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360 Thumbs - November 2006

How to make a lot of money fast!


Today, I will tell you something which will forever change your life, do you want money? Do you want if fast? Then read on and find out how to get it all.

Sign up for deal or no deal. That’s what I did. If you watched it last Monday (Nov. 13th I think) then you would of seen my sister, cousin and me winning $50,000!
Its so easy its ridiculous. It has to be the easiest game show on TV!
Its almost guaranteed money. We split the money 50%-25%-25%…so I ended up with $12,500. Makes me happy to think that I am still unemployed. I always told people that I would just wait for the money to find me. And it did…who’s laughing now?


Anywhoo…I just landed in Holland a couple of hours ago and am currently getting over my jet lag, so I figured it is about time for an update. Some very major things have been happening in the media industry. PS3 release, Wii release, Zune release. That’s a lot of releases. Funny how they are happening so close to each other. I was in San Francisco just last week and sitting in my hotel room watching TV, I wondered…. Why are all these people lining up for playstation 3 outside the stores? Oh how the people are going to be disappointed. But then it struck me! I should have been out there in the line too! Buying Playstation 3’s! Why, you ask… well I will tell you. Those toys( I call them toys instead of consoles because…they suck btw..)are going for $1000-2500 (USD). Man some people really are crazy! Who in their right mind would buy one?...ho hum…what has this world come to?
Do you want to know how popular the PS3 is right now?!
Well, looking at the top yahoo searches for today 20-nov-2006. Jessica Simpson is number one…followed by ps3. now I have to admit, Jessica Simpson is pretty hot. But come on! She is only 1 person. Sony vs. Jessica…who do you think would win? Well its Jessica, sorry Sony but there just isn’t any hope for you.


QUICK REVIEW TIME! GEARS OF WAR.
My brother recently celebrated his birthday and got Gears of War, for the Xbox 360. Iv been playing it since I got back and I’m just going to hit yall up with a quick review.

In game cut scenes….a little weak. They say this is the big cahunnah. But I was more impressed by doom III for the original xbox. The Guys in the cut scenes look like Quake characters and the shadowing is kinda weird. I don’t really know what’s going on there.

Game play…Halo anyone? Pretty similar. It does have some great things to it though, such as the ability to focus on the action by pressing Y. (he turns to look at the hot spot), the chain sawing is sweet. There is a quick reload that is sweet. But I don’t know how long the game will keep me interested…offline anyway. I don’t know it doesn’t really seem like there is that much originality these days anymore. Still pretty sweet though. Bad point= only holds his gun in 1 hand, wont switch sides which makes it hard when leaning around walls, looking to the left.

Sound….pretty decent actually, although I hear a lot of monsters talking when they aren’t really close enough to hear. which is kind of weird.

Well that’s all I have for you right now, I haven’t jumped online yet.
Ill update when I have.

Party on
-threethumbs.
p.s sorry if that didn’t make much sense. I’m jetlagged right now.


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mole..E...mole...E...mooooole

apparently there is a mole all up in Microsoft leaking some good news to the public.
what i said about a 70gig drive was completely false. its actually looking more like 80gig , there will also be a 100gig and further into the future there will be 160 and 200 gig models.that is 5 different types of hard drives all together. If one of you want to make some serious money i have a $10000000(one million?) idea for you!

and hurre it iz-----> an Xbox 360 hard drive storage device.
I know Im gonna have more than 1 hard drive in the long run. and for all those people who are thinking about downloading all those videos..the are gonna need a couple of drives too.

however this mole also says that these harddrives may come out around the 22nd of November? weird man.... I'm not complaning or anything but that doesn't really seem right to me...marketing wise.
Tthats enough from the mole for now...maybe he got a little to excited and dug himself in, too deep there.

in other news
xbox is thinking about adding a internet browser into the 360! I tell the truth! it may not happen, but they are thinking about it. so if you want it, go jump on the xbox forums and post your soul away.
that would be sweet. I'm thinking its gonna be IE and not Firefox though...but IE has gotten way better since this last update...so it shouldnt be TOO bad.

Its expected for the down-load-able TV shows to be about 1gig at the moment,which is big. but its also that large because its HD.
How HD is it? they are thinking about sitting pretty at 720p.
how much are all these going to cost though!? well it looks like $19.99 for movies and $1.99 for TV shows. Going to the cinema is still cheaper! but maybe thats their plan. get more people out of the house!..i doubt it though.
renting a movie however, through xbox will be about $3.99 for standard definition. these are all american dollars btw. Are they going to charge us a higher fee for HD videos? its looking like a yes.
dancing elepants
dancing elephants
although everything is still going through the processes. we may get everything for free! and elephants may dance on my chest and sing songs about unicorns and egg shells.....unlikely....but it could happen.

Also the zune integration may increase with the 360 by being able to download songs from zune marketplace via your console. this will include the subscription and or individual download costs.

beta testing games anyone?!
yeah baby i wanna do that fo sho! well 360 may soon allow you to do this. I'm not sure weather its games us pedestrians make or the full hardcore games (halo3) but they soon may be allowing the public to beta test games for them! which is an excellent idea! in stead of a team of beta testers...just imagine a planet of them! thats a lot of testing! the games after this testing would be airtight! excellent! no more complaining about glitches in multi-player...they will all be removed.
However 'the man' is once again getting us down. and we are going to have to pay a fee to test these games. still would be a cool feature though! I'm pretty sure i would hit that..pending on price of course.

well thats it for me. Exam in 2 hours! AHHH i don't wanna go.....can you tell I'm procrastinating? i could of quoted that whole thing...but no i wrote it all out..I'm gonna fail this test so bad lol ...kidding...i should do ok..
-threethumbs
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360 harddrive 70 gig

well, who knew...me of all people making a prophecy that comes true.
Xbox 360 does have a larger hard drive...although....its not available to the public.

This of course makes perfect sense when looking at it from a marketing perspective..why? Well i will tell you why.

Xbox360 are soon to be releasing their HD-DVD add on which costs more than your house. They actually expect people to buy it. Weird I know but I tell only the truth. They are doing this simultaneously with their release of Tv shows and movie downloads.(see last post).

Apparently some of these downloads are going to be HD. Why release HD videos for download when you are releasing a HD-DVD drive is beyond me. But I'm not the mastermind behind Microsoft. I am merely the mastermind behind frootloop and peanut butter sandwiches. (if you want to try that...use more frootloops than peanut butter. The peanut butter seems to overpower them)

gheny-way I'm assuming their thinking behind the whole thing is:
Step 1: “SWEET CHECK IT OUT I CAN DOWNLOAD JACKASS2 HD!!”
Step 2: “WHAT! NO ROOM LEFT ON MY HARD DRIVE!>>THATS BOGUS!”
Step 3: “I WONDER WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ON THE XBOX FORUMS”
Step 4: “HEY MUM CAN I HAVE SOME MONEY FOR A HD-DVD DRIVE?”

and thats where the HD-DVD drive comes in. pretty sad really. But if you are a genius like me then you will just wait for that hard drive to come out with 70 gig. Because it is there! They were using it at a demonstration. But it will proberly take a long time before it comes out to the public. In the mean time..go to the Cinema and watch jackass2 at least that way you wont have to mortgage your house.

Thats all from me today.
EXAMS TOMORROW
but then I'm free! OFF 2 America!
Anyone want me to pick them something up from there?
-threethumbs

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Watch Movies and TV On Your Xbox

Well once again Xbox 360 has some amassing news which will very likely feed your couch-potato addiction.
What it is? Xbox has gotten together with some major companies to provide content on Xbox live to download.
What is this content? HD/SD movies HD/SD tv shows


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zune specs and alien girlfriends

All right world.

If you are Internet savvy and have been looking around for the hot new things online, then you've probably seen the Zune


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