I will warn you now, this blog contains sappy and heart wrenching content! You've been warned!
PAX is one of those things that can't be explained or described...you just have to experience it for yourself. I'm not exaggerating when I say that this was the best time I have ever had in my life! Let's see...gaming, sexy ladies, drinking, ass grabbing, concerts, more drinking, tonnes of sex?! Ya...best time evar! Honestly, next year I could just forgo buying a PAX ticket and just drink with you guys all weekend, because that's pretty much all we did!
Meeting all of you for the first time was amazing. It was like seeing an old friend that you hadn't seen in like 15 years; everything was very familiar but at the same time was so new. After the first day of meeting like 40 of you my head was spinning! It was just so much to take in. Honestly I was super nervous to meet people at first. but that all went away....oh, and the drinking helped that too.
Our home base was the Red Lion, we pretty much lived in that bar. All of you beautiful people just took the place over day and night! We would stay up till 3, 4, 5am just drinking, talking, lighting each other on fire...you know ;)
Oh yea...this was a special moment! Necros, you were crazy! This is my favourite picture ever!! I loved how the makeup was hurting you all day after we took it off...your poor nose!
CBM guys and gals...I <3 you all! Not surprisingly, you are all just as cool in person as you are online (and cute)! E-mailers may come and go, but you will always have my heart (I know...really sappy, yea yea!)
Neiro, thank gawd you made this amazing place called Dtoid a reality. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have met you and all of these fabulous people. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving us the time of our lives.
All the Dtoiders PAX: You freakin complete me!! And Liz says hi...she erm..completes me too ;) read more
Yes, you heard correctly. Some game studio called "IG Fun" has started development on this title. The video above isn't footage of the Bioshock game, but this other game they are working on called Re-Volt. I'm sure it will be a similar engine to the one used for the game, since the iPhone probably can't handle anything close to the complexity of the real Bioshock engine.
You can get the whole story here and here's a quick taste:
The real questions are over controls (will the game be intuitive to play on a mobile keypad?) and on whether IG Fun can successfully translate the original's atmosphere to the small screen.
It's way too early to tell that from this demo. But from what I could see, IG Fun is certainly pulling out all the stops. And the iPhone version could be even better.
What do you guys think? Will they totally ruin the Bioshock franchise with this game, or has the sequel already done enough?
As most of you have heard in Hoygeit's post here, there is this really cool new program for your DS with Photoshop-like functionality!
Here's a link to the program it's called "Colors". You need a modded out DS, so a SuperCard DS or something similar should do the trick.
Anyway, here's what I did for my first drawing...Hoygeit said I should do Poison so I did.
I think it turned out ok...the resolution is hard to deal with sometimes, so you can only zoom in to 4X, so it turned out scratchier than I wanted it to be.
Hoygeit says he will be painting something similar too...so look for that!! read more
Remember me? Probably not, since it's been a million years since I posted anything. Well it's been since the creation of Long-Bot. Anyway, I'm really here to talk about gaming ruts. I just emerged from a very very long gaming rut of not playing anything much, and it feels amazing. I know we all get into these sometimes and for different reasons, so I'm going to break it down into factors to why this can happen.
1. Employment
I just recently started working again as of April 14th and had been unemployed for the last 5 months. Being unemployed for that long can really start to get to you. You can become depressed, a total recluse and your self esteem quickly can go down the toilet. Even though I had all the time in the world, I didn't seem to want to spend a lot of it playing my games. I have plenty of games I need to finished still, but the motivation just wasn't there. I really feel like being employed again has helped to bring my spirits up and get me gaming again.
2. Money
Obviously this goes along with being employed, since you usually make your money working (I hope!) Having no funds for buying new games can really limit your games library. Gaming is a very expensive interest to take on, and even if you are making some money, it might not be enough to feed the massive expenses for that new song pack for Rock Band.
3. Friends
Whether you are playing locally at your home or online with friends, it's always nice to have a few buddies to play with. I noticed especially with being unemployed that most of my friends would be busy when I wanted to play with them, because guess what?? They had jobs! With Xbox Live it is important to have an active list of friends that can play often. Sometimes I clear out my list a bit and sift out some of the more inactive people to make room for the hardcore players out there.
4. Games
Again, games or often tied to money. If you have the money, you have your games. Being unemployed really sucked because I couldn't buy anything for myself except the food on my plate. I just bought COD4 last night and it's totally recharged my love for gaming. Before that, I hadn't bought a game since January and that was Rock Band. Rock Band was especially heart breaking because all my friends would download the newest song pack and I'd be left in the dust playing my old songs again and again. At least I had something to perfect!
5. Time
Unemployment gives you plenty of time, but not plenty of any of the other things on this list, so it kind of doesn't matter so much. In the opposite situation, sometimes you can just be way too busy for games because, let's face it: you have a real life too, oh noeees!! Things get even more time consuming if you start a family, have children, etc. Basically the older you get, the less time you have for gaming.
So there you have it. My reasons for why I think people can have a hard time getting back into gaming. I love games so much, it was weird to part from them for that long. I'm just happy to be back. Expect to see me playing a crap load of COD4 this week =) read more
They say a picture can speak a thousand words. This picture is pretty huge, so hopefully it speaks a few more than that about why I should be going to Cancun with you guys and gals! I spent a long time putting this together and even did some research with the community to find the best Dtoid memes out there, so I hope you like it:
I need a comprehensive list of ALL the Destructoid memes you can think of! All of the major ones and anything minor too....I just don't want to forget any of them.
It's for a secret project that I will reveal at a later date. The more you can help...the more epic this project will be. Please help me you guys and gals, thanks! read more
So this is my gaming rig. It's about 4 years old now and I wish it was fast enough to play newer games, but it really isn't. I mostly just use it for work, internet or media center stuff mostly.
Here's the tower "of power" herself....she's pumping out an awesome 2 Gigahutz of power on a Pentium 4 chip, 1 gig of ram, rocking a GeForce4 Ti 4200 with a whopping 128mb of video ram...oh snap!! It aslo has a ATI PVR card to capture television through media center, which I then wirelessly stream to my 360 in the living room =) It's my favourite part!
This is my favourite part...my beloved 19" Viewsonic. You can see all the other crap on my desk, binary clock, external HD, DVD's, Dtoid drawings, etc..etc..
As you can see, my PC is in bad need of an update. I do a lot of 3D work with Maya so it would not only be awesome for gaming, my work could use the extra power as well. read more
Hamza, you've inspired me to post again, and as promised, here is my gaming rig.....
Ok so this photo was taken like about 3 years ago and it's a pretty terrible picture I might add. I had just bought my Toshiba 34" HDTV there and this was my old basement suite sooo a lil messy =P
This is the rig's new home in our current place, you can see I've since added a Wii to the collection and a few other things.
Now this shows off the whole room, don't mind the clothes hanging to dry...over in the corner you can see "Palmala", our palm tree...isn't she a cutie?
Our prized collection of movies, tv shows and video games...hey DVD, can you spot the Famicom games you bought me? (Right under the DS). Also Our guitar collection...that Fender Telecaster Thinline is my baby =) read more
I have been woken from my Clog-slumber to post my rebuttal on DVD’s post, Good Idea Bad Idea: Women.
Let’s see….good things about men….hmmm
beards
Beards are something men excel at. You know, those guys in the “Just for Men” adds that look all scruffy and hardcore. Chuck Norris would be proud. I swear, beard envy is a real thing sometimes…how much fun would it be to have a soul patch or a goatee?
purse holding
As a few guys have pointed out in DVD’s post, guys are excellent at holding our purses for us, while we use our hands to shop for more purses…mwhahaa, the cycle continues!! Guys should really just carry their own purses, and I think it would just look fab.
money
You think we are with you for your looks? Come on, we want your dolla billz. Not all guys are sugar daddies, and you don’t have to be to make a girl happy, but it certainly doesn’t hurt, either.
not wordy
Guys are good listeners…not because they actually are, but mainly because they keep their talking to a minimum and only say what is absolutely necessary. This way, they can spend their time listing to us and what we have to say, which is always more important anyway, right?
look good in a tool belt
Just look at that tool belt! It just sits perfectly on his hips. Men should always wear tool belts. It makes them extremely handy, while at the same time, makes them feel like super heroes.
Bad
sluts
Guys are sluts…come on, it’s true, admit it. They need all the action they can muster to fulfill their most primitive desires. This goes along with just being horny beasts in general. A man can rarely control his natural ability to make hast and slut his way to the top.
ugly
Need I say more?
hairy
I suppose this goes along with being ugly. Beards are different…I will allow it, but hair anywhere besides the head, too much!! If I wanted to date a woolly mammoth, Chewbacca would be my kinda guy. Do me a favour and get it waxed, or lasered or electrolysis or something!!
Now, see? I was pretty nice…I even had more good than bad things to say, as condescending as they might have been. *high five* Don’t leave me hanging….who’s with me??
DJ Duffy is a self proclaimed lesbian and therefore the view expressed above may just very well be a crock of shit and completely untrue and may be slightly biased because of her orientation read more
Who is this DJ? I'm not really a DJ at all actually. If you really want to know just ask me...its a long story. I'm a Canadian gamer who reads and writes about video games just as much as I play them. I am just as hyped on the industry as I am on playing the games.
What games do I like? Yea, I play pretty much everything and anything.
Music is another awesome thing in my life, I've been a part of a lot of cool projects. Right now I'm just playing guitar casually on my own time, but maybe one day I'll be a huge rock star, who knows! (yea right) I've been taking lessons on guitar for about half a year, but I'm pretty pro on the drums...played for about 8 years.
Also I work as an animator in the animation industry, which is another kick-ass thing I'm passionate about.
This really nice trading card that The Ghost made for me:
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