Monday, June 05, 2006
Copyright Violation Monday: 10 Things I Learned This Weekend
With apologies to the Unseen Blogger:
1) You know that hot red pepper relish that they have at Subway? I love that stuff. I always get a ton of it on my Subway sandwiches. However, much to my dismay, you can't buy that stuff by the jar in any of the grocery stores around here. We've found a pretty decent red bell pepper relish that's kinda tangy, but we can't find the hot stuff. Bummer.
2) Playing Splinter Cell can be very frustrating. However, sitting and silently watching someone else play... and make the same mistakes you made the first few times you played... and having to keep your mouth shut the whole time.... man, that's frustrating on a whole new level.
3) If you send a 37 year old man and a nine year old boy shopping for a birthday present for an eight year old girl, you better plan on them spending most of the day trying to figure out what to buy, wandering around the store, staring at their shoes.
4) Nothing ruins a picnic like abundant insect larva.
5) West Virginia is always about thirty degrees colder than the rest of the world. If you plan a day trip to a state park in West Virginia in early June, you'd better bring long sleeve shirts. Sweaters. Jackets. Parkas. And a kerosene heater.
6) Our Basset Hound is not capable of destroying a regulation football. Our Brittany Spaniel, however, is.
7) One of my oldest real-life friends has started a blog. Stop by and say hi. He's a great guy.
8) When you use Google Image Search looking for a variation on the Unseen Blogger's much beloved Pr0n Monkey, you'd better be prepared for some truly disturbing, odd, and unexplainable images to pop up.
9) One of those disturbing images is this one:
10) Survival tip: You know those two guards arguing with the drunk in the first episode of Splinter Cell? Just sneak past 'em! SNEAK PAST 'EM, FOR PETE'S SAKE! You can crawl down the steps and pull yourself up on the ledge and they'll never see you. There's no need to fire your sidearm, it only draws attention! I mean, GEEZ!
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Your Splinter Cell frustration mirror's Rey's when he loaned me Metal Gear Solid, and I couldn't get past the first level. I just wanted to shoot the guards, and could never sneak around the crates to the elevators, and I forget but I think once I gave away my position by smoking. I borrowed the game AND his PS1 for like a year(this was back before I got my PS2) and he loaned it to me for the express point of playing MSG. I ended up conquering FFVII, Oddworld and Oddworld 2, RE2 and a few other games, but I never got into MSG.
I can't get into stealth in a video game. Sure I'll sneak around playing paintball, but a game should be wear you can run and shoot and get shot and have a health meter go down but still keep moving.
And I'm disappointed there was no monkey. :)
I can't get into stealth in a video game. Sure I'll sneak around playing paintball, but a game should be wear you can run and shoot and get shot and have a health meter go down but still keep moving.
And I'm disappointed there was no monkey. :)
MCF: I can't get into stealth in a video game [snip] a game should be wear you can run and shoot and get shot and ...
Yeah, I totally relate. As a Doom and Halo fan, the idea of sneaking up behind a guy, grabbing him, knocking him out and dragging him off into the shadows... well, that was totally foreign to me. I'd always been a first-person-shooter fan: Bust into the room, kill everybody, repeat. I totally had to retrain my brain in order to play Splinter Cell. I'd never played it at all until recently, simply because stealth games never interested me. Then my local K-Mart had the original classic Splinter Cell on clearance for five bucks and I thought "What the heck, I always heard it was great." It took me a couple of days to learn how to think stealth instead of just thinking run-n-shoot... but now that I'm into it, I'm totally addicted. It's a big change, though... like if I were Bruce Banner and one day when I got mad, instead of morphing into the Hulk, I morphed into Batman.
How's that for convoluted?
Yeah, I totally relate. As a Doom and Halo fan, the idea of sneaking up behind a guy, grabbing him, knocking him out and dragging him off into the shadows... well, that was totally foreign to me. I'd always been a first-person-shooter fan: Bust into the room, kill everybody, repeat. I totally had to retrain my brain in order to play Splinter Cell. I'd never played it at all until recently, simply because stealth games never interested me. Then my local K-Mart had the original classic Splinter Cell on clearance for five bucks and I thought "What the heck, I always heard it was great." It took me a couple of days to learn how to think stealth instead of just thinking run-n-shoot... but now that I'm into it, I'm totally addicted. It's a big change, though... like if I were Bruce Banner and one day when I got mad, instead of morphing into the Hulk, I morphed into Batman.
How's that for convoluted?
"5) West Virginia is always about thirty degrees colder than the rest of the world. If you plan a day trip to a state park in West Virginia in early June, you'd better bring long sleeve shirts. Sweaters. Jackets. Parkas. And a kerosene heater."
Darrell, you have obviously never been to Canada, especially in our longest season, winter. Though I admit here in Vancouver our winters are very mild (usually hovering above 0 centigrade, with loads of rain), Saskatchewan and Manitoba have such freezing temperatures in the winter that the news service warns people not to even go to work if they walk, as they warn as to the number of minutes until severe frostbite sets in. Brrr.
But thanks for the post on my site, I thought I'd return the favour. And I do like the banner.
Cheers
Jeff
Darrell, you have obviously never been to Canada, especially in our longest season, winter. Though I admit here in Vancouver our winters are very mild (usually hovering above 0 centigrade, with loads of rain), Saskatchewan and Manitoba have such freezing temperatures in the winter that the news service warns people not to even go to work if they walk, as they warn as to the number of minutes until severe frostbite sets in. Brrr.
But thanks for the post on my site, I thought I'd return the favour. And I do like the banner.
Cheers
Jeff
*gives Darrell the stink-eye*
But seriously, I don't have a copyright on the whole "list" thing. ;)
#4 just gave me the willies...
#6: Give him time. Either that or he has just not been WILLING to destroy one yet.
#8: I can only imagine. However, since I'm at work, I will have to only imagine for a while yet.
If you like "first person sneakers", try the Thief series. Thief II, The Metal Age, is one of the best and most replayable games I've ever found.
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But seriously, I don't have a copyright on the whole "list" thing. ;)
#4 just gave me the willies...
#6: Give him time. Either that or he has just not been WILLING to destroy one yet.
#8: I can only imagine. However, since I'm at work, I will have to only imagine for a while yet.
If you like "first person sneakers", try the Thief series. Thief II, The Metal Age, is one of the best and most replayable games I've ever found.
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