Company B

Any of you all out there in TV land enjoy Battlefield Badcompany as much as I do?

Awesome game and well worth the wait. The Frostbite engine is, in my humble opinion, the future of gaming. Fully destructable environments! The other day I wanted to take out a tank, but be sneeky about it. I ran up to a good spot... thru a hand grenade to scorch the earth and make a small hole... then in went the anti tank mine... and BOOM! And no more punks hiding in a little shack, peeking out to take pot shots or snipe like in Halo, or COD, or most any game for that matter. There is nothing like getting shot at from behind the wall, and being able to eliminate the wall, so you and the person shooting at you can have a more interesting exchange of ideas.

The game, or single player is pretty good as well. The story is good, the characters are funny and give decient support, the AI can be tough, and the sound is awesome. There is one scene where you can drive a golf cart while being chased by a Russian tank across a fairway and thru the woods to the Gold storage we go!

 

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Posted by SPEEDBYRD @ 6:41 am EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

Reality stinks

Next week I go on vacation. The word go is not a good one, I guess it is better and more accurate to say I will be on vacation, or "holiday" for the folks out of the states. We won't be going anywhere good do to the cost of fuel. Nice that in the coming summer season, travel will be going to the back yard instead of the theme park. There are some good games coming out, so that will be cool.

I sure am glad we got all those WMD's and the world is safe. What was the point to that exactly? I mean isn't Iran still going forward with its nuclear plans? Opps, I forgot, the countries that we saved are going to give us a break on oil for the next few years to help us with the inflation troubles we are having here.

Thank goodness for games. They distract me from the reality that we are pretty much powerless to do anything about our current situation here in the US.

Speed

Posted by SPEEDBYRD @ 10:37 pm EDT | Permalink | 3 Comments

Halo gone bad

A 13 year old from Texas who stole his Dad's credit card and ordered two hookers from an escort agency, has today been convicted of fraud and given a three year community order.

"Ralphy", a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father's existing credit card company, and took his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing "Halo" on an Xbox with a couple of hookers in a Texas motel.

The credit card company involved said it was regular practice to send extra credit cards out as long as all security questions are answered.

The escort girls who were released without charge, told the arresting officers something was up when the kids said they would rather play Xbox than get down to business.

Police said they were alerted to the motel by a concerned delivery clerk, whom after delivering supplies of Dr Pepper, Fritos and Oreos had been asked by the kids where they could score some chicks and were willing to pay. They explained they had just made a big score at a "World of Warcraft" tournament and wanted to get some relaxation. On noting the boys age the delivery clerk informed the authorities.

When police arrived at the motel they found $3,000 in cash, numerous electronic gadgets, an Xbox video console with numerous games, and the two local escort girls.

Ralph had reportedly told police that his father wouldn't mind, as it was his birthday last week and he had forgot to get him a present. The father, a lawyer said he had been too busy, but would take him on a surprise trip to Disneyland instead.

Asked why he ordered two escorts, Ralph said he thought it was the thing to do when you win a "World of Warcraft" tournament. They told the suspicious working girls they were people of restricted growth working with a traveling circus, and as State law does not allow those with disabilities to be discriminated against they had no right to refuse them.

The $1,000 a night girls sensing something up played "Halo" on the Xbox with the kids, instead of selling their sexual services.

Ralph's ambition is to one day become a politician.

(This story is one that I just had to share!)

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Posted by SPEEDBYRD @ 9:10 am EDT | Permalink | 3 Comments

VOTE

For those of you that did get the BETA for Battlefield Bad Company... VOTE with your emails and let DICE know what you thought about the game. Who knows, if you say you are from 2old2play they might just listen up about team chat, and such.

I have been sort of spreading the word with those folks that I have played the beta with, so I figure why not keep on spreading. I have read some of the "wonderful" comments left by some of the younger generation. I guess they don't teach kids that 5 swear words in a row is an incomplete sentence.

Well, I have said my peace... thanks for reading.

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Posted by SPEEDBYRD @ 4:02 am EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments

Firefox fixes

Here is a question for some of you experts.

How does one fix the "finger" scroll on the firefox browser? I have found several pages that give clues, but most are for Mac fixes. And I am on a Gateway. I really love the customizations available for the firefox browser, I just find scolling around a pain now.

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Posted by SPEEDBYRD @ 9:53 am EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments