Owned.

I came across this article about a kid who apparently played world of warcraft for so long that he actually passed out and had to spend a night in the hospital. Most people would say this story is tragic, funny, or just plain sad, but personally i think it's a story of heroism. Here's a kid who gave all that he had to video games, all he wanted in his life was to be an online legend and with this he has undoubtedly secured his place amongst some of the greatest gamers of all time, right up there with that kid who played like 1 billion consecutive games of pacman a while back, it takes some guts, and a whole lot of stupidity to play Pacman for that long. What a loser.

Charade you are Xbox

Idunno if anyone else has noticed Xbox 360s new ad campaign talking about how many "family games" they have and how it's a great "family" system, but i've noticed this and i think it's hilarious. 360 has always been known as the hardcore gamer system, with titles such as Halo, Call of Duty, etc. and it's outstanding online play is it's main feature. That reason is why i think the new ad campaign is so funny, they're basically trying to appeal to a whole new crowd. Cleary as anyone would know, this is the same technique that nintendo used to market the wii, claiming new family style gameplay and "pick-up and play" style controls. The difference between the two strategies, and why the wii one will work better is because wii actually was completely new, the ad campaign fit the game. The reason it's stupid for 360 is because it's still the same system, it's completely pointless and i feel the market will not fall under spell of this. Wii will continue to outsell xbox, and xbox will continue to appeal to kids in college dorms who just want to play halo all day.

hilarious spanish video

This is a really absurd video we watched in my spanish class today, it's completely in spanish, but you don't really need to understand what they're saying to see the humor. It's basically three egg like things showing how to cook a christmas dinner, the problem is that they get incredibly hammered throughout the video, hilarity ensues.

Score one for Vermont

I noticed this article in the headlines on yahoo today, which names Burlington Vermont the healthiest city in America. I found it interesting how the article said that vermont has "the largest proportion of people — 92 percent — who say they are in good or great health." I didn't realize that health was based completely on whether or not you say that you have good health. I know plenty of fat people who think they don't have a problem, so i don't know if this is really a reliable source, but either way Burlington is either the most healthy, or just the most dishonest city in America, so congrats.

whats up with mj?

Ok, i pretty much just picked this straight off yahoo, so i'm sure like 100 billion people have seen it by now, but i thought it was kind of hilarious. The video is of MJ tooling on some random old geeky looking dudes, but then he's very surprised when one dude steps up and schools him two points in a row. MJ shows off a little, nailing a couple buckets on the guy, but then the random short shortted man replies with a nifty little lay up to ice it. The only reason i put the link instead of just posting the video is to show off how shitty this stupid yahoo blogger is. Idunno if anyone else likes reading then ripping on J.E. Sheets as much as I do, but i think this dude really sucks. If this is all it takes to make what i'm sure is a solid salary blogging i think i'll be set for life.

guitar hero

so, i haven't really posted in a while, mainly because i got the new guitar hero and it's pretty much been controlling my life. I've gotten pretty ridiculously sick at it in the week i've had it, already beating the game on expert. I'm pretty sure i'm going to be able to 5 star most of the songs on expert, and i already have 100% on like 10 songs expert, with scores ranking as high as top 50 in the world. I'm going to try to update this more often, but it's tough when you're as addicted to a video game as i am.

Chef Boyardee is Awesome

So, i just ate some chef boyardee mini beef raviolis, and i must admit i was pretty damn impressed. I hadn't eaten anything chef boyardee in a while, due to a realization that it's really gross, but i was very pleased to find out today that they don't suck nearly as much as i had previously thought. I think Nick Rundle put it best when he said "These are so gross... but i can't stop eating them" given, he did say this when he was standing in my pantry, very stoned, eating them straight from the can without heating them up. I prefer them heated up.

An Ode to King of the Hill

It has just been brought to my attention by this article that the show King of the Hill has been cancelled by Fox. In all honestly, i'm probably one of the biggest King of the Hill fans around, i find it hilarious the way absolutely ridiculous things happen and many of the shows make little to no sense and are very fucked up. I think we all remember the one where Chuck Mangioni was living in the Mega-Lo-Mart, a classic, and who could forget the one where Head Shop dudes help Bobby compete in a Rose growing contest, giving him bongs to use as vases. I could sit here and talk about my favorite King of the Hill episodes all day, but the point is, the show is getting cancelled after this season and i'm very disappointed in Fox for doing this to me.