Invisible Walls

My #1 Gaming Podcast

I have watched every single one of them, including the special non-numbered ones.
Why is it my fave? They bring me what I want and I really like the people that makes them.
They talk about what's going on in the gaming space and things surrounding it. They have an opinion on things and they aren't afraid to tell us what that is. They are funny and makes things enjoyable and entertaining to watch.

I love Invisible Walls! It is that simple!

This week is Invisible Walls 215.

Invisible Walls

Bruce Buffer

IT'S TIME!!!

Bruce Buffer, The Voice of The Octagon aka VOTO, who presents the UFC fighters with such fire, passion and flare that one gets all pumped up and the hairs on the arms stand up. He has a martial arts background and is a black belt in Tang Soo Do and did compete in amature Kickboxing.
He is also the man behind the "Rumble" The famous 5 word phrase heard in the world of boxing by his half brother Michael Buffer.

Bruce Buffer (left) with MMA legend Bas Rutten (right)


He's not just about the fight game. He's a semi pro (his own words) poker player, business man, a visionary and a radio host.

I found his radio show "IT'S TIME!!!" via his website Bufferzone.net. It's a lifestyle show, that talks about the fight game, poker, sex, relationships, life, the Universe and everything. The show is on almost every Tuesday 2PM PST/11PM CET live on Sherdog.com. Also on iTunes shortly after just search "Bruce Buffer". I think it's a great show and I get to know fighters, referees, actors etc. Once a month he has a co-host on a Sex and Relationship aka S&R feature, Sammy Philips, who is an awesome woman (my kind). His eternal side kick and producer TJ DeSantis is a great bloke too. I highly recommend tuning in!

Soon Bruce's clothing line ITI (IT'S TIME INDUSTRIES) will launch and knowing Mr. Buffer it will be done properly and high quality. Look for it soon!



Not only that!

Bruce will be featured in the upcoming movie "Here Comes The Boom" the first movie to feature the UFC. Look for it this fall in your local cinema! I have seen the trailer and I for one can't wait!

And keep an eye out for his upcoming autobiography "IT'S TIME!!!"

Follow Bruce Buffer, Sammy Philips and TJ DeSantis on Twitter :)

Picture and logo used with permission from Bruce Buffer,

Updates

Today I tinkered with the look of the blog. Rather pleased with the result considering the tools available :)
I am not a programmer nor coder so can't make my own layout and design. But it's fine like this.

Back at work after a week of to recharge the batteries.
Prior to that I got a new keyboard; the Razer BlackWidow Ultimate and rather pleased with it
Looks all sleek and very responsive keys and feel very good to type/game on.
And I have my webcam working again. I have found out I need more RAM but I'll sort that later.

Other than that been happy to find out Joe Rogan got his 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu black belt this week :)

Reading 48 Hours

I read these the last 48 hours



I started with Ultimate Iron Man (which is a Premiere Edition hardcover).  Awesome art work and top notch writing, It's the origin story (of the Ultimate series) of Iron Man. If you liked the movies you'll like this.

Then continued with A Touch of Dead which is the collected short stories about Sookie Stackhouse and their placement in the "lore" is strewn in the middle of the full novels. I like these smaller glimpses into Sookie's world and sort of explains a few things I've read in them.

The Grand Inquisitor. That was a heavy read! And some of it outright was way over my head as I'm not much for religious things but on the whole a good read.

E3 2012

11 days ago E3 2012 kicked off.
Gametrailers in league with Spike TV started it off before the press conferences started with various musings and trailers and then kept going for I think 6 hours day one and 5 hours day two of constant live streaming. I was working so I only could catch day one as a full on live from GT.

Gametrailers has since last year been my go-to site for my E3 coverage, with sprinklings from YouTube and Gamer.no added on. This year I was well pleased with GT and the level of quality of the coverage. (Though picture quality on the stream was SD). And the biggest bonus? 4 Invisible Walls in a row! Tuesday to friday.

So GT get a A- (would get a A with a better picture quality on stream)

On to the pressers.

Microsoft

Had Halo 4, Call of Duty Black Ops2 and the new South Park game that was their saviors.
The rest was so useless. Especially for us over here in Europe. I still haven't seen ANYTHING of the movie/TV stuff come here. (Netflix, ESPN and UFC on Xbox to name some) And NO! Zune HD does not count anymore as it is today more expensive than going out and buying a Blu Ray/DVD.
Smart Glass, sure you can use their browser and stuff with everything with this but the other things, game stuff.. I don't want my developers using more precious developer time to tack on yet another gimmick.
Kinect.. Yeah cool for those that like it but I am not one of them (only game I see myself ever playing is Dance Central). Just a bunch of mini games and Wii Fit like stuff..

Without the three games mentioned at the top this would be shit. I know I said on Twitter B- I have since revised that to a C-

EA

Had a bunch of shooters, Battlefield 3 Premium subscription service, Crysis 3, Medal of Honor: Warfighter and to an extent Dead Space 3 (more shootery what they showed), then their annual Need For Speed game (feels annual).
Cool enough. I am kinda interested in MoH mostly because MoH is said to have Norwegian special forces in it. Racing games I'm still burned out on.

Sports. They presented NFL and FIFA 13 and instead of showing the actual games off, some dude came on a talked FIFA stat crap and they brought out Michael Irving who talked some NFL stuff.. Instead of showing off their new ball game tech. UFC has been sold by THQ to EA and in the process Yukes who made the 3 first ones are now fired. I mean yeay for UFC games still being made but damn, I HOPE EA hires the original dev team to do the next one because I want them to expand upon UFC Undisputed 3. And with EA's online practices.. Yeah.. I am not fully positive to this.

And then SimCity both full game and Facebook game cool for the "sim'ers out there.

I give them a C overall.

Ubisoft

Started out with some retro dressed chicks dancing for some Just Dance game with Flo Rider and I was like "urrggghh not more of this shit.." Then BOOM naked titties in my face! Far Cry 3 throws that in my face before the other action starts and the game is making you trip balls. Cool I'm into it, time will tell if I want to get it. Rayman Legends. Now that Wii U demo made a huge smile creep up on my face :) THAT'S how you show off new tech. (Nintendo take notes). Assassin's Creed 3 looks so great and Watch Dogs looks very intriguing. The Shootmania Esport stuff was tad meh but at least they got to show it off in a good way.

All in all this was A grade stuff and got my nerd boner going for the first time.

Sony

Shows off Beyond Two Souls, Looks good but hope it's not a Quick Time Event type game. I'm want a demo before buying just to find out. Assassin's Creed 3 naval warfare shown of and I liked it.
Last of Us is one of those games I really want. God of War Ascension cool I'll get it eventually. PlayStation All-Stars:Battle Royale. Cool but very Super Smash Bro Brawl. Minus The fling your defeated opponend off screen. Oh and Assassin's Creed Liberty on Vita looks really cool. Might break down and get a Vita if that bundle gets here. BTW Sony where is my video rental service on my PS3? Still not here.
That Wonderbook stuff.. That should just be a 60 second trailer instead of that shit you had on stage.

B+ Missed Last Guardian a ton.. Don't do the fucking Final Fantasy 13 crap and give us a 5 year promo circle before giving us that game.

Nintendo

Started off good with Pikmin 3 (though I have never played any Pikmin game so I don't know if it's a good game) but it disintegrated into a stale box of cookies by the end. (and to think they had 2 more parts online to this). No proper showing off of the Wii U, no hint as to what's in the console (and for crying out lout CNN had an article up that they thought the Gamepad was a new one for the old Wii) nor a hint of price.
Sure they will get tv stuff that as per usual NEVER get here.
Nintendo.. you failed miserably this year.

F for failing at what E3 is for..

The Games

The following games gained my attention this year:

• Metro: Last Night
• Dishonored
• Assassin's Creed III
• Assassin's Creed: Liberty
• The Unfinished Swan
• Last of Us
• Far Cry 3
• Borderlands 2
• Rayman Legends
• South Park: The Stick of Truth
• Watch Dogs
• Star Wars 1313
• Hawken

The order of these games does not reflect my overall nerd boner for them and which gave me the harder one. Rather these are games I'm hungry to play.
I got the brain tingles when I saw these and the brain tingles are good :)

Tribes: Ascend

Tribes: Ascend is a fun free 2 play FPS multiplayer, with optional upgrade purchases.

I have been playing it and loving it the last couple nights coming home from work.
Fun title with a nice learning curve and gives me back the sense of fun I used to have back 8 or so years ago playing Quake 3 multiplayer at LANs.

Check this footage out:


I find it fun and the more I learn the mechanics of the game play the more I'm enjoying it.

Free game (you choose to pay for upgrades or just play for them) so come join me (I'm SubLevel28 there).

Here is the link to register and download game client:

Tribes: Ascend

Norway and Pro boxing

And by extention MMA/MA at a pro level

A little history; Norway banned pro boxing in 1981 after politicians figured it would cause harm to the audience and that they were against people making money on people damaging each other. The other argument they used and still use is all the deaths and head trauma cases.

And now there's some movements to lift the 1981 ban. While no one thinks it's going happen tomorrow the idea is now percolating. The money making and the audience harm has been dropped as a focus but the head trauma/death part is still in focus.

We as a nation do have pro boxers that did well and new ones that do well today. The sad part is they can as it stand never perform their sport on Norwegian soil. Names like Steffen Tangstad, Ole "Lukkøye" (shut eye) Klementsen, Arild Haugen, Camilla Brækhus to name a few.

Now for injuries in the sport.

And in here there will be some of my own personal opinions and thoughts, coupled with pure common sense.

Yes every time you decide to enter a fight there is risk of injury. A fight is by definition a possible way to incur injury of any sort and yes of death if handled by the wrong people with the wrong set of knowledge.

But I firmly believe that a lot of the really serious injuries and deaths has been caused by in large by the fight event holders and their doctors. I believe that most of them were caused by incompetence within those events.

The one thing within pro boxing I do however react to is the 8 count, especially when used more than twice. If a fighter has been dazed to the point of need that 8 count more than 2 times that fighter is in my opinion close to suffer a concussion, internal bleeds (both in the body and brain) and brain damage.

But injury and/or death occur in sports fully legal in Norway, like;

Football (that's soccer for you Americans)

Skating

Racing(There have been deaths and bad injuries)

Snowboarding

Sky diving

Just to name some.

Any sport can injure you to varying degree.

Injury is NOT a valid argument for banning a sport or a from of a sport.

The thing needed is to lift the ban on pro boxing and demand the event holders know what they're doing and do away with multiple 8 counts. And keep with the worldwide suspension when a fighter has been knocked out. To keep them from fighting too soon.

AND while we're at it make ALL martial arts legal at a pro level.

This is also a plea to get such things as the UFC to Norway.

And there they put fighters safety first!

PR time! Sanctuary Fansite

Yesterday with the premiere of season 3 of Sanctuary a brand new fansite for the show was launched. As such I thought I'd give it some much needed PR as: 

I adore the show.

It is a great little site with lots of content already.

To give props to Shelley Templar a.k.a. Shelma32 for putting it together and doing a great job.

Go and visit www.sanctuarynetwork.org To learn more and join. We pride ourselves as fans to be as awesome as the people behind the show and as such we welcome all of you with open arms.

I have and will be providing some of the content of this site, So far my job is episode guide and depending on time and what Shelly might need I'll be aiding her in this project. 

Come visit and join us! :D

My True Blood Collection

My complete True Blood collection.

Both seasons on Blu ray and all 10 of the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris. 

The Sookie Stackhouse novels are the basis of the awesome HBO series by Alan Ball. I find them both to be equally addictive. Ans I hope season 3 will find it's way on B regioned Blu Rays soon. (why is anything in this globalized world still region based/locked?).

Now thinking what fan gear I want. (one I'll probably have to create myself)

Creations, Originals by Me

I have started to do some creative writing and will be publishing them as they get done or furthered. 

I have been feeling like doing my own creative writing for a while now and did do it back when i was younger. I am currently working on a story which might take a while to do but I'll work on it and share with you all as it goes along and I feel it's getting where I feel it should be. 

NOTE: 

I claim copyright © on every entry as it my work. 

So here is the link to my; Live Journal