Meh. It’s been a good run, I think. I’ve had some good posts, some readers, et cetera. Quite honestly, I don’t have the time or patience to run a website. Posting takes time and effort, and I’m short on both. After three years, it turns out that running a website isn’t the glamorous, pornstar lifestyle I initially thought it was.

For those of you who think starting a blog is an easy thing to do, think again. No one wants to read about your day, or how you went to a concert six days ago, or how many shits you took yesterday. Blogs need to have actual interesting content to survive. I’m certainly no expert on interesting content, but stories about your boring life definitely aren’t it.

So in other words, I’m leaving this site to be lost forever in the sea of other mediocre blogs. Plus, it’s seven dollars a year I’ll be saving on the domain name.

Yours truly,

Morse Pacific

So recently the news came in that Fox was going to be a giant dickhead and replace most of the cast of Futurama, but apparently they managed to get it through their skulls that this was a bad idea.

Instead of hosting casting calls as previously expected, Fox opened up their wallet and resigned the old cast for the upcoming sixth season of Futurama. Or maybe the voice actors just pulled their heads out of their asses and settled for less money. Yes, that one.

Either way, we’re getting a juicy new season of Futurama, and I will once again have a reason to live!

Source: The Escapist

The Myspace fad has been dying as of late, with most of its previous users converting to Facebook (which is at least six times as good.) So to counteract their recent loss, what are they going to do? Attempt to break into gaming.

According to News Corp. (the company behind Myspace), the site will be shifting its focus in order to jump onto the gaming bandwagon. Myspace will apparently be converted into a social networking site for gamers. What’s the problem with this, you ask?

There’s already so many sites and programs that do this effectively. Steam, Xbox LIVE/Games for Windows LIVE, PlayStation Network, Xfire, the list goes on. Attempting to break into gamer networking so late in the game is going to drag them down even more, but News Corp. apparently doesn’t possess enough foresight to see this.

Even more discouraging is the fact that Facebook has had the jump on them for weeks by actually offering apps to allow you to play Flash games, and partnering with major game developers such as Ubisoft. Mark my words, this will not bode well for Tom.

To be quite honest, I’m just kind of lazy, which is why there’s been a lack of articles recently. That and I haven’t actually been informed of anything to report on. And I’ve been playing a lot of video games. You can expect some more action-packed news in the next few days (probably) as well as a review of the game I’ve been legally married to for six months: Fallout 3 (as well as our offspring in the form of the first four DLCs).

- Morse Pacific

I’m a huge fan of Taco Bell. I eat there maybe twice a week. I go to the same store so often they practically have a “Morse Pacific combo”. You can imagine my excitement when I see something this awesome about Taco Bell, then.

So, I’m doing my usual night time thing, surfing the internet, with the TV on as some background noise. Suddenly, I hear a fantastic beat come from the TV and turn around to find this:

This is, hands-down, the best ad campaign I have ever seen. Watching this commercial once actually made me get up and go to Taco Bell for lunch. Think outside the bun for once.

Everyone who doesn’t own a cat is either allergic or dislikes them, but suddenly melts when a little kitty curls up on their lap. Ever wonder why?

According to a study at the University of Sussex, cats can alter their purrs to make them irresistible to humans. They do this by emitting a high frequency cry along with their purr, which somehow compels humans to want to give them loving ear-scratchies.

Why do they do this? Obviously because they’re slowly trying to take over the world by turning every living person into a pile of mushy, cat-loving goo. A doctor involved with the study had this to say:

“We think that (they) learn to dramatically exaggerate it when it proves effective in generating a response from humans. Obviously we don’t know what’s going on inside their minds, but they learn how to do this, and then they do it quite deliberately.”

Personally, I’m just glad dogs exist to protect us from these manipulative little bastards.

I don’t play MMOs anymore for a reason. That reason being that I can’t deal with stupid people (also they’re just kind of boring) and this kid tops the “stupid person” list.

What are some things not to do in WoW? Attack a boss while your party is getting ready, spending way too much money on one item, or maybe telling everyone you’re going to get on a plane and “kill as many Americans as you can”.

An 18-year-old from Indiana announced that he was going to get on a 7:30 plane to Chicago and try to kill as many people as possible. Over WoW. And he said it more than once. That’s essentially like signing your own death warrant.

Needless to say, this kid’s idea of some spectacular jihad was cut short when the other players reported him to the authorities. The FBI tracked him down and confiscated his computer, but not before he had time to actually try to deny that he had said it, by telling people that he was hacked. Because that excuse always works, right?

The Wii is well on its way to becoming some kind of workout machine rather than a game console with this little doodad. I’m not exactly sure how many people have actually heard of this thing (this being only the second time I’ve heard any press about it) but soon you’ll all know.

Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime, who has a very french name for a black latino(?) man who is the president of a Japanese video game company, recently defending the vitality sensor. The problem with the sensor is that there’s not much you can do with it. Off the top of my head, it could probably fit into Wii Fit and uhh… Mario Lie Detecting or something. Fils-Aime compared this to the initial response to the Wiimote, with only one minor flaw in his argument: motion controls have a lot more potential than a small sensor that can read your heart rate.

Apparently someone with an IQ equivalent to the number of articles that exist on this site couldn’t figure out what the Wiimote could POSSIBLY be used for, because Reggie’s defense was this:

“We probably had a similar conversation about the Wii Remote: how is this going to work, how is it going to work with the games that I want to play–I don’t get it.”

Reggie explained that its usage is hard to explain without software to demonstrate it, which is ultimately true, but unless the sensor can be used to measure my level of terror in a really, really scary game, I’m skipping out on it.

Guitar Hero 5 isn’t Guitar Hero 5 at all. It’s actually going to be, what, the seventh in the series, not counting the DS games? At this point, I’m beginning to think they’re running out of really “good” music to put in the games. Activision confirmed twenty-four tracks for Guitar Hero 5, out of the whopping eighty-five tracks planned to be in it. These tracks range from newer bands like the Kings of Leon and Coldplay, some older bands such as the Beastie Boys (again? After the disaster that was putting “Sabotage” in Guitar Hero 3 and  “No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn” in Guitar Hero World Tour?), David Bowie and Wolfmother, as well as some tracks that probably shouldn’t even be there, like Bob Dylan.

So without further ado, the tracks:
Band Of Horses – “Cigarettes, Wedding Bands”
Beastie Boys – “Gratitude”
Beck – “Gamma Ray”
Billy Squier – “Lonely Is The Night”
Blur – “Song 2″
Bob Dylan – “All Along The Watchtower”
Children Of Bodom – “Done With Everything, Die For Nothing”
Coldplay – “In My Place”
Darkest Hour – “Demon(s)”
David Bowie – “Fame”
Deep Purple – “Woman From Tokyo (’99 Remix)”
Elliott Smith – “L.A.”
Iggy Pop – “Lust For Life (Live)”
Jeff Beck – “Scatterbrain (Live)”
John Mellencamp – “Hurts So Good”
John Funk – “Is Bad at Street Fighter”
Kings Of Leon – “Sex On Fire”
Queens Of The Stone Age – “Make It Wit Chu”
Rose Hill Drive – “Sneak Out”
Santana – “No One To Depend On (Live)”
The Bronx – “Six Days A Week”
Thrice – “Deadbolt”
Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down A Dream”
Vampire Weekend – “A-Punk”
Wolfmother – “Back Round”

I think I’ll skip this installment and just wait around for DJ Hero.

I’m going to say that until it penetrates every possible part of your brain. $17,500. This is the price a certain J.J. Hendricks paid a man on eBay for what is apparently the Holy Grail of Gaming. In this day and age, it’s not uncommon for hardcore fans of certain games to shell out huge amounts of cash for collector’s editions of games, but $17,500 is not a reasonable price.

This “Holy Grail” is an old NES game by the name of Nintendo World Championships Gold, and was simply just a collection of three mini-games from Mario, Rad Racer, and Tetris that a bunch of impressionable young kids played in a 1990 event to determine who was better at playing games on the NES. Not only is it just three short mini-games, but it has a time limit of just a little over six minutes. Essentially, Hendricks paid for six minutes of low-quality games, wrapped up in a fancy gold colored casing. $17,500.

Hendricks claims on his blog that the buying process was full of “emotional highs and lows”. The high point being paying $17,500 for a bad game, and the low point being almost being ripped off after shelling out $17,500 dollars for a bad game. Yes, the man who was willing to pay that much money for an old NES game was almost ripped off, who would’ve thunk. Originally, the game was listed for $25,000 (which apparently was just NOT worth it). Hendricks offered the seller $17,500 which was originally rejected, but accepted a few days later when no one would buy it for twenty-five grand. After wiring the money, the seller cancelled the shipping, telling Hendricks he couldn’t bare to part with his  $17,500 hunk of plastic and silicon chips. Hendricks confronted him and the seller gave in out of guilt. Some scammer he is.

Just to reiterate.

$17,500.