Film, Gadgets, and Geekdom

I’ve been playing the new Xbox 360 game Dead Rising recently.  I have to say that it is fan-fucking-tastic.  I mean, it can be very, VERY annoying, but can be very, very amusing and fun too.  Any time you can grab up a shower head, stick it in a zombies dome and shower said zombie with his own blood until he dies… that’s a good time in my book.  Or beat down a crowd of zombies with a baseball bat.  Or literally mow down a gaggle of zombies with a lawn mower.  Or beat a zombie with a sledgehammer.  Or cut a zombie in half with a battle axe or katana.  Or jump kick a zombie.  Or hit a golf ball into a zombies head.  Or bash a zombie with a bowling ball.  Or ride a zombie.  I could go on and on and on, but I think you get the point.  The game is very akin to Grand Theft Auto… with zombies… in a mall… with a LOT of weapons options.  You play a free lance photographer who comes to this small town in Colorado for a strange story.  Not long after you get dropped on top of a mall, you have to deal with zombies and wait three days (72 hours) for the helicopter to come back.  The game does have some sort of story line that I think you have to follow.  Maybe  you don’t… I don’t really know.  The hardest part of the game thus far has been when I had to fight this fucker with a .50cal sniper rifle (for those of you who know guns, it was Barrett).  Eventually I spent both pistols I had (funny part is I stole both of them from security guard zombies) and this NPC Brad shot him down to no health, but it turns out I had to deliver the final blow.  This is shitty because I was out of ammo and this Carlito fucker either runs away from you when you rush him and then drops a grenade, then shoots you.  I eventually got really lucky and landed a jump kick on him.  The zombies aren’t really an issue as they are… well, zombies.  There are thousands of them, but they are slow and stupid.  When they crowd together, that can be a problem, but if you have a good weapon, like a baseball bat, you can deal with it.  The shitty thing about the game is that you can only use the weapons for a limited time.  Naturally, pistols and other projectile weapons run out of ammo, but melee weapons like baseball bats, sledgehammers, lead pipes, 2 x 4s, guitars, hedge trimmers, battle axes, katanas, etc. “break” after a while of use.  That I don’t like but of course I have to deal with it and there are no lack of weapons laying around.  You can go into pretty much any store in the mall and find a weapon.  So, if any of you have a 360, check out Dead Rising… it is awesome, though only 1 player.  So if you are stuck in a mall and don’t want to be there… remember, it could be much worse… or much cooler, it’s up to interpretation. ;)

In other news… I have started classes.  I will pass these classes with no problems whatsoever.  I just need to actually feel like dealing with the class.  I hate how pretentious US History professors are.  US History is, historically (lol), a freshman class so the professors feel like they need to be a total ass while retaining much of the high school mentality.  NO COLLEGE COURSE SHOULD HAVE A SEATING CHART.  You should be able to go into the classroom and sit where ever the damn well please.  That is all.