July 14th 2007
Too many good ones to post individual videos so here’s the full link. Some of these are money. I like #5, #6, and the Evil Dead one.
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June 8th 2007
Well written article on girls in gaming.
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April 9th 2007
So my Xbox 360 has the Ring of Death now. I picked up Guitar Hero II on Thursday and got it home, unpacked, plugged in, and started rocking out, but the console locked up half way through the first song. Hmm. Alright, maybe there is an update on XBL. Plug in the network cable and start it back up again. No dice. Whatever. Start playing again. Locks up in the menus. WTF! Let it sit for a couple minutes. Play again and it locks up in the song again. Well This sucks. Hundred bucks for this game and now my Xbox is crapping out.
Try cranking the machine up once more, and it locks up in the song again. This time, however, it doesn’t come back. Red Ring of Death. Lovely. Emails with Microsoft ended with this:
“I understand that you want to check the status of the repair of your Xbox console. We deeply apologize for the inconvenience. But email support lines do not have the capabilities to process your request regarding to the status of your Xbox console.”
What?? I still have the Xbox. I’m trying to figure out if you guys know another way of fixing it or if I have to send it places. sigh My friend suggests I just call the EB Games where I bought it. Here’s the short, highly edited version of the conversation.
Me: Hi, I bought my Xbox 360 there and it’s broke
Them: When did you buy it and did you buy the extended warranty with it?
Me: September of last year, and yes I have the warranty.
Them: Bring it in and we’ll replace it.
Shapow! Point for them. How hard was that? So now when I leave work I’m going to go to EB Games and swap my Xbox and then I’ll be playing Guitar Hero II tonight. At least that’s the plan. 
March 28th 2007
Well I didn’t get nearly as much done on the weekend as I wanted to. Was just kind of bummed out all weekend and didn’t feel like doing much of anything. I tried playing around with the PARUS stuff but I couldn’t get subversion compiled on the ParallelKnoppix setup (why it wasn’t installed is beyond me…also vi and emacs were missing…sigh) and it didn’t even occur to me to use one of my other computers to get the repo. I have my moments.
Regardless, the weekend came and gone. Played Supreme Commander with my roommate and decided that my computer can’t handle 20km x 20km maps with 6 AI players. Just too much stuff going on. Also picked up Armored Core 4 and GRAW 2 for the Xbox 360. Played GRAW 2 and it’s fun times. I enjoy it. Haven’t touched AC4 yet but it’s promising. Now just waiting for CnC 3 and I’ll be set. w00t!
buffer overflow by Daniel Huckstep
