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Moved to BOMBTRUCK!

2007-07-05T19:20:00.000+02:00

My blog has moved to http://bombtruck.currant.se/

well, summin things up (as can be read in our disclaimer):

BombTruck is a blog owned and operated by a close-knit group of Swedish gamers. We formed BombTruck because we all had independent blogs (some of us still do) and came to the conclusion that we could just as well collect all our musings in one place.

BombTruck mainly concerns itself with all kinds of games, electronic or not, “videogame culture” and things like that. However, we like to sum up those categories into “AWESOME Rubbish”.

Dreamlards...lords

2007-06-28T01:24:00.000+02:00

So, I've had a lot done scince the last time I wrote anything of use for anybody. My final exam is over (with a 200k in debts, but a valuable paper (I hope) with a few notes about me being some kind of Bachelor in Arts, or Computer Science (that's not totally clear yet)). I've got my portfolio up n running too, and I had an interview at Avalanche, did their Game Design Test (finnished yesterday) and I've begun playing Dreamlords, or dreamlards -this was my previous (and very negative) attitude to the game before I ever played it, but that's all changed. I love the browser-part of managing my reign (upgrading, building, researching, etc), the RTS part is mainly boring sadly enough (but I have not yet tested the PvP mode or the Comergence mode). Better yet I'm kind of confused, like 50% of the time, even worse when I picked up CiV for the first time....but still...I don't mind that very much. A low tempo strategy mode (in a browser) and the cost of $9.99 makes up for that. And today I got my dirty paws on "Overlord" so I guess tomarrow will be all about that. In addition to these games I've got some other things to look forward to: like 5 movies. What a blockbuster summer this has become!

500 000 000 people, not one of them me!?

2007-05-19T14:28:00.000+02:00

Im so pissed off...I'm down with some kind of flue...the ONE thing I was looking forward to was the FA-final between Chelsea and Manchester.

16.00 hours. 500 000 000 viewers aroiund the globe.

Checking the tv-guide to see when and on what channel this magnificant game would begin I found myself pwnd.

Womens soccer?! From sweden. Prime time. Now WTF is wrong with society?!! 500 000 000 viewers, I really would like to know what stupid bastard came up with this glorius idea to send this piece of crap game instead of the game EVERYONE else in europe is going to see.

A new look and feel

2007-05-17T21:48:00.000+02:00

Nordic Game, what is there to tell? Well, first off it's a small Game Convension (approx. 900), not in style with E3 really with tons of monster consoles and games from a large veriety of companies. The general focus is put on a pretty large range of different speakers, from different nordic game producers (remedy, funcom, dice, massive), from foreign countries (Loco Rocos creator, some chick frpm singstar, NC Soft) and even people from the food industry (wtf, Scan!!), tackeling different topics. Well, enough about that. Some things were quite interesting, some things not. My focus shall not be on this. Well a little, but I'll discuss this part later. One fact that has become totally obvious is that PS3 has found its best use: a PowerPointPresentational tool. At least four persons used this hi-def PPP-tool only to present it in SD...cool? Nice they found a use for the machine at least. A really cool thing that caught my eye was the Phantom hardware, some obscure little devteam has created a Haptics engine for games called HaptiX. Without making a big deal I have to say it was totally and utterly cool to "feel" the game for the first time ever. I played Quake 4 with full force feedback, shooting with awesome recoile like never before, lifting crates with my bare hand (the right one) and feeling every bullet hitting me. Now, perhaps this was by far the coolest thing I ever felt, but the coolest thing I ever seen was LGs 3d-tv. It was not hi-def at all because it was a prototype, but they promised it would get sharper as soon as they left the prototype. This was just the tip of the iceberg as the saying goes. As soon as I get the pics and videos loaded up to my computer I'll write some more.

Nordic Game 2007

2007-05-12T12:53:00.000+02:00

So a month later and with a lot of more time to spend ranting about this and that I thought perhaps I should write a line or two. My final report is over, my bachelor degree is within my grasp. The past month's I've been visiting/interviewing game producers for IGDI, job hunting, and today I'm setting off to work at Nordic Game 2007. Like I've promised before there will come a réumé of the different game producers workplaces and I'll add som jibbjabb about the NG too. Time to catch my train!

The Shield

2007-04-04T16:32:00.000+02:00

A quick note! Vic Mackey, our friendly neighborhood bully is back! Still kind of sad that Lem is dead, but my grieving period is over, I'm ready to face them and the rest of season 6.

late night show offs (part one)

2007-03-31T13:07:00.001+02:00

Today, I'm proud to present "Late Night Show Offs", the 10 top ranking shows after midnight according to me.

#1 Easy Cooking (a Swedish cooking show "Lättlagat" which airs every night around 03.00)
#2 A-Team
#3 CBS 60 minutes
#4 Lexx (1997)
#5 Prisoner (aka Prisoner: Cell Block H) 692 episodes!!!
#6 18 wheels of justice (2000)
#7 Buffy The Vampire Slayer
#8 Airwolf
#9 Renegade (1992)
#10 Kung Fu Legends

Special bonus place #11 My grrls late night shows on her webcam

And one more thing, an idea of a future kids show: Mr Cuntface and his friends. A show about differances of apperances and looks, with an educational perspective on sexuallity.

something about STALKER

2007-03-30T00:38:00.000+02:00

There's one thing (except from the undead living sneeker-russians and the random inconsequent respawning of enemies) that has been disturbing me - the "I'm hungry" warning. I'm forced to feed upon the 9million sausages I've got in my inventory whenever this warning pops up. Then in the middle of everything I get exhousted too, this usually happens NOT when I'm in gunfighs (which is when I allways get "hungry", wtf), but when I'm on my way to some dude I'm suppose to meet, or something -totally unmotivated. Now I get it, I'm fucking hungry but please in the middle of a fight?! And oh yeah of course I can get tired when walking a mile or two. And after I read A Red Letter Blog when he comments about that there is NO "watch" (or whatever), I started to think...If Im forced to eat when I'm hungry, then shouldent I really have to sleep sometime too, instead of taking short rests? I think that would be just as logical as being forced to eat.

patch it, please

2007-03-26T14:54:00.000+02:00

Nietzsche said something about "A lot of people are fastly determined about the way, but not the goal", now this is true in a lot of aspects, one example is my final paper...I'm pretty sure it's one the right track but the goal...? I have no clue at this moment so...well I dont know...all I know is that S.T.A.L.K.E.R probably will become my best friend and my missguiding star...even though it needs a goddamn patch...I want to co-op it...because I really hate those goddamn "sneaker-uppers" *quiet* *quiet* *quiet* ..........BUH (or something in russian).

And MEC, get going with that bloggin' again.

spring time

2007-03-20T14:01:00.000+01:00

Spring time is truely here -and what a spring it seems to be!
The sun shines and the sky is blue, but yet I'm indoors (a few hours more). The soccer season will begin in 10 days, the formula one has begun and Kimi Raikkonen won, STALKER was finally released (and how awesome it is) and I'm about to travel down to Malmoe/Lund for some refreshing booty and friends (and some business of course). It's like I'm reborn once again. Perhaps my xbox360 will appear soon, too?

Sylvia Saint vs. feminist ideals

2007-03-17T00:44:00.000+01:00

Friend:
hey, dawg, you perhaps have a porno at home featuring Sylvia saint?
Dawg:
nope
Friend:
good looker and hard to find
Dawg:
you know the brown haired chick (not the black girl) in Paradise*?
Friend:
haha, yeah.
but her ass is kind of flabby if I remember correctly
Dawg:
flabby ass?! WTF?!
Friend:
or have I even seen it?
Isn’t it the one with Ingrid Swede?
Dawg:
No, the TV-show
Not the porno
OMFG
Friend:
aha ^^
LOL

*Paradise (Lustgården) is a TV-show for girls about their right to sex etc, etc, etc, i.e. some mumbo-jumbo feminist-mainstream-show about sex and not the porno.

"DING, lvl 24!"

2007-03-14T10:04:00.000+01:00

Ah, did i hear right? You hit the new level? Sweet. CONGRATS, MeC! One step closer getting that tank armor on!

And life returns to normal

2007-03-13T01:05:00.000+01:00

Once again internet has returned to normal again, and so has life. With the bad things some good things come and I'm not talking about the spring weather -so it's true! Now what can it be? Yes, you've probably guessed right about now...SlutsOnMySpace has returned!

A rant in haste

2007-03-08T09:55:00.000+01:00

DieRector (or Director MX 2004) is a real sonofabitch... it took me 3 days to find a goddamn button (and to be fair it was not I who found the button even), i.e. it took 3 days and two persons to find the button. Well, OMFG you probably think right about now...that was quite obvious, Mr. Afk... Well...sorry...it aint all thatr easy when you've tried to use the button before, but had for exampel guides or display temple pushed in. AND what the hell does a icon with 4 dots and 4 line mean?! And WHY is that button the ONLY way to configure the stage size?! stupid HCI-design...

The Property inspector to the left was found in the "help"-section and the right one was how it looked for me....

Gaagle

2007-03-06T23:59:00.000+01:00

My favorite site SlutsOnMySpace is no more. There is nothing quite as beautiful and fun as nude "happy go look me uppers" around the internet, yes I am a voyeur just like YOU. Now why would anyone have the site put down? To quote Torbonegro (more or less) "homestead is a bunch of motherfuckers". They have already posted their material on the internet for everyone to see, now why put down a site that saves ME or YOU time to find all of the profiles on mySpace? Its like google. Somewhat.... hmm...now here is an idea, a site that is like google but only searches for nude pics, could call it gaagle?

Shock therapy would be nice

2007-03-01T19:33:00.000+01:00

Onceawhile al hellova lots of things happen at the same time. First off, congratz Kratos to your job at Massive. Secondly, congratz China for reinventing shock therapy for us internetaddicts!

Today, we registered our company site www.currant.se , so stay tuned for the launch. Still a lot of work to be done. Getting hold of the game companies has been a goddamn ordeal, won't spill no more time with that now. Now it's time to get the first prototype going so we can hassle them more effectively.

Still cautiously, I'm hoping' this "Xna'ing" will go my way tonight too, that would be the dot over the I, the Grande Finale, success deluxe, etc. Luckily I remembered to mail my Concept Document 23.55 yesterday to Swedish Game Awards, so it's probably full of spelling mistakes, etc. Now I've got till 19th of May...and that's hmm...a while...

And it's a draw

2007-02-18T23:04:00.000+01:00

So yet another epic movietriologyX2 (Rocky 1-6) has come to an end, and I'm satisfied. It all began with a draw and ends with one too (more or less). The same goes for my sleep, my day began with a greatly anticipated sleep-in till three in the afternoon, but now i can't sleep and I'll wake up in 6 hours with no sleep gained altogether this weekend...I've found a solution to my XNA problem though...always something gained but in the other hand i doubt I'll have time to implement it this week since I have a goddamn re-examination on Saturday and a date with my group to do some kind of shit-assed presentation for Ernst Adams and will have to spend the whooooole Tuesday listening to other presentations. And I have NO clue to WHERE in Gods name my final papers are headed...to hell probably. Got myself some of that sweet meat last week, but now I’ve awakened an angry beast, yet another draw. It's amazing how much can be learned from the Rocky-bible, the insights, the revelations, yet so easy and understandable, still so true. Life is a draw, nothing lost, and nothing gained.

an open window for thought

2007-02-06T01:26:00.000+01:00

This may seem to be a bit out of the blue, but staring into my default blue colored window (working my way through the XNA tutorials) a strange and odd thought caught my mind – does vegan chicks swallow?

Im a provider....lazy hobos

2007-02-03T12:31:00.000+01:00

Three happy, yet unsatisfied, hobos are camping’ out in my apartment. Eating my food, sleeping in my cannot, my sofa, on my floor, but hey it's not everyday this happens....and they're kind of fun...like a couple of pets. A few partypic may be released later on.

iTunes Lyrics

2007-01-29T22:46:00.000+01:00

sick n tired of tracking down the lyrics....add a goddamn button adding the lyrics information like the fuckin pictures...

Since IGDI's taken...

2007-01-29T01:28:00.000+01:00

Hmmm...tonight I and MEC have been trying to come up with a new name for IGDI since we don't have $4000 to invest in IGDI.com...but it's been quite fun couse you come up with such odd names after awhile like FLASHFORGE, SPOORTOWER,GODCORE, IMMIGRUNT, supid-as-fuck-names, but in the heat of the moment the brain stops to work correctly. So, if you have ANY suggestions, post ffs and perhaps you will win a prize.

Yes, yes, I get it, violence is bad

2007-01-28T02:26:00.000+01:00

A quick note, violent video games are entertainment and some of them even educational to an extent. That video games (in general?) portray anti-social behavior, dunno, seems odd, cause last time I checked you actually can communicate and interact with other persons whiles gaming (perhaps the pope should get Xbox live?). Violence is not meant to be directed to children of course, it's obvious, why the hell would they otherwise place those goddamned stickers with warnings and guidelines on games?

"Any trend to produce programmes and products - including animated films and video games - which in the name of entertainment exalt violence and portray anti-social behaviour or the trivialization of human sexuality is a perversion, all the more repulsive when these programmes are directed at children and adolescents. How could one explain this ‘entertainment’ to the countless innocent young people who actually suffer violence, exploitation and abuse? ...Again I appeal to the leaders of the media industry to educate and encourage producers to safeguard the common good, to uphold the truth, to protect individual human dignity and promote respect for the needs of the family. "

- the pope wuz 'ere

Guess I should throw away my newly bought copy of Battlefield Vietnam:REDUX. Bad Dawg*, bad.

*editors note: Mr AFK has a pseudonym - Dawg. So it's a "play on words".

Suspicions confirmed

2007-01-25T18:17:00.000+01:00

As I claimed months ago or so, the nation wide Swedish embarrassment Basshunter does think of himself and his music as something serious, it’s not meant to mock people –it’s just plain cool shit to freak out to on the dance floor. This was more or less stated (I was kind of intoxicated when I got my suspicions confirmed) by a ‘trustworthy’ intoxicated source in the business.

And the legend returns....wtf, in Stockholm?!

2007-01-24T01:17:00.000+01:00

And so Skoevd has awaited teh legend to return from the southern country of Skane. And he did, and he trevelled right passed it all the way to Stockholm instead. Reason? He fell asleep. Sitting in a hotelroom watching CNN, I AM IMPRESSED. See the legend now!

the drunkness of yesterday

2007-01-21T16:09:00.000+01:00

The stripes never leave the tiger, and that's a fact. If you know me, you know what I'm talking about. Now where's my damn wallet...? the drunkness of yesterday has not left the building quite yet. How the hell will I ever get working on IGDI today?

No string guitar, no wire needed

2007-01-15T22:44:00.000+01:00

A short up-date
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Since I can't sleep and found this article earlier on today for my dear Guitar Hero friends I thought this article to could be interesting for you if you missed it. Red Octane's apparently working on Guitar Hero: '80s Edition for PlayStation 2. So, read "all" about it here.
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Now this was kind of interesting... The explorer to the xbox360 would NOT allow third party companies to construct and sell wireless controllers. One example of this is the xbox360 explorer guitar, now Nyko releases the wireless explorer to the PS2.

Home sweet Rome

2007-01-15T18:36:00.000+01:00

Ahh, finally today my favorite show (well one of them, not to confuse with the shield) Rome season 2 had premier! Still I have a few objections about the series (the historical perspective) about what happened etc, and I'm still quite not satisfied with the storywriters not emphasizing the fact that Brutus was Caesars son, but what's a fellow to do? Just wanted everyone that somehow missed out on today’s episode to acknowledge that it's begun again. Further reading about Rome can be read in this intriguing book Rubicon, and I can only recommend you to read it.

...and to a completely different subject, SJ.
SJ is the Swedish railroad company that is suppose to get me home south whenever I need to leave this hellhole in nowhere north. As every year either a storm or snow or both will fuck up the whole railroad system. A few trees have blown over and kind of made it impossible for the trains to travel. How many more trees can there be to blow down over the railroad tracks?! And when the fuck will they learn that it's not smart at all to have trees placed neither alongside railroads nor around power grids?! I've had it with their complete lack of solving this simple problem, why don't they just cut down the godforsaken trees?

This makes me a itzi-bitzi happier at least

Playin in the sandbox

2007-01-13T04:58:00.000+01:00

First off, thanks to MEC for my new header, with me ranting about something to Red Letter.

The FarCry Editor was a load of fun, it's hellishly intuitive (in a good way) even though I still ain't got everything under control, but still... Checking out the modding capabilities for future work this year. My XNA-practicing should get goin again too this weekend.

this so called iPhone is very intriguing, think I’m gonna get me one, it's at least better than that old fuck Ngage....plz say it's soo....

hmm...something's one the right road here....the E20 back south soon...perhaps.

When three authors baked oat cookies...

2007-01-11T01:11:00.001+01:00

It became A cookie. [mr.Afk, MEC, Red Letter]

DeEvolution?

2007-01-04T00:38:00.000+01:00

Every sixth month something "good" happens, and it happens when you least expect it, when you've come to the insight that everything is down the drain, crap de coloure. It's like God (or whatever the hell you believe or not believe in, or life in general, etc) taunts you. You reach a breaking point somehow...down and out for the count...and just so that you won't commit suicide to avoid more taunting, bitchslapping from life, it gives you a little taste of the good life.
Well this graph (x-axis = time, Y-axis = amount of happiness %) can be applied to anything in life, like the last time you got laid, or the last time you played a really great game, got presents, or vacation, etc, etc. Time in between is just time to kill and angst, "work, work". Well, as "Work, Work"-season begins after a sixth-month's end. Happy Go Lucky, I can only hope this theory is trustworthy enough cause then IGDI's got a good chance to succeed. You don't know what IGDI is? Well, perhaps in six months you will.

and by the way....
According to Star Trek, Cats evolved from the Leguanas -now that's something to think about!

The new year is comming

2006-12-30T03:18:00.000+01:00

A sudden blast of angst! It's New Years Eve on Sunday. On Monday you'll wake up in the year 2007 (probably). The last year has been slightly too good (meat, school, life in general), I won't complain (even though I could complain about a lot of things, but they're not worth a place in today’s blog), it's been so good that the next one probably will bite me in my ass, rape me and through me to the dogs. So, it's with a troubled mind I know wish you all a Happy New Year (a day to early) and (a word of caution) Beware!

none chucks

2006-12-25T03:20:00.000+01:00

kay, so i'll continue my ranting about the wii today in honor of xmas day. I'm vivacious drunk this vivacious night of rejoice and other things that end with -olly! I got the idea to this blog when a fellow associate bought a complete set of a remote and nunchuck (which I'll refer to as a none chuck later on) for 800 swedish kronor (that's about $85-90) a week ago. This cost is most astonishing and has got me so agitated that I finaly tonight wrote this comment.

Remember the hype video about WHAT the revolution (the wii) was? Well the real Revolution/Wii was kind of close but still, a lame affort. Okay, the old buggy bitch "Power glove" then (ain't that fucking close to the wii)? Here's something at least closing in to what I'm taking about: X, but still not completly (perhaps safer than the standard controller of the wii today). Combine the ideas to a wholesome.... a none-chuck-body-suit - now that would be something! Going old school IR-tech on me, then complete the agenda boostin' it up with a 1up -strap in the WHOLE body instead and throw in a recharge pack to get the money worth.

it could look something like this....made in paint with a notebook-pad-ish-mouse-thingy...

The blue dots = is like a nonechuck-thingy
The red lines = fuckin line so youll understand that the blue dots send some kind of nfo to the IR-thingy on the TV.

vivacious xmas!

2006-12-24T15:23:00.000+01:00

The gifts are under the tree, the bickering has begun, the food has been eaten, the coffee drunk, and I too am a bit tipsy....well from me, mr AFK, have a vivacious xmas! I know I will as soon as the tequila bottle is opened.

There seems to be a few good-lookers

2006-12-17T15:38:00.000+01:00

I failed my one and only course in C++ programming two years ago, total destruction of my brain and every hope annihilated of ever being able to program something again. Beeing introduced to Xna today (by MEC) my spirit kinda returned. I'm downloading it as we speak. I've had an urge to break the evil son-of-a-bitch C, but not enough of reasons, but now I have. I'll update you whatever way this revival goes.

And reading the pennyarcade article I saw a good-looker gamer-chick of some sort.

Miracles or not, they always come around xmas

2006-12-15T22:32:00.000+01:00

The Wii didn't deliver what it "promised" (yet) with the project name Revolution, so proof of no miracles are to be found this Christmas. A miracle as releasing the long lost Duke Nukem Forever will not be true either. At least DNFs creators keeps their promises, more than I can say of Nintendo.

"We figured since we called it Duke Nukem Forever, hell, it might as well take us forever to finish it."

--Excerpted from an interview (forbes.com) with Duke Nukem's creators by David M. Ewalt

A miracle (somewhat old, but somehow slipped me passed) was Interplay's new Fallout -the MMO. The project is not a 100% sure, but still a miracle since I was under the understanding that Interplay sold the rights of Fallout to Bethesda Softworks -a worring thought since Oblivion is an over-rated pice of crap. Well, it's first 2010 at earliest the MMO will be released.

a quick pause (not ranting the Wii)

2006-12-14T23:22:00.001+01:00

As the author of A Red Letter Blog (has dinged the 24th level of life a few days ago, congratz again) wrote in his latest post, that there are games that you usually play or associate with the holidays. I myself don't have specific game that I play; it's more of the 'form of play' that has me enthralled this time of year. Xmas is all about putting the x-factor in perspective, playing a game-mode such as multiplayer to the maX. A few examples:

* Super Monkey Ball <- load a the race-mode with four players and max the length of laps (around 40 laps if I remember correctly, or was it 60?) and I can guarantee hours of competitive gaming 'le mans' style but in these gigant ape-balls, that truely proves who's the real champion and who's not.

* Civ <- in multiplayer mode this kinda works itself; xmas-05 was endless nights of gaming...

Whatever game you choose to play - play it to the bone, (Christmas-)bitch!

Ps. Eternal Forces (made by Left Behind -anything to do with good old Slipknot?) has a pretty good concept, I like it, except the narrator, etc, but still a perfect xmas gift for your loved ones. Putting the X mark on the spot of Mas -06.

The Wii phenomenon

2006-12-12T19:12:00.000+01:00

When everybody seems to be gaming anything but not on the Wii then what's wrong with it? Or is it them, the gamers?

I've noticed an, perhaps significant, at least odd phenomenon; the pressure getting my filthy paws on the Wii whenever I want in school is low, sometimes even non-existent. The pressure on Guitar Hero II is way lot higher, the Company of Heroes LAN is occupied as always (no change in pressure there) and even Quake 3 is played more. No why is that? Well the games of course sux big time (except the new Zelda?) would be the logical explaination, but still...I have to say I'm glad I bought a Xbox360 instead, but WHERE the hell is it?!

the nunchuck

2006-12-11T14:05:00.000+01:00

Hate being a bitch but this is how a nunchuck looks...

and this is how the wii-controller looks...umh...well you know how it looks....ah, here! there is both a left stick and a right stick to a nunchuck. But ok, you're right, I meant the right one, but it COULD as well have been the left one since a nunchuck has 2 sticks, one left and one right. And I could masturbate with my left hand as well as my right. And if Nintendo themselves don't agree (which they don't (which is stupid)) with me that a nunchuck consists of 2 sticks (or that i can't jerk off with my left hand) then someone should slap their pretty white asses with their ipod-nunchuck. It is a remote as long as it consists of ONE part, as soon as it's connected to the other piece it is a nunchuck. There is nothing to discuss. That's a fact since the invention of the nunchuck in the 1980s...with the invention of ninjas and Bruce Lee a few years earlier.

Why Wii, not Pee?

2006-12-11T02:13:00.000+01:00

The Wii is not pure pee, but the games seem to be. The controller is awesome, pure perfection, I've never had such an experience of sexiness in my hands before, not even my own Pee-Wii is as perfect to have in my right hand as the Nun chuck. As always I'm not that easily charmed, well, here I go! Red Steel is a fucking ass-plug, a painful experience which leaves a blood red stain of remorse and the question "why, why, why". First off, split screen, plz! So 90's, leave it be. The fucking interface is like a fucking party where your so drunk you can't find the toilet and puke in some poor girls' purse, it's fuckin bad -no one will like you if you enjoy it. to navigate in the fucking game (Multiplayer) was a fucking joke, it left a bad taste in my mouth and I'm not going back there again. Wii sports was even more of a joke -well I won't complain too much, as long as it's free it's OK. But still...Boxing was gay, bowling was gay, the baseball was gay, the tennis was hmm donno, not fun anyways, the golf was ,well fun, until you came a meter from the hole then suddenly it was close to fucking impossible to get the game to respond to small movements. Well, I didn't play any of these games solo, only MP and that sucked big time. Won't play em again. My xbox better show up soon...

And as long as I'm flaming, I’ll flame some about the rip-off book/movie/game Eragon. Well I haven't read it, nor seen it, nor heard anything about it, except the commercials and that's all I need to hate it. Ever heard the name Aragorn? Eragon sounds kinda like it...don't ya think? If you’re not satisfied with my comparison, take this under consideration: Aragorn is known as Strider, Eragon is known as Rider. HEllo goddamn Vietnam. It seems lame anywho...good night jew!

a bare trap

2006-12-08T18:36:00.000+01:00

It should be common knowladge that a hellovan amout of educations are complete and utter waste, especially when they (the universitys) name their educations for example Computer Game Development. Well, I wish I hadn't been as naive as I was three years ago when I applied to this magnificant education Computer Game Development -design, but I was. And now, as the final exams are around the bend (spring -07) and I (and a few others) realize we're kinda fucked because this education was nothing but a 'junk book in nice wrapping' (aka pulp literature) - a way to get more students intrested in moving cross country to this hell hole called Skövde in the middle of nowhere (instead of getting a serious education at a serious university).

I'll get what is usually known as a degree of bachelor of arts with a major in massmedia <- anything whith the word "arts" will lead to unemployment after finished studies, no matter what they say. That's a fact. Well, there is a slim chance you'll make it, but don't bet your life on it. I've gambled now with this education and a lot of other gamers have done the same. Educations around the world probably aren't better, the game development at univeristys aren't taken seriously and is nothing more than a way to rip you off. They'll take your money and leave you with a swollen ass. And NO, there is NO such thing as good looking girls in this kind of education -I haven't seen single one, oh well ONE but she dropped out two days later.

shopping fo x-mas...-box

2006-11-25T18:34:00.000+01:00

Bored to hell, unispired, and watching Project Runway, I strafed right, then left and right again -to gamespot with their holiday gift guid in my crosshair. It's too early for this kind of shitload xmas crap, but hey it's better than prantsing around like an idiot hanging up xmas mumbojumbo in my appartment. My one and only 2006-hate-game stood on the top of the mountain of gifts to be recomended and peered down at me with its taunting apperance...Oblivion. Hell, there's at least ONE game that could top and rate out that sucker. Neverwinter nights 2 (or Gears of War if week include the whole spectra of machines, but I wont). Oblivion is overrated and NOT recomended. Buy and play a fun game instead. Play co-op at least. And enjoy it. It's ok to download oblivion, but of you buy it it's not worth the money. I will not rant about Oblivion here, cuz I've already flamed that sucker a few months ago (read that instead). Okay, next game to top the list is Company of Heroes, And that's a great game. I love it, so I don't complain. BUT the third game World Soccer Winning Eleven 9. WTF. Soccer games are meant to be played on a console, why the fuck would I want to buy this?! My three top (PC games) to BUY are:
#1 Neverwinter Nights 2
#2 Company of heroes
#3 Dawn of war -Dark Crusade
****note that Dawn of war DC Only gets a high ranking on my list couse it's been an ass-year of great games to play on teh PC. And NWN2 was better than the first one, and Company of Heroes is a-okay.

But nothing really AMAZED me this year so I've bought me a x360box.....and I will buy Gears of War and Gears of war 2!

So buy an xbox360 instead or a Wii....

Like the anti-CSI

2006-11-21T20:57:00.000+01:00

The swedish police force is not to be reckoned with, or is it? It's like the anti-CSI, they do everything wrong. In 1984 the prime minister of Sweden was killed. The cops didnt get there in time to get a fresh lead and eversince they've kinda just done nothing but spend the taxpayers money (not my money luckily..yet). And every two years they come up with some kind of new evidence of some sort, a new witness or something else. Their latest finding was a gun and they're as optimistic as they've been the last 22 years. Gil Grissom (if he were dead) would turn in his grave if he knew this. Anywhoooo, now they believe that the bullets are of the same sort as the ones they found after a robbery a year before the shooting of Palme.
a rough translation from a newspaper in sweden "SVD":
"Due to that the bullets are related there is a small, but still theoretical chance that the weapon is one and the same". I love this quote "small", "theoretical chance"... omg...well if that ain't grasping for straws I don't know what is...the cops should perhaps change their motto to "beating around the bush since 1984"

4Q 2006 ..with an edit

2006-11-21T02:00:00.000+01:00

The familiar taste of the epic easter/winter/summer "LANs" are hounting me. The spirit of LAN came over me this weekend, givin me the munchies. I want an Xbox360 now. My nextdoor neighbour Red Latter Blog and MEC had a run with Gears of War, so I dropped in and out, checking it out. At the same time, I and ZGB had a run of Neverwinter Nights 2 over Hamachi. So there was some kind of LAN-weekend going on, something I've missed alot. As night became day and day became night I got my hands on Gears of War, got to play it until my body gave up. Either Im getting older or Ive just lost the 'touch' of staying up at odd hours for days and nights playing games, 'couse I still feel tierd. Gears of War surpried me, and Neverwinter Nights 2 did give me good vibes (Ive just arrived in Neverwinter). The "Xbox live arcade" thingy has proven me wrong, Ive been reluctant to play those games -paying for crap....hmm...think not - but hell there actually are a couple of games I almost would think of buying if I just got myself one of those xbox360's. Perhaps this otherwise bad drought of no good games has come to an end, Im still sceptical though. Still not very impressed with the first 3Q's of 2006 but perhaps NOW will change. Can't wait for the Wii to get released, just hope it delivers and it won't be Wee in good games to come (like the GameCube). I will not buy it at release, there's one big name (guess what), a 'perhaps' or a 'maybe' and Im not prepared to buy another Nintendo product until it proves me wrong -that's the GC's fault. I've been stuck in the trenches of RTS gaming awhile now, like Relics latest masterpiece (and no, sadly enough, not DOW:DarkCrusade) and it got me thinking about the RTS's released on consoles....they usually suck 'cockheadass' but if the Wii will present a few RTS games..? ...and they probably are, but Im to tired to check that out now -got to get to bed, don't want to miss out tomorrows game-session in school, the german's 'pansy panza' shall crush the puny airbornes at 1200 zulu.

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edit.
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couldn't forget about the damn (perhaps nonexisting Wii) RTS's...i sure hope they'll give the Wii a real rts chance. the only game I found was Battalion Wars 2 and thats about as close as I came to finding a Wii rts. what the hell...not exactly what I wished for.

Gibbed

2006-11-16T03:14:00.000+01:00

'ello there, it's been awhile since my latest post. I just had to tell you all 'bout my new found love of Gears Of War. Now, you all may be surprised..."new found love?! -it's a fuckin great game and we all have known 'bout it since dawn of mankind"...well, I've been let down many times -the gaming industry really loves to fuck me over with their propaganda (Killzone, Resistance: fall of man, Oblivion, etc) -a whole lot of humbug. Anywho, it kinda explaines why I didn't get my hope up to high, but as soon as I placed the controller in my hands and minced my first kill with the chainsaw, OMFG. NOW there's a reason to get an xbox360...Gears of War, and I only played it for a few minutes.

Scince a few persons asked me to update the Hellion, I've decided to do so. Now, remember it's the first draft (the one thing King and all other authors tell us n00bs never to let anyone see) so it hasn't been reviewed as it should. But hell, i write for people to read it -so why not let them read it?

My brother has demons

2006-11-03T03:30:00.000+01:00

Visiting my family down south is allways exiting. If this was an rpg I'd get hell'ova' lot of exp for each and every night i survive. Working the late hours as allways, writing and watching Cops, I'm use to the quietness, the relaxation, etc., etc. Suddenly a stange outcry of demonic words echos throughout the apartment. JAVILLINTA! JAVILLINTA! JAVILLINTA! JAVILLINTA! Fear creaps along the spine, adrenalin pumping like I've got a knive at my throat -it's my brother. I probably should call the cops, at least a monk of some sort. And here he goes again....OMG....one night he'll kill me in my sleep, yelling wierd words...JAVILLINTA!

While hell freezes over...

2006-11-01T01:46:00.000+01:00

At least once a year, hell does freeze over. The snow covered outdoors does not lie. This is hell. This is Skövde.

I watched the sunday NFL yesterday night (yes, it's night over here), maxed up on coffine and nicotine, minding my own and writing my novel. Suddenly I heard an odd sound, someone was talking. What the hell I he talking about?! and who was it? Carefully listened to every single word of the jibberish that was spoken. I realized soon enough that I recognized the tune of voice to be Mr. John Madden's. I'm not a 100% sure, but it must have been him. Anyhooow, here is his totally irrevocable prime time comment of the Dallas - Carolina game...

back to the 'while hell freezes over...' part of this post...
Hopefully a few glimpses of light will penetrate the grey sky soon and stimulate my restless soul once again. Things to come this winter:

The ultimate 'gonna break-ya' game review site -Bombtruck, feat. the authors of A Red Letter Blog, My Evil Cyborg, Capt. GIR and perhaps even the 'best-of-the-best' commenter of today, Zombie Grizzly Bear.

The third part of chapter 1 of The Hellion will be available sometime tomorrow.

problems

2006-10-25T12:55:00.000+02:00

Problems with the CSS in explorer....odd, idiotic, hellish...and even firefox seems to hate me now

Update!

2006-10-24T21:47:00.000+02:00

The first pages of the 1st chapter of The Hellion is at last posted! Check it out either clicking the "book"-button in the upper right corner or typing/clicking: http://the-hellion.blogspot.com/

Note.
The page is still under construction.

Day Of Defeat

2006-10-19T02:33:00.000+02:00

The day of defeat has come, it was unavoidable, but I did my best to prolong my youth -all 365 days! It's hard to believe, but that's the honest truth.

All questions raised today had a thin red line through out: how does it feel getting on step closer to the final frontier? Will this dawg ever be able to learn new tricks, or is it too late for me...Well, honestly I have no clue what so ever. Now, turning 24 years is not very special, not like turning 18 -allowing you to drink, buy smokes - or turning 20 - allowing you to buy alcoholic beverages. No, turning 24 is everything but special -I'll get in to clubs where the age limit is 24 perhaps, but that's all folks....and maybe that's good, no new rules of life -my lifestyle can stay the same. I've had myself a few more tallboys since last year and I'm still beard-less. I've had my fair share of girls the past year, but like post-its with bad adhesive - they fall off fast. And still going strong with no drivers license. What the 24^th year of my life will unravel is an exiting thought; will I evolve to an alpha male finally?

Reminiscing, listening to Cake and smoking Lucky Strikes last night brings back "the good old days" just in time for this post. Hanging out at Ariman, lazy days in the skate park or grilling in St.Lars, high school where I was “Mest närvarande på frånvarolistan” (roughly translated to more present on the absent list –doesn’t sound as good in English as in Swedish). And of course the undying memories of celebrating my birthday with you guys years ago -hammered on whiskey and marängsviss (meringue feat. whipped cream feat. chocolate sauce feat. ice cream), both which still are hard to devour. Even though life was good before and I perhaps will pay dearly "for youthful magic moments", life still is enjoyable -I'll "rock on completely with some brand new components" for another year at least. (Cake - rock n roll lifestyle btw) I didn’t know what I wanted to become then or what would happen in the near future, and it’s still the same. Some things never change, while other things do.

The offering of grateful homage in words, pictures, food and company have touched me deeply in places not suitable to be mentioned, if I still were a minor you'd get imprisoned.

So, thank you all for your acts of worship!

Bombtruck rules!

7,5 hours left

2006-10-17T15:25:00.000+02:00

Okay, with a few hours of sleep behind me and a strong cup of coffee, I'm back. It's the a few hours left and the spirit of a new birthday has settled in -you know the stomping sensation, like when someone is poking you with a stick and doesn’t quit. Lucky me the internet still can entertain me with comic strips, like wulffmorgenthaler (with a nefarious beaver) or penny-arcade. I've got a lot of things I should do, but my tiered brain deprived every attempt -like calculating the relative power between an hydrogen or atomic bomb and the almighty sun (note to reader: I've never studied physics and I’m no math genius). So if anyone knows the answer I'll buy you a beer or equivalent beverage, just post the correct answer or solution.

One Fierce Blog Template

2006-10-14T04:09:00.000+02:00

I'm remodelling my little shack...don't know when it'll be finished...but I'm closing in to my vision.

A new feature is on the way!
An online novel with the working title "Hellion" that will be updated weekly (check out the button "Book" in the upper right corner.

So, fear not
and do not distress
even though I'm caught
in css
my blog
will soon be ready
Now, this old hog
have to go, it's beddy-
bye-time
OMFG, I can rhyme

...and Dice called our game brown?!

2006-10-10T00:54:00.000+02:00

Before I present the conculsions of the "dip-experiment" I would like to say thanks for a great weekend and party. I'm happy that so many friends and foes could come. A big-up to all of you!
And with that said...on to the experiment, an experiment in living. As you all know by now, to survive the harsh northern parts of the world you have to have a lot of hobbies. Well, I don't have that many to keep me active 24/7, so....

One morning, with a massive hangover and just chillin with my friend that visited us here up north, I realized a "dip" (of the brand Göteborgs Rapé aka Gothenbourg Rape) was well placed on the wall right above my head where I sleep.

I predicted it sooner or later would drop dead from the wall due to its location. I sleep wildly and the location makes the "dip" very exposed to a long list of different gases, tempuratures, preassure, etc. So as a true scientist and boored human I didn't remove it to see for how long it'd remain there. And so the weeks past on until the 7th of october (when the party took place) and it finally had to be removed with force so that no one would be upset! Conclusions that can be made: The Gothenbourg Rape it's a good tasting adhesive.

Another thing....
Dice thought of our game to be a bit too "brown", well exuse me, but what would you call yours?

and btw....Battlefield 2142 wasn't all "that"
Sorry, Im fuckin disapointed.

Well, Why Not?

2006-10-02T22:02:00.000+02:00

Well, as I was finishing up my latest essay for school tomorrow and tried to save it. Microsoft Word crashed, and the following error msg was presented:

(click for bigger pic)

Now what the hell does this tell me?

High octane action? No thank you!

2006-09-25T13:27:00.000+02:00

And so, once again, I got my hopes up. Lost Odyssey struck me like a tornado, but left me looking quite dissapointed. I hadn't heard of it at all (not that odd perhaps sinces I don't own a 360) and the video was at first quite impressive. The video seemed so cool the first two minutes, a medieval future theme in true high octane action hack n slash tempo, yet another level higher than the usuall hack n slash game. Well, all flames n fire bout this new cool game I sadly have to admit it suddenly took a harsh turn to the complete opposite. What the hell happened?! Suddenly the tempo dropped from high octane action to a thoughtfull planning strategy fighting a la Final Fantasy.

What have you done for me lately!?

Lets fuck me over again!

2006-09-19T02:04:00.000+02:00

IM FUCKED. WELL HELLO! GOOD FUCKING DAY. Im like the fucking nazis at d-day...the fucking buggers won't leave me alone..!!! After a week of getting screwed over Im kinda getting used to it. But Im fucking pissed of anyway. As I wrote a few posts ago...

If I did have a tumor, I'd name it Skövde

Okay....well now I don't fucking know anymore...I think I'll have to be more specific
"If I did have a brain tumor, I'd name it Skövde" and "If I did have testicular tumors, I'd name one Bill and the other one Gates" and i'd fucking kick myself in the nads every fucking day.

Adding everything to one big happy 'big gulp' of possible things that could/will/and is fucking me over again and again I'll retreat to Berlin to my bunker where I'll perhaps fucking shoot myself. Well back to the fucking re-writing of my essay...

Yes, what a stupid typo-ish thingy

2006-09-17T16:47:00.000+02:00

YEs! What the hell! Grissom, Grisham....my brain is playing tricks on me! Well thank you "MyEvilCyborg"!

Gil Grisham for president

2006-09-15T00:16:00.000+02:00

The bliztering headache made me go to bed early, but I couldn't sleep so I had alot of time to think...and so here it comes...

Well, it's time to vote on sunday -what a perfect day for a vote, probably hung over and not interested at all - and I've made up my choice.

I'm voting for the green party - It's like voting for a Gil Grisham for president, check it out!

So if this ain't a strong enough argument then don't vote at all.

Gil Grisham?

And why can't thease two go gay, the'd make a perfect couple, identical apperances and movies, they'd get beautifull kids.

(pullman?) The perfect couple? (doulglas?)

And finally the the newest and most anticipated addition to my blog -the "Top 10 of the week"!

#1 - The Bookstore (s09e17)
#2 - The label maker (s06e12)
#3 - Little Jerry Seinfeld (s08e11)
#4 - The Contest (s04e11)
#5 - The Merv Griffin Show (s09e06)
#6 - The Bubble Boy (s04e07)
#7 - The Nap (s08e18)

Why the danish rule

2006-09-12T01:36:00.000+02:00

Birger (00:40): Yeah, the danes got style, but they're not in phase
Dawg (00:40): Yeah
Birger (00:40): Sweden stopped showing Sopranos after the s.04
Dawg (00:40): They were the best people in the world until they banned drinking beer at lunch Birger (00:41): Yeah, soon they poor bastards won't be allowed to smoke either
Dawg (00:41): ooo I feel their pain, the only things left are Formula One and Tour de France...they'll be in the same leauge as us (the Sweeds).
Birger (00:42): They've got Tour de France! Formula One! Cheap beer and good soccer! They've got everything.
Dawg (00:43): Right...cheap beer.
Birger (00:43): pölse (danish deluxe sausage)!
Dawg (00:43): YEAH!
Birger (00:43): fuckin böff-hus (an all meat restaurant)
Dawg (00:43): oooo french hotdog plöse!
Birger (00:43): *Everything!
Birger (00:44): jä og en lille pitstop! (me and Little Pitstop)
Dawg (00:45): ;D hell, this will be todays blogg!
Birger (00:45): Yeah! "why the danish rule", What was it Shakespear wrote?
Birger (00:46): "somethings rotten in the state of denmark", damn that dude didn't know what he was talking about!

Well, I cant agree with you about this Birger. Something IS rotten in the state of denmark. They're slowly turning themselfes into us, the sweeds. First off the law banning beer drinking at lunch time and now the ban of smoking in public spaces, what will be next? I fear the worst!

Well it aint over yet! I still trust them and that they'll countinue doing their job, being happy drunken pricks. As long as they countinue to piss off arabic countries, I'm sure of it! And they'll hopefully never ban anything else, but I fear the worst. What will happen then? But until then! Rule on Denmark!

Alonso did a "Sato"

2006-09-10T16:46:00.000+02:00

Yet another epic achivement occured in the Formula 1 championship today, this time the newly hired polish racer Kubica (racing for BMW) took a third place position right behind both Kimi Raikkonen and M. Schumacher. Three times in a row now: First Button, then Massa and now Kubica! The championship has taken a u-turn for the better! Only a two point lead for Alonso over Schumi when Alonso did a "Sato". If you don't know what a "Sato" is here's the explaination...His engine blew up! So as Alonso DNF'ed today in Monza, Schumi won and another untipped racer astonished the world of Forumla 1, my life and everyone elses life just got a whole lot better.

AND YES, KIMI RAIKKONEN WILL RACE FOR FERRARI TOGHETER WITH MASSA NEXT SEASON!

Packed my bags for safari

2006-09-03T03:35:00.000+02:00

Due to my irrational mind, no school and a lot of time to kill I've decided to go on a safari. I got this idea last friday, so off I go. I have my hopes set on finding a Pumbo and perhaps getting a snapshot of one.

The pumbo was the topic of the day a week or two ago and I promised a few notes about it. Here it comes. I first encountered the Pumbo when I was off hiking in the wilderness of Malmoe Royal Park. The word "Pumbo" is a compound of the first two letters in the word "Punk" and the last three letters in the word "Bimbo". I know very little about the Pumbo, beacause I've only seen a couple in my lifetime. This is what I know:
...is allways female.
...comes in all sizes, usually tall and skinny with big boobs.
...wears punk rock-ish clothes.
...not very intelligent.
...and they roam the punk rock concerts.
I intend to find out more about this spieces so I can be able to answer more questions about them, like why they roam the punk concerts?Perhaps it has to do with propagation? etc.

The picture above will show you were I am at the moment (up north) and where I've seen the Pumbo (down south).

If I did have a tumor, I'd name it Skövde

2006-09-02T13:42:00.000+02:00

Well, I'm pissed off. Even though its been about 14 hours since I found out that the University of Skövde screwed me over it hasn't settled in fully, but I'm not surprised. I am Dawg's complete lack of surprise. "Welcome to skövde -We'll screw you over at least twice, guaranteed" - If I did have a tumor, I'd name it Skövde.

Summer Of Trek

2006-08-24T04:13:00.000+02:00

Omg, summer's over. It just recently hit me today was the LAST day of summer vacation. It's with a bitter and (at the same time) a sweet taste of the last day of summer that fills my mouth, I've had a x-factor hangover and a sweet taste of something called happiness. Even though it's the last day/night of summer vacation I'm satisfied (and of course sad -damn I don't want to return to Skövde "the city of eternal darkness and winter"). Many summers have had their themes like "summer of Tekken 3" or "Summer of skating" etc.etc. Well this summer could only best be described with Star Trek. I've seen almost all of the star trek movies, watched star trek a la captain Picard every aftenoon while playing games. I've missed a lot of sun due to the world cup in fotball, hangovers every other day (almost), late nights and long sleep-ins. Well, hey, what's a fellow to do? This summer was extraordinary.

I'll sumerize summer of Trek here:
Star Trek Movie Marathon
The Summer Swamp Festival of 2006
Pennywise at Malmoe Festival
Gaming, blogging, moving and of course the ass bomb! which could be best seen in the movie "man on fire"

Historic events not to forget:
Formula One -> Button won a grand prix
Formula One -> Massa won the next grand prix (today)

Next topic will be featuring the phenomenon "the Pumbo"

fixin' n' stuff

2006-08-23T01:56:00.000+02:00

up-dating my blogg...rebuilding etc.

2006-08-19T15:59:00.000+02:00

OMG...I'll probably be a lot more AFK this week...malmoe festival...

Tonight
21:05 Snook Hiphop duo = perhaps...if I care enough
22:45 S.P.O.C.K space pop = definitely
00:00 Front Line Assembly (CA) Industral synth from Canada = perhaps

Sunday
21:00 Joystick Malmoe Symphony Orchestra Video- and computer game music = have to admit...I'm intrigued

Monday
20:30 Nationalteaterns Rockorkester =perhaps, already seen them once

Tuesday
NOTHING

Wednesday
20:15 Las Palmas Electro jungle hiphop
20:30 Gogol Bordello (US) underground punk band with kletzmer tones

I want to see both!! damn...

Thursday
22:00 Blindside = perhaps, could be fun to see

Friday
18:00-19:15 Paradise Lost (UK) Brittish goth metal = perhaps...
20:15 Pennywise (US) Californian punk rocker veterans = definitely
22:45 Soilwork death metal = perhaps

Emo drunk

2006-08-16T02:41:00.000+02:00

Well, I'm drunk, but my buddy is emo drunk. Goddamn emo, I can'tm stop sayin emo. Here's a emo bunny frome someones emo site. This emo motherfucker shall now borrow this emo pic and fucking emo to bed. emo out. emo. All i wanted was a goddamn emo meal at emo gringos'. emo nite to u all. emo.

yes i know that i should ask, but if you're dumbe enough to emo out yor emo pics then this is how it ends. Im on a roll, heres one more emo pic.

emo is flamed.

It's begining to look like something

2006-08-11T02:57:00.000+02:00

oooh, I'm bored, i'll update later

Another day of crappy block busters!

2006-08-10T04:16:00.000+02:00

As I wrote yesterday..erhm..night...the topic of the day would be two torrent reviews and a review of an acronym. Where to begin? The natural end to start is the acronym: DC. You've all heard it before if you've ever downloaded anything. Yes good folks, it is Direct connect.

Direct connect is crap. Hired "cops" lurking around, stupid rules like "you're not allowed to share files larger than 1gig" or the unsatisfying low download speeds even though you've got a 100mb broadband connection, people canceling you -in other word you can't really download anyting without constantly overwatching the transfer.

Now, what can I say about the bock buster movie Pirates of the caribbean - dead mans chest...the torrent was okay, the download took about an hour and the quality was okay. The movie was crap, kind of like DC - slow, unsatisfying and an abrupt end -like "what the hell?". One of those "lets record two movies in one year beacuse the first one was such a block buster"-movies, a typical sequal, followed with a third one right around christmas. So don't be suprised, I've heard the third one's almost complete and on the way form a safe source (and IMDB too). So don't be suprised if it's better than number 2, but worse than number 1 -just like the Lord Of The Rings triology.

I'll put this in perspective (so I'll get a smoothe crossover) comparing the sequals of movies with the sequals of games. Games in comparishment makes better sequals than the movies. Name any example and prove me wrong. Yes there are a few, but compare it to the movies and you'll see. Okay this was kind of obvious, but I had to...

So I downloaded "block bustering" Titan Quest. The torrent was okay, but without the patches -so I had to download them too. It took about an hour of doing wrong and finally finding an usable crack befor I got to play it. I installed it 12 hours ago, or so, and I've played it since. The only thing that makes this game fun is the co-op mode, with out that mode I'd probably never play it again. The graphics weren't all THAT sweet and the gameplay was repeditative as hell (well it is a hack n slash so that's unavoidable). There were a few sweet solutions that I liked with the Heads Up (tool bar) and a few things like the character amrory menu that really could have been designed better. And the crappiest thing of them all was the memory leeks or something other with the software that constantly dropped the framrate, damaged the sound and made it crash.

Why do so many block busters suck?

Well, it's five in the morning and I have no answer, so it's definitly time for me to shut up.

Since I don't have a PS

2006-08-09T03:28:00.000+02:00

Acronyms...all of thease goddamn acronyms. I really thought about this yesterday, when I was writing my post where I used the acronym "PScs2" (later on I got a comment about it). Okay, it's true, and yes IT could be misstaken for PlayStation, or even Counter-Strike 2 -and no I don't have one. Anyhow, acronyms are easily missunderstood, everything depends of context obviously. FPS is one of them; First Person Shooter or Frames Per Second. Well there are thousands of thousands of acronyms and I was bored so I spent a few minutes browsing them. Nothing of interest though. Here's a list anyway. GLHF

Here's an updated pic btw:

In the post tomarrow!

Torrent reviews:
*PC - Titan Quest [Englsih] [www.GamesTorrents.com]
*Pirates.of.the.Caribbean.Dead.Mans.Chest.2006.
CUSTOM.SWESUB.TS.DVDR-GM4Y

Acronym review:
*DC

crappy PScs2 combos up with my cheap tablet

2006-08-08T04:14:00.000+02:00

I had a bit of a mem-leak or something.
Damn PS, damn cheap ass draw tablet, but the picture is starting to look like something at least.

"We got to find Banjo, he's missing!"

2006-08-07T00:22:00.000+02:00

Hell, where do I start? Okay, yeah, now I know! I was out yesterday, havin' a couple of brews. Today, I had myself a hangover, flipped on the tv and watched the lazy sunday Formula One. I wasn't quite ridd of my hangover so I decided (together with a few friends) to watch some discovery channel-ish stuff; Grizzly Man!

Hell, this was truely one of the better Nature documentaries I've seen. Not that it was very facinating or so, but because it was so...morbid! The plot- if i can call it a plot because it's a documetary - was this: A man gone crazy, moves out into the wilderness, starts to live with the Grizzly Bears, and after about 13 years or so he and his girlfriend gets eaten. The director/storyteller (Werner Herzog) of this movie/documentary sounds a bit like Guvener Arnie, in combo with the lunatic "grizzly man" it's quite fun to watch. Otherwize it's badly presented. It felt like a neverending story, repetitative, same things told over and over again. And there's a funny corener though, speaking and looking like a real corener should -a bit "morbid". Throughout the movie, stupid and somewhat ununderstandable quotes, such as "You must never listen to this. You should not keep it. You should destroy it because it will be like the white elephant in your room all your life." are said. What the hell...am I the only one not quite familliar with this quote? I googled it - a white elephant in your room". I got 22 hits. Not a single one of them could even possibly confirm that this is an outspoken saying. But I found two or so crappy bloggs, here's one about a 31 year old mixed-race woman who has been in denial for the past three decades. and is trying to wake up, and come fully into her life! What a plot!

Now what have I learned today?
You can't chase off a Grizzly bear beating it with a frying pan! and Yes, Sex in the city just might be based on true storys!

The Sea, The Game, The girl

2006-08-04T00:35:00.000+02:00

I watched Poseidon today, now that's a crappy movie. A slow begining, a medicore story, and I'm gonna spoil it for you now, so if you don't want to know, don't read anymore; Kurt Russel dies. What the hell?! Kurt, my main man, the one and only true escape artist of our time. He could escape fucking LA in that old movie, or was it NY, or was it both? Anyhow, this was just a stupid ship, an easy escape if you compare. The begining was to slow and it was goddamn lucky I had a big strong cup of coffee and cookies to keep me through that part. Moving on. There was lots of explotions, but way to little sharks. It's a fucking sea with lots and lots of dying/dead people -if it was Jaws there'd be a bad ass motha' shark, it would have been a lot cooler. A smart shark swiming through leaking oil, hunting Kurt & co. Now that would be a real thriller! And why not spice it up with Zombies?! That'd be even cooler. Trapped on a sinking ship, one way out, a smart and evil bad asss mother shark hunting them and hordes of zombies wanting to eat their brains! The same goes for that stupid game Oblivion -hell, that was about as booring as Poseidon, but i lacked strong coffee, and probably that's why I didn't have the energy to keep awake *zzzzzz* Later on today, I watched that movie, what's it called....derailed....sweat sexy Jennifer Aniston was the only thing that made me see it through. This story could also have been spiced up with any of the following three alternatives:
a - a sinking ship
b - A bad ass and smart motha' shark
c - Zombies
Well, the other way around would have done too. Yeah, what poseidon really lacked was an escaping Kurt, not having Jennifer Aniston as a sexy girl, too few zombies and no sharks.

final statement bout poseidon:
Poseidon = derailed = oblivion = zzzzz = a lazy thursday afternoon = okay

admitt it! this would be hell of a lot better!

Gibson style

2006-08-03T02:05:00.000+02:00

I've sent my job application, that was a load of fun -if you compare it to moving, which I've done all weekend until today. I have yet another project on the roll now; I've started to write a novel...or something like that at least. When I read the first 10 pages it kinda reminds you of William Gibsons style; the cyberpunk, lone hero with a lot of issues.

Make my day...Punk

2006-07-28T01:41:00.000+02:00

Yes, I know.
I won't get the job, but that's not my aim.
I just whant know what they think -does all of it suck?

1) Mhm...you'll do for the moment = An interview that does give me a job offer
---- 1:1.000.000 "one in a million chance" ----

2) Yeah, okay!...you...what!?...nope, get lost = An interview that doesn't give me a job offer
---- This one would do...I'd be happy getting a NO ----

3) Yes, This Sucks = No interview, just that sweet reply "you're not what we need"
---- I'd be okay with this one, this is probably what will happen ----

4) OMG, WTF wrong with you?! = No reply at all
---- I'd probably be pissed off...slightly ----

I have other plans for the two comin' semesters, so I don't mind. I'm just doin' this for fun.

It's a hassel applying for a job

2006-07-25T03:19:00.000+02:00

Okay, it's like three in the morning here in Sweden and I'm brain is tired, but my body's not. Result: I can't sleep. I've been working on my first job application today, and I've written a CV too. Still it's hard to know really what to show off, and what not to show. Because I have to demo my games I need to set up a FTP, but because it's summer vacation, I'm at a different adress, with a changing IP-adress. On top of that I'm moving too, so I don't know my new IP-adress either. So this kinda sucks. And because the game is not complete, i'll have to write some kind of NFO-file too. Hell, applying to Massive was suppouse to be a fun thing, it's becoming more of a hassel than I expected.

My design of my internetapplication seems to work, thank God for hangovers.

Know straigt to bed, perhaps a few push-ups will do the trick!

techs are like love at first sight

2006-07-24T01:52:00.000+02:00

Some nights I feel like Andy Rooney, you know that old man on CBS 60 minutes, I've got that urge to complain a bit. Tonight is on of those nights.

New technology is like "love at first sight". It looks good, it feels great and you know you'll enjoy it. But there's allways a downside, the quality is crap. Sooner or later you'll get one too many brews involved.

I know for a fact that the nintendo gamecube IS coke-proof, I bought one and by misstake a coke was poured on it. It still works. But my nokia cellphone is NOT booze-proof. This is kind of like love - with a bit of luck coke-proof, but not booze-proof.

The Xbox, was an ugly mother****, but a massive load of hardware and great games, it came form nowhere and struck me right in the face.

The gamecube, wasn't really an impressive machine. No groundbreaking techs, nothing really good about it, but it the quality was A-OK.

leaving the game consoles for a sec, and refocus at another technology, cellphones...
All of my cellphones have been crap, the look good, feel right, but one morning -when you realize you've overslept - it's stoped to function right (no sound). This have happend a few times to often now. A few months before i orderd a new mouse (the logitech mx1000) and I got a disfunctional one. Another example of crappy quality is Oblivion. High expectations, but a load of crap - it looked good, felt right and I really looked forward playing it through (especially after ALL the good reviews!). I didn't even get a brew involved, perhaps that's what's wrong?

Back to the consoles, I've seen and played the Xbox360, and yeah it looks good("-isher" at least) and feels just right when you hold the controler. But I've read a lot of problems about it, like overheating, buring down houses, etc. Had a lot of expectations of the PS3, but as E3 passed by (too fast) I hardly was impressed by it, even though it has lots of cool techs -the cell processor- it looked like a refrigirator. And nintendos new cool "wii" (wherever they came up with that idiotic name) is truely an impressive console. Looks like an ipod, and probably works as well as one too: crappy -lifespan: one year, but hopefully it will still be coke-proof!

I'm truely afraid of investing a lot of money in more crap, but I'll probably do it anyway. Just like i keep on involving girls in my life. Crap, crap, crap.

Hangover = Creativity

2006-07-22T15:15:00.000+02:00

If you read my last post, I had myself a few brews yesterday. Today I woke up with a hellish hangover, been slagging in may boxers in the sofa infront of the discovery channel, untill I finally began to ponder about a programming problem I have and how to solve it (editors note: wouldn't call it programming, it ain't C, more like Lingo). Suddenly, my dazed mind focused for a millisecond, and a suitable solution hit me from nowhere! For the longest time, my friend - a real programmer - had told me that "the best days to program are the days you've got a hangover". I've never really considered that statement possible, because I'm allways physically tired and my brain is reduced to the simplest baboon-level of thinking (the stupidest monkey accordig to Homer Simpson at least). But somehow it seems to work.

All of this creativity, or my hangover, or both, crave a pizza and a coke. And perhaps my solution will be implemented later on. If it works I promise I certainly will be out partying a lot more!

game design work, bullshit!

2006-07-21T17:11:00.000+02:00

When I read penny-arcades guest article, by Chris Avellone at Obsidian my hope had returned -perhaps I have a chance!
"- Oh, and Obsidian's hiring designers, so it's been on my mind a lot lately, since we started with one designer (me), now have like, 3000, and apparently need 3000 more since we just love designers. So if you think you can do design and meet these requirements, please drop us a line at the link above."

3000 game designer! Hell, I maybe just in luck!
Well, I checked out their website (link above) and read:

" Before applying, please note:

Applicants must be willing to relocate to Southern California.
Applicants must be passionate gamers with the drive to make the best games possible."

Hey, I thought, this sounds awesome! I'd love to relocate from the cold northern part of the world (yes, the exotic country Sweden) to Southern California! And I'm quite the passionate fellow with the drive to create the best games ever.

So, as anyone, happy to see a sign of light in the dark world of gaming industy, I kept on reading.

"We are searching for an experienced and talented designer..." and "-At least 1-2 years game industry and game toolset design experience"

What the ****! As always...experience, how stupid of me. How the hell can you have enough experience to create games when everyone in the industry wants EXPERIENCE befor you can get a job? It's an evil circle. Hey, I know, I'll lie to them! or not...

Well, whats a game designer student to do? Okay, so I got a break, I began creating a 3d real time strategy game with a couple of classmates for a school project.

Even though we were totally undermanned we created of one of the best games (7 other games were created). We created the game in less than 10 weeks. Two programmers, three designers, and four graphic artist. All other groups had a lot more members. Digital Illusions (DICE) watched our presentation and game demonstration and a few other game companys, etc. too. And were impressed....of the grafics. A few more weeks and we would have been able to implement the primary and fun gameplay elements, but with only two programmers -this was hard. In our design fase, we had correspondense with a game designer at DICE, who seemed to like our gameplay plans and solutions. BUT here the game development ended. The Lead Artist left our group to (probably) work at Massive Entertainment, another artist applied to Massive too, probably got at job too. One programmer left to begin working too, etc. etc.

Okay. So here I am. Now, I have no clue what to do. Wanted to start my own company, with my friends, but...what can I say. Now I've been kind of lost, what are my chances really? Write for a game magazine? design cell phone games? design other software products? Become a professor in Game Design?

So, good news always comes when you least expect it to.
Well, "good news" - at least a breather anyway - for me was the fact that I have a bigger chans then before to succeed in getting a job in the trade of game design, or something in the line of games at least. It seems like a relative to me heard that I study game and (or?!) software design
and apperently have contacts in Silicon Valley. And he wants me to make contact with him, and try to get me hooked up when I'm finished with my studies...if I got talent. Hell, I'll do anything to get a chance.

Whatever happens in the future I want to start my own company, and this could be one way to get experience enough, but to get experience, I have to find a way to get it...

Hell, I'm gonna have me a tallboy now and enjoy my summer vacation.