The Playstation 3

Well I guess the time had to come soon enough. I now own the Wii, XBOX 360 and Playstation 3. I first made my jump back into consoles back when the Wii was released. I waited from 9pm until 7am in front of a Target in Silverdale that cold November day. Everyone said they would stop by with food and coffee and not a person took the time to show up. Not that I am still bitter or anything about that. But the Wii sits there most days not being used. More of a toy that people always ask about and want to play when they come visit.

The Wii Games that I have currently.

• Wii Sports
• Legend of Zelda : Twlight Princess
• WarioWare
• Super Smash Brothers Brawl
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Mario Kart Wii
• Wii Fit

WiiFit isn’t mine it’s Raleighs but all the same she enjoys it. It’s rather gimicky but no real fun games to play and the lack of online play that is actually useful or fun is perhaps my number one gripe with the console. It seems to be a good lure for women. They actually enjoy the system. So I guess I keep it around for that reason. When Raleigh had a Rock Band party a few months ago they seemed to enjoy the Wii more then Rock Band.

Then I picked up the XBOX 360 Elite in May of 2007. This has been the greatest console I have ever owned to date. They rape you on accessories for the console. I had to pickup an extra controller $60 and the Wireless Adapter $90. I also picked up the ill fated HD DVD Drive addon. Now while HD DVD looks beautiful and I thought it would be the winning format I sadly failed in that arena. I have that white drive mocking me every single fucking day. “You spent $200 on me” I look to the right in the DVD case and see The Matrix Trilogy another $100 HD DVD Mockery. Planet Earth HD DVD$70 mockery. Heroes Season 1 HD DVD another $80 mockery. I picked up the Ocean’s 11,12,13 gift set on HD DVD from Amazon for $27 which I thought was a steal at the time. So I have a small but respectable HD DVD collection. I feel like I am the kid on the block that had the Dreamcast. Awesome at the time but quick to die and easily forgotten. I love my XBOX 360 even when I had to send it in for repairs when it quit reading discs all together. Had to pay $100 to renew my warranty for a year and to get it repaired which took 3 weeks.

During this three week social experiment I was going a bit nutty. My thumbs were not getting used as often as I would have liked. Raleigh was going crazy with me not having my video game fix. So after a week or two of not having the XBOX I just break down and buy the Playstation 3. I picked up the Metal Gear Solid pack.

80GB Playstation 3 + Metal Gear Solid 4 + Rumble Controller for $499.

What I was intending to do was pickup the 40GB PS3 for $399 and MGS4 for $60 and the new Rumble Controller for $55 but in the end the bundle was the better deal. The cool thing is that it also plays Blu-Ray discs. Which is generally all around awesome so I can keep up with the next generation format. Most people are thinking “Whatever” in fact I think that is all that Raleigh thinks about my toys. I think that whatever keeps me busy and not bothering her she is happy.

I guess I really have nothing to say. I own all of the current generation gaming platforms.

• Nintendo DS
• Sony PSP
• Nintendo Wii
• XBOX 360
• Playstation 3

I have a hard time finding a reason to say “I’m bored” other then I ordered Batman Begins on Blu Ray from Amazon and it’s taking longer then expected to arrive. I hope all is well with everyone else.

My next blog post will probably be about how Sprint is annoying me. It’s currently in the works. This post is kinda like Seinfeld. Nothing was said. A few gripes and we are now more enchriched upon reading this.

“I Want a Wii Now” – Random Bitch at Wal-Mart

So last night I was having dinner with my mom and she wanted to drag me to Wal-Mart to offer advice on getting gifts for people. Personally I have gotten everything done and now just in the process of checking tracking numbers. I must say out of FedEX, DHL, UPS and USPS the USPS tracking site is probably the worst and they have one item with an expected delivery date of 12-24-2007. Which has me worried but meh Amazon.com has only failed me once.

So my Mom and I went to the electronics section of Wal-Mart and were looking for some game. There was some woman with her daughter yelling at Wal-Mart clerk A since I didn’t catch his name. She was totally heated the conversation went as follows.

Bitch: “What do you mean you had 42 Wii’s this morning and sold out in 11 minutes!”
Clerk: “They are a popular holiday item and word got around”
B: “But my son really wants one! You should have  held onto it for him”

Now  I was trying to ponder what logical thought process she was using to come up with this remark. Wal-Mart has never held anything for anyone. I called them to see if they had any copies of Super Mario Galaxy when it was released and he said he would hold one for me. He didn’t do so because well they had a full shelf and many boxes of them on a rack. But everyone and their grandma wants a Wii. Last holiday they were a hot item as well. I camped out for 16hrs in front of a Target I was 17th in line for 1 of 47 Wii’s. Now that I have the Wii I never play it. Well except when hot ladies come over and want to get naked for Wii Playing. (okay that last part was a lie.)

But I think the angry customer thought process is always interesting. Getting angry at store clerk or phone person never seems to accomplish anything. You just get imprinted in the clerks memory as a random slur against yourself. So the odds of you getting decent service again dwindle quickly. The people the yell over the phone are always great because you can put yourself on mute. Put them on speaker phone and you will get a crowd of people enjoying the person yelling. They are wasting energy and time and at least you get some humor out of it. But odds are if they heard what we did to mock them it would just piss them off even further.

So this crazy lady went on for about 5-7 mins about how she wanted a Wii. I wanted to mention to her that I had one. I could have probably sold it to her for $500 or so dollars. Or I could have mentioned the GameStop Raincheck that if you drop $250 for the Wii they guarantee one for you by the end of January. But meh she gets the stupid award.

I guess the point of this blog post is that it’s to late to get a Wii you should have been looking in June. Don’t get pissed at a store associate or phone people because you are stupid. You will accomplish nil. Most phone places will tag your account that you are hard to deal with and just stupid and it’s rather difficult to get that removed.  The Customs and Border Patrol do it. It stays on your account for 40 years. =)

Happy Holiday!

Also if you are awesome and have a Wii. My Wii friend Code is 5651 4193 4958 5574 shoot me an e-mail with yours and we can be Wii Friends!

Super Mario Galaxy

So Super Mario Galaxy was unleashed upon the world yesterday. There were some mixed things that I heard about the release date. Most smaller shops were  getting it today (Tuesday) where Wal-Mart had it yesterday on the 12th. Not being a fan of being jerked around I went to Wal-Mart and picked it up. Buying a video game at Wal-Mart is interesting since you have to hunt somebody down to unlock their glass case to get you the game.

But I had been waiting for this game for way to long. I picked up a Wii on Launch day last year. That was an interesting process where I camped out in front of a Target from 8:30pm until 7am. All my friends were saying they were going to bring me coffee and food so I didn’t really pack anything but my DS expecting Starbucks or something to arrive. But most people didn’t seem to grasp the concept of dates and that turned out to a very cranky Tristan. But there haven’t really been any killer Wii games. I have Wii Sports, Zelda: Twilight Princess and Warioware. Zelda is good. I should probably sit down and beat the game. So getting a Mario Game would finally be the Killer App to make the Wii playable other then Virtual Console Titles.

This game I can totally see me and Raleigh playing some afternoon since she can be involved as much or as little as she would like. She can use the second Wii-mote to collect stars force me to jump to my death. Which I see her doing a great deal of that .  She can also shoot enemies and so forth. It kinda matches the Elebits side of things in that regard.

But gameplay is spot on everything I would expect from a new mario pushing the envelope and making an all around fun game to play. I am a child of the Mario era. I didn’t have a Nintendo growing up I was an Atari kinda guy until I got a SNES when I was in the 4th  grade.

So if you have a Wii I totally recommend Mario Galaxy. You will not be disappointed. The whole perspective and gameplay is totally a new experience since Gravity is not a major part of the game. You can spin around the planets and it is just a riot. Me and Nick were playing it last night and we found it to be a little trippy while tired and spinning around the world.

I give Galaxy a 9.9/10 the .1 off is for the camera angle can get a little odd at times.

Guitar Hero 3 – Legends of Rock

So I have had this game for a little over a week. This is the first coop purchase that me and Raleigh have made. I picked up the game for the XBOX 360. The guitar looks pretty freaking sweet with my XBOX 360 Elite.

I’ve played through Easy and have 2 songs left on Medium. I have ventured into Hard and not ready for that yet.

But I must say this game is a ton of fun to play I would recommend dropping the $90 or $100 depending on what console you are running.

My favorite song in the game is Eric Johnson – Cliffs of Dover

Here is some YouTube Action of the song.

Hey Mario. Is she really worth it?

In the good old days of the 80’s the Nintendo Entertainment System came out and we all go to be whisked away to the Magic Kingdom where this plumber who got flushed down a toilet gets to rescue a princess that he has never met from an evil dinosaur named King Koopa or Bowser.

But lets take a look at this. We have seen Mario get all kinds of different skills. He isn’t a computer hacker or a nunchuck skill master but he can shoot fire out of his hand whenever he touches a flower after a mushroom. A glowing star can make him kill anything in his path. A leaf turned him into a flying raccoon.  He got a pet dinosaur to ride on. A feather gave him a cape in a later game to fly.

Mario is the skill master. But his girlfriend the one he seeks for attention always gets kidnapped and he has to pass through all these obstacles to rescue this women that could clearly give a crap less what he does.  In the earlier games it was just saying Thank You. I am sorry if I evaded death a billion times I would expect a little bit more then a Thank You. In the 3D world mario risked his ass and all he got was a freaking cake. Though as hot as it is to have to have a women cook for you with all her little toad followers. I am sorry but if I was Mario I would have been to hell and back to get a cake. I am sorry no.

I think Mario and Luigi need to just grow up and realize a bit that as hot as Princess Peach may be. That pixel body oh man drives me wild. But still if you are busting your ass and not getting the appreciation that they deserve. Hey look at Shrek and Princess Fiona. Shrek rescued the princess to get his swamp back. Ended up getting his swamp back and some hot mama to marry him. In the second film he gets to make out with some naked mermaid. Plus Ogre Fiona is damn hot. Woman that can kick ass is just a good.

Mario realize that she just isn’t that into you. Tell her to rescue herself for once. You have been chasing after the Princess for 20+ years. I wonder if Link gets any play from Zelda.

Should Mario just give up the chase?

Oh Crap it’s Monday?

Where did the weekend go? Well of course I am going to tell the world about the weekend. Due to a bit of a technical most of my site didn’t load. It was brought to my attention on Friday though I thought it was just a fluke so I thought nothing of it. Then more people started to report the error. But I couldn’t see it at all. Would open up Firefox and Safari and I didn’t see any issue. But I guess the world still uses Internet Explorer. For whatever reason I will never understand but I still don’t understand the appeal of myspace. So the major issue was that some text I cut and paste out of a Microsoft Word Document added all this rogue HTML code to the site that was breaking everything. So I removed all the code and life was gravy.

Friday – I walk off the boat and onto the bus and had a different driver. You get used to the driver you have everyday. I never knew his name but I always thought it was funny you would ask him about restaurants and he would rave and rave about the General Tso’s chicken at the Golden Lion. So I figured eh word of mouth advertising I would go check it out. So I got a togo order of the stuff. My review was it wasn’t as spicy as the other General Tso’s out there. But the portion was healthy and the bell peppers added a bit of value to the experience. Shortly after that my buddy called me and invited me out to the Casino Cedar Steakhouse for Steak Dinner. I had a Filet Mignon that I must say the taste and the way you felt eating it was almost better then sex. Probably cheaper considering you are buying a $50 dinner for yourself. I guess that is one joy of being single. But when you have 6 guys at the table all eating amazing cuts of beef you feel a bit wrong having that feeling pass through you. But it seems like most women I cross paths with are either vegetarians or vegans or just don’t like steak. I always ponder what is wrong with that person. If I could see a girl eat a 24oz porterhouse and enjoy a dark beer I think I would die of shock right there or be totally turned on. Man that seems wrong after I typed that. After that everyone wanted to gamble. I am not a gambling guy. But I had $25 in my pocket and after watching Blackjack for a while there seemed to be a system to the cards once you found out how many decks were available and how many people were playing and how many cards people were drawing you could play the odds of what was left to be drawn. So it was a giant math problem. I later found out it was illegal to figure that out. Which had me wondering WTF? But I took $25 and turned it into $50 and was happy with that outcome.

Saturday! – Well I really had no plans for this day at all. Chris sent me an IM asking what we were doing and I was like how about we just go putz around Seattle. So he came over and we walked on the ferry and went to Gameworks. Now this is an interesting place it’s an Arcade and I hadn’t really been in there since it first opened forever ago. So walk in and get my game play card and me and Chris came to the quick thought that we were probably the oldest people in there surrounded by kids. I must say that you feel a bit odd because I am sure parents are probably looking at us like “What are these guys doing here?” but we paid $25 and we played for like 5hrs. Some girl was supposed to come meet us there. But she didn’t show up. Because she didn’t have enough coin. Wants to hang out this weekend. I am not really sure I am so keen on that idea. I am just not interested anymore after I put it off for two weeks and she backed off for one. I really have no interest anymore.

So after some gaming action we went down to Pike Place Market and had some Johnny Rockets. This is like old school diner meets In&Out but with a larger selection of food. I would give anything to have an In&Out Burger around my location. The Double Double with Grilled Onions. If In&Out only served beer it would be the perfect place to eat. Then we walked down to the ferry. Stopped at Starbucks. I must say if you have never been to Seattle we don’t have Starbucks on every corner. But we have mobile espresso stands, Seattle’s Best Coffee, Tully’s, Starbucks and other selections of coffee houses everywhere. So you can’t walk more then a block and a half without being around a place to get your coffee fix.

So we got back to the living side of the water and went to check out Best Buy. I am 1/2 tempted to buy the Nintendo Wii game Red Steel. I haven’t played it but it looks good and it got a ok review. I can’t really make up my mind on that one. I figure I will just wait until the drop the price down from $50. Though I must say Wario Ware is insane look like an idiot and laugh at your friends fun. So I went to Hollywood video and picked up 3 movies for $25 I picked up Jackass 2, Little Miss Sunshine and 16 blocks. I have yet to see Little Miss Sunshine. But Junniper seems to enjoy it and it’s either a love or hate movie. I am an odd guy so I think it will fit in my loving it category. The Departed comes out tomorrow which will be sweet. I recently picked up Seasons 5-8 of Red Dwarf the BBC show. I love this show a human being that was frozen in time for 3 million years away from earth stuck on board with an anal hologram. A humanoid that evolved from the ships cat and a computer that has an IQ of 6000. The human lister is basically a scummy slimeball and there is something about British Comedy I love. Most people have never heard of the show in the states. You can catch it on PBS on occasion but eh. They are not making it anymore with the last season airing in 1999. There has been a movie in the works forever and a Season 9 coming after that. But the actors are getting up there in age. Not sure how that will pan out or even if it will pan out.

But back on track I was cleaning out my car in the parking lot while Chris was having a smoke and I found a 12pack of cherry coke in the turnk of my car along with a 4U Server. So I stuck my hand in the Cherry Coke box and found one can left so I was like sweet. So grabbed all the DVD’s out my trunk and tossed them in the car. Started the car and popped the top on the coke. Was driving home and was drinking the coke. Then all of a sudden I felt a chunk of something on my teeth so Chris is playing with my iPod and I scrape out this item and get it on my finger. I flip on the map light and it is a biological chunk of something. It is slightly brown and had some black speckles in it. I was like umm WTF so I showed it to Chris and he just started laughing so I tossed the thing out the window.

I was feeling all gross and disgusted and Chris is just laughing so hard he is crying. Like I was so bothered I was either on the edge of puking or thinking I would never drink soda again. The can wasn’t that old maybe 2 weeks. I was just driving home in complete disgust and Chris laughed for about 5 miles. I am sure he will have his version of the story up here soon. But man I went to Coca Cola’s website and tried to find a contact form page. But the one I did find was one way communication. There corporate page had a contact form but they didn’t have any topics regarding what my issue was. I want to complain to someone but not sure how or where. I can’t blame the grocery store. But it’s just like I want to make this known to Coca Cola. Pepsi has never freaked me out like this. But man was I bothered.

Sunday – Well I woke up and posted a blog about trying to figure out what was wrong. Junniper came to my rescue and I spent the rest of the day lounging around. I should I have went to get a haircut but I just wanted to sit around and do nothing. It was just a chill day and it was great.

Monday – Writing this post. It was warm for Seattle in Feb this morning. No jacket required. Also if you would like to stay even more up to date. Check out my twitter account. Add me if you desire. I can always use another stalker.

http://twitter.com/TristanPipo

If you want to leave some vocal love the Voicemail Number: (206) 973-7886 and (608) 554-0778 If you just want to share some vocal thoughts. A lovely british female sounding voice will say I am not currently available and please leave your message. You can rant up to 10 min if you desire.

Lets see what this week has in store for me and you.

Blog Post #787 – Hot Naked Women

Man I wish I wish that this post had something related to that in it. But sadly it does not. So last night I was taking some time out to watch TV. TBS had some Everybody Loves Raymond. Which seems like it would appeal to a certain market of people. But not really to me but it was some background noise and then I saw a commercial for M&M’s where you could go to a website to design yourself as an M&M. It reminded me a bit of the Mii Plaza on the Nintendo Wii that I have where you can design yourself in system and then play as your character in Wii Sports and other games coming out. I do kick some ass at Wii Sports Tennis.

So I went to go design myself as an M&M not a great deal of options but I did the best that I could and got the following results.

I really don’t like the fact that there are no pants that you can wear. But oh well. I am sporting the iPod earbuds walking down an alley. Got the trigger finger going in the right hand. But if you would like to design yourself as a candy coated shell around chocolate satisfaction.

http://www.becomeanmm.com/

Sorry for about not having any Hot Naked Women here for you. But I am sure you can google yourself one if you desire.

Adding Mii to Your Wii

If anyone out there has a Nintendo Wii my Wii Number is

5651-4193-4958-5574

So add me and let me know who you are and then my Mii’s will wander to your Wii’s and we we can send each other photos and play the online games when the come out.

It will be swell!

Anyways onto some real posting via Monday! Me and Jason are off to conquer the land for some lunch and hang out he has been in Vermont the past few weeks.