First I'd like to welcome you to OG N3rD , to which I am sure it is the #999999999999th blog about . . video games , toys, video games, music, video games, Magic the Gathering , video games , cars ,World of Warcraft. . and anything that is N3rDy . . (see what I did there)
So where do we start ? Well as always , what I am listening to , watching, playing with, gaming, breaking, and critisising for no damn reason . . gig-a-dee
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Gaming I will be doing of course my own reviews on games, to add to the billion other reviews on games that everyone else has already reviewed, because . . you need yet another opionon on sh!t right? Right.
On a daily basis I take out my frustration in my own daily life on 12 - 25 years olds on XBOX LIVE via Call of Duty MW2. The game def had a rocky start, lots of issues with people cheating and finding ways to cheat , (and rumours of people still being able to cheat) as well as internal issues at the company itself almost made me want to switch to Battlefield Bad Company 2. While Battlefield is fun, I believe a differnet type of game, and not as defined or fast paced as I am not accostomed to. New maps to be releases soo (see http://www.mapathy.com/) and costing about $15 in M$ points, we get 5 new maps. Well 3 new maps and 2 carryover maps from MW1. Which is nice , but if you are are going to do something I believe it should be done all the way.
Why not all the maps from MW1 , thats right, all of them, ecspecially the ones I technically already payed for. What could have made the kiddies, fans, fan boys and critics really shut up would have been to give us ALL the maps fromt he previous entry. Now it seems we have to pay for some , and not getting all. Which is sad because some of those maps were lots of fun.
MW2 is a great game for sure, but not much in the way of direct developer support to its community, they have really one employee that conects with the millions of players, via his blog here: http://fourzerotwo.com/
He responds to some people not all, and even on the official message boards its random peoples throwing about various threads about how the game sucks, or how things need changed. I think there are few developers really involved with actually communicating with their fans, as I am sure they are busy or just don't care, and hard to tell if either is really happening, but brass tax is, its a fun arcade FPS and I am going to keep playing it because it's more fun that GEARS of WAR 2 . . lots on that master piece later . .
What I am listening to to today ?
Well I guess everydayI will give you goodies, but first I will say I love all kinds of music , from Hip-Hop to Dark Industrial Dutch Hardcore and everything else in between , good music is good music regardless, however my main love, is anything electronic dance, lately I have placed my focus in Break Beats, electro and hard Break Beats. i'd love to bore with the many years of trolling the rave scene, DJing it and the people I have met , but you just wana listen to what I am listening to, and thats fine by me . .
On the menu today i have for you: Colombo - Inzekt (Kulture remix)
Very yummy electro-tech Breaks, very atmospheric, very acid vibe to it, I can def see this in a set with some other simple breaks with random computer sounds, well produced, very well placed breaks and builds. Go find this one, Beatport.com or itunes i am sure can help you with this one.
Curtis B - Trash it feat. Liz Melody (original mix)
Very nice elctro glitch breaks, solid builds and break downs in this one, the vocals couldn't be finer, I can def see the B-boys swinging to this one. Lots of synths and groovy bass lines make this a must, very mixable very nice.
Toys : ahhh yes gadgets gizmos, things that make cool noises but don't really have a use:
my newest peek see is in the word of video cards, as I have a super old computer, parts are hard to come by these days as to a proper upgrade, ecspecially in video cards, however there is a solution for us AGP guys , for now at least , to keep up with some games:
XFX HD-465X-ZPF2 Radeon HD 4650 1GB 128-bit DDR2 AGP 8X HDCP Ready Video Card
Here are some specs on this $74.99 wonder Radeon HD 4650
Core Clock 600MHz
Stream Processors:
320 Stream Processing Units
Memory
Effective Memory Clock
800MHz
Memory Size
1GB
Memory Interface
128-bit
Memory Type
DDR2
3D API
DirectX 10.1
OpenGL 2.0
So basically if you have an old AGP setup, get this, the only issues I have read about here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150433 , are that drivers can be sometimes diffucult to install, but overall can be done
lots of bang for buck , ecspecially since they have this monster floating around :
now why anyone needs 4gigs of graphics card is beyond me, 3 screen hook up and all kinds of things onboard that make it faster than God can think , to which I am sure makes your 22 inch screen hurt. spec can be view @ Saphires website: http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?psn=000101&pid=295
I can only hope that one day I have a gamming rig nice enough to actually use this thing, so for now I will imagine just how nice thise would look if I had Star Craft 2 Beta playing on it.
well thats enough for now l8tR!
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