan that includes all the gym equipment, plus the pool, sauna, spa, various other health classes (e.g. Pilates, spin, etc.), and the racquetball courts. If we end up there, I could see myself getting back into the sport as a means for some good ‘ol fashion competition and another way to try to get my ass back into some semblance of shape.

Posted by BalekFekete @ 9:32 am EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

04/11/07

Life Lessons By Comic

Sometimes the right decision isn't the easy one. This comic actually hits home with me quite powerfully as I just started 'officially' training to run a 5k with my wife towards the end of May. I had the brilliant idea to draft up one of those "birthday coupons" for her in Febuaury, and give her a race partner. As someone who abhors running, it probably wasn't the smartest thing I've ever done in my life.

Posted by BalekFekete @ 8:42 am EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments

04/10/07

Life Lessons By Comic

Today's life lesson, brought to us by the illustrious desktop comic calendar, teaches us to always make sure you put your best foot forward.

Posted by BalekFekete @ 10:12 am EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

04/06/07

One Week Later

Courtesy of 'ol Urban Dictionary:

fanboy

(n) Technocratic zealots; evangelicals of geekery. Characterized by irrational advocacy of a particular OS, console, company, or franchise. Most commonly used to delegitimize contrary opinions in gaming forums.

Ex. "What the #$%@? BalekFekete is just a GHII fanboy...don't bother with him."

Yes, I will bow my head and admit I am a Guitar Hero II (GHII) fanboy. Or am I? I’ll throw out some ideas here and let ya’ll decide if the new found love for this particular game is legitimate, or throws me into the pit of fanboyism.

It’s been a week now since I made that fateful run over to Circuit City to pick up the copy of GHII. I caught wind on the net that the street date had been broken, albeit probably not on purpose but instead by a FUBAR’d computer setting, and I was out the door. Hell, I even had the wife’s blessing to do it! An hour later and I was back, unwrapping the game to the glee of the kids and moreso to myself. Having just played the game at the Best Buy kiosks half a dozen times over the past several months, I was anxious to see this bad boy in action on the real TV and on a real sound system. And was I rewarded.

Now it’s been one week and several very, VERY sore fingers later, and I think I have a better grasp over why the game is so damn enjoyable. First off, it’s the music. While most people, myself included, may not recognize the names of the songs on the most recent 360 rendition of the game, when you load them up and hear them for the first time, you catch yourself in a “Ohhhh…THAT song…!” At least I did. So while most of the songs don’t carry the name recognition that, for instance, Back In Black by AC/DC does, they’re songs you’ve heard once or twice and can pick up the tune to fast enough. Then, still on the music, there is the variety. Everything from metal rock in Iron Maiden and Primus to more classic rock with The Police and Cheap Trick to almost cultural rock in Kansas and Lynyrd Skynyrd – it’s all there. That variety keeps it fresh, and makes it so you can play whatever you happen to be in the mood for.

Then there’s the presentation. It’s polished above and beyond what I’ve seen from the PS2 version. From the graphics to the 5.1 sound to the controller – it’s all just what the earlier version had amped up to 11. The game looks awesome in the HD glory, and sounds great with the crowd chanting (or booing) from all corners of the arena … I mean room. And while the controller could use to be a little bigger, it suffices and with the exception of some rare issues with the whammy bar operates as well as you can expect.

Finally, there’s 2o2p. The site seems, at this point, to have embraced the game whole-heartedly. I’ve added a solid 20 or so people it would seem onto the ‘ol Friends List and love pulling up the online Leaderboards to see how I’m faring. The obvious missing aspect is the online XBL co-op play, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed that we see it in a patch down the road before GHIII or Rock Band hits. GHII would make such a great testing and development bed for the technology, no?

Anyways, after its all said and done, and I’ve now had a chance to see if my anticipation was well founded, I can firmly say I couldn’t be more content with the purchase, and have a strong title that will be sitting in the DVD tray for quite some time to come.

Posted by BalekFekete @ 7:56 am EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

04/05/07