My impressions on Reach so far

As of right now I've played Halo Reach for about 8 hours. I will now give a detailed analysis of how I think it's performing so far.

When I started the Campaign I thought f**k it and started on Legendary on my own. Hell did that bite me in the ass. The difficulty is ungodly hard and frustrating at times. The weapons just don't work on the bastards. I go out for 2 seconds, get 2 headshot rounds with a DRM on a Elite before being crippled and man raped by grunts of all things.

Those guys that brag and say " o dat waz eazy... got it in a day lolololol" are fucking lying. I can't count how many times I had to reload because some Elite surprised me around a corner and kicked my bolloks in. The weapons are pretty much useless against them and you die so quick you can swear your character is made out of 1 ply toilet paper held together by spit. 

BUT in the end it comes down to basic trial and error and after some attempts you know exactly where to go and so on. I'm at the 5th mission and I got to that in about 4 hours. Which is not bad at all considering I haven't played Halo in almost a year..

The other 4 hours or so I've spent on Multiplayer and damn is it fun. Even running on iBurst I won 5 of the 6 games I played which is brilliant. I still need to discover all the various modes and so forth, so I think it will only get better and if I can play with some locals it would rule completely.

What pisses me off is that I wasn't able to get this on release day because now everyone is going back to their regular gaming titles and now I'm all alone again. Pretty much sums up my f**king gamer life so far. I always get major MP titles late and when I eventually do I'm massively weak or I have some major catching up to do.

Overall this game makes want to have a gamerasm because it does things right in all my favorite areas. I LOVE customization, check. I LOVE point based ranking system, check. I LOVE addictive multiplayer with a lot of people online, check.

That is all. Feel free to invite me for a game @ MG THABO 

My articles so far...

I've been writing for about a year now maybe I don't know. Some of my stuff has been published on major websites and I'm pretty proud of that. I want the 5 or 6 of you that actually view this blog to look at them if you want:

2 from News24games- What is Kinect and why should we care? and Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock Preview

1 from Xbox-360.co.za- Rock band 2 Review

I know it ain't much, but over time I'm gaining A LOT of experience. My writing skills aren't at the level where they are suppose to be, but it's slowly getting there. I'd like to thank Craig Richie (editor of News24games) for being my mentor in the magical world of gaming journalism and teaching me the fundamentals of writing. It's a long road and the first steps have been taken. Hopefully I'll be driving a Ferrari down that road in the future.

People are too easily offended

Has anyone else noticed this but me? I'm talking about when you say something people find it so bloody offensive that they never talk to you or hate you with their entire soul. It's been a passive attribute to our world and frankly it pisses me off.

As with all my other posts, I now give the obligatory examples. I'm fat, don't try to sugar coat me and say crap you don't mean (i.e. "It only matters what's on the inside, no-one cares about how you look" [go to hell] ) People try to mock me about it to look cool and boost their pitiful self-confidence and guess what I do? Make fun of myself so that it blows in their face and I laugh my ass off with the people he tried to impress. 

Now if another fat person gets the exact same mocking they take massive offense and go crying in the corner, tell their mom, write in their diary about how their life sucks and open a class-action lawsuit against the offender. Which is gay. Preposterously stupid and unnecessary.

Same with racism. If you say something even remotely relating to the color of their skin, it's a direct insult from the 100th ring of hell. I even see it in teenagers. They weren't around in apartheid days (neither have I), we have no grudges or buried hatred for each other. If someone called me a vanilla face I'd laugh my ass off.

Another factor which gnaws my goolies is when I accidentally swear in front of a girl. Massive pissy fit followed by an arm folded walk of pissed off fail. So I swear a little and the following weekend you make out with a complete douche bag of epic proportions and suddenly I'm the one with no respect. F**k off.

Things that are brilliant i.e. shows, games, movies, books etc. get either censored or restricted because of what? Moaning Martha can't handle the fact that a tidal wave plunged an island and by coincidence her husband died of a swell the size of a Pritt stick while he was drunk on acid? Now us unoffended people, who outnumber them 2000 to 3 billion have to miss a brilliant movie containing about a 10 second reference to a tidal wave. 

As well as the age old violent games debate. Us gamers have all heard it. For example the infamous GTA franchise allows you to bang hookers and the like and "that is massively offensive to our children and what if they shoot their dad in the face and rape their mother with a chainsaw lolololol". Um.. which parent gives their 12 year old child permission to play a 18+ game in the first place? Parental epic fail.

I might come across as the one that is easily offended (you intellectual people would have had your 1000 word essays ready by this time explaining that), but I'm the opposite of that. I'm extremely pitiful to the naive fools that take offense in everything for no bloody reason and it irritates me.

That is all.

By the way...you suck. No offense 

  

Why Christianity is perplexing

This has been a matter that I've thought pretty hard about in recent days. Just to get it out of the way I am actually a Christian and I believe in God and the not. I just can't force myself to agree with some of the things that other Christians try to say. It's downright ignorant sometimes and with a slight hint of arrogance.
I give examples: I have a lot of atheist friends. They are the most caring and understanding buddies a person can have. Then one night at church the priest that was giving my Sunday School class stated that all people that don't believe in God are going to burn in hell for all eternity and they are evil people that need to be saved. My English teacher also said that people that don't believe in God are fools
I was downright disgusted by those comment. In the Bible it states that God loves all his children and your sins are forgiven by Jesus that died on the cross. Now your going to hell because you don't agree with the practices of a certain religion? Isn't that just a tad bit unfair?
And all this "Jesus died on the cross so that all our sins are forgiven" I also have trouble with. We have the ten commandments right? If you break one of them you will go to a very hot place that everyone is trying to talk about. They were given in the OLD TESTAMENT people. Before Jesus and the crucification.
I also don't understand this "God has a Plan for us all". I saw some appalling photo's about poverty stricken people in rural parts of the world. Children starving to death at age 5 and babies being raped by their fathers. I also see all the evil people (murderers, torturers, cannibals and all them happy people) on TV and the like. Now you come and tell me that that is God's plan? Endless suffering and death? There is no justification to this madness.
What I believe (and strongly at that) is that the world is shaped from the choices we make. Hitlers Mother and Father chose to have a son. They didn't know he was going to be a whackjob. I chose to not brush my teeth this morning so my breath stinks. Stuff like that. We should just make the right choices and not put the blame on God because his plan involved Little Timmy getting run over by a lawnmower on the head.
I also believe something kinda sad. I think the Church is trying to control us. Our kids are being brainwashed into thinking they must do everything according to the Bible. Every other outlandish influence is considered evil. That is what happened to James Hatfield and he hated his parents for that.
I mean I wear skull t-shirts. I like the style and it's a reference to my Metal passion. Why can't I wear it to Youth? O that's right , it is infested with the spirit of Satan or something. Sure if I walked in with a pentagram with a goats head it might be f**ked up, but I know that, but what's wrong with an art design ? I don't feel the need to hide it
I still believe in God and Jesus though. SOMETHING had to make the universe and everything. I even believe in evolution to a certain degree. No way in hell did the entire universe get made in a few years (the universe is 6000 years old as stated in the Bible). There is also no way it got made from a massive explosion that was made from nothing. So there has to be en entity that created something that out minds can't quite comprehend.
Anyway that is all. Use it , don't use it

Not Having Reach is Killing Me

No I can reach just fine thanks to these massive arms (self praising rules). I'm talking about the much anticipated Halo Reach. Being a Xbox gamer I have no choice but to take notice of the Halo franchise. I've played Halo 3 MP to death and the campaign ruled in co-op. Now Reach came out and I'm left sitting with my dick in my hand again because I have no money to buy it.

And that sucks. That is all

Come back when I have it. 

Why Spelling is Important To Me

Right it's ranting time. I've recently noticed a sudden drop in almost 95% of teenagers spelling ability. Quite frankly it has gotten to the point where it downright pisses me off. I'm not talking English spelling and grammar PhD grade, but normal everyday words being slaughtered in a vain attempt to look cool...or something. I've done it for comedic purposes on my status's and notes and I've spent more than 2 minutes thinking of how to downright abbreviate or misspell a word that it is hardly readable anymore. The sad reality is that most teenagers consider this the norm in their everyday lives.



I mean is it really necessary to be so bloody stupid that you can't spell basic words like "Again" or "Bored". I timed myself on a keyboard and it literally took about 7 milliseconds to include a E in bored as apposed to bord that most teens spew out. We're not all perfect in spelling including me and I've used spell check on this note, I'm not going to lie to you. But is it absolutely necessary to spell SO bad that it could have been used in ancient wars to encode secret messages for craps sake.



There is almost no excuse to spell this bad. I was on Mxit a long time ago and I asked this girl what she was doing she said and I quote "nm jus lib im bord". Now me , who was in a bad f**king mood, asked here why her spelling is so frieken bad. She said "o im buzy". Now after that I did not know what I did. Laughed my ass off or suddenly cried of utter hopelessness. She just stated she is laying in bed for f**ks sakes now she tells me she is too busy to type out basic bloody words.



And this "o im afrikaans so i dont tipe good english...lololol" excuse is also stupid. I'm Afrikaans bred and I can spell better in English than my mother. I've actually became better in English as Afrikaans because society demands me that I use English as it is an international language. O and in case you wondered, that's why I type everything in English instead of Afrikaans



I'm really concerned for the future of our generation if this continues. I looked at a friends Essay once (yes an Essay that counted for marks) and out if the first sentence I found about 7 mistakes. The sentence was about 15 words long. He even went so far as to abbreviate "You" into "u" out of f**king instinct or something. I'm already seeing it in ads these days where they are butchering the English language to appeal to the Tweenie masses. I want to poke my eyes out with a butterknife whenever I see that LG Chatterbox on the TV.



I blame it all on Text Chats (MXIT) Some people gave me the excuse that they are talking to too many people and don't have enough time to type out whole words. I asked them how much they had and the answer I got was around 5. I was talking to 14 people back then and I typed out full words.



This entire dilemma was actually born from pure laziness with a tiny dose of peer pressure. When I started using Mxit everyone typed out nice clean words and as time creeped on spelling bad suddenly became a fad. It wasn't moderate , it was insane. I was stuck thinking WTF is going on here every time I got a reply.



Some abbreviations I have no issues with (WTF, HTF, STFU) They make your life easier and everyone knows what they mean. Now there is an abbreviated version of just about anything and that makes my soul want to burn.


Thanks for reading and please hand your essays in at my table.



PS: If your one of those clowns that are going to pick out single words that I misspelled and make a comment into your own stupid joke for erotic pleasures, go eat your liver

Why I Hate Mainstream Music

As most of you already know, I'm a devoted metalhead. I live for the absolute chaos and mindf**kery that is accompanied by metal. Why? Because it's the only genre in existence that can stretch my mind further other than shrink it. Whenever I hear a Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga,Whatever song on the radio and your close to me, you might hear me screaming "WTF IS THIS SH*T" in a very macho way, like Leonidas screaming "THIS IS SPARTA!' Before sending the Persian messenger back to Hell.



Recently I didn't have much time to listen to my musical passion because of being swamped by schoolwork and problems. Whenever I watch Mnet Series there is always a Soundcheck between episodes. Usually it's the f**king people I've mentioned above (Which I will now be calling Twats). This went on for a few weeks and I've came to the realization that I've literally become dumber. I'm not making this sh*t up. My writing skills which were top notch became noticeably bad, my spelling suffered and I've had issues remembering stuff.



I also became really apathetic about life. I didn't care about waking up and I felt like I'm just living a hollow existence. I felt like I was a dot on the horizon of life. No uniqueness. Just another damn fish in a massive f**king pond. i didn't care to pursue my musical passion. I didn't care about playing Guitar Hero. I didn't care about my friends. I didn't care about my life. This all may sound very over-exaggerated, but it's the truth



After that little episode I've started listening my classic metal again. A big smile grew on my face as I listened to wondrous guitar solo's and marvelous drumming. It was like life made sense again. My world wasn't an upside down fairytale with no happy ending in sight anymore. The lyrics touched my heart. There was a light for me.



Okay enough of the sappy sh*t let me give you cold hard facts. Lets look at extracts of lyrics from 2 heavy hitters in both the mainstream and metal world. Metallica and Justin Bieber (ugh)



Justin Bieber's "Baby":

My first love broke my heart for the first time,And I was likeBaby, baby, baby ohhhLike baby, baby, baby nooLike baby, baby, baby ohhI thought you'd always be mine mine



Analysis : Well basically he is talking about a girl that broke up with him and he thought she will always be his first and only love. Coupled by the word baby 9 times



Metallica's Dyers Eve:

Dear MotherDear FatherEvery Thought I'd Think You'd DisapproveCuratorDictatorAlways Censoring My Every MoveChildren Are Seen But Are Not HeardTear out Everything Inspired

Analysis: James Hatfield's mother and father were Christian Scientists. Their belief obligated that everything must be in order and anything from the outside is considered a sin and evil. Even medicine which his mother needed dearly was not appropriate. His hate for his parents grew over the course of his childhood because he was always being watched by them and living in the hypothetical bubble. Hence the word "Dictator". The lyric "Always Censoring My Every Move" suggests that he couldn't do anything of his own accord and everything he wanted to do was considered by his parents as a sin. "Tearing Everything Inspired" suggests that everything that inspired him (Music) was also rejected by his parents.



Okay so I wrote 2 lines for JB's lyric and 6 for Metallica's. Who is better? Thought so



Also on a side note. James Hatfield's lyrics are studied by English majors in certain universities. And Justin Bieber? He's hair is getting studied by 12 year old girls



Hip Hop from the Twats is so simplistic and repetitive that it's not even funny anymore. There is no lyrical substance to expand my mind to. Sadly we live in a world where metal music is considered Taboo by the majority. Radio stations, Television, music stores, films. Everything rejected the majesty that is on offer by the genre.I walked into a music store and to my surprise they actually had a metal section. The width of the display was about 6 CD's across and had about 3 rows. 18 Cd's. Meanwhile right next to the display, the Hip Hop section had about 100 cd's on display. Confirming that my people and I are a dying breed.



I once knew a dude who listened to mainstream his entire life. We played Rock Band on a regular basis and I always picked metal songs to play. At first he rejected everything about it. Brushed it off as "Satanic" and stupid. He didn't have a choice but to play it as I ruled the song picking duty (LOL). After a while he started listening the lyrics and came to the understanding that there is actually a marvelous beauty to the music. He begged me to burn him copies of my metal collection and I was obliged to give it to him. These days he is a big metal head and never listens to the shite he listened before.



Now my last point. Give me one Hip Hop song that was considered a classic. I'm talking about when the song comes up people would say " damn this song rules" rather than " tis sht iz old u shud get da new album by X...lolololol". if you ask me to give you a Metal/Rock song that is classic I would be on stand-by with my 20 page list.



I'm not saying leave the mainstream circuit completely. We all have different musical taste, but give the Metal/Rock metal genre a try rather than being forced to listen to shit that is pointless because "thats what everybody does". I've given Hip Hop a try (forced not at will) and I can truly and honestly say that....it's utter rubbish. I've given other genres a try and I can safely said I've came to love Jazz, Grunge and some Electronica



One more thing. Who the f**k listens to this shit on their earphones when you hear it every f**king 5 minutes anyway.



Peace out and I hope my Metal brothers and sisters keep defending the faith



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