As some of you may know, my laptop charger broke a few months back, (shame on you puppies:x!) so I had to buy a new one. Most laptop chargers are quite expensive here. To a unemployed college student expensive, some of you might find it cheap, usually around 60 bucks or something. I went to the place where I bought it and they told me the guarantee doesn't cover that andI had to pay like 80 bucks for a new one. The Terms of Use forbids mefrom saying here what I said to them but I digress.

I decided, oh I'll buy one online, so I went to ebay, grabbed a "good" offer, bought the charger 15 bucks. Waited for like 5 weeks and it arrived (it arrived around the second week I forgot to pick it up :P). That was around tuesday I think, the charger felt great, worked great and I felt like I made a good investment.

Now, the charger is overheating quickly and I mean HOT, I can leave a pizzza for 1 min in the oven and it won't even be that hot.it has deformed on one part, like it has a ball or a bulk I don't know how to call it. Don't know if this is a common thing between chargers, the last one got hot yes but I could fry an egg on this one.

I guess I'm gonna have to pay for a new original one...so much for online offers, now I'm hesitating of getting a psp online. :(

How about you? Have you had bad experiences with laptop chargers?? I don't think you guys do, usually you can find a good replacement in the US at an affordable price.

Until Next Time

See ya!

You can feel it in the air, it's that time of the year again where the sun shines, the grass gets dry, the days are longer and nights shorter and E3 is around the corner. But who cares bout that >_>

Just kidding, E3 is around the corner guys developers and companies unveil their new releases for the next year and you get to see what kind of stuff you'll be putting in your thumbs soon enough, aren't you excited??! I know I am.

While the wait and the excitement is really good sometimes there are a few things that may ruin E3 for you, Last year I made a blog like this but now that I'm on the moderating team I figured I could use my little experience acquired from seeing some user behavior in the boards todo some tweaks here and there and make these tips more complete. While some have tips to follow in order to make E3 more enjoyable I present you:

"10 Tips you should NOT follow in order to make E3 more enjoyable" 2011 Edition

1."E3 is more important than school, who cares if I have my history final today?? I'm being part of GAMING history that should count as my final!!"

While this may be a good reason for you to miss school I don't think your teacher will probably agree on this. Don't let E3 affect your school performance if you have to make a choice remember school is FIRST you have no idea on the trouble I got back in high school for not going to school on E3 days, I had to do harder exams or larger homeworks . The future of gaming history can be watched in HD after you get homefrom school too! there is no need to get desperate . I know that E3 schedule might not be the best for those who go to school from 9 to 3 pm. But no gaming news is worth an F in an assigment. Hmm maybe Half-Life Episode 3....

2."Do a mix of Red Bull, Monster Energy, Coffee and Dura Cell batteries in order to stay awake"

I know the E3 scheduleis not the best for some of us. While the Gamespot Staff have to be up there early in the morning some of us might need to be in front of our screens late at night.I remember how some users used to drink cofee and all sorts of stuff all night long just to see that PS3 launch event, while this is a good way to keep you awake it can limit your performance in your next day activities, don't stay awake til 1 or 2 am just to watch a live coverage (if you live far away) and don't stay awake all night because you're afraid you won't wake up in time to see the event, it is better to get a good night sleep, then again if you feel you can handle the pressure I can't stop you…just let me know what duracell batteries taste like

3."If the page isn't loading the website is to blame, Unleash your wrath in the comments section"

Every.Single.Year I see this, the video window says "Streaming" but you don't see or hear anything then someone posts "It has already started!" And you begin to lose patience, this is gaming history we are talking about Gamespot!!! I demand my video liek rite NAO !! I'm missing some minutes!!! After a while you completely lose patience and go to the comment section and flood it with negative comments about the website in general. And then someone tells you to be cool, who are they to tell you to be cool! YOU ARE COOL!!! :evil:

Nah Seriously :P, this is a common issue but please keep in mind that it is a live stream and thousands of people are watching it. We are supposed to have at least some lag before it gets good. It usually takes about4 or 5 mins at the most for you to be able to see the conference so be patient, use this time to go to the bathroom, grab a snack, answer that phone that has been ringin all morning. You don't want to be interrupted in the middle of the conference. If you lose patience you're not helping anyone if you go through the comments saying "This sux!" I have yet to encounter an event here on GS where I miss the whole conference due to streaming issues. For real, most of the conferences appear after a little time waiting, just be patient.

4."Who cares about the ToU, no one can see what I type on chat, anarchy I say!!!"

Careful, gamespot offers a chat where you can interact with other users but that doesn't mean the Terms of Use is invallid there, you can still get moderated for posting something that goes against the rules in that chat, mods and admins can keep track of the chat interaction so be careful with what you post there, last year I saw a very....open minded chat and everyone was like, post away! you can't get modded here!...WRONG! which brings me to the next tip to ignore.

5."I can't watch a conference so I'll give my password to my friend and he'll watch it for me and I will win the emblem I'm so smart!!!! :D"

Be EXTRA careful with this thing guys, don't give your Gamespot password to anyone and if you do (which againI remind you "don't") at least pick someone who has your complete trust. It's no surprise that some people do this, personally I've done it in the past but I usually gave itto someone I deeply trusted, a brother or a friend, the keyword here is "TRUST" and not the Megadeth Song.I've seen some cases of guys that give their password to their accounts to the wrong people and bad things happen.

You give your password to your little brother or little cousin or dog or that friendly user you met in the boards yesterday and they watch the conference grant you the emblem but they join the chat and start flaming, posting stuff that is disruptive or simply breaking the ToU without even knowing. They have nothing to fear it's not their account and the one who has to pay for the broken plates it's you. Yes! you! who cares if it was your dog and not you using your account, while breaking the rules. It's YOUR account for a reason, you are solely responsible for it!! Last thing you would want is to get banned because of someone else's fault but of course that is only an extreme case, still within the possibilities though.

As a last security meassure, if you give your password to someone be sure to change it after they finish using your account, while they may not do any harm to your account, who knows if they get hacked in the future and the hacker finds the password you forgot to change and hacks your account and gets you banned. We don't want that now do we??

Be VERY careful when giving your password to someone else, you can never stress this enough.

6." I got lost in the E3 page it is so confusing I didn't get to see the coverage in time, shame on you GS!!"

If I could get a dollar for everytime I've heard this I'll probably have enough to go to the E3, I must say that this has happened to me, once during my early years I tried to see sony's coverage but there were lots of videos and I had a hard time looking for the right one while battling against my computer lag and slow Internet connection at that time it can get pretty frustrating. E3 is still a few days away so you have enough time to familiarize with the page. Try simulating how will you act before each conference, what you'll click, it helpsto bookmark thevideos you want tosee before they start so you don't get lost.Another good thing you can use is to avoid downloading things while youload videos since this can affect the streaming , you have to be prepared if you want to catch your shows on time. What's the point if the website offers you the best weapons for you to watch the shows if you don't know how to use them??

7. "The Gamespot Schedule is fine I'll just follow it and I'll catch my shows on time"

Careful, sometimes GS posts a Schedule in a certain time zone and it may not be accurate for everyone, this year's calendar is on Pacific time so if you live in any other time zone it would be good for you to look for a Time Zone Converter to get your correct local time. This is one of the reasons people miss their shows don't be one of those and double check just in case.

8. "Who cares about E3?! Emblems is what really matters"

Ahh yess E3 emblems, Gamespot has a tradition on giving away many of those cute little images for tuning up to the live coverage and that is the main reason most people here tend to do even the imposible just to get them. While it is not a bad thing some people abuse and get really REALLY pissed off when they don't get them. Remember E3 is not just about emblem is about gaming news, Emblems are just a way to encourage you to look at the news not a way to force you to watch them.

9. "I missed the E3 emblems!!! E3 sucks!!"

Don't be sad if you missed some emblems despite watching every live show. It happens I've been in Gs for almost 4 years and have seen almost every E3 coverage and I've only gotten one 1 set of emblems and I'm not really sad about that. I've seen some people make a huge deal about that in the boards and they inmediately change their minds about the E3 thanks to that. There are many reasons perhaps you were not at the right time or perhaps you just commented and didn't watch or perhaps you didn't watch long enough, try to watch the whole thing, post in the comments and hang around the chat for a whilejust to make sure . And even if you do this and don't get the emblem there's usually a thread for missing emblems posted in the boards after E3 is over, but please don't do like some people who posts there and start demanding that they should be given their emblems NAO! Be respectul when requesting a missing emblem, try to only post ONCE and edit your post if you feel you should add something. Missing emblems might take a while to be given out because staff have to manually check every user's story to make sure they're met the requirements, it's a tedious process and it takes a good share of time. I missed some E3 emblems last year and I got them nearly 2 months later, but the important part is I got them. Just be patient if you met the requirements have no fear, you'll get your emblems :)

10. "E3 is over…forget about it"

Wait...WHAT?! You just watched E3 and you are just gonna stay there?? Discuss!! That's where the fun part start, discuss with your friends and fellow Gs members in the respective E3 threads on the Gamespot Boards about the latest E3 news, Tell the World Aboutthe PS4or Call of Duty MW3 ! It is always good to see what other people think about the game. Be in the Gamespot staff's shoes for a sec they traveled thousands of miles, faced the greatest of dangers, missed the most amount of sleep time in order to bring you the most complete E3 coverage the least you can do for them is give them some feedback on what you liked and what you didn't about the E3 coverage in order to make the next one even better

E3 season is one of the best ones the expectation, the hype and the excitement all around the boards is quite contagious I must say I'm really excited to see this year's coverage and looks like GS is going all out this time. Just remember to NOT follow these tips and just my comments :P, You'll most likely have a great E3 experience.

Until Next Time

See ya!!

Today I watched Smallville's Finale. After 10 seasons the show reached to an end not because of lack of popularity, the show ended because....well there was really nothing else they could tell and everyone was like "When is he going to become superman?!" since season 7.

*Spoilers Ahead*

Let me tell you, I started watching that show when I was like on 7th grade It took me a while to realize that was clark kent in his teens, I thought it was some teen drama show like "Gilmore Girls". At first the show was ok, every week they had this new guy with superpowers terrorizing the high school and clark would save everyone by using his and discovering new ones, for the first few seasons, we saw a good lex luthor, freak of the week in every episode, and a lot of people that never really appeared in superman's story. Take Chloe for example, she was never mentioned once.

On the next seasons clark's powers and past were explored a little more, he began maturing not only in powers but in his mind as well. He faced many teen issues, rebellion, broken hearts, prom, love triangles you name it. By that time lex began to investigate clark to find out what was he hiding it was then than the trust began to break between them.

After clark got out of high school, he moved to metropolis the cast changed, lois lane appeared lex became bad, clark started his reporting carreer and the show started to look more superman-ish. They started to include new villains, Lex, Zod, Bizarro, as well as new allies. Aquaman, Flash, Cyborg, John Jones and Green Arrow. From that point the show started to lose that high school atmosphere that caracterized it, from then I started to watch it again.

One day actor Michael Rosenbaum left the show, thus losing lex luthor, the inmediatly replaced lex character for Tess Mercer and the show started to get new people and the first concepts of justice league were explored as new allies started to appear, Zatanna, Supergirl, Superboy. After a new appereance of a younger Zod the show really had shown the majority of characters in Superman's story and the whole smallville concept was just a line in the horizon. And for the final season they brought one last villain, Darkseid.

On the final episode many old actors returned, lex's dad, clark's dad, Lex himself returned there was a lot of speculation of what the ending was gonna be, will clark FINALLY fly? Will he wear the suit? Will he finally become superman?? I expected a lot from the ending and the show delivered.

In the 2 hour finale, all the 10 years of smallville were explored, couples were set, some people that didn't belong to the story died while others returned. Clark finally felt as superman not as some shy kid from smallville. They even used some of the original Superman Movie Score for the finale which was a plus. Clark finally learned to fly (After 10 seasons of fighting flying enemies with superspeed). And there was the typical scene in which the city is in danger and he opens his shirt and we see the "S" logo.

BUT

There was one thing perhaps the most important of it, that ruined the ending for me, I feel like I've been scammed after 10 seasons, after all those enemies all that speculation all the drama at the series climax

[spoiler] Clark Never, EVER, EVER, wore the superman suit All the shots were he was "using" it were CGI and very far away we would only see the cape but fullbody was never seen. Don't get me wrong it's not that I wanted to see a guy in a superman suit but seriously, 10 seasons and in the final moment, the point where he became superman....CGI....God dammit hollywood...God dammit [/spoiler]

Other than that it was good, great show, great ending, great cast, as much as I enjoyed I didn't want to see a season 11. So I'm happy it's FINALLY over.

Until Next time

See ya!

And so it begins >_>

Hello everyone, well today I'm going to share an experience frommy day in college.

Today I was hangin out with my friends in the outdoor area of the college. Since most of the benches were occupied we decided to sit around a tree and talk, joke you know. That tree was a really cool place to hang out, no bugs, qute comfy and fresh, made me want to sleep underneath it. And I wondered

"This seems like a cool place, why don't people come here to talk, it's better than those benches"

I was about to find out the answer, after a few mins someone approached us. One guy, Criss Angel

Hey sup guys, hey listen I'll only take one moment of your time, I'm a magician I do magic wanna see some magic? Here you pick a card, ok now put it in is this your card? No? Of course not, it's this one! No? You sure? Umm..is this your card?? You sure it wasn't the other ones I showed you? Um...you really sure? here let me show it again

Well not exactly Mr. Angel but some random student claiming to be able to do magic, he failed his trick miserably and at some point it looked like he was going to cry but in the end it turned out he could make himself dissapear, because he left as fast as he showed up. We kept on talking and after a few mins a girl and a guy came by.

Good evening young lads we are *Removed group to avoid offending anyone* And the Lord has brought us here to teach you his word it'll only take a few mins of your time

Well it's God, so we decided "meh lets listen", and so a 15 min monologue about sin, the bible, religious programs developed. In the end they said

Now let us pray

And so we prayed, but I felt that they were hiding something, they were a little too religious for a religious person. I began to suspect of a trap but I kept quiet. A few mins later.

Would you be kind enough to give us your name so we can continue praying for you?

Ok that's it, s*** just got weird. I'm not giving my name to some stranger that approached me today, even if they were talking about God, this is fishy. So me and my friends gave them our names......our joke names ;). Oh the look on their faces when they examine that list in closer detail and say those names out loud :lol:

They left, we continued talking for a while until another person approached us, this time a studentfrom another college or so he said. He had this look on his face like the one you have when you're late for something

Please may I take a moment of your time? I'm a veterinary student from X university. I was in the correctional but now I set my life straight, I need to get to the city, rightnow to keep on with my studiesandI mean right nowbut I have no money for the bus would give me your money please

I gave him a quarter just so he could leave but my friends ignored him, I wondered why until they told me, that there was a news report of a kid that escaped the correctional this morning, if he just had said

I just escaped the correctional and I need to get to the city help me dodge the police. I would've probably given him more. Anyways we kept on talking until another man approached us. This time an old man with a look like a depressed sean connery that does not know what a razor blade is...or shampoo.

Hello, how are you doing? do you mind if I talk with you for a min? You see I once was...

He told us how he once was an accountant, how he worked for this big company until the company stole everything from him, his wife left him took his daughter he became depessed couldn't find a job, started to drink and his life went downhill from that point. Now he is back on track and is looking for his daughter in the campus and wondered if one of my friends would guide him.

The story seemed convincing, I think I saw a tear at some point perhaps it was the sun, I digress but there is something that gave him away and that was the fact that he would only want a female to guide him, I offered and another guy also did but he just kept saying he would feel more confortable if one of the girls would do it.

At that moment we knew something was up so we told him to go talk to any of the workers to guide him we had cla$$esto attend and so we left. He insisted that we should help and we insisted we shouldn't.

Now I know why most people avoid that tree. Too bad, seemed like a cool place though but stranger and stranger people started to show up and I still don't know from where!!!

I'm not usually against people that try to approach you on the street but this isn't the street, we shouldn't be having this kind of stuff in a place where we are supposed to study.

Don't know if there is a security guard but if he is, he should be fired...or maybe not, he could approach someone on the street one day if they do fire him.

Until Next Time

See ya!

I mean Gamespot Moderator.

With a badge and all stuff :P

Some of you guys have realized it by now but I decided to make the announcment. Since yesterday I've been added to the Gamespot Moderation Team. Right now I'm in the imod (Initiate Moderator) Phase I'm still learning the ropes but I hope that eventually I'll be as good as some of those people and make Gamespota better place.

Along with me we have

Atmanix
GeekyDad
Amnesiac23
Haziqonfire
riou7
AdobeArtist
Artekus
Darthkaiser

We are all imods, new crew members, fresh meat. Congratulations to them too.

Initiate Moderator: Noob! This kind soul is a recent initiate into the select group of users that keep the peace in the GameSpot forums. But be gentle: the iMod hazing process requires marathon sessions of Superman 64. The horror!

Again, that's just a new title nothing more, this doesn't mean I'll change and go around the boards locking and moderating people abusing of my power. I'm just a regular member trying to improve this site and keeping the boards clean so we can all enjoy it's content. Feel free to approach me if you have any questions or issues regarding the site and I'll do my best to help you out.

I just hope I'm good enough for this job. And now to return to the marathonic sessions of superman 64 :cry:

Until Next Time

See ya!

Well I did my Differential Equations exam today, and after studying from 1 pm to 10pm from Tuesday to Friday I can safely say I did awesome, me and my friend studied like maniacs for that test and in the end the whole thing was very manageable. The test was 4 hours long and well in the end I felt great after doing it. I'm confident I'll have a good grade.

Thanks everyone who wished me luck.

On another note, some people didn't go to the exam, wanna know why?

Their argument is that iit's Judgement Day today. Personally I don't believe any of that since no one knows but God when will the world end. It could be right in the middle of the Superbowl while it could be in millions of years when the Sun goes Red Giant. I find it hilarious the amount of people that believe in stuff like that. I bet that if tomorrow nothing happens they'll just come up with a new date until 2012 because there can't be a 13/13/13. Or maybe using some math formula they'll say 13/13/13 is some day of January >_>.

So far I have not seen earthquakes tsunamis or anything so that means we are good. Besides...

I want to see how much did I got in that exam, if the world ends now that means my effort was in vain.

If there is a Judgement day it'll be on Monday for those guys who missed the test today.

Until Next Time

See ya!

Hey there, darthkaiser here. Well this is a quick blog to update on a couple of things.

First Image requests, I've been getting a couple of Pms regarding image requests, sigs banners and such. Usually I'm always up to do an image here and then but since a couple of weeks ago my laptop charger broke and all my designs, sigs, renders, and brushes stayed there. The new charger should only take a few more days to arrive, in the meantime I can't do any image because this pc is old enough to be someone's mom here on GS. It can barely run Paint.

Jane...ugh! that girl!! I got a couple of Pms about the blog update and well I do have it on MS Word the date with jane but it's on my laptop and since I can't charge it...

Last, activity. Well I've had two tests this week and the last one is on Saturday. From that day forth I'll be able to go around here commenting on blogs posting in unions boards meh you know the drill. Until then....

See ya!

Have you ever been in one of those situations when you are with a stranger or a person you don't feel quite confortable and you exchange a few words but then nothing???....like...nothing, nil, nada. You want to say something but you don't know what to say in order to keep up the conversation. Have you experienced this? Well I certainly did and I'll share the story.

Back in the day when I was a young lad like 14 or 15 years old I wasn't very sociable, I had trouble speaking with people and stuff, now the people who know me now in real life might say: "You?" "No way, i never imagined you having that issue" well we all start from somewhere and that was my start. I had trouble speaking with people mainly because I had no idea what to talk about I had trouble keeping the conversation interesting. I was decided to change that and by the time I started dating I had as my goal to avoid those "awkward silence" moments. I knew that in a date I had to do everything in my power to keep a conversation going, and avoid the muteness, if I ever got to that point I knew that the date would crash and I would've failed.

I learned a few strategies on how to swiftly change subjects if I sensed an "awkward silence" was coming. And thanks to those strategies I managed to change from the quiet shy boy from junior high to a reserved but stilloutgoing guy in highschool. When I turned 18during thesummer I worked in a friend's bar/pub whatever you call it during the afternoons and part of the night, the pay was good and the tips were even better and I learned a very important thing there "small talk", which is basically talking about random stuff, like the weather, the game scores, politics religion and a variety of subjects witout going into much depth. As a bartender I learned how to do that in order to keep customers in, and in order to get more tips, I heard almost everything there, guys whose wives cheated on them, guys whose husbands cheated on them (yeah husbands) guys who were planning on cheating, girls who were planning on cheating, heartbroken girls, stressed girls you name it. Small talk helped me out in the first few years of college in datign or social encounters with other people.

With all that experience right now I'm confident I can keep a conversation alive while still remaining as an entertaining one during a date or when meeting someone. But all the experience I had was for nothing thanks to that girl...THAT girl!!

Let's call her....Jane...well you see I have a friend and this friend has a girlfriend, but his girlfriend is the typical girly girl that goes to sleepovers with her female friends and bursh their hair talk about boys, laughs at the words penis or "boob" and stuff....at 19. Now I'm not saying that's bad, there are some girls that have sleepovers as a tradition since highschool and is a nice way to get her friends together and revive some good times. But this girlfriend while inmature and girly is not "Jane".

Jane is actually this girlfriend's BFF (best friend Forevah!!) and she is the one that gives advices to the girlfriend when it comes to guys and other matters. Here is where my friend comes in, he being the new boyfriend has to pass through the "quality control" = Jane. That means if jane tells the GF "This guy ain't for you" the girlfriend would then stop being the girlfriend and start being the Ex...you guys following? :P

"Jane" is not an easy girl to amaze, she is the kind of girl who would go to a magic show pointing out every little thing out of place and ruin the fun, the girl that goes to a movie and right during the middle of the movie tells out loud the ending. To make matters worse "Jane" is not what you would say a good looking girl, don't get me wrong I'm not saying she is ugly, she has some things here and there but...it's the attitude that ruins it for me and everyoone. And in that group of girls she just....doesn't fit...basically she is a "Grenade", what is a grenade you ask?

Well I believe it's a common term in some places in the US but the term became famous due to it's usage in the show Jersey Shore, yeah not the best example but still I'll explain. A grenade is basically a girl in a group of girls, the least attractive, more annoying, less fun, irritable girl of the pack, the one that just doesn't fit in. The weakest link if you may, and because is the weakist link is the girl that one has to keep entertained the most in order for the rest of the team to score because if this girl is not having a good time then she just tells her girlfriends "This place is boring let's go" and they all leave. SO...one of the guys has to "Take a grenade for the team" and hang out with this girl.

Now I don't klassify women by the despective terms like that never...EVER. But Jane, ugh!!! Jane :evil:

It should be noted that is not the actual appereance of jane but....(it's not too far from it >_>)

Anyway my friend was going on a date with his hot but inmature girlfriend despite all my efforts to avoid that relationship (the girl loves rebecca black, justin bieber and still sees Back Yardingansofr christ sake!!! At 19 years old!! :x". But the girlfriend didn't want to go on the date because she didn't want to leave Jane alone >_>. So he begged me to go and hang out with this "Jane". I'm not the type of guy who would end up with (sorry for the term ladies) "Grenades" all the time (I'm too good in rock paper scissors :P) but I decided to the the guy a favor and be this jane's date while taking one for the eam

A decision I would regret for a lifetime....

Due to space issues (And I don't wanna bore you with a huge wall of text) (Larger than this :P)

I shall continue this story in my next blog hope you guys enjoyed the first part I didn't mean to keep it this long but...I just had to type all this down in order to keep my sanity thanks to "Jane"

Ugh!!!! :evil:

Until Next Time

See ya!

For those who watch Football/Soccer today a great match took place in the "Copa del Rey" or King's Cup. In Spain, two of the best football clubs Barcelona and Real Madrid were fighitng for the title of champion of this said cup. Both are great teams with great lineups,we got messi on barcelona and Christiano Ronaldo on Real Madrid. The game is called "El Clasico" or "The CLassic" because it's the most wanted match by everyone, both teams have been rivals for a very long time.

I've been a Real Madrid fan ever since Zinedine Zidane was playing back in 04. Those were good days. So today I was rooting for them, even though barcelona has been winning for like 3 years straight I had my hopes placed in my team. Everyone at college was watching the game, at 2:00pm some even missed tests to see the game.

The game itself wasn't that much interesting, it was close indeed, the first 90 mins had no goals, so the game went to overtime/extratime whatver you call it. In the first quarter of the extra time Chrisitano Ronaldo scored a goal for Real Madrid and even though barcelona did everything on their hands to score one and even the game, that was the goal that costed them the cup. In the End Real Madrid won I was happy after a lot of time they had this bad luck streak good to see it's finally over.

Next Week both teams will be facing again but now for the UEFA Champions League Cup I believe.I do hope for the best

Until Next Time

See ya!

My favorite band, after a long break released their new album Wasing Light, I'm talking about Foo Fighters I believe it was 2009-2008 when they released their last album Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace. So far they've only released one single called "Rope" haven't heard it yet but this is one album that I might actually go to a cd store and buy it (not online). Last album was great, they had some very hard rock songs and a few less loud but still good ones. According to the band leader Dave Grohl they'll be returning back to their classic sounds so hopefully this will translate into some good songs. What I like about foo fighters is that in every album I can find 6 or 7 songs that are easy to listen and get stuck in my head. I expect good things about this album I just hope they don't let me down like Linkin Park with "A thousand suns".....meh Until Next Time See ya!