I Saw A UFO Tonight

Posted by Skizelli on Sunday, August 17th, 2008 @ 5:14 AM
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The weirdest thing happened tonight, and I’m still in awe over it. At a little after 3AM, as my brother, Lucas and I were leaving my brother’s place and making our way to his van, something in the far eastern sky catches my brother’s eye. After pointing it out to us, Luke and I fix our eyes on it as well, trying to figure out what it is. The object has an orange color to it, no visible blinking lights, and flickers like a candle. By using a telephone pole as a marker, we could track its movement pattern, which changed directions from left to right, almost as if it were being effected by wind. That is, until we noticed that it became perfectly stationary more than once. Any movement it made was very gradual, but it was traveling. We noticed it was neither getting further away or closer to us and only traveled a very small distance up and to the right from where we originally marked it with the telephone pole.

We were watching this thing for a good 5 or 10 minutes, still clueless as to what it could be, when all of the sudden the unthinkable happens – The object disappears in this very bright, concentrated flash of white light, followed by a loud boom that echoed off the mountains behind us in the far distance. We still don’t know what the hell it was. The only explanations we could come up with were a) it was a craft of some kind that took off at such a high rate of speed that it created that loud boom, or b) it was an explosion of some sort. What we can’t figure out about the explosion theory, however, is the white flash. A firework, perhaps? The only problem with that, though, is that fireworks always have a visible flame or spark. This thing was just a pure white flash of light with no visible flames, sparks or smoke. It was just gone.

I’m sure there’s a logical explanation for it, but we can’t figure it out and I guess we’ll never know.

In any case, I saw a UFO tonight.

Games, Games and More Games…

Posted by Skizelli on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 @ 7:01 AM
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With the sudden flood of good games as of late, I haven’t been writing as much as I’d like to. I’m having a blast with Halo 3. It’s everything I hoped it would be, but not without flaws. What game doesn’t have flaws?

For one, they made a change to the melee mechanics that pretty much make it shit. Basically, in Halo 1 and 2, if two players go to melee each other, reflexes win. In Halo 3, regardless of who melees first, the player who has the most shield wins. That’s pretty much my biggest gripe at this point, as most of my Halo kills are by melee. I suppose this was Bungie’s attempt to combat latency/host advantages, but we’re pretty much thrown right back to square one, as it seems nobody has a skillful advantage with the new change. It’s a gamble now.

Secondly, there’s a hit detection issue with the sniper rifle that Bungie’s currently dismissing, even telling the community that it’s working as intended. Bullshit. I’ve witnessed players being shot directly in the face more than once — up to 12 times on one replay a friend had on his file share — and not die or take damage. All in all, I love the game, but I hope these flaws will be addressed in the future.

In other haps, I played and finished Half-Life 2 Episode 2. Short and sweet, just like this here write-up about it. I can’t say much else other than it sucks that it was shorter than Episode 1, but I loved it just as much, if not more, and I can’t wait for Episode 3. To buy or not to buy the Orange Box? My gut is telling me to wait.

Call of Duty 4 draws near. That’s next on my list.