Sorry and some Calculator Skills

Sorry I haven't posted in many months, school has kept me busy. But while I was enduring those long classes I cooked up something for you guys. Sorry some of these are sideways.

Conflicker test and Assassins Creed 2 update

I don't know if you've heard as much about Conflicker as I have, but I'm half worried. Ive loyally patched my windows and run anti- syware and virus programs, but am never sure if I'm contaminated. Well here's a website that let's me know once and for all. Hope nobody has gotten infected!

So for those of you who don't know there are two Assassin's Creed trailers that can be found here. Interesting note that contains spoilers of a sort. If you click the logo at the end of the trailer it opens a PDF file that you print out. Then click the triangle logo on the left which will open 5 different e-mails (you need a webcam for this, allow the site to access your webcam). Hold the images you were printed up to your webcam and the website will analyze it and if it's the proper image it will display a 3D model. VERY cool. you can rotate your paper and the image will rotate. Also, the arm image will ocasionally turn into color, I can't tell what dictates that though. ALSO: Idea for a project, you seem to need some white border for the image to show up but if you slowly take off more and more of the border, if you get it small enough, you can tape it to your arm and be an Altair wanna-be!

How to: Game with a beat

So on another post I gave you some great songs to game to. Now I want to take a bit of time to talk about the 3 ways to listen to it on your Xbox 360.

1) Download it to your hard drive. Simply burn the music on a CD (WARNING: It must be an AUDIO CD in order to save the music on your hard drive). Put your audio CD with that list of music or your favorite into the tray and close it, then follow the instructions conveniently placed below

To rip music from a CD to an Xbox 360 Hard Drive:

1. The Xbox 360 music player will launch and CD playback will begin.
2. Select Rip CD to view the Rip CD screen. By default, all the tracks on the CD will be selected. If you do not want to copy all the tracks, manually de-select the tracks that you do not want to rip.
   
3. When you're ready to generate your audio files, select Rip CD again to begin ripping.

2) If you don't want to download your music to the xbox 360 hard drive then put your music onto a flashdrive and plug it into where a wired controller would go, you can play it like normal from the media section.

3) You can stream music directly from Windows Media Manager 11 to your Xbox 360. Complete details can be found here.

Bad news in my book

So I was just looking at google news and I saw there would be a Lego Rock Band being released. Honestly, I'm getting annoyed at Lego. I loved to play with them as a kid but the whole idea of taking a game and making itc characters legos and calling it a new game annoys me...Whatever, buy them if your kids like Legos I suppose.

I also saw another article claiming that video games are addictive. First they cause violence, now they're addictive. I don't really buy into that. I think its more the enviroment of the homes that kids are raised in causes them to be violent, so they want these games where they can be violent and get away scot free. Maybe they do cause violence or addictive, we'll see as the industry expands.

Quick note on "Graphics" to "Visual"

I've decided to change the graphics section in my future reviews to a visual section. That's just because almost all xbox 360 games have great greaphics now-a-days. I think its more important to talk about the games visual qualities (the ammount of filler, effects, immersion, realisticness, etc). Don't worry, if a game's graphics are 15/10 or -2/10 you'll still hear about it.

Pump up game music

So over my many hours in a car on the way from Boston to Maryland to Virginia to Pennsylvania and back I decided to cook up a kick ass list of songs that will get your blood going. My next post will be on ways to listen to the song on your 360. I made a playlist on youtube found here (has swears).

Here's the list of titles and artists:
Vela to Norma - Last Winter
Believe - Breaking Benjamin
Runaway - Amber Pacific
Pompeii - E. S. Posthumus
You're Gonna Go Far Kid - The Offspring
Night Drive - All American Rejects
War - Sick Puppies
Topless - Breaking Benjamin
Plaster (One Step Closer) - Linkin Park (Hybrid Theory)
Blow Me Away - Breaking Benjamin
Unknown Soldier - Breaking Benjamin
The Beast - Tech N9ne
4-2-0 - Kottonmouth Kings
Why We Thugs - Ice Cube
X Gon Give It To Ya - DMX
300 Violin Orchestra - Jorge Quintero
Headstrong - Trapt
Bleed it out - Linkin Park
Numb - Linking Park
Down with The Sickness - Disturbed
Here Comes The Boom - Nelly
Can't Be Toutched - Roy Jones
Let's Go - Lil John
For All These Times Son, For All These Times - Lost Prophets
Do You Call My Name - Ra
Piece By Piece - Strata
The Feel Good Drag - Anberlin
You Make Me Sick - Egyptian Central

End war

There will be a full review coming soon, but right now I would like to share some tips for Endwar.
ARTILLERY: Artillery absolutely pwns. Acording to the rock-paper-scissor method the game is run on it is good against almost everything. They also stay in the back of the lines so they won't get killed and so they'll level up very well, and stay that way.
Following that strategy, pop 2 artillery on the field, along with 2 engineer or infantry (I prefer engineer because they can deal with vehicles and once they are in cover they are set. Also, once you unlock automatic weapons you can mow through other infantry pretty fast). Use the artillery as your main damage dealing weapons with the engineers mainly capturing bases (this is mostly for conquest). Also have some attack choppers (or whatever they are called) in the field to use as your eyes to find targets for infantry.
BE CAREFUL OF DEFCON: Ive already lost two of my best units to kinetic strikes. I suggest jsut trying to take half the bases and thats all since I think that doesn't out you into DEFCON (I need to check that). If you do go into DEFCON space your units out, and have fast ones be moving. From what I can tell it takes 10 seconds or so for the missile to land, so if they move fast enough they will only be damaged.

In other news I will be away until Wednesday and probably can't post. Try to enjoy your time without me.