I have recently been messing around with a couple of RTS (Real Time Strategy) games. I’ve never been a big fan of the genre, but since everything else sucks so bad I decided I would actually try and learn it enough that I may actually enjoy it. Luckily there are plenty to choose from on PC, which is normally one of the things I complain about.

I started off trying Warcraft 3 again. It has great reviews and is still supported by Blizzard. I was expecting it to be like Age of Empires 2 and in many ways it is, except harder than hell. I suck hard at this game. My entire base and army are wiped out by the first rush. The only way I live long enough to actually do anything is if there is no rush, which only delays my inevitable ass kicking.

I have also been kicking around Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War. This one is growing on me. It’s a little different than other RTS I have played and seems like it may be the one I put most of my time into. I also plan to check out Company of Heroes which seems very similar. Can you say headache treatment? On the other hand it is fun being a total noob at a genre. I can only get better…I hope.

My biggest issue with RTS is the time invested in building up your base and army, only to be crushed in a matter of minutes by the other team. You think you are doing really good and getting your stuff together and then the other team walks along and wipes you out like it is noting.

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Now that the numbers are so high I have decided to go back and figure out the actual number of different phone models I have owned, rather than how many individual phones I have owned altogether. It won’t be in any particular order since that would be rather hard to get accurate. Also only going to include GSM phones, and phones that I owned for more than 1 day.

1. Black Razr v3

2. Silver Razr v3

3. Pearl Razr V3R

4. Samsung E635

5. Motorola A630

6. Treo 650

7. Lg F9100

8. Lg F9200

9. TMobile MDA

10. Blackberry 7290

11. Blackberry 7105t

12. Blackberry 8700G

13. Samsung T219

14. Samsung T509

15. Samsung T519

16. Samsung T619

17. Sidekick 2

18. Sidekick 3

19. Nokia 6133

20. Nokia 6030

21. Motorola Slvr L7

22. Blackberry 7230

I let this sit in my drafts for a few days, just in-case I remembered one I might have left out, but it looks like I got them all. Still pretty bad considering I’ve owned probably half of them at least twice.

We didn’t even make it a day. As the day went on we just got more and more hungry. The juice wasn’t doing squat as far as killing my appetite, and when two hungry minds come together it is even harder to fight the thoughts of running to chic-fila. And thats exactly what we did. And it was great. It felt like for the rest of the day all I did was eat. I still plan on going the whole way, but I think it’s something we should ramp up to rather than just jump in.

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After weeks of talking about it, we are finally doing a juice fast. I don’t really care to lose any weight, except maybe my gut, but mainly want to get rid of the 25 years worth of built up garbage. I am also curious to see what it can do to help the acid factory that my stomach has become. It has gotten to were eating almost anything causes my stomach to fill with acid. Its miserable. Maybe its an ulcer. Who knows. But with no health insurance it shall remain a mystery. Doctors are shit anyway.

We had our final solid meal last night. It was originally planned to be a healthy Olive Garden salad, but instead we ended up eating a pizza. I was just too tired to drive out and get the salads. I really hope I start to like the juice more, the fruit medley crap I am drinking right now is horrible, and I’m not a huge fan of V8 either. I will probly drink more water than anything. At least this will give me something else to blog about. I’m going to try to post at least once every night about how the day went.

Laura woke me up around 6 and I am not very good at going back to sleep once I’ve gotten up. So I am only about 3 and a half hours into this and I am starving, but it will pass. “Erutinruf Yrutne“. It looks like some snazzy, other language, words of wisdom. But it is really just Century furniture backwards. Baaa

My Blackberry 7105t arrived and looks great. More importantly it appears to work flawlessly. There was an initial scare when I first powered it on and it said the sim card was rejected, but after restarting it again everything was fine. I made a few test calls and checked all the keys. So far so good. I just wiped all the software and am reinstalling everything fresh as I write this post. I’ve never screwed up a blackberry as far as the software goes, hopefully this wont be the first. Oh ya, need an Orlando rental home ? Me neither.

Once again I am waiting for the mailman to bring me a phone. I am really hoping that this one will work like it should. The last few that I’ve purchased all had something wrong with them, and somehow I managed to wipe all my contacts from my sim card, which is an added bonus. It should be here any minute now, it’s about the time that the mail usually arrives. I’m getting edgy worrying that this one is going to be all busted up as well. Maybe I will look around on travelpro to kill some time…

I recently sold a phone on ebay that was a big piece of crap, but because I got it for so cheap, I wasn’t too upset about it. We were even able to make a few bucks profit after selling it, but the person who bought it clearly was an idiot.
*Pulls out conference tables* Here is the email i received from them:

“Eric, i prefer to send this back for a refund. The phone doesnt work. It randomly shuts off while using it, even with a full charge. im not pleased. lets work something out here. you sold me a faulty phone. Thanks.”

Sounds reasonable enough right? Wrong. Take a look at the actual listing. What could anyone have expected to receive other than a broken phone. Here is the listing:

“This is a used Tmobile Motorola A630 that includes a battery, wall charger, and desktop charger. It shows signs of usage which you can see in the pictures. There is a bit of paint rubbed off on the center button, and a little crack in the 2 key, but does not effect anything other than their appearance. Some of the pics of the screen look weird and distorted, but it is just from the camera. The charger port will not charge the battery, which is why I got the desktop charger. The charge port is a known issue with this phone model, but the desktop charger is a simple solution. Also this phone will sometimes randomly shut off on me for no reason. I have no idea what the cause of this is. Phone will not include a sim card, but will work with your current tmobile sim. Sold for repair or parts. Because this phone is used it is sold as-is, and the sale is final with no returns. Thanks for looking. “

The sale of our couch to the psychotic break-down-the-door buyers is still the craziest ebay experience I’ve ever heard of, but this one is easily one of the dumbest.

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While Pandora Tomorrow wasn’t the greatest game by any means, it had a very original multiplayer feature that was a fresh change among the blandness of all the FPS and RTS. Then Chaos Theory improved not only the multiplayer side of things, but also added multiplayer co-op so you could play through the story with a buddy. A company finally produced a co-op game? Crazy right. So you would think that Double Agent would continue the pattern to improve upon these great features, but like me you would be wrong. Wrong as fuck.

This game is pretty much a turd. Its a hell of a time just getting the damn thing to run. Luckily for me (or maybe unluckily) I didn’t have a lot of trouble in that department other than needing to upgrade my video card, but there are tons of people, including my supposed to be co-op buddy Tyler, who can’t even get it to work at all. Chalk DA up as yet another game that is released far to early and unfinished. And of course Ubisoft offers nothing in terms of support. Its games like this, from companies like this that make me not give a damn how much money is lost due to piracy. Boo hoo the already rich company lost money cause everyone downloaded their crappy game. What about all the money wasted by the everyday people who actually pay for this shit. You take it home, it doesn’t work, the company doesn’t care or offer any support, and best of all you can’t take it back to the store cause you opened it.

If you want people to pay for your games then stop releasing unfinished, buggy pieces of shit like this.

Fuck Ubisoft.