tuesday odd thoughts

Things to type instead of doing mindless stuff on the wiki. That’ll be later, right after I figure out a better name for these and for the CMLLBlog – I ordered Fire Pro. It’s in the mail. It may actually be outside my door right now, I’m not right there now, I can’t tell. Ideas … Continue reading “tuesday odd thoughts”

Things to type instead of doing mindless stuff on the wiki. That’ll be later, right after I figure out a better name for these and for the CMLLBlog

– I ordered Fire Pro. It’s in the mail. It may actually be outside my door right now, I’m not right there now, I can’t tell. Ideas for spending December doing “created CMLL midcarder of the day” are forming.

Also, if someone wants a PS2 Memory Card to PS3 converted thing-a-mob, I might have accidentally ordered one when planning to get a PS2 Controller to PS3 converter.

– Back on August 28th, I wrote this blurb on Warhawk

Looks like it’s getting really good reviews, though they warn against a steep learning curve (especially since there’s no single player to warm up.)

Why don’t I listen to myself? Somehow, this ended up my GameFly queue and turned out to be even steeper than I had figured. There’s absolutely no way to learn the game at this point besides being killed many many times by on-line players who’ve been player for 2.5 months, and hoping you learn something from your death. There’s no tutioral, there’s limited help, and even playing split screen versus someone doesn’t work because of the claustrophobic screen split. (With a game relying with as much close turning to see your opponent, plus the backwards feeling controls, it would’ve been a lot better with a horizontal split.)

What the game really needed, if it had to skip a single player mode, is some way to create CPU drones to fight and ally with. The options screens were just confusing enough that I wouldn’t be surprised if I missed that choice, but it didn’t seem likely. Without any sort of train wheels, this game is worthless to rent at this point – you’re either going to be quickly killed by the people who’ve spent the last two months figuring out where the flamethrowers spawn from or you’re going to be a determent to your team while you’re figuring out stuff. It sucks.

– So the Simpsons was next in my queue, and I got the game much faster than I was figuring. I kinda planned Monday night around getting stuff done so I could spend an hour or so playing it, only to open the GameFly envelope and find out they sent me Elder Scroll IV. For the XBOX 360. Not so much help there.

The best part is I’m sure I’m paying GameFly for these few days where I don’t have a GameFly game because GameFly didn’t send me the correct one. GameFly can be such a scam (and yet I’m still thinking about jumping to 2 games at a time.)

– I was very surprised when Kerry Wood resigned. As soon as Fransico Coredero got the insane 4 years/46 deal, I was talking with people how Wood was surely not coming back because someone would inevitably offer him more years and more money than the Cubs did, because the bar had been set. It sure sounds like that’s what actually happened, and Wood just said no. This is an incredible risk on his part, because there’s little recent proof he can make it thru a full season, and he could’ve gotten that second year guaranteed. If he pulls it off, he’s going to get substantially better deals for ’09 and beyond, but it seems as safe as putting his whole salary on red in roulette.

Part of that strategy for next off season is obviously getting some pretty save statistics (though, in usual Hendry fashion, his incentives will all be for Games Finished), so all the speculation about him becoming closer is probably accurate. I don’t know that Kerry is going to be a dominating closer. It doesn’t really matter to me, as long as Carlos Marmol is still being used in the critical late game pre-save situations. Dempster wasn’t the difference maker last season; it was Marmol and Howry keeping the Cubs in the game and with decent leads before they got to Dempster most of the time. Kerry doesn’t have to be much to be as good as Dempster the last couple seasons. As long as everyone else in the pen is fine with him getting the overyhyped counting stat, it doesn’t matter to me.

Dempster returning to the rotation still sounds like a half baked idea that’s going to fail, but hopefully they figure it out in Mesa and not in April.

– If the Cubs can receive compensation for giving someone else the right to talk to Craig Monroe before he hits the market, I’m pretty sure they can get do the same with Mark Prior. The more I read, the more it sounds like that’s going to end.

– High Noon was good, but I liked Liberty Valance better. At points, I wasn’t sure if the movie was trying to say Everyone In Town Is A Cowards Except This One Man or if the Sheriff had actually wronged some of these people and it was coming back at him at the exact wrong time. (It did become clearer by the end.) I guess the lesson is “Police work is hazardous and unrewarding! Go run a store!”