I just got home with RTCW for the Xbox and I played it for about an hour or so. I played a lot of RTCW on the PC so I wasn’t sure if it would still be fun. God was it ever. I jumped online and the first thing I noticed is how much faster the game is. I don’t just mean like the frame rate is faster or you run faster, both of which are true I mean the gameplay is much faster. It seems to me like the bar that allows you to perform class specific special abilities builds up much faster than it did on the PC. Lots more air strikes but also lots more health and ammo being dished out.

I have a ready response to people who say that Spokane, Washington has contributed nothing to humanity at large. Perhaps you've heard of "misery?" You know, the sort of unrelenting torment whose intensity approaches literary proportions. I have it on good authority that it was invented in Spokane, whose major export is human beings, fleeing that Godforsaken landfill of a town.

It's been radio silence on Headfirst's Dark Corners of The Earth for what seems like strange aeons. I can happily announce what I know to be true - that Bethesda is planning to publish it, it's not dead, and it's in good hands. I can't tell you what a relief this is.

Most of you have probably already seen it, but this message is for those who - like myself - had held off for whatever reason. Please watch the fourth installment of the Animatrix. I found it horrifying.

Continuity Schmontinuity, that's my motto - we're switching it up. What are we doing these days to dull the horror of sentience? I'll tell you this much: there's a very special game we aren't playing. As I'm sure you can imagine, Gabe doesn't play it more than I do.

On the PC, I seek out cool utilities that provide rich functions all the time, but apparently I need to widen my view a bit and examine what is available homebrewed on Consoles as well.

This site is about games right?

I've been hearing about "Xbox Live 2.0" for quite a while, now - some of the ideas they've implemented might even have come from that "Xbox Live Boot Camp" event we went to a while back, where they seemed fairly genuine in their interest as they asked our opinions. So, lobbies separate from any game with voice support to get games started up. A very cool feature, but check this shit out.

Well I can’t play it yet so I can’t really talk about it.

Are you going to talk about that "doodling" game? Or what?

Phone no worky so I call the phone company:

Dammit, I thought I had time.

Human beings wanted to know how Gabriel losing his pants could possibly lead to continuity. Now you know.

I won’t lie to you. I have fought off my share of imaginary dark Jedi in my parent’s basement using only a broom stick and some light saber noises. I did not however videotape it. God bless this poor son of a bitch. His public humiliation might be the funniest thing I see all year.

Now I am getting angry mail from people saying I broke Tycho's mind. Listen, that guy was fucked up when I met him. He pulls crazy shit like this all the time. If you were ever under the impression that he was a sane individual you were mistaken. Sometimes we will be sitting around playing games and he will just start singing that fucking song. This is the kind of shit I have to put up with on a daily basis! I deserve a goddamned award for not having killed him in his sleep years ago.