There's a picture in our school's health textbooks, with some guy. Now, this is no ordinary guy. Why? Because he's being chased. BY A BEAR. A HUMONGOUS BROWN BEAR. And this is in the chapter about stress.
David Thorne didn't have the $233.95 to pay an overdue account. So what did he do? What any other budding young genius would do, he submitted a picture of a spider he drew instead. Unfortunately, Jane Gilles, who is clearly a moron to the nth degree, wouldn't accept it. So what happened next? Click the spoiler tag to find out. But I'll give you a hint: time travel! And also, David's account not getting paid.
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God, I should have bought it way earlier. Like, it's actually managed to pry me away from Fallout 3. It's that good. Plus, at twenty bucks, it's pretty much a steal.
Okay, so today was my first foray into the online features of Guitar Hero: Metallica (GH:M for short). Now, I start off with some Pro Face-Off, since I'd like to play against some other expert players. So I get things set up, and get looking for a match. I get paired with another expert player, which is good. Same thing happens next round. The third time, however, was not the charm. I got paired up with a friggin' medium player, which SUCKS. You see, back when GH: Aerosmith was released, Neversoft added in a new feature that allowed players of different difficulties to play the mode together, unlike the original version, where you had to be on the same difficulty. Though, they made sure the online play had filters that allowed players to only search for same-difficulty matches. Then, World Tour was released, and we got a brand new online system, that did away with filters. No, now, if you wanted to play PFO with other players at the same difficulty, you had to keep searching, and hoping that you'd get into a match of your liking. On top of that, you couldn't pick a match from a list anymore. Now you are forced into a quick-match style matchmaking service, and you're automatically put into a match.
But that's not the worst part. To accommodate for the lower scores on lower difficulties, Neversoft added a system that modified the points earned by the lower difficulty player, making them worth more so both players would be even. I hate this. This system gives players on easier difficulties an advantage. They have less notes, and it's easier, so they could get, say, 97% on a song on easy and beat a player on expert who got 96%. It's unfair to people with harder charts.
Here's how they should fix it:
Suggestion #1: Make two different modes.
What they should do is have two different version of PFO. One would be called something like "Party Pro Face-Off", which allows difficulty freedom. The other could be called something like "Hardcore Pro Face-Off", which forces player to be on the same difficulty.
Suggestion #2: Give the upper hand to players on tougher difficulty settings.
Basically, have it so that players on the higher difficulty will win if they have an exact same performance percent-wise.
Fast food feels fuzzy
'Cuz it's made from stuff that's scuzzy
I always thought I was such a nerd
I refuse to touch that strange bean curd
I wouldn't eat it-
WOOH!
But it ate yoouuu!
Ah Ee Ooh
KILLER TOFU!
Ee Ah Ee
Ooh Ee Ooh
KILLER TOFU!
I eat my sugar cereal
But it makes my teeth bacterial!
Ee Ah Ee Oh Oh
Ee Ah Ee
If you're feelin' kind of cruddy
Ee Ah Ee
Just stick right by your buddy
Ee Ah Ee Oh Oh
I don't eat-
T-T-T-T-T-Too much fried food!
Yah!
Ah Ee Ooh
KILLER TOFU!
Ee Ah Ee
Ooh Ee Ooh
KILLER TOFUUUU!
The Orange Box (Half-Life2, and its expansions, to be exact)
Video games involving fake plastic instruments
These little chic peas that are dried out (They're like crackers, but smaller)
Primus (The band, not the Transformer)
The Offspring
Rise Against
Audiosurf
Dunc's Algomusic (A little program where you enter a title, and the program makes a song. Every title creates a different song, and if you try the same title on a different computer, it'll be the same song. Also, capitalized letters can make a difference. If you find it, get it. (Can't link to it, the download is on a blog))
Great. I got about, say, two hours of sleep last night and feel like garbage. I'm shaking randomly, and the computer is really bright. Now I'm contemplating whether to have Cheerios or Cap'n Crunch.