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Our Adventures: Going to college
Hey, so I totally wanted to put a feature up this weekend and all that good stuff, but I’m in a bit of a whirlwind right now with the move to college. I’ll try to get things back up to snuff within the next few days.
Author: Cody
Write About Games 2.0: Giving it a chance
Come on, people. It's not like you have to carve it in stone!
So normally I would have terminated such an underutilized section of the site with extreme prejudice with InsaneBear’s quarterly refinements, but I’m going to go ahead and give this second chance of a section a second chance of it’s own. I know all of my current readers are creatively bankrupt bums with nothing to say here, but I’m hoping some of the chaps I meet at college might be interested in this sort of thing. “What exactly is ‘this sort of thing?’” you ask? Well, it’s a place where any registered user can write their own rant, rave, or any other reflections on video games. Doesn’t matter what the topic is as long as it’s tied to video games some how. Could be a scholarly essay, could be a charming poem. Be as creative or straight-forward as you want. Say what’s on your mind. Just say something! I’m hoping somebody with a passion for video games feels compelled to say something about our favorite pastime. Share it with the IB community!
Author: CodyInsaneBear is away on business
And by that I mean I’m going on vacation and not coming back until August 23rd. Yeah, yeah, I know I just shut the site down for a whole week two weeks ago, but this is just one of those things. But keep checking the site, as my good man Ryan will be posting a podcast real soon. And upon my return, it will be my first priority to whip up a mighty good feature. Until then, you should probably go outside and enjoy what little bit of the summer we have left.
Author: CodyInsaneBear is back and crazier than ever
What I mean by that is that I plan to crank up operations throughout the next week until we’re back to normal. Expect a Red Dead Redemption review. Expect a great feature. Expect a podcast. Expect insanity! Oh, and until all that stuff goes up, just expect cute pictures of animals.
Author: CodyInsaneBear is taking a little break
Because women are irrational and heartless creatures…So sorry if everybody was looking forward to all my crack reporting, but you’re not getting it for a while. Who am I kidding? The site stats show that everybody has pretty much abandoned the site for the month of July. 2010 has been a shitty year.
Author: CodyOur Adventures: Lost – “The End”
Well, I wanted to wait a few days to give myself more time to think on the finale and to peruse the IMDB boards in hopes that I’d stumble across some intelligent conversation. Unfortunately, every time I try to think about it my brain decides that there isn’t enough evidence to make sense of everything and shuts down. As for IMDB, pretty much every thread I’ve looked at boils down to either “You’re stupid because you didn’t like the ending,” or “You’re stupid because you liked the ending.” So yeah, I guess I’ll try to give my own scattered thoughts on the conclusion to six of the best years television ever saw.
Author: CodyOur Adventures: Lost – “What They Died For”
I’ll be honest with you, I’ve got a real close pal over right now and I’m not entirely interested in writing another 1000 word rant on how disappointed I am with the latest episode of Lost. Pretty much, Jack officially became the Island’s new protector, Ben may or may not have turned to the dark side again after killing Widmore (was really hoping for more of a confrontation than that), and Desmond busted Kate and Sayid out of jail so he could take them to Daniel Faraday’s concert.
Author: CodyOur Adventures: Lost – “Across the Sea”
Well, depending on how you look at it, that could have either been one of the biggest letdowns in the history of the show or a really great character episode. At this point I just wish the writers (and yes, the writers have hyped it up just as much as the marketing people) would have never played up this whole mystery revelation angle and just made it a show about characters. I have absolutely no faith that we’ll receive satisfactory answers to even half of our questions. But that’s what Lost has become–it’s no longer about the fantastic interactions between interesting characters. It has become an obnoxious oaf trying to impress the other kids on the playground. The writers went out of their way to say that tonight’s episode would prove that they’ve had a plan since Season 1. Ignoring the fact that I fail to see this evidence, do the writers really need to be hyping things any more? This show is so much more enjoyable when I’m not anxiously awaiting some major revelation.
Author: CodyOur Adventures: Halo: Reach beta impressions
As some of you may know, the beta for one of this fall’s most anticipated releases, Halo: Reach opened to the masses (at least the masses who bought Halo 3: ODST and received a code for the beta) a little over a week ago. I’ve been playing a decent amount of the beta since then and thought I’d fill you in on some of the new features and how they work.
Author: CodyOur Adventures: Lost – “The Candidate”
Jesus, that was the most heart-wrenching death in the history of the show. I didn’t think anything could top Charlie’s, but watching Sun and Jin kiss each other, and then when their hands, wedding rings in view, finally lost the strength to cling to each other…that one scene redeemed a relationship that hadn’t been interesting for a couple years now. And at first I was really pissed that the writers were going to rob us of that final bleak thought by not having it be the last scene of the episode, but I think it worked even better when we saw Hurley and Jack break down crying, especially Hurley. It was just so touching, which only makes it more infuriating that they felt the need to throw some stupid ass cliff-hanger (Focke going to “finish what [he] started,” presumably Desmond). Sometimes I feel like there are so many questions to answer and so little time that Season 6 rushes by these beautiful character moments that were so characteristic of earlier seasons. But really, that was a very powerful scene between the Kwons, who are now resting at the bottom of the sea (guess they’re not Adam and Eve). Just wish they spent more time in the sub and less time using crappy CGI from the outside.
Author: Cody
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