Ka-may-ha-may-blog

Decided to clear up my tabs finally, I've had 30 some-odd articles open in 2 different firefox windows (don't ask). So here's one massive blog, each section will be condensed via topic.

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1. Oh that Blizzard.

Two things that apparently don't go together: School work, and World of Warcraft. Well I k now a lot of people that can debate that people who make this statement are overgeneralizing. But the point isn't how wrong this is. The point is, that someone is trying to apply both, together.

LiveScience is doing a study, to see if World of Warcraft can aid kids in learning. Apparently its "working ridiculously well... it shouldn't be working this well". Children grades 7-10 signed up for this study, and so far have done nothing but improve. These are kids who couldn't walk and chew gum, let alone write a paragraph, now thanks to World of Warcraft these kids are now learning, and writing. They're writing massive posts about how to level up efficiently, the best gear, etc. The topic may be nerdy but the point is: they're writing.

More Reading: [here]

It's called "Multiboxing" and what that means is running multiple copies of one game, on one computer. Most commonly this game is World of Warcraft. Right now your probably asking "why?" and the answer is: imagine being able to play both a healer and a warrior, think of the ease of questing.

Thats a pretty basic example of Multiboxing and its use. What if you want to raid? Well then you multibox 36 shamans like user "Prepaired" does. He has one of the largest (but not THE largest, there is a setup of 50 that is managed by 2 people, this is the biggest managed by one dude) multiboxing set-ups, and I have to say... its impressive.

More reading and screenshots of his setup + in game shamans [here]

Blizzard is working on another MMO, and apparently its not World Of Warcraft II, it's something different. Either way, Blizzard has job postings looking for a lead engine programmer, lead tools programmer and lead technical artist. Maybe it will be "world of Starcraft" that'd be pretty cool.

More Reading: [here] and [here]

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2. Max OUCH (Hahaha... get it?.............................. I'll just post.....)

Max Payne with Mark Wallburgh was released and so far its been labeled as a huge pile of shit. Mark Wallburgh is apparently a terrible terrible actor in it, and so on. However apparently (much to a lot of people's shock) it topped the box office. It must be people going to see just how crappy it is. It even got a 17% rating...

Either way I haven't seen it, but when/if I do, there shall be a post.

More Reading: [here] and [here] and [here]
Alternate Reading: Do all video game movies suck?

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3. RESIDENT EVIL: THE CRUD.

Well everyone who loves Resident Evil (or movies, or their lives) dislikes one thing in particular: the Resident Evil Movies. Not only do they screw up Resident Evil, they also have no plot, bad acting (Mila... whats-her-face sucks), make no sense, and oh... have crappy zombies. I could go on for a very long time about the many ways it sucks (Alice [Mila] doesn't exsist in the games, with no mention of the "mansion incident" how does Jill know to headshot zombies, they fuck up Nemisis, etc) but I wont, because I already listed the ways that non-RE fans know it sucks. Resident Evil was pretty OK. Resident Evil: Apoalypse was terrible. Resident Evil: Extinction was fucking HORRID. So they seem to be exponentially getting wose, and you'd think someone would clue into the fact that we hate 'em. But nooooo they're going to make ANOTHER one. I don't even think I'll watch this one, the last one was bad enough.

More Reading: [skip around a bit, theres stuff about Resident Evil there]