July 8th, 2008 by Tastic
Halo 3 really sunk its teeth into me. I wasn’t interested in it before launch, but after playing it a little at a friend’s place, I became a fanatic for the series. After a long stretch of gaming, this subsided and I could once again function normally.
Well, the bastards are sinking me back in this weekend since I just learned about a goal to make seven billion kills in the campaign by July 7. Bungie keeps a running count of confirmed kills in campaign, and at wowunited.net they have this nifty stats page. I ran through the campaign on normal last night and this morning. I’ll undoubtedly do it at least once more before Monday. I’d also encourage anyone out there to do the game.
Guns & Ammo
Update: Bungie Day has come and passed. Didn’t make the seven billion goal, but it was a valiant effort. I checked the count with a little less than 30 minutes before it ran out and the kill count was an impressive 6.951,005,525. Also, that nifty stats page wasn’t meant to be viewed after the countdown, so the numbers got a little funny.
July 1st, 2008 by Tastic
Seriously? This stuff still exists? Today I got one of the old-timey chain letter emails. It had a sob story and a rigged moral choice at the end to “Do the Right Thing” and forward to all of your coworkers and friends. If you didn’t, you are clearly a cold-hearted son-of-a-bitch and I’m sure you’ll get your comeuppance. Well, yes. Yes, I am, and undoubtedly I will. The moral choice of forward like a good little sheep or delete like a cruel bastard was a clear choice to me, and my trash can gets a new entry.
I thought this stuff died in the 90s as I certainly yelled enough at anyone doing it then, but it appears I’m not done yelling yet. It might be the spread of good will or it might be a vicious trap to get a bunch of confirmed working email address to target spam at. Either way, I don’t care. This is something that has always annoyed me, and I won’t participate. You hear me out there? Do you?
Ok. I’m calm now. Anyways, been a while since I posted an update. The theme got a few improvements, namely PNGs with transparency. That’ll require IE 7 or greater to display properly… or any other vendor’s browser made in the last decade. A friend of mine pointed out that it’s not a big deal as most IE users already have upgraded and this aims to be a techie site. It does make the gradients flow better and the image size smaller, so I’m somewhat happy about that.
Popcorn & Sunshine