Connor Bevans

Nope, not that I remember at least. Why did this guy take my post? I don’t know. He doesn’t have a contact page, so I looked him up, and I’ll be contacting him. Most likely by email. His info:

  Ine Ikegami (webmaster@rayzedblog.com)  

    4050 Goosetown Drive     Asheville     North Carolina,28801     US 

Tel. +1.8285820079  

Oh, and here’s what he took: Mine, and his. The link back to me isn’t even correct. Bastard Somewhat less than likable person.

UPDATE: Alright, his email doesn’t work. Its not even real, I get a delivery notification error. So what do I do? Maybe I’ll phone him, maybe not. The info is probably fake for that too though.

I found this one just a few nights ago, and I loved it instantly. It’s www.game-ism.com, and it’s awesome. It’s an example of what a blogger should really attempt to be. His posts are the right length, well thought out, and give you the sense that he’s really put time into this. Example: TF2 vs. Vanilla FPS. Not only does he give us a full post, he provides diagrams to support his theories. His posts are very much devoted into looking deeper into games. Not just their mechanics, but also their story line, and the symbolism in the games. They’re long posts, but they’re entertaining posts.

 Example. He knows he overanalyzed, but both him and his audience don’t care. Why? Because that’s the fun of the post. It takes apart the song by someone who knows a lot about the game, not someone who’s never played it but  graduated with honors from Oxford after finishing a doctoral study on the combination of story and song. While the person who has a doctorate might be more knowledgeable in symbolism and general story, he probably won’t know as much about the characters and story of the game. But anyways, the blog is great. Check it out, guys.

Now, people have advised to get the Xbox 360, at least for someone who has one. But why? Because of the downloadable content. I am currently playing the game on my PS3. Why? Because that way I could get it as soon as possible. The reason I don’t really care about not having the downloadable content is the fact that there’s already so much content in the game. It’s fairly likely that I won’t finish the game for quite awhile, maybe even a year or so, and by that time, there will be another game to take it’s place. However, there is one downside of getting it for PS3 (personally). System updates. Some reason Sony has decided to make all of the updates for the PS3 force you to go into the system menu and download some huge ass file and install it. Though this isn’t really Rockstar’s fault, it still sucks that I have to take like, 10 minutes to update my PS3, and when you’re waiting to play GTA IV Multiplayer, those 10 minutes seem like an hour. The only reason to have the PS3 instead is the fact that the load times are a faster, often almost instantaneous is what I found. I have to say, though, I don’t think it’s possible for this game not to be enjoyable, I mean, this is probably Game of The Year material, and we’re less than half way through 2008. Alright, I’ve got to go, Roman is calling me…

Just a quick note to say I hate Rogers Internet. Why? They’re throttling bandwidth to bittorrent. I conducted a few tests to see how well they were doing it too:

1.  Juno - 3192 seeders, 390 leechers - Averaging less than 20kbps down - Averaging around 20 kbps up
2. Scrubs Season 1 - 43 Seeders, 83 leechers - Averaging around 25kbps down - Averaging around 50kbps up
3. Ubuntu 7.10 - 131 Seeders, 8 leechers - Extreme variatons from 10-100kbps down - Averaging around 15kbps up

This raises the question. What’s with Ubuntu? Are they somehow filtering our downloads on torrents? Would that not mean that they’re actually looking at what we’re doing on the internet? Even if it’s a bot which is looking, that means that they have access to everything we’re doing on the internet. I’m not sure what to do about this. I’ll be calling them soon to ask, and I’ll hopefully have a recording of it. I know that there’s ways around this, but they require doing a bunch of stuff to your router firewall/ports, and I’m really not going to give up. I don’t even use bittorrent much, but when I do I really don’t want to be reminded that they’re either a. looking at my data or b. throttling all of it. If you’re thinking of changing, Steve Saylor, suggested Cogeco.

PS - If I stay on rogers, I might be buying the Extreme Plus package, 18mbps down is pretty good - Though this package seems to have disappeared off of the website…Hmm…