05/21 2013

21 Notes

forceclose:

Watched the Xbox One announcement today, I still have no idea how I feel about it. The presentation was slightly over one hour long, and almost none of it appealed to me whatsoever. I’ve never been a huge PlayStation fan, and loved Xbox Live since Xbox one the first Xbox, but I’m still undecided as to what console is next for me. My gaming life has become pretty much all about playing Battlefield, and so I definitely want to be on a next-gen console for Battlefield 4, but so far both Sony and Microsoft aren’t exactly wowing me. Today Microsoft’s focus was all about the Xbox becoming the main device in living rooms, but I really don’t care much about that. The gestures and voice controls seem like gimmicks to me, and what in the heck is up with all this cable integration?
This Xbox presumably will be around for around 7-10 years, and I would love to see just where exactly Microsoft sees cable TV going in that time. I’ve personally seen it as on it’s way out, especially in the younger generations, but Microsoft made it one of the first and longest featured points in the show today. Amazon and Netflix seem content on making it obsolete with their own shows, and now even Microsoft is bringing original shows, starting with Halo, to the Xbox. Microsoft is helping to kill its own feature!
So one rumor I’m starting right now is that the Xbox One might even play games, but that feature was pretty hidden today, and while they plan on showing more of that at E3, perhaps a little bit more info on that wouldn’t have killed them? EA Sports announced that their standard set of games are coming to the Xbox One, I’m sure a lot of jaws dropped at that one. Forza was shown off, you can’t launch a console without a racing game to “cheat” at having good graphics, and also some Quantum Break game was shown which I legitimately thought was going to be a comedy game as the trailer went on. And then they finished off with Call of Duty: Ghosts, which was essentially the opposite of what I was hoping to see, waiting for Battlefield 4 to appear.
Anywho, Microsoft just didn’t impress me yet, I’m hoping for a better showing at E3, but I’m afraid it will mostly be about how using the new Kinect will let me shake my arms or something in Call of Duty to pet dogs. While Sony didn’t even show the PlayStation 4 at their announcement, their one feature of having a share button on the controller is cooler to me than the Kinect gestures and being able to Skype while I watch TV. The two good things that Microsoft did announce were that 1) They didn’t fuck up the controller, a legitimate huge concern of mine as they’ve pushed more and more forward with Kinect, and 2) The thing, although reminiscent of a VCR that had sex with PS3, at least is rectangular so I can put my other stuff on top it.
DICE, just tell me which to buy. I just can’t join the PC Gaming Master Race, so just tell me which console will be better for Battlefield.

forceclose:

Watched the Xbox One announcement today, I still have no idea how I feel about it. The presentation was slightly over one hour long, and almost none of it appealed to me whatsoever. I’ve never been a huge PlayStation fan, and loved Xbox Live since Xbox one the first Xbox, but I’m still undecided as to what console is next for me. My gaming life has become pretty much all about playing Battlefield, and so I definitely want to be on a next-gen console for Battlefield 4, but so far both Sony and Microsoft aren’t exactly wowing me. Today Microsoft’s focus was all about the Xbox becoming the main device in living rooms, but I really don’t care much about that. The gestures and voice controls seem like gimmicks to me, and what in the heck is up with all this cable integration?

This Xbox presumably will be around for around 7-10 years, and I would love to see just where exactly Microsoft sees cable TV going in that time. I’ve personally seen it as on it’s way out, especially in the younger generations, but Microsoft made it one of the first and longest featured points in the show today. Amazon and Netflix seem content on making it obsolete with their own shows, and now even Microsoft is bringing original shows, starting with Halo, to the Xbox. Microsoft is helping to kill its own feature!

So one rumor I’m starting right now is that the Xbox One might even play games, but that feature was pretty hidden today, and while they plan on showing more of that at E3, perhaps a little bit more info on that wouldn’t have killed them? EA Sports announced that their standard set of games are coming to the Xbox One, I’m sure a lot of jaws dropped at that one. Forza was shown off, you can’t launch a console without a racing game to “cheat” at having good graphics, and also some Quantum Break game was shown which I legitimately thought was going to be a comedy game as the trailer went on. And then they finished off with Call of Duty: Ghosts, which was essentially the opposite of what I was hoping to see, waiting for Battlefield 4 to appear.

Anywho, Microsoft just didn’t impress me yet, I’m hoping for a better showing at E3, but I’m afraid it will mostly be about how using the new Kinect will let me shake my arms or something in Call of Duty to pet dogs. While Sony didn’t even show the PlayStation 4 at their announcement, their one feature of having a share button on the controller is cooler to me than the Kinect gestures and being able to Skype while I watch TV. The two good things that Microsoft did announce were that 1) They didn’t fuck up the controller, a legitimate huge concern of mine as they’ve pushed more and more forward with Kinect, and 2) The thing, although reminiscent of a VCR that had sex with PS3, at least is rectangular so I can put my other stuff on top it.

DICE, just tell me which to buy. I just can’t join the PC Gaming Master Race, so just tell me which console will be better for Battlefield.

This post was reblogged from Force Close Force Close.

05/15 2013

4 Notes

Helping Ater move, his oven speaks Predator. Predator

Helping Ater move, his oven speaks Predator.

04/17 2013

6 Notes

I understand that I need to wait for the album, but why won’t they just release a single already?!

04/15 2013

10 Notes

Infinite Scroll News!

Thanks to Tumblr’s new audio player, the player now works on posts loaded via the infinite scrolling! Woot! To celebrate, I’ve got 2N.FM infinite scrolling, check it out!

Also, as an unrelated sidenote, I’m also encouraging everyone who is using the script from my tutorial to please change their code to 

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://codysherman.tumblr.com/tools/infinite-scrolling/code”></script>

Adding the .tumblr part will help to avoid future conflicts, such as if my tumblr were to become a subdomain of codysherman.com.

04/04 2013

10 Notes

We found a zorb or something, pumping it up now.

We found a zorb or something, pumping it up now.

03/31 2013

3 Notes

&#8220;Note:enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended&#8221;
Thank God. Maybe if we try hard today, we can hit the big 2TB for the month. I didn't choose the cloud life the cloud life chose me

“Note:enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended”

Thank God. Maybe if we try hard today, we can hit the big 2TB for the month.

03/20 2013

9 Notes

davidblasiak:

I no longer have to fear being carjacked from the passenger side of my car while driving through Rockford/Cicero.

Dave&#8217;s a jerk because it&#8217;s been this way for weeks and he just punches it back into his door and never warns anyone. I think he just thrives off people&#8217;s frantic apologies for ripping his handle off whenever getting into his passenger seat for the first time.

davidblasiak:

I no longer have to fear being carjacked from the passenger side of my car while driving through Rockford/Cicero.

Dave’s a jerk because it’s been this way for weeks and he just punches it back into his door and never warns anyone. I think he just thrives off people’s frantic apologies for ripping his handle off whenever getting into his passenger seat for the first time.

This post was reblogged from David Blasiak David Blasiak.

03/14 2013

7 Notes

forceclose:

Google Reader is shutting down.
The news of this honestly hit me very hard, I’ve been using Google Reader since 2005. It’s been one of, if not the website I love the most. I can understand Google’s thought process in seeing that obviously it doesn’t have a huge number of users, but personally I believe they underestimate just how important it is to those who do use it. I sincerely hope Google reconsiders.
But, the good news is that Google Reader was essentially just a shell around the actual content. I’ll have to find a new RSS reader that I like. Currently, I’m attempting to try out Feedly, and it seems very nice, but my problem is that I keep checking Reader instead out of habit.
I can only hope that this is being done due to Currents being on the verge of launching a replacement via a web interface. Currents is certainly a very attractive app, and the fact it only exists in that form and not a web interface is literally the exact opposite of Google’s beliefs. But, if this were the case, why not wait until it was ready, instead leaving us to scramble to competitors? I don’t see it happening, and being an RSS reader is already a feature seeming tacked on to the Currents app.
I will sincerely miss you Google Reader, it’s been a great 7 years. The way I use the internet is about to completely change.

&#8220;Since October 8, 2005 you have read a total of 175,208 items.&#8221; :( Google Google Reader

forceclose:

Google Reader is shutting down.

The news of this honestly hit me very hard, I’ve been using Google Reader since 2005. It’s been one of, if not the website I love the most. I can understand Google’s thought process in seeing that obviously it doesn’t have a huge number of users, but personally I believe they underestimate just how important it is to those who do use it. I sincerely hope Google reconsiders.

But, the good news is that Google Reader was essentially just a shell around the actual content. I’ll have to find a new RSS reader that I like. Currently, I’m attempting to try out Feedly, and it seems very nice, but my problem is that I keep checking Reader instead out of habit.

I can only hope that this is being done due to Currents being on the verge of launching a replacement via a web interface. Currents is certainly a very attractive app, and the fact it only exists in that form and not a web interface is literally the exact opposite of Google’s beliefs. But, if this were the case, why not wait until it was ready, instead leaving us to scramble to competitors? I don’t see it happening, and being an RSS reader is already a feature seeming tacked on to the Currents app.

I will sincerely miss you Google Reader, it’s been a great 7 years. The way I use the internet is about to completely change.

Since October 8, 2005 you have read a total of 175,208 items.” :(

This post was reblogged from Force Close Force Close.

02/16 2013

16 Notes

Well I’m a happy camper! My Kickstarter Pebble arrived! Pebble

Well I’m a happy camper! My Kickstarter Pebble arrived!

02/14 2013

15 Notes

michaelater:

Happy Valentines Day ;)

Valentine’s Day vid from my pal Ater. Check it.

This post was reblogged from Art for your eyes Art for your eyes.

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