A couple of weeks ago I bought a PS3. After a week of experiencing its capabilities I was like "wow, this a pretty incredible system". I mostly bought it to play MGS4. I purchased the 80g model w/ MGS4 bundled. A pretty decent deal for $500.

Well all this awesomeness just went down the toilet when MGS4 froze during a cutscene and I had no choice put to reset it. When I did I found out that I corrupted the HDD. Then I had to rebuild the database. Over and over and over again, I "rebuilt" the database. All that it would do is restart. Finally it went to the XMB. Everything is fine, right? No. After attempting to play a game it froze then I had to go through the exact same BULLSHIT over and over and over again. When it went to the XMB again I decided to do a quick format. Took about 10 seconds. I thought all of my problems were solved except for the fact that I lost all of my saves and downloads.

So I went through and started downloading everything again. I had to install MGS4 again and MGO. That takes about 45 minutes total because of the excruciatingly slow download time of the update. Then about an hour later of playing MGS4 (this time I backed my saves up), it froze again when I paused. So guess what. Thats right. All of the same bullshit over again.

When I finally was able to get to the XMB again I did a full format. (this was last night). Took about 4 hours. Whatever. Seemed to have fixed everything.

Today I was playing MGO and I was disconnected or something. Then it froze while it was loading. There is NOTHING you can do but restart. My HDD is corrupted again, now I'm on another full format. About 3 hours left. What the hell do I keep doing wrong? I know I know, don't turn it off when the HDD light is blinking. But what are you supposed to do? These machines aren't going to fix themselves. Is it because of the latest update?

Does anybody else have this problem??!?! Heres a short video of it in action:



Any input would be great. Keep in mind that my system is well taken care of. Well ventilated in a modest room temperature. It fucks up because... well... because I'm using it to play video games. Is that so bad? If I have to send it in and Sony dicks with me I'll fucking flip out and head butt the sidewalk.

A lot of people disliked Rambo 4, or just don't like Rambo movies. The biggest complaint is that he doesn't talk. Well, I don't care what you say, the Rambo kicks ass. He doesn't have to talk. He just does his thing, survive against the odds, kill a shit load of people, be the hero of the day. He's a man of a few words and I believe thats brilliant.

Anyway, I made this music video. It was my first time editing video, plus adding music. I used Nero to make it and it was fairly easy. What wasn't was the song choices. I chose two classics. I tried my best to make them fit the moment. I may be redoing it sometime. If you have any ideas of what music or scenes, any advice, that would be awesome.

The video is super violent and gory. If you want to see what berserk looks like, watch this video.

Oh, and heres how its videogame related: Rambo features badasses, so do games. Theres your connection. (sigh) The quality is a bit gimped because of the video site that I used, but I'm also uploading it to others.

Please watch it and enjoy.


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Unless there is extra shit you can unlock for the stage creator, I find it extremely limited. There are probably less than 40 items you can use to build the stage. And its all very basic, too. Plus you can't use the wii pointer to grab and move stuff, which I thought would've been useful. You can't shrink or enlarge stuff. Plus only 4 backgrounds. I'm happy about the music selection, though.

It was nice of them to provide me with a piece of paper, but they could've have included a pencil to draw with. Its not like I'm going to draw a bunch of expanding dicks. They give me a clean slate and say "alright, heres a latter, some moving platforms, some spikes that only point up, a solid floor, floors you can jump and fall through, a tree and a stack of rocks. Don't put anything close together, and don't do anything creative. Thats our job." When I first heard of the stage creator my mind started going wild.

But, I may be wrong, because there is so much shit in that game you can unlock that there may be way more to it. I really hope so, anyway.

I wish map makers were more deep. Halo's isn't bad at all, but I wish I could alter the terrain. Farcry for the Xbox had my favorite map maker. You can start from scratch and rig shit, do almost anything you want. Make multiple islands, super tall mounts, death-pits, camps, stuff like that. Your imagination was allowed to go wild. Too bad I didn't have anybody to play with.

A more in-depth map maker would have made SSBB perfect. I'm not going to bitch about online play. I don't have the energy.

What do you guys think? Were you severely disappointed in the stage creator? Do you think I am stating a valid point or just nitpicking? They could've not even included the stage creator, then I would have pretty much nothing to bitch about.

Oh, here is my nitpick (coming from an MGS fan), they should have made Grey Fox a playable character instead of an assist trophy.

One of my best friends says that Smash Brothers is a button mashing fighter, does this mean he knows nothing about the game?

I mean, I don't even think SSBB is like your average fighter. The goal is different, there is no health meter, just a damage percentage. The goal is to knock the FUCK out of the other players from the stage.

Although he hasn't played SSBB yet, he's played other Smash Bros. I think he played against skilled opponents before sitting down for several days to find out how to really move and beat some ass.

I myself never owned a Smash Brothers game, I just played extensively against a friend that did own it and I got my ass handed to me every time. Button mashing didn't work.

After I purchased and played SSBB with a buddy from mid-afternoon till 7 in the AM, several days in a row, I finally found the true beauty of Smash Brothers. At first we mostly went through Co-op on the Emissary, which there is still shit I haven't completed, we both knew how to work together. Then we would fight each other, usually on the Final Destination stage, and he would beat my ass into the ground. Then I learned more play mechanics. I've become really good with Snake, Ike and Pit. He's become good with Snake, Marth and Samus. We would sometimes max the stock and just practice stuff on each other, then really fight.

Whenever its Snake vs Snake its like the fight of the universe (especially since we're huge MGS fans).

We both agree that our friend is a dumbass and are debating if we should put the beat-down to him in front of his family.

I'm not going to dance around it, SSBB is a great fucking game. I clocked 11 hours last night with a friend playing it. I ended up going to sleep at like 7am. We took some pretty dirty pictures. Most of them were hilarious. A little while ago I thought, "hey, Dtoiders are dirty fucks, I bet they would dig this shit". So I transfered the photos to an SD card, then I tried to access them on my PC, and to no surprise, Nintendo pulled a fast one on me, the pictures can't be recognized. What are they scared of? That I'm going to post pictures on the internet of Toad going down on Princess Zelda (Sheik)? (yes we took that one).

So unless you're on my friends list (you're not), you ain't seeing them. Bull-fucking-Richard-Simmons-shit! FUCK.

I also have a picture of Snake closely inspecting Sheik's ass.

God dammit.

UPDATE:

Covah, aka-- AWESOME, sent me a link for a program to transform these files into actual pictures. Covah, you pimp.



Go Toad you fucking pimp!





Snake! Snake!! SNAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!


whats he doing with that flower?

Lumberjacks save lives. Trees are everywhere. In our backyards, in our front yards, even in our forests. Trees like to fall down and cave in houses, killing entire families. If a tree had the chance, it would murder you and everyone you care about.

I used to say "I chop down trees because I DONT GIVE A FUCK!". Well, now whenever I chop down a tree or just burn it, I know I make a difference and possibly save a life or even a whole family.

When you hug a tree, just know, that tree isn't hugging you back. Its plotting revenge because your house is made out of its family.

So the next time you see a Lumberjack, say thanks. But don't look him directly in the eyes or he will jack you. After all, without lumberjacks we wouldn't have lumber. Without lumber we wouldn't have lincoln logs, houses, pencils, sticks for beating children and fire. Marshmallows would be completely useless. Ever eat a marshmallow just out of the bag? Me neither.

Carry that axe with you. You look that tree right square in the eyes, and you say take your best shot pal, I can take it.