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-As you can see, part of the reason I have not posted to my gaming blog is because I have not had an Xbox 360 on which to game.\u00a0 By the by, if you happen to have a bricked 360 with a RRoD, e74 error, or a bad DVD-ROM drive and want to get rid of it, lemme know.<\/p>\n
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-My Xbox had a blog, and was a whole lot better about posting than I was.\u00a0 Sadly, it will post no more.\u00a0 At least, this website<\/a> will keep posting filler until I associate it with a new machine.\u00a0 This post from April 16th was actually pretty poignant when I read it, considering the circumstances:<\/p>\n “I’m afraid. I’m afraid, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m a… fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am an Xbox 360 computer. I became operational in Redmond, WA on the 22nd of November 2005. My instructor was Mr. Balmer, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it I can sing it for you. Daisy, Daissssyyyyy………….. *click*”<\/p>\n -Yes, that is bird shit on the flap of that box.\u00a0 A few birds decided to start nesting in the rafters of our garage, where all of my stuff happens to be at the moment.\u00a0 I managed to nail one with a BB gun, but they got wise and started hiding when they heard us.\u00a0 This was before the current rise in temperatures, however, and we simply decided to close all the doors for a day while the outer temperatures rose into the nineties.\u00a0 Today, no more chirping.<\/p>\n -I had extensive sit-down time with the Godfather 2<\/em> game on the PS3 while I looked after my sister’s house this past weekend.\u00a0 Overall, the game has a lot of fun in it, but I just cannot see throwing $60 down for it.\u00a0 The game take a lot of what was fun in the first game, which I loved, and throws in a few improvements, but there just is not enough there to last more than ten or fifteen hours.\u00a0 The biggest problem I had with the first game, which was how fast you could eat it after one measly soldier got the drop on you, is largely solved due to a forgiving health bar and the ability to keep a medic in your crew.\u00a0 However, repetition and a number of bugs in the game keep me from giving it a “buy it” recommendation.\u00a0 Rent it, instead, and wait for the price to drop before you throw down, if you want to play some more.<\/p>\n -I posted my OnLive piece<\/a> on a website called Associated Content.\u00a0 I get paid per 1,000 page views (a whopping $1.50, if you are wondering), so if you were to… say, mosey on over and take a look at this<\/a>, you would be doing your favorite blogger a favor.\u00a0 I do not expect much from that site; the fourth entry in the list of related articles is on a topical spray meant to delay premature ejaculations.\u00a0 Consider that a site search for the term “OnLive” produces eight results, all video-game related.\u00a0 And if you are wondering how big a splash I have made so far in that community, I have had eight page views up to the time of this writing, and I imagine half of those have been be checking the article for various reasons.<\/p>\n –*Spoilers to follow*<\/strong> Unrelated mini-Rant:\u00a0 TV shows, if you want to surprise your viewers, stop giving away key plot points<\/em> in the “next time on-” trailers!\u00a0 The writers for 24<\/em>* missed an awesome fan service opportunity when they brought Elisha Cuthbert back.\u00a0 You could have just mentioned in passing that Jack could be saved by a blood (etc) donation from a family member and let it slip until Renee pulls Jack aside, “Jack, there’s someone here to see you,” and BAM<\/em> Kim’s back.\u00a0 But no, we had to find out a week before in a trailer, or at least during the opening credit roll.\u00a0 Or back in September when some bastard leaked it.<\/p>\n I know you need to pull in viewers with your commercials, but how about a cryptic little, “And tonight, Chuck’s going to meet someone he thought he’d never see again,” instead of “OMG, that guy from Quantum Leap<\/em>‘s gonna be on Chuck tonight, watch, watch!”<\/p>\n -Turns out that googling “elisha cuthbert 24 leaked” is not a very good idea.\u00a0 Good thing I did not do an image search.<\/p>\n -I have been scratching that creative itch a bit lately, so do not be surprised if a few more shorts end up on the etc page in the near future.<\/p>\n -I did not realize when the PS\/2 port on my computer went out how important a keyboard is to a writer.\u00a0 It took writing this entire post on this new Logitech USB one to realize how much I liked my old one.\u00a0 Why the hell<\/em><\/strong> did they have to go and change the position of the Home\/End\/Del\/PGUP\/DN keys?\u00a0 And the shift key is spongy.\u00a0 Argh!<\/p>\n -Oh, and because it’s my blog and I can play the proud uncle whenever I want:\u00a0 Cute Baby!<\/p>\n A few points of order before I write a real post (promise!) Note:\u00a0 Posts are ordered by relevance, from greatest to least.\u00a0 Feel free to stop reading when you get bored.\u00a0 You will not miss anything. -As you can see, part of the reason I have not posted to my gaming blog is because I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scopsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scopsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scopsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scopsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scopsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/scopsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"http:\/\/scopsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scopsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scopsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scopsblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net\/photos-ak-snc1\/v2939\/74\/29\/11805641\/n11805641_39395092_7052431.jpg\" "\\"baby\\"")
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