random thoughts about random things

For you who missed one of the most memorable movies (comedies) last year:

I came across this ridiculously catchy flash file on IRC a while back. It’s so catchy I can listen to it for hours without getting tired, and I know I’m not alone in my misery/joy!

In any case, google for triplebaka.swf, and you’ll get a number of hits you can choose from (depending on which one’s actually working there and then). It’s basically TRIPLE BAKA feat. Miku, Teto, & Neru.

If you want to know what the hell that is, I have the pleasure of telling you that it’s Hatsune Miku, a Vocaloid :>

Oh, and more’s on YouTube. There’s so much hilarity in this stuff.

Edit:
And since I’m evil, in a good sense, I’ll throw in a link to the mp3-file, courtesy of GuardMonkey10, the one that originally pointed me to it.

I haven’t gotten through it yet. It’s not for a lack of trying, quite to the contrary: I’ve been trying so damn hard to get through that game I’m getting tired. The game isn’t hard; the missions are fairly simple; the story’s fun; the city is nice, and so on, you get my point. No, it’s not the contents that’s hard, it’s the port from console to PC. Rockstar missed something, perhaps a memo lying around somewhere mentioning the importance of testing before release.

Not only is the game riddled with texture problems, loading issues, and a start-up sequence I will never stop hating in my life (Launch GTA IV -> Start Rockstar Games Social Club -> Play -> 2 minute intro -> 1-5 minute loading time, and 50% chance I have to do it all over again because it’s not loading textures, or maybe in the middle of the game because it simply stops loading), they haven’t even managed to make the controls play nice with PC controls at all.

Inside the game we have cars that reach 50km/h and drifts around 10 metres. I might do that on slick ice in real life. Gogo realism in driving at least. They have a lot of neat console optimized motions and movements inside the game, but as soon as you get the game out of a console, and onto a real FPS/3rd person shooter platform, it’s like running with a damn caste on each leg.

The GTA series has so far proven to be one of the best franchises I’ve ever come across. Depth of play, stories that really engage, freedom, fun. You can go on. One of my all time favourite games ever is GTA:SA, a game I’ve played through around 3 or 4 times already. I flew around in my helicopters, and planes, and drove around in awesome cars all the time. Or my jetpack. It was the culmination of the experience they had gotten from the two previous games in the series, GTA3 and GTA:VC. It was so awesome I forgot about some of the incredibly annoying console-’tardisms. The same for GTA3 and GTA:VC too, they just weren’t at the same level of awesome, that’s all.

In any case, GTA IV’s story about Nico Bellic and Liberty City is fun, fun as hell. The game has so much content it’s baffling, and you can easily sink days into it without getting bored. I just wish it fucking worked long enough to really enjoy it.

Oh, and yeah, I’ve done all the steps on the forums to make it work better. No go. I wish they could do like Blizzard, Valve, or any of the other developers that manage to make the games work brilliantly from scratch. Rockstar’s made tons of cash from the sales, now throw some of that into optimization so I can actually feel a tad satisfied with my purchase! Because now I’m regretting it, it’s simply not worth the money.

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Oh, and no, I don’t have to start the RGSC up every time I need to restart the game. In case someone wanted to point out an inferior detail. The rest though, yes.

Who gives a shit, it looks awesome!

It’s not often that I’m so awed and impressed I’m alternating between laughing and gaping for an entire video.

This is one of those occasions.

All I can say is, finally.