Hollywood seems to think that Google Fiber will lead to more piracy of their movies.
It’s not a secret that Hollywood and Google are constantly fighting over piracy issues. While most of the public comments are made on search, there’s another Google product that terrifies the movie studios. Leaked research reveals that Hollywood fears a huge piracy surge due to Google fiber, predicting a billion dollar in piracy losses in the U.S. alone.
Perhaps if everyone were forced to use dialup Hollywood wouldn’t feel so uneasy. 😛
I figured I would do something different as an end of the year blog post. I’m going to talk about games that I’ve finished this year. Yes! Out of all the games I have there are actually some titles I can honestly say that I’ve finished!
This was up there in terms of games that I could not put down at all. Every night when I got home I HAD to get further into this game. I was captivated by not only the beautiful graphics and the extremely pancake thin french fries. But also the characters and their roles in how everything played out. I kept wanting to find out more about Elizabeth, Booker and those creepy twins that followed me around.
Seriously I almost expected them to appear in some random hallway, saying “Come play with us Booker, forever and ever and ever and ev…”. Yeah… That game was one hell of a circle jerk. But I loved every moment of it. I still need to play the rest of Burial At Sea Part 2 though… and finish the other BioShock games. 😛
I finished this game as a siren, and now I’m replaying it as a mechromancer. I had a hard time getting into Borderlands 1, but that might have been because I had no one to really play with. Plus gamespy always pissed me off (but with it being steamworks now I’ll have to reconsider). I loved the writing behind Borderlands 2, all the characters were amazing and there were even moments that had me busting my gut from laughter. I think Handsome Jack has to be one of the best villains ever created! And the whole storyline was an absolute pleasure to get wrapped up in, and even more fun to play with friends and family. I intend to play all the other classes too. Still need to tackle the DLC for those, but now that the steam sale has arrived, and I’ve been passing around DLC left and right. I think I’ll be able to get around to that. I imagine by the time I play through all the classes AND finish Borderlands GOTY, Borderlands the PreSequel will be cheap enough to snatch up. 😛
I don’t have much to say about Jazzpunk because really, it speaks for itself. I’d say it’s really up there with The Stanley Parable in terms of uniqueness. It’s so abstract, nonsensical and filled with the kind of humor that you would expect from Get Smart or The Naked Gun Movies. You never really know what you’re going to encounter next in Jazzpunk. One minute you’re standing in the middle of a beach, the next you’re playing Wedding Qake, or fighting some honda.
And last but not least…
When I first saw this appear on Steam back in the winter of 2013 for pre-order I was surprised that a Metal Gear title of any kind graced the PC master race. I was aware of the fact that this release had no Snake or Big Boss… But that didn’t stop me from getting it. At the time I didn’t really know who Raiden was or where he fit into the Metal Gear universe since I never played MGS2, so I was willing to give the game a fair shake. In all honesty I liked the game a lot more than expected. Don’t get me wrong, at first it was hard for me to really get into. Not because of the lack of it being a Metal Gear Solid game, but because it was a bit hard to learn for me even on easy. But after a few bad days of work and wanting to slash through the world in anger I got a nice taste for the game as well as properly practicing the controls. Plus when this video was shared with me I suddenly had the desire to continue playing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JA5uw4d-Y4
It was fun. I look forward to seeing more Metal Gear titles appear on PC, and I wouldn’t mind seeing all the older ones ported over as well, and maybe even a sequel to this one. 😛
Well, that’s it for 2014. Lets see what the new year has for us, regarding gaming, technology, and real life matters. I look forward a happy, better, newer year.
I’m starting to think people are losing the meaning behind the word “emergency”. It isn’t an emergency if your favorite fast food joint runs out of chicken. It isn’t an emergency if facebook is down (and in many cases it’s probably a blessing). It isn’t an emergency if your jello has gone missing. And it CERTAINLY isn’t an emergency that PlayStation Network is down.
What happened to going to the website to see what the problem is? Or using a search engine? I never would have thought about calling 911 if say for example Steam went down.
My RSS feed informed me that I made a new video post… Oh well, that’s better than the other day when I had that giant barrage of posts. O_o Again, I apologize for that…
So, to go into full detail I’ve implemented an auto poster that detects whenever I make a youtube upload. It also imports old videos. It’s supposed to only upload the main page of my YouTube channel, but for some reason it decided to randomly post “Big and Tiny Terror”.
Now that I’ve given my blog sentience I’m hoping it doesn’t pull a Drunken Robot Pornography on me and try to destroy the world. Although the explosions would be pretty cool.
I decided to revamp the WordPress site for my main group. Here is what it looks like now. I made a detailed announcement about it here. Basically I made it into an antisocial network just as an added feature. 😛
I still have to make a few more tweaks, like in the servers area. But other than that it’s pretty much done.
If you’ve subscribed to my blog via email and received a barrage of posts I would like to apologize. I’ve implemented an auto importer for YouTube. It won’t happen again… at least like that.
I went to the post office yesterday to send off some gifts and I was met with a lady in front of me who seemed rather confused. She had some pajama bottoms crammed into a box that she pulled off one of the shelves. Then she asked me the following: “So I’ve never sent a package before. What do I have to do?”. She seemed to be in her mid to late 20’s which made this a little strange.
I was nice, but straight forward. “You go up to the counter, tell them you want to mail the package and they walk you through the rest”. Then she started asking me about how to get a printing label and how to get it packaged properly. At that point I told her to just talk to them, as I usually prepackage everything beforehand. I guess I’m lucky enough to be blessed with the knowledge of how to handle boxes.
For the first time in never I actually have Christmas eve off! So I’ll be spending time with the people I care about, play games and sip holiday teas and of course maybe do some holiday trolling (depending on how many trolls I encounter obviously).
Already got my TF2 Presents! I got a cool outfit for the spy, a name tag, description tag, gifta-pult etc etc. If you haven’t opened TF2 in awhile and wants some Holiday Swag you might want to go check it out. 😀
Oh, and as an off topic piece I decided to test a 1080p stream with some friends. My choice was Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. We were laughing at the fact that I could knock people out if they were climbing up or down a ladder, just by being on the ladder… The guards don’t even know what hit them! Literally. One guy got back up and was like “what was that?” then he climbed up the ladder again, he hit my butt when he got to the top, then he fell down again and knocked himself out from the fall. I’m almost tempted to alert all the guards, climb up into one of those little forts, then have them all try to climb up there to get me. Only to be met by Big Boss’ deadly arse.
