Prescription Drugs....

This was a pretty interesting article and they may have a point about prescription drugs but I'm not sure that even they are the only thing to blame. I for example have been tried on different prescription drugs growing up and I never ever have felt like killing anyone. But when you fool around with body chemistry I can totally imagine it helping to mess up an already messed up individual. I think it's true that modern society is addicted to drugs and not just of the illegial variety. Nowadays a lot of people think that you need drugs to fix every single problem that you have and I think that's unhealthy. In fact it doesn't take much for them to put you on antidepressents all you have to is go to them and they ask you do you think you might be feeling depressed you say yes and they say well then let's try you on this.

Sometimes though people have a good reason for being depressed and I don't think it's always a good idea to just disconnect them from it.

Prescription Drugs....

This was a pretty interesting article and they may have a point about prescription drugs but I'm not sure that even they are the only thing to blame. I for example have been tried on different prescription drugs growing up and I never ever have felt like killing anyone. But when you fool around with body chemistry I can totally imagine it helping to mess up an already messed up individual. I think it's true that modern society is addicted to drugs and not just of the illegial variety. Nowadays a lot of people think that you need drugs to fix every single problem that you have and I think that's unhealthy. In fact it doesn't take much for them to put you on antidepressents all you have to is go to them and they ask you do you think you might be feeling depressed you say yes and they say well then let's try you on this.

Sometimes though people have a good reason for being depressed and I don't think it's always a good idea to just disconnect them from it.

PC Gaming....

I almost can imagine some people groaning at me talking about this again but I don't see why people fail to see that more games are coming out for the PC than MMOs, RPGs, and things like that. Whenever I see an advertisement for a game a lot of times there is also a little PC logo there showing how it's coming out to the PC too. This even includes games like Devil May Cry 4 which is going to be released on PC, PS3 and 360 simultanious.

But the perception is that those games aren't coming out for the PC but they are. Also if PC gaming was dieing then why do so many people talk about it it's always a hot topic wherever it is being talked about I have noticed. But the PC does have its ups and downs whenever a new set of consoles come out and this time around is no exception and people are always talking the same. They are talking about the game industry this year on the PC being a 1 billion dollar industry at retail (not download counting online game sales) which shows a resurgence from where it was in the past couple of years. Which is still nowhere near the 9 billion at retail that consoles are getting but it's still quite the chunk of change in my opinion.

But one thing I hated is how a certain person went to the forums for the game Crackdown and asked if they are going to make a PC version and they told him to just get a 360. Sure there are always console exclusives but there are always lots of titles coming to the PC more than some people would like to believe. Plus if you want you can always get into emulators and that opens up lots of games too although older games but they run with ehnanced graphics most of the time.

Other gaming stuff:
I just read that American McGee is working on a new fairy tale based game called "Grimm" being written by the same guy who wrote the story for Alice and it's going to be sold on gametap. It'll be interesting to see them make that sort of game again I really liked Alice.

I'm looking forward to Serious Sam 3 and seeing what kind of improvements are going to be in the serious sam 3 engine. From what I have seen so far it seems like it might match the UE3 in all the things that it can do.

Penumbra Overture is an interesting looking game.

There are of course more games I'm interested in but I'll save that for later since this post has gotten pretty long already.

Oh except for: I've just read recently that it's official that Enemy Territory Quake Wars is also coming to the Mac being ported by the usual suspect Aspyr. I'm glad since the requirements wil be around the same as for Quake 4 and it looks like it might be a fun game.

PC Gaming....

I almost can imagine some people groaning at me talking about this again but I don't see why people fail to see that more games are coming out for the PC than MMOs, RPGs, and things like that. Whenever I see an advertisement for a game a lot of times there is also a little PC logo there showing how it's coming out to the PC too. This even includes games like Devil May Cry 4 which is going to be released on PC, PS3 and 360 simultanious.

But the perception is that those games aren't coming out for the PC but they are. Also if PC gaming was dieing then why do so many people talk about it it's always a hot topic wherever it is being talked about I have noticed. But the PC does have its ups and downs whenever a new set of consoles come out and this time around is no exception and people are always talking the same. They are talking about the game industry this year on the PC being a 1 billion dollar industry at retail (not download counting online game sales) which shows a resurgence from where it was in the past couple of years. Which is still nowhere near the 9 billion at retail that consoles are getting but it's still quite the chunk of change in my opinion.

But one thing I hated is how a certain person went to the forums for the game Crackdown and asked if they are going to make a PC version and they told him to just get a 360. Sure there are always console exclusives but there are always lots of titles coming to the PC more than some people would like to believe. Plus if you want you can always get into emulators and that opens up lots of games too although older games but they run with ehnanced graphics most of the time.

Other gaming stuff:
I just read that American McGee is working on a new fairy tale based game called "Grimm" being written by the same guy who wrote the story for Alice and it's going to be sold on gametap. It'll be interesting to see them make that sort of game again I really liked Alice.

I'm looking forward to Serious Sam 3 and seeing what kind of improvements are going to be in the serious sam 3 engine. From what I have seen so far it seems like it might match the UE3 in all the things that it can do.

Penumbra Overture is an interesting looking game.

There are of course more games I'm interested in but I'll save that for later since this post has gotten pretty long already.

Oh except for: I've just read recently that it's official that Enemy Territory Quake Wars is also coming to the Mac being ported by the usual suspect Aspyr. I'm glad since the requirements wil be around the same as for Quake 4 and it looks like it might be a fun game.

Movie Stuff...

Now that Stallone has gone and made a new Rocky movie he's now going to go make a Rambo movie. =P Here are some pictures. The first picture looks OK but the second picture is.... "ewwww look at his face"!

I read recently that Arnold is going to be executive producer for Terminator 4 and has signed something to give the new studio the rights to use his likeness in the movie (for a CG version of the T800 I'm guessing). But I'm like.... do we really need another Terminator movie? I think Terminator 2 was a good stopping point for the series and 3 was totally unneeded and also not very good compared to T2. The CG terminator endoskeletons also looked weak compared to the older actual model versions especially their weapons which got downgraded from semi automatic burst type to single shot models. Maybe if they made the models and weapons more like T2 and made the movie a war epic totally set in the future when man is fighting machine that might be OK but for now I remain skeptical.

I caught Evil Dead 2 on the FLiX channel recently and I'm reminded of just how awesome that movie was. In my opinion it was even better than Army of Darkness.*gasp*? Yes I think I kind of prefer Evil Dead 2 over Army of Darkness.They are talking about making a remake of Evil Dead but I'm not sure that's exactly a good idea. Bruce Campbell might make a movie where people irl are confusing him for Ash and him having to deal with monsters for real. That might be interesting.

I've read recently that Danny Trejo has said yes to the Machete movie (one of the fake trailers played with Grindhouse). That is pretty cool to me but here I was thinking that was already a done deal and they where going ahead with it but I guess it's just now more official.

Movie Stuff...

Now that Stallone has gone and made a new Rocky movie he's now going to go make a Rambo movie. =P Here are some pictures. The first picture looks OK but the second picture is.... "ewwww look at his face"!

I read recently that Arnold is going to be executive producer for Terminator 4 and has signed something to give the new studio the rights to use his likeness in the movie (for a CG version of the T800 I'm guessing). But I'm like.... do we really need another Terminator movie? I think Terminator 2 was a good stopping point for the series and 3 was totally unneeded and also not very good compared to T2. The CG terminator endoskeletons also looked weak compared to the older actual model versions especially their weapons which got downgraded from semi automatic burst type to single shot models. Maybe if they made the models and weapons more like T2 and made the movie a war epic totally set in the future when man is fighting machine that might be OK but for now I remain skeptical.

I caught Evil Dead 2 on the FLiX channel recently and I'm reminded of just how awesome that movie was. In my opinion it was even better than Army of Darkness.*gasp*? Yes I think I kind of prefer Evil Dead 2 over Army of Darkness.They are talking about making a remake of Evil Dead but I'm not sure that's exactly a good idea. Bruce Campbell might make a movie where people irl are confusing him for Ash and him having to deal with monsters for real. That might be interesting.

I've read recently that Danny Trejo has said yes to the Machete movie (one of the fake trailers played with Grindhouse). That is pretty cool to me but here I was thinking that was already a done deal and they where going ahead with it but I guess it's just now more official.