Entering Vacation Mode

Friday Caption Fun, Round 16

Another week of summer came, and another week of summer went. I’ve been taking full advantage of the more relaxed schedule by spending way too many nights gaming until dawn. Well, that and digging around for entertaining screenshots for us to caption of course. Before we get to this week’s image I scrounged up, let’s recap the funnier submissions from the last Friday Caption Fun we did over the long Fourth of July holiday weekend.

• “It was the morning after the annual Bungie Day Bash when MC realized that beer before liquor does, in fact, get you drunk quicker.” (Reverendtik)
• “Chief was pretty depressed after not getting 1 billion dollars and infinite girlfriends for his birthday…” (Dusty Boy T)
• “The soldier was worried. Not only did he find that he had woken up with a traffic cone on his head, but more importantly… why did he have *two* assault rifles?” (Sane Intolerant)
• “What do you mean it looks dorky? It gives me +5 intelligence.” (retinence)
• “After years of spectacle, those who continually tried to earn Recon by getting ‘Cwned’ would end up on the streets with nothing but Mark V and a terrible addiction to plastic.” (XMixMasterX)
• “Timmy was never the sharpest energy sword in the barracks. But after stating in class that UNSC stood for “Uncle Newb’z Stinky Crack”, he got to spend some quality time with the dunce cap.” (Hoovaloov)
• “Red’s drinking problems proved that she truly could not handle the Rock-n-Roll lifestyle, and she was eliminated on Bret Michael’s Rock of Love before the first episode aired.” (MattDGiant)
• “In the future, bringing guns to school only warrants a few minutes of time-out with the Dunce Cap.” (Mintz)

I Just Got Rocked, Much Like a Hurricane

I just finished participating in the Guitar Hero III bracket of the Fragolympics Summer 2008. Twelve gaming communities were invited to participate in the event which spans six weeks and includes four different games with various competitions within each one. My community showed incredibly bad judgment by selecting yours truly to wield the not so lethal plastic guitar shaped controller. It was a weapon of destruction for my opponent but not so much for me unfortunately.

Our round was played on medium difficulty with each of us selecting two songs and then also playing one random predetermined song. I actually went temporarily blind this morning and was forced to play the songs by memory so taking that into consideration, I really didn’t do too bad. Ok, so maybe that’s a lie but I did go outside for a bit and look directly at the sun so I really couldn’t see that well. Ok, that’s a lie too but whatever. If you would like to see me go down in a blaze filled with absolutely no glory, I screen capped the entire experience for your sadistic pleasure. We didn’t have our mics plugged in so while there wasn’t any actual communication, I took the liberty of adding what I thought my opponent was thinking. Seriously, what a jerk.

Christmas in September

Coming this fall to an Xbox 360 near you are two different limited edition wireless controllers. Available in both red and green (apparently Microsoft thinks the holiday season is in September), each controller will be bundled with a Play & Charge Cable and a coordinating rechargeable battery pack. They will run you $64.99 apiece, which is the standard price for that particular combination of accessories. Maybe they’ll tease us with a super bad ass limited edition item for a while, let us get absolutely crazy with anticipation while we await the final details, and then cancel the formal announcement twelve hours before it is supposed to go down. Oh relax, I’m just kidding. Microsoft would never pull an asshole move like that.

Themes on the New Xbox 360 Dashboard

With Microsoft’s announcement of the “New Xbox Experience” have come concerns over existing content in the form of gamerpics and themes. While details were fuzzy when they made their initial presentation, since then they have clarified several times over that both will still be usable with the new interface. Their design team did a few mock ups to show how your existing theme you’ve spent precious Microsoft Points on will work with the newly designed Dashboard. Keep in mind they are mock ups only so by definition an early sketch instead of a final version.

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