tonyski
Dearborn Heights, MI. Now in Austin TX
Joined Oct 2004
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I got to 900,000 Gamerscore! https://youtu.be/-C0tNNQGKU0
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600,000th Achievement Point Captured
600K this time. I had this planned out to get Exactly 600,000 at 598,000 range. And thus I had a stress dream that I fucked it up by not recording the achievement or getting the wrong one and getting over the set number. Do I have a problem now? Probably but this is a cheaper hobby than what other people do.
Ready Player One the movie!
Saw the movie last night. And I have to say that it was cool but fell short with the story part in comparison to the book. Some aspects were changed to more fit into a 2 hour movie and also modified to go with the fact that the book is now 7 years old so things like Twitch and Minecraft get mentioned. The change up to the quests were nice but weird, instead of being 6 total there were only 3 (and the first one could have been figured out by a regular troll who wanted to just screw with people). The action was awesome though and I look forward to purchasing it on blu-ray so I can go through the frames to figure out all the Easter eggs and characters that were shown. Way less Japanese stuff in the movie is a good thing because even with how detailed Z had explained I still didn’t understand the significance of his big bot.
SOME issues I had problem with but it has to do with the fact that a 41 chapter book was condensed down. Also it’s weird hearing Simon Pegg with an American accent.
Should see. Is good.
Colossal
Colossal was a good movie. You should see it if you can stand romcom's and like gigantic monster movies.
One thing I really liked about it is that there's a MAJOR plot point that they don't spoiler in the trailers! So something unknown was truly unknown until it happened. But seeing it at the Drafthouse had a part of that section after the reveal as part of the pre-roll was just odd cause it was just a bunch meme videos on the internet.
TLDR: Colossal good, go see instead of F8
Fuck Ticketmaster, Woo monster trucks!!!
So for the first time in years I'm going to another Monster Jam event! I had a nice streak going of 27 years in a row but that broke when I moved here to Austin. Yes, I've been going to monster trucks since I was a baby.
So the closest place that I can go see them is either the tiny event center downtown, or go to a separate city. San Antonio is 1.5 hours south, Dallas is 3 hours north and Houston is 3 hours east. So by math I'll be taking the San Antonio event.
Here is where Ticketmaster comes in. The tickets I want are top level, near the 30 yard line. Stadium price is 22 bucks. Also get 2 pit passes cause it's been a few years. They're selling them online for 10 a pop. Alright, comes out to 64 bucks of tickets. THEN the "convince fees" start to pile up. For each seat it comes with a 4$ facility charge and a 10$ Ticketmaster charge. And then there's a 9% sales tax which brings the cost up to 95 bucks. Yeah fuck that.
So this year I'm going down to San Antonio 3 weekends in a row for this reason! I just went this past Friday to the Alamodome in person to pick up 2 tickets at face value, 22 bucks each. They weren't selling the pit passes so I had to head deeper into the city to a Metro PCS location to pick them up for free. Just had to show that I already bought my tickets to the event.
All in all I came out WAY on top. TM was 95$ for all the items, Going myself in person was about 56 bucks after gas. It's nice it's only a half a tank there and back. Also, going down there again the weekend after next on Saturday for PAX South. Just the day thing, it's cool to head to a different city for a nice gaming convention where I can play steel battalion.
Forza Horizon 3
The game came out a few weeks ago and I of course bought the 100$ edition again. Started it up and liked it because it is more of the same. Horizon has fallen into this niche type of open world racing game where you need to discover the lands and all the roads. I LOVE those games for the first 30 hours. After that they get meh and I want a new fix because I've discovered everything. With the previous Horizons I've spent at least 100 hours each. Horizon 1 I can't track but did get all the GS in it with the 2 expansion packs and Horizon 2 I have… Good god! 365 hours played to complete that game. That's finding all the roads, racing all the races and driving most of the cars. I've got some experience with the games.
The races are the same, circuit or point to point, and the cars are the same with some extras added in since the last Forza. It is really nice that the licenses they got for Forza Motorsport 5 carry over through the rest of the current series so we can keep driving the cars we like over and over or get the newer year model if it's updated in the game. A few of the big differences are that now you are the boss of Horizon. So you race what you want to race and even going for achievements you're not forced to do X number of races in S2 car or win X races in a stock Geo Metro. Just race whatever you want. Could do 80 tournaments of just Rally Cars and the game would be cool with that.
Another changeup is the PR stunts where you get points based on performance of drifting, speed traps, speed zones and stunt jumps. All self explanatory, speed trap is top speed at 1 point, speed zone is highest average speed usually through a turn, drift zone is Tokyo Drifting through some turns and stunt jump is where you jump as far as you can. It's nice to pick a good car and be at the top of your club leader board, gives you a realistic goal to beat. Moreso to beef up your ego as getting top score gets you first in the club and also 30th in the world. That was a cool one to realize.
Is good game. And if you start to play it long enough to unlock clubs then join the Achievement Huntr Car Club! Can't call it Hunter because for some reason that's a blocked word. No idea why, it just is. I've got 80 odd cars designed for the game so far and joining the club/being my friend you can see all the mess of creations I've created.
500,000th Achievement Point Captured
I've jumped another big number once again. This time it's half of a million. I remember went I was at a quarter of a million and it felt good. Now it feels like my life force is riding on getting more achievements. I even captured it
Underdog in Forza Horizon 3
So for the record my big accomplishments have been It's Good to be the King in Gears of War 2 for 100k, Reach the highest level in Ninety-Nine Nights for 200k,
Snake Bite in Need For Speed Most Wanted 2012 for 300k, and Skulltaker Halo: CE Boom in Halo the Master Chief Collection for 400K.
There's a streak going for me over on True Achievements where I have 449 days in a row of getting at least 1 achievement a day. I've come to plan out some games that have very easy achievements to get if I lose track of time with other games. Shoot to get 1 achievement in before 2 AM Central time EVEN when I'm not at home and all I have is my phone or my laptop. Don't use my GAEMS case as much as I used to because the planes I fly on are all super tiny and could barely fit my G155 in the overhead compartment.
Anyway here's to another 500,000 more to reach one million GS in another 9 years!
New NASCAR Expansion in Forza Motorsport 6
It's been many a year since I've played a NASCAR game. Think the last one was 2011 game and ended up rage quitting that because it controlled for ASS so I did about a race and a half before sending it back to GameFly. There's been the NASCAR part of Gran Turismo 5 and some shit games that I watched Kurt J Mac play on the PC but I didn't play those. I haven't followed the sport in years as well. Last I watched they were putting in the Car of Tomorrow for the whole season. They've since got rid of that terrible Ricer design in 2011 and the cars are fast again and they're a LOT different from the last time I played.
For example, the dashboard. Last time I saw the driver seat, all the gauges were analog. Now? It's 1985 up in this bitch with LED Readouts!!! It's nice to see a speedometer on that dashboard, there used to only be a tachometer. Know that you're going 206 while drafting at Daytona. In Forza and video games I can see that but the drivers used to never know how fast they were going. Also they've added side view mirrors! Well, on the driver side in front of the safety net there is a small one now. That's great for when the spotter's not paying attention.
Playing the new expansion is cool as they upgraded and changed a few of the control things. Not turning and accell controls but more changes to the feel of the controls. With cars driving at 150+ MPH they push a lot of air out of the way. This air gets separated to the left right and above. If you're at another car's back left or right you are hitting the air that he is pushing away. You can feel the turbulence the closer you get. Eventually you slip into the gap of air behind his car and don't feel the wind anymore, just the speed up as you don't have to fight any air yourself. That's a really cool feature to put in. I don't know if it's in the rest of the game but I hope it is because it adds a cool effect of how to block your opponent from passing is to aim the air hitting him by shifting left or right.
Also upgrade to the HUD as you can see tire wear instead of just heat, how close someone is behind, to the side of you and when people are pitting. With the NASCAR additions they put in races where you HAVE to pit X number of times. Brings a strategy element to the race of when you're going to pit and what would be the best outcome to end the race with.
I've played it for about 2.5 hours and like it a lot better than the last 3 Porsche Expansions combined.