Preparing for Modern Warfare II

On this Sunday afternoon I find myself contemplating going to Gamestop tomorrow night for the midnight release of Modern Warfare II. I’ve never even considered going to any midnight release of anything ever. But this is different.

For those of you who are hardcore fans of first person shooters you know that getting in, getting kills and ranking up is an obsession. I was an Elite in Rainbow Six Vegas 1, I was a Gold Cross Level 55 in COD4. And now after three months away from COD4, three long hard months with no kills, no red tiger M4, no helicopter looping, I’m starting to get the itch and I need to put the hurt on fools.

The tentative plan is to buy the game tomorrow night and then probably play till about 3am or 4am. Tuesday will be like a national holiday for me, it will be a day to reunite with some of my old clanmates that have been off XBL for a few months. In short, it’s time to get the band back together. On Monday I’ll make all of the preps for Tuesday. This includes finishing any lingering homework or reading, and then going to the supermarket and picking up the stereotypical gamer food (frozen pizza and mountain dew). I’ll also cook up a pot of arroz con pollo (Puerto Rican rice and chicken) so that I’ll have some quality real food to eat that I can just throw in the mircowave when needed. I may also bake some brownies to cover the desert needs. It’s a celebration bitches!

My tuesday will go as follows, I only have one class and I get home around 2:30, I’ll probably take an hour to knock out the homework and then from there I’ll probably link up with my partner in crime Liquidpimp and go to war. I’ll most likely put in an all nighter on Tuesday because I have Wednesday off. The funny thing is that for the weeks and months leading up to Modern Warfare 2 I really didn’t give a shit about the game and didn’t follow any of the news or updates. But now with a little more than 24 hours till the game’s release all I can think about is gettin in, gettin some fucking kills, and ranking up.

Guess who won his ESPN Fantasy Baseball League!! (again for the 5th time)

Me! That’s who. Or to put it more clearly, my FLB team which is called “me is teh worstest”. Yes, I kicked the shit out of all of my fantasy league opponents, and I also broke some records along the way. But that’s not the fun part. The fun part is the parting gift email i just sent to my fellow league members today! Read it and enjoy!

Dear league members, after a long hard fought season of FLB it has become obvious that nine of you in this league are not champions. But there was one team that was a shining light of elite performance and superlative greatness, and that team was “me is teh worstest”.

As a matter of fact “me is the worstest” is probably the greatest team any of you schmucks have ever seen. Frankly, most of you will never have a 92pt team in the last week of the season, but that is ok because I will allow you to live vicariously through my greatness.

But in all seriousness, I do want to give a few end of the year awards to my fellow league members. I want to recognize “Team Zox” for putting up a good fight and not being a quitter.

I want to recognize the “Detroit Bombers” for being the most pathetic FLB team of all time with a manager similar in acumen to that of Trigg Palin.

I want to recognize my good friend “Team Valadez” who battled the swine flu all season long but sadly he was not able to over come the affliction nor was he able to overcome the fact that he knows nothing about FLB, baseball, or even personal hygiene.

Last but not least i want to recognize America, because it is America that should be honored to have produced such a fine and upstanding citizen such as myself. But America, i pledge you this, if you ever let another republican come to power I shall renounce my citizenship and move to Europe. That is a promise.

In closing I just want to say that it has been an honor and a privilege for you people to be in a league with me. And to you quitters and losers i leave you with this; Next season don’t pollute ESPN FLB with your limited intellect and FLB abilities. You’re not worthy of having multiple teams. Learn how to win with one team, stop being sore losers, quitters, malcontents, disease carriers, and terrorist sympathizers. Next season, find something more productive to do with your time. Like reading a book, or volunteering in your community. Because clearly you’re just not very good at this FLB thing.

Sincerely, The greatest FLB manager of all time-
The Owner, Ceo, Manager, Player Coach of “me is the worstest”
The most honored and handsome
ROBBY WALES!!!!!!!!!!

Inglourious Basterds review

This film is simply not as good as Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill, but that doesn’t mean it’s a total piece of shit like Transformers 2 or GI Joe. Inglourious Basterds is most certainly a good movie, but it most definitely is not a great movie. So if you set your expectations as such then you won’t be disappointed with what you get. Now with that said, the movie has some really great moments. The fact that almost half of the movie is in either french or german (with subtitles) may alienate some, but i enjoyed it. The performance of Nazi Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) was outstanding throughout. There is also a great close quaters shoot out that definetely caught me by surprise, and the ending has a really interesting surprise twist. Like I said, it’s a good movie, not a great one. I enjoyed it, and you probably will too.

I give this movie and 8 out of 10.

The journey begins again

My summer break dragged on most boringly, but now that fall semester is only a week away it seems as if the spring semester ended only a few weeks ago. This fall is critically important to me, and if things go according to plan I should end up being very close to 2.50 by the end of semester. That may not seem like much, but for me it is a minor miracle seeing as how I started with a 2.11 gpa when I returned to school back in 08.

Why is 2.5 suddenly so important to me? Well it’s because I want to transfer, and I mean transfer for reals right out of this stupid fucking state of Florida. I’m strongly considering going home, back to NYC, and I intend on applying to City University of New York, oh and a few other colleges in the NY area along with one Atlanta college (GSU). But before that can happen I need to take care of business here. This fall and this spring are the table setters, so lets get on with it shall we.

OMFG Anderson Silva

This man is beyond us. He is Michael Jordan, he is Muhamad Ali, he is the superlative. He treated the former light heavy champion like a sparring partner, he treated the man who beat Rampage Jackson like he was just some mediocre first year kick boxing student. He is a monster. Skill, power, speed and the ability to put the fear of god into the hearts of champions. It was absolutely shocking what he did to Forrest Griffin. I actually feel bad for Forrest. There was a point in the fight right after the second knockdown where it was clear that Forrest was in the octagon against a man that he simply did not understand.

Gamefly customer service sucks.

I decided to write about my horrible experience with Gamefly so that you know you’re not the alone. For me the drama started back in June 09 when i tried to cancel my account. I had been a member of Gamefly for about seven months and was generally pleased. When i canceled I had planned on coming back two months later in August when Madden 2010 comes out. Ahhh, but not so fast my friend. Apparently Gamefly doesn’t like it when you try to leave. Ten days after i canceled my account i was very surprised to find Fight Night Round 4 in my mailbox. I then checked my credit card and found out that Gamefly had charged me even after I had canceled. And that’s when the real fun began.

I’ve never had to deal with Gamefly customer service before, and for the record there is no such thing as Gamefly customer service. There is no number to call, and there sure as hell is no one there to answer that call. All you get is an email address. So i emailed Gamefly. I calmly, and concisely explained their error to them and requested a refund. 48 hours later I received a response from Gamefly that absolutely baffled me. They completely ignored the fact that my account was previously canceled. I got a formatted response informing me that my account would be canceled immediately going forward no mention of the fact I had canceled my account weeks ago. This of course infuriated me because some stupid fucking dumb ass at Gamefly didn’t even bother to read my email or even acknowledge that they had made a mistake. I then sent three follow up emails demanding a refund of the charges and an apology. I then filed a complaint with the California Better Business Bureau. It was not until after i filed that complaint that Gamefly issued me a refund a week later. And even in the response to the complaint Gamefly continued to lie and state that I never canceled my account.

My warning to you when dealing with Gamefly is to realize that when you cancel your account, Gamefly may still charge your card and then give you the run around afterwards. My advice to you is to retaliate by filing a complaint with the California Better Business Bureau, contact your credit card company and demand a charge back and tell them that Gamefly has a history of ignoring peoples request to cancel their accounts, blog about it so that other people will know that Gamefly customer service absolutely sucks, twitter and facebook it as well, go on your xbox live friends list and let your friends know about how much Gamefly Customer service sucks, and last but not least go on popular video game forums like Neo Gaf and let the world know that Gamelfy customer service sucks.

Where the fuck is the spell checker in firefox 3.5

I’m a recent convert to Firefox, for years I’ve primarily used Safari as my main browser. But the new Firefox 3.5 has really won me over and now it’s my main browser and Safari has been relegated to the back up qb role.

Thus far everything has been great except for one thing, one small thing that is becoming a very big annoying thing, and it’s this- Where the fuck is the spell checker?! When I misspell a word, there is a read dotted line under it, I try to click on it and nothing happens. I downloaded the spell checker add on and still nothing happens.

Mozilla needs to fix this thing immediately and enable spellchecker from the edit bar at the top of the left side of the screen just like Safari. How the hell do you leave out spell checker?

Call of Duty 4 sucks

Since Modern Warfare 2 is coming out in a few months I’ve decided to go back and play cod4 to knock some of the rust off. After playing it over the last few weeks I’ve been reminded of how much I fucking hate cod 4. First and foremost, SPEED AND GRAPHICS DO NOT MAKE UP FOR A LACK OF PRECISION AND BALANCE. Call of Duty 4 has so many bugs and glitches it’s pathetic. So I’ve made a list. Infinity Ward, feel free to take notes

1- Absolutely terrible respawning. There is nothing worse than being killed right after you spawn, or being spawned right into trouble, or having bad guys spawn right behind you.

2- No penalty for team killing. This one is self explanatory, and a total game ruiner. It makes hardcore HQ almost unplayable. It should be 3 team kills and you’re gone. Or if your first kill after your last team kill is another team kill, then your gone, and you’re banned form hardcore for twenty minutes.

3-Magically curving bullets. You know, those magic bullets that curve all the way around a corner and follow you to your doom.

4-Walls made of paper. Bullet penetration is a nice feature, but it certainly is not perfected, or even done right.

5- Non-existent matchmaking.

6- Completely unbalanced maps. Bog is notorious for being extremely unbalanced.

7- Helicopter looping. This is a subject of much debate. I’ve looped many many times, I’ve had multiple helicopters in many games. But with that said, looping can get a little out of control. It probably should be eliminated.

8- Stupid players. Ok, I can’t blame this one on Infinity Ward, but the fact is they need to keep the low ranks with the low ranks. There is nothing worst than having some low rank moron on your team that single handedly causes you to lose.

The Most Serene Republic.