This was a triumph

I’m making a note here: Huge success.

Specs:

Intel E8400 Dual Core Processor
4GB DDR2 1066
Nvidia Geforce 260 GTX
SATA DVD drive and 7200RPM HD
22″ Acer LCD monitor

Building this thing has been a good learning experience for me. I haven’t overclocked anything yet; I’ll get to that sometime.

Holiday Aftermath

Wow. It’s been a little while, hasn’t it? As of now, I am savoring the two more free days before I must go back to school. Until then, I will continue to just eat, sleep, and sit here on my butt while browsing the interwebs.
In a way, it’s also quite amazing how much time I’ve [...]

Lookie what I found

Looking around my grandpa’s house, I decided to check what was on top of the old dishware cabinet. There, sitting behind the fake plant decor - who knows how many decades it’s been sitting there - is a brown leather case. I open the case, and what do I find? An antique 8mm camera, manufactured [...]

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Review)

This is one of those games that I honestly hadn’t been thinking about a whole lot, although in the deep recesses of my mind, I knew it was going to be a great game. Initially, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption was scheduled to launch with the Wii, and had it done so, it would have been [...]

Bioshock

Am I the only one who’s been immensely looking forward to this game? I don’t think so. On his Games for Lunch blog, Kyle Orland reviewed the Xbox 360 demo and from the looks of things, it’s going to be one heck of a title. Bioshock has been shaping up to be an amazing game, [...]

Why the MPAA and ESRB rating systems are faulty

I’m going to start off by looking at two movies, both having different ratings. Alright, let’s say, Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds. Let’s compare that movie to another one, something more obscure… like, Pi. Alright then. Respectively, these movies are rated PG-13 and R.
- Oh crap. Something here doesn’t look right.
War of the Worlds [...]