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BTW, the first 10 minutes of Dark Night Batman Returns was great by Dirk13

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:42:08 PST

I forgot to post about this earlier but for those that were not aware, Imax theatres playing I Am Legend also had packaged with it a special 10 minute sneak peak of the next Batman movie, specially formatted, apparently, for an Imax screen (a couple shots showed that this was possibly true).

All i got to say was it was sweet, not since the uncensored Batman Beyond Joker Returns movie has anyone shown so wellthe Joker as the maniacal and intelligent (but of course quite mad) villain that he truly is. Probably is tool late to go check it out now on the big Imax screen but the actual movie will be here before you know it.

''Maybe This Was All A Misunderstanding?'' by Dirk13

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:34:07 PST

It isn't really hard to guess as this point what the latest several editorial blog posts (and pretty much everyone else's) are about, or for that matter everywhere else people can post something as well.

In what I have decided to dub the great Kane & Lynch fiasco of 2007, we have a bit of a controversy on our hands. Now, one thing I'm reading in almost all of the many posts about it is the key word, "rumor." Now at this point the evidence is pretty damning, what with the video review being pulled, and Jeff apparently, at least for whatever reason, has signed his walking papers.

What I want to say then is not necessarily something I personally believe, but is more of an attempt at devil's advocate (since almost no one else is saying it and instead stoking the flames). Could this all possibly be a very poorly timed set of decisions, leading to a misunderstanding? Could Jeff have maybe chosen to just leave, or gotten let go for some other reason?

I only pose the question because we have all too often gotten upset over something only to get the full story later. Unfortunately we may never hear the full story, but at this point, I'veseen many people, even volunteer support members, posting blogs riddled with denouements and even swears directed at Gamespot. As much as this may actually be an appropriate response if this has all happened as the initial reports ordained, I'm wondering how much we may be jumping the gun on our judgments of all parties involved.

Jeff is no stranger to review controversy either, if anything you'd think some of the other games he's shunned in the past would land him in more hot water than an Eidos game.

In short, for those who so far have completely misread the purpose of this post, the theme is "withholding judgement", at least until a suitable time when such judgement can be fairly passed. If at that point in time the judgement is a rage-gasm in the form of anangry mob with pitchforks and torches though, then so be it.

With all this jumble of hesitant thinking I leave you with a departing thought: maybe Kane and Lynch, even with its score not being the most terrible ever, but rather due to its enduring negative stigmata, willbe the new "Big Rigs" game that all new GS members must play....an ironic twist appropriate of such a trial by fire don't you think?

Did you watch TV.com's live emmy pre-show? I got name dropped! by Dirk13

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:48:47 PDT

I didnt even realize I had won untilI checkedthe broadcast.It's also a bit fortuitous consideringthe Emmy's are covered inthe backyard of where i went to school, aswell as the fact the subject of thequestion i won on was also one of the shows they quizzed me on for their "what's the scoop" feature, I forgot who ran that programbut I would have been pleasantly pleased ifthey were there to havehad said "wow, that its thatguy and Frasier again.." or somesuch

Anyhow bask in my domination, and re-watch the broadcast if you want to see what i won

Uno update: I'm ranked 170th!!! by Dirk13

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:54:25 PDT

Just a small Uno update, i'm now ranked 170th place in the world on the trueskill rankings. The W-L rank is what shows when you join ranked games, but i don't know if i want to play the roughly 8000 games to climb that ladder (i actually ran into No.1 yesterday in a game lobby.....and then quickly ran away ), and i think the Trueskill rank is another pretty good representation instead of just a massive amount of games played.

Anyway here's a picture for your enjoyment, with someone else also on there to show the comparative difference (he's the only person on my friends list that has played Uno).

I just beat the No. 9 ranked Uno player in the world!!! by Dirk13

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:47:37 PDT

Ok well, the guy had roughly 2000 wins and 6000 losses, so he's probably lost quite a bit and is more to do with the sheer amount he has played, but I really schooled him/her, so it was something of a rush to clean sweep him in a ranked match! Huzah!

The person I beat has the XBL The Great 55 for those that want to check the leaderboard.

My first GS answered question over the air (Madden Marathon) by Dirk13

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:54:51 PDT

Well it finally happened, itwas kind of unexpected. I was sitting on the computer,I probably had asked a whole slew of questions leading up to it and then suddenly i hear my name over the air preceded by "boy, they must be getting tired to ask this"

For those watching my question, near the tail end of the marathonwas "If you were a madden game, what year would you be?" haha

Jeff opted to sidestep my question and proclaim that he would be Joe Montana sports talk football, real slick Jeff

It almost could have been me on the 35W bridge by Dirk13

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:04:47 PDT

I had a rather chilling thought today as I drove into downtown Minneapolis to pick up a friend for his birthday. If things were a little different, i could have ended up crossing the 35W bridge just around when it had collapsed.

Now, there are some rather stretched ifs in the equation, but not quite enough to stop me from feeling a bit shaken.

Basically if i had either been coming from the northinstead of thewest, or had my friend lived further up along 35W from the I94 junction, I would have likely ended up on the bridge roughly when it fell. It was a big bridge and all but it is truly an unlucky coincidence to be caught on it just as it happens to fall, and it was much too close a call for me to think about, all things considered.

*For those not familiar with the 35W bridge collapse incident it's currently being covered on most major news outlets

Soapbox Grindhouse: No Jack Thompson on GOW Orgy?/Bernie Stolar, where art thou? by Dirk13

Fri, 04 May 2007 11:47:50 PDT

I haven't written an editorial in a while, and part of that is because I haven't had any big ideas to talk about, but i had little ones, so i figured, why not grab a few of those "B-movie" editorial snippets and make my own little Soapbox version of the grindhouse cinema we have all seen affectionately revived as of late.

First on the chopping block:

Goats, gods and and naked women brought to you by Sony! You'd think a vangelist such as Jack Thompson, riding strong after pinning everything from Counterstrike to cooking mama on the Virginia Tech shootings would be simply salivating at Sony holding some massive debacherous party with decapitated animals and naked women. I mean, this is what Jack had always claimed to have feared most, video games transitioning into reality! Yet so far he is no where to be seen on his usual haunts (any news channel willing to give him air time, although Fox News in particular). Could it be that it simply lacks the exposure that Jack desires to get out of his soapboxing? Or could it be that in his infinite repertoire of�generalities that he�just figured since it didn't take place in America�that it doesn't affect his crusade against all that is evil as well as fun to most people not him? Maybe he feels the same way about Europe that he does of video games in general, but let us hope that he doesnt go there, because unlike a video game character, a whole continent of people would very�much be able to fight back.

Bernie Stolar:

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You can thank�Ken Kutaragi's�recent�"retirement"for your sudden return to my brain. Maybe it was�Kens deteriorating mental condition near the end of his tenure that made me think of the first head of SCEA, Bernie Stolar. Like Ken, the man did alot for his cause, but he also had a real evil streak. It is said that the RPG draught early in the Playstations�career�(and Beyond the Beyond) was primarily his doing, as Bernie had a rather strict no RPG policy, since most RPG's at that time were 2d and he didn't felt it gelled well with the System. He's also the man attributed with slowly suffocating and eventually killing off the Saturn early in favor of the Dreamcast, a project he left in the lurch shortly after (or possibly before) it debuted. It is on this day that i choose to remember these two great men, both with their attributable strengths and accomplishments, but both with some hilariously poor shortcomings springing up before they initiated their fall from the face of the planet.

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Developer For A Day victory dance by Dirk13

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:58:55 PDT

It seems as if I have run the gauntlet and come out the other end a finalist and�winner in Developer For a Day (3rd runner up).

I'm very pleased to have won a piece of this contest and am very happy with the results...so, hurrah for that!

My avatars that got accepted! by Dirk13

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:22:02 PDT

�Even though getting certain avatars successfully submitted werent as impotrant to many in the thread, i wanted to be responsoble for the Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy 6 avatars at least, just as i was for their gaemspace banners, unfortuantely they didnt accept any of my Secret of Mana stuff (yet, they seem to still be progressively adding stuff) but i'm proud of what did get accepted, especially since they are from all classicly awesome series:

�FF6 (my favorites):

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Castlevania:

Chrono Trigger:�

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-so use my avatars (best to go through the�preferences to use them)�and when people tell you how awesome that GS avatar you have is make sure you let them know who made it