Lemme tell you one thing. That's not fast, that's lame. For a game which has an estimated 7 hour playthrough, five and a half hours isn't just short, it's like a 9 minute movie. And I did it all alone too. Seriously, the game business has hit rock bottom with storylines.

Ah well, I gained four achievements in return for this short-term shortie-short-ultra-short expirience. Completed Campaign on Heroic(125), We're in for some Chop(5), Ranger(10) and Cavalier(10). Seriously, that storyline felt like an 30 minute war.

The only mission I had trouble with was Cortana, those things kept nailing me from'a distance. Can't wait for some real storyline, when Mass Effect comes in.

How is this line-up for an game?

Pistols:
- Colt .45
- Glock 17
- Berretta 9MM
- The Golden Gun
- Desert Eagle
- .44 Magnum
- Raging Bull Revolver
- Heavily Customized D-Eagle

Sub Machine Guns:
- Ingram MAC 10.
- UZI 9MM
- Tec 9
- H&K MP7A1
- P90
- H&K MP5
- H&K MP5N/K
- H&K UMP45

Shotguns:
- Remmington 870 (Pump-Action)
- Benelli M4 (Pump-Action)
- Franchi SPAS-12 (Pistol-Grip, Pump Action w/ Pullback Reload)
- Franchi SPAS-12 (Gas Pump Riot-version)
- Benelli M3 (Pistol Grip, Pump Action)
- Franchi SPAS-15 (Automatic, Gas Pump, Riot, Heavily Customized)
- MAURUZEN M820 (Riot, Gas Pump, Automatic)
- MAURUZEN Sawn-Off (Riot, Recoil Stick, 4-shot barrel)

Assault Rifles:
- Colt M4
- Colt M16
- Kalaskinov AK-47
- SIG 552 Commando
- Steyr AUG A3
- H&K G36C
- H&K M8-Plastic/Carbon
- FN SCAR-H
- Colt M16 Custom (Scope, No Grip)

Sniper Rifles:
- L96AWM-Tactical
- PSG1
- CA-M24 Socom
- DRAGANUVA 1.100YRD
- BARRET M82A1-II

Heavy Machine Guns/etc.:
- M60 (Beltbuckled)
- M60E4 Limited Edition NAVY SEALS(Pistol Grip, Magazine fed)
- M249
- RPG7
- RPG7 Custom (Shoulder Grip, larger caliber).

The trowables etc doesn't matter. Does this seem like a fine gun line up? Feedback appreciated. Also, if you got something in mind(Existing or Custom/Handmade/Made up). Comment. For images, hit this link. It's still under construction, but all images are there and it's 80% done.

Yep, the big 300. Already. Yeah, I know I'm a total addict. Either way, in celebration of such an event that shouldn't be celebrated in the first place. TheThree Characters That Made History(for me). With that, I don't mean characters like CJ from GTA: San Andreas, or Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid.

No secundary characters, which were so great that they should be honored like a god.

#1 - Mike Toreno from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004).

Toreno's a CIA/FBI/DHS/National Guard/Anything Agent. And damn his dialogue was the best ever. Really. He's supposed to be an "behind the scenes know it all", and used Carl Johnson to clean up the dirty work to keep his hands clean, and in order to return Sweet to San Andreas from a horrible jailcell.

In every way possible, Toreno's a neurotic smartass. In the good way of the word, actually. If a game needed a character like this, it's Grand Theft Auto. His missions are fun, and his cutscenes are hillarious if you understand what he's saying. Now, if you're interested in "Conspiracy Theories", this guy will make sense.

If not, well... Then you'll doubt what the hell he's doing in this list.

Famous Quotes:
"*reading an history book* This history is all wrong! It says that Hitler killed himself, and that we nuked Japan. Well... Whatever helps them sleep at night."

#2 - Johnny Gat from Saints Row (2006)

This psycho called Johnny Gat made Saints Row's cutscenes memoriable. I'm positive that half of the players never even understood the jokes he made. In short, they were anti-feminist and very random.

Speaking of random, Gat was not the regular psycho, he's the type that "takes the biggest hammer, and smashes what gets in his way. Which explains his whacky-ass robo-leg". Basicly, he's an idiot. But, nontheless funny.

Another guy from the sandbox-action genre, yup... I'm aware of that too. Hey, guess what! The third one will be too. Alriiight. He's your basic Chinese-American Martin Riggs.

Famous Quotes:
"Well, you don't mess with the Saints!... I mean, Vice Kings. Cause, err... That's who we are. I suppose."

#3 - The Truth from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

The very best character out of any game. Sneaky, neurotic, dumb, stupid, on drugs, weird mottos and the last but not least - He's an hippie. Alright, it's another GTA character. But not alot of games, actually barely any game nowadays has good characters than you wanna memorize, not just see as an hero.

This guy made alot of references to what today are true conspiracy theory topics. Like the Lizard King, the No 23 Theory and a group of preparing survivalists. His random acts are what you can call a signature move. Oftenly he gives a good excuse too, for instance when he makes CJ park the car infront of a hospital, he says to CJ "Think about a yellow rubber duck."Wether he's paranoid, or well gifted and informed, no-one knows.

Cause this aging hippie has no idea of what he says himself either. He made video game histoy. ...For me.

Famous Quotes:
"Shoot? I'm a hippie. The only thing I've shot is acid. I heard of a dude snorted it once. Thought his nose was a kangaroo and the moon was a dog! WOOH!"

(P.S, can you make sense out of those random links? You do? Well to Bill Brasky then.)

Seriously, what took 'em so long? I'm a huge Die Hard fan ever I've seen the first one. Raw bloodthirsty action caused by this Yippee Ki Yay-yelling mother****er called John McClane. McClane is a simple Rambo Knock-off, but heck... There's a Vietnam Badass and there's an Urban Badass. And Bruce Willis tagged that territory his.

Alright, it's free advertising from 20th Century Fox, but then again. 75% of all the premium-pictures/themes suck so bad, that you're almost on the verge of demanding your money back. And, half of the free-ware themes and pictures aren't half bad, but aren't that good either.

Finally... Some kickass ware. Which, is free.

"To Bill Brasky? Or To John McClane? Who cares, they're both sons of b****es and they're both badass. :D"

(Critical Note: Yes, I am overly happy - Microsoft is letting us pay for 80x80 images most of the time. This is premium quality, yet it's free. I should enjoy this moment of pure facist capitalism untill atleast 11/12/2017. Don't ask about the date.)

November 10th 2007. Xbox Live Status. Detection started at 11/10/2007 4:06PM EST.

Errors:
Online Gaming:
- Multiplayer Lag
- Multiplayer Hosting Problems
- Unable to join hosted games.
- Rainbow Six Vegas' "Invite to" dead.
- Unable to download Auto-Update.
- Leaderboards down.
- Random Lag messages on Gears of War.

Xbox360 Dashboard:
- Marketplace Down
- Advertisements down.
- Unable to download anything.
- Unable to update gamerpics/mottos/zones.
- Recent Players' gamertags showas "??????".
- Unable to send messages.
- Unable to read messages.
- Unable to send chat invites.
- Unable to log into Xbox Live(Between 4:11 & 4:14PM)

Player Profiles/www.xbox.com/Gamertags:
- Xbox.com down since 4:06PM 'til current.
- Gamertags show up as "?".
- Gamertag Gamerscore is "0".
- Gamertag Zone is "None".
- No country.
- No motto.
- Currently Playing "online", no achievements and is "online".
- Compare Games is down.

You'd say after Halo 3 pulled a massacre on Xbox Live, Microsoft would upgrade their servers. I dunno, but I think Call of Duty 4 caused this downtime. If not: Microsoft is ranked #1 on "Screw up once, do not learn. Screw up twice, do get sued."

I'm havin' a pretty bad day, so far. Well, two day streak actually. Three random things just had to happen...

Yesterday morning at 7AM I came home, and I notice my neighbor Shelly looking at the storagedoor. Inside that storage people can store their stuff they usually dump in a garage. For instance, I had two bikes standing in my section. A dark-blue TREK 1500 mountainbike and a silver-white GIANT mountainbike.

Well, Shelly said to me in the shame of irony: "I could've sworn that your space had something in it."

My two bikes got stolen. The TREK alone was worth 760$. The GIANT was a gift from my new "uncle", as my aunt married him three months ago. He's a pro biker and was in Armstrong's team for atleast a year. Not bad eh? Either way, that GIANT was 400$ new. I've only had it for two months.

Well, I called the police. They filed it. And then stupidity hit me in the face like a smack in the crotch. I forgot those numbers that are on the frame for theft-identification. Even worse, I was offered a high clas.s insurance for the GIANT which I declined... As, well I dont pay for something I rarely use.

I only go mountain biking twice a year on the hills of Utah. The thing that's so random out of this is the following, my other neighbor has a scooter. A pretty expansive Aprillia with somekind of Spiderman Paint. He never puts the thing on steer-lock and has no alarm or anything. One kick-start and you could've make a fast runaway.

Why two bikes of 1000$, when you can jack a 1200$ scooter? Hell, like I said. One kick start and you're off at 50MPH.

Well, I just say "Forgive and Forget" as I'll never see those bikes back again. This morning, at 4AM I pull up the driveway of the storage building I work at with theChevy delivery van I used. I lock it, and walk to my car. First thing I noticed was my door standing open. The second I noticed as I sat down in the drivers seat, I sat on glass. The third thing I noticed was my oldSony CD player being gone.

Random thing of this one: There was a 2004 Lexus IS400 standing right next to my beaten up Dodge Dakota. What the hell?

So, at 4AM I had to drive home, without a window and without a coat. Those bastards only left me with an old Bob Seger CD. Well, at 5:45 as I drove my car to the garage to fix my window, which the owner said to cost around 50$, pretty cheap. I took the subway to 96th St.

A few minutes after I changed trains at 96th to Grand Central,some guy standing a bit further into the train all of the sudden yelled "THE49ERS ****ING SUCK!". I had to wear that San Fransisco 49ers Cap. THe irony of this one is; Two seats further, a guy wearing a Red Sox jersey sat right overthere. The Sox won the damn World Series against the Rockies. How am I a target then? Ain't my fault that my Mets cap's missing.

Seriously, this' too random for words.

Yes. ATARI's nailing the dust. Again. Only, the INFROGAMES studio is at the local banker, explaining what the difference between 10M USD profit and 17M USD losses is. What they aren't gonna explain is this little chore list:

- 3x Failed to publish their earnings and losses to the NYSE.
- 1x CEO Running off.
- 2x Chairman "missing".
- 1x Bankrupcy Form.

Deep puddle of shame already. And the lovely response of the gamers of this day:

- 78% of comments is "Finally".
- 20% of comments is "Well, good games in the past, now they're dead. Better to see them die than to let them suffer."
- 2% of comments is "Such a damn shame."

Wrong-side-of-the-bed-much 78%? Democrat-much 20%? Side-show Bob-much 2%? Either way, here we go:

ATARI CEO: This ship is sinking...
ATARI PR: Well no s**t!?
ATARI Accountant: In technical terms; We've hit the goddamn iceberg.
ATARI CEO: *Looks around* It's every idiot for himself *jumps ship*
ATARI PR: With what money do we pay this cruise with?
ATARI Accountant: Errr... You formiliar with the phrase "If you're goin' down, atleast be happy oncebefore you hit the bottom."
ATARI PR: Do you call "Hope Shines Shipping Service"happy times?
ATARI Director: Oh crap, there's that guy from the NYSE. Haul ass for the dinghies!
ATARI PR: This is more epic than the goddamn Titanic! *jumps off the ship*
ATARI Accountant: Atleast Leonardo didn't hit rockbottom financial-wise too!
ATARI Director: We're going to Mexico guys. Vamos! Jack, your name is now Pedro, alright? *jumps*
ATARI Accountant: This is mother****ing 1984 all over again... *falls in the water during a flashback*
NYSE Analyst: *calls* Hey Ross... It's Game Over. And we've reached the Hiscore. 7 million in debt baby!
ATARI Accountant: *from a distance* Puta! *waving his fists*
IRS Agent: Those guys are screwed... They're like those dudes from that movie Natural Born Killers. They should be called "Natural Born Screw Ups". 1984. 1996. 2007. Three times a charm. And those morons have hit the damn jackpot. You from the NYSE, saddle up. We're going to Taco Land.

... My imagination has hit a new low, this one requires some imagination a'ight. 8)

The title said it basicly.

I'm about to spend 260$ in this month just on games. Which are Need For Speed: ProStreet, Kane & Lynch Dead Men, Mass Effect, BlackSite Area 51, Call of Duty 4 and my favorite old school game, Vigilante 8 for the PS1. While, NFS will be the first I buy next week, I'll sit CoD4 out. I'm a shooter fan, but since a err... Sudden accidant kinda leeched some money away, I'll give it a go some other time. Like, late November.

That sudden accidant involves a can of PEPSI, a Nokia cellphone, two remote controls and a wireless Xbox360 Controller. I knocked it over, my cellphone basicly got a Tsunami effect... Outter shell stands, inside is dead. My DVD remote isn't working no longer, same counts for my TV remote(Yay for backup remotes that actually work!) and the Xbox 360 controller is pretty much dead too.

No refund on that thing cause, well... I do realise that the Microsoft Customer Support is based out of jackasses. An sticky, dripping wet controller, with the story of "This is how I got it". No way that'll work.

Either way, I still got about 6 days to waste before my first UPS delivery gets in. And, well... It's not I'm getting any more active overhere at work. So, I figured I'll just start working on the Drive or Die project some more. While I already was busy working on it silently, now it's time for the images. 2D that is.

These four are out of a set. And I quote:
72.201 Traffic Signs.
Out of 72201, 5691 are unique.

All 5691 unique templateswill have to be handcrafted in Adobe Photoshop.
I think I can waste quite some time now. This, and the regular Photo-editing like from the last blog.

If you're feeling like reading some more,head overthere. Some back up information. It's going slooow.

I don't eat Oreo's for breakfast. I eat kudos.

- Mine, edited with Photoshop. (Larger Image, 800xsomething)

- Rockstar Games' Official. (Larger Image 800xsomething)

I get kudos for wasting time, not for creating this. I'm no show off, I'm a show-yawner.

I'll admit, my Dutch accent with the deep S-tones and the hard-to-prenounce T's... I'm not that easy to understand. But hotdamn some people like to raise the bar. Really, how hard is it to ADJUST your headset, when it's fully adjustable? Still, some people like to have something in their mouths all the time, others like to breath on the thing like he's from the Star Wars movie set.

So, dedicated to them:

1. - A Microsoft XboxLive Headset is NOT a chewtoy.
Okay, some are naturally nervous like he's Frasier Crane, others have Doggie instincts. But, it's just common sense. You don't suck on your microphone, it cannot be eaten. It's not a chewtoy. It's not something you lick on. It's not something you disrupt your natural sense for food with. It's not something you use as alternative for blow-jobs.

The recorder-part doesn't belong INSIDE your mouth. Infront of your mouth. Is it that hard? Your tounge makes interesting sounds, ofcourse... Hell, Call Discovery, you might have a documentary right overthere. But really, you talk into that part. Not lick. You talk into that thing for atleast 0.5". Not MINUS 0.5".

Mkay? You ain't a dogg, nor are you about to have a nervous breakdown. Keep that thing out of your mouth, makes talking easier...
Side note: I am heavily exaggerating this, as people are like ... Us, IGNORANT.

2. - That same thing made by them leeches is also NOT a "Darth Vader Immitation Toy".
No need to go deep. Keep that thing at the height of your nose. If you use that voice along with "Luke, I am your father.", I'll happily yell "NOOOOO!" with epic voice casting. If not, GTFO.

3. - Don't be offended if someone doesn't understand you. Mkay?
Negative Repping after someone said "Dude, I have no ****ing idea of what your Darth Vader-ing up, get that thing outta your goddamn mouth!" is inexcusable, Agent. It's like a crappy telephone. Things are quickly misunderstood. And things always stay hard to understand unless someone commented on it. Mkay? HE'S HELPING YOU OUT!