An Update: HAAAAA-LOOOOOOO(pchew pchew!)

Halo 3 public Beta. Yep

Reading Corey's post, I figured I had to post likewise.

I actually like it so far. It'd be alot better without the fucksmacks online, but what can you do, that's with every game. But Halo(s) especially. It's always struck me as an intimate game, the first one most of all.

Then again, I've always had more fun with friends than with fucksmacks. Quake is far from an intimate game, yet the best games ever were with Scott and Corey railing and rocketing across the Edge.

Anyways, I think it's Halo 2, but good. Now, i had some fun with Halo 2, but itwas sorely lacking. The SMG's pissed me off. They were like, the only gun. Now that place is taken by the spiker, a much more appropriate gun I think.

Assault Rifle. Corey doesn't like it, but I do. There's less ammo, but it does more damage. A lot more. If you use it right, it's a cunning foe. I ripped a dude in half with this fucker. He was all "Oh shit, there go my legs!" and then he died. It's tough as fuck, but I can see hating it when you try to use it the same way you do in Halo: Good Edition.

Shotgun. Finally, it doesn't suck. In Halo 2 tis fucker was useless. No range. Of course, Halo 2 was very close quarters, but it still sucked. Plus, Halo should not try to be quake. It's not Quake. Only Quake is Quake(don't say Unreal, it was different enough). It's still not the dope-as-fuck shotgun from the game that dominated our social lives 02-through-05(03 especially. 03 was dope. I don't say that enough) but it's at least a capable weapon. It has that trench-broom appeal. I can kill things with it. It wouldnt work in the same vein as the original anyways. The game is too different now. This is, after all, a refined version of Halo 2. It's still not Halo 1.

I love the Covenant Carbine. In Halo 2, I liked it, but it was so scarce. Rarest weapon out there, with not enough behind it to compensate. Now, it's like the standard-issue ass kicker, taking the bat-shit rifle's place. It's now well worth picking up.

I wouldn't call the laser Halo's railgun. The sniper rifle served that purpose alright, precise as it is. This alser is devastating as fuck. Works great for anti vehicle purposes.I wouldnt really use it on people. Too slow. Many people have tried to use it on me, and failed. Not on successful hit. I suck at the game, but I can't be hit with one. It's not worth firing at one individual person, I find. Waste of time. You could use any other gun and get the job done. I agree with Corey's view on placement. If this was put in a Hang 'em High style position, it could be fun as fuck. Shit needs to be more like that.

Rocket launcher is slow, yeah. But at least that helps keep it from ruining the vehicle gameplay. Fuck I hated vehicles in Halo 2. No fun. Clunky, and guaranteed death for the driver.

In the end, this is just the beta. We'll see how the other maps are and such, but I doubt much will change. It has to cater to that overly-balanced xblive zombie game market. That's always bothered me about these games, or any game where Microsoft has had any degree of control in(for the xbox anyways). It has to be overly balanced, and revolve around live. Looking back, the realy good games are usually underlooked, and didn't give a shit about exploiting highly marketed features. But Halo 3 is still looking solid, especially after the Halo 2 ordeal. And I'm glad to see Corey playing it. Halo 2 has been this... elephant in the room. We don't talk about it with Corey. And we sure as shit don't play the damn thing. Ever.

It kinda sucked in the Halo 2 day. There were good times to be had, but Corey pulled out. Scott always broke the games we played on live too, so all the great live experiences we ever had last gen came to an end real fucking quick. This gen, Corey only just got a 360, and Scott is too lazy to get live working.

Corey, if you're reading this, Wolfenstein is now backwards compatible.

Beach hunting party?

An Update: Left for too long

(Grooving to the Libertines. Check them out.)



Shit, where to fucking start?

Victoria Day weekend. Went camping. 'twas Tres Dope. Steve Milward might be getting a sexual harrassment charge from an incident that nearly got all of us, and another group, evicted from the provincial campsite at Cultus. Nearly a drunken brawl. You can fucking tell it's a group of winners. I was laughing my ass off. An obvious problem with the camping trip though; Scott was missing. He's normally there...

Fucking punter ran off to London town again. At least he'll be back for the 'Stripes concert.

In June, I'm heading up there with Scotty and Minshull, and supposed to meet up with Corey(sup, Corey?). Others are apparently coming too, and by others, I mean absolutely everyone.

Last time Jacky White was in town it was with the Raconteurs, and it was the greatest show. Ever. I'm a huge fan of Franz Ferdinand, but that show was like school compared to Jack White. Thought that may be because we had shite seating for the Franz show. Apparently it's known to be a fantastic show abroad. Posted is a clip of them doing "Bang Bang" in Vancouver. A quick search for "raconteurs vancouver" reveals full clips of Broken Boy Soldiers and Store Bought Bones. The White Stripes show should be tight as fuck. Similar setting and time, Jack White again, I'm pretty hyped.


I'm posting of course from my new computer. It's nice.

AMD Athlon64x2 6000+ at 3.0ghz
NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTS 320mb (the lower end of the 8800, but still a damn fine card)
2gb DDR2 ram
Vista Ultimate

I wanted to get a holy trinity thing going, triple booting Vista with Ubuntu and MacOSX, but I have doubts I can get OSX running on the 8800 as it stands right now. Maybe later. For now I'm going to try virtualising it.

I haven't quite made Vista look how I want it, but then again I had that same problem with XP.

It's the monitor really, 1680x1050 backgrounds aren't usually dope. I'm still using one that came with Windows. I know, bad, eh? At least this time around they gave you some pretty shit to look at. XP gave you the one little green field thing, and then a truck load of garbage. Garbage that I shat on. Seriously, 3.11 looked better. But in XP's defence, 3.11 is awesome. I fucking love 3.11.

Vista's actually pretty cool. Looking at all the shitty little windows apps that haven't evolved much since 3.11, they're starting too change things.

Solitaire? More like Solid-gold-taire. It's so pretty. And there's like scoreboards and shit. That's right, in Solitaire. MSPaint(Paintbrush of old) even has a few new tricks, but they're pretty minor. However, they completely gutted sound recorder. I'm seriously going to just take the old XP one and put it in vista. We'll see how that goes(probably not well).

I'm gonna talk about Halo 3, but it gets it's own post. Meet me at camera 3(the post immediately above this one).

My Most Glorious Victory!

The Champion's Grail. The Stanley Cup has nothing on this sexy beast.


Scott dreamed about this thing all day. It was his baby. He came up with the idea over work, covering his 711 mug in duct tape and using it as a trophy on our NHL 07 tournaments. I named it, and I think I named it well.

We had our first tournament with the grail, and I won. He dreamed about being the first name on it, and this dream was robbed from him. By me. He was crushed.

The tournament closed with both his teams being knocked out by the computer teams, without him noticing(we simulate the computer games, they arent fun). He was so choked, and demanded that we have a best-2-of-3 final rematch between our highest placing teams, for him, Chicago, for me, Carolina(which won the other tournament, beating the computer palyer in simulation). I lost Game 1, like 5-1 for Scott. I had been on a massive and embarrassing losing streak at the time, and it looked like Scott would have the cup.

Game 2. The world turns quickly.
I decimate Scott, nearly shutting him out. His world turned too quick, and nearly came crashing down on him.
Game 3.
It's close, but I score in the third period, beating Scott by 1 and taking the grail.
It is now engraved upon the grail "1. 05/03/2007 - Adam Bloomfield - Carolina"

I am forever the first true Champion. Eat it, Scott.

Aldergrove: An Escalator of shit?

Ol' Ballin' Priest is still up to his tricks. Only more so, he's "movin' up in the world."

Anyways, Ben and I meandered about Aldergrove for a bit. He painted some shit, mostly robots or line-faces.



It had been awhile since I'd wandered around Aldergrove proper, and I've come to realise that the town is actually getting worse. The Alder-packs are getting more unruly(vi-o-lence!), the cops stop for the slightest thing, and the drugs are even more varied and intense. Things are pretty much the same, I guess, except intensified. Escalating.

Anyways, I took pictures not only of Ben's work, but also of other works that I felt typified Aldergrove. I have a few shots of a shit-talking wall, along side of which is a deep proclamation of one's love for tha grove(it's not a fucking city), archaic robots, and a few other tidbits.

There's this great shot of the bench by the skate park.

I love the patch of grey where the engraving used to be(stolen as scrap metal), "your mom called she said dinners done!"

Classic.
We finished taking pictures of an aldy-bashing tag that suggests we wish we were abby, when we turned around to gaze upon this:

It's beautiful. Fucking beautiful.

There's tons more, including some shot of a forgotten water fountain from the 90's that I'm rather fond of, but these are the ones that matter. Ben will post most of his shots of the shit he painted, so I don't think I need to post about them here. I've got a few more pics on my deviant art, but still only a fraction of the total taken.