Exxy reviews: Just Cause 2

Alright, it's time to get another review going. The reason I am reviewing a game that isn't really new, is because I want to get back into reviewing for next week. Because next week is the release of Bulletstorm, and I am SOOOOOOOOOOO gonna review that. ANYWAY!

Just Cause 2. Front cover shown here:

Let's get the boring surrounding crap over with:

Developed by the swedish developers Avalanche studios, Published by the publisher Eidos. Now that is out of the way, let's get to the fun stuff.

You play as the funny, charming and extremely latin Rico (Shown below) who is a CIA agent with a dedication for his mission(s)!

The story in the game is that you are going into a made up asian country called "Panau". Everything is not fine and dandy in Panau after the president got assassinated by his son, who is now president. It is your mission to go in and set things str...




...You know what, that's not what the game is about though. The story is like a side-quest in a RPG game.


You wanna know what the game is really about? Like REALLY about?


Fucking around. That's right. Going from town to town, blowing shit up and slaughtering the entire army of the current president. 


You know why? To get "Chaos". Chaos unlocks missions (side-quests derp), Black market items, Story missions (super side-quests), and Stronghold takeovers (side-quest enabling side-quest).


But really, with a sandbox about as big as the fucking sun and vehicles ranging wider than the equator, this game is the ultimate fucking around simulator EVER. 


I'll give you a scenario:
You set a waypoint to go to the next super side-quest. You realize it's 26 kilometers away(!). You call the Black market and order a military jet. Your jet arrives, and off you go! About 3 minutes after take-off, you see a military airbase. You kamakazie the fuck out of the hangar containing 4 other military jets. You blow up everything with the army-star on it, and get the fuck out. Carry on as usual. Rinse, repeat.


^ THAT.. THAT is Just Cause 2 and what it's about. Going apeshit. Living out your  destruction-fetishes upon south-east asian soldiers.


And I haven't told you the most funny feature yet:


The grapling hook. This thing is completely fucking overpowered. Let me make a top 5 of the funniest things I've discovered with the grapling hook so far:


5. Putting one end in a Panauan soldier, and then attaching the other end to a gas canister, then send the gas canister flying.


4. Putting one end in a speeding car, the other one in a nearby house, then watch as the car makes a quintiple backflip and explode.


3. Attach the hook between two cars and make them drive on each side of a tree or some  other object and laugh your ass off when they swing around and frontal eachother.


2. Attach a Panauan soldier to a jet plane, then proceed to do 400 barrel rolls with him dangling from underneath the jet.


1. This one kills you, but  is  so fucking funny to do between missions anyway. Grapple yourself to a enemy plane, fly with it for a while, when you find a military base or alike, you drop from the plane, free fall towars the ground, find a soldier to land on, then wait for the military jet to follow you and blow the entire base up.




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So to sum this up.


Is Just Cause 2 worth the money and time? I would say FUCK YES, with some added "SHIT YEAH" for measure.


This is a game about fucking around to unlock content. GTA IV didn't even have that. This is pretty  much everything that GTA IV should've had. Especially NO MOTHER FUCKING ROMAN!


I give Just Cause 2:


9/10 Panauan soldiers attached to a commercial airliner.

Life isn't fair for the wicked...

Recently, a friend of mine had to go through something terrible emotionally. I do not want to go into details, but it is something I never want to go through again for myself, let alone that he has to go through it.

I have been at his place since yesterday, and I have been trying to be the friend that I know I can be. I have always been one of those people who try and not rely on others, and always thinks it is worse when someone else has to go through it and not me.

I know you will probably read this after I post it, especially since you are sitting like, 2 meters away from me, so I wanted to get this said:

I am sorry if I am not saying the right things, or fulfilling my job of distracting you from what has happened, but I am trying my best. I know it is tough, but so are you. I know you can handle this in the long run. It is a challange, but hell, I have seen you conquer bigger blocks in the road.

"Ain't no rest for the wicked", right?

Stay strong, bro. You can do this.

Untill next time,

Signed,

Exxy.

Entertainment!.. or some shit like that.

Alright, I usually don't like doing these, but I thought "meh, fuck it, might be fun."

This is one of those questionares you see all over facebook, however, I stole this one from my cousin Louise (HAI!) and thought that it might actually be entertainment. Let's try it out, shall we?

(I translated it myself btw, So be appriciative god damnit!)

Something that made you happy yesterday: Um.. Playing Bad Company 2 with Niclas I guess?
What did you do today at 8 am?: Sleeping...
What did you do 15 minutes ago?: Played League of Legends
Last thing you said out loud: "Keep a check on these matches, I placed bets on all of them." to my dad.
Last thing someone said to you: "Will do!" from my dad in response to the previous question.  
What have you been drinking today?: Water, Orange Juice and Mineral Water
What was the last thing you ate?: I knicked a handfull of crisps from my dad in the living room.
What was the last thing you bought?: Uhm.. In a actual store: A big bottle of coke and some candy for a movie night at Niclas' place. Online: DLC for Battlefield Bad Company 2.
What color is your door?: Brown, and what type of fucking question is that? I'll counter that with "What color is your mothers bedpost? OH WAIT, I KNOW THAT ONE! Booyah."
What's the weather like at your place?: Is this questionare boring itself so much that it is seriously asking about the weather? Well, it's cold and cloudy. Welcome to Sweden.
Favourite ice-cream flavour?: Vanilla :3
Do you believe in love at first sight?: I believe in headshot at first sight? No, but seriously, I'm not sure.
Are you a heavy sleeper?: Quite.
Do you have nightmares?: The fuck? Psychoanalasys time! Of course I do!
Are you happy with your job?: Yes, I fucking love my job. It feels like something I could do for a long time. Favourite type of clothing?: Big clothes. Baggy cargo's, big shirts, etc.
Favourite song right now?:  I've been listening quite alot to 'Saul Williams - List of demands' and 'I Fight Dragons - Don't you?' lately.
What do you see if you look to your right?: A deoderant and my cellphone.
What makes you happy right now?: Music and Video Games I guess.
What are you going to do after this?: Play a bit of Team Fortress 2 I think. 
Right or left handed?: Right-handed 
How are you feeling right now?: Relaxed and at peace.
Favourite candy?: DAIM!!! (Insider joke within VFN)
What are you wearing?: Fucking pervert. A 3 sizes too big hockey jersey, Cargo-shorts and underwear.
Plans for the summer?: Most likely gonna work and chill all summer. Aiming to go for a holiday when autumn comes.
How many pillows do you have when you sleep?: 2. Which would explain my fucked neck.
Do you know how to play any instruments?: Guitar, although I am not awesome at it.
Morning or night person?: Night, because I prefer the dark..
What's most important to you?: Music, Gaming, Friends, Movies, Writing.
Are you ticklish?: I will answer this like I answer when someone tries to tickle me: "If you even fucking try, I will chop your fucking hands off."
Do you snore?: Ask your mom, she knows.
Astrological sign: I think it's Genesis, which is awesome because I FUCKING LOVE SEGA GENESIS!
Most gross bug?: I don't know? I don't really mind bugs that much? OH WAIT, THAT ANNOYING FUCKING BUG WHERE YOU CAN'T SEE ANIVIA'S FUCKING ICE-BOMB!
What are you longing for the most right now?: The day people will understand that Drum'n'Bass makes everything so much better.


Well, I hope that was entertaining for you, because to be fair, this sort of creeped me out on some questions. If you like this, I can dig up more of these and answer them for your entertainment.


Untill next time,


Signed,


Exxy.

Distractions, problems and lack of time.

So.. The gaming adventure kind of got knocked down the shitter. There are several reasons for this, and one of them is easily described: "Work". I have been juggling two different jobs this past week. One is on my own account, the other one is my usual job.

The one on my own account is working as a scoreboard operator during a handball tournament here in town. And I did that this past weekend. Before that I was just swapped at work all the time when I wasn't away for other reasons.

So I am postponing the gaming adventure in text-form for a while. I did the livestream for those who were interested, but as it played out, I didn't have the time to game as much as I wanted for the gaming adventure.

So, for the upcoming week, I will probably just keep this blog more simple, and talk about what's going on and post some more rage/rant/rambling-posts relating to shit going on in the world.

To compensate for my lack of posts, I am thinking of doing another game review during the day, because today is the first day in ages where I genuinely have time to write something for the blog.

Time will tell!

Signed,

Exxy

The gaming adventure is here!

The gaming adventure is upon us, people!

The game chosen is Fallout: New Vegas, and I will start it off with a BANG! I'm live-streaming the entire first session of it!

You can find the stream HERE!

I will start it at 2:30 pm GMT, 3:30 pm CET (15:30). So tune in if you want to see me make an ass out of myself in FNV!

Fuck you 2010, Welcome 2011!

Alright, a big warning before you get too deep into this and can't stop reading it. This post will contain the following:

- Rage
- Sad moments
- Regrets
- Joys
- A Hit and Shit list


So, now that you've been warned. Let's get into this.

Ladies and Mentlegen, this is my 2010 in review.


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So, 2010 is now over, and to be totally honest, I don't really know if it was a good or bad year. Alot of good things happened, but some of the worst things that has ever happened to me also happened this year.

We can start with a cheery note, which actually comes from last night. Me, my brother, and his girlfriend went to a party with some close friends of theirs. I wasn't too sure on how I would fit in to the group, but later found out that I got along with most of them and even got one of those weird nickname-based friendships with one of the other guests.

But the highlight of the night was the fact that my brother was there, he was in a really good mood, and most of all: He was allowed to take a few beers. All in all, it was a really good night.

(1-0 cheery!)

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Now, a less cheery note. My brothers accident. I already have a post about it, so you can read that if you need to get filled in about it. It was one of the worst days of my life so far.

(so far, 1-1)

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Another less cheery note but with a happy ending! At the beginning of the year, I broke contact with a friend of mine, and at the time it felt like it was something I had to do. Today, I want to knee myself in the face for being such a fucking retard. After about 6 months of no contact with her, I sent her a message, and got a response (which I didn't expect to get at all). Now, we're back to being friends, and I have to say, she is one of the best friends I've ever had.

Misa, if you're reading this, I am so sorry for what I did, and you have no idea how glad I am that you took me back as your friend after I was a complete dick towards you earlier this year. I hope you and Eph stay as happy as I see that you guys are now, you deserve it more than anyone else.

(Fuck it, I am adding a point to each on this, 2-2)

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Now, a really fucking shitty note. I am not going to include any major details, but earlier this year, I had (what I felt) was the biggest stab in the back of my life. I put my full trust in someone I loved and cared about, and that person turned around and fucked me over so bad that it left scars that will be there for fucking life. I have broken contact with that person now, and I hope that I can get my ability to trust people properly back.

(Oh noes, cheery notes are down! 2-3)

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Positive note! I got a job!.. That I love!.. But I'm not sure I am gonna get to keep it. I was working as a temp, and my contract ran out yesterday, and I have no idea if I am still allowed to jump in from time to time to assist them at my job. It's a small department with 5 employees (My brother was one of them), and I was there to fill out the numbers during a holiday, and got to stay for a while, and I absolutely love my job. It's really rewarding compared to my earlier jobs. So.. for me.. keep your fingers crossed I get to keep the job.

(Not sure what to add to this, so I'll do one of each I guess. 3-4)

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This past year, I've had some of the most heartwarming bro-moments with my two best IRL friends. I've seen one of them get a girlfriend and being really happy for a long period of time. Holmström, if you read this, you know I only jab at you with good intents, bro. 

The other friend and I had the best bro-moment I have ever experienced in my entire life. Out of respect for him, I won't detail the entire story, but let's just say that I got to be with him for a moment that could be one of the best happenings of his life. It's also the first time in my life that I sit up to 6 am (waiting for the cab companies to start driving) and talking about all types of good stuff from the years. Niclas, if you're reading this, I am so thankful I got to be there that night, and I really wish you the best with the future of that moment.

(This defo gets a cheery one. 4-4)

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These were only some of the moments of the past year, but these were some of the major ones that impacted me heavily. There are some people I want to thank for being there, being bro's, and most of all; Being the best people they could be under 2010.

Misa - Again, I am sorry for what I did, and I wish you and Ephie the best.

Masson - You've been a really good bro this year, and I am really looking forward to meeting you in real life, bro.

Niclas - I am so thankful that you've been here and that you've allowed me to be there when you wanted to talk. 2011, the year of the Rainbow Six commanders, bro.

Holmström - As I said earlier bro, every jab you get from me, comes with some underlying bromance dude. We'll have to get some more spontaneus trips planned dude. I wish you and Emelie the best.

r0cky - Dude, bro, batman. I know 2010 was a bit hard on you, but I know you. You'll hit the ground running in 2011. Keep strong bro, and make sure we can get some mixes in dude. It's been too long.

Undead2k (a.k.a Addie) - I've gotten really close to Addie the past year, and I hope it stays this way, because you are a really cool guy, dude. Hell, that huntsman of yours is part of the reason I can get my gaming going for mixes. Also, *poke* Logo *poke*.
  
Tom - Everything from Starcraft 2 to League of Legends to Team Fortress 2, gaming with you have been hillarious and really enjoyable. I also want to thank you for putting trust in me with the team while you had your nights off.

Spaceboy McGhee - I do believe that you, Adam, Sarah and Nick were the reason I became so god damn addicted to League of Legends, and I love you all for it. I've also had some of the best discussions and conversations of the past year with you. (The ska and punk conversation was the biggest suprise and enjoyable conversation of the year.)

Leifalot - We've had some laughs the past year, and hopefully, we get to fulfill team EIF a bit more under 2011! Go us! LEIFJÄVEL!

Homer - Watching you play have resulted in some of the most spectacular "WOAH!" moments of the past year. Your damn kamakazie airstrafing has given me quite the practice and motivation to be able to shoot you down AT LEAST 90% of the time in 2011. Go team Luxemburg!

Sick-Lizard - There's been some real hillarity between us during warmups and during matches the past year. The rage, the LOL's, the WTF's and the warping. Hope we can finetune that teamwork for 2011.

Lucky & Page - I count you guys as a team. You guys are hillarious when you're together, and you're really fun to talk to and joke around with individually. Oh, and Lucky, I still owe you a beer and a box of cookies. 

Mats - Keep on raging dude, it's weirdly motivational. I have to say that I enjoy the occational youtube and other links you throw my way from time to time. "Jaevla svensker", amirite?

Malow, emp, Zolan, eXplico, xc3 - "Skånefolket". I really want to thank you for some really insane and hillarious games the past year. I hope to meet you guys for my birthday dudes. DANSKJÄVLAR! NOSFERATU!


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The list goes on with people I want to thank, but I don't want to make this into a novel, so I have to set the line somewhere.

I promised you a Hit/Shit list, so this will be the top and bottom 3 of the past year.

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Hitlist:

1. The bro-moments with Niclas and Holmström

2. The close friends I've made this past year.

3. The support and concern from everyone around me during my brother's accident.


Shitlist:

1. The backstab and lack of trust in people nowadays.

2. My brother's accident

3. The fact I might loose my job.


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Now, this will conclude 2010, and I really wish you all a good 2011. Thank you all for reading, and I hope you will stay strong and awesome for the upcoming year.


I will start the gaming adventure the upcoming week, and I will make sure to keep my promise of a post every day about my adventures, and if everything goes as planned, there will be a little bonus thing at the start of the week.




Best of wishes,
Signed,
Exxy.

The great gaming adventure of 2010/2011.

Alright, people, it's time to get down to SRZ BZNZ.

For christmas, I aquired quite the list of PS3 games for christmas, and I now present you with the following:

You get to choose a game from this list, for a week, I will post AT LEAST once a week (first week is gonna be every day) and let you in on my rages, findings and occasional "LOLWTF?" on the way.

So, the list of games you have to choose from is:

- Assassin's Creed 2 (and Brotherhood, but I want to finish 2 before Bro)
- CoD: Black Ops (Obviously this will be the Multi-player and quite shite)
- Fallout: New Vegas
- FIFA 11 (I will make a pro, and dedicate him to the blog)
- DJ Hero 1/2 (If this becomes the pick, I will RP the shit out of it.)

As I have already gotten started with two other games I got, I decided to not throw them onto the list. So this is the list you have to go by.

So now it's up to you. Post what you want me to play, rage, laugh and inform you about, and I will do such.

Signed,

Exxy

Alright, time to get this out.

Alright, I've been deliberately keeping away from posting what I am about to post, but it feels really shitty to not let you people know WHY I haven't been posting as frequent as I did earlier.

My brother was in a car crash about a month ago. His injuries were bad, but not fatal. He had two broken arms, a dislocated hip and a crushed foot.

This might be good enough of a reason, but I want to clarify some things for those of you who might be asking yourself some questions (And I've answered these questions on a daily basis since the accident happened, so why not make a FAQ?).

Q: How is he now?

A: He is doing really well, looking at the situation. He is already home, lost one of the casts on his arms, and is doing a really speedy recovery.

Q: How are YOU doing?

A: I am doing fine. I've been trying to help my brother as much as possible lately by acting as his personal assistant when he needs it. I've also gotten alot of time to think about stuff around me, and what is good and bad for me. I've also gotten over the shock and I am trying to get back into normal again.

Q: Will your brother fully recover?

A: Yeah, he most likely will. The only problem might be his foot, but he should be able to at least get back to golfing, which is his favourite hobby.

Q: Have this affected him in any way?

A: Well, he's become more careful when it comes to people driving, but he is still the same brother I've had to live with for the past 21 years. If anything, he's become more thankful for everything, and he is really showing his appriciation alot more than he used to. But nothing in the negative way.


I think that covers the most of the frequent questions I get. In respect for my brother, I do not want to describe the accident or how we reacted the evening of the crash, so if you want to hear that story, try to catch me on steam or something and I can give you a short summary of what happened.

I also want to give a big thanks to everyone who has supported me and made me feel good the past month and I want to thank everyone who showed they cared and wanted to help me and my family through this event.

I hope you all have a really good christmas and a great new years...

...BAH! Just janking your chain. I'll most likely post some ideas for segments I had before the accident, and I'll let you decide on which to keep and which to scrap.

Untill we meet again,

Exxy. 

Wikileaks.

This can't really be ignored anymore, so it's time to look at the whole Wikileaks situation going on in the world.

Let me start off by saying that I am a bit on the fence when it comes to this. On one hand I respect what Wikileaks is doing; Giving information to the people that deserve to hear it.

HOWEVER, I do not support it in the way that they don't seem to realize the extreme consequences this can have on the political world. In a world where some relations already are shakey as it is, we don't need a rat in the system making those relations crumble upon itself.

A thought that struck me the other night when thinking about this whole shebang was that this whole shit could possibly be a contributing factor for an eventual World War 3 if done incorrectly.

Now, I am not saying that Wikileaks will be the founding factor for WW3, not at all, but it could well be that Wikileaks releases some info that is handled incorrectly and/or misinterprited in the eyes of the beholder, thus leading to a major war.

The info on the Iraq/Afghanistan war that Wikileaks released was an acceptable release of information to see how poorly handled the "war" was in the middle east. HOWEVER, the latest release kind of just stirred shit up, and if the next one properly fucks shit up...

...Do not want.


But as I said. I am a bit on the fence on the whole subject since their first release was to out all the wrongs the US did after starting a completely bullshit war in Iraq. But their latest release, to be totally honest, scares me a bit.


What's your thoughts on this?


Signed,


Exxy.

Sorry for the AFK, BUT HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I know I've been away for a week, and there is a reasonable reason for that, however, I don't want to talk about it today.

Instead, we're gonna give my friend Olsten a happy birthday! Me and Olsten were up to a fuckload of mischief back in my WoW days, and had our own little "Ols n Ohlz"-editing crew going.

I know we haven't spoken much lately, but bro, I found these for you, man:

Here's lookin at you, kid!

Ha en bra födelsedag bruschan! Snart gör vi kaoz med internet igen!

Video Week - The finale!

So, here we are. The final post towards Video Week.

Today, I am not going to talk so much about the clips. I will let them talk for themselves. Because today I have found a mix of different types of masterpieces.

First up, a masterpiece of acting. This is a 10 minute monologue from Brandon Hardesty (Not sure on spelling), A.k.a. ArtieTSMITW on youtube. See it and realize the pure acting skills involved in this simple, yet amazing video.







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The second video today, is another short that I found on Vimeo. It's not of the greatest calibre, but it's sure as hell not bad. I quite enjoyed it alot actually.



Short Film 'The Black Hole' from PHOTOPLAY FILMS on Vimeo.



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Our third clip today, is one of those videos that I really like, but I don't know why. It's a french animation named "Mon ami le robot", and goes by the english title "Playing with light". Give it a watch and see if you like it the same way I do.




Playing with light - Mon ami le robot from Cube Creative on Vimeo.

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Alright. The last clip for Video Week will be a music video. This is the music video for the acoustic version of "Juneau" by Funeral For a Friend. The video is so special and mixed with the song it's just so beautiful and peaceful. Give it a watch and listen, and you'll hopefully be touched the way I am every time I watch it.

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Well, that concludes Video Week. If you liked this, feel free to give me a shout and I'll throw in another video week with a theme at some point.

Untill next time.

Signed, Exxy.

Video Week #3.

Alright, today is gonna be a bit special. It is not going to be focusing on the artistic writing/filming, but more about the skillfull content. There are going to be a couple of clips with (at least what I class as) great skill in their respective field.

The first one is "Way back home".

This video is following the street-trailist Danny MacAskill from Scotland. This video is produced/sponsored by Red Bull and is filmed in the style of "The Collective", which is a group that does mountain bike movies. (You can check their stuff out HERE). Danny shows some real skills on his bike in this short film, so watch it, and love it.






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The second clip I want you to see, is a BMX short showing off some major flatland skills from Simon O'Brien. This is the type of stuff I would love to be able to do if I ever get a BMX. Just seeing how he makes it look so easy and fluent makes me a bit jealous. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.






Those were the videos for today. I will post the final post of Video Week tomorrow, and I hope to find a couple of really special videos for you to enjoy to the fullest.

Untill then;

Signed,

Exxy.

Video Week #2

Greetings people!

Today, I got TWO videos for you, and not just one. Both of these are in their own categories, so I'll give them an "evaluation" each. 

The first one breaks the trend of heavy clips that I've had so far. It's a extreme slow motion video. But unlike most Super Slow-mo videos that you get on youtube (this isn't a 10 minute video of people getting slapped in 1000 fps), this has some artistic value to it in my oppinion. It shows you the beautiful things that real-time sort of ruins.

Ladies and gentlemen, the first clip:

"More super slow motion [Water]"




More Super Slow Motion [Water] - 550D from Rickard Bengtsson on Vimeo.

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The second video I am giving you, is a video that spoke to me as a scriptwriter. The video is called "Vicky and Sam", and is about 3 writers, coming up with a romance-based-script. I just loved it from start to finish. Give it a look and give me your thoughts on it.






Vicky and Sam from Nuno Rocha on Vimeo.



Well, peeps. That was all for this time. But I hope you like these two vids, and I hope you are looking forward to tomorrow.

Signed,

Exxy. 

Video week.

I am now spontaneously (thanks Rho) making this into "Videos that I think you should see"-week.

And no, this will not be filled with retarded videos of people doing stupid shit or cute puppies or whatever, but clips that deserves attention for their brilliance.

The first one was "My name is Lisa" that I posted monday. And today, I bring you: SPIN.

Watch the video first, then I'll post my views and reasons.






The main reason why I post this is because it's directed and written by Jamin Winans. Jamin has become one of my favourite writers and directors after seeing some of his stuff. But also because it is so well made, and can be looked at from so many different perspectives.

If you liked this, I greatly recommend you to see "Ink" (IMDB page). I got this recommended by my friend Rho (I recommend her stuff in return, you can find some of it here.)

I will see you again tomorrow with another clip that contributes to society and culture and all of the other things that appearantly are important.

Signed,


Exxy

"My name is Lisa."

The title might be a bit confusing, but it has a purpose. It's the title of a video clip I want you to see. This didn't catch my eye at first, but stick through it to the end, and you'll know why I think you need to watch it.

This is a masterpiece, and you don't find that very often on YouTube.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you;

"My name is Lisa."








And that will be all I post today. But I hope it gave you something to think about and realize something.

Signed,

Exxy.

"Video games make people violent!", My take on this.

Alright, it's my turn to step up to the plate and post my thoughts on the age-old topic of; "Do people become violent because of video games?".

I'd like to start this off to explain my history and relationship to gaming, and give you a bit of backstory to why this subject is repeatedly coming up to discussion with me. Let's get history out of the way.

My first console, and real ENCOUNTER with video games, was a Sega Mega Drive (genesis for you yanks). I got it back in 1994 from my brother when he moved away from home, and with it I got NHL 94 and FIFA 94. From that moment on, I was a gamer. I spent LOADS of time playing video games after school, and I just kept on adding to my arsenal of games. (Might add that I now own well over a 100 Mega Drive games).

In early ages, my Mega Drive was my escape from the harsh reality I was living at the time. Constantly getting picked on at school etc etc. Don't want to go into that shit and make this a emo post. BUT ANYWAY. My Mega Drive allowed me to shut everything else out and become someone else. I could be whatever the fuck I wanted. A NHL player, a vietnam soldier, an olympic gold medalist. This whole era was the reason I became the gamer I am today.

After those times, I've still kept that state of mind when it comes to games. It's an escape from reality that movies and books don't provide in the same way. A truely immersive game is WAAAAAAAAAY better than any book or movie could ever be. The most perfect example, even though I am ashamed of saying it, is World of warcraft. I don't play it anymore (luckily), but it seriously gave me the perfect escape from reality that I wanted. It kept me occupied and distracted from the shit I faced in real life at the time.

So with this said, you now know how I feel about games. A secondary world that lets my imagination run wild and keep me from acting out like a retard in real life.

Now for the topic itself.


The way I see it, gaming is a necessary part of modern society as it is a GREAT way of relieving mental stress and depression. Whenever I get angry, I don't go out and punch some poor old lady across the street, no, I sit down and slam on some hard music and slam down upon computer generated AI. This doesn't hurt anyone, and I get the relief I need.


Now, if you're one of those twats who think "Well, games makes people violent because people HURR DURR BLARGH".


Shut the fuck up.


The reason why people lash out and games get the blame is for one of three reasons.


1. The person in question just happened to play video games on a regular basis, and to be honest, almost everyone are these days. Thus, this point is bullshit.


2. The person in question got no fucking slef-control at all, or is not seeing the game for what it really is: a mother fucking game.


3. The person would've still done the shit they did, but just happened to play a certain game alot, and the act itself could be related (NOTE: IN A VERY WEAK RELATION) to the game.


There is also one argument that I fucking love when people pull:

"Games teaches you how to use guns."


Are you fucking serious?


How will this:

or this:

Teach you how to function and aim this:

It just makes no fucking sense in my mind.


If you want me to add on to this topic, feel free to message me and I'll make a part two on this. I just wanted to cover my basics on the subject.


Signed for now, Exxy.

You know what? You!

Alright, let's make something fun here.

When you've read this, contact me on steam/msn/facebook/wherever and give me a subject to whine/rage/rant/joke about and I will try my best to do so. I will however NOT make any remakes of earlier topics, nor do anything racist/xenophobic/4chanish.

But drop me a line about something that you want my point of view on.

Signed, Exxy.

Well, would you look at that.

Today will be my first (and hopefully only) sad/emo/depressed/what-the-fuck-ever blogpost. Because this is something I want to get out of the way, and something I can't be arsed to hide really.

Today, when I got home, I felt extremely lonely for the first time in years. I don't mean in the way that "Boo-hoo, I have no one bluh bluh", no no. I felt it in the way that I miss having someone to come home to, or to go home to after work. I get to read all these statuses and blogposts about "Oh, today when I got home from work, my girlfriend/boyfriend had done this and this", and to be honest, I want that.

I am not saying this out of the standpoint that I am not happy, because I am perfectly fine with my situation as it is, but I just miss that feeling of coming home and feel wanted by someone.

Wow, I just realized why crazy catladies get cats...

ANYWAYS. I just wanted to get that out of the way so I can post a more ragey/happy/funny blogpost later on tonight.

And hey, this shows that I can feel something other than hate and joy.

Well, I hope you have a great day.

Talk to you later.

Signed, Exxy.

Drum'n'bass...

Alright. As everybody SHOULD KNOW BY NOW, I am a major drum'n'bass fan. Today, Undead2k (Medic for my Team Fortress 2 team) posted a note on his facebook with a fuckload of DnB songs that I've tipped him about, and I offered to add on to the list with some thoughts of artists and genres in DnB that I like. 

So today, I thought I'd copy and paste that list, and you can browse freely and see if you share my enthusiasm for the style of music.

Allow me to quote myself:

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Roni Size.

This is in my eyes the godfather of Drum'n'bass. You need to know of him if you're listening to drum'n'bass. He was also the first DnB artist that I heard back in the day.

His most famous song from the early days is Brown paper bag... from 1997:

Roni Size - Brown paper bag (Original edit)

This song was remastered and remixed in 2008 by Roni Size and got a more modern DnB sound: Roni Size - Brown paper bag (2008 Re-edit)

He has also done several colaborations with major artists along the lines of B-real from Cypress Hill, Zack De la Rocha from Rage against the machine, and Method Man of Wu-tang clan: Roni Size feat. B-Real - Child of the wild west

Roni Size feat Zack de la Rocha - Center of the storm

Roni Size feat Method Man - Ghetto celebrity

He's still doing songs together with his "group" named Reprazent, where he has a line of rappers and vocalists to help him with rhymes and lines on his songs, my personal favourite is Dirty Beats where he has some help from MC Dynamite: Roni Size / Reprazent - Dirty beats

He also has some sick remixes out, none of which have gotten enough attention in my eyes, but there is one of Redman's song "Smash sumthin" that I absolutely love: Axel F and Redman - Smash Sumthin' (Roni Size remix)

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While we are on remixes, there are certain artists that do absolutely amazing remixes no matter what song they lay their hands on. One of these artists is High Contrast. All of his/their (not sure if it's one guy or not) are absolutely fuck...ing amazing. Some examples are;

Kanye West - Gold Digger (High Contrast remix)

Calvin Harris - Ready for the weekend (High Contrast remix)

The White Stripes - Blue Orchid (High Contrast remix)

Another artist that I absolutely love for remixes, but is a fucking amazing artist apart from remixes, is Netsky. He's a young artist who really broke through the scene just a couple of years ago, and has preformed miracles with his songs and remixes. Some of my favourite Netsky remixes are;

Miike Snow - Black and Blue (Netsky remix)

Swedish House Mafia - One (Netsky remix)

Underworld - Scribble (Netsky remix)

Then there is a whole bunch of random remixes by other big DnB/Dubstep artists that makes me realize over and over that everything sounds better when being done to DnB songs. Some of these are;

Plan B - Stay too long (Pendulum remix)

Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed (Dexcell remix)

Owl City - Fireflied (threeAM remix)

 

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Then we have some of the artists that do some creative and really good stuff with DnB or DnB-like sounds. Some of these artists are Photek, Muffler, Modestep, Nero, TC, DJ Fresh among others. Some examples of their songs are;

(1): Photek - Industry of noise
 

(2): Muffler - The game
 

(3): Modestep - Sunlight
 

(4): Nero - Act like you know
 

(5): TC - Pornstar
 

(6): DJ Fresh - Talkbox

1. This song has an action movie sound to it, but still has drum'n'bass in the core of it.

2. Muffler is the type of artist where you can't really place him in a fucking category. He's sort of Liquid DnB, but it sounds too agro to be Liquid in my ears. None the less, amazing artist and track.

3. I know that most people are gonna go "EEEW, DUBSTEP!", but listen through the entire track. It does an amazing turn from Dubstep to Drum'n'bass towards the end of the song. I really liked it.

4. This song is in my eyes a Dubstep song gone DnB. It has so many elements and sounds of a dubstep song over a DnB drumline that it just does an amazing job at merging the two genres. Lovely track.

5. TC is in his own category of Drum'n'Bass. Agressive drumlines mixed with bass and ambience that will fuck your ears out of your head. Just amazing songs across the board.

6. DJ Fresh has never really impressed me that much untill his latest album which, by my standings, IS FUCKING FANTASTIC. There is like, 3 songs that are DECENT, the rest is amazing. So defo check him out.

 

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I know, I care too much about music, but this was my list of added shit to Undead's note, and I hope you get some gems from this that you can tollerate listening to.

 

Untill next time...

 

 

...signed, Exxy.

 

 

P.S. Thinking of changing my last name to Van Daars. Good / Bad idea? 

Sooooo... the fuck is going on?

I want to start this off by appologizing for the fact that it's been a few days since my last proper post, but that's been because of a few things.

1. Got a new job.
2. Been working alot with the movie team (VFN)
3. Been at Niclas' place alot.
4. Been sleeping alot.

Now, let's look over these points a little closer.

1. New job

So, I've gotten a new job. I can't really go into any major details, but it's at the same mental hospital I worked over the summer, it's just a better job in general. So to be fair, it could be counted as a promotion, not a new job. Anyways, it eats up quite alot of time.

2. VFN!

So my movie team have started to write, record and buy shit for a upcoming series written by yours truely. We have some minor problems so far, but we're getting there slowly. We're hoping to have the new homepage launched at the end of the year, and with it, the first episode of this series.

3. Niclas' place

This is kinda self-explanitory. I've been over at Niclas' place alot, for a number of reasons. One being that I LOVE his appartment. Another being that we've been working alot with the movie team and shit like that, so that's been swapping up quite alot of time.


4. Sleeping

Since I started the job, I've appriciated sleep a hell of a lot more. I get all the sleep I can get when I get home, and enjoy every single second of sleeping. However, I still want to get as much shit as possible done during the days, so it's a bit of a dilemma, but I manage to balance it quite well.






After this post, I should be able to get back on track quite quick again, and hopefully I can start writing more than once a day.


Untill next time;

Chocolate milk.

Signed, Exxy.