O Brother, Where Art Thou?
So i haven't heard from chris in over 2 weeks now...
I've heard rumors that he's back around, but i have yet to talk to him.....
Chris, if you're reading this, please gimmie some words....i miss ya' bro...
ANYWAYS! ...enough of that faggot shit, on to t3h funny...
XBOX 360
Oh man, shitballs aplenty with this latest atrocity from microsoft....let's take a look at some of the issues with 360..
- Ridiculous supply shortages..
I was at the mall on launch day, completely by mistake, i might add....at any rate, the 2 game stores in the mall had lists for pre-orders. This guy comes in "i pre-ordered a 360, i'm here to pick it up" "hey bob, this guy's number 63"...fat guy(bob) stands there for a sec "Um...we don't have anymore units".....the customer fuckin' flipped.....
I mean, this is the fault of the game store, for overbooking, and microsoft, for not producing enough units for launch....instead of making sure everyone who wants one, can get one, and making sure the technology is solid, they rush it out the door, to make a quick buck....and because of their rushing the piece of shit out the door..you get the rest of it's problems...
- Numerous units either dropped dead, failed to power up, or bluescreened, and became unrecoverable
- HUGE FUCKING POWER BRICK
This thing is almost as big as my cock, i swear to christ...
you hafta sit it on ceramic tiles, so it doesn't overheat, and shut down your "console"...and the fucker heats up fast....absolutely terrible design feature...
- Nigh non-existant backwards compatibility
ok, for our latest XPC Form Factor system disguized as a gaming console, let's go with ATI instead of nVidia......oh snap, we hafta pay royalties to them to emulate their hardware so people who spent hundreds on shitty games from the last system can play them on the new one?.....well fuck that...
Turns out in order to enable backwards compatibility, microsoft has to send you some kind of disc (drivers, no doubt)...i'm not sure if this disc costs money or not, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did..
I'm not sure if this thing natively supports ANY of the original XBOX titles...
- SEVERE lack of launch titles
When 360 released, there were like 6 games for it....wtf is that?...and the really sad and fucked up part is, the bulk of them were games that were already available for other systems...this is another example of them rushing it out the door, instead of making sure everything's done right...
I'm still not seeing anything really worth buying being released for this system.....
You'd think MS would have learned from their mistakes with their LAST "console"
For this, and other reasons, i think this is pretty much the funniest 360-related site going...
Have fun with that....
More Work Shit
Yesterday was pretty much a non-stop parade of smelly people......i don't get it, what is it with people...they can't take showers now? It was fucking insane, and sickening, because the various stenches would linger...lemme tell ya' something, nothing will make you wanna puke more than walking through an invisible cloud of someone's rancid body funk....fucking terrible..
Today was just stupid people/angry people day......every time i turned around, my customer was either stupid, or angry....yeah, great, you're mad...that's fine, but don't fucking take it out on me, ok?
Fine, my supervisor did something fucked up, that's great, don't fucking take it out on me...
I answered more stupid questions, and witnessed more stupidity today, than i have in the last month.....is there a full moon or something?
Gaming
So i got the latest issue of OPM...number 101
This is by far, the most satisfying issue i've seen in a while...multi-page interview with Hideo Kojima, the full, unedited, ultra-high quality version of the MGS4 video from TGS....AND.....a playable demo of 24: The Game
The demo was fucking godly.....They managed to capture the atmosphere and feel of the show PERFECTLY...i'm not even going to bother renting this one...it's a definate purchase...
Chris, if you're reading this....this game is going to be THE shit.
goddamn, i'm spent....i need to rest
later people..
I've heard rumors that he's back around, but i have yet to talk to him.....
Chris, if you're reading this, please gimmie some words....i miss ya' bro...
ANYWAYS! ...enough of that faggot shit, on to t3h funny...
XBOX 360
Oh man, shitballs aplenty with this latest atrocity from microsoft....let's take a look at some of the issues with 360..
- Ridiculous supply shortages..
I was at the mall on launch day, completely by mistake, i might add....at any rate, the 2 game stores in the mall had lists for pre-orders. This guy comes in "i pre-ordered a 360, i'm here to pick it up" "hey bob, this guy's number 63"...fat guy(bob) stands there for a sec "Um...we don't have anymore units".....the customer fuckin' flipped.....
I mean, this is the fault of the game store, for overbooking, and microsoft, for not producing enough units for launch....instead of making sure everyone who wants one, can get one, and making sure the technology is solid, they rush it out the door, to make a quick buck....and because of their rushing the piece of shit out the door..you get the rest of it's problems...
- Numerous units either dropped dead, failed to power up, or bluescreened, and became unrecoverable
- HUGE FUCKING POWER BRICK
This thing is almost as big as my cock, i swear to christ...
you hafta sit it on ceramic tiles, so it doesn't overheat, and shut down your "console"...and the fucker heats up fast....absolutely terrible design feature...
- Nigh non-existant backwards compatibility
ok, for our latest XPC Form Factor system disguized as a gaming console, let's go with ATI instead of nVidia......oh snap, we hafta pay royalties to them to emulate their hardware so people who spent hundreds on shitty games from the last system can play them on the new one?.....well fuck that...
Turns out in order to enable backwards compatibility, microsoft has to send you some kind of disc (drivers, no doubt)...i'm not sure if this disc costs money or not, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did..
I'm not sure if this thing natively supports ANY of the original XBOX titles...
- SEVERE lack of launch titles
When 360 released, there were like 6 games for it....wtf is that?...and the really sad and fucked up part is, the bulk of them were games that were already available for other systems...this is another example of them rushing it out the door, instead of making sure everything's done right...
I'm still not seeing anything really worth buying being released for this system.....
You'd think MS would have learned from their mistakes with their LAST "console"
For this, and other reasons, i think this is pretty much the funniest 360-related site going...
Have fun with that....
More Work Shit
Yesterday was pretty much a non-stop parade of smelly people......i don't get it, what is it with people...they can't take showers now? It was fucking insane, and sickening, because the various stenches would linger...lemme tell ya' something, nothing will make you wanna puke more than walking through an invisible cloud of someone's rancid body funk....fucking terrible..
Today was just stupid people/angry people day......every time i turned around, my customer was either stupid, or angry....yeah, great, you're mad...that's fine, but don't fucking take it out on me, ok?
Fine, my supervisor did something fucked up, that's great, don't fucking take it out on me...
I answered more stupid questions, and witnessed more stupidity today, than i have in the last month.....is there a full moon or something?
Gaming
So i got the latest issue of OPM...number 101
This is by far, the most satisfying issue i've seen in a while...multi-page interview with Hideo Kojima, the full, unedited, ultra-high quality version of the MGS4 video from TGS....AND.....a playable demo of 24: The Game
The demo was fucking godly.....They managed to capture the atmosphere and feel of the show PERFECTLY...i'm not even going to bother renting this one...it's a definate purchase...
Chris, if you're reading this....this game is going to be THE shit.
goddamn, i'm spent....i need to rest
later people..
posted by Iroquois Pliskin at
1/27/2006 01:12:00 AM
4 Comments:
hmm..
last time i looked at a launch list when before it was finalized....then when 360 launched, we only got like 6 games at the store, and they said that's all there was....::shrug::
As to the hardware shortages, if they really wanted to make an impact, and ensure customer satisfaction, they SHOULD have waited until they had more to ship...but as usual, they screwed the pooch on that one too...
All first-generation hardware has problems...but it's just obscene to see a BSOD on something that's supposed to be a gaming console...it's just so wrong, words fail me.
i still think the whole disc thing is gay to the max....even if there are changes over live, if the HDD is essential, then those people with the basic system are pretty much boned...that's fucked up...it should support the older games out of box...
and the reason nintendo didn't have shortages on gamecube, is because noone was terribly interested in it, and still aren't...which would explain why they stop manufacturing them....they have a OMFG-level stockpile of the things....it's a good system, it just had really bad marketing here in the states, and got a bad rep...sucks really...i'm quite fond of the NGC...
anyway, i just think the 360 is a really ludicrous piece of hardware..
By
Iroquois Pliskin, at 28 January, 2006 06:50
P.S. Where is chris?
By
Iroquois Pliskin, at 28 January, 2006 06:50
Geo, you're not understanding...
they didn't want to do emulation AT ALL because they hafta pay royalties to nVidia for every game they make compatable...
additionally, that bit about hardware is just plain bullshit...though, you said it'd be as big as a tower?....it's basically a PC...so PC tower, for PC hardware, lol
Sony did it (backwards compatabiity) easily with PS2...the i believe it's the onboard I/O processor, it's actually a PSX processor..that's how PS2 does it's backwards compatability, it's not emulating, it's the actual hardware....for 360, it's not a matter of processing power, it's a matter of the GPU being totally different. They could have included the necessary chips without any real space issues, but then they would have had to pay nVidia even MORE money...
Never said NGC wasn't good, or that nintendo sucks...i'm just saying the NGC wasn't as well received here in the states as it should have been...it's fucking awesome...
as to the DS...now that it's finally got some titles that are worth buying, i'm thinking i want one...if the PSP wasn't so damned expensive, i'd already have one, because it had titles at LAUNCH i wanted....and the recall.....dude, it's not a defect, it's a feature!
don't be hatin'
By
Iroquois Pliskin, at 29 January, 2006 02:35
ROFL!
agreed on 2 out of three...no quizno's, i'm poor, i ain't got no moniez for j00 :D
though if you just wanna explain what you don't get, that'd be cool too..
By
Iroquois Pliskin, at 29 January, 2006 14:26
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