A word on modern movie graphics... they suck. I'm not talking about movies such as the overhyped and overrated Lord of the Rings. Or the dialog rejecting, digital pimped Star Wars movies (referring to the crappy new trilogy, not the amazing old ones.... ahhh... I sigh with nostalgia). let me back track a moment to the late 90's early 00'. We had amazing graphical achievements such as the Pixar Animations and Final Fantasy movies. Pixar was advancing the cartoon field while Square Enix was advancing realistic looking people and environments. And yet we still have abominations like the crapped out Beowulf? That pathetic excuse for a CGI movie 7 YEARS after final fantasy? Seriously? Can you smell the bullshit? Even Shrek was a more impressive achievement then this movie!!

I sunk my teeth into Gears of War 2. This game is seriously amazing. Graphically impressive, epic story, passible dialog, and immersive gameplay. It's got its tense moments, emotional moments, epic moments. It's all there, it's sci-fi, and it's amazing. Kudos to Epic and Microsoft Gaming Studios. This is me bowing to you..... but now the gripes. Frame rate dips? Are you !&#*@&@# kidding me? This game was released for ONE console with ONE type of GPU and ONE type of CPU. How can it have frame rate dips? In fact, while I'm tearing the gaming industry apart for system delays when the hardware specs are consistent, let me divert, for a moment, some frustration towards the damnable software engineers responsible for the firmware on the Zune and iPod. Seriously! Why do these devices have frame rate dips? It's not as if there are several hardware configurations that should effect this kind of performance. You have ONE spec! One! Get it right! Why do I have to wait a few seconds for menus to load? I just want to see a frick'n song list. Is it too much to ask for these devices to do what they were meant to do, quickly, conveniently, and without hassle? Why do they jam? The DS and the PSP run games... GAMES!... faster than these worthless music players can access a flipp'n song list. Does that even remotely make sense? At all?

Crushed by the higher powers

Why should it take 3 weeks for AT&T to figure out that they can't connect to my apartment? I waited 3 weeks and 4 phone calls to finally get an employee competent enough to tell me that it couldn't be done. They tried connecting twice before "escalating" my request. After my request was "escalated" the employees couldn't even find it in their bloody system. I was told they were "working" on it. That I would be "contacted". I'M STILL WAITING FOR THE BLOODY CALL AT&T. I had to call them. I was kept in suspense for 3 weeks until an employee simply typed my address into her computer and replied that they couldn't connect to my apartment. I waited 3 flipp'n weeks to be told it "couldn't be done" by an employee who was in no way involved with this "escalation" of my order. Why couldn't I have been told this 3 weeks ago so I wouldn't waste my valuable time on this?!?! How can this ridiculously large companies screw up their primary business purposes so brilliantly with uncomfortable frequency. I really don't appreciate it when I realize that I could do the job of the "tech support" person better than he/she could.