The Cat’s All Right

After a 10 day wait, we revisited the vet with Zero in tow. His mouth seems to be healing up okay, so it looks like even though we had to give up with the antibiotics due to his amazing resistance, the first few days under the influence were enough for his feline healing factor to do the rest.

Also I finally got around to creating a new Rock Band character and am laboriously playing my way through the setlist. I dunno if I’ve got it in me to actually try to do the Endless Setlist again, though.

Oh well, at least there’s a Boston “6 pack” with More Than A Feeling this week…

New Guilty Pleasure

Man do I ever feel bad about this.  But I can’t help it.  I don’t know what it is, but every time I play Livin’ On A Prayer by Bon Jovi and the crowd kicks in and starts singing along… I get chills down my spine and feel like a light from the Heavens O’ Rock is shining down on me, while I am tempted to acutally use the phrase “Yeah.  This is Awesome

Every.  Single.  Time.  I didn’t get this shiver of cool from Dead or Alive but for some reason this song keeps getting to me.

All This Progress… Lost… Like Tears… In Rain…

It took a while but today I finally got around to firing up Rock Band on the PS3 only to encounter a moment of near total horror. I checked with the Harmonix technical support forums and it would seem there is no current way to circumvent this.

All our Rock Band progress is gone. It would seem that the game save files for Rock Band are also tied into the songs that you can purchase and download. As a result of some fairly extreme and digital rights management protocol to prevent people from sharing DLC songs, the game data is directly tied into the unique ID of every console. So once we got the new PS3 as a replacement, we could no longer access our characters, bands and platinum status for finishing the Endless Setlist are gone. We still have the data, we just can’t use it unless we miraculously found our old console and stuck the hard drive in that.

What an utterly demoralizing discovery to make on Easter…

It’s Coming

I’ve known that it’s been coming for quite some time, but now the clock is really starting to count down. Due April 28th, one of the most controversial games in the history of the medium is going to get its newest sequel, and boy oh boy am I anticipating it. One of my all time favorite things about the Grand Theft Auto series is the insanely funny radio stations, in particular, the talk radio stations. GTA radio has frequently reduced me to tears of hysterical laughter and now, in some shameless marketing, they are releasing radio “widgets” that can be embedded. I gave this a listen, the Rockstar magic is still alive and well:

I’m sooooooo looking forward to this game on April 28th. My only regret is that that the Xbox 360 version is, in some ways, superior to the PS3 version. While it’s quite likely that the PS3 version may edge out the Xbox 360 version in terms of graphics, frame rates and all that other stuff, there is on vital component where the 360 wins; Downloadable content, or DLC. Microsoft paid Rockstar $50 million smackers to create two DLC “episodes” for GTAIV that–at least Microsoft is claiming–may approach Vice City and San Andreas in scope, and add many, many hours of additional game play. Of course, that $50 million bucks was also to ensure the Playstation 3 doesn’t get it. Sigh… Microsoft… you really know how to win the people over…

First Impressions Of Season 3

Good God…

Also, for some reason, episode 15, Dirty Hands was one of my favorites this season, which probably isn’t going to be a very popular choice…

Keep On Rockin' In The Free World

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So I finally picked this up today.  No prizes for guessing what I’ll be up to until my hand falls off.

Technical Problems

Yup, still ongoing…

Marathon Midpoint

So I just finished watching episode 12 of the third season of Battlestar Galactica.

Holy crap. I will never see a TV series this good again in my life time.

Curiosity Abounds

Got this in the mail from eBay.  This is just about the ONLY way that I would buy this game; used for less than $20.  Of course the name of the game isn’t “Fail” but Lair.  It was released last year on the PS3 and is now the record holder for worst game on the system compounded by an enormous amount of hype behind it as a killer app that would show off what the PS3 can do and be a “must have” title.  Ordinarily I would have ignored this game, but it go sooooo much bad press in the wake of all the positive hype that my curiosity has gotten the better of me.  That and they’ve patched what is the single biggest flaw that most critics were hitting on; the game initially could only be controlled via SixAxis motion detection.  In other words, you didn’t steer your dragon (you fly a dragon in this game) by simply moving a control stick up, down, left or right.  No, to make your dragon climb you had to tilt your entire controller up, or tilt down to dive, or bank your controller left or right to make turns in those directions.  If you think that sounds horribly inaccurate, it is.  But in the wake of all the complaints, Factor 5, the development company released a patch that added traditional controls.

I can see why.  I only messed with the opening level and tried to give it a shot using the SixAxis motion detection.  10 minutes later, I was sooooooooooo happy I could now go into options and reactivate the traditional controls, because it kind of feels like you’re trying to make a tug boat as responsive as a ninja, using the Force and Yoda only just taught you how to move things with your mind 10 minutes ago.  Frustrating?  You betcha’…

That Time Of The Year Again

< ![CDATA[It's our anniversary.  We did the loser-y thing, stayed in the neighborhood, had really good Nepalese food, bought stuff at the Evil Book Store and went back home to watch more Ghost Hunters