Back...with a vengeance!

Hello nonexistant blog reader of mine. It's been some time! Update on my life:

1. I moved back to Whitehall in August 

2. I met a girl, and have been dating her since September 

3. I've been on and off routes, but still work for 7-up. That makes three years and three months! 

4. I was promoted to squad leader of my squad in TW. (I know...dork...)

My dad has gone through a relapse, that was pretty tough. Through all his issues, my dad should have died probably a dozen times now. It is a testiment to his freakish strength that he keeps cheating death. If he doesn't keep it together, his luck might run out on him, so i'm pulling for him! 

Well that's enough catching up, I'll try to post here more often! 

P.S. If you haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire, it's worth a watch.

Going Down in History

As you may have heard, Barack has all but sown up the Democratic Party Nomination with Tuesday's primaries.
There are questions as to whether Hillary will become the vp, and I don't know how I feel about this.

Truth: Hillary carried states that would be integral to the general election.

Question: Would democrats in those states simply not vote for Barack?

I say emphatically no, but that's just my opinion. Maybe I shouldn't put it past the general populace to not vote for someone simply based on losing a battle.

The important thing to remember is that the party is in a huge upswing. Voter registration is hitting record numbers, according to the Washington Post. This comes as the Republican Party is trying hard to already sweep the last eight years with Bush under the rug. I just don't see that Party posing any threat in the general election. I've been wrong before, (I did NOT see W getting four more years) but hopefully I'm not.
Embrace the change.

Diseases from monkies

So I joined a clan.
twhq.org.
It offers a structure that I don't get with casual game. Minus a little drama, I'm looking forward to playing games that take a decidedly more professional approach.

That said; I'm gonna be taking the the 15th through the 21st of June off. Aside from doing some b-day stuff, I'll be looking to hang with all you jive turkeys. If you want go to Mt. Pleasant to the casino that Friday, get back to me. It'll be a great time!

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Now playing: Flight Of The Conchords - Hiphopopotamus Vs. Rhymenocerous (Featuring Rhymenocerous And The Hiphopapoatumus)
via FoxyTunes

We have a choice.

We have...a choice...

I stood outside with my dad, from 3:30 to 4:30, in front of the Van Andel arena.
It was not so much dark, but the clouds were definitely rain-filled.
My sister and her "friend" showed up, nothing new there, just more craziness.

Around 6:30, Obama took the stage. I won't go into the speeches, but I will say they were fantastic. John Edwards was there; fantastically suprising. He had remained uncommitted to the remaining candidates until this point.

The pic is a little blurry because my camera doesn't have great zooming.
So I guess Hillary is gonna drop out now, right?
WRONG
Check this brain freeze inducing quote:

"You don't walk off the court before the buzzer sounds," she said, using a basketball metaphor in a televised interview with CNN. "You never know, you might get a three-point shot at the end."

Yes, Hillary, but you'd have to be down by ONLY three points...
Insurmountable is INFUCKINGSURMOUNTABLE. F! Stop spending your loans, get the fuck out, let the party unify, and be on your merry shitty way!



...IT'S OVER.

He Follows Her

Okay, consider Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

I'm watching it again for something like the tenth time. Love it. I could go into how much of a bad person you are if you haven't seen it, or how if you read this you might encounter spoilers that make you NOT want to see it, but those are your problems!
This thing is so well put together. Do we give up our tragedies if they are too painful to live? If that was an option, could you give up experiences in an attempt to be happy? I just love that this movie attempts to quantify imagination, selective memory, and how remember these things.
I guess what this movie has to say is far more than I could put into words on this page. I just sincerely hope it has a profound effect on you like it did on me.

Give me a TITLE

Get Smart was a fun show, I just can't watch it anymore.

I've been addicted to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy for a good month now. Eff the movie, if you haven't read the books, you might want to do so at some point. Also, listen to some of his stuff about atheism, as long as you don't think it'll shatter your beliefs...
Seinfeld was an AMAZING show, but it just seems outdated...
Movies that have been made during my lifetime are starting to be REMADE! That's weird to me. I never saw the original Sweeney Todd, but the sequel with Johnny Depp is a good time. It's an amazing bloody musical!
Nobody needs to remake that one...
Going off to Muskegon on Wednesday for Eric Kring's going away party. He's moving to Maryland. I guess that brings up my plans. I.e. my lack of plans. I'm still not sure what happens when my lease for the apartment is up in August. I wish I had any plan, I wish I could meet a good girl, I wish things didn't seem so complicated, bleh...
Hope the future looks a little brighter for you.

First Impression: Battlefield: Bad Company

Yeah, I signed up for the beta...does that make me a tool?

A little back story about Battlefield games and me - The extent I love the Battlefield games cannot be described in what I would only want to be a quick-reading entry. I played the crap out of Battlefield 2: Modern Warfare for the PC back when the White Lake Gaming Center still existed.
I was upset and disappointed by the 360 version of Modern Warfare, which was a more cartoony and harder to play.
So boom, I signed up for the Battlefield: Bad Company exclusive beta. Boom, of course it is...
Blow up everything! This game is so effing frantic. I run out of my spawn, look around at a beautiful desert environment (remind myself this is a beta), and note the light array of vehicles and gun-emplacements around. I already know the controls; I always know the controls. I'll write a back story on why that is at some point... So I'm running in this fully destructible area, and the game starts. Long story short, it's hard to shoot someone, unreasonably hard. I put a few rounds into anybody random, they don't go down. I put a grenade from a grenade launcher into a guy, he doesn't go down. Hell, I can take down parts of buildings with it, but not a person? I guess this draws out the game a bit, people are less easy to destroy than concrete walls, who knew?

I get the hang of the game after a few sessions. I find that when I blow up anything, people directly in the zone of destruction often die, good touch! Now just fix those bullets. I unlock some guns, laser designators, and particularly useful anti-tank mines. I get frustrated with this game pretty easily, which probably means it has balance issues that need to be worked out. Hell, it's a beta, so I keep cutting it slack.
This game plays and looks like a combination between the PC and 360 versions of Modern Warfare, taking elements from both and adding them to the DICE engine (which is the destructible environment engine). The game comes out in June, I'll have more impressions at that point.