gears of war 2 weekend

not only is it free xbox live weekend for gears of war 2, its also double exp this weekend! have fun!

Youtube

it now OFFICIALLY SUCKS.

forced advertisements in front of videos? come on. the pop up during the video shit was annoying enough. i can understand this with hulu as they use actual copyritten shows but youtube? they don't allow that. that stopped around the time google bought it and they started blowing.

plus it seems that most videos MUST be watched in widescreen HD. which makes loading times stupid long.

so with this last update, youtube blows chunks. i've only been using it to watch machinima lately (due to machinima.com never seeming to completely load a video recently. and by "not completely load" i mean "the first three second sof the film only") however with crappier and crappier machinima coming out lately (maSHITima. term i made. you heard it hear first people.) i'm not even sure if its worth continuing watching.

also shot out to Josh. visit his new blog here!

edit: to all those who will be smartasses and say "well there is a way to shot ads off on youtube. simply opt out." i say falsities! i even installed the optout cookie and you know what? it doesn't stop them.

the only thing i found that works is setting your adobe flash settings for allowing no installation, and even then you will see the adobe flash program asking if you want to let youtube show you something at least twice a video.

does radical entertainment think they're funny?

Prototype offers the following achievement:
Trail of Corpses (30G): Kill 53,596 infected.

that number may look familiar to those who have played Left 4 Dead.
Zombie Genecidist (30G): Kill 53,595 infected.

what is this, a "my achievement is bigger then yours" contest. its hard enough in left 4 dead to get that many kills, let alone in prototype there aren't as many zombies at one time.

same goes with the original Gears of War
Gears: 10,000 ranked
the Club: 10,001 ranked
BF: Bad Company: 10,002 ranked

come on people... this isn't a contest, and if it was Gears 2 wins with 100,000 kills.

stop making achievements thinking people will only play your game.

unless your halo.

M 2010

some previews of the new core set have begun to leak out. (http://mtgsalvation.com/magic-2010-m10-core-set-spoiler.html) Remember my guess on the 8 "survival" cards? (cards that have been in every core set since the first)
in case you don't, hear were my picks.

current 16:
Air Elemental
Samite Healer
Grizzly Bears
Goblin King
Nightmare
Scathe Zombies
Drudge Skeletons
Bog Wraith
Giant Growth
Fear
Giant Spider
Howling Mine
Orchish Artillary
Regeneration
Rod of Ruin
Wrath of God

My guess on the 8:
Air Elemental
Wrath of God
Giant Growth
Nightmare
Goblin King
Giant Spider
Orchish Artillary
Rod of Ruin

Actual 8 announced so far:
Drudge Skeletons {X}
Nightmare {V}
Air Elemental {V}
Giant Growth {V}
Bog Wraith {X}
Giant Spider {V}
Howling Mine{X}
Rod of Ruin {V}

so yeah. i fail. however 5/8 isn't all bad.
and now both red and white have lost thier chance for coreset survivor.

so in magic 2011 they are only going to be four of the core set survivor.

My guess on the final four:
Air Elemental (all the way!)
Giant Growth
Drudge Skeletons
Howling Mine

interesting new cards include:




Ant Queen {3GG}
Creature - Insect {R}
{1G}: Put a 1/1 green Insect creature token onto the battlefield.
#166/249
5/5



Vampire Nocturnus {1BBB}
Creature - Vampire {M}
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
As long as the top card of your library is black, Vampire Nocturnus and other Vampire creatures you control get +2/+1 and have flying.
3/3

Notable Old Cards:
Duress (might be reprinted, still unconformed)
White Knight (I was Right)

As For Booster Art Cards
Red-Enrage
Blue-?
White-?
Green-?
Black-?
Box-?

update:6/9/09

several new rules changes:
The phrase "plays a spell" is now "casts a spell"
The phrase "into play" is now "onto the battlefield"
The phrase "removed form the game" is now "Exiled"
Manaburn has been eliminated (mana pools still empty when appropriate, you just don't take damage)

i will be updating this page instead of posting others

update

sorry i haven't posted in forever.
i just dont have enough followers or people reading this to post frequently...
thing i learned over the past month:

alara reborn kicks ass. definately the best set of the block. they even reprinted meddling mage!

the meta game has changed greatly in the past two weeks from blightning, faeries, and dark bant; to zoo, red deck wins, and tokens.

i got in the top 60 in regionals with my bant deck. good for a casual budget deck that had no hope in taking gold.

sanity grinding+ (twincast x 2) = :'(

divine deck is unusally slow.

in demonic deck (i modded mine slightly, this actually happened in a game) one of the best plays is a turn 1 Duress, a Turn 2 Demonic Tutor for Promise of Power, a turn 3 Overeager Apperentice, followed by a turn 4 Double Dark Ritual, a Promise of Power entwined (putting a 9/9 token in play) drawing another Dark Ritual letting me play a Daggerclaw Imp with 2 Unholy Strengths attached to it.

Meddling Mage hates super secret tech.

I got Major grade 3 in halo

and thats it for now.

Alara Reborn

Definately an epic set. (prerelease was today)

i should have the top 10's up this week.

and again sorry for the lack of posts.

I knew him, Horatio

ironically, the 3 achievements i earned this weekend all have something to do with skulls.

Have fun respawning! (halo3) [get a mythic extermination; skull in art]

Alas, Poor Yorrick (halo 3) [get three oddball kills on a legendary or mythic map; skull in art, oddball is a skull]

Alas, Poor Adrew Thomas (halo wars) [collected your first skull; do i really need to explain what this has to do with skulls?, btw it was the sickness skull]

till next time, may all your wins be epic.