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13Feb 10
So, what's new? We haven't spoken in a while, have we? I'll get down into the thick of it; for further reading, see "My First Third" to get some back story: http://www.gamespot.com/users/dubel_07/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25673001
So, on December 17th, 2009, Batman Girl asked me out. I feel like a school child saying it that way but I never had "high school" like most people did. I, of course, am a guy and, of course, I said yes. The conversation was ironic in a sense and went something like this (names have been changed to preserve the individual's identity):
"I wanted to apologize to you, Batman Girl."
"For what, Dan?"
"Well," I said, beet red in the face. "I wanted to apologize for you having to find out from somebody else that I still had feelings for you. It wasn't fair to you."
"Is it the kind of thing you'd like to go out with me? That kind of feelings?", she asked.
"Yes", I nodded.
She paused, apparently waiting for me to say something else.
"Would you like to go out with me?", she asked.
Slack-jawed, I managed to nod and say yes.
So, yay! dubel_07 has a girlfriend! I found a special girl, the kind that loves to play Left 4 Dead and cuddle at the same time :3Now, my point. Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. I have been alone for the last 20 years and almost never remembered it was Valentine's day except for when my mom bought me Pokemon Valentine's Day cards to give to my cla$$mates and when my dad and I went to a concert, not realizing that it was "Single Awareness Day" and we were going to a Valentine's Day concert. In a romantic restaurant. With authentic Spanish lovesong-singing-acoustic guitar trios. Yeah. Tomorrow will be my first ever Valentine's Day where I'm not alone. Or gaming alone and yelling at people on the internet, as I have become known for in my area.
I got her some fancy chocolates, an exotic fruity-chew candy, and this adorable stuffed turtle that is about the size of a medium sized dog. And per her special request, the unrated version of "The Descent". 0_o
So, wish me luck. I don't really have much else to share right now, happy Valentine's Day (or Single Awareness Day), tell somebody they mean something to you, whether it be a significan other, family member, your Medic in Team Fortress 2, or not. Have a good weekend, I'll see you in later blogs
dubel_07
- Posted Feb 13, 2010 4:55 pm PT
- Category: Relationships
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3Jan 10
Just finished Fallout 3. What a balls ending! It's like they gave up and ran out of ideas. This is the conversation I'm sure they had:
employee 1: "Hey, how can we piss off gamers who just put dozens of hours into our game?"
employee 2: "You mean, other than having them realize this is the map to Oblivion?"employee 1: "Yeah, besides that and killing off our big-named voice actors and recycling the same voices?"
employee 2: "I'm not sure. WAIT! WE KILL OFF THE PLAYER CHARACTER!"
employee 1: "OH! That's good! And we can have a sepia tone slideshow with a voice actor nobody cares about detailing how heroic the player is! It'll be brilliant!"
employee 2: "Hey, we'll definitely piss off that dubel_07 guy, won't we!"
Dear Bethesda,**** you
Love always,
dubel_07
- Posted Jan 3, 2010 1:53 pm PT
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31Dec 09
So I've had a chance to check out some games that were lent by friends and family: Fallout 3, Uncharted 2, and Modern Warfare 2. This is merely an initial impression, not a review.
First of all, Fallout 3. It's good. Really good. Unfortunately, it's pretty much a total conversion of Oblivion and the game suffers from what I like to refer to as "Oblivion Syndrome". This rare ailment is what caused Oblivion to get really, really, really boring really, really, really quickly. There's so much you can do in Oblivion: you can kill everyone, do quests, run around like a drunken monkey on fire, anything you want. The map is so damn large that you can get lost. This is a problem. Getting lost in a game is a sign of bad design and is something that cannot be dodged by having a "Fast-Travel". All that does is make it more annoying since you have to sit through more loading screens to get to the exploding.
What the game does right is its intense story, great voice acting (I'm a sucker for Liam Neison), and you can separate enemy body parts from the rest of them. That's just awesome. There's a lot to do and the game is actually doing a really good job of not making me run all around the whole map to pick up a bottle of coke for some janitor who has a ring I need. Only complaints so far are that the game relies too much on VATS in combat (which isn't necessarily a bad thing as it looks spectacular) and that the escort mission with your dad is incredibly annoying. This is the only mission where you have to walk across the whole map. Unfortunately, "walk" is the operative word.
Initial Score: 9.0/10.0
Comments: Suffers from Oblivion Syndrome. May be contagious, check with doctors and next Bethesda game. STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl with Fallout elements.
Next, Uncharted 2. There's not a whole lot I can say that hasn't been said. Everything you heard about this game being amazing is true. It's EXCELLENT. The kind of excellent where I considered buying a PS3 until I realized I didn't want one. I'm pretty sure that this is the best dialogue in any game I've ever played; the characters draw you in and every hit you take you feel. The story is engrossing but a little far-fetched, the characters are likable and entertaining, the action is intense and sucks you in.
Complaints include a somewhat sketchy climbing system that sometimes leaves you questioning what the hell you are trying to do when you are trapped on a platform really high in the air but not high enough that you would die but when you jump you die anyway. Another thing, but this can be overlooked, is that there is nearly no HUD. I'm cool with no health bar (sort of), no ammo counter when you put your weapons away, no prompts, etc; but when you don't tell me what I can and can't climb on I get pissed really quickly.
For example, I'm in some crazy ancient chamber climbing on this blade with all these ridges along the side. Initially, I started to climb up the ridges and got about halfway up. Then I stopped. I was perplexed. Halfway up a ladder-like wall, Nathan Drake gave up his will to do things the easy way. Instead of climbing up the ladder, Drake jumped across a vertical wall onto some smaller blocks. Like I said, it's just nice to know where I can go. An arrow on screen would probably help.
Initial Score: 9.5/10.0Comments: PS3 commercial is right, looks like a movie. Some cheap deaths and tricky jumps that aren't obvious. Excellent game for PS3 owners.
Finally, MW2. This was a little disappointing for me, granted I wasn't looking forward to it in the first place. The game seems like all zazz and no substance. The game has those annoying "OH **** YOU DIED" moments and your character is FUBAR forever. That was annoying the first time. I don't see how everyone was blinded by the light that was MW2. It looks sharp, controls sharp, dialogue loops in some places and the voice acting is pretty good. I just finished the Brazil mission (rooftop one in case there's another) and I am looking forward to the game getting better. It had better get better.
The controversial "airport mission" didn't seem that great. It was annoying that I had to walk through the damn thing. Also, why couldn't I just shoot the bad guy? He's the mastermind behind a terror plot, why can't I just shoot him instead of gunning down hundreds of civilians? Whatever. Game needs to pick up the pace or I'll have to put the game down. It's good, just not my thing.
Sorry, I'm getting distracted by the Burn Notice marathon. Bruce Campbell demands my attention.
Initial Score: 8.5-ish/10.0
Comments: Too much zazz, not enough substance. Preferred CoD2 to MW1 so maybe I am biased. Too many guns, as well. And who the hell is Roach? I wanna play SOAP. AND STOP KILLING ME IN THE STORY, IT PISSES ME OFF. Game gets extra credit, though, for giving a warning about the controversy of a particular scene. I took a picture and might mount that.So...Happy New Year to you all! I've got a few stories to share in the future blogs, have a safe, happy and fun evening!
- Posted Dec 31, 2009 3:34 pm PT
- Category: Games
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17Dec 09
I decided to create a list of my favorite movie villians of all time (at the current moment). I'll give a brief blurb on each and some details. I felt like making this, I'm not sure why. There may be some spoilers. If you haven't seen these movies, be warned. And the numbering is kind of funny. Why 6? Well, because I wanted to.
6. Simon Skinner, Hot Fuzz
Simon Skinner owns a small grocery store in a small town that wins the village of the year award in England pretty much every year. He is a cruel man, though is very generous to the community.5. Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs, Manhunter, Red Dragon, Hannibal was never made or read, the ending was awful.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a psychotic and manipulative sociopathic psychologist who eats people. Yep. Interesting tidbit: the scene where he says "A census taker came to visit me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti" then makes a funny facial expression and noise was done ad lib and was intended to make the director laugh. He laughed, and kept one of the most famous scenes in movie history in the film.4. Kaiser Soze, The Ususal Suspects
No picture because the whole point of the movie is trying to find out who Kaiser Soze was. Soze was the mastermind and leader of the fictional Turkish mob. When some thugs turned on him and took his family hostage and demanded they relinquish the mafia to them he shot his whole family and all but one of the thugs, telling him to tell everyone that he saw that Kaiser Soze would rather kill his entire family than give his business to a group of thugs. Badass movie.3. Renard, The World is Not Enough
Renard is a generic terroist with a unique ability. Well, not necessarily an ability. He has a gift and a curse. He cannot feel pain because of a freak chance. MI6 tried to have him assassinated but the sniper didn't kill him. The bullet was slowed down enough that it didn't splatter his brains over the walls but is lodged in there, slowly moving inwards. The result is that Renard doesn't feel pain, but the bullet moving closer to the important parts of the brain will eventually kill him.
2. Captain Vidal, Pan's Labyrinth
I saw this movie the other day. Vidal is the cruelest person on this list. He has his sick and pregnant wife transferred hundreds of miles to an outpost where he is stationed to fight rebels after the Spanish Civil War. He is a facist, a tool, and he likes to torture people. The countless acts of cruelty in this movie that he commits are mostly senseless and psychotic. At one point, his men bring a man and his father who were hunting rabbits in the area. The man explained that they were hunting rabbits (which they were) and vidal takes a bottle in the man's backpack and bludgeon's his son to death with it in front of him, then shoots them both. His last scene still gives me chills just thinking about it. Watch it. It is excellent.
1. T1000, Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Emotionless, cold, liquid, pissed. Pretty much describes the T-1000 Terminator, also known as the "Liquid Terminator" or "Holy crap, Dad! It's John Dogget from the X-Files!". Favorite movie villian. Ever. The whole point of the movie is that he is completely unstoppable. The T-1000 was sent back by one of the many ridiculous plot devices in the Terminator series to do something relating to John Connor. He nearly succeeds until 12 seconds later the T-100 (The Governator) pulls a shotgun out of a bouquet of flowers and shoots him far more times than that shotgun had bullets. It was magical. Interesting piece of trivia: Robert Patrick, the actor for the T-1000, has the record for the most roles for the same character in movies and Richard Belzer, the actor for Det. John Munsch on Law and Order: SVU has the record for the equivalent in television.So, yeah. That's pretty much it. Feel free to let me know what you think, unless you want to bash my movie tastes, then you can go back to conforming and playing Halo and eating Cool Ranch Doritos and drinking Mountain Dew and letting your mother do your laundry. I break the mold. I don't play halo. I prefer Sun Chips. Mountain Dew is gross, Moxie is where it's at. Derail the topic much? Anyways, let me know what you think, I'm interested to hear your favorites.
- Posted Dec 17, 2009 2:05 pm PT
- Category: Movies
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4Dec 09
I hadn't planned on putting this here since not a whole lot of you actually know me away from the internets but for those of you who had a similar 8 years like me, and for any other mildly compulsive people, you know what I'm talking about. Thanks for clicking on this and I've got plans for a real nice blog in the near future, something actually related to games. Sorry if this is depressing and makes it look like I've had no real life for the last 8 years.
Tonight was the series finale of the show I've watched for 8 years, my favorite show, Monk. As the last scene came by and the final song played, I realized that though the show is gone, it won't be forgotten; the characters, the cases, the phobias. Thank you, USA, for making such a great show that was the highlight of many Friday nights, thank you, friends, for putting up with me while I ditched you to hang out with my other friend at 9 on Fridays, and thank you, Adrian Monk, for being such a fun part of my life. Adrian Monk, you may be gone, but never forgotten.
Thanks for the fun times, Adrian Monk!
- Posted Dec 4, 2009 7:20 pm PT
- Category: TV
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3Nov 09
So November 4th, 2004 I joined the ranks of GameSpot. I was 15. And stupid.
Over the years there have been so many things I've wanted to say to so many people and just haven't had the time. There have been a lot of stories, a lot of concerts, and a whole lot of semi-colons. I want to thank all of you for making my stay here an enjoyable one; for commenting on my blogs, for making blogs for me to comment on; for putting up with my shenanigans. Thank you!
To celebrate, I've put up this fancy new blog banner that was made by mryoto over at WeGame. Check out that site if you haven't already. The community is kind of crap but the videos and the recording software are really neat.
There are a few things I'd like to share with you.
I've been dubbed a "black hole of negative emotions" by my friends here at school. The story behind it is a tale for another day. Goes back a long ways.
A list of a few things about me:
- I live in New Hampshire, and have for all of my 20 years of being. I occasionally have a New England accent.
- I've been a gamer since Christmas when I was 4 and I got my GameBoy
- I'm a whole lot more intelligent in writing but I can still hold my own in a conversation
- I play the trombone and have since the 5th grad, for more than 10 years.
- I've been involved with music for all of those years and I've played with: A Christian rock band, a funk band that played with Chuck Norris, a classic rock cover band and multiple jazz bands and I've played with or for Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath, and Antonio Hart. Favorite 3 bands are Chicago, Streetlight Manifesto, and The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones.
- I'm a Junior in college studying for a degree in Chemical Engineering
- I'm pretty miserable and stressed out, as well.
I was pretty indecisive about what to include in this post. There's so much that I want to share but it would ruin the mood. It took me an hour to narrow down what I wanted to share.
So here we are, at the end of another blog. I guess if there's any questions, I'd be happy to take them but I can't really be sure as to when I'd be able to answer them. If not, see you in the start of a new GS year. Have a good night, all
dubel_07
- Posted Nov 3, 2009 7:56 pm PT
- Category: General
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30Oct 09
I was playing Team Fortress 2 and making the enemy team my ***** when my team lost. By a good bit. Since I pay for access to a server (it's called a VIP slot) that gives me permission to screw around and when we lose, I'm immune to the other team's fire and stabbing and whatnot. Well, we lost and I used the taunt key on the spy with my knife out...and I noticed that I didn't do the usual taunt. I did the Thriller dance. And then I made a machinima. And it was fun. Enjoy!
Happy Halloween!
- Posted Oct 30, 2009 3:49 pm PT
- Category: Music
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23Oct 09
So yesterday I downloaded the Killing Floor update from Ireland. Of the 4 I tried, downloading from Ireland was the fastest since Valve decided to spend $25 million on an ad campaign for L4D2 instead of better servers. I don't live in Ireland (though I am Irish). Anyway...
The update included 3 new maps:
- Bedlam - an asylum that was decked out for a Halloween rave complete with trippy lights and women who want to kill me
- Wyre Forest - a forest that I didn't get to play a whole lot on since I got killed and of the two patched servers, the lowest had a ping of 250. Then I was kicked.
- Waterworks - I have yet to play this one
7 new weapons
- SCAR - The mac-daddy of the AR world. This gun is rediculously broken. Just rediculously broken. Like, going to patch it soon broken
- Auto-shotgun - has some fancy name that I can't remember since I usually play the Commando class which specializes in AR weapons
- M79 grenade launcher (or something) - a single-shot grenade launcher. Pretty good.
- M82 grenade launcher (I'm just making up numbers) - 6 shot grenade launcher. This thing is sweet. Kills the boss in 12 hits. Took me about 90 seconds to kill the Patriarch with this, complete with wave of zeds in between
- Pipe bomb - proximity mines. These rock
- M-something-or-other Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle - Haven't used it since I can't snipe to save my life
- MP7 Medic gun - looks like the MG from HL2 but it's alternate fire shoots HEALING DARTS. That's just awesome.
and a NEW can't say the "c" word...uhh..."Perk Set"
The DEMOMAN! Demolitions expert specializes in the explosive weapons, specifically the grenades that are standard to every class, the grenade launchers, and the pipe bombs. Class is nasty. At rank 2 Demolitions, I had 348 kills in the 20 minute game and the next closest was 169 (Next was in the 90's). I'm gonna play more demo
So, if you have absolutely no idea what I just said, download Steam and try the Killing Floor FREE WEEKEND where you can play the FULL GAME FREE. Completely FREE. Plus, this weekend, it's only $15. Go for it. I'll do a real proper blog sometime soonish.
- Posted Oct 23, 2009 7:53 am PT
- Category: Games
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1Oct 09
Some more letters that failed to give me enough inspiration last time around...enjoy!
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Dear American Eagle,
I wanted to let you know how I felt about your clothes. I recently came into acquisition of some of your belts from someone who, as my mother put it, "had a weight change". I'm just as confused as you are at this point but that's beside the point. Upon first glance, I noticed that the belts are very snazzy looking and the donut-shaped rivets look pretty cool.
The problem lies in this: you belts don't work. I know that's hard to believe as it's a piece of cloth that keeps your shorts above the crack line but every time I wear one of your belts my pants fall down. You may want to hire new designers who have a high-school education so that they are able to design a piece of clothing that will stay on until you want to take it off, instead of my clothes deciding for me that it's time to moon the world. Thank you for taking the time to hear me,
_Dan
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Dear Freshman who felt it necessary to not use the toilet in my bathroom,
You are an idiot who has cost me money now that the dorm is charging me for your mistake. I hope your mother is proud of you.
_Dan
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Dear Akon,
Who the hell are you and why are you coming to my school? Why do people feel necessary to obscure at least one of the chalk or white boards in my courses with messages about seeing you? Are you some sort of spiritual healer? Do you crack jokes that I would want to hear? Or are you some sort of inspirational speaker? I'm not paying $15 to find out what you do, especially since it will turn out to be rap.
_Dan
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- Posted Oct 1, 2009 4:43 pm PT
- Category: General
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18Sep 09
Dear man who called me twice on Monday,
I appreciate your dedication to you family. You calling your brother check up on him is very nice and I like the fact that you would take time out of your day to call him. Unlike you, I don't have a good relationship with my sister and we hardly speak. I don't really want to discuss the events leading up to that point where I decided it best to avoid contact with her but I want to clarify that it was my call. Anyways, I digress; back to your two calls.
I understand that you are an older gentleman and you probably don't get to hear from your brother often and that's great that you want to talk to him. The problem is, I have homework. And I'm not your brother, Ray. I assure you that the number that you called isn't, in fact, your brother's. I understand that your brother has had the same number for years but the number you called has been mine for the last 4 years. Yes, I said 4 years. I said it both times you asked. Both times you called.
Thank you for your cooperation and please do me a favor and check the phone number you've been calling for the last 4 years as there might be someone who's been being called Ray for the last 4 years and decided to roll with it.
Sincerely, Dan
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Dear my organic chemistry TA,
I think it's great that you came to the United States to get a better education. You seem to read and write in English pretty well and as a grad student, you must be doing well academically. The problem lies with the fact that you ignore me. When I have a question, you tend to go to the other 29 students before you come to me. And none of them had questions. Or said "My organic chemistry TA's name, I have a question. Can you help me, please?"
Thank you for doing a great job for the other 29 people in our lab.
Sincerely, Dan
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Dear FOX,
This letter is a little overdue. I think it's time that you and I arranged a heart to heart. You've had some interesting programming over the last few years. Your decision to cancel both Futurama and Firefly come as a bit of a surprise to me. We won't even go into Futurama as Firefly is all I need. Firefly is the number 1 selling television show OF ALL TIME. You cancelled what could have been, nay, was going to be, your most successful show EVER. You are incompetent in one fo the highest orders and since I am sending you this letter via Gamespot blogging, I cannot use the proper terminology without sufficient censoring so I will suffice to say that you need to make better decisions. House = good, American Idol = fail.
Sincerely, Dan
P.S. Your news sucks.
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Dear first year camp staff,
This is a wake-up call to you. This summer, I saved two cub scouts from dying a horrible and painful death in a drowning-related death. I dove into the water, fished them out, and checked to see if they were going to be ok. One of those I pulled aside during their week at camp and taught him to swim. My staff was the first to respond to the medical emergency almost a half a mile away. Yes, you were closer but you did nothing. A man could have died because of you. I need to remind you that the lifeguards were HALF A MILE AWAY and you were RIGHT NEXT DOOR. Your incompetence ASTOUNDS me.
Another incident I feel I need to bring up, first reminding you that I have saved 4 cub scouts from drowning related deaths in my life, is when you come to me in the dining hall.
"Dan, the toilet is flooding. I think a cub scout clogged it."
I pause, waiting for the punchline.
"And?"
"Can you do something about it?"
Enough said.
Sincerely, Dan
P.S. I'm not coming back to camp. Don't ask.
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- Posted Sep 18, 2009 4:46 pm PT
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11Sep 09
So today's my birthday. I'm 20. And I feel old.
I'm back at school and it's gotten a whole lot tougher. Fluid Mechanics and a chemical engineer's applied mathematics course are killing me. I placed really well in the Jazz band, though. I made third chair behind two seniors and I'm pretty pumped. That's pretty much it. Until next time.
- Posted Sep 11, 2009 7:19 am PT
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21Aug 09
I don't have a whole lot to say. About a week ago, I went to the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom up in Hampton, NH for quite possibly the best show I've ever been to in my life. It was a Mighty Mighty Bosstones concert. And it was awesome. I'll attach some pictures from my crappy phone camera.
Their opener was Catch-22, the band that three of the members left to form Streetlight Manifesto; which, as you know, is one of my favorite bands. This concert was so good that I actually danced the entire time. Granted, I was skanking and looked like an idiot with the 600 or so other concertgoers. They played every song I wanted them to, "The Impression That I Get", "Someday I Suppose", "He's Back", "So Sad To Say", etc. It was awesome.
Camp ended finally. Yeah. Thank God. I don't even want to talk about it.
Last night I played Mass Effect until 2.30 AM. I love that game. It's one of the most solid third-person shooters I've played in a very long time and the story is fantastic. I'm closing in on the end of the game and I'll probably review it pretty soon after finishing it.
Today I purchased 2 Bosstones albums, "Devil's Night Out" and "More Noise And Other Disturbances". Great band, great albums.
School starts soon. I move back in on the 29th or so and my courses start on the 31st. Gonna be a tough semester with all the Chemical Engineering courses I'm supposed to take.
Now you're mostly caught up on my life so far. A few things are still being processed and examined and such. Hope you all had a good summer; good luck in the next school year (or 9 months if you're out).
- Posted Aug 21, 2009 1:33 pm PT
- Category: General
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17Aug 09
District 9 = WIN
Thank you, that is all.
- Posted Aug 17, 2009 4:42 pm PT
- Category: Movies
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18Jul 09
Hey all! My summer's going great with the exception of the surprise 6-day work week at camp. They told me after I started working that I'd be getting the same pay but more hours. Whatever. I wouldn't be working at a summer camp if I wanted money. I also found out that my cabin has wireless internet. There's no room to game but there's enough time to surf at night and peruse the web for a few.
Camp's pretty grueling schedule-wise. I work from 7am (I'm usually about 15 minutes late
) until about 9pm Sunday through Friday. Yeah. This year we've added three new camping programs in addition to the standard Cub Scout Resident (that's sleep-over) camp: Akeala (some Jungle Book name) camp is a 2 day camp, Day Camp (for the Cub Scouts who are afraid of the dark), and the Salvation Army brings in kids on Fridays. They're funny.Two weeks ago (on the 8th) I went to a concert and participated in my first mosh pit. It was some mediocre opener band that I couldn't really tell what they were doing but their drummer was both their front man and lead singer and they covered the "You Oughta Know By Now" (or something) song by Billy Joel and it was really good; The English Beat, a really famous ska band from England in the 70's and 80's (ska was called Two-Tone or 2-Tone back then) and their front man was a lefty mandolin player. A LEFTY MANDOLIN PLAYER. THAT'S AWESOME. Finally, the main performer was Reel Big Fish. And as usual, they were fantastic. No real explanation needed, there were shenanigans and antics and witty banter. If you want more on my opinion of RBF, read the previous blog.
I saved two drowning kids last week. Yeah. That makes 4 total.
Finally, today I picked up Mass Effect from GameStop. It was 15 bucks and I haven't had a chance to play it yet but "Batman Girl" (if you will
) highly recommended it as did many of my friends.Hey, this in number 100. Cool. Have a great summer everyone, more from me later. dubel_07 out.
- Posted Jul 18, 2009 5:37 pm PT
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19Jun 09
I'm working at a summer camp again this summer as a lifeguard. There are no internets where I'm going. As you might imagine, the lack of the internet will make it difficult to access GameSpot. Therefore, I'm giving you notice in advanced that I'm not gonna be around. Please don't kick me for inactivity if you don't have to. I guess I could always just re-join them but the ones I'm in now are the ones that are important to me. Been a crappy week and hopefully it'll get better soon.
Also, the next blog is number (official) 100. Fancy. Have a good summer everyone, message me, track me, whatever.
- Posted Jun 19, 2009 7:42 pm PT
- Category: General
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18Jun 09
As many of you have found out, our friend CombatSoldier was banned from GameSpot. All week, bad crap has been happening to me; I got crappy news every day of the week so far. Combat was a true friend, well, as true a friend as someone could have without actually meeting them. He was the kind of guy who'd put in time to thank each and every person who commented on his blog, post, comment, etc. and would usually do it personally. He'd never have anything bad to say about anyone (who didn't really deserve it) and he brought all those people who left GS when Jeff left back with the two most popular (I didn't actually check this fact) unions on GS and connected GS to console gaming with gaming nights.
In short and to the point: I will miss CombatSoldier. He was a truely cool dude. GS made a huge error and in a slightly humorous way he got back at them by spamming GS staff and GS users he didn't particularly like. Combat, if you get to read this, you will never be forgotten and I will continue to stay as active as I can manage. I salute what you did for GS and for me. Thanks, brother.
- Posted Jun 18, 2009 6:14 pm PT
- Category: General
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16Jun 09
^ I can't really talk about it just yet but I'm having some trouble around here. Nothing that won't be forgotten in ten years and nothing illegal. More later.
- Posted Jun 16, 2009 6:48 pm PT
- Category: N/A
- 12 Comments
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5Jun 09
I made a frag video for practice editing and some other reasons that have nothing to do with making frag videos. I've fallen in love with frag videos and wanted to make one of my own. It's not to incredible but I hope you like it. The website is reputable and I'll put it on GS a little later. The site is WeGame and they developed a free and (I think) better alternative to Fraps and other recording software. Check it out if you do a lot of PC gaming and like to record videos.
http://www.wegame.com/watch/dubel_07s_First_Frag_Video/
- Posted Jun 5, 2009 6:03 pm PT
- Category: Games
- 9 Comments
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4Jun 09
First episode was AWESOME. If you haven't seen it, do it. You won't be dissappointed. Especially since Bruce Campbell is the co-star.
- Posted Jun 4, 2009 7:04 pm PT
- Category: General
- 12 Comments
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1Jun 09
Waaay back is 2004, when I joined, I made 6 blog posts but didn't actually understand the concept of them so I deleted them. Technically this is my 100th blog post. Well, I've got nothing to say. So I guess now would be a cool time for you to ask me any questions you want answered on the 100th blog post; something burning you up inside not knowing about me. Or just something you want me to say. This makes me feel so old
Have fun at E3 (through the internet).- Posted Jun 1, 2009 9:58 am PT
- Category: General
- 6 Comments
