Valve/Steam Works well so far On Linux

I wasn't expecting this to work. A while back I bought a Valve Package for around a hundred bucks on Steam/Valve. Steam is a purchasing/download PC Gaming service and I noticed someone on the Ubuntu Wine Forums mention how happy they were with Steam. I did a double take and thought to myself I need to try that. Well I finally did, and so far, Holy Crap it works! I've only gotten into Half-Life 2 so far but it looks good so far playing these games on Ubuntu Linux. The Package I bought was a bunch of older games so they'll probably all work the way things look right now.

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Of course that's with the exception of getting my Logitech goodies to run well. But.... I haven't tried installing the windows drivers for them... Hmmm....

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Best Twilight DeMotivational Ever

I think this pretty much sums up what I think about Twilight...

Christmas lights Guitar Hero

This is pretty awesome. I heard on the Buzz Out Loud tech podcast that the kids Dad was a Disney Imagineer so it makes sense that this one is NOT an editing gimick, they actually play the game on the Garage!

I really fucking hate doctors

Had a Dr's apointment today but I couldn't get some lab work done in a timely manor. The Lab wouldn't do my lab work without payment up front or an Insurance card. I'm supposed to be getting a new card soon I haven't seen it since the first hospital visit I had last year in February. So I had to reschedule my Doctors appointment since I didn't have my lab work.

Next Appointment Available... Is March fucking 11th 2010. 4 god damned months.... This is the 4th fucking Doctor I've gone too because every single one of them pulls this shit. Maybe I'll get lucky and get hit by a bus put me out of my fucking misery.

Hulu Desktop Finally Supports Linux

Well, it Looks like Linux is finally coming into primetime Literally. Hulu just released it's Hulu Desktop for Linux. I have been loving the hell out of the Hulu Desktop on Windows but have to admit I've been using the flash version almost exclusively for the last few months because I've been using Linux almost exclusively. But now the best of Both worlds is here. The Hulu Desktop for Linux!

Ever since Google announced the Chrome OS a lot more stuff for Linux has started working better. I doubt it's a coincidence. Most of all I HOPE it's actually for the better. But from the security I've seen in Google's Chrome browser, we're all pretty much fucked in the long run with the standards they're setting.

Watching lots of the Daily Show and The Colbert report

*spoiler alert* Blackest Night, Batman

WOW... WOW.... Holy Christ on merry go round are you shitting me?! Never before in comic book history has this happened. Never even close. A character rebirth/resurrection that is 100 percent absolutely AWESOME.

I have not actually read this blackest night series only checked out reviews, it's DC and I'm a Marvel fanboy. But this story arc sounds good enough that I'm going to have to breakdown and pick up the whole fucking Blackest Night series. Fuck it, it's Christmas and that's exactly what I'm gonna get. I may even wind up switching Brands, it really sounds like DC has all the good writers.*

I won't get into specifics so as not to spoil too much and because I don't have the whole story totally down myself. It's not a secret that Batman died. He was fighting the "Black Lanterns" (as in a new breed of bad guy Green Lanterns) in the Darkest Night story arc with his team but the Black Lanterns killed Bruce Wayne. I can't believe no one saw this coming, I knew the facts too but it went right over my head. Here's why, the lowdown on the Black Lanterns they're dead, undead.

Now you know where this is going. Yes! Batman returns from the dead... as an undead... With a fucking Black Lanterns Ring! Ahhhhh!!!! The Goddamned Batman is a bad guy with a lanterns power ring! Either we're all gonna die, or the universe will be saved several times over. This could give new meaning to "The Dark Knight."
























*On a side note, Marvels "Dark Reign" story arcs are getting crap reviews while DC is getting very high marks from fans and reviewers for "Blackest Night," the drastically different reviews are being amplified by writers like JMS moving from Thor to Superman in the near future (I was hoping he would rescue the Thor franchise from it's history of bad writers.) This is purely speculation but I'd bet real money that Management at marvel got in his way with "Dark Reign" and they had creative differences and he stuck to his guns but they wouldn't let him take the character where he wanted to go to beef up the character's reputation up for the Thor movie coming out in a year and a half, which is why I thought they put the main writer of Babylon 5 there a few months ago in the first place. If you want advice from someone who knows how to make an intricate mutli-threaded sci fi/fantasy story arc work, the main writer of Babylon 5 seems like THE guy to pick up. Letting him get away was stupid. But then, I do wear a tinfoil hat and could take JMS's word for it and it was nothing like that. Nahhh what fun would that be? JMS only had a couple of months with Thor, not enough time to get a good arc out but I did like what had happened even though there hasn't been any closure with the current arc yet.

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