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Hello. I'm eminutia and I'm a Gearsaholic. lol really, I love the game but I can't seem to compete with these pros, they take me out with their shotgun every time. I'm back into playing it because I want to prepare for the third and final installation in the series, to get my skills up. The guys (Cliff, Rod et al) say that the shotgun mechanics are going to remain the same, and I really want to learn how to use it but I always miss, and I can't seem to strafe and shoot, my reticule is always off a bit and the ******** get me every time. This is a weird post for many of you, because the majority of you don't play the game much but I KNOW theres some Gears guys around here …

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How many of you use dropbox? For those who don't know, it's a place where you can upload any file. You have 2GB of space to start with but you can earn up to 10GB if you have people sign up and install the program. I've been using it recently to transfer letters that I've written in Microsoft Word to get them on my laptop so I could print them out. I love this service so much, also having an application for it on the iPhone is handy!!

It's a tough decision, but I think I'm going to finally give it a rest. On June 6th, 2010 (if everything keeps going the way it is): I WILL HAVE PLAYED MY XBOX 360 EVERY DAY FOR THE PAST ONE THOUSAND DAYS STRAIGHT!!!! Yup, you read that correct. 1,000 days of straight gaming. Even if I didn't play for hours on a given day, I still found time to turn on my 360 for a quick round of an XBLA game or something. So, I'm going to let my "gaming streak" come to an end. I'm currently ranked as the #47th longest streak in the world on 360Voice with 951 consecutive days currently. It would have been longer, but I lost my streak back in 2006 during a super flood in my area. We…

Starts out fine... go work on campus for 2 hours... go to class... then go out to have lunch with a friend... Then this happens... Ya... that is the front end of my car. The lovely dent appeared in the front after contact with this... Safe to say there when my lunch plans... instead of calling for takeout... I called the police (I'm not letting that much damage go unreported). I later find out the driver that I hit was driving across the street across three lanes of traffic. He was trying to get from one gas station driveway to another. There were no cars coming westbound and the guy in the turn lane next to me waved the guy on without my knowledge, and safe to say... t…

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Where it all started. Ebert's blog. http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/video_games_can_never_be_art.html IGN's rebuttal. Excellent read. http://pc.ign.com/articles/108/1084661p2.html

So, I decided spending a lot of money would be a good idea... (regardless of what my wife really wanted) Anyhow! I want it. I haven't upgraded video cards in about 3 years and finally decided it was time again. AND, I managed to find one in stock on NewEgg yesterday and ordered it right up! I should have that bad boy by Thursday. I'm excited

Take a look and see what you think: http://gamercide.org/?p=1390

Did you guys hear about the Apple employee who was "field testing" the prototype for the new iPhone 4? It was even disguised as an iPhone 3GS to avoid any publicity. He was at a bar. Drinking. And left the bar, forgetting the super-secret iPhone he left on his barstool. Who was he unknowingly sitting next to? The dudes from Gizmodo. If you want to, you can check out the article on their site. But really, this dude is pretty much screwed. He'll probably get banned for life from Apple. /facepalm

Like I told PK privately, I had an awful day yesterday. I had Jury Duty and the flu at the same time. On top of that I was forced to watch Rachael Ray on TV. Also my HDTV broke! lol. It's at Best Buy being repaired, no Xbox for me for a while. So basically it ain't a good week. When I got back I had a little package in my mailbox. Pink Panther cartoons from my ATC family. Woot! It made me feel great. Since I'm having a baby boy in Sept, I'm going to save these and watch them with him! You guys are awesome! Thanks to all who were involved in this little treat. PK said there were lots of people chipping in. That was very cool. I had no idea it was on TV from 1964 to 1980

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of Atari, recently came back to his old home. Today, he joins Atari's executive board. When Atari was on top of its game and making risky, borderline decisions... it was Bushnell behind it. He is the mad genius. Back in the early 70's, his warehouse would be visited by investors and the like. The one thing they all agreed upon, was that the place was scary. It smelled of marijuana, and the assembly line crew all had long, stringy hair. One executive, even found a few syringes on the bathroom floor. Why though? Because Bushnell would take any order, no matter how big. That often meant he had to hire people off of the streets. When Atari went so…

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/18/officials-helicopter-crashes-iraq/ Unfortunately it was our guys that went down. None of the pilots or crewcheifs were severely injured but the passengers got banged up pretty good and sadly, there was one fatality. Environmental conditions are the main cause for the crash. They came in to land and got dusted out and lost sight of the ground, landed crooked and rolled over. Just wanted to ask for support for the family of the soldier we lost. My prayers go out to him. They held the ramp ceremony last night and sent him home this morning. Hopefully he makes it without delay due to all the volcanic ash.

http://instantsfun.es/ Leeroy Jenkins FTW. I've hit that button probably twenty times now. LoL

Carl Macek, founder of Robotech, passed away Saturday of a heart attack. Please keep his family in mind during their time of mourning. http://www.cartoonbrew.com/anime/carl-macek-1951-2010.html

So we bought a Dazzle and when we play it back on the computer in .avi format it is super HD, but on YouTube, it sucks, anyway to fix this.

.. you can answer too. It's Saturday night and I've been eating Beef Stew, drinking beer, and playing a ton of Bioshock. My wife Tam is sleeping in the living room with me on her giant bean bag chair. She's snoring and it's adorable .. now my question is this .. should I wake her up when I go to bed or should I just leave her where she is and tuck her in? She's had a very long day today and is rather tired (obviously), I'm not tired so I figured I should just keep eating stew, drinking beer, and playing Bioshock. .. oh and the noise doesn't bother her at all.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/16/engadget-giveaway-show-us-your-crappy-gaming-setup-and-win-a-cu/ Too awesome for words. I love black and white. The skyline in the design, actually lights up!

Blizzard made 2 million dollars in four hours.. by releasing DLC of a $25 fake horse. http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3178849 What a sick world we live in!! lol. Blizzard are marketing geniuses.

I have a TOTAL guilty pleasure that lately has found me wanting more... I love reading the XBOX Live forum especially the Account Suspension and Console Bans. I can not stand cheaters and people that think the Live community is their place to be vulgar, rude and disrespectful. I play for fun and recently put the privacy setting on my live so only FRIENDS can communicate with me. (other then Friend Requests) I let my son play with his friends and we share a live account. The last thing I want to hear myself is the current trend of being extremely rude, much alone my son being exposed to it. Is it wrong to be extremely happy when I see someone else whine about being ban…

Final Fight AND Magic Sword!? Damn that's sweet. I really wish it wasn't 800 MS points though. I don't really care for Final Fight so much, but I sank LOTS of money into Magic Sword at the arcades when I was younger. Anyone else maybe getting these? I was thinking about picking them up and it looks like you can play them online. It just sucks that it's $10.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PICKLE!!! Have a great day, Mongrel!

http://gamercide.org/?p=1376 I HAD to post this on Gamercide. This is too funny.

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President Obama's administration has asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer to create a game about reducing the U.S. deficit. Erskine Bowles, co-chair of Obama's fiscal commission, wants the game to be made so the general public can have a go to balancing the budget, reports USA Today. Read more at [source] Edge-Online If successful, could this paint gaming in a better light? Or is it a crack, as if to say, "if you can do better, than take a shot at it"? I'm going to hold my opinion to myself for awhile. I'd like to hear your reactions, though. Let's keep it respectful and as non political as we can. We're not attacking a party or anything. We're discussing a potential game.