I know I am not the only one when it comes to wanting to see more movies with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost come out. I will never get sick of seeing Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz but I still want to see more of them on screen together! So Edgar Wright and Simon start writing another movie together! You three are the greatest (among the cast and the others who make the movie possible).
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I absolutely LOVE Apple but you can now add me to the list of people that are sick of seeing 50+ news stories on the iPhone daily. The only news I’d rather hear right now is the iPhone working with T-Mobile (US) but even then I would rather wait for the iPhone 2.0 to come out first before I invest.
Is it just me or does anyone else agree that the iPhone plans suck?
Take a look at the plans here: http://www.apple.com/iphone/easysetup/rateplans.html
Let’s start with the Individual Plans, the prices are actually not bad for what you get except for the SMS text messages, whoever thought about giving only 200 SMS text messages per a plan is a moron, I can totally understand if Plan 1 was 200, then Plan 2 was 300 and Plan 3 was 400 and then as they already stated, each plan can have more text messages be added but 200 across the bored? That’s ridiculous. What genious over at AT&T thought about the minutes per plan too? Why not make Plan 1 400 or 500 minutes instead of 450 or Plan 3 1300 or 1400 minutes instead of 1350? Sigh.
Oh and I just noticed Plan 1 has 5000 Night & Weekend minutes, they should just give you Unlimited too since basically everything else would then be the same except for more regular minutes.
Moving on to the Family Plans. Why must we have prices such as $80.00, $100.00 and $120.00? Why not $79.99, $99.99 and $119.99? For one, they look cheaper and two, now I have to pay 1 penny more? I’m glad that switching to get an iPhone would actually make me go bankrupt because I really do want one but I’m with T-Mobile, I love T-Mobile and I have a family plan already that I would have to go through all the trouble switching all 3 phones, paying a shit load of more money, especially the first month and be on AT&T’s network, which I don’t want to be on.
At least the Family Plans have minutes that look good, nothing like 750 minutes for Plan 1 and such. But 200 SMS text messages for FAMILY?! When you will have at least 2 phones, most likely more. That’s retarded and that’s NOT per phone, people text a lot these days so you will be paying more to get more text messages added.
I know in the end, the plans are not so bad because you do not have to pay for Data (Email/Web) or Visual Voicemail.
End rant.
After almost a month wait for the trailer to come out, it is finally here. It’s short but the game looks great. I hope more details will come out over the next month or so as the game will be coming out October 16th, 2007; which is not that far away. I highly doubt this game will not have multi-player or co-op options, seeing how Saints Row and Crackdown have it. Anyone would still buy the game, GTA4 could sell with no advertising needed but it just makes the game so much better with them. You can view the trailer here.
So the black Xbox that we have been hearing about for awhile is finally real, Xbox 360 Elite.
What’s new? It’s black, has HDMI port and a 120GB HD.
Is it worth it? If you currently have an Xbox 360 Console, I say no. If not, why not except you will be paying $79.99 more as the price is $479.99, not $399.99. The reason why I say no if you currently have one is because there is nothing great about the new “Elite” console. Wow, it has HDMI, most HDTV’s will not show much a difference between HDMI and Component. Then there is the 120GB HD, you can buy it separately for a whopping $179.99. Yes, $179.99 not including the tax you will have to pay. This is so overpriced and ridiculous, Microsoft needs to rethink this price and they could by getting rid of the overpriced 20GB HD as well.
“Put simply, I feel that $180 is too much money to charge for a 120GB drive; this is especially true when I remember that I’m paying for nearly all the content that I will store on that drive in addition to the $50 a year I’m paying to play games on Live. They should have removed the 20GB drive from the market and released this new one at the existing pricepoint. Hell, it should be free after the purchase of your 20th Live Arcade game.” — Taken from this 1up story.
I completely agree what he has said. I do not understand why Microsoft would call this console “Elite” considering there is no built-in HD-DVD drive. Blu-Ray is winning the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray format war in my opinion, if the console would already come built-in rather than as a $199 add-on I think it would help Microsoft gain some more ground in the format war. Another thing, no built-in WiFi, this is just more of a convince to people, I wouldn’t use it myself as I use Ethernet but there are people using it they could save money rather than having to buy the $99 wireless adapter.
GRAW 2 for Xbox 360 should really be called GRAW 1.5. It’s a great game, don’t get me wrong. Online is much better (except the disconnections that people have been experiencing here and there), graphics are much better online, etc. But single player campaign once again really is short. Possibly shorter then GRAW, it only took me around 4 hours to beat it on Medium then I played it again on Hard and I swear it may of been even less then that. They could at least have it where the enemies at least change their locations from each difficulty and/or add more on each higher difficulty. Like I said, it’s a great game, I’m playing it still till another game replaces this one as usual.
So I just saw 300 (the movie) a few hours ago and I just have to say how great of a movie it was. I loved it. I can not wait till it comes out on HD. I had a few problems with the movie but oh well, it was still great. What problems? Well at one point all 300 Spartans are kicking ass, working as one hell of a team then the scene where they build a wall of bodies then push them over when the immortals (guys with the gray mask) came, their team work seemed to fail apart among a bunch of them dieing left and right. Just stuff like that. Overall, great movie. A must see for this year.
THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAA!!!
In light of more Xbox Live users each day and more of these kids getting Rainbow Six: Vegas as well. I have decided just to make a separate page for the bad among the good ranked hosts to avoid or play with. You can reach this page at http://www.mistical.com/rainbowsix/
Before I go I want to talk about 2 more people, I may even do a Part 4 in the feature if it is a good one to write about.
Kunntilda666, kicks me 10 minutes into the match. He doesn’t even play, he takes the package and idles at the roof while everyone else is killing the team and then just kicks random people if defenders are quiting just to get absolutely no points taken away from him. Stay away from if possible, it doesn’t even matter if you are #1 killer on the team, he kicks anyone, as he did to me (I was on top). Maybe he didn’t wanted to go to school tomorrow feeling he was the best one on the team?
uknow760, kicked for no reason 1 minute into the match, same team. He’s a booster anyways. Would not answer my private chat invites. No one ever seems to after they kick me, too afraid to talk to me I guess. Update: hours later I played with this guy in another server, switched to defense just to play against him. I do not even know where toe begin because he was so terrible and as usual had nothing else to say to me except to tell me I boosted. We did however lose (almost won though) but I ended up in first on my team (not that it matters if you lose) with a 25/10 ratio and he had a ratio of 8/18. He said he kicked me from his server a minute into it because I was the lowest on my team, bullshit because I know I was already #1 on the team with a few kills already.
That ends Part 3, so everyone knows. I do 90% of the time have good matches and no problems, at least for me. I will write those down that kick others on my team for no real reason except me even though I did not get kicked. For example, I had a great few matches with host: xx DirtyNutz xx. I host matches as well so you can look for my gamertag as well.
Short rant but I went into a ranked match hosted by [YM] [color=blue]xVoidx[/color]. What an experience this was, same with his buddy [YM] [color=blue]Infamous 801[/color], as soon as I entered the room xVoidx was saying I did not earn my rank illegitimately and that I sucked. I just enjoy and love how people love to talk a lot of shit on Xbox Live. I guess at least he did not kick anyone/us to win the match. Alright then because this is my first time playing in with you and your horrible connection. He was a 1st Lieutenant and I’m still at a Lieutenant Colonel (2 ranks ahead of him). I stayed even though we were lagging terribly and that they were “spawn rapping” us. I ended up breaking through their terrible defense because all they were doing is trying to rack up the kills, that’s all xVoidx was doing, he’s not that good he just camps the fast ropes to rack up his kills and having a terrible connection helps that being the host you are not going to lag either.
Anyways, I went through the escalators, into the vault, made it back to the escalators where I dropped it midway. A teammate brought it up and made it to the middle of the elevator hallways, I ended up being able to bring it from there to the middle stairwell in a few minutes as every so feet we’d die but get the package further into a better spot for us to grab and bring it up without dieing. We ended up winning the match, Victory! you loser, with terrible lag and of course, more shit talked to me even though our team had just one and I was still #1 and my kill:death ratio was good with lag and “spawn raping”.
I quote spawn raping because they were not necessary killing us at our spawn (plus there’s like a 8-10 second? invulnerability to those that spawn) but they were as we fast roped down and yes there are other ways to get past them such as taking the longer routes down there (repelling, elevators, elevator stair well, taking them out from above and such as some of the others and I did. Also because I do not know what else to call it, nor do I care and it’s not like they had a good defense anyways, I got down there in one life and brought it up to the escalators in that one life as well.
There are just some people on Xbox Live that should not be able to ever play online games again because they ruin the game for others. I’m talking about people the kick others from servers because they can not handle losing, getting “owned” by you or any other reason that is just as worse. For example, earlier tonight as usual I am playing Rainbow Six: Vegas online along with some others. Many good matches but there were 3 or 4 that were terrible.
The last one I was kicked out with somewhere around 20-30 seconds left in the match of a 20 minute match in Attack and Defend Calypso Casino. I was on the Attackers side and about to win when I was just kicked by Xbox Live Member [color=blue]Laos 99[/color] whom did not even have the guts to accept a to-be-friendly chat invitation just to ask why he kicked me. He was already an elite rank, so it is not like points matter and the points did not matter to me either, I’m 2nd Colonel, 2 away from Elite but many matches to go anyways. I ended up joining another different game session of his but was kicked but I did find one of his friends, I had a chat with him, [color=blue]blbjr[/color], overall cool guy, accepted my chat and explain to me that I was probably kicked for using grenades as they were restricted. I told him that I did not use them, which I did not. They are restricted for a reason even though people know how to bypass that. Someone else within the first 10 minutes was kicked by doing that already (it was 5 attacks on 7 defenders). I knew why the guy was kicked on my team, I saw that he had killed someone with a grenade right before the message said he was kicked, obvious reason. Not like I intended to bypass to use grenades anyways to win either, we were going to and ended up after I was kicked I think but did not even bother asking anyone that was on my team (did not know any of them).
The match before that there was the host by the Xbox Live name of [color=blue]happy dwarf987[/color] and with his clan name [color=blue][EHI]happy dwarf987[/color]. He kicked my brother for either one or both of these reasons: kept killing him and could not be killed and/or so they would win the match (he was on attackers side). It was already 10 minutes into the match when this happened. We and the others continued to play the match we were still beating them until the last 2 minutes where all 4 of us (it was 4 on 6) were all hit with a grenade, taking us out and losing time while he took the package past the Keno room and up to the roof.
Another guy I remember was [color=blue]T WEEZY 2000[/color], he just kicks people if all of a sudden their ping goes from 3 green to 1 red without saying anything. Uneducated moron is all he is, the guy would of not lagged the match and his connection would of ended up being fine a minute later/next refresh.
So what do you do with these people? Well the first 2 people Avoid and File a Complain to Xbox Live, I think that is the proper and appropriate thing to do, they are abusing the administration rights to their hosted match. For the last guy, just give him an Avoid this Player Review.