All Your Base Are Belong To Us — The Kip Lange Homepage

Okay, here we go. The PS3 is due out this Friday, November 17th.

I really don’t think I’m going to get my hands on one. I’m not fanatical enough to camp out for a PS3 (after all, these ain’t Pink Floyd tickets or something). So…I guess I’ll give away my little secret thoughts in a tutorial of sorts.

First, like I said before, if you’re not ready to camp out in front of a store, be ready to not get a unit. Each store is probably going to get 5-10 units *maximum*. That being said, cruise in front of the stores you’re thinking of buying from before they open, say 10 minutes before. If there’s a huge line, just forget it. The other thing to remember is that most of these units being sold are going to EBay, so those guys in front of you are out for cold, hard cash, and liable to want it more than a person who just wants to play the new system.

My tips? Find a store that’s out of the way. Try to think of the least obvious store around. Like — now I don’t know if Radio Shack will even carry them, but here’s an example — try to find a Radio Shack that no one ever goes to, tucked way away in a nook or cranny and hard to see. That’s your best bet. That, or by finding a place you wouldn’t ordinarily think of — like Toys ‘R’ Us. Everybody knows they’re there, so that’s a bad example, but still, you get my point, that’s a place that people are less likely to think of in connection with electronics. The Best Buys and such will be the absolute worst.

Now, let’s say you actually manage to get one. GET A REPLACEMENT OR SERVICE CONTRACT. Sony is rushing these things to market so fast, the early units are guaranteed to have flaws. The first PS2s did, and the first XBox 360s did. Now, if you have a replacement warranty, I recommend bringing that thing in right before the contract goes and insisting that there’s something wrong with it. That way, you’ll get a newer PS3 that will likely have less problems. Keep doing this every time the contract comes up about to expire. Trust me, it’s worth it.

Also, make sure you get the 60 gig HD version. There’s no point in getting the other one, even if it’s cheaper. You’re going to have to upgrade at some point; you might as well get it now.

That’s about all I have to say. Good luck to everyone angling to get one. And don’t get one off of EBay for too much money. Just wait. In three or four months there will be more reliable units on the market, and you’ll be able to pick one up with minimum difficulty. This first rush is going to be insane.

If you think I’m wrong about that, just go to Google and look up some news stories about how the Japanese launch went a couple of days ago. Insane. Huge mobs. People camped out for a day or longer. Do you really need it THAT badly?

Anyway, best of luck. All us PS fans, we must rest assured, we WILL all get one eventually.

Godspeed!

First, weather is no excuse for this travesty of a showing against the Jets by New England (fuck the Jets, too, by the way). This game was poorly coached, with too many passes that stopped a yard or two short of a first down, and poorly executed by a flustered Tom Brady who threw two picks and seemed a lot more like our old friend Drew Bledsoe in the pocket.

The Patriots are a better team than this, but unless they can stop the hemorrhaging — for instance, by, say, limiting the enormous amount of turnovers they have coughed up in the last two games — they will still win the AFC East, but not by much, and they will get slaughtered in the playoffs rather early on.

I’m not happy. But the Pats have a way of turning things around, under Brady and Belichick’s guidance, so, while I do indeed maintain my “fuck the Patriots” feeling this week, I remain optimistic about our chances down the line.

But for this week, I’m embarrassed to be a Pats fan.

As I have obliquely alluded to in previous posts, this election was not a repudiation of conservative ideology, but a rejection of the current crop of spend-happy, scandal-plagued, RINO Republicans who simply have lost their way and alienated their conservative base.

Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe does a wonderful job summing it up — with help from several remarks by none other than Bill Clinton — this week in his column in a piece entitled “The Republican Debacle”.

I highly recommend reading it, no matter what your political leanings are.

I am. I’m very glad Lieberman won. First, I think he’s a reasonable fellow, fairly conservative in his outlook…someone I can listen to without wanting to chew his face off (unlike Nancy Pelosi, two seconds of her leads to uncontrollable projectile vomiting on my part).

But the second reason I’m happy about the win is more important. Lieberman’s win points very clearly to the fact that this election’s results were not a repudiation of our foreign policy. Lieberman voted for the war in Iraq; Ned Lamont sung a one-note campaign song about the war. And Lieberman won.

In fact, as Dick Morris predicted, the number one issue that people cited at exit polls — scandals. Alas, I cannot be an apologist for the various scandals that Republican Congressmen got caught in. I will, however, be gleefully going on and on and on about all the scandals the Democrat Congressmen will now be caught in over the next two years.

Muhahaha.

I think this a terribly important thing to point out. In his Saturday radio address, possibly responding in part to a taunt from a purported AlQaeda leader, President Bush said: “…one thing has not changed: America faces brutal enemies who have attacked us before and want to attack us again. I have a message for these enemies: Do not confuse the workings of American democracy with a lack of American will. Our nation is committed to bringing you to justice, and we will prevail.”

I would hope that this is something that my friends across the great divide, over in Liberal Land, can easily agree with. We will continue to kick the collective asses of people who are intent on blowing us up because they somehow think we’re responsible for their inability to happily join the twenty-first, twentieth, or, well, even fifteenth century.

Somehow I think we’re going to see people blame Bush for dumping an enormous amount of sand around these people in a past life.

And I’m out…

A’ight. I’ve moved my blog from blogger-old-school to blogger beta. Let us hope and pray that nothing goes horribly wrong.

Okay, okay, so the bastards have the Senate, too (in all likelihood). Let me go over a few things. First, scalping Rumsfeld is disgraceful. The liberals actually should have supported him — he was all for modernizing the military and making it more cost-effective (which is why a lot of ex-military hate him — remember, it took forever to get our military to admit they needed AIR POWER). But I suppose they wanted someone to be the goat, and Rumsfeld gets it. Big mistake. Second, if any liberal thinks this Congress is going to pull our troops out of Iraq — it ain’t happening. It’s too big of a decision. If it goes wrong and there’s a bloodbath because we leave, the Democrats will be blamed, and they don’t want that.

Now, as for scandilitis — the Democrats would be wise to count the skeletons in their closets before they start launching investigation after investigation into Republicans. After all, one of their favorites, the so-called “Lion of the Senate”, Ted Kennedy, KILLED a woman. Yes. Remember Chapaquiddick? That little thing? Mary Jo Kopeckne? The man got away with murder. We might as well elect O.J. — hey, don’t laugh, I can see it happening.

As long as O.J. is for “hope”. Hehe.

Ah well. I have at least two years to rant about Democrats. It feels good. And as for the Republicans who got tossed out, I feel no remorse. I feel happy that I no longer have to defend people who pose as conservatives but spend and act (XXX-movie style) reprehensibly. RINOs.

I actually agree with Rush on this one. I’m not the world’s biggest Rush fan, but I really think he summed up a lot of current feeling from the conservatives in this latest rant. (I hope the link works for a while, sometimes links to his site degrade over time because of how they update).

Let the games begin!

Oh glorious day…so far the projections are that the House is going into Democrat hands.

For so long now, I’ve been unable to bitch, complain, whine, and moan, since my party has been in power.

But that’s alllll changed now. 🙂

Methinks the nature of the Kip Lange blog may jog a wee bit to the right in the coming months.

Bahahahahaha!

(the only scary thing is Pelosi being third in line for the Presidency…and I mean that…)

P.S. Everything is officially now the Democrats’ fault. Got herpes? Democrats’ fault. Missing a testicle? Democrats’ fault.

Okay. So the Patriots had five turnovers, 8 penalties (or was it 9?), and still managed to hang in the game (courtesy of Adam Vinateri missing two field goals — that new sod seems to jack the ball to the right, Gostkowski missed one as well). They even had a chance at a last-second drive. But to no avail, it ended in an unglorious Brady pick. However, this is no great winfor Indy, and Indy will not go undefeated, trust me. If the Pats had scored on their first drive like they should have — or avoided turnovers — they would have won that game. Like I said, it was a minor miracle they hung on as long as they did.

And yes, Manning is good. I’ll give Indy that. The rest of ’em? Fuck Indy.

First off, I’m utterly addicted to this game now. Like I said before, it’ll chew up plenty of your time, so watch out. If anyone’s wondering, these series of games are tied with Resident Evil and Grand Theft Auto as my all-time favorites.

By the way, if you’re looking for a complete walkthrough — albeit with some mis-translated Japanese characters in it (that don’t really affect the walkthrough), try this one over here at gamefaqs.com.