Downloaded Steam last night. Paid Sixty friggin bucks. Now it won't even play anything. Goddam internet.
Valve, Vivendi and everybody else friggin suck.

Ahhhhh, good times, good times.

Let's see-
I'll wait on the hard drive for now. I need to figure out how to plug in this memory stick without blowing up my PC.
I'll get the MX510 and the Logitech joystick soon- then I get to figure out what else to spend cash on.

Now, I've got two options-
Half-Life 2- 60 bucks
Act of War: Direct Action- 40 bucks.

I really want AoW, but I really want HL2 as well. Dammit.

What's cool is, I just got done reading the latest book by Dale Brown: Act of War. Totally awesome. The CID unit totally owns. At least, the way I picture it. Other people probably wouldn't see the CID the way I have it in my mind. Now I absolutely have to buy Act of War: Direct Action for the sake of it, even though the plot is much different from the book. At least, I think. At least in terms of the beginning premise.
Strange: I need to remind myself to de-install Battlefield 2 in the morning and then reinstall it- don't know what 'memory leaks' are but I sure as hell don't want to have those. Then re-download Punkbuster and the unranked servers and I'm good.
The problem apparently stems from some screw ups with Patch 1.01. Morons at DICE can't even make a patch without breaking it. Can you imagine that? They release code to fix something, only to realize that it itself is broken. It's like buying a wrench to fix the toilet, except the thing is totally screwed up. And it's not like it's been worn from use- the thing was inherently screwed up when it was built. Goddam it.
Here. Have a picture.

Now apparently I think we've got a puzzle worth solving here.
Here's what I mean....
So Jarvis here tells me that the Spaniard who made the movie on the Nintendo ON may have been under the employ of either Sony or Microsoft. This is interesting. This dude may have been part of an elaborate pyramid email scam.(ATHF) Or rather, he's been making the Nintendo ON as a way of hyping nonexistent technology to the Nintendo fanbase in order to make them excited about technology that might exist, and when it turns out not to exist, they're less than excited about the actual technology present. Claiming to make the movie out of protest of a consoles' shelf life would be a cover up.
This would be risky because neither Sony nor Microsoft know what Nintendo is planning, so if Nintendo ON turns out to be inferior to what Nintendo actually has in mind for the Revolution, then the plan backfires.
Who would take on this PR scam, though?
Seeing as how Microsofts' subsidiaries- therefore Microsoft itself- is currently making games for the Nintendo DS, that may leave only one company left as a suspect.
Though supporting the DS may be a separate endeavor from trying to beat N in the console wars, it's plausible that since MS doesn't have a handheld in the race, they may be lending support to Nintendo to defeat Sony's PSP. After all, I don't think MS considers Nintendo to be their main enemy.
It's worth considering.

Yeah, to err is human, but what the hell? BF2 gets to the point where it's not responding in the server screen and I had to do an emergency shutdown. Can't wait for the goddam patch, whenever the hell EA decides to stop screwing over its customers.
It's not so much the game as it is the people who made it that I'm angry at.
Of course, I'm just going to defrag my PC now anyways.

There's a bug in Battlefield 2 in which some of your allies' names will appear in red, thus making them look like the enemy.
Which is dumb, and is why I ended up being labeled a teamkiller- becasue of a goddam bug.
They better fix this.
In the meantime, I think the Fourth of July is a good time to play Freedom Fighters. Don't you?

You know, it's pretty funny just to say that.
Playing BF2 online can be great and frustrating at the same time.
After all, I have access to much bigger maps. But playing on them can cause lag. Lots of it.
Hell, I get into a Sukhoi right when somebody gets in the pilot seat. I'm thinking, 'All right, now time for some action in the air.'
It must be really cool to be able to fly a jet in a 64 player map in all its glory. I don't know how that feels, because as soon as we were about to take off the server disconnects me. So now I'm here.
Real friggin great. Hey Jarvis, get your ass online soon. How the hell long is it going to take you to get that dream PC of yours up and running anyway?

In the abstract, anyway. I don't think I'll ever have the chance of having sex with a girl ever, for a variety of reasons-chief among them that chicks probably wouldn't find me attractive. Jarvis on the other hand, he chugs a bucket of nacho cheese and girls think he's sexy. He had a fanclub at one time, made up of three people. But as to the title, that's what dad kept saying after I got shot in the finger.
See, I just spent two hours playing adversary with the local SWAT team. They had me do three scenarios- in the first I and another SWAT officer's son played the role of a couple kids being held hostage in a laundromat by a guy with a bat- which was supposed to be a simulated axe.
The second scenario involved me and the other kid having a shootout with the SWAT team with simunitions- basically paintball. I surrendered before I used up the rounds in my revolver, and I think when I dropped it the gun discharged by accident. Revolvers would be more prone to that, I'd think. But then again I don't know. Then the other kid got a flashbang in his face- simulated, so he wasn't actually blind. He just counted to three before he could do anything to simulate blindness.
The final scenario involved me being a human shield for the kid- I got shot in the finger during that and the kid got a facefull of paint. So I have a swell on my index, the same one I use to play BF2. So that's why dad was saying 'he's not a virgin anymore'- because I no longer am considered a newbie to the SWAT sims.
Then I got to check out dad's MP5 on a dummy target afterwards- it was too hot to go for much longer. Simunitions can really screw up a gun, so I mostly shot it on single burst instead of full auto. Still pretty cool, mind you.
So that was cool.
You know what? I'm just goign to put comments on, see what people think of that. At least I'll now how many people read this.

You'll see why you want to in the next few sentences.
See, I saw this ad for Star Wars Galaxies- the most ridiculous thing you've ever seen. They sit there showing off quotes from people- and normally these are supposed to be sophisticated, holier-than-thou type people that everybody's familiar with. You'd think that they'd use quotes from Gamespot or Gamepro or EGM, but I guess quotes coming from them weren't dazzling enough.
So instead, they decided to take quotes from normal people and displayed those for the ad. "The greatest Star Wars game ever!" - Kevin, Long Beach Ca.
See, they try to spruce it up and fake you into believing he's above average by sticking in his location. "Wow! Long Beach?!? I've never been there! It's so far away, he MUST be important!"
That's how desperate Lucasarts is right now.