My Rant at Life

Don't eat at McDonald's, imagine the calories!

2008-06-05T04:41:00.000-07:00

Unless you have a brain the size of a chestnut, you would have detected a slight amount of sarcasm, mainly because if you have seen it, you must a visitor of this blog and must already know my generally negative attitude towards things; hence the title, "My Rant at Life".

McD' has always been the subject of debate and controversy.
Whenever someone utters the single word "McDonalds" this biased image comes to mind:

or maybe something even worse...

I really didn't want to put either of those images into anyones head, but I'm doing it anyway to make my point.

Now, I have no idea on where these images came from, or why people continue to believe that they are real, but here is a fact:

Millions of people eat at McDonald's restaurants every day, all over the world, and none of them have turned out to be the lard arses we think they would be. Period.

If you are one of these people who believe that McD's are so evil with the so called pig fat in our sundaes and excess meats in a cow used for our big mac patties, has this thought EVER come to your mind? And if not, I wish to bring it up now:
If so many people eat McDonald's on a regular basis and if the food was really full of those disgusting ingredients, then why on earth hasn't and kind of health inspector or media source of some kind revealed the truth to the public yet?

What I mean to say is that if such urban rumours are true, then why hasn't anything been done about it? Come on, use your brains people. There are Safety Inspectors, Food inspectors, Health inspectors, the media, the government (or Dictatorship/Monarchy, depending on where you live) all out there trying to find a fault with their food. Let me tell you something, they haven't found a damned thing. All these Urban legends are so great, there is even a Wikipedia page dedicated to displaying the outright bullshit in these rumours. Check it out here.
Just take a quick look, at some rumours and the mounting evidence against them. Cow eyeballs? Pah! As it sais on the page, it would cost more to use Cow Eyeballs instead of real beef.

Now to the serious side of things. McDonald's foods are choc full of unsaturated fat, there is not denying it. But that is still no reason for you MySpace posing, lip wrestling, eco-friendly hippies to bitch about. And it's all because of just one reason: No one cares. Not at all. Not one bit.

Every day, we hear the news on the radio. We read it in the papers. We watch it on TV. We surf the net for it. We chat to our friends about what we've missed. We have so many opportunities to find out how fattening Maccas (that is the Australian slang word for the restaurant) is and we never bother to.
Why? Fill the blanks and find out for yourself.
Because no one gives a ____.
Does that make sense?

And another thing. While many people do not know about how fattening the food is, even more people do know how fattening it is, and yet they eat there anyway. Why?
Because we don't care. And do you know why?
Wait for it: I'm about to uncover the reason why everyone in the whole of Australia if not the world eats at McDonalds.
Are you ready?
This is going to be great.

Here we go:

It's because you don't go to McDonald's to keep fit.
It's because you don't go to McDonald's to eat healthy.
It's because you don't go to McDonald's to keep to a strict diet.

It's because you go to McDonald's because the food tastes so damn good, and that there is nothing else like it. What is more satisfying than biting into a BigMac are chewing into some fries?
Nothing. Except for maybe KFC.

Why Sony is failing in the gaming industry.

2008-04-25T09:37:00.001-07:00

Every now and then I meet an arrogant asshole on the bus when I whip out my DS because they believe that their PSP (which is always conveniently forgotten and left at home) is superior to my DS because of it's novelty functions. As usual, I shut them down very often. But his blog is in dedication of anyone else who gets shit for their DS's, and a slap across the face for people who own a PSP.

First of all, why do you buy a Game console?
Simple.

To play games.
Not to watch movies.
Not to listen to music.
Not to make annoying clicky sounds with the menu.

To play
a freakin'
GAME.

This is the first reason PSP owners throw at me.
"The DS can't play movies/music/annoying clicky noises!"
But what I say is
"The PSP can't play a decent game."

I imagine PSP owners quaking in fury at my above statement.
So why do I do it?
Here is why:

PSP stands for Play Station Portable. PLAY STATION.
Play. Station.
It's a game console. The name justifies that. Play Station portable, not iPod station portable, Play Station Portable.
Because, you see, an iPod has a capability of playing music and movies, it's much smaller than a PSP (the PSP is a shiny black brick) and it has games that are much better too.

Why do I say the games are crap on a PSP? They can't be that bad, can they?
To be fair, no.
But that doesn't make the system any less of a rip off than it really is.
Here is an example.

God of War: Chains of Olympus

GoW: CoO was one of the most anticipated games for the PSP. The original was amazing, the sequel was even better, and now, there was going to be one on the PSP? Hot damn, then it's got to be good!
That was what was in peoples heads at the time. Heck, even I thought that there might finally be a decent title on the PSP. Everyone was slowly counting down the days 'till it came out. Then it was released. Millions of people rushed in store to grab a copy, and game store sales men high fived each other for a job well done.

But why is such an anticipated game getting the thumbs down?
It's simple, it's making the same mistake all PSP games have made before it:
It's the exact same game, the exact same gameplay, exact same elements, all on a handheld.

IGN hinted at it.
Shacknews pointed it out gently.
GameSpot shoved it into the spotlight.

Gamespot said " Very, very little in the way of new gameplay elements...it feels a bit like God of War: Lite..."
Shacknews: "A bit familiar...If you've played any of the PlayStation 2 God of War entries, you know just what to expect from God of War: Chains of Olympus. It looks like the PlayStation 2 editions. It plays like the PlayStation 2 editions...I've gone through these motions before"

Wow, another suprising PSP flop. But hey, at least you can relax to a good old F.P.S, can't you?
Actually, no. Not a good FPS, anyway.
You see, the PSP is fortunate enough to be blessed with Sony's fantastic invention: A flat joystick that keeps slipping from beneath your fingers when they sweat to much (which won't happen because you won't be playing your PSP for long anyway). Unfortunately, instead of opening a PS2 FPS control scheme clone, it opened no control scheme for FPS games at all, that is, until one day, a company called EA Games did what Nintendo had done a long time ago before on the DS:
In Metroid Prime: Hunters for the Ninendo DS, apart from the very intuitive stylus-D-Pad control scheme, had an option called "Dual Mode" which allows you to use the D-Pad to aim and the X,Y,B and A buttons to aim. The PSP counterpart is Cross, Square, Triangle and Circle.

So EA came up with the original idea of copying the Dual Mode control Scheme from Nintendo, although it's not like they care, the game was never too popular anyway, mainly because the game allows the AI to cheat by letting them shoot you through walls and because the AI are so dumb there isn't any other way they can kill you anyway.

Now, my final point.
Internet capabilities.

The PSP comes with a browser pre-installed. So what? You could just get a PDA, or the browser for the DS. Browser problem solved. But wait, what's that? You don't have the PSP browser until you update to firmware version 2.0 which involves re-flashing over the previous version! Sounds confusing? It isn't. Not for a PSP owner anyway. Or a nerd.

But, what if you are unfortunate like one of my friends who only has a dial up internet connection? Now I can imagine you sadcases thinking "Wow! He has Dial-Up! Therefore, jsut by the type of internet he has, I can tell that he must be a pimple faced nerd!" Of course, it never occured to you that he doesn't need internet, because he can socialize. It must be a word foreign to your vocabulary, so just for you real pimple faced nerd, socializing involves the communion of one human between another. It also occurs in a physical manner, meaning they see each other, not their forum avatars. He also has something called a budget, that will get him a nice big house in the long run, simply by not spending it on unnecessary buckets of shit (that is why most PSP owners are broke).

Anyway, back to my friend with dial up. He has no way of connecting his PSP to the internet unless he runs out and shells out a good $50 on some cable that is shoved into the rear end of the PSP (I think PSP owners like having things shoved down their rear ends, if you know what I mean). And don't even think of playing a game online with dial up. The Nintendo DS however, has something called a Nintendo Wi-Fi USB connector, and it works with any kind of internet, including dial up. Not only that, but it is also possible to play online games such as Mario Kart DS online without too much lag (I'm going to admit there will be some, there is a limit to what you can do with 56kpbs).

In summary, I think it would be safe to put it like this:
No-one cares if it doubles up as an iPod,
The most anticipated titles are disappointing,
It's control schemes have been stolen from other consoles,
And it's Internet capabilities have been shorted by the DS in every significant way.

So stop thinking that just because it can play movies and music, it makes it the best damn thing in the world. I'm going to admit it, they nailed it with the PS2. It's not my choice console but it wasn't terrible like the PSP. That's why it won. Now Sony is fucking it up with the PSP AND PS3.

Welcome to my blog. Now go away.

2008-04-25T09:26:00.000-07:00

The title sais it all. This is a blog about my opinions on aspects of my life. It will never be popular, I don't care. You may not like it, I don't care. Heck, even if you do like it I still won't care. If you send me an email I won't care because
a) I don't know you
b)You're probable a low life reading random blogs
c)You could be a Sony fanboy who jerks it to Blu-Ray
d)You are wrong (assuming you are disagreeing with me).

Alright, lowdown.
Bored 15 year old boy who is computer savvy and is posting this just because he can. Has been a Nintendo fanboy since birth (I still have a working NES) and anyone reading this from a Mac can die.

I am biased. I choose to be biased. Because by having an open mind then you will easily fall to opposing influences. Only when I have been proved wrong on every single ground will I consider a change of opinion. Then again, maybe not.

First Blog? This is it.

Act like an idiot on my comments and you can be sure to know about it.