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OMGBBQLOLWTF Holidays are over, I can't find my homework and I should go to sleep.

No time to post.

Sad Face.

Or I could MAKE time.

Muahahahaha.

I need my beauty sleep.

IELTS

Just came back from KL.

I took the IELTS test. http://www.ielts.org/default.aspx

It's basically this test that you take (maybe only foreigners i don't know) if you wish to enroll in colleges/universities in English speaking countries like England, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. You past the set mark, they feel that you can understand the eeenglish and that your eungland is powderful enough and you get in. Seriously guys, look at all the posts by me. Me only. I speak not for the other two. Do I frigging seem like I have terrible English? Test felt good. Speaking went better than expected but writing was pretty shitty.

I bought books.

Yeah, books. From BORDERS. The glorious bookstore chain that blessed Malaysia with its presence and stocks American books not found elsewhere locally. I bought lots. AT LEAST a dozen. Lee Child is the man.

I took a picture of Bobtimus Prime.

Not Optimus. His poopy cousin in 1 Utama which can't transform or talk. May upload photo. If it's there then it is. If not, too bad.

I watched Super 8.

It was nice. There's more than one alien in the movie. Bumblebee's in it. I swear it's the same '78 Camaro. Then there's that mysterious alien from the train wreck. He blablablaspoilerblablabla. Stay till the end, at the beginning of the credits, the amateur film that the kids made is shown. Pretty cool.

By the way, how can you go take the test if you're unwilling to even converse in English? WTF? How do you expect to pass? Are you crazy? Your English is like my Mandarin and it's up to you to find out how good that is.

Rapture

It's been 2/3/4 months now?

I thought the world was going to end so I gave up on the blog.

No, seriously. Rapture and all that.

Rapture?

Some dude named Harold whatshisname Camping I think predicted that the world would end on the 21st of May in the year 2011 A.D. At the time of typing, it is 24th of May 2011. So all the dudes and dudettes, boys and boiettes(boy-ett-ss) that believed him and sat around waiting for the end must be lost. So must the man himself.

How would they have reacted? For the first three hours or so, they must have though that God may be running a bit late. By the 12th hour, or noon on the 21st, the persistent few may think that the whole world must be on the 21st for anything to happen. At midnight, some may have commited suicide : unable to await the end. The rest would be struggling to find an excuse.

Me? Chances are, I was fast asleep. Mentally giving the finger to Harold.

Sidebar start/Rapture could also mean the underwater city where the Bioshock and Bioshock 2 take place. Both were great games and I suggest you go buy them NAO. They're on sale on Steam at the moment. Buy it, play it and be amazed./Sidebar end

Actually I just don't feel like typing out stuff. I am on a roll now but if I pause for too long, there goes the whole post. It's not a job but it feels like a job.

Will post MOAR, not frequently.

Debugging

No post since.... January?

Need some brain debugging to do in order to sort myself out.

Plus less time on Internet means I am that much less 'in the know' thus less able to comment on stuffs and also spending more time on studies and related thingys therefore unable to properly phrase out blog posts.

FACT ( I SWEAR )

/In 1947, Grace Murray Hopper was working on the Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator (a primitive computer).
On the 9th of September, 1947, when the machine was experiencing problems, an investigation showed that there was a moth trapped between the points of Relay #70, in Panel F.
The operators removed the moth and affixed it to the log.
The entry reads: "First actual case of bug being found."
The word went out that they had "debugged" the machine and the term "debugging a computer program" was born./


I forgot the source however. ( Just believe me godamit )

A Conspiracy

Has anyone ever considered the ridiculous possibility that (Modern Warfare 2) was actually a premeditated "silent rebellion" type of thing by Infinity Ward since the very beginning?

Anyone who's played MW2 can agree, there's a ton of imbalance in it. Tactical insertions that lead to boosting, unlimited grenade launchers that were too strong and some near-godlike killstreaks. It was just too much. Did IW really give that much attention to the balance of these weapons? Oh, did I mention how outclassed handguns are in comparison to other secondaries?

Intentional???!!!

There's also all the weirdness going on with MW2's storyline. So many plot holes and questions come up when you actually sit down for a few minutes and examine the plotline. Russia's suddenly awe-powerful again. Nikolai is a self-appointed chauffeur. Price survived? How did he get captured? (Why is his hat always perfectly poised on his head?) What the fuck is up with Shepherd? He was in cahoots with Makarov, then he backstabbed Makarov? How did he manage all that without being caught?

There's so many things that have been clouded by oversight to just dismiss it as simple mistakes. Did IW really care as much as they did for this game? Or were they fed up with Kotick and Activision that they decided to put less work into MW2 than they should have?


It could be possible.

Modern Warfare 2 Sabotaged

::After months of finger-pointing and allegations, the company behind the massively popular Call of Duty series may have proof to support claims that one of their video games was sabotaged by its creators at the urging of a rival.

An internal email from a rival Electronic Arts executive, released today as part of a court filing, seems to boast about getting one of the developers of Modern Warfare 2 to delay add-ons for the game. A delay could have prevented the add-on from interfering with the release of the shooter's biggest competitor.

"A couple months ago, I asked Vince to hold back their map pack until after we launched. (He owes me one,) " starts the email written by the rival developer, apparently referring to Modern Warfare 2 developer Vince Zampella. "Given that they've already made a billion, he was cool with that, obviously (Activision CEO ) Kotick took it as being belligerent."

Reached for comment today, EA spokesman Jeff Brown said the email was an obvious joke.

"This was obviously sarcasm," he said. "It's clear from the email this was a joke and they never spoke. We explained this to lawyers at Activision – who apparently don't have much of a sense of humor."

The email was written by Lincoln Hershberger, senior director of global marketing at Electronic Arts' DICE studio to a slew of other EA executives including Frank Gibeau, the company's head of EA Games. The note was dated March 2, the day DICE's Battlefield Bad Company 2 hit stores and 28 days before the "Stimulus Pack" map pack for Modern Warfare 2 went on sale for the Xbox 360.

The emails, unsealed in a court filing earlier this week, are part of an amended complaint by Activision that adds Electronic Arts to the lawsuit they originally filed against Jason West and Zampella. The two headed-up Infinity Wards, Activision's studio behind Modern Warfare, before they were fired amid allegations of sabotage and insubordination.

The two sued Activision with their own allegations, calling the company Orwellian in its control of the studio and saying they were stiffed on bonus. Activision counter-sued.

The emails were given to Activision by EA as a part of discovery in the legal proceedings. But it wasn't until this week that the court allowed them to be entered into the public record. Other emails in the document, filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, seem to show Electronic Arts actively pursuing West and Zampella as future employees. Under California law, the two could be in breach of their employment contract if they actively seek work with another company.

The unsealed emails include exchanges between executives at Electronic Arts discussing the hiring of the two, including requests for taking a more aggressive approach at bringing them over.

Bobby Schwartz, the attorney representing Jason West and Vince Zampella, offered the following reaction to Activision's claims in a statement to Kotaku.

"Activision's claims of such things as 'tortious interference' are not merely unfounded, they are undermined by the very documents attached to and quoted in its cross-complaint. The contact and communications that Jason and Vince had with EA were entirely lawful. If Activision's cross-complaint proves anything, it is that Activision is consumed with ill-will towards plaintiffs. It is bad enough that Activision refused to honor its contract with them and pay them the millions of dollars they and the other Infinity Ward employees earned from their years of work in developing Modern Warfare 2. Now Activision wants to ruin their ability to earn a living anywhere else. When the trial comes, we will make sure the jury appreciates what Activision is attempting to do."

"As to the allegation that Vince deliberately delayed a map pack for MW2 at the request of one of EA's developers, the allegation is completely false, and at trial it will be clear that this is a desperate attempt by Activision to find some basis to justify its misconduct and refusal to pay what it owes, not only to Jason and Vince, but to all of the other Infinity Ward employees."::

Sourced from Kotaku.

Dark Knight Rises

The third installment of the current Batman franchise has been officially titled 'Dark Knight Rises' and is to be released in 2012. There will be no jokes about how the world will end before we get to watch it.

All the previous cast return as their respective characters, Anne Hathaway will be Catwoman/Selina Kyle and Tom Hardy will be Bane.

Many might know who Hathaway and Catwoman are but what about Hardy and the character Bane?

English actor Tom Hardy's most notable appearance recently was as Eames in the movie Inception. He has also appeared in Black Hawk Down and the miniseries Band of Brothers. That puts him down as a must-watch actor in my book.

  How to transform Hardy into Bane?

Bane on the other hand is rather more difficult to introduce. Apparently he's quite infamous as a comic book villain (34th on IGN's top villains) but I sadly just found that out. I do know however that he is the only character to have ever broken Batman's back in the Batcave no less after finding out his true identity. What a beast. He is not crazy in any way but he happens to be 8 feet tall and is dependant on a drug called Venom. He has high intelligence to match his brawn and is highly respectful of Batman.

I approve of the choice of villain (not that it matters) and things are looking good.

Today Is Wednesday

I'm not joking. At the time of posting, it is Wednesday at local time.

Oh and the answer for the riddle is

Sunday

When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, we are three days after 'today'
When the day before yesterday was tomorrow, we are three days before 'today'
Since each one is as far from wednesday as the other, 'today' is wednesday
So three days after 'today' is saturday and the day after that is sunday.

There is a 65% chance you still won't get it.

I Miss...

I miss the good ol' Tony Hawk series back on the PS2.


Ok, I only started playing the Tony Hawk series when Tony Hawk's Underground(THUG) came out, so I didn't play the Pro Skater series but it still got me hooked onto the series. I had so much laughs and fun playing THUG, with its crazy button mashing combos and being able to survive from any fall.


When THUG2 came out, I couldn't wait to get my hands on it and it didn't disappoint. In fact, it was better and for me it was the best of all the Tony Hawk(s) that I have ever played(I played others later). Though the graphics suck even for the PS2, it was just plain fun with its ridiculous story line, awesome maps and missions where you seem to be able to destroy anything just by doing tricks on your skateboard. The characters were just hilarious; a guy on a wheelchair equipped with nitrous and a sasquatch and a motorised skateboard, that's comedy gold. Don't get me started on the songs in THUG2, I practically memorized all the song lyrics.


After that came Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. It wasn't as fun as THUG2 but it was still a great game. The story line was in a more serious manner trying to get stuff for a new skate park. Yes, there were some parts where I laughed my guts out and you get to use a BMX bike but for me THUG2 was more fun.


Then came Tony Hawk's Project 8. Nice graphics, challenges that are hard to complete and big maps but the fun of the game was gone. Was a bit disappointed with it cause it could have been the best.


Then I played Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam. It was fun for like the first two days of playing, then it got boring and just frustrating. This is where the Tony Hawk series started to go, well, downhill I guess.
Downhill Jam was the last Tony Hawk game I played...I didn't play the next two games; Proving Ground and Ride because the review of the games were bad and I had a feeling they were. A new game, Tony Hawk : Shred is coming out and I'm already hearing that it won't be good.

The developers should just go back to their arcade roots and make it more about fun rather than making it more realistic and instead, a frustrating game. I wish they'd make a 3rd Underground with all the fun of THUG2.

Riddle #2

When the day after tomorrow is yesterday,

today will be as far from wednesday

as today was from wednesday

when the day before yesterday was tomorrow.

What is the day after this day?