FUCK.  HILLARY.

Who on earth thinks the goddamned fucking government shoudl be wasting it’s goddamned fucking time on this goddamned fucking ridiculous BULLSHIT?

Washington, DC press conference Thursday will see the New York Senator call for a Federal Trade Commission inquiry into the San Andreas mod.

Tomorrow in the country’s capital, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) will call on the Federal Trade Commission to launch an inquiry into the “Hot Coffee” mod, sources have told GameSpot.

Clinton, a vociferous critic of violence in the media, will be joined by David Walsh, president and founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family; Mary Bissell, fellow at the New America Foundation; and Kiersten Stewart, director of public policy for the Family Violence Prevention Fund.

Clinton is expected to call on the FTC to determine who is responsible for the Hot Coffee mod, a modification that unlocks sexually explicit minigames in Rockstar’s recently published PC version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

While the game is rated M, and therefore not readily sold to those below the age of 17, the mod is easily available online.

A statement distributed by the Senator’s office this afternoon sets the scene, stating that “following recent reports revealing that the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has graphic pornographic content which may be unlocked by following instructions on the Internet, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will hold a press conference to discuss legislative solutions to keep inappropriate video game content out of the hands of young people.” The statement makes no mention of asking the FTC to step in, but sources tell GameSpot that this request will be the centerpiece of the Senator’s plea tomorrow.

You know...I didn’t think it was possible for her to become a more useless cunt that she already is.

I was wrong.

While the game is rated M, and therefore not readily sold to those below the age of 17, the mod is easily available online.

But you can’t use the fucking mod without the fucking game you vapid cunt.  Good lord I hate her.  Real, palpable hate.

ATTENTION ALL DEMOCRATS: NOW WOULD BE THE TIME TO TELL HER TO CHILL THE FUCK OUT.  Why is she wasting federal resources on an investigation into a fucking game mod?

Posted by JimK at 08:01 AM on July 14, 2005
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Uh-oh…

Just opened a box from Amazon.com.

Remember when I said I’d get right back to regular blogging?  I may have spoken too soon.

WOOHOO! /homersimpson

Posted by JimK at 11:22 PM on June 13, 2005
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Machinema, only static

Now this is a cool idea.  And the comic is well done to boot!

The project is a comic based off the game Half-Life 2 by Valve Software. This game is quite simply the most amazingly engrossing story that I have ever seen in a video game. Needless to say, it got me inspired, but I had no idea what I could really do.

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The comic will be called Apostasy, and it will follow 3 characters through a story that happens around the same time as the game… in fact the story will interweave with the game story.

Here is the author’s blog as well.

Posted by JimK at 01:56 AM on April 16, 2005
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Never kick your girlfriend…

Penny Arcade is running a storyline right now that so perfectly captures the stupidity of blaming pop culture when your kids do something violent.  They manage to say is a few panels what would probably take me paragraphs and paragraphs to say.

The act

The vulture swoops

Seeds of her doom

See how silly?  PA rawkz yer momz.

BTW, if you are even remotely interested in gamesand you’re not reading Penny Arcade, you’re a big poopy-face and I no longer consider you a person.  You’re dead to me.  So start reading it, because both the comic and the commentary are some of the best writing out there.

Posted by JimK at 04:12 AM on February 28, 2005
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Simply awesome

The Godfather, as told by using a mod on Halflife2 that allows you to pose models any way you want.  Oh, and with updated int3rw3b dialogue.

This is brilliant…

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Posted by JimK at 07:38 PM on February 05, 2005
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Valve is irritating me

OK, see, this is what is wrong with this whole ’Steam‘ thing Valve has got going on.  Besides the fact that so many people have had problems with it, here’s the newest roadblock.

Half-Life 2 now has multiplayer.  Yay, right?  NO.  There is no patch to download.  You have to get it through Steam.  What’s the big deal?  Well, I have been trying for the last 5 hours, maybe twice an hour, to download it. 

Steam - Error

The Steam servers are currently too busy to handle your request.
Please try again ina few minutes.

Same thing as the day they released it.  Hey Valve: HOW’S ABOUT MORE SERVERS, GENIUSES!

Grr.

Posted by JimK at 04:28 AM on December 01, 2004
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Hey ICCR: Suck my railgun, n00b

Another group who thinks they know better than parents.

As the holiday shopping season begins, we come together as citizens, consumers and investors concerned about the marketing of a culture of violence in a season where “peace and goodwill toward all” are principal themes. We are especially concerned about the marketing of violent entertainment, particularly violent video games, to children.

Aww.  Poor little folks who have no one to control.  Isn’t it cute when they get involved?

Oh, their list?  It looks like a shopping list of the best games of the year.  Buy them all!

1. Doom 3
2. Grand Theft Auto: “San Andreas
3. Gunslinger Girls 2
4. Half Life 2
5. Halo 2
6. Hitman: Blood Money
7. Manhunt
8. Mortal Combat
9. Postal 2
10. Shadow Heart

Hat tip: The Bear. And like hiom, I am intrigued by “Gunslinger Girls 2.” Too bad it’s PS2.

Posted by JimK at 05:30 AM on November 25, 2004
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I tried to resist…

You haven’t seen a blog entry in some time because I have Half-Life 2. 

Opening screen

Your nemesis.

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Those images are with all settinging on high, 1024 x 768, antialiasing on 2x.  The game runs so smoothly I may increase the AA setting.

It’s good...the physics engine is the best I’ve seen, and the game is challenging without being obnoxious.  I ordered it through Steam, and I got the silver package.  You get:

Half-Life 2
Half-Life
Half-Life: Source
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes
Day of Defeat
Ricochet
Opposing Force
Deathmatch Classic
Codename Gordon
Day of Defeat: Source (when it’s released)

That’s a lot of gaming goodness for $59.99.  Surprisingly, the original Half-Life is very playable.  It was clearly advanced for its time.

The biggest problem with HL2 so far is the crashing.  Doesn’t seem to matter what video card you have, what drivers you are using, lots and lots of people are having the same issue.  the screen freezes, sometimes a sound stutters and then the game crashes or the Blue Screen Of Death shows up.  There is a fix...and it seems to reduce the amount of crashing dramatically.

1. Set the sound quality to “Medium.” Also, make sure you have 2-channel sound set and not 5.1.

2. Go to the HL2 icon and open the properties (or go to Steam>Play Games>Half Life 2>Right-click on it and select Properties>Launch Options). In the Target box add “-heapsize [memoryamount]” (without quotes), e.g. -heapsize 128000 makes the game use 128MB of your RAM. Try not to exceed half of your system RAM with this setting.

3. Go to your \Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\[username]\half-life 2\hl2\cfg\ directory, and create a new blank text file, then rename it to autoexec.cfg. Open this file and copy and paste in the following commands.

snd_mixahead 0.7

cl_forcepreload 1

sv_forcepreload 1

cl_smooth 0

Save the file!

4. Defrag the drive after Steam has installed everything it is going to install.  This is a huge amount of data that just got dumped on your hard drive, and defragging will help a lot.

*Update*

I should have included my video card info here...it’s the Gainward Golden Sample nVidia GeForce FX 5900XT 256MB Ultra 1600XT, the original, dual-slotted monster.

They have since revised this to be a red single-slot card, but when I bought this it was the bleeding edge.  Even ATI’s best wasn’t out yet, this was the top of the food chain.  It still holds up great when paired with the Athlon64 3200 processor and a gig of RAM.

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Posted by JimK at 06:17 AM on November 19, 2004
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