Brent’s Thoughts

Original thread from my old forums

Hey we bought the house!!!

The same one that I posted about earlier. We got it for a bit less than what it was listed for. I don’t have a whole lot else to talk about on it, but I just thought I would let anyone who is reading this know.

Well like a lot of other people I picked up a copy of Halo 2 and have been playing it.

For the most part it is a great game, but I just really wasn’t enjoying it that much playing on my own. Games like this really need to be played CO-OP and thankfully Zuhli came up this weekend and we did just that.

We played from like 8:00 last night till abou 4:00 this morning and had a blast. We were both up at about 9:30 this morning and actually finished the game.

Man what a let down. After all the stuff that Bungie went through to make this really awesome engine and story and everything, they just leave it hanging. Actually, it pissed me off pretty good. I mean at least in the first one they had the decency to sort of make a good ending to it. Yeah they left a few loose ends, but for the most part it finished up nicely. Don’t expect that from this one at all. And of course they don’t plan to make another one for Xbox (it instead is supposed to be an Xbox2 title) and it is really a kick in the nuts. Plus last I heard Bungie is working on a different title right now, so it will be a while before Halo 3 even gets started. At least with the LoTR stuff everything was already done so you knew the rest of the story would come out (for those that didn’t read the books.)

If course everyone is raving about the multiplayer parts of the game, but I guess I am one of the few people left that expects to get a game to enjoy for the aspects of the game and not because it is a really great multiplayer platform.

It makes me wish that they would have put out a Halo 1.5 with just the new multiplayer stuff and then released Halo 2 with longer story and more info in it.

I picked up a bottle of this yesterday and I couldn’t figure out where I had tasted it before.

For those of you not in the know. Pepsi just came out with a Holiday “Spiced” Pepsi. When they say “spiced” what they mean is that they put cinnamon in it.

I knew that this was the first time that I had tried anything from Pepsi that had cinnamon in it, but yet I still knew that I had drank something that tasted exactly like this before.

Then I realized what it was. A common mixer for the alcohol “Hot Damn” is Pepsi and that is exactly what this tastes like. Of course there is no alcohol in the Pepsi version, but they taste pretty much the same.

It makes me wonder if the research team for Pepsi Co. is a bunch of alcoholics.

www.electoral-vote.com wrote:

One thing that is very strange is how much the exit polls differed from the final results, especially in Ohio. Remember that Ohio uses Diebold voting machines in many areas. These machines have no paper trail. Early in the campaign, Diebold CEO Walden O’Dell, a GOP fundraiser, promised to deliver Ohio to Bush. He later regretted having said that.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/#news

Original post on old forums

Did you know that last night an alarming number of people’s votes didn’t count for anything? No don’t worry they wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the election. No not even because it was 50,202,473 votes that didn’t count. It doesn’t even matter that it was a full 43.96% of all votes cast last night, it still wouldn’t have changed the election outcome…. this year.

With the electorial college system that we use any vote that is cast for a person that doesn’t have the majority in that state is a wasted vote. The two major parties are always quick to talk about how voting for a third party canidate is a wasted vote, but they never bother to talk about it for them. If you voted Democrate in Kentucky, did you really think your vote would matter? If you voted Republican in California did you really think your vote would matter? Most of the 50 states are so locked in with what they end up that the canidates don’t even bother to run ads in them, let alone actually show up in them. Your vote matters…. well as long as you live in one of the “swing states” or maybe you vote with the dominate party in your state.

I pulled down the stats for voter turn out that they had this morning and did a little totaling. The results are here.

If you want to know the states names just put them in alphabetical order down the side. We are out building democracies for other countries and they aren’t bothering to do this dumb electorial college thing. Why are we?

The electorial college system was originally designed because the founding fathers didn’t think the average people were smart enough to pick a president. So instead they voted for a party and then the electors for that party got together and picked a president. In a way, I guess, they are still right. We don’t really have enough information to pick the people that are running, but we don’t really pick them anyway. The members of their party do and then just give us system where it looks like we get to pick them.