Conspiracy_Victim

HHH has been to one too many Dead concerts. Tie dye doesn't work for him.

I'm still trying to figure out how last week HHH was able to stand up after suffering through a move that has won numerous championships and immediately Pedigree Flair? How does that make any sort of sense?

Well, at least OSU isn't jumping around with their big play guy this year after a long touchdown. That doesn't seem to go well for them.

Well, as a Texans fan I guess I'm glad the Jags won (it makes sense in my head anyway, kind of a "divison pride" thing). I can't in good conscience root for the Titans though.

Eh, they were going to have to call a timeout anyway since the play clock was nearly done, and once they hit 2 minutes reviews would be up to the refs, so I guess Del Rio firgured he might as well and they might get lucky. That play took some balls. Garrard is athletic, but Pittsburgh was pretty stacked up in the middle. That could have easily been jammed up for no gain.

Andrew, I'd say Deathrow is more of a cross between hockey and basketball. Future sport with 2 teams of four who try to control a disk (actually more of a ring) that you then try to use to score by throwing it through the opponent's goal (a vertical circular target). The opponent tries to stop you. Since there are no rules, punching, kicking, slide tackling, and various grabs and throws are all encouraged. There's a "taunt" feature that usually involves your player launching into a short statement that usually speculates on your opponent's lineage or a belief that he engages in sexual relations with his mother. It can get high scoring (4 2 minute quarters can get you into the 20's or 30's) but you can also win by knocking all of your opponents out (it's tougher than it sounds because he can heal between quarters). Plus you can train your players between matches and sign new players that help your team's talent pool. Finally, if you don't like the music, you can use your own music (at least, you could with the original Xbox, I don't know if the 360 supports that feature for the original games). It's a hell of a lot of fun. Really the only problems are a somewhat clunky control scheme (it doesn't break the game, but it does make you sometimes go in a direction you didn't mean to) and no free camera (you have to choose between two static views, one from just behind your player that gives you a bad view of what's chasing you, and a camera that's pulled further back but kind of takes you out of the game). It got fairly good reviews on it's release (it won a couple of IGN's awards the year it came out) but was a very small release from a small publisher that didn't sell well because mommy and daddy were afraid the language and violence would warp little Junior's mind.

Speaking of cursing and video games, I found a copy of Deathrow at a local Gamestop for $5. Man I loved that game. I'm glad it's on the BC list for the 360. Now if only Beyond Good and Evil would be put on the list.

Why would you admit that? You're giving yourself away.... Unless that's what you MEANT to do, to distract us from something else... Unless you're not distracting us... Tricky bastard.

When I turned on the game my first (irrational) thought was "Why is Virginia Tech playing the Giants, and why are the Giants wearing their alternate jerseys?"

Soon to be Pwned.

It's a lot easier if you know where to set up the claymores, but yeah that whole mission is a pain in the ass. On the other hand I found it offset by the hilariously enjoyable mission where you're the spotter for the gunship. Turning on the night vision goggles, setting up the 155, firing it into a bunch of terrorists, and watching the bodies fly across the screen never gets old. It needed more vehicle targets though. The 155 was overkill unless you wanted to blow up buildings (which I did). Popping the tops of some tanks or APCs would have been great.

Anyone know where you can find a torrent or other download of ECW? I forgot to set my DVR and missed it.

Carrying the captain's dumb shot up ass wasn't the pain on that level. Right after you snipe the target and hit the first intersection, now THAT'S the bitch. Here you are, casually walking past some buses, and all of the sudden the captain yells at you to hurry up and an entire goddamn division comes out of every crack and crevice of those commie apartment buildings. Seriously. There's two streets running parallel to each other and a connecting street that you start off in. That's four avenues, although you're only allowed to go down one (on the far side of the starting point naturally). When the troops come out, they come from all four avenues, and you're stuck with nothing more than a sniper rifle (useless because there's no way you can sight and shoot without getting dropped) and a pistol (worse than useless, because it gives you the false hope that you can do something with it). I basically hid in a corner, sniped a straggler, dropped the pistol in favor of his AK, and ran like a bat out of hell for the exit while constantly spinning and shooting anything that moved. Even then I barely made it. Between that and the broken tank mission, I nearly broke my 360 controller and my TV screen (by throwing one at the other).

Yeah, but like they said, Rice caught 22 in a 12 game season.

School Days. All I needed to wait for was the ending and I was satisfied. I'd have preferred Kotonoha jumping off the roof, but I guess (presumably) floating around aimlessly on her nice boat until death by malnutrition with Makoto's head to keep her company is bad enough. LOL worthy all in all. And the ending was supposed to be even worse in terms of gore. I just looked this up on wikipedia. It sounds like one hell of a fucked up, depressing teen soap opera. No shit. I just wiki'd it myself and I don't think I'll be checking this one out. Teen pregnancy, insanity, and murder all in one neat package. Sounds depressing as hell, and the game based on it isn't much better.

I'm as big a fan of defensive football as the next guy, but this Liberty Bowl is boring the shit out of me. Literally. I went to the bathroom and it was more interesting than this game. I'm hoping A&M/PSU is better, but statistically speaking it's either going to be just as big a defensive struggle or a PSU blowout, neither of which interests me at this time.

Well, I'm going to give this thread a bump even though it's been 6 weeks since the last post. Got the entire Full Metal Panic! series and I love it. Even Fumoffuu wasn't that bad, and had some outright hilarious moments. The Second Raid is also excellent, and doesn't waste time since it only went 13 episodes. I hope there's a third season sometime soon since I would love to see what they do with Leonard. Also finished the School Rumble series and I'm pretty sure that Harima's one of my favorite anime characters ever, even though if I were him I would have forgotten about Tenma after a couple of episodes and chosen one of the other girls who were actually, you know, INTERESTED in me . I've also never imagined what a J-Pop version of ska would sound like until I heard the first season's opening theme. Strange. Going to start on Bleach! hopefully in the next couple of days. Going to see what all the fuss is about. Finally, Appleseed is getting a sequel next year. Appleseed: Ex Machina is slated for a March 11th DVD release. I'm pumped, since I loved the art style of the first one (the 2004 version, not the original I mean). Plus, it's got John Woo as exec. producer so here's to lots of slow-mo shots of doves flying and Briareos going dual guns on everyone.

Agreed. I don't like most characters when they're trying to be tweenvers, but really Kennedy's shtick can work as either the obnoxious heel or the cocky loudmouth (Jericho, Rock) babyface, whatever is needed.

I misjudged the point system, but I'm currently up by half a point. Sportsline tends to do little "corrections" though, so I'm still about ready to puke. A few extra points by LT would be nice, but it looks like Sproles is taking over for the rest of the night.

Well, I need 17 points from LT tonight to win. Not impossible (about 100 yards, 2 short scores), but I'm afraid that Norv's going to sit him if they get a lead. I've gotta go with what brought me though. I guess it's fitting that it comes down to my last player, seeing as how I've been riding the edge all season.

To get past that part, I used the "Mash Effect" I talked about earlier. Hit the two or 3 SP passages before the solo starts and then save it for the part (I assume you're talking about the quick PO section). Once you get into it. hit the blue, yellow, and red buttons as fast as you can and jam on the strum bar. That should at least get you somewhat into the solo. When you drop in to the red, hit your star power. It should give you just enough of a boost to get you through that part of the solo. Also works well for Solo A (I believe) of "Raining Blood".

For the 360 crowd, download the "Holiday Mix". Steve Oumette does a rendition of "We Three Kings" that will definitely test your ability to HO/PO. It did help me prove to myself that when it comes to doing HOs up and down the scales ("Cult of Personality") I'm pretty good, but when it comes to jumping around ("My Name is Jonas") I pretty much suck.

That song took me a while to 5* simply because of the weird chord changes during Foreplay. Although it's not as bad as "Suffragette City". I find that song annoying.

Nope, my opponent had the tiebreaker (bench points) since basically every healthy player I have left is in the starting lineup.

I ended up winning by 6, the exact number of points my opponent lost when Westbrook took his dive. I'm not calling him today, no telling what he'll say. For me, my first ever trip to the championship game vs. the #1 scoring team in the league. Unless Brady gets caught up in blizzard against Miami I'm probably not winning. I'm just happy to finally get money out of the league for once.