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All I have to decide is if I want it on PS3 or 360...

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Water flavored like meat. This... this is awesome. I have to find some.

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This is the same company that would fire you if you so much as looked at a box of Halo 3 wrong before release.

Good thing I really don't bother with preorders anymore. I should pester my local Gamestop to see if they'll sell me an Assassin's Creed II for PS3 early.

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I'm sure you all have heard about the terrorist level. If not, here's the scoop: you get to be a terrorist for story reasons and gun down civvies in an airport. I think this is one of the things the game auto-skips if you tell it to when you start up (I said "Show me everything" because I'm cool with feeling something other than my blood pressure rise in games. This is a sign of something). And... I did feel a bit of perverse glee while mowing people down. My shadow popping up, I guess.

And then there's seeing Washington on fire. The Washington monument burning, Capitol building, Jefferson Memorial (it was his or Lincoln's), all that stuff. Since I've seen DC in ruins already (Fallout 3), it's not surprising. The fighting all throughout is pretty intense, though.

So yeah. Haven't touched multiplayer yet. Annoying that I can't be in party chat when I'm playing.

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THE END IS NEAR! REPENT! REPEEEEEENT!

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Oh! I got a new cell phone. If you have my current number (you know who you are), calling it won't work.

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Situation is this: City ruled by a guy has a lot of slaves. Slaves are not happy. Disease runs rampant throughout the city, forcing (in the leader's mind) the slavery. Leader has the cure, slaves want it. You get involved. You find out that the cure is the leader's kid.

Here's the choice: kidnap the child and give her to the slaves so they can do their own tests (they knew about the kid beforehand and were going to try to get her anyway), or stop the slave rebellion and leave the child in the care of the leader, so a cure may be found (the child is being treated humanely).

Once I found this out, I didn't kidnap the child. I wanted to try and settle things down; get the slaves to lay down their arms and get Asher (the leader) to stop the slavery. The game did not have these options. The slaves hate me for it, and Asher is thankful for what I did.

As for The Pitt as a whole... well, nothing's going to change. Asher will keep the slaves going until he finds the cure, and all we have is his word that it'll get dispersed and The Pitt becomes a thriving city.

I don't think the other option was better.

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"The black dragon took his pants on while a dragoness lied near on the ground crying after he was done with her and he didn't care about her."

I don't even know where to start with this. Obviously someone got raped (which is never funny, duh), but the effect is lost by the sheer butchery of the grammar.

Plus, I had no idea dragons even WORE pants.

It's up there with "Gordon Freeman was studying in his was studying laboratoried."

GODS, I needed that.

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And more books. ODST can't sustain me forever, and MM makes my blood pressure rise.

And if you haven't watched this yet, do it. [link]

DO IT NOW.

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]]> *ChaosDeathSaurer http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/27366300/ http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/27366300/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:35:48 PDT But we're not here for my backstory, we're here to hear about a game. So let's hear about it.
Starting off with the graphics, it's Halo 3, with maybe a few tweaks. Nothing major to note here, we've all seen it. It is still prettier than Halo 2. I will say that Slipspace fallout is a nice effect, and the darkness in the night levels does wonders for the ambiance. More on the night levels later.
Pretty, of course, is nothing without solid gameplay. And it's here I have to say I like it. The ODSTs are, obviously, not Master Chief. They are instead Nerfed Master Chief. They can't throw grenades as far, their melee is equivalent to a little girl by comparison, run as fast as a guy who's been chewing on McDonald's for a few years (again, comparitively), and can't fall more than ten feet or so without hurting themselves. Yup, we're looking at regular people rather than Master “Jesus Christ” Chief. And I have no idea why humanity relies on him so much.
Why? Because at no point during my play did I feel like I couldn't take on the Covenant, just like Chief. This really hit home during one of the later levels, where I single-handedly took out a Scarab. Of course, pretending I'm a human tank will kill you quicker than it will Chief, it does work pretty well against most baddies. You just have to remember to take cover and realize you can't absorb as much fire as he can, and you can't use the power of your will (and your love for Cortana) to regenerate all of your health. You'll have to find medpacks scattered about to get it back, a pseudo return to Halo 1 gameplay.
In point of fact, this really does feel quite close to Halo 1. Your stamina is your shield bar and goes down real quick, and your health will fall soon after if you don't get out of there. And that will hinder you for a while if you don't locate some health PDQ. How many times does that happen on Halo 1 Legendary? For me, loads.
Another similarity is the pistol, which is as close to the M6D as Bungie will ever let Halo players get. You have your scope back and headshot capability, even though it takes more rounds to drop shields (quite a few rounds). It's supposed to take the place of the BR I think, as there's not a BR to be found in this game. There are, of course, plenty of Carbines, and I used it through most of the game. There's also the lack of dual wielding, which actually makes you consider what you pick up, and as such, we get a new (old) gun: the Brute Plasma Rifle.
The golden Hunter, the strange critter found in screenshots is the Halo 1 Hunter. They can be found working alongside our normal blue Hunters, causing a bit of panic as their shots take less time to charge. And while we're on the subject of enemies, Jackals have apparently gotten Needlers. They don't fire fast enough for it to be an explosive end, but can be really annoying alongside Grunts with Needlers. But, worst of all, Drones get ranks. Yup, there's green ones, and red ones, and yellow ones, and silver ones. A lot of them have shields. That's like giving Freddy Kruger laser eyes, or Cthulhu laser tentacles. But on the bright side, we get Engineers. The Brutes get nasty and make them suicide bombers (or floating mines).
Firefight is a good way to pass the time with good friends as waves of Brutes and their minions descend upon you like the arrows of Persia. Each map is pretty much transplanted from the campaign segments that were “Firefight Lite,” and chaos can easily erupt as skulls engage and the enemies get tougher. Listening to the panic of you and your friends as three Chieftains emerge from a Phantom with Black Eye on is priceless.
As for the storyline, I think it's very well paced. Nighttime New Mombasa is very quiet and peaceful, leaving you in a (somewhat) open world to avoid or engage Covenant as you please. And even then, the enemy volume and presence seems diminished when compared to the flashback levels. The flashback levels themselves are the action-packed Halo we are all used to, save for wisecracking marines. And after all that action, you come back to New Mombasa as the Rookie, for a nice, peaceful intermission.
The storyline itself follows an ODST squad dropping in to New Mombasa, just before Regret hightails it outta there. And then you, as the Rookie, wake up six hours later and get to piece together what happened while you were napping. And this is done in the form of flashbacks when you find a certain item relating to a character, like a treasure hunt with guns and people who want you dead.
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Fox just got called out. What'chu gotta say 'bout that, Fox?

Other news: I just got promoted in my clan. Exuberance!

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Nazi 2: Ze part vhere zat guy's head exploded vas freaky. It vas like.. pzycic or somezing.

B.J. Blackowicz (sp?): Ack ack.

N1: Vas...?

N2: PARTICLE CANNON!

BJB: Ack! *BOOSH*

*Nazis disintegrate*

BJB: *smiles* Ack ack, motherfuckers.

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And yes, it is very much like playing Gears of War, except the cover system is annoying and I'm fighting Space Nazis. Throw some Call of Duty in there too.

Why is the cover system annoying? You actually have to hold a button to stick to cover and stay stuck. Gears of War magnetizes you to the surface. Sliding along cover, something Gears can do relatively easily, is confused in Killzone. I pop over cover when I want to be sliding along it, hoping some jerk with a knife doesn't come up and stab me a bunch.

Oh, and I real human being can crouch and lower their head more than an inch. I can still see over most of the cover, which is good for me to shoot people, but not so good when people want to shoot at me. Which is a lot.

And the Helghast? Yeah, pretty much Space Nazis. Visari is Space Hitler (complete with his voice coming over loudspeakers, inspiring the troops), Radec would be some Space SS Colonel, regular Helghast just regular Space Nazi troops. And I'm not entirely sure WHY I'm invading their homeworld. Something about them attacking human worlds and just not liking humans in general. And there's a thing about them stealing nukes, and Radec needing the codes, so he grabs some of your buddies to get them. I have no idea where or when he got these nukes. Don't they have the technology to build one themselves? DIDN'T they build any themselves? Visari could very well be a "Scorched Earth" kind of guy. No, they have lightning turrets. Effective and cool, but still.

Game's beautiful, though. Got some motion blur happening, no aliasing I could see, just overall looking pretty realistic (as realistic as a game about fighting Space Nazis can be). It looks at Halo funny, like it's trying to be cool and it's failing, but not completely. Love to see it well-lit (There's a lot of dark on Helghan.)

And by the end, I did kinda like the Helghast. I want to see them going apeshit on the ISA.

As for the ISA (the good guys), well, they're pretty generic good guys. Although I seriously wondered which end of their ships is the back. Is it the stick? The lollipop? And now they stand up? WTF is up with them.

Yeah, it's not a bad game. Not something I want to rush out and buy, but it's okay.

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3. Hasbro copy writer Forest Lee stated at BotCon 2009 that The Fallen is a multiversal singularity, meaning that there is only one of him across all Transformers stories, and there are no variant or alternate universe versions of him. How is this reconciled with the version of The Fallen from the live-action film? After all, there are umpteen versions and adaptations of the events of the live-action film, from storybooks to comic books to coloring books, all which are different and conflict in various ways. Does The Fallen experience each of these universes in sequence, reappearing in a new universe every time he is defeated in the previous universe? What about the Decepticon campaign happy endings in the Revenge of the Fallen video games, where The Fallen is victorious? Is there an in-house theory on this, and if there is can we hear about it, or should we just assume it all works out somehow and the details aren't important at the moment?


The complex nature of the multiverse demands much from singular creatures like the Fallen, Primus, Unicron, the 13, etc. These beings are of a fundamentally different nature from regular individuals, who are repeated endlessly throughout the infinite variation of creation. They must be designed or evolved to deal with certain situations that would drive lesser beings mad.

First of all, time flows differently from dimension to dimension. By necessity, this makes it possible for creatures like the Fallen to appear to exist in two places at the same time. Second, whole new universes are spawned every moment by the resolution of quantum uncertainty. Most of these universes are dead ends that exist for only a few seconds or minutes at most, and encompass only a few critical moments. Therefore, at certain critical junctures, the Fallen becomes a quantum event, experiencing two or more possible outcomes at once, until one of those outcomes proves to be a dead end and collapses. The Fallen then reverts back to the "real" universe. Every story has dozens or hundreds of endings we never see. But the Fallen sees them.

One of the side effects of the Fallen's quantum nature is that his appearance changes slightly from dimension to dimension, based on the expectations of others, and the unique history he has (or has not) established in a particular dimension. He is also bound by the "rules" (gravity, magnetism, etc.) of any dimension in which appears – many of which rules he may have actually helped shape when the multiverse was young. So if time flows backwards in a certain dimension, he is bound to live and experience – forgetting as he goes along – everything backwards.

Smart and savvy dimensional travelers spend time in reverse timescale dimensions, slow-time dimensions, or dimensions in which time does not move at all. This ensures that even if they are "killed," they continue to exist. As you can see, the idea of sequential experience as you and I understand it is pretty meaningless to guys like the Fallen. He does experience all these things, but his mind operates on a higher order so all of this stuff totally makes sense to him.

From here: [link]

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This is the third one. And it's an Elite.

One more call to Microsoft, then...

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Finally. I want to see what else they can do, dammit.

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The bosses, of course, kicked me around like I was a toy for the most part. There were some bosses that are just total pussies (Volf springs to mind), and some that are just flat-out unfair (the giant flaming armadillos and the Archfiend come to mind [more on him in a sec]). It took me several tries to beat each one.

But the save system annoys me a bit. There are occasions where it's two bosses in a row. I beat one boss and get stuck on another, I may eventually say "Fuck it" and quit for a while, vowing to kill him later. Of course, I come back, and I have to fight both fights all over again. And this was what got on my nerves for the Archfiend fight (aka last boss). First, you fight a guy. He dies, then you fight the Archfiend. This guy kept kicking my ass, and the only thing preventing me from stopping was knowing the save system wouldn't let me start from this fight. So I persevered, and eventually won, but wound up using all of my items to win. Hey, I thought it was the last guy.

And then he has ANOTHER form.

Yes. Three boss fights in a row, no chance to restock. I think all it did was refill my health. And this last guy hits hard enough he could kill me in, like, three hits. So I now have to fight this guy with nothing but my two katanas. Out of sheer luck do I win. The least they could do is autosave after a boss fight, so you CAN put the game down if you're getting too frustrated.

Remember, this was on Acolyte, the easiest difficulty the game has.

I fear Master Ninja.

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But when I got to look up the definition of, say, vituperative, the definition uses the goddamn word I'm looking up. I don't know what the word even means (Vituperation means to verbally abuse, BTW)!

Gawd.

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The Fallen's voice reminds me of Gaul, from Eternal Night, and there's way more robot on robot fighting without focusing on Sam running around.

Of course, I think some of the humor was out of place at times (Devastator's balls). In fact, there seemed to be a lot more swearing and sex jokes in here. But for the most part, though, it was pretty awesome.

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Thankfully, Mass Effect multiplayer is nonexistent, and Assassin's Creed is only an idle rumor I heard (but even the threat of such blasphemy will set me off). Bioshock is currently the only one on the list that has multiplayer. I can only hope that the story isn't sacrificed for it.

I swear, if this "Add multiplayer to everything" trend keeps up, I may just retire from gaming.

]]> *ChaosDeathSaurer http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/25234233/ http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/25234233/ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:25:55 PDT .> )
Garrus Vakarian (Because he's Garrus. He's part of my "A-Team", along with Tali.)
A volus squad member (Why the hell not? He can give us good deals on shop supplies or something.)
More romance options (Seriously. If I want to woo an alien girl who constantly wears a helmet or a female soldier I picked up, let me. C'mon, Captain Kirk picked up alien chicks all the time)

A Mako that doesn't control like a piece of paper on wheels.
A Mako that can splatter stuff, not just knock it around (see piece of paper on wheels)

Weapon finds that scale according to your level. (Spectre gear X is nice and all, but when X(as in ten) is the highest at level 59, maybe some more powerful gear should come up. Of course, having an AR that never overheats is cool)
More variety in Geth weapons (Their Pulse Rifle is cool, but I wanna see some of their other guns. Maybe even Reaper-made guns)

Less grindtacular achievements (The squadmate achievements are just a pain, even if it does force us to do more.)

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One of the best instrumentals ever.

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[link]

*cries silently*

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Got X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Pretty cool, if I do say so myself (and I do). A lot like God of War, only more gory (I've hacked people's arms and legs off).

And when i said Wolverine loses his shirt frequently, I mean it. As he takes damage, his shirt starts to disappear, and you will eventually be staring at a bare-backed Hugh Jackman with claws. When you level up, he gets it back, only to lose it a minute or so later. Strangely, his pants are indestructible.

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I've been waiting for the Game of the Year edition for a while now.

EDIT: Oh wow, ten bucks for three new gametypes? Fuck you, Ensemble. At least throw some new maps in there so it's actually worth something.

_{(Not like I'd pay for Halo Wars DLC in the first place)}

EDIT 2: If my friends' commentary is any indication, it's actually pretty shitty.

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There's a few things I want to do this summer, such as do the last two Elite stories I have in my head, and sell some stuff. More on that later.

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^^^The Google translation.

The names are Heart Gold and Soul Silver (), but I am so getting Silver.



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[link]

Honestly? Serves 3-D Realms right. 12 years in development is too long for any game, and if they did release it this year, expectations would be unrealistically high.

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My friends and I decided to do 3v3 in Halo Wars. We all decided to be human (I chose Anders, my friend Titus chose Cutter, and Lucius took Forge [not real names]), and duked it out with three Heroic AIs, two Cutters and an Anders. The battle started off okay, I decided to spam Hawks, while Titus spammed ODSTs and Lucius did his own thing. Things went okay, we claimed bases for ourselves, then the tide began.

The AI picked Titus as their first target, probing him. He fought valiantly with my support Hawks, and we drove them back. They next decided to hammer Lucius. As the sheer volume of units pressed in around them, I took the offensive with my Hawk swarm and tried to knock out some of their other bases. It worked to a point; I succeeded in destroying several bases and claiming them for my own, but it was not enough against the tide. Enemy Anders especially, with her Cryo Bomb special freezing bases and units as frequently as the two Cutters abused their MACs.

Lucius was the first to fall, some time before the one hour mark. He fell bravely, slowly overwhelmed by sheer magnitude of enemy forces. This left Titus in charge of my defenses, but I could not leave him alone forever, and helped out as I could with my Hawk swarm. Sadly, the tide turned against us, as footholds were gained by the enemy into our side of the map, slowly becoming irrevocable. I pushed to the other side and claimed a base for my own, establishing supply pads to keep my economy going. As defenses on our end of the map slowly buckled, I had the idea to use my base on the other end to spawn Vultures (the UNSC Super Unit), and start destroying as much on my side as I could. I would up with a peak of nine Vultures.

Titus could not hold our end of the map, sadly, and our bases there crumbled. He managed to drop an ODST on my end, and I sacrificed a base for him to reestablish his forces, as I tried to sweep this end of the map. This did not last, as the enemy legions swept out our old end and moved swiftly to our new end. Like a tide of red, tan, and black they came, all types of UNSC unit, and began pushing us back. We eventually wound up with one base apiece, mine in the corner. I began rapidly producing Hawks, hoping to delay the inevitable for as long as possible. Titus made his last stand and fell to the innumerable horde. He dropped a few of his last ODSTs by my base, where I stood alone, backed into a corner. I desperately produced as many Hawks as I could muster, dropping Cryo Bombs and whatever else I had, but died three minutes short of the two hour mark.

I swear, if that were a real battle and we were Sangheili, that would be a fucking awesome addition to our family's poem.

Although I still regret not being Regret. At least I could spam his Orbital Laser of Doom and maybe last a bit longer. XD

_{Regret's Floaty Chair > Rtas' Floaty Chair}

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[Spoken]
We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine
I say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can dance

[Sung]
We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine
I say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can dance
Danc¨¦e!

We can go when we want to
The night is young and so am I
And we can dress real neat from our hats to our feet
And surprise 'em with the victory cry
Say, we can act if want to
If we don't nobody will
And you can act real rude and totally removed
And I can act like an imbecile

[Refrain]
I say, we can dance, we can dance
Everything out of control
We can dance, we can dance
We're doing it from wall to wall
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody takin' the cha-a-a-ance

Safety dance
Is it safe to dance
Is it safe to dance

S-s-s-s A-a-a-a F-f-f-f E-e-e-e T-t-t-t Y-y-y-y
Safe, dance!

We can dance if we want to
We've got all your life and mine
As long as we abuse it, never gonna lose it
Everything'll work out right
I say, we can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine

[Refrain]

Is it safe to dance, oh is it safe to dance [6x]
Is it safe to dance

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But what, to you, constitutes a B game? I think Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard fits this definition. It's not a spectacular game by any definition. The gameplay is decent, the jokes are decent, everything is acceptable, but it all meshes together to be something entertaining.

Dawn of the Dragon fits this too. Despite all of its flaws and it being a Spyro mod for God of War II, I still found it enjoyable. The Battle for Minas Tirith/Warfang is funny all on its own.

Tomb Raider has also fallen into this category. Underworld looks pretty and plays decently, but it still relies on Lara being totally hot to sell lots (which it isn't).

What do you think is a B game?

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So far, Eat Lead isn't bad. I racked up a bunch of achievements in the time I spent with it, and enjoyed the humor. I find the cover system a bit weird, but I'll probably get used to it. Not a whole lot else to say here.

Halo Wars

Okay, story time: Back in March, when HW first came out, I didn't get it. I had the demo, which was enough to show me that the game wasn't too special in terms of gameplay. I had some curiosity in regards to the story. As I listened to my friends play, I decided to go watch the cutscenes on YouTube.

From there, my opinion went downhill.



The story adds nothing to the overall Halo plotline. It's a basic "Covenant wants a superweapon and we want them to not get it" plot, which involves the Forerunners and their ships and the Covies apparently not having enough troops to do a one-sided war or something. Oh, and the Flood are here too, but their appearance is completely unnecessary and only serves to be an extra nuisance (haven't played the levels in question involving the Flood, but the cutscenes don't even mention them, so). The gameplay itself is actually simple to the point of being limiting if you've played any better RTS games, such as Starcraft or Command and Conquer. Sure, it's irritating to have to hunt down every single one of your enemy's (important) buildings, but centralizing doesn't feel like a good solution, just an easy execution.

To be honest, I don't give two shits about Forge or Cutter or Serina or even any of the Spartans (they're typical Spartans), and I think Anders is irritating (no wonder she hates Halsey; they're peas in a goddamn pod). We can guess right off the bat that Arby dies and Regret lives, and the Chieftain doesn't show up at all.

We will not speak here of the horrors Ensemble inflicted upon my beloved Sangheili race. Suffice to say, it's guaranteed to bring my blood to a boil.



The cutscenes are pretty, though. But that's about it.

Didn't get Tomb Raider, but I got sixty bucks from my aunt, and a nice check from the Feds for about 441 dollars, so there you go.

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Oh, and lol at idiots that think the sticker price has tax applied to it already.

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EDIT: Look up Modern Warfare 2 trailer on youtube. Fucking smiley.

]]> *ChaosDeathSaurer http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/23840107/ http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/23840107/ Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:56:22 PDT
But "The Host" looks somewhat interesting, at least. I imagine a mental catfight.

lol

]]> *ChaosDeathSaurer http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/23720348/ http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/23720348/ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:18:34 PDT
Gameplay-wise, they're the same thing.

If this is true, can = ?

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]]> *ChaosDeathSaurer http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/23440709/ http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/23440709/ Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:36:34 PST Kids: Aye-aye Captain.
Captain: I can't hear you...
Kids: Aye-Aye Captain!!
Captain: Oh! Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!
Captain: Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!
Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!
Captain: If nautical nonsense be something you wish...
Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!
Captain: Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish!
Kids: SpongeBob SquarePants!
Captain: Ready?
EveryBody: SpongeBob SquarePants! SpongeBob SquarePants! SpongeBob SquarePants!
Captain: SpongeBob.... SquarePants! Haha.





]]> *ChaosDeathSaurer http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/23430943/ http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/23430943/ Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:28:30 PST Did they send me daughters when I asked for sons?
You're the saddest bunch I've ever met
But you can bet before we're through
Mister, I'll make a man out of you

Tranquil as a forest
But on fire within
Once you find your center
You are sure to win
You're a spineless, pale pathetic lot
And you haven't got a clue
Somehow I'll make a man out of you

I'm never gonna catch my breath
Say goodbye to those who knew me
Boy, was I a fool in school for cutting gym
This guy's got 'em scared to death
Hope he doesn't see right through me
Now I really wish that I knew how to swim

(Chorus: )
Be a man
We must be swift as the coursing river
Be a man
With all the force of a great typhoon
Be a man
With all the strength of a raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon

Time is racing toward us till the Huns arrive
Heed my every order and you might survive
You're unsuited for the rage of war
So pack up, go home you're through
How could I make a man out of you?

(repeat chorus)
(repeat chorus)

[link]

]]> *ChaosDeathSaurer http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/23405381/ http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/23405381/ Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:50:57 PST Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight

You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl!
But all the while you hear the creature creeping up behind
You're out of time

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes, girl
Thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight

Night creatures calling, the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There's no escaping the jaws of the alien this time
(They're open wide)
This is the end of your life

They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side
They will possess you unless you change that number on your dial
Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen
I'll make you see

That this is thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a
Killer, diller, chiller, thriller here tonight

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller, ow!

(I'm gonna thrill ya tonight)
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'alls neighborhood

I'm gonna thrill ya tonight, ooh baby
I'm gonna thrill ya tonight, oh darlin'
Thriller night, baby, ooh!

The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom

And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller

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1.Choose three of your own characters.
2.Make them answer the following questions.
3.Tag three people.
4.Feel free to go ahead and add some questions or change some.
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Chosen:
Alucia
Scorch
Viran

How old are you?:
Alucia: Ten thousand twenty five.
Scorch: Same.
Viran: Before I died, twenty three.

What are you?:

All: Dragon.
Viran: Is this going to get interesting any time soon?
Alucia: Don't be rude, Viran.

Do you have any bad habits?

Alucia: I kill. A lot. And then raise them from the dead to be my servants.

Are you a virgin?

Alucia: Does it count if I don't even possess the organs to be one anymore?
Scorch: It might. I dunno.
Viran: That would be a "Yes." *smiles*
Alucia: Not being one didn't help you live, though.
Scorch: Ooo, burn!

Who's your mate?

Alucia: It was Gaius. The operative term being "was."
Scorch: *stares intently at the floor*
Viran: Tulan. I miss him...
Alucia: I think he survived my attack, I'm not sure.
Viran: Because that makes me feel much better. *growls*

Do you have any kids?

Alucia: If you count everyone I've resurrected.
Viran: Whore.
Scorch: *snarling* Want me to kill you again?
Viran: Not if I kill you first.
Alucia: Enough.
Scorch: *backs down reluctantly*
Viran: *whispering to herself* Whipped.

What’s your favorite food?

Scorch: I got real fond of those boars we kept finding in the wild.
Alucia: Strawberries.
Viran: I know I had to fight you a few times over those.
Alucia: That being why I tried to stockpile them, so you could have the others we found.
Viran: How nice of you. *leers*
Alucia: I couldn't hoard them all.

Have you killed anyone?

Alucia: Practically everyone in my army.
Scorch: A few.
Viran: None of my own, if that's what you mean.

Do you hate anyone?

Viran: I'm sitting next to them.
Alucia: I'm flattered, Viran. Thank you.
Viran: That wasn't a compliment.

Have any secrets?

Alucia: No.
Viran: None worth mentioning.
Scorch: Maybe one.

Do you love anyone?

Alucia: No.
Viran: Very much so.
Scorch: Uh, well... N-n-no. Not at all. No. *glances at Alucia*
Alucia: I am well aware of it, Scorch, and I told you no.
*Scorch looks at the ground again*

What is your job?

Alucia: Queen of the Dead.
Viran: I USED to be a scout and messenger.
Alucia: At least you died in the line of duty.
Viran: Go die.
Alucia: Already done.
Viran: I mean for real.

Boy or Girl?

Viran: Girl. I'd say it's obvious.
Alucia: Female, though I now lack the body parts to back it up.

What do you do to relax?

Alucia: I read. It's quite relaxing to just give up everything else in the world and lose yourself in a good book.
Viran: Go flying, play some pranks-
Scorch: Vicious ones.
Viran: Oh, quit crying. I actually got you talking to your girlfriend over there.
Scorch: Doesn't change the fact that they were cruel.
Viran: Wuss.

What is something that you like?

Alucia: Didn't we just do this?
Viran: Tulan showed me this game that you're always playing, and as long as you don't think about it, you don't lose. But the instant you do, you lose. Occasionally we'd try to make each other think about it at random times. *smiles* Great way to cheer up a bit during a bad day.
Scorch: That sounds stupid.
Viran: It was stupidly funny.

What's your favorite song?

Alucia: I'm partial to instrumentals, myself.
Viran: Anything good.
Scorch: There's instrumentals I like, too.

Whats your height?
Viran: Wait, this is the last question? THIS?
Alucia: A little shorter than Scorch, but taller than Viran. Good enough?

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There's nothing special about it. There really isn't.

EDIT: Anyone know how to make an image do this: ?

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Their voices give me super strength!:

]]> *ChaosDeathSaurer http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/23010949/ http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/23010949/ Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:36:15 PST
Oh no, my subscription is almost run out!

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Their voices give me super strength!:

]]> *ChaosDeathSaurer http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/22851000/ http://ChaosDeathSaurer.deviantart.com/journal/22851000/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:51:43 PST
I like sci-fi, but would like to try for some fantasy.

GOOD BOOK GET

EDIT: Raided Borders today. Got:

Gears of War: Aspho Fields
World War Z (in the Humor section for some reason)
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft (been meaning to read the Cthulhu stuff)
A Darkness Forged in Fire

Keep telling me ones I should keep an eye out for. HELP ME KEEP ONE OF MY RESOMOLUTIONS.

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Super Mega Awesome people:

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Super Mega Awesome people:

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