Cry_Wolf will scar you for life

The underscore in the title should be enough to keep you away, but I feel obligated to make sure you never, ever watch this piece of crap. So don't. Please.

God of War completed

I did expect a lot when I bought God of War last friday, it's been praised everywhere, by magazines and everyone I know who's tried it, and now also by me. It rocks! By far one of the best action games I have ever played, it just has everything you could ever expect. An exciting story, cool combos, that are surprisingly easy to administer and use, fast-paced action, very Prince of Persia-like, just taken to a higher level, challenging puzzles, interesting traps, variating monsters and most importantly the minigames! These small interventions create a whole new layer in the gameplay, it's more challenging and a lot more fun, when you succesfully turn and twist the analog stick while Kratos, the main character, jumps around like an insane acrobat with the two monstrous swords, slashing and slicing the poor beasts to smithereens. And then we have the gore, every slash makes the blood spurt, and Kratos' finishing moves are just crazy; ripping off heads, tearing bodies in halves with his bare hands, and impaling creatures with their own swords are just a small selection of the bloodbath you will encounter when playing God of War. The graphics are some of the best I have ever seen on PlayStation 2, also in the cutscenes, which the game has plenty of.

If you don't own God of War go buy it, now. If you don't have a PlayStation 2, go buy one of those aswell. Yes, it is worth it. Now I'm off to the extensive extra material.

Heroes

Minor spoilers ahead. 

Until recently I was only watching one tv-show regulary; the third season of Lost. Now I've stumbled upon another one, called Heroes. It's about a group of people who discover they have super powers, one can heal her wounds in seconds, another can bend time and space, a third can fly, etc. The show is a continuity-hell, mostly when following this Japanese guy, Hiro, the one who can bend time and space. It's also got a lot of plot errors, that are supposed to look coincidental but are too unrealistic to be convincing. Still, Heroes is actually a lot of fun, it's about super heroes, and that more or less says it all. What you may call super villains have already been revealed, so I'm really looking forward to some exciting battles when all the heroes, hopefully, gang up.

[update]

I just finished watching the latest episode, no. 6, and I'm so hooked! As mentioned Heroes has some continuity and plot flaws, but I don't care. Especially one scene stands out in my mind at the moment, the Japanese time/space guy (picture) comes back from the future all suited up with a katana and everything, being all cool and slick (he's a bit of a geek in the present), which means they'll probably all join up together and create a Justice League/X-Men/<random superhero group>-like gang in the future, and I can't explain how much I'm looking forward to that. Also…

… this guy is hilarous.

Heroes on Wikipedia.

IMDb movie project

I love movies, and I watch as many as possible, therefore I got this idea to watch all movies on the IMDb top 250. I created a document on Google Spreadsheets to organize the progress a bit, and just wanted to share it with you. I was a bit surprised that I've only watched 82 movies so far.

Movies on IMDb's top 250 list I've watched.

Western Digital My Book 500 GB

A new piece of hardware! I already have an external harddrive, a Maxtor Onetouch II 250 GB, unfortunately it suddenly broke down (sadly a few weeks after recommending it to Niclas). I can still access the files through file recovery programs, but it’s not of much use when I can’t add new data to it. Therefore, I’ve now ordered a new harddrive, a Western Digital My Book Premium Edition, with a memory capacity of 500 GB, hopefully I can recover the files from the Onetouch II, and format it, so it’s useable again. Naturally I’m pretty psyched about this new one, it looks incredible, and 500 GB should be more than enough. Also, the inner blue light on the front is a capacity gauge, it shows you how much space is free on the disk, pretty cool gimmick. Oh yes, it costs 2,000 DKK, bought from shg.dk.

Some specifications and photos:

Rotational Speed: 7,200 RPM
Read Seek Time: 8.9 ms
Capacity: 500 GB
Serial Transfer Rate: USB 2.0 and FireWire 400
Dimensions: 172.2 mm (height) x 143 mm (length) x 56.7 mm (width)
Weight: 1.32 kg
Official website