20 Something Gamer

YouTube recently released the closed caption beta for videos. This uses speech recognition to create subtitles for your videos.

My Avatar review video from back in December was been run though the speech recognition and now was subtitles, but the problem is, for the most part they don't fit with what I'm actually saying.

This is the x-ray of an unknown persons hand, interesting I know. Note the two red arrows, these fingers are broken, the cause... playing God of War 3!
So the patients story is that he (or her, but I'll continue using the male term, k?) rolled his knee over his fingers. Now, I've been a gamer for about 16 years now, and I have never been in the position where it's possible for me to roll over my own hand whilst playing. I think someone is just trying to hide some overly embarrassing way that they broke their hand and blame it on something cool.

In Soviet Russia, game beats you!

The dust hasn't even begun to settle on Heavy Rain, yet David Cage has already begun penning his next game.

N4G.com : David Cage: Next Game Coming Sooner Than You Think

(I am SO sorry about the title)

Netgear have joined the list of computer related companies that piss me off to no avail, which really only consists of PC World and Netgear.

Anyway on Sunday my router packed up, no signal, couldn't even connect to it using cables. So after fruitlessly trying to fix it in the usual fashion (pulling the plug, pushing the reset button), I called Netgear support and was met with a plethora of accents, firstly the calm British male who asked me what type of router I was using, followed by the ear-splittingly loud American woman (don't get me wrong, I love american accents, as long as they are below 100 dB) who asked what type of tech support I needed, and finally the strongest Indian accent fathomable, who could only tell me to do what I could read out of the trouble shooting section of the manual. So after 20 min of saying to the guy "Yeah, already done that, still doesn't work" he passed me onto the replacement compartment where they guy hadn't learnt the letter W, "R.O.U...", "No, it's R.O.W...", "OK, so R.O.U.U..." FFS.

Anyway, after that fiasco, I got them to have the new router sent next day delivery, which to give them credit it did arrive next day. I unplugged the old one boxed it up so ship back to them (SHIT... I've still got to do that!) and got the new one all set up, only to find... that the fucking thing wouldn't send out a signal, and would only work wired, not really what I wanted from a WIRELESS router.

So, while rather pissed off, I called Netgear again, and went thought the whole tech support nightmare again, this time responding "It's new out of the box, and I've already done that!" they sent me yet another new one, which I must happily say is sitting in my kitchen, sending out its wi-fi signals of happiness.

All's well that ends well... right?

So at exactly 01:01 this morning, the 8001050f error screen failed to show, which means that everything should be back to normal.

Hopefully it won't make the same mistake in 2011. 2012 should be fine, if not, the world'll end soon anyway so no problem.

So, when I bought Heavy Rain SP, they promised me: A premium theme, The Taxidermist DLC and the Heavy Rain soundtrack.
Which is slightly annoying, cause the first thing I did was to use my code to get the free stuff, but they got me covered there. I just hope to God that I can re-download the other 2 things.

Yesterday (and continuing on to today) PS3s all over the planet where showing up the error code; 8001050f. Unable to sign in and PSN content corrupted, many people have been looking to Sony for an answer, their response, we haven't a clue. Speculation is that the PS3 was coded incorrectly and thinks today is the 29th Feb, thus causing server desynchronization.

Sony say they are working on a solution, and they ask that you leave your consoles alone for today, If you feel that is beyond you, you have to limit your gaming to games that DO NOT have trophies, such as Modern Warfare 1, Assassin's Creed 1 etc.

So if there is an old game that you stopped playing, now is the perfect excuse to go back and finish it.

Blu-ray.com - James Cameron Reveals Avatar Blu-ray Release Date

Ok, so I'll admit. I really should have called my blog "20something heavy rain fanatic" but I was such a huge fan of Fahrenheit. And if you've read as much about the game as I have you'd be excited to.

Anyway the point of this post is to inform you that quantic have announced DLC content for HR. Details are scarce but what I've heard is that the DLCs are prequels to HR, they are giving you some background information about the main characters. David Cage even went as far as saying (in French) that it's highly likely that you will get to play as the origami killer him/herself.

There is a video to accompany this post, but unfortunatly it is in French and there are no subtitles. So I thought it would be a waste of bandwidth, so just enjoy the LTA heavy rain trailer in my previous post.

Big Thanks to Mr DeFranco for this.
Its only a month away... YAY!
If you can't tell, I'm happy.

Just spent the last week in the good ol' USA. Boston MA to be precise.


And I've gotta say, it was hard work. First the flight was canceled due to "inclement" weather, it snowed (a bit) the night before, and then it started raining. Heathrow has to buy a snow plough or two, cause this is stupid.


Anyway after Virgin canceled the flight, they told us they can put us on an American Airlines flight later in the day, we really wanted to get out there so, what the hell, we took the flight, and then, four hours later than planned, me and my Dad were of to our next problem.


On arrival we got into a taxi, and made our way to the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, where, because of Virgin canceling our flight, they had canceled our reservation at the hotel. This is at PM local time but it feels to us like it is two in the morning. So the person behind the check in desk, calls up Virgin to see what's what but, of course, the help line's closed for the evening. At which point they tell us that even though all our paperwork says that we are to have a nice comfy room for the night, our names aren't down as having one. But its all sorted when Dad pays for the room for the night when promised that Virgin will sort it all out and pay Dad back. Which to be fair, they did.


Anyway, that was the end of the getting there fiasco, then came the good times... walking around Boston, seeing the sights and hanging with my mates.



All to soon came the time for us to leave, but having not been able to see one particular friend, I decided, "You know, if i go see her at 2:45 I can hang for two hours, catch the T and be at the airport with plenty of time to spare". But best laid plans and all. After two hours, I said my goodbyes and got on the T only for it to stop at a station for a stupidly long time for some completely unknown reason. Then, maybe just to piss everyone off, someone decided that the shuttle bus to the airport, needed a freaking MOT test at the bus stop, with us inside it. Well after everything (my plan gave us at least 45 min to check in,) we arrived at the check in desk with 30 seconds to spare before check in for our flight closed.


And that was my holiday in summary. I know I've explained all the bad part to some sad level, but that is the stuff I can write about, I could not begin to describe to you about how happy I am when I see my friends or how great it is to take a walking tour of Boston with my father.


Guys if you are reading this, know I'm grateful to you all and, thanks for everything.