reminiscing on days when I had a mustang
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geebsThe roomie grilled up some stuff on the grill Saturday, good eating as always. His hometown friend G's gf E from M brought over a dip, which was also tasty. Flicking through the channels that night, finally saw the Top Gear goes to America ep on BBC America. I'm a little offended at their portrayal! The premise was to see if it was cheaper to buy a car than rent for a road trip from Miami to Nawlins. So they had a budget of $1000. Which brings up interesting notion number one the Brits have. I guess since the US is so much bigger than the UK and has a very big car culture, they were expecting to be tripping over classic gems that they could get for $1000! Yeah, right!
But they portrayed Miami as a den of violent gun nuts and drug dealers! Then on their way through Alabama, the three guys thought it would be funny to decorate each others cars in such a way to get the driver "shot or killed". So they painted stuff like "Country & Western music is rubbish", "I'm bi", "Hillary Clinton for President", and "Man love is OK". I think they were just having a laugh, and didn't expect to actually possibly be killed. But pulling into a gas station to refill, they ran into trouble. The owner was extremely pissed and thought it was some sort of pro-gay rally or something so they tried to diffuse the situation by saying they weren't actually gay and it was a joke. But she calls for someone to "Get the boys!" so they decide to get out of there.
Hilariously, before this point, one of the cars (a really crappy old Cadillac) had been having trouble starting and needed a jump every so often. Of course, it had trouble at this point. So then a pickup full of country boys and a couple of dogs rolls in. They eventually start pelting the camera crew with rocks, so they spend the next few hours driving to get away. I think eventually they took a short break to quickly wipe away the writing to stop more rednecks from going after them. So now the English prolly think the South is this scary place where you can get lynched just for making the wrong kind of joke! Though I heard Borat and his crew had to flee for their lives a couple of times filming the Borat movie.
They were originally going to try and sell back their cars when they got to NOLA, but seeing all the Katrina destruction, they could in good conscience do that, so they gave it away. Which leads to the next America looks bad incident. One of the guys had been driving an '89 Camaro, and he gave it away to a needy family. An hour or so later, this lawyer comes up to him saying he said it was a '91 camaro, but it was really an '89 Camaro. So she wanted 20k or else she would take them to court. WTF?! Then a gang of toughs demanded they get off their street. So not only are we overly litigious, but thugs will hassle you even when you're trying to do the right thing. So while the ep did have some funny moment, the US looked very bad in it.
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zarathrustra94 and turdburgler's for geek fun, brought over WO so I could get Lu Bu's PI. I tried getting it on my own, but I just can't kill 1000 in 9 minutes. I had accomplished it in about 10:30, but I could never shave that minute and a half off. So T and I both played Lu Bu, as you can just combine the kills if both players are playing as him, and its no problem for both of us to get around ~500 within that time limit.
I also tried the Stranglehold (the video game sequel to John Woo classic Hard Boiled) demo on the 360. Its pretty sweet. I'm kinda a gimp when it comes to non-light gun shooters though. Time Crisis, Silent Scope, and all those other arcade shooters, I rock at. I mean, top 30 overall in the SS2 contest (4th in GA!) and I think I can do the two gun thing pretty effectively as well. And I do okay at 2-d scrollers like Contra or Gradius. But 3d run and gunning? Not so well. I eventually got better at the controls, but I'd be toast at a more difficult difficulty setting. In any case, I love the destructable environments. Everything shootable, and you can do all sorts of trick shots like blowing up propane tanks or causing things like signs to fall on enemies.
And you can be all stylish- running up/sliding down banisters as you go all two gun on your enemies. In fact, you go into bullet time when you do, and the "bullet time" meter is replenished with more stylish kills. You also get another meter which is "tequila time". You can use it to refill health if there's no medpack nearby, or you can go into "precision aiming mode" which is kinda like sniper mode. You can do head shots, throat shots, crotch shots, and the enemy acts accordingly. Though there was this time I went for a gut shot, and ended up hitting to the side of his groin, so the shot went through and exited out his buttcheek. But even though I shot him from the front, the game reacted like I only clipped him, as the guy kinda did that comical, "I got shot in the ass!" thing you see in movies when someone gets clipped in the butt, but was still in the fight.
I also ended up unlocking the "tequila bomb" (which also uses Tequila time) which I didn't get to try, but I hear its like the "death blossom" attack from the Last Starfighter- Tequila will starting spinning and gunning down everyone within a certain spherical radius, but in that typical John Woo style. There's also Mexican standoff mode, which happens when you get in a Mexican standoff. You go into bullet time and use the left stick to lean left or right to dodge the bullets (which are doing that matrix thing so you can see where they're going) and the right to aim your own gun to shoot the bad guys. For all my claimed gimpiness, I did well in that mode, I think.
Friday Night Lights commentary: So on FNL, they finally find the body, which leads to a couple of pants-crapping moments for both Landry and Tyra, but the cops have no idea of their involvement. And honestly, there's no way they should know unless Landry's watch is in the guy's frickin' pocket! Even if they find it at the bridge or behind the shop where the killing took place, there's no way to tell it was left there by him at the time of the killing/dumping of the body. Though what the hell was the convenience store owner doing that he didn't notice a fight/a couple kids dragging off a body in the middle of the night? I guess they do say CSI has warped people's views of the investigative process, but honestly, I think they might be able to get away with it.
Not that they should. I'm wondering if Tyra's telling Landry not to confess to protect him, or herself? Looks like his dad is starting to get suspicious though.
Lyla starts proselytizing to kids in Juvie. One guy is all, she talks the talk, but if she saw him on the street, she wouldn't help. So when she's leaving one day and sees his newly released ass, she offers him a ride (he could be some pervy maniac, who knows what horrible things he might do to a nubile girl like her?!) and then Buddy gives him a job to get in Lyla's good graces.
Buddy manages to get new coach fired, offering what he was going to be paid had he been there for the rest of the year, as well as a severance package. New coach sues for wrongful termination though. Though, does that mean he wants more money, or he wants to not be fired. I'm not sure if you can do the latter, wouldn't that be kinda weird to stay at a job where you know they hate you and tried to get rid of you? It doesn't fly though. I mean, I think the excuses they gave for his termination were reasonable. It seems like you can get fired in Texas football for much less!
Coach meanwhile works things from his end. He tries to do a double schedule under the guise of he needs to be home for his wife a whole lot more, but they're not having it and they let him go. And since he signed a no-compete clause, he can't get another college coaching job for a couple of years. There's a scare where it looks like Coach is all jobless because he lost his current position, but New Coach was mucking up the works and making it hard for Coach to get his old job back, but nope, Coach is quickly back to being coach. New Coach does call Coach a conniving slimeball (not in those words) on his way out of town though.
In Mexico, Tim and Jason are having a mexican adventure as Jason awaits getting shark bits injected into his spine for 10k (which he was carrying around in a bag?!) In the end, Tim calls Lyla to get her down there to convince Jason not to do it. Like, isn't it the middle of the night, and a several hour drive to where they are?! How is she supposed to make it by the morning?!
But they portrayed Miami as a den of violent gun nuts and drug dealers! Then on their way through Alabama, the three guys thought it would be funny to decorate each others cars in such a way to get the driver "shot or killed". So they painted stuff like "Country & Western music is rubbish", "I'm bi", "Hillary Clinton for President", and "Man love is OK". I think they were just having a laugh, and didn't expect to actually possibly be killed. But pulling into a gas station to refill, they ran into trouble. The owner was extremely pissed and thought it was some sort of pro-gay rally or something so they tried to diffuse the situation by saying they weren't actually gay and it was a joke. But she calls for someone to "Get the boys!" so they decide to get out of there.
Hilariously, before this point, one of the cars (a really crappy old Cadillac) had been having trouble starting and needed a jump every so often. Of course, it had trouble at this point. So then a pickup full of country boys and a couple of dogs rolls in. They eventually start pelting the camera crew with rocks, so they spend the next few hours driving to get away. I think eventually they took a short break to quickly wipe away the writing to stop more rednecks from going after them. So now the English prolly think the South is this scary place where you can get lynched just for making the wrong kind of joke! Though I heard Borat and his crew had to flee for their lives a couple of times filming the Borat movie.
They were originally going to try and sell back their cars when they got to NOLA, but seeing all the Katrina destruction, they could in good conscience do that, so they gave it away. Which leads to the next America looks bad incident. One of the guys had been driving an '89 Camaro, and he gave it away to a needy family. An hour or so later, this lawyer comes up to him saying he said it was a '91 camaro, but it was really an '89 Camaro. So she wanted 20k or else she would take them to court. WTF?! Then a gang of toughs demanded they get off their street. So not only are we overly litigious, but thugs will hassle you even when you're trying to do the right thing. So while the ep did have some funny moment, the US looked very bad in it.
Sunday, when I went to
zarathrustra94 and turdburgler's for geek fun, brought over WO so I could get Lu Bu's PI. I tried getting it on my own, but I just can't kill 1000 in 9 minutes. I had accomplished it in about 10:30, but I could never shave that minute and a half off. So T and I both played Lu Bu, as you can just combine the kills if both players are playing as him, and its no problem for both of us to get around ~500 within that time limit. I also tried the Stranglehold (the video game sequel to John Woo classic Hard Boiled) demo on the 360. Its pretty sweet. I'm kinda a gimp when it comes to non-light gun shooters though. Time Crisis, Silent Scope, and all those other arcade shooters, I rock at. I mean, top 30 overall in the SS2 contest (4th in GA!) and I think I can do the two gun thing pretty effectively as well. And I do okay at 2-d scrollers like Contra or Gradius. But 3d run and gunning? Not so well. I eventually got better at the controls, but I'd be toast at a more difficult difficulty setting. In any case, I love the destructable environments. Everything shootable, and you can do all sorts of trick shots like blowing up propane tanks or causing things like signs to fall on enemies.
And you can be all stylish- running up/sliding down banisters as you go all two gun on your enemies. In fact, you go into bullet time when you do, and the "bullet time" meter is replenished with more stylish kills. You also get another meter which is "tequila time". You can use it to refill health if there's no medpack nearby, or you can go into "precision aiming mode" which is kinda like sniper mode. You can do head shots, throat shots, crotch shots, and the enemy acts accordingly. Though there was this time I went for a gut shot, and ended up hitting to the side of his groin, so the shot went through and exited out his buttcheek. But even though I shot him from the front, the game reacted like I only clipped him, as the guy kinda did that comical, "I got shot in the ass!" thing you see in movies when someone gets clipped in the butt, but was still in the fight.
I also ended up unlocking the "tequila bomb" (which also uses Tequila time) which I didn't get to try, but I hear its like the "death blossom" attack from the Last Starfighter- Tequila will starting spinning and gunning down everyone within a certain spherical radius, but in that typical John Woo style. There's also Mexican standoff mode, which happens when you get in a Mexican standoff. You go into bullet time and use the left stick to lean left or right to dodge the bullets (which are doing that matrix thing so you can see where they're going) and the right to aim your own gun to shoot the bad guys. For all my claimed gimpiness, I did well in that mode, I think.
Friday Night Lights commentary: So on FNL, they finally find the body, which leads to a couple of pants-crapping moments for both Landry and Tyra, but the cops have no idea of their involvement. And honestly, there's no way they should know unless Landry's watch is in the guy's frickin' pocket! Even if they find it at the bridge or behind the shop where the killing took place, there's no way to tell it was left there by him at the time of the killing/dumping of the body. Though what the hell was the convenience store owner doing that he didn't notice a fight/a couple kids dragging off a body in the middle of the night? I guess they do say CSI has warped people's views of the investigative process, but honestly, I think they might be able to get away with it.
Not that they should. I'm wondering if Tyra's telling Landry not to confess to protect him, or herself? Looks like his dad is starting to get suspicious though.
Lyla starts proselytizing to kids in Juvie. One guy is all, she talks the talk, but if she saw him on the street, she wouldn't help. So when she's leaving one day and sees his newly released ass, she offers him a ride (he could be some pervy maniac, who knows what horrible things he might do to a nubile girl like her?!) and then Buddy gives him a job to get in Lyla's good graces.
Buddy manages to get new coach fired, offering what he was going to be paid had he been there for the rest of the year, as well as a severance package. New coach sues for wrongful termination though. Though, does that mean he wants more money, or he wants to not be fired. I'm not sure if you can do the latter, wouldn't that be kinda weird to stay at a job where you know they hate you and tried to get rid of you? It doesn't fly though. I mean, I think the excuses they gave for his termination were reasonable. It seems like you can get fired in Texas football for much less!
Coach meanwhile works things from his end. He tries to do a double schedule under the guise of he needs to be home for his wife a whole lot more, but they're not having it and they let him go. And since he signed a no-compete clause, he can't get another college coaching job for a couple of years. There's a scare where it looks like Coach is all jobless because he lost his current position, but New Coach was mucking up the works and making it hard for Coach to get his old job back, but nope, Coach is quickly back to being coach. New Coach does call Coach a conniving slimeball (not in those words) on his way out of town though.
In Mexico, Tim and Jason are having a mexican adventure as Jason awaits getting shark bits injected into his spine for 10k (which he was carrying around in a bag?!) In the end, Tim calls Lyla to get her down there to convince Jason not to do it. Like, isn't it the middle of the night, and a several hour drive to where they are?! How is she supposed to make it by the morning?!
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