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jkwong111
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An attempt to create a blog detailing my Favorite YouTube videos. One day, one Favorite video, many hours of filtering through bad ones.
YouTube comments can only hold so much of my commentary. To view my full comments, read my blog at http://youtubeaddict.blogspot. com
Name: JasonYouTube comments can only hold so much of my commentary. To view my full comments, read my blog at http://youtubeaddict.blogspot. com
Age: 31
City: Tucson
Country: United States
Occupation: I.T. Specialist
Website: http://youtubeaddict.blogspot.com
Country: United States
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Website: http://youtubeaddict.blogspot.com
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The "Undercover Filmer" is a true gamer. He performs these "stunts" on the Nintendo 64 phenomenon Goldeneye, which consists of maxing out all the difficulty settings in the game and traverses select stages. Some of these stages take close to an hour! You get to see how he manages to make something so incredibly difficult seem like a routine playthrough. The fact that he can add voice-over to these videos without being boring or repetitive is amazing. While the difficulty of the stunts are ridiculous, the methodical approach he uses makes it incredibly slow-paced sometimes. His next pair of stunts, however, promises to be different and loads more exciting. In fact, this teaser video itself is incredibly exciting. It is perhaps one of the best example of advertising I've ever seen. The makers of movie trailers should watch this video to really see how to drive anticipation!
Here's a video that made the rounds a couple of months ago... it's a clip of a German biopic on Hitler at his most desperate state in World War II. But according to the subtitles, it's not because of any losses the Axis powers were incurring, it's because his XBox Live account was banned by Microsoft. Yes, it's a parody, but it certainly speaks the truth. Apparently, if your account has been flagged because you were abusing the chat features, your console could potentially be banned from getting online altogether! All your gamerpoints and achievements would be lost, while any XBox Live Marketplace points you've bought/acquired would be useless. If that were ever to happen to my PSN account, I'd probably have the same reaction as Hitler.
Out of all the James Bonds, Sean Connery's is probably the favorite of most of the fans of the series. A lot of that fondness probably is due to the fact that that he is the "original" Bond... most people tend to favor the original actors of iconic characters as they probably think they're the represent the "authentic" version of that character. All the Bonds are fairly chauvinistic, but Connery's almost reveled in the politically incorrect environment of the 60's.
I think Sean Connery took some of this Bond attitude to his real life. He stated in an interview that "it's not the worst thing in the world to slap a woman now and then" and Barbara Walters called him on it. You'd think that maybe he would shy way from those comments, but no... he regrets nothing! Now, I don't condone what he's advocating, but I do admire his honesty in the matter. In fact, the character of Bond he created may not be too far off from himself after all.
In his keynote presentation introducing the iPhone, Steve Jobs said that the "killer app" of the iPhone is making calls. Well, I think there's a new killer app out there... some hacker out there took it upon himself (and I'm pretty sure it's a "him") to install a program that will emulate a Nintendo Entertainment System on the iPhone complete with a virtual NES controller! This is something Apple themselves should have done... the iPhone would be a great platform as a gaming machine and while it wouldn't rival the GameBoy, I think that it would entice even more people to buy the device. Portable gaming machines themselves cost well over $100, so if Apple could make the iPhone a gaming device, then it would somewhat justify the $500-$600 price point. Here's some video of the NES Emulator on the iPhone... it may be a little slow, but it's only Version 1...
This is definitely one of the most hilarious reality videos I've ever seen. It's of an "alleged" drunk driver getting his rights read to him. Ordinarily, any video of a drunkard would be pretty funny. However, this particular wino has a... condition. If you watch the video, he spells it out very clearly. It's pretty easy to tell he's not faking it either. He even asks the arresting officers to relieve this condition for him. I think their refusal to do so really constitutes as cruel and unusual punishment.
The lions, the buffalo, the crocodile... oh my!
Jim Cramer is popular for his outrageous performances on his show "Mad Money". He used to begin his Lightning Round segments by throwing his chair. In the past couple of years, he's been pretty bullish on the stock market. More often than not, he's pushed the "BUY, BUY, BUY" button on his sound board than the "SELL, SELL SELL" button. That's why when he came out on August 3rd with the proclamation that "we have Armageddon", it really surprised me!
And looking at how the market is performing, he may not be too far off. Losing more than 1000 points in the Dow Jones in less than a month is proof enough that Cramer knows what he's talking about. Of course, it could be argued that Cramer has a great influence on the markets that any bearish comments made by him would make his prophecy self-fulfilling. One thing's for sure... even though he may be bearish now, he's still the wild and crazy guy he was when he was bullish.
I'm taking another swipe at Microsoft's Steve Ballmer with today's video. Mostly because I've had it up to here with how buggy Microsoft Outlook is and the fact that I have to have it installed and configured on all our work computers. You'd think that a product used by millions of corporate users (and by Microsoft employees themselves, I would hope) would be smarter, easier to configure, and be somewhat stable. But NO! It's a great piece of bloatware that most people are forced to use just because it's a Microsoft product. Did you know that it takes less than 30 seconds to configure a Blackberry to work with an Exchange server while it takes ten times as long to configure Outlook? And that's if nothing goes wrong during the process!
Anyway, you know those Apple iPod ads with the silhouettes rocking to the ubiquitous MP3 player? Well, what would an ad like that look like with a Microsoft Zune instead of the iPod? Something like this.
Those electronic 20 Questions machines are really quite remarkable. If you have an object in mind that is relatively non-obscure, and you tell the truth to the machine, it will most likely guess the object correctly after 20 questions. Before computer memory was cheap, it would have been hard to imagine a handheld machine like this would be possible. Now, with solid-state memory averaging $10 per gigabyte, it's easy to see how an entire dictionary would fit into a small gaming device. You may think that there is some artificial intelligence built into a 20 Questions machine, and you would not be too far off.
So what happens when you choose a relatively obscure object... say, a certain part of the male anatomy? Well, not only does hilarity ensue, but the machine really comes close too...
Is it just me, or has the amount of trailers before the movies grown more these days? I mean, you can literally show up 15 minutes late to the theater and still see the beginning of the movie because there are so many trailers. Normally, I wouldn't mind... I like watching previews of upcoming movies. But you would think that with all the advertising involved, they could at least lower the price of the movie ticket. Instead, it goes up and up... while you're forced to sit there and wait for your movie to begin.
So if you're a regular moviegoer, you'll recognize the guys in this video... or specifically their voices. Yes, they're all of the announcers you hear in the trailers of movies. They sound so alike (except for the Disney guy), you'd swear they were all one person. Just play the video and close your eyes and you'll see what I mean.