Dear Apple

July 11th, 2008

Dear Apple.

YOU ARE DRIVING ME NUTS!

For the past 7 hours, I’ve been constantly clicking

‘Check for Updates’

and 30 minutes ago, it gave me an answer that I wanted to see!

BUT THEN DENIED ME OF THE LOVE AND AFFECTION THAT IVE BEEN LONGING FOR! after it stated.

iTunes store is temporarily unavailable.

AND NOW! it says..

Your iPod software is up to date.

WELL ITS NOT!

that is all..

i refuse to wait up until it the 2.0 itouch software is up.

and why the F%CK must we pay $9.95 for a freaking update?!!?

Smash Brothers Brawl [ Competition ]

July 9th, 2008

July 6th,

Nintendo held a competition to promote their newest release.
Super Smash Brothers Brawl on the Nintendo Wii.

The competition was on its 3rd day of tour, and participants had gathered there as early as 8am, even though the even would begin at 10am.

I rocked up around 9:30 and lined with a friend of mine ( i had no conscience that day, usually i would have found it wrong to jump into the line, but it never occured to me that day ) and I ended up being registrant 30.

This was the 2nd tournament I entered for this event, the previous being on the 4th, in which I just tested the waters to see how it worked and what I would be facing on the coming sunday.

FIRST ROUND.

Jigglypuff Vs Random (Sonic) Vs Ike Vs Ness ( me ).

It was a 2 minute match, in which the player with the highest score would progress.

I knocked Ike out within 10 seconds and aimed for Sonic for the rest of the match, since the Jigglypuff player was a little 4 year old girl ( sif take advantage of that ), so I did the only logical thing to do, which was leave the Jigglypuff alone. The other players we’re much mature than me, so it was fine to harras them.

My tactic was, jump around and avoid their attacks and when they we’re free I’d use my bat on them or spike down on them, but my main offensive move was my Pk Flash and Pk Thunder (tackle). I had’nt been knocked out yet and there was only 40 seconds remaining. My score was +2, but my damage ratio was already nearing the 200% mark, but then Ike hit me and I flew off the stage ( which was Pokemon Stadium 2 ) and as I tried to Pk Thunder my way back, the nerves hit me and i completely missed my character and fell to my death.
With 20secs left, I started Pk tackling my way into the fight. But I was not able to knock any opponents out, instead I got knocked out, and so did Jigglypuff. But Jigglypuffs death was awarded to me.
With 13 seconds left, I Spawned and collected the 3 pieces of dragoon, but missed.
In the last 10 seconds, the smash ball appeared and Ike and Sonic started chasing after it.
Luckily a sword was spawned where I landed and I picked it up and threw it at the smash ball, which I got and used instantly. Resulting in the KO of the 3 opponents.
My score turning into +5 and only several seconds remaining.

I just kept taunting.

SECOND ROUND.

I don’t remember, but I won by 3.

THIRD ROUND.

I don’t recall, my opponents we’re too insignificant. (cocky!)
All I remember was, opponent got Landmaster,and I died once from it and then during a frantic battle, I picked up a warp star and knocked all 3 out.
The commentator announced, “HOW DID NESS MANAGE TO PULL THAT OFF, SUCH ACCURACY!”
Cause I used the aimed the warp star inbetween two platforms, I think it was in the Battlefield stage.

*cocky!*

SEMIFINALS.

It was a 3 way free for all.
I was pretty nervous, since if I won this I’d be in the finals!
It was Ness (me), vs Marth vs Metaknight.
3 stock, with 1.5 damage ratio.
I wasn’t able to get any kills, since their swords just blew me off stage easily.

BUT, the announcer requested for all the semifinalist runner-ups to stay, since they we’re short 1 player in the finals, which required 4 players.
So with that, the 6 Runner-Ups we’re split into 2 groups of 3.

LUCKY LOSER FIGHT 1.

It was, Snake vs Sonic vs Ness.

I was particularly wary of the Sonic player, as he had been progressing through the tournament fairly well, and specifically to the fact the he was able to control Super Sonic very accurately!

The stage was Pokemon Stadium.
3 Stock.

Sonic got a hold of the first smash ball, which resulted in me losing 1 stock, and helping kill out snake.

So with me having 2 stock and sonic having 2 stock.
It was a fairly even match.
Sonic out matched me in damages as he was able to move faster and was able to get me in damage rolls.
My only strength was, being able to use my high damage move Pk thunder tackle (over and over again).
The 2nd Smash Ball spawned, and Sonic raced for it. But, I was able to attain it by using my Pk Thunder.
UNFORTUNATELY! Sonic was able to dodge my Pk Starstorm, which was a total bummer.
But, with that gone, I need to gain an advantage, and I was able to knock him out by using my Pk Flash and then using my UP Spike.

With Sonic with 1 Stock and me having 2 stock but really high damage, I had the slight advantage.
But then, the 3rd smash ball appeared!
And Sonic was able to get it, leaving me prone to his ultimate move.
Prior to me being knocked out, the stage had transformed into the stage with the Windmill.
Using the windmill to my advantage, I moved around the windmill, while Sonic tried to attack me in his Super Sonic form. (THANK YOU WINDMILL). During this time, sonic was able to hit me at least 3 times, while i dodged several times, but his accuracy controlling Super Sonic was .. superb, he was able to home in on me pretty much the whole time.
So as his Smash Attack faded, we we’re both left in a high damage ratio state.

What ever, move we would do would decide the game.
My choices were, distract him with a PK Flash?
But that would leave me prone to attack.
Wait for an item to spawn to throw at him?
But he might get the item and throw it at me.
Pk Thunder tackle?
He might dodge and finish me off in my prone stage.
But I took the gamble and decided to Pk Thunder Tackle Sonic.

So I jumped around to try and get him confused, and when he was charging at me from a far I jumped back off the stage and used my Pk Thunder.

Pk Thunder, has around a 3 second circulation delay which leaves Ness pretty much prone to anything.
So Sonic was jumping towards me trying to finish me off, but it payed off, and my Pk thunder connected and END GAME.

LUCKY LOSER FINALS.

It was 1 vs 1.

I HATE 1 vs 1!!

Marth vs Ness.

3 Stock.
Pokemon Stadium.

Marth had the clear advantage since he moved faster and had a longer reach than me. But I decided to continue to rely on  my PK Thunder Tackle tactic. In which, I move around the stage avoiding all his attacks and jump off the stage which would lead them to follow me to try and knock me out or stop the pk thunder from connecting.
The opponent was silly and hardly used his shield against my Pk Thunder tackle, but instead tried to use his sword to damage me in that state.

With me having 2 stock, and him only having 1 stock left. I attempted to Pk thunder my way into the stage after he had knocked me off, but the nerves kicked in again.. and I ended up missing Ness .. again.

With 1 stock left, both having  0 damage. I stuck with my tactic, since it had been working.
Both having damage withing the 70%~ ratio, It was highly likely he would be able to finish me off, since Ness is a lighter character. Luckily! a beam sword spawned, but it was located at his side of the field. So I dashed for it and used my forward attack move which knocked him off stage. I used PK flash while he was in the air which I managed to connect which threw him to the other side of the stage. Then I picked up the sword and threw it. KO!

WIN!

With that! I was in the finals.

FINALS.

Soo, I had been standing on the stage for at least 20 minutes already, and I was scared as hell.
Looking around, everyone was crowding around all the levels of the mall leaning over balconies and what not.
My main fear was… being seen by someone I know.
LOL?!

Ok, so here is the dish.
Sure, my friends know I’m abit of a geek, nerd or whatever. BUT! Not to this extent where I would show myself in public like that. PLUS! My girlfriend recently got angry at me for playing too much DOTA. OH THE PAIN.
If DOTA got her angry… think of the chaotic result if she found out I was participating in such an event.
Anyways, thats beside the point, she will never know. xD

So yeah, I was nervous as hell, and tired from holding the controller and standing up.
..

THE FINALS.

Stage: Final Destination
Stock: 5
Players: Pikachu, Wolf, Lucas, Ness

Firstly, Wolf and Lucas, we’re brother and sister!
The girl being the lucas player, I was slightly thinking “wow shes cooool” since GG respect for the earthbound players! I was like the only Ness player in the whole competition, and there was only 3 Lucas players and she played it very well.
Wolf on the other hand, I wasn’t really fond off, since the night before at my friends house, a Wolf player had beat me silly.
Pikachu on the other hand, was gonna be plain annoying. I mean, Pikachu when used right… its really hard to go against and it has good attacks that can send opponents flying!

… So the battle.

I remained having 5 stock for the first half, and constant flew around knocking out Wolf and Lucas with my PK thunde tackle. While pikachu also maintained a high stock.
Lucas was knocked out first, with me having 4 stock and pikachu also having 4 stock and wolf only having 1 stock remaining.
Stupidly, I done that stupid move again where I miss myself with the Pk thunder and fall to my death. I wanted to swear sooooo much, but slapping my face was enough.
I respawned to Wolf and Pikachu battling it out.

Here is where it all went wrong…
It was either, knocked out Wolf and 1 vs 1 Pikachu.
OR
Aim Pikachu and let Wolf stay in game so he could damage pikachu some more.
Cockily enough, I Pk Thunder tackled Wolf, so he got knocked out.

Which left Ness 3 stock and Pikachu 4 stock.

As I mentioned before,
I HATE 1 vs 1!

Ness is way too slow, has way too short range, and has alot of moves that leave him prone to attack.

Pikachu .. physically raped me.
For the first part of the 1 vs 1.
His aeiral moves just kept damaging me, and I couldn’t lay a hit on him.
Then a Smash Ball appeared.
And Pikachu got it.
And knocked me out.
The pikachu players accuracy with the volt tackle pikachu was pretty much the same as the Sonic player.
I waited it out in respawn for it to fade, and when my platform faded I just kept jumping around and got hit several more times. Then on his prone stage, I batted pikachu out of the stage.

3 Stock Pikachu
2 Stock Ness.

Pikachu spawned.

Amazingly enough, another Smash Ball appeared.

This time, I got it.
And used it ASAP.

BUT! Pikachu avoided it all. EVERYTHING. ( Stupid PK Starstorm falling at random areas…)
Which left me prone for damage afterwards.
I started shuffling around the stage and using my dash psi attack on pikachu.
I tried to use PK Flash several times but to no avail.
Pikachu got back on stage used its down A move which sucks in the opponent and shoots them up after combo of damage. And repeatedly used its thunder attack, which juggled me across the stage to my death.

1 Stock Ness
3 Stock Pikachu

I respawned and tried to knock out pikachu, but I ended up being the one beaten up.
Then when I had the chance, I PK thunder tackled pikachu out of the arena.

1 Stock Ness
2 Stock Pikachu.

Pikachu respawned and used thunder which blew me off the arena.
A Spicy curry spawned.
And i tried to race back into the stage for it. But I missed and pikachu ended up eating it.
Instead of being doomed, I used it to my advantage and used my Psi Absorb move.
Which resulted in me being healed!
Then pikachu used its forward a attack which pushed me back.

Finally, the smash ball appeared.
I knew it was over once pikachu spammed its thunder attack.
I dodged, the first few runs at me, but to no avail.

End.

And that is my sad story.
I wanted to win, for bragging rights to my friends.
But 2nd is good enough, but not good enough at the same time.

My prize consisted of:

Super Smash Brothers Brawl (the game)

and this supposedly limtied edition super mario collectors tin which contains Yoshi and Bullet Bill.

Smash brothers result

Err .. ebay?

July 6th, 2008

Ok So I was on ebay and saw this ad.

Hmmm

Can you see something wrong?

When Zombies ATTACK!

July 2nd, 2008

I think a little weird every now and then, more towards often, a little less than always, but more than all the time.

Today, it hit me.

If the living dead were to like spawn… What would they do?

So, everyone knows the living dead can’t think, talk, calculate, drive cars, pick flowers, watch movies, clean toilets, wash dishes, do my laundry or eat!.. well technically they can eat, but not food eat food eat… more towards like .. eat people animals and things that don’t want to be eaten.

So, here is the scenario.

You are at a graveyard, and you and your people are walking into the darkness!
THEN SUDDENLY!
A hand grabs someones leg! and you scream like a girl, even if you aren’t you still do, so yeah you scream, and everyone else screams, all girly and what not, then you see the hand that grabbed the leg was like from one of the living dead niggaz, even though its not alive, its dead, but its moving, soo lets call em zombies from this point on cause i can’t be stuffed typing up living dead all the time, and zombies involves me pressing ‘Z’, which is beside ‘X’ which is a totally awesome letter for some odd reason. ANYWAY back to what was in my head.. which is slowly disappearing cause i forgot i was typing this…

yeap completely lost what i was thinking ..

gone.

gone..blamo!

goneskiez

gooooone

nada

kaputz

but it involved

the zombies

eating people

chasing people

eating them while their being chased

then like

ripping them apart and eating their insides

then like laying zombie eggs in the people to make zombie babies

then like biting people to turn them into zombies

then like stealing wallets and crap

and yeah . . im sleepy

Epitome of a lesson well learned.

March 28th, 2008

I got in a car crash today.

Yep, the worlds best driver… got hit by a Holden Commodore.

Heres what happened.

Me and my friend were on our way to have lunch, we were at an intersection and the light was green… I looked around to see if it was safe to go… from a distance I could see the Commodore coming out from behind the parked cars, but it was a fair distance away.

So turning I went… Since I was driving the van… it was pretty slow. I noticed the Commodore was going fast still and wasn’t slowing down.

Then BAM.

The old lady in the commodore slammed into the front passenger side of my van.

I was like…

“SHIT that didn’t just happen.”

First thing in my head was, if my friend was Ok.

“Are you ok?” I asked her.

She nodded promptly… she was a bit shocked.

Then I told her to get out and check up on the old lady, while I moved my car out of everyones way.

The old lady was fine, she didn’t seem very old… but old enough to be old… kinda hip old cause she has sun glasses on.

The damage wasn’t that bad on my side since
-1 I wasn’t going very fast.
-2 My van = IRONHIDE

All the van got was the bumper being pushed in and the blinker being haywire and the engine making trippy noises.

The COMMODORE on the other hand.
The front was pretty dented… The cover at the front lifted up and was like bent out of proportion.. and the lights were destroyed and the bumper was like sticking out everywhere.

Then we waited for the cops to come, which took at least if not more than 1 Hour.

During which I had called up my father to pick me up.. oh the fear that rushed through me when I told him what had happened.

Cause today… he specifically told me

“Leave the van at the station, and take a train today.”

But the badass that I am, fully disobeyed his commandment.

Fully broke one of the 10 commandments along the way.

EPIC

..

Lucky my friend was with me, she kept me pretty calm… calm as in.. i didn’t break down freak out and cry like a ..weak weak man.. cause sif shame myself infront of her presence LOL?~
She kept me occupied and told me little stories which made the mood lighter. Super Thanks To Her :)

When the Cops arrived, so did my father. It was like fear striking me from both sides…
My dad inspected what had happened and gave me a unpleasant look.
The police came up to me and started to interview me, but first off… was… THE BREATH TEST! which was epic fun. I never been breath tested before! i was like

“WHAT DO I DO TO THIS?”

and they laughed at me..

can’t be helped that I am noob :(

But yeah, now the results are in.

I need to pay something like 2 grand plus due to my name not being registered for the insurance for that car.
Pretty EPIC.

Lesson well learned.

Always listen to your parents.
Don’t UNDERESTIMATE the speed of old people.
Being a BADASS doesn’t pay…cause you end up paying for things…

SMACkBANG

CLOVERFIELD!

January 21st, 2008

::OK SPOILER WARNING::

I watched cloverfield today with a couple of friends.

My Verdict?

It wasn’t bad.. nor was it good.
Around above above above average.. but not to the  point of .. thats really really really good.. just its good but not bad..

Maybe because.. no one really knew what to expect from it, aside from the monster destroying the Manhattan.

AND that it would be viewed through a dudes video cam perspective.

The start was mildly confusing, camera was shaky and my friend thought it was some kind of ‘no-no’ video.
It felt like it waddled on too long with the whole ‘hey look theres people’ scenes. I was thinking
“MONSTER! DO SOMETHING”
..but really I was saying it out aloud.

The monster scenes we very.. ‘i see buildings and random people and dust/smoke things and the monsters toe’ ..ish.
Until near the end I suppose.. AND like z0mg.. HUB is such a tart.. a pop tart.. there was a scene where the monster was in like super model focus doing its cat walk dance and wrecking havoc to the people who were nice enough to shoot at it! but noooo he was like ‘ROB IS MY FRIEND.’ ‘I LIKE ROB’ ‘ROB FRIEND~’ and kept focusing on robs crotch or whatever tickled his fancy.

.. the people came to watch to see the pure awesomeness of the monsters graphic creativeness.

any ways from what i remember and actually saw in the movie.. here are a couple of pure art goodness of what i remember of the monsters … looking likeness..

cloverfield monstercloverfield monstercloverfield monster

The monsters babies looked like hairy spider dogs..

cloverfield monster baby

anyways I am not bored now..

ill finish this up by saying..

post comments.

From then to now . .

December 25th, 2007

So you ask…
“What has happened since whenever?”

Well..

I’ve finished my first year of Uni! Which is way awesome~
I’ve finally got my car  . . well more like a SUV . .
I started playing World of Warcraft again . .  and quit several days later . . and play momentarily every now and then . …like now

and i cant be bothered typing anymore cause I’m watching The Office ( US )  . . funniest show out

PLEASE RELEASE SEASON 3 in australia soooon

My First Leet Parking

November 14th, 2007

Theres a story behind every picture . .

Todays picture is ..

My Leet Parking

My first leet Parking . . .

Well today was my Networking subject test .. .thing ..  and i was reading up on some lectures for some final prep work . . .aka cramming. Then I notice that “GG I’LL BE LATE FOR MY TRAIN”!

Soo off I went into oblivion . .

PLEASE NOTE I DO NOT RECOMMEND SPEEDING WHILE DRIVING! *waves pinky* NO ONE THINKS BIG OF YOU WHEN YOU SPEED!

soo i was going faster than usual towards the train station ..  with 2 minutes to spare before the train arrived i turned into the parking lot. .  to find  . . THERE WAS NO PARKING LEFT!

“ZOMG” was my reaction . . cause i really did say “zomg” pronounced - zo - mo- gd

Then in the corner of my eye  . . . there it was a parking space. .  BUT it was behind me!

Truth is . . im not very confident with my reverse parking . . and i was driving the FRIGGN VAN!

Soo i was like ..

“OH GOD TRAIN! OH GOD IMA BE LATE FOR MY TEST! OMG I NEED TO PARK”

and then I prayed that i wouldnt hit the cars beside the parking space and that I would live to tell the tale . .

I put the stick to reverse looked behind me for 3 seconds and slowly backed up. .  closed my eyes and turned the wheel ( CLOSING YOUR EYES WHILE REVERSE PARKING IS NOT A GOOD IDEA DON’T DO TRY IT AT THE PARKING LOT … OR AT HOME ) . . and next thing i know . .  GG LEET PARKING ACHIEVEMENT! ( xbox 360 reference there ).

then i rushed out and ran for the station . . to find out my cellphones clock was advanced by 3 minutes ..  hence i had plenty of time to spare =_=

WIN?

Smash Brothers BRAWL

November 13th, 2007

Ok

sooo totally random rant here…

I’ve got a test tomorrow. .  or should i say today for uni and being online this late… will assure me total screwedness for my future.

SO, to my point.

Surfer girl posted somewhere where ever.. that a capcom character will be on the new Smash Brothers game…  everyone predicts it to be megaman.

THE THING WITH THAT IS!

Megaman would be too much like Samus… minus the whole “WHEN I JUMP I TURN INTO A BALL AND SPIN ALOT”

Unless, they make Megaman like his game counter-part and be able to attain attributes of the boss enemies he slays. So he would be kinda like kirby…

I like megaman and all, but i reckon if they are gonna put a Capcom character it should be Zero.

“WHY ZERO? WHEN MEGAMAN IS THE MAIN CHARACTER??”

Well, his got the buster! and the SWORD!  Sure sure another character with a sword… but his got an actual energy sword! and his UP+B attack can be his flaming upper cut .. .

wait wait wait. .

thinking about it. .  his gonna be too much like Ike and Link . .

i retract my statement ..

and now i will sleep

GG IF ANYONE READS THIS

TMAC “TS” Light Speed

November 10th, 2007

SHOE REVIEW!

TMAC TS LIGHTSPEED

I recently got my feet into a pair of these babies..

VERDICT:

Pros:

- Light

- Comfortable

- Grip

Cons:

- Style ( to me it seems nice and slick and doesn’t look fat on your feet, but the overall cry of the world is it doesn’t seem fitting for the name TMAC )

—-

Overview:

So, comparing them to my previous JORDAN TEAM STRONG.

JORDAN TEAM STRONG

With the change came the ease and overall lightness of the TMAC’s, the previous JORDANS had been quite heavy and big to run with but gave good support when landing and gave a steady stand.

But with what the TMAC’s lack of flat footed wide firmness, came the light ease of running and a more stable jump.  It supports the ankle and the sides of your feet and gives a slight cradle feel.

Also, with the Team Strong look when being worn, it gave the foot a fat skate shoe feel. On the other hand, the Lightspeed looks more slick and gives shape to the wearers foot.