Politics – Romney hops on the Mainstream Bandwagon.

Like Newt before him he just lines up with the rest of the MSM and calls Iraq “A mess”

I wondered when he was going to do this. First he portrays himself as the conservative candidate and gets a base working and as soon as he wins public opinion he begins to distant himself from the current administration policies. Its the “well you may like this guy already but I have a better idea” move. He gets conservative followers using conservative motives and then pulls out the “I got a solution!” banner.

Well, not like I was gonna vote for the guy anyways, but he’s at least put the last nail in the coffin of “maybe” that I had for him. Funny that he calls it a mess when he isn’t a general on the ground or privy to the inside information on the reconstruction.

Now, if Petreaus (spelling?) says that it’s a mess in his report then by God it’s a mess then, but until we hear from the generals on the ground (and most of them are fairly optimistic) that it’s a problem lets just go ahead and assume there isn’t a big one yet.

Mitt can’t do that though because he has a goal to try and achieve. He’s got to gather himself some of the anti-war crowd to go along with that war crowd he’s been pandering too. How? he sneaks in a few comments here or there to show that he knows how to play the fence. Not exactly a quality in a leader I look forward too. If a guy can play both sides of the line it usually means that he doesn’t know what he really believes and I can’t afford to have some indifferent candidate trying to run the country. It just wouldn’t be right for the people in my opinion.

So, no vote for Romney if he’s the primary candidate.

TV – Toe Tags and J.S. Bach

I came across this on Youtube:

I finally found out what the name of the classical piece that plays at the end of this scene was. Sure enough! it was J.S. Bach and it’s called “Sleepers Awake, The Sentinel is Calling.” Man, I love that show and considering I got to watch that episode again on the Labor day marathon just made my weekend.

“Because the Dead can’t speak for themselves.” A kinda sad ending if you’ve ever seen the episode and that last line one that just strikes me for some weird reason.

Life after Halo

One word: Better

Why people have fawned over a mediocre FPS game that brought literally nothing new to the genre is beyond me. Now, I will concede that Halo has some of the best music in an FPS, but pigs will fly before I ever acknowledge that the game is the messiah-ish digital king that people so claim it to be. I think I know why Halo has done so well and it has nothing to do with the actual game itself.

Marketing.

Halo has the largest marketing budget of any game I have ever seen. Hell, even Mario doesn’t see this kind of fluff and he’s Nintendo’s poster boy. However, there isn’t anywhere you can turn without seeing some mock up of Master Chief. Heck, i can’t even drink a mountain dew now without having a Spartan staring at me. Yet, with all of the marketing that goes in to Halo has anything really been said about the game itself? Not really if you think about it. Sure, the beta was cool but underneath the hype it’s still just a polished FPS with an amazing soundtrack.  Halo does the FPS genre right and that is largely why people still want to play it but the fact that the franchise is being touted as the greatest game EVAR bothers me.

Especially since there have been far better games made before and after Halo’s conception. Blasphemy you say? Well, it’s true though. Hell, in many ways Bioshock is leaps and bounds better than Halo and even looks better than Halo 3. However, it’s a cash-cow and Microsoft has thrown everything they had in to it. Herein lies their folly and could possibly be the downfall of the system. Downfall of the 360?! Thats fanboy talk! Now now….hold on just a minute! I have a good reason why I think something like that is going to happen. Allow me to explain:

Halo is the single strongest franchise on the Xbox. In fact, if you asked the majority of gamers who purchased a 360 why they bought the system in the first place they would simply say “Halo”, but with Halo 3 being the final game in the series what are those 360 fans to do? Do they wait for Mass Effect or the ill-fated Too Human? Possible, but how many of the casual gamers on the 360 world actually know those games exist? And better yet…how many of them are going to be able to play the game without saying “Halo was much better”. The truth of the matter is that Microsoft may have laid too much faith upon a single franchise and have effectively cut their legs out from under them. Nintendo and Sony do not suffer from the same problems in this catagory because they do not carry a singular face to drive their products. Sure, Nintendo uses Mario Universe as it’s pilot franchise but it still has Link and Samus to drag more of the casual and hardcores in to their base.

Am I bashing Halo? No, it is a good game. Not a wonderfully innovative and original game but still a good game nonetheless. You can disagree with that statement all you want but find me something in Halo that hasn’t been done before and i’ll concede that Halo has created something fresh. However, i’m confident that you wont find anything.

Why the long rant? Because the Halo buzz is killing me and everything else around it. It’s a monster that which cannot be sated and it’s not only gobbling up the hype surrounding Sony games or Nintendo games….oh no…it’s also stealing hype from it’s own systems games. The games coming days before and weeks after the Halo release will see some of the hardest hits from any purchasing period this year. Why? because people (like the masses they are) love Halo and the hype surrounding Halo has made it seem like there is no other game coming out but Halo.

On Sept. 25th I DO hope that Halo 3 finishes the fight. Why? because then I might be able to traverse the world and the internet without having Master Chief trying to kick me in the face with his awesomeness.

Newsflash – Japanese weirdness hits all time high

Because now you can “eat pinata people”

Like a Cannibal even. I mean…if it was Halloween and someone was throwing a zombie themed party and people had a cake or something that resembled a person then maybe it would seem appropriate. Still weird, but horror-film appropriate, BUT when your actually going to go to a restaurant and pay to cut up and devour a pinata-like construct in the shape of a person (with red stuff for blood and everythin’!) then I think your hittin the weirdness red line.

I always wanted to go to Japan, but now? Not so sure.

You can take the Mexican out of Mexico, but you cant take the Mexican out of America

Or something to that effect.

By using Calderon’s logic in this situation means that not only do Mexicans entering the country illegal bring drugs, terrorists, and other social deviancies but they also bring the country with them. If oh! Mexico “El-presidente” uses that type of weird thinking does that mean I can walk in to Mexico and say “Where there is an American that IS america!”? Yeah, you go try that in a foreign country and just count the seconds before someone makes you disappear for a long long time.

Couple this craptastic news on top of the recent news that Mexican trucks are soon to be traveling freely on American highways and you have yourself a big giant border problem that is reaching critical mass.