Endangered Gamer

off to this year's lollapalooza fest in downtown Chicago (my fair city!!)

if any one's interested, here's my itinerary

just got the beejeezus scared out of me by a phonecall from some chick. turns out it's a call from Insommniac pimping Resistance 2. viral phonecalls.....grr......

i'm not going to save anything anytime soon......

[updated with phone call audio via youtube....]

trailers for tron 2 and Wolverine: Orign were shown at some comic book convention this weekend.




and i'm still alive, and incredibly apathetic about the whole videogame thing......

some impressions later....

busy, busy, busy.......

holy shit, this is super cool. until you get into a car accident, that is....

yep, i did it. after having heard of the insanely easy 1000 gp available in some Avatar game, and having had the game in my Gamefly queue for the last 3 months, the game finally came in, and i did it. i turned to the dark side of gamerscore obsession, and padded my gamerscore with a shitty game. it's not like i haven't done it before (King Kong), but it's not easy to admit. there's a taint that comes with this kind of thing, but thankfully no one i know cares. so i guess it's not a big deal.

so why do i feel cheap??

best to play some more games and put it behind us, yes?

ONWARD TO 20,000!!!!!!!

i took a stroll last sunday with my wife to the Chicago Botanic Garden, and somewhere near the brick shithouse out there, there was a tree with the soul of some miserable person trapped in it. so i took a ax, chopped the tree down, and spent the next 15 hours in jail....here's proof that i'm not crazy.




for reals.

it's offical, Through the Fire and the Flames has been conqured. 100% on expert.



unreal.

i can see it's appeal, but line rider was OURS. now it's his.














bastard.

badass remix.

pork and beans is one of the best songs i've heard this year, and this video is like a who's who of Youtube video mini-stars.

i was trolling the net today when i ran across this npr story about a "first person shooter" game to test subconscious racial bias in police officers. created by Joshua Correl, it tries to measure weather cops are influenced by racial bias in the split-second decision to shoot a suspect. describing this as first person shooter is a bit misleading, since it's more of a slideshow with pictures of men with pistols (or phones/wallets). but the results are surprising, since some of the "suspects" are black, some are white. the researchers determine that white people shoot armed black suspects faster than white suspects.

i decided to take the test myself, just to see weather i'm a racist bastard or a tolerant hippie. here are the results....


i guess i'm more likely to shoot an armed person, period.....if you're curious, you can try the game here.....

and i'm off to Call of Duty 4!!

oh shit, i guess it was also in monday's Redeye....

Rockband vs. Guitar Hero: World Tour



the songs (and frequency of DLC) will determine the winner this fall....

hey, it's been a slow week..... inbetween redownloading my entire music collection and family stuff, i've only seen one thing that's caught my mind.