Thursday, April 30, 2009

April is almost over

I've been finding myself with more and more things to do and less and less time to do them. I could honestly play Team Fortress 2 for at least 5 or 6 hours a day, let alone all the other games I'm playing right now. Usually, video games will take up a majority of my time after school and I don't even play them as much as I would like. Homework? Hardly ever have time for it or anything like it. I've been trying to do weird things like challenge myslef to do the least amount of work and productivity-related things at home and trying to fit them into my days' slight free periods. I don't know.. Just thought I would say that.

RE: why piracy is winning against the studios

I just read an article from the Epic Fu blog (by Steve Woolf) about piracy and the Pirate Bay's recent court battle. I posted a comment on the article but I will post my reply here as well.

Original article: [link]
Summary (by myself):
Studios think they beat the Pirate Bay and pirate movement in court with sentence but they are wrong. They are making people more aware and sites most likely will not be shut down. In an ideal world, piracy would not exist, but this isn't an ideal world. Piracy is here. It will never leave. However, if studios could appeal more to the consumer's new needs (media when, where, and how they want it) people may be willing to support them.

My retort:
You are contradicting yourself. You yourself said:

"So why does piracy exist? Are people really just thieves underneath it all? Of course not. People use sites like the Pirate Bay because it's available to them."

Piracy has long been upon us. Almost all media is free. Why would people pay a flat monthly rate like $9.99 for unlimited content if the unlimited content is already free? People who aren't afraid to pirate music, films, television, etc. will not stop now. Some like to say that if they could play a small fee like this they would. But would they? I doubt it. Piracy is never going to leave. These studios that think they have won anything are, as you said, completely wrong. They are putting piracy more and more into the mainstream's attention.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

STALKER, TF2, tomorrow

Right now I'm installing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl which I torrented in like 2 hours while playing some awesome Team Fortress 2 with Beau. Probably going to sleep in a half hour or so... Going to work tomorrow at like 10:30/45am. After that I might see Kyle and Richard and then I have the Kalamari Dinner at Soquel. That's like 6:45 or so until like 8pm. Then party at the 418 with Keke and all those kids... Going to be a good weekend.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Doeo - 40Z

Mixin' it up with tha doeoz... like I do.

myspace: [link]
download 40Z (mp3): [link]

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Silversun Pickups - Swoon

I have been listening to the first single off of the Silversun Pickups' new album, Swoon, and it is AMAZING. I recently listened to the entire album and I have to say it is not as great as their debut (which I love so much) but it is still very good. The single I was refering to, Panic Switch, is just soo amazing. Everybody should listen to it.

link to the Silversun Pickups' myspace: [link]

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Team Fortress 2


Me doing my engineer thing on 2fort. I love TF2 very very much.