We can only hope.....

.......but we still need to keep him around for this.
(probably nsfw)

So you may or may not have noticed

To everyone who reads my blog consistently.....which is like one person or something.....


I HAS BUTTONS!!!
:D
PRESS THEM!!!! PRESS THEM HARD AND BOOKMARK ME! PLLLEEEAASE!!!

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They were very, VERY hard to get on this website. VERY hard. I had to (seriously) pass up on blogging about something else in order to make it work. It was probably gonna be something uninteresting like my shoes......

BUT NO MATTA!!!!!

I'm in english naow. SCHWEET! GOOF-OFF TIME!!!

mmmmm....tetris......

:O~

edit: also, I had to change up the title. Because it needs to be up there.
I just wish I could put the banner up in front of the title though......

nani?!

So I had this weird dream last night. Or Sunday night. Whatever.
Yeah, no, actually, now that I think about it it was Saturday night.

SCREW IT, I DON'T CARE THAT LAST NIGHT WAS SUNDAY NIGHT, CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME!!!!!

bleh. I'm more tired than I thought.....



but anyways, I was sitting next to a friend talking about nothing. Then I started leaning on her, tugging her hair and stuff....basically flirting with her.

She didn't mind.

It went on like this, but that's about all I did. Bunch of flirting.
Then I woke up.

I like dreams, 'cause in dreams, you can be just as friggin forthcoming as you want, and it doesn't matter.

Then I also hate dreams, because you can't legitimately tell them to other people without them thinking you're either a nutjob or a creep.

For instance, I once had a dream where a bunch of my friends and I were standing around in a circle in the jungle. Then an elephant came around and started sucking each of us up its ass.

I have no idea what that's supposed to mean, and I don't want to know.

But anyways, it ended with me running from this thing (which was chasing me backwards). I finally woke up in a sweat colder than ice, loudly articulating something that was supposed to sound like "WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?!", but coming out more like "WHUMUFARIMEAN?!" after which I fell out of bed. **

Now, recall. After this story, what was your reaction? That's right. Something along the lines of "WTF?! What does this guy do in his spare time?!"

and, for the record, I don't really have as much free time as you may think I may think you may think I may have.



**dramatic re-enactment

THANK you! My opinion exactly!

So anyways, here's something interesting I found online: a post by some guy named.....
DWells55x
That's apparently his gamertag.
Here's what he has to say about the microsoft downtime:

"I won’t pretend that this is a completely original idea and no one else has ever raised the question of why Xbox Live is a pay service. In fact, I used to be one of the people who argued against them and supported Xbox Live. But, with recent Xbox Live troubles and news, it’s becoming significantly more difficult to do this. Having taken the time to really look at the state of Xbox Live is making me have to start agreeing with the people who I used to argue against.

Let’s start with the recent Xbox Live downtime. It is, quite frankly, absolutely unacceptable for a pay service. Until a few days ago, my brother had a two week period where he could not recover his GamerTag from Xbox Live. That’s two weeks of no Xbox Live access whatsoever. He tried deleting the profile of his Xbox and recovering it again, but this didn’t work either. Now he couldn’t even access his game saves or earn any achievements. Although I had my account on my Xbox, that’s not to say everything’s been great. Like the rest of you, I’ve been experiencing a lot of trouble with Xbox Live. Inability to join games, sign in to Xbox Live, load the dashboard blades, sometimes problems bad enough to freeze my 360 entirely until I pulled out the Ethernet cable.

Yes, we’re getting a free Xbox Live Arcade game as compensation for nearly 3 weeks of Xbox Live downtime. Woohoo. No details have been given, and as a result I suspect that this free game will be a specific title or list of titles which Microsoft will choose. I feel that at the very least we deserve to be either refunded for a month of Xbox Live or given a free month on top of this. Think about it, if your cell phone service had trouble for a month, dropping calls, refusing to dial numbers, etc., you wouldn’t be satisfied with a free cell phone game. The first step would be a refund for that month and then some sort of compensation for the inconvenience on top of that.

Connection troubles aside, there’s other reasons why I feel Xbox Live shouldn’t be a pay service. As of March 1, 2008, Xbox Live Diamond will become an additional $6.95 fee. No thanks. Not only was this service close to worthless, but to charge for something that was supposed to be a benefit of paying for the Xbox Live service is absurd. It was pathetic as a freebie and to think anyone is willing to pay for this is ridiculous.

Next up, Xbox Live is full of ads. Even when you first boot up your Xbox 360, you’re greeted with ads on the Xbox Live blade. While this may not seem like a huge issue, how would you feel if your internet service provider, who you pay a fee to, placed ads on the desktop of your computer (which you also paid for)? Gold members should at the very least be given an option to disable these ads.

Xbox Live also feels the need to wrap content in restrictive DRM schemes that limit users’ access to the items they’ve purchased. Worst of all, this is done without proper warning of just how restrictive it is. Xbox Live Arcade titles and dashboard themes are unusable when not connected to Xbox Live unless you are on the same Xbox they are purchased on. So, as a reward for being a loyal customer and upgrading to the Halo 3 edition of the Xbox 360, all the content I purchased on my previous content is now unusable when I’m not signed into Live on the account I purchased them from. This means that when Xbox Live is having trouble or when I’m on vacation or anywhere else I don’t have steady high speed internet access, I can’t play the games which I have paid for.

Despite the fee for Xbox Live, networking is almost entirely peer to peer reliant. There are no dedicated servers for games, something which has been long available to PC games with no online fee. The average residential high speed internet connection often does not have an upload bandwidth capable of properly supporting large amounts of players. This results in lag and allows for exploits relying on network manipulation, for example the standby cheating which plagued Halo 2.

One would think that the fee for Xbox Live would entitle users to extra content to justify the fee. However, Microsoft allows companies to charge often high prices for nearly every single piece of downloadable content for games. This setup for the Xbox Live Marketplace encourages developers to either purposefully withhold content or release games lacking content with the intent of later releasing and charging an additional fee for the rest of the content. Xbox Live’s content setup may even discourage free content. Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney is quoted in a 1Up Podcast as saying that “We've been wanting to give them away for a long time, but actually Microsoft has been pushing back on us for that.” The video game magazine Game Informer supported this in a 2007 issue where they also claimed that Microsoft forces companies to charge for content they wish to distribute. I do not doubt this to be the case, as free content for online PC games has long been the standard. Call of Duty 4 currently has a new downloadable map available for PC users which is absent from the 360 version.

So, what exactly is Xbox Live offering its paying customers? A unified friends list? The same feature has been available to PC gamers through free applications such as XFire and Steam. Put simply, the features of Xbox Live simply do not justify its price when considering the free services offered by the competitors and the robust structure of online PC gaming.

Although I’m sure many are likely to disagree with me and simply respond with “if you don’t like it, don’t pay,” it’s not quite that simple. Without an online service, my games and the console itself lose much of their playability and worth. I also lose contact with my friends who still use Xbox Live. So unless I’m willing to cut off contact with my friends and make my system no longer worth playing, no longer paying for Xbox Live isn’t really an option.

I’d like to hear the thoughts of the rest of the community. I feel that now, in light of the recent Xbox Live downtime, is a good time to start changing Xbox Live for the better."

I totally agree. I'm already getting charged 12.95 for my FFXI account this month, and I'm in the same predicament as this guy's brother. My gamercard is crapped out.

So now I'm stuck offline. Oh, and all my save data? gone. Great.

bahahaha, google ads make me laugh

So my previous title post had "blah" in it, and I get ad results such as "blah song, blah lyrics," etc.
awesome.

nothing new today, 'cept I got the Guitar Hero III soundtrack that I got from a friend playing......

also, fun with vibrating pillows.

For serious.

more of the same blah blah blah

Only now I'm talking to myself, with more blah.

Okay, not really.

So the internet is big. It's pretty easy to get lost in it.

I've started up school again, and I think I may start up yet another blog dedicated to urban art and graffiti.

Also, I'm gonna get rid of that creepy picture I put up for no reason.

Depressing......

twenty-nine posts, and still almost no hits......
besides what I contribute........
T_T
that sucks

edit: .......less than 29 posts and still almost no hits..........