Comments | speakssoftly: It was a good run

speakssoftly

It was a good run

Feb 28, 2010 19:11

I almost didn't post this for the fact that livejournal has seemed to turn into a way for me to vent instead of a real representation of my life. I am posting it anyway because I do feel like I need to get this off my chest as to not be upset about it any longer.

( Grumble )

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cesarano March 1 2010, 01:57:52 UTC

Get a Zuuuuuuuunnnnnnneeeeeee

I had to sell iPods, had to use and deal with them all the time, and at the end of the day I'm so glad I got a Zune for an MP3 player instead.

machiavelli_f March 1 2010, 15:50:51 UTC

Bioshock 2 online is amazingly fun. I started on it just for the achievements, and ended up playing more for the fun.

It's tough at low ranks (Like, when you have just a pistol as a weapon), but you unlock new weapons and plasmids at a REALLY fast rate, and there are some very interesting plasmid and weapon combos.

I'm very fond of the combination of Houdini (Makes you invisible like the houdini splicers but drains your Eve) plus Eve Saver (plasmids cost less eve), Metabolic Eve (Your body constantly produces Eve) and Backstabber (you do more damage with melee attacks from behind). I love running into a room, vanishing, and then smacking someone in the back of the head while they look for me.

cesarano March 1 2010, 17:42:39 UTC

FYI, Houdini Splicer doesn't work so well in ADAM Grab or Capture the Sister. Even though you and the sister will be invisible, it'll still have the icon noting her location.

But it is an excellent plasmid and there are plenty of great combos out there. I honestly have more fun in Bioshock 2's multiplayer than in the actual campaign itself, something that is unheard of for me.

machiavelli_f March 1 2010, 18:34:37 UTC

I love houdini for ADAM grab. Yeah, they can track you on the map, but if your team isn't complete boneheads you can Houdini out while your team is distracting the enemy. Sure, they can find you again, but it buys you precious time, and if you can do that 3-4 times you can win a match.

cesarano March 1 2010, 19:13:56 UTC

True, but I've yet to be in a game where anyone's even talking to each other. Still, despite the lack of communication I've found groups to work together surprisingly well in Bioshock 2.

Man, this is making me want to play.

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mrfunkydoodle March 2 2010, 04:16:58 UTC

I'm with cesarano on the Zune. I love mine so much. Such a bummer they don't sell them in Canada anymore. Luckily, I have a car, and a desire to get the Zune HD, so I will upgrade my first gen one soon.

I don't really know your musical tastes anymore, so I'll go with "Sometime Around Midnight" by The Airborne Toxic Event. It's hard to dislike that song.

technical question! speakssoftly March 3 2010, 00:43:12 UTC

I have all my music in iTunes currently. Is it hard to get those from my iTunes into a Zune?

Re: technical question! mrfunkydoodle March 3 2010, 01:17:25 UTC

Yeah, it's very hard, and one of the main reasons I never got an iPod. iPods store their music in some made up format they use called m4a, with weird DRM (copy protection) on it. Unless things have changed, the only reliable way to change it from iTunes to DRM-free MP3 was to burn it to an audio CD, then rip the CD to MP3. Since CDs only fit like, 20 songs max, you're looking at a lot of CDs and a lot of time.

There's a lot of pay programs out there that claim to do it for you, but I don't know anybody who's tried any, and I'm kinda iffy on if they'd work. Since it's apple's own proprietary encoding and DRM, short of an insider leak of the code or some crazy hacker guy getting lucky, the only way other than CD burning that I can think of would be to play it and record it as it plays, which would be even slower than the CD way.