Main Screen Turn On

I see this and I am immediately reminded of one of the best things about World of Warcraft – the ability to modify every aspect of the game. I’ve voiced my opinion about why other MMOs don’t do as well. Besides the fact that Blizzard created an awesome, addicting, and fun game they don’t let you adjust the interface. When playing a game for THOUSANDS (sorry Dr. Miller) of hours you tend to get upset at the annoying interface quirks. Which is why WoW pleases me. When i want to change it, download a few mods, spend a hint of time tweaking and then suddenly it looks however you want it to.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

The Conduit just wants to be loved: HUD, controls adjustable – Ars Technica: “”

(Via Ars Technica.)

When the Sony ebook reader came out I immediately jumped at the chance to get one.  After all,  carrying every book I own is the most alluring dream a literate person could dream of.  Like the nascent technologies of the 1980s laptops, the image quality and size are lackluster.  Not the best thing for a reader.

Then Amazon upped the ante with a large collection of works available online, cheaply, for their new “Kindle.”  It wasn’t perfect, It suffers from the same issues I hold against Sony’s technology.  Too small screen, difficulties displaying certain documents.  It’s maddening! How am I supposed to load up my PDF copies of d20 games if my device only displays a quarter of the page?

Amazon has answered most of my questions with their new “Kindle DX” a larger screen, native pdf reading, and a slightly higher price (nothing is perfect).  Naturally all I have right now is the announcements, but more writing will occur.

I say slightly biased because I am a true believer in the X-Verse, but I am also a fan of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. Yes, I know he’s too tall and not stocky enough, but I can’t think of anyone else who could channel this X-Man as well. 

From a comic book lover’s perspective, there are countless things that are wrong with this movie.  I’m not familiar with Wolverine’s Weapon X years, but there was a lot more Wolverine/Sabertooth connection than I expected in the movie.  I liked how the movie dealt with the Kayla Silverfox  storylineup to the point where she dies, although she should have been able to put up more of a fight, and well, stayed dead. Gambit was alright, a little weird, but not as bad as it could have been.  They also didn’t manage to explain the James Howlett-Logan-Wolverine transition very well.  Those who went to the Midnight showing with me were confused.  I’m seriously thankful that they didn’t find a way to bring in Jean Grey.  As a purist, I wanted some Alpha Flight and a little more Canada, but what can you do, it’s a adaptation.  The most outrageous flub, I can’t even say…it’s just, argh.

As a movie-goer, this flick was fun. Good fight scenes, fun young mutants.  The storyline was consistent enough for a summer blockbuster. It could have used a little more work on the timing, more time was spent finding Stryker than we were set up for. While it was cool visiting Wraith and Blob in Vegas, one of them should’ve had the answers we were looking for. If you’re looking for a good movie to watch in the upcoming weeks, this is it.  It’s a good action film for what its worth.  If you’re a purist who goes into hives when something is out of alignment with cannon, don’t go, read your copy of Incredible Hulk #180 and follow it with Origins: Wolverine, and forget this movie even exists.

ScifiWire recently posted a new  trailer for Stargate: Universe, the latest spin-off from the Stargate Franchise. Although the original movie (Stargate starring James Spader and Kurt Russel, circa 1994) was pretty, well, lets just say awful, the tv shows have become one of my regular science fiction indulgences. I watched SG-1 religiously, and caught up on Atlantis as soon as the DVDs hit the library (If I get the Sci-Fi Channel, I will never leave my house or get anything done),  and now with the passing of Atlantis, a new series gives me hope.

While I’m sad to see Atlantis go, I think this move should help Universe hit the ground running. Past series in franchises like Star Trek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have suffered when their creators had too many irons in the fire.While I haven’t seen the fifth and final season of Atlantis, I hope this prevents it from suffering the same fate of SG-1, in the 6th through 10th seasons, in which they tried to revitalize the show by changing all the bad guys and some of the main characters

SG: Universe looks dark and gritty from the trailers, like Battlestar Galactica, but I’m betting they’re just trying to capitalize on the void left by BSG.  To me the concept is Stargate meets Star Trek: Voyager, which makes me happy as a clam. I’ll be watching this as soon as possible. For more SGU goodness, chech out this SciFiWire article.

And for your current viewing pleasure, here’s the first official trailer for the show:

Quick note: why is it spring break is drearily cold and hardly a break?  Last Tuesday, the day before my real break, I recieved an email from Blizzard advising me my password changed.  How strange, I must have forgotten I did that while taking hundreds of calls at work – this cannot be a good thing.

While lauding Blizzard for having an accounts helpline, how come this international company is using a regular-business-hour-only company for their account management.  Cut to me at 10PM freaking the hell out because someone is going to steal my level 72 priests Gear; thousands of hours of work down the drain.

This is my despondent face.

Since I had my blackberry I immediately struck out to Blizzard, begging them to lock my account down before something unseemly happens.  A friendly Steve M responds asking for some info before he can solve my password problem.  About 30 minutes later I’m informed that my account has been deactivated for spamming.

Frak.

Cut to the end of the story, Blizzard very kindly returned all my gear and money from my characters and I am seriously tempted to get blizzards security key that changes the password every minute.  We’ll see.

Someone please explain to me why people are allowed to go fuck off leaving myself and other more or less responsible people to pick up the pieces? Case in point it’s now Spring Break. Instead of going to Cancun and picking up an assortment of venereal diseases I’m staying put to work my shift and write my Senior thesis. Oh, that means no one is at work and I’m stuck taking over 130 calls a work day?

At least I have something to write about.