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Coolest Costumes Ever

Dustin Wright — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:57:39 +0000

I’m not one who cares much for Halloween, and haven’t since I was the too-old-to-be-trick-or-treating-kid, but I’ve got to say that I have seen some really creative costumes posted online during my daily travels through the internet. Below is the video of my hands down favorite costume of all time. To understand it you would have had to have played Bioshock for the 360, but in short, the guy in the big suit in the game is called the “Big Daddy” and the girl is the “Little Sister”. In this video it is a father-daughter costume, that is spot on, totally creative, and oh so cute.

Maybe next year I will make a little sister costume for Rachael and I could go as a big daddy (yeah, I know, haha). And I geuss Alina could go as one of those crazy splicers (humans with altered genetic code) who runs around with a knife and says crazy things. (I bet she wouldn’t go for it. Anyway, here’s the video…

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And here is some cool pictures of the “Companion Cube” from Portal. I’m not going to explain this one though, as not playing the game means you wouldn’t really get it, but it’s awesome anyway…

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And because I’m a total nerd, here is a link to the Companion Cube’s myspace page where you can find out more about it.

Poor Baby

Dustin Wright — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:53:31 +0000

OK, ok. I know, poor baby. But you’ve got to admit that it is a little funny. For those of you non-gamers, the song and sound effects that are used are from Street Fighter 2.

Blame it on the Games

Dustin Wright — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:26:43 +0000

I was going to include a part in my last post about the shootings at VT about how the media will no doubt start blaming this incident on video games, tv, and music. I didn’t at the time because I didn’t want to belittle the message. But this morning I wake up and see a news story titled “Did VT Killer Learn From Video Games?,” and I could no longer resist posting it.

I think that blaming video games or tv or rap music is just an easy way out of having to confront the real issue. We don’t want to believe that anyone can do this apart from some outside influence, and we claim that that influence caused the tragedy. This just simply is not true. Even if we find some violent video games at the shooters apartment, that does not mean that games are responsible. He is responsible. Video games did not make this guy pick up a gun and start just randomly killing people.

We have got to get away from this idea as a society that everything else around is is to be blamed for our problems. No. We are to blame.

In the story they list 10 or 15 different games to blame for why this kid shot his fellow students, and only one of them is a game that is actually played today. The majority of the violence in video games that this guy sites are from games 5-10 years old, and no one plays them today. I am not arguing away violence in modern games I am just making a point that it is so cliche to blame games that as a knee jerk reaction the media continues to blame the same games. And something has happened since the years of those games such as “DOOM”. Video games have gotten extremely popular. Which makes me believe that the media wants to recall the day when only loners played them to get off on violence, instead of having to admit that video games as an industry is more popular than any other form of entertainment today. I mean look at the Wii, even grandmas are playing it.

Yes, a lot of games have violence in them, but it is not the game that causes death it is the evil inside a person, their slavery to sin that causes death.

What do you think about this topic? How do you think that video games shape the minds of individuals and our society?

Gaming Helps Aging?

Dustin Wright — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:23:03 +0000

There is an interesting article about video games and their effect on the brain at theglobeandmail.com
Here is a excerpt:

A body of research suggests that playing video games provides benefits similar to bilingualism in exercising the mind. Just as people fluent in two languages learn to suppress one language while speaking the other, so too are gamers adept at shutting out distractions to swiftly switch attention between different tasks.

Thanksgiving for New Tastes?

Dustin Wright — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:53:33 +0000

Well, we went over to Alison’s for Thanksgiving thursday, and had a great time. The food was great and we had a lot of good fun playing some cards and videogames (whenever I could sneak it in). I think that Rachael enoyed herself as well, as she always gets lots of attention. I’m sure she had fun with all of the new foods that Thanksgiving brings; turkey, pie, etc., but one thing that she didn’t like at all was cranberry sauce, and you can’t blame her, it’s the spam of Thanksgiving (a dinner that usually takes hours to prepare a great tasting fresh meal and you bring out cranberry sauce with along with twinkies, spam, and cochroaches would survive a nuclear blast), I think it’s just a little out of place.

Rachael also had a taste of something else new: beer. No, Alina and I are not bad parents, we did not give it to her nor would we ever (as we never want her to drink anyway). I usually would never criticize technology or video games more specifically for much of anything, but in this case it was motor biking on playstation that distracted my cousin (who set a beer down next to him) long enough for sneeky Rachael to get in and out of the room with a full can of beer. As she was trying to see what it tasted like, she dumped it all over herself. We don’t think that she got any into her mouth, but she sure needed a clothes change and a good long bath at home to get rid of the smell (which is sad because nothing smells better than a clean baby, it’s a shame to ruin that smell with alchohol wich I just can’t stand).

Anyway, aside from the alchohol, we all had a fun time.

Full Circle

Dustin Wright — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:18:28 +0000

Well the day I have been waiting for for almost a year has come and I have my new XBOX 360. I pre-ordered it about 6 months ago so I didn’t have to wait in line like all of those crazy people at Best Buy’s across the nation. Poor Kris though was told a few months back that his box would be in today as well, but the store didn”t get enough and doesn’t know when they will get his.

Also, that thing on the top right of this site is my GamerCard (my GamerTag or name on XBOX Live is TheGhostWarrior), it has information about my skikll and the games I’ve played and stuff. I know that most of you don’t care too much about that, but it is my site and I like it there so neener neener.

Anyway, enough for now I’m going to play.

A First Pumpkin Carving

Dustin Wright — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:48:11 +0000

Well, last night Alina carved her first pumpkin ever on the same night that Rachael carved (or watched as we carved) her first. It is interesting though to note the lack of creativity that I have, having carved probably twenty or more pumpkins (yes, my mom let me play with sharp knives when I was only 5 years old, just kidding). Alina’s was pretty good, a lot more creative than mine. And thinking of it now, we both carved pumpkins that would identify with who we are , Alina’s was goofy, and mine was, well, XBOX. (Yeah I know, I need help).

Check out the Halloween 2005 pictures in the Photo Gallery

New Counter

Dustin Wright — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:29:27 +0000

Again, like my last post, I was bored and had nothing better to do so I wrote a little script for a countdown to the launch of the XBOX360 which comes out November 22nd. I’m sure as Alina is reading this she is rolling her eyes, but I’m sure she isn’t surprised, and hey, if she wants I can make a countdown to her birthday with a cute little picture of her. The counter is on the right sidebar.

For more info:
www.xbox360.com
www.teamxbox.com