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I doubt anyone actually believed me, but just in case, yesterday’s post was a joke. Spielberg has no idea who I am, and the blog’s not shutting down. Sorry to disappoint on both counts.

I’ve decided to shut down the site, as I just don’t have any time for it any more. Steven Spielberg has asked me to be the cinematographer for his next blockbuster, though I can’t share too many details right now. That’s going to be taking up all of my time for the next several months.

Perhaps one day I will return. It’s been fun! Thanks to everyone who supported this blog.

I will be writing again soon. For the time being, LONG LIVE COCAINE!!!

I should start this by saying Command and Conquer 3 is a very fun game. The campaign has an enjoyable storyline, and the graphics are definitely not the best, but definitely not the worst either. I’m pretty happy with the graphics

With that out of the way, it’s time for my gripe session.

Note first that I am enjoying this game on a very nice Mac Pro, Quad 2GHz Xeon processors, 7300GT graphics card, and 2 gigs of RAM running OS X 10.5 Leopard.

1 - The load times are excruciatingly long. I don’t know if this is because their programmers suck, and don’t know how to properly port the game to Mac (or better yet, code it in a cross-compatible way to begin with) or because their programmers suck and don’t know how to optimize their code. I’m talking about 2-5 minutes here, just to load one map. With my processor it should be doing it in nothing flat, and if not then at least under 20 seconds.

2 - For the mediocre graphics on this game, it is very demanding of your system. My Mac Pro ought to be able to handle the high settings on here, but I guess their artists like lots and lots and lots of unnecessary particles and polygons or something, because I can only run it on close to the lowest settings. I don’t know anyone who has a system who could handle this game at its full potential. And I know some hardcore gamers, whose computers rival what NASA’s got.

Okay, so sorry about all that negativity, but I had to get it out somehow

Update: I looked into it a bit, and it seems these issues are results of the fact that EA believes Mac users are not really human, and therefore it’s okay to scam them with a total piece of shit for 60 damn dollars. The PC version is cheaper, and sucks less. When I have money, I will go after companies like this. EA, just wait. You have about a year, and I’m going to bring your whole worthless company down. Just wait.

For those of you who aren’t aware, Brawndo is the energy drink of the future, chock full of electrolytes. Seen in the movie “Idiocracy”, Cocaine-maker Redux Beverages will be creating this beverage so you can enjoy a bit of the future…TODAY! Well, not exactly…you’ll have to wait until December 15. The official site is very well-designed in my opinion, but lacks any significant content. I would love to see some more hype, as I am very excited about this drink!

Wow. I actually had a weird scare not too long ago about Google being down, but it was isolated as one computer in the house could access Google (even though two couldn’t). But this time it appears to be none other than Google being down. Take a gander.

So I’m pretty sure hell has frozen over, and I think that might be a flying pig up there.

Leopard is nearly here. So exciting!

Just over two days from now, Leopard will be. I hear it’s leaked already. No surprise there. Legitimate software tends to work better, though. I will see you Friday, my sweet!

At long last! It may not be as exciting as it would be if iTunes finally picked up the Beatles, but it is pretty cool! iTunes is getting the Led out…Led Zeppelin, that is. Led Zep was a very influential band, and in my opinion an incredible one as well.

Now you can get every album ever released by Zep for just $100. Not bad, if you ask me, although I’ve ben told you can get it even cheaper in physical form via Amazon or eBay. Personally though, I much prefer to buy from iTunes, because of a mixture of these: I don’t like albums lying around all over the place, I like to support Apple, I have had some bad luck with used music, and it’s fun to buy from iTunes and watch gigabytes of music transferred to your computer in a matter of minutes.

Also worth noting, The Complete Led Zeppelin is technically not complete, or at least it won’t be as of its iTunes release on the 13th next month. That same day, Led is releasing Mothership, though it is only a compilation of songs from CDs that are included on The Complete Led Zeppelin, so you won’t really be missing out if you skip over that one. Update: The Mothership album actually will be included on The Complete Led Zeppelin. Thus, the preceding was a lie. Sorry ’bout that, folks.

As an aside, I’m angry at Carrie Underwood. She is SOOOO not better than Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood, or any of the others from Across the Universe. Yet her crappy new album has trumped Across the Universe on the iTunes standings. A bloody shame.

Oh well, at least Britney Spear’s piece of crap she calls “Gimme More” is FINALLY falling off the charts. Until I saw her song on there, I didn’t know she still actually sold music…I am scared for this world when there are people who will actually pay money to hear Ms. Spears.

Anyway, enough of that. On with my daily token of anticipation for Leopard. It’s a matter of days now, before I have my hands on this revolutionary operating system.

But this is close enough. The Leopard cometh.