fix me!

No pics here, I'm sorry.

My neighbors dogs were let loose to the front section of their house. I didn't know about that. So, as Hector was busy marking his territory, out pops Maximus(the neighbors rottweiler). I freaked out. That other dog is much smarter when it comes to fights. Plus, the fence in the front was pretty wide spaced, and stoopid Hector likes to stick his head through the gaps when fighting for some stoopid reason.

I had to choke the poor fool the drag him away. I also had to careful because I know dogs are unpredictable when they are in that sorta mood, so any wrong move and Hector would have instinctively bit me. And that is not good for business.

Juno had an equally stoopid adventure today too. Not really an adventure. I wanted to trick her so I hid myself. When she found out where I was hiding, she freaked out because she had no idea how I got there. After a while I gave it up and just sat there. Then she pounced on me and started nibbling/sniffing/licking. It's her weird way of showing affection. All of a gosh darned sudden she bit me. Like really hard. On my ear. Stupid bitch. Hector is more civilized than that.

In non dog related news, Grand Theft Auto 4 for the PC, sucks. Big time. Pirated salesmen will try to coax you into paying anywhere between RM35-45, but don't be fooled. The shop directly opposite Popular in Plaza Pelangi sells for only RM30. But don't buy it there either. Don't buy it anywhere unless you own a XBOX360 or a PS3. But if that were the case, it wouldn't be Grand Theft Auto 4 for the PC, it'd be for consoles, and it wouldn't suck.

So why does it suck on the PC? Because it's just badly ported to the PC. Textures don't load. Playing it on BARE MINIMUM graphics still uses up 256mb graphics RAM. GRAPHICs RAM! not even the actual RAM. The game is a work of art on the console versions, but it gives PC gaming a bad name. Maybe a patch will be released soon to cover this mess up. And I cannae start to tell you how frustrated i feel. I spent a good 3 hours installing the game, cracking the game, getting the right drivers. but still nothing works. And everyone on gamespot.com, and some gaming forums is just as pissed at it as me. A big thumbs up to Rockstar for coming up with an epic game, and a, bigger still,middle finger to Rockstar for effing up the PC version.

I wish I had an Xbox360 right now. Every gaming fantasy would be complete.

ewww

nvm.


Today in Plaza Pelangi, I think I ruined someones Christmas. =(
I was just tagging along, with my parents ahead of me when all of a sudden my foot connected with something. There was a crack sound. I had just walked into a shopping bag full of fragile presents. wooopsss.. Bet that guy's pist. But hey, don't go leaving stuff around like that. What were you thinking?

More news? Ok. Body of Lies. Watch that movie. I know I gave Transporter 3 a good review. But I was lying. I give Transporter 3 a 5/10. I gave it a higher score earlier, because I had just watched Twilight, and I had to rethink the score board. Just like with Dark Knight, instead of thinking of a number bigger than 10/10, i just remade the scale, and set Dark Knight at 9/10, so that if there was a better movie than it, there would be a place. With Twilight, I had to lower the scale. So Twilight gets a 3/10. Sorry, it was just epicly bad.

Yeah, so anyway, in that new rating scale of mine, Body of Lies gets a 8/10. The acting is just incredible. The direction is worthy of anything Ridley Scott has done in the past, and the story is not too shabby. I'd still say Dark Knight was more shockingly awesome(because I entered the cinema thinking, ah well, might as well get this over with), but given the number of movies being churned out by the industry right now, it's easy to see that at least there was some thought put into Body of Lies.

What else is new? Prince of Persia(2008) was pretty good too. It has the most artistic graphic design I've ever seen. But lacks the epic feeling that was present in the previous Sands of Time trilogy. This is mainly because the main character is largely forgettable. The new version of the Prince is weird looking. He has a cape, wears a blue and red scarf over his 'sonic the hedgehog' hair(which is supposed to be a turban I think), and has a triangular leather vest over washboard abs. He sounds American, and wields an over sized sword. The new prince tries to be lovable, is a little egoistic, and has a gauntlet that helps him with acrobatics and combat. Although this gauntlet allows really really cool moves, there's no explanation as to how the prince got it, and why it's so damned powerful.

The old prince was much cooler. In the first installment, he was a young man trying to impress his father by stealing the dagger of time. He spoke with a cultured and dreamy Persian-ish accent. Had the innocents of a boy, but the maturity of an older man in one package. The swords in the previous game were cooler; as you progressed through the game, you'd pick up newer, improved swords. And the prince had a secondary weapon (the dagger of time), which he could use to rewind time, slow down time, etc. Much cooler than the gauntlet.

BUT, the new prince of persia does change a lot of things. Te art form is particularly pretty. The brilliance of the story doesn't hit you till it's all over. The gameplay is a little revolutionary. Instead of dying and hitting restart, the prince never dies. This is awesome when you think about it. Your partner in crime will pick you up when you fall of a cliff, or push back an enemy if he's going to finish you off. This makes the game seem like it's one long, believable transition. Tis beautiful. And the idea that you don't have to kill wave after wave of enemies is really cool too. Instead, the prince is faced with major boss fights and the occasional guard. But that formula hasn't been perfected yet. The combat was much much better in the previous Prince of Persia games. Here, even though some are cool to watch, most of the time, you'll just find one combo that works well and stick to it. In the old Prince of Persia, experimenting and adapting to the setting was key to fighting. You could rebound off walls, leap over enemies, or my favourite move: vertically run up a wall, backflip off it and slice the enemies head off on the way down.

So, new prince of persia game, you get a 7.5/10.

Hell, i might as well go ahead and rate summore stuff!

Dead Space 8/10

Brothers in arms : Hell's Highway 7/10

Call of Duty 4 9/10

Call of Duty 5 7/10

Company of Heroes 9/10

And how about a brief Mozilla Firefox vs Google Chrome.

Chrome is a little TOO good for me. As in, let's just say I give you a link, but you need to copy and paste it right? Like let's just say http://www.dgfbgbigiabdigbaibgi.com/aodigbai/392502.
In Chrome, you can just highlight, right click and hit 'paste and go'. saves a little time and pretty cool. Chrome also allows you to use the main address bar as a google search bar. Firefox has a separate search bar. Chrome also keeps everything in one window effectively. hitting ctrl+J opens up a new tab that shows all your downloads. options and other stuff can be accessed in tabs too. This saves tasktar space and neatens everything up a little. If you've entered an unsafe website, and the tab crashes, you can just shut that tab off, without crashing the entire Chrome. Also, tabs can be pulled out into windows, and vice versa. Chrome suffers from lack of support and poor shielding from malicious software though, so watch out.

Firefox, in my opinion, is much better at present. Although you need to make a few adjustments here and there, in the end, you'll realise just how balanced and well done it is. So, until Chrome is patched up and ready, stick to Firefox.