A few months ago I wrote a short article about how I bought a Playstation 3, and then packed it back up and put it in my closet. Since then, I’ve set up the PS3 and have spent a fair amount of time with it. I still don’t own any games (well, real games anyway) for the console, but at the same time, I’m pretty happy with the it. If that makes any sense.

I figure since there are so many negative articles about the PS3, why not write something positive about it for once? Now listen, I could easily rebuttal every positive I write down with a negative, but remember, this is a positive write up. Without further ado…

Playstation Store: I have to hand it to Sony, the Playstation Store is awesome. It isn’t the most user friendly experience (damn it, a negative already), but the amount of content up there more than makes up for it. The store gets updated every Thursday with a wide range of content. You can usually find at least one or two new demos, additional game content, download only titles, movie trailers, wallpapers, and then some. Prices vary, but there is a healthy amount of free stuff up there for grabs. I might not have any games, but I downloaded enough demos to fill up more than half of the 60 gig hard drive. In fact, I recently went through and deleted a bunch of stuff.

Knocked Up – a slacker (Seth Rogen) gets a hot piece of ass (Katherine Heigl) pregnant from a drunken one night stand after a night out at the club. So they must decide what to do with the baby since neither feel like they’re ready to be parents. From writer/director Judd Apatow.
Bug – A lonely waitress (Ashley Judd) is in hiding from her abusive ex-husband (Harry Connick Jr) at a dumpy motel. She meets a drifter who seems to be a bit weird. Then all hell breaks loose when the first bugs arrive….
Next – Nicolas Cage (with his terrible haircut) can see a few minutes into his own future. A government agent (Julianne Moore) wants to use his talent for good but all Cage wants to do is bang the hot girl he met (Jessica Biel). Eventually Cage gives in and helps the government in their attempts to stop a terrorist attack.
Black Book – a Jewish chick survives an attack during World War II and joins the Dutch Resistance to avenge her dead family. She must keep her identity secret while infiltrating he German headquarters.
The TV Set – a comedic look at the world of network television. The story is about a new television pilot as it goes through the process of getting in front of an audience. The writer is played by David Duchovny and the network exec is Sigourney Weaver.
Alone in the Dark – Christian Slater is a private investigator specializing in the supernatural. With the help of his ex-girlfriend, an archaeologist played by Tara Reid (HAHAHAHAHAHA), and his rival played by Stephen Dorff, Slater is about to get into his most dangerous case yet.
Walking Tall: Lone Justice – Kevin Sorbo takes the role in this straight to DVD sequel to The Rock’s hit movie of 2004. He isn’t supposed to be the same character though, it’s a new guy with the same story. He returns to his hometown to rid it of crime.

Like always, there’s also a few special edition DVDs out today.
Babel, Severance, and Cujo all hit shelves with the extra special features always included in SE DVDs.
And there’s a whole buttload of TV seasons out today.
My Name is Earl Season 2, The King of Queens Season 9, The Unit Season 2, Drawn Together Season 2, Brothers and Sisters Season 1, What About Brian Series, Numbers Season 3, The Bronx is Burning Series, and Grounded For Life Season 5 all fill up the DVD racks at your local store.

How has the Shamoozal been running for you? For most of us, its been running like dog crap lately. Time-outs, error messages, and just plain ol’ pokey response has most likely what you’ve been getting. I spoke once again to tech support tonight on the phone and he was telling me they are in the process of upgrading their servers with new software and hardware. He assured me that this would hopefully be completed by the next two to three weeks and that things should go back to how they were when we first moved here. Hopefully, he wasn’t lying to me otherwise the ol’ Shamoozal is going to have to pack up and move once again. If you run into any problems, email or PM us and let us know so we can keep better track of what’s up. Bloop!

Zack Finfrock gave me the heads up that their web comic, Pixelated Pupils, has return after a six month hiatus. Pupils is a web comic centered around the life of three hardcore gamers and mega geeks, all of which whom are based loosely on their real life counter parts. Zack does all the artwork, and I’ve seen nothing but improvements in his stuff since we’ve known each other. These guys share our passion in wanting to make great content simply because they want to, and in between their otherwise busy lives. The comic is a good read, and it looks about one million times better than most of the garbage that people are trying to pass off as web comics these days. It’s cool stuff, so if you get a moment, check it out. It’s the perfect stuff to read while slamming down some Red Bull and listening to Streets of Rage 2.

I’m currently doing the Streets of Rage 2 bit.

If you hang out at our forums, you’ll know that I downloaded LocoRoco for the PS3 and hated it almost instantly. After the 10 or so minutes I spent with it, I turned it off and never expected to play it again. Frank asked about the game and I decided to fire it up and show him how terrible it was. Then, as if the game somehow hypnotized me, I suddenly started to enjoy it.

I’m not sure what it is, but it seems to have won me over. Once I got over the fact it was the most sickeningly cute thing I’ve ever seen, I started to enjoy it’s casual pace. The whole object of the game is to find and gather different LocoRocos. You do this by controlling a butterfly that the Locos seem particularly attracted to. By holding onto or tapping the circle button, the Locos will follow the butterfly. If there is something on the screen you want to interact with, you shake the Sixaxis around like a wild person and something might happen. In one instance, you need to gather a bunch of Locos on top of a water spout. Shaking the Sixaxis will cause the spout to erupt and the Locos to go flying, revealing even more Locos. After you find enough Locos, you need to bring them to a gate that can only be opened by having the amount of Locos that it requests. You only need 40 Locos to fight the final boss, and then you win the game. That isn’t where it stops though.

Once in a while I’ll read through my web logs to see current trends with the site. For instance, I like to read what people type into search engines in order to find the site. The usual suspects are searches for different video game and animation terms. However, one thing that keeps showing up in these logs are searches for porn, and not just any porn, Rescue Rangers porn.

I don’t know how that search term leads to this site, because I don’t think I have ever written about Chip & Dale’s Rescue Rangers on here before, let alone presenting porn from it. For those who don’t know, Rescue Rangers was a cartoon show from my youth, and Gadget is the little mouse girl that hangs out with the group. Apparently, from nerds between ages 24 and 40 something, Gadget is hot. So hot in fact, that it leads them to seek out naked pictures of her, and then god only knows what happens after that.

Please, stop embarrasing yourselves and STOP looking for naked pictures of a cartoon mouse. Good god man. Now, worse things have been searched for that lead people to this site (and I don’t even know how really) and I wish I could actually get those people in trouble. I’m not kidding when stuff like “little boy porn” pops up in my search logs. What the hell is with these people? If I could get an IP address or something from the people who search that crap, I would gladly hand it over to authorities or Chris Hansen. Now while Gadget porn is in no way as terrible as that other stuff, it’s still really damn sad. It is a cartoon mouse for crying out loud, with big floppy ears and a button nose. You mean, all the porn that involves real humans on the internet isn’t good enough for you? I’d hate to see your hard drive. Come on people, move along, there is nothing to see here.

From now on I’m just gonna get right into the swing of things.
MOVIE TIME!!!!

Zombies Part 3.

Resident Evil: Extinction – the third installment in the RE series. Once again starring Milla Jovovich as a badass zombie killing machine. Now she has been genetically altered and has super strength while battling zombos in the desert.

This guy gets to make out with every hot chick in Hollywood.

I’m really tired of being honked at for being a careful driver. Nearly every day when I leave work, some asshole thinks it’s a good idea to honk at me and I’m sick of it. See, I have to make this impossible left hand turn upon leaving the parking lot. The turn actually leads directly onto the highway I take to go home. There are many things that go wrong here, but the number one part that sucks is that there is no green arrow for people trying to make the left onto the highway. At rush hour, this basically means you can’t move until the light just about switches off of yellow and then to red. Allow me to show you what I’m talking about, and please excuse this crude drawing that I did with my mouse.

Okay, I’m the red arrow trying to make the turn. What happens is that thanks to the green arrows, I can’t see when the blue arrows are coming. Sometimes there might be a moment or two when I could potentially make the turn, but it is a tough risk because like I said, you can’t see the blue arrows. This is mostly due in part to all 500 SUV’s that are making their left hand turn (the green arrows), that are so big you can’t see around them. Anyway, whenever there is that gap between the blue arrows is when I get honked at. For the love of god, stop honking at me!

Today the producers of 24 let the world know that Day 7 of 24 is already better than Day 6. They revealed that when Jack is in Washington DC, he’s going to run into his old partner and friend, Mr. Tony Almeida. You know, the guy who drinks beer out of a Cubs mug, and was “killed off” in the lousiest way possible.

Face it, Tony didn’t go out the way he should have. In fact, he went out like a little bitch. Being stabbed in the chest by a retired Robocop is the most insulting way to kill off a character like Tony. When Tony dies, he deserves to die a hero, not a coward. Even George Mason, a no good son of a bitch, ended up being an American Hero. Basically, when Tony’s death went down, fans of 24 never really forgave the show.

Then Day 6 happened, the weakest season in 24’s long history. When it all wrapped up, most fans of the show just weren’t happy with the whole season, and the route the show was taking. Today’s news of bringing back Tony is not only what the show needs, but it is an apology from the producers for taking him from us in the first place.

What is it about a site like WoW Item Creator that immediately makes me revert into the 14 year old version of myself? Such a beautiful idea, so much work to make it a reality and here I am making stuff like this. It’s shameful, yes… and yet I’m over here at my desk snickering with my head down on my keyboard. What can I say? I was the kind of kid that filled in MadLibs with every filthy word I could think of.

Aside from the fact that their web site is plastered with Gold ads, I would still recommend that you head over and check it out out for some good old fashioned fun.