FIRST OFF, a Little Saw may have been born yesterday. The SMYN community wishes Sugarpoulty and TheBuzzSaw well on the birth of their first child, a girl. Although I haven’t heard yet if the baby was actually born yesterday, I’m sure all went smoothly and that the happy couple is deservedly relaxing. You two will be wonderful parents!
While Buzz was waiting in the hospital with its gimpy internet restrictions, I noted that if in fact the baby was born today (the 19th), her journey towards being gamer was starting off on the right foot. The Wii turned two years old yesterday and Half-Life became a decade old. A good day to be born as a gamer, indeed.
Now, the New Xbox Experience (NXE) launched yesterday…and it’s…meh? Haven’t tried the feature of downloading a game to your harddrive yet – I’m sure it works really well, although it’s supposedly slower if you load Halo 3 from a harddrive, so don’t do that! Netflix isn’t AS wonderful as originally promised – you can only play movies/TV shows on your 360 that you can directly stream on your computer if you have a Netflix account. In fact, this selection of titles that can be added to your “Instant Queue” is rather limited, but you can obviously still do the whole DVD-through-the-mail thing on top of it all. We’ll see what happens after the two week free trial, it’s at least worth THAT to check it out.
Now, avatars…Mii, yes. A little new, yes. Pretty useless? …Yes. It helps to give gamers a “face,” but the overall use of avatars appear to be rather limited. Maybe they’ll expand on it more in the future, but it’s just this tacky addition at the moment. Nintendo definitely implemented their Mii system far more from the get-go than Microsoft has with their Avatar system.
If you want to see your friend’s avatar, assuming they’ve made one, it’s pretty simple. You just have to know their gamertag, and follow this link, replacing GAMERTAG with well…their gamertag.
So who are these fine-looking individuals?
Now it’s off to finishing a script for our final German Film project. I’m partnered with the only other film student in the class and we’re supposed to make an “artsy” film. So we’re going to write something about suicide, self-hatred, and screw with the sense of time in the film. It’s going to be pretty amazing compared to everyone else’s project, considering they don’t really know what they’re doing when it comes to making videos. I’ll see if I can post the script here somewhere when I finish it so you can be depressed. Or something.
Tonight is Survivor. Go watch it – 8 PM ET on CBS! And our comments as we watch it on Stickam probably around 10 PM ET…ish. I say Randy gets the boot…which is sad, because he brings so much…bitterness to the show?
I’ll try to add some more blogs this weekend, detailing some of my video shooting experiences. After all, today is a crapton of class, tomorrow we finalize my production video idea (which will be basically a portrait of sound in the world), Saturday we SHOOT said video idea, and Sunday we shoot the German film. Damn, what a crazy weekend…
