Week of October 16, 2005

October 22 2005 -- 360 Well folks here it is..



The XBox 360 demo unit at Wal Mart. I went out last night to check it out and now that I have sobered up from the countless tequila shots I was doing last night I am able to put these up.

The control feels a bit cheap (maybe because I was just holding it in a store), but they were wireless. A cool thing I noticed was the big green XBox button right in the middle...



It turns out that the middle button also doubles as an identifier as to which player the controller is for. As you can see from this one it's player one. This is a really cool feature and will help when you have a pile of controllers laying around and want to get going in a game.

Closer inspection of the controller unit shows us this...




Extra features for people who bring in their 360 memory cards? Who knows. This is something we should keep an eye on. Maybe store exclusive unlockables or demos you can bring back to your unit at home?



The monitor. Was a nice bright screen, looked nice, hurt the neck to look up at it.




Another shot of the controller unit thing.


So that's that.

Nothing too too special yet. The graphics on the games weren’t anything mind blowing but it's a first run demo unit. I guess we will have to wait and see what is in store.

Posted by LordJezo

October 21 2005 -- The Harvest (My battery charger literally melted down last week so for a while all pictures will be taken with my cell phone.)

Lets kick things up a notch. Halloween is getting ever closer and the fever in the air is growing all the time. What kind of fever? Well, it seems that rage has taken a hold of us and we are now supposed to totally accept cannibalism. "What? Cannibalism?" you ask? Yes, cannibalism. It might not be straight out human flesh eating, but much like the other Halloween reviews we have done this is a way for us to accept such a ghoulish act and eventually feel like it is a normal part of society. How are they going to do this to us? Something as simple as a cookie.



There it is, folks, the pathway into flesh eating. Just look at it, sure, it might look innocent, but we readers of this website know the truth. Forget for a second that it is a cookie. Imagine it was actually the head of the misunderstood monster of Frankenstein. Look at the eyes. LOOK AT THEM! Do you see the fear and sadness there? The Monster knows what is about to happen to him. His flesh will be ripped from him. Sure, it might not be his flesh since it was stolen from other people and made into him, but still, it's all he has known and having that taken away from him might be a bit much.

Take a look at the coloring. Looks festive and cheerful, right? WRONG. Those colors are just there to trick us into thinking that it is okay to eat the flesh of another human(ish) being. The kiddies will gobble it up and be happy. Over time the companies will slowly change the colors to a more lifelike appearance. Soon we will be eating photo realistic cookies of humans and no one will think twice. It will seem so normal to us that we wont bat an eye.

It makes me sad to think about the way society is changing. Only a few years ago the thought of cannibalism being a regular part of society would have been punishable by death. Today we are only hours away from Soylent Green becoming a reality. Will anyone stop it? Of course not. The money to be made in the flesh harvest is too great for anyone to resist. The merchants of evil will continue us on our pathway to Hell and we wont even care.

Oh well.

3 cheeses for a generic holiday cookie. It looks pretty. Bought it at Shop Rite for a buck something.

Posted by LordJezo

October 17 2005 -- Save the Movies

Please Print and sign.



Dear Kevin Smith,


Please tell me this is a joke. If this
is, as my cold-sweats imply, a reality please consider:


78west.com, on behalf of the State of New Jersey, ask you to refrain from
releasing this film.


We here at 78west.com respect your right to create any art you fancy.
However, we believe it to be detrimental to the fabric of society to allow you
to unleash this project on the public. Not only would it physically pain our
skulls I fear that the American public could not bear to witness their beloved
talk-show hosts forced to pander to you and your cast in an attempt to make this
film, upon its release, to seem funny, relevant or otherwise entertaining.
78west.com is also attempting to look out for the best interests of the populace
of New Jersey, a population that prides itself on a lode of talent to be mined
for the betterment of our society. We were once proud to point to your films as
examples of Good Stuff to Come From Jersey, alongside Jack Nicholson, Paul Simon
and pork roll...but now you have shamed us, like Tom Cruise, Zach Braff and pork
roll.


It is to this end that I offer to donate ten American dollars to you in the
understanding that this donation, when added with the donations of the rest of
the state (and possibly the nation) will be enough money to convince you it is
better that your film be stored in the lost vaults of whatever hack production
company accepts it next to Unnamed Brad Garrett Project than released. Even if
every individual in the state of New Jersey only donates a single dollar that
should be more than enough money ( $8,414,350 to be exact) to keep those reels
locked safely away.


Signed,


 


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Posted by PatboyX