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The Dreamworks claymation adventure game, The Neverhood, brings back many fond memories of solving mind boggling and often hilarious puzzles. The music is great, too.
Wow, two good movies in one night. As you can see I have a wild-nonstop-drunk-college-crazy-party social life here at CMU.
Anyway, I saw both Fletch and The Italian Job tonight, and they were both really decent films. I'm going to review both of them with MFIaSMOMRS, because I made the damn system and I'm going to use it all I can. Really though, they're both simple movies and the use of MFIaSMOMRS is completely unjustified.
If you don't know what MFIaSMOMRS is, it stands for Matt Fister's Interesting and Slightly More Objective Movie Review System. You can read the full concept a bunch of posts back.
After starting writing this thing in MFIaSMOMRS, I decided it would just take too long. So here is a short review.
Fletch stars Chevy Chase as undercover journalist Erwin Fletch. The plot twists through a drug ring that involves the police, etc. Chase has a bunch of funny lines and such. Watch it if you're in the mood. 7 disguises out of 10.
The Italian Job is the sleek funny action movie that is reminiscient of Ocean's Eleven. It has Edward Norton, Seth Green, Mark Wahlberg, Donald Sutherland, Jason Statham, and Mos Def. The quintessential escapist movie, this sleek action film delivers what it promises: stuff blows up, people hack things, the good guys win. I feel Edward Norton was wasted. His role didn't need such a deft actor. Whatever, 7 gold bars out of 10. It was a fun ride.
The company Cheap Ass Games is excellent. They provide original, fun board games for extremely low costs by not providing unnecessary things like dice and pawns which you probably already have.
I had the honor of playing the game U.S. Patent No. 1 the other day. In this game you try to build a time machine and travel back in time to get the first patent. You can add weapons and shields to your time machine to destroy the incomplete time machines of other inventors. The game was very enjoyable and best of all I won.
If anyone wants to ever get me a present, I'll take anything Cheapass Games offers.
This obscure N64 game was released at the end of the N64s life. It provides an rpg style of game play reminiscient of the awesome Mario RPG. It features a unique story and actually takes place in a world that resembles the original Mario games (1, 2, 3, Mario World, and Yoshi's Island), unlike Mario RPG. Seek this game out if you missed it the first time. You'll be glad you did. I am.
I'd like to start this by saying that I don't complain much here. Mainly, I write silly things to my audience entertained. This post is different. It's about me and my day. I'm doing this because today wasn't so good, and I deserve to complain a little here. I mean, many other people whine on their blogs. Plus you will gain a fascinating perspective into my life.
So here it goes.
Today began easy. I woke up late, skipped breakfast and got a shower. So far so good. All I had to do today was prepare for my ECE exam. I had five hours to take care of this, and I figured it would take at most two.
After getting dressed etc. I went to my computer and was going to download a practice test to take in preparation. I had noticed for the last couple days that some weird background tasks had been running and hogging my processor. I decided to investigate and stumbled upon a site that described my problems as the LovGate worm. Not cool. In attempting to remedy this, I somehow disconnected from the network. I called computer services and told them my problem (excluding the worm, because then they would disconnect me for real). They didn't help at all. They said they'd escalate the problem and have network services take care of it. I'm still not quite sure what that meant. I played with my computer for about an hour and finally got the internet working again. Then after another half-hour I removed the worm from my system (and no, I didn't take any dog pills). Now I had about an hour and a half to study for the test. The practice exam I used was easy, so the test shouldn't require much additional studying. I went to the test. I was wrong. It was hard. Too long too. He might curve it though. I then went to my Calc 3d recitation which was really and is always boring. I need to get to band right on time, because I have to leave early to get to my lab on Thursdays. The recitation ran late. Instead of 10 minutes to get my bass drum and get to the band room, I had -10 minutes. Band was uneventful and lab wasn't fun either. So at 8:30 I finally got to eat and arrived back at my dorm at 9:00. The funny thing about all of this is that it hasn't put me in a bad mood. Just seems like another hassle-full day in my life.
Let's see what tomorrow holds...
I hope that wasn't too boring, but I needed to purge myself of it.
Some have said such a comparison could not be made, but in a hasty decision made today, the supreme court has ruled that apples are better than oranges. Sandra Day O'Conner explains this important ruling:
"The Justices of the Supreme Court feel that apples clearly defeat oranges on several grounds: they have a crisp bite to them, unlike the overwhelming citrus of the orange, they can be eaten without being pealed, an important benefit in our digital society, and they come in a variety of colors unlike the orange which constantly displays, well, orange".
Critics feel this ruling is unjustified. Escher Mcaffrey, an ardent fruit-equality activist explains: "Apples and oranges should be the same, right? I mean, all fruit are created equal, man. Aren't we living in America, the land of the free? Plus, they aren't even on the same playing field. Hasn't anyone in this country heard of the phrase 'you can't compare apples and oranges'".
The justices respond with an enthusiastic "No! Apples and oranges are exceedingly different. An orange a day keeps no doctors away. They are simply made differently. We can even say that they are born differently. Therefore, we, as the primary and utmost judicial body in The United States of America, feel we are justified in our declaration that apples are superior to oranges".
I mistakenly and unknowingly popped a Kettle Corn variety of microwave popcorn. What a mistake. It's so gross. It has this sweet taste to it, but it's not fully realized. It's just plain gross. 3 kernels out of 10. It's still food, so it deserves some points.
Yeah, in my infinite wisdom I have changed the site color scheme. Instead of passive white, I have a subtle gray background. This change, although insignificant should increase the sites popularity one-hundred fold or a thousand-fold!
Friendster is a strange site. It lets you build this huge personal network of people through your friends friends and there friends and so on. I currently have 63 contacts on Friendster through the contact of my one friend on it. Unfortunately, I don't really care about any of these people. Because of my friends interests there all into silly indie music and are Darksiders (you know what I mean:)) (or you don't). Sure I can read there profile and learn all about them and look at their strange pictures and maybe eventually become "friends" with them. But really the bottom line is that I will never ever see them in real life. If I really wanted to meet people, I'd go out and meet people who are actually located in my physical proximity. If I want to talk to people over the internet, I can just talk to my real friends. If you're on Friendster add me as a friend. Despite my qualms about the system, I'd still like more friends. Just search for Matt.
This game is slick and fun. You control a squad of crack commandos trying to stop the Nazi occupation of France during WW2. It's complex, elegant, and challenging. You'll die so many times in it it'll blow your mind. Check it out if you missed it the first time.
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