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GTAIV…dang it’s addicting

The Glue:
Man that’s a long freaking title to this weeks post..but it’s semi true. I’ll explain in a bit, but first a flashback sequence. About three months ago, I was making the rounds at my local Gamestop, looking into what they may have. Ok the truth was I was bored out of my mind. I needed to kill a little bit of time waiting for a food order, so I stopped in. While browsing the shelves I noticed that there were several copies of a game that I would have normally avoided like the plague, because of the genre and what goes into it. Yes, I knew the game won several Gaming awards from IGN and had earned a high recommendation, but that didn’t stop me from stereotyping it previously, especially at a new games price. However, the price seemed VERY reasonable for a used game, and since my friend had been bugging me about it and had nearly hit me when I said I hadn’t played it, I decided to buy it on a lark.

The game I’m referring to is Grand Theft Auto 4. I brought the game home and tossed it onto my shelf and forgot about it, happily fragging away on GOW 2 and living my life normally. About a couple of weeks ago I saw it again, and my curiosity got the better of me, and well, I popped it in. At first I didn’t like it. The visuals, while good for the environment and art direction of the game, didn’t completely appeal to me. However, as I played I found myself getting more and more hooked into it, until I couldn’t put the controller down, and spent several nights working through the game.

I’m normally not a fan of the hip hop community by nature, but the point of the posting is that I’m here today to say to you, don’t turn away from a game, that everyone else says is good, just because of a basic prejudice. Give it a try you never know what you may like.

That’s all for this week, stay tuned for next week.

admin The Glue Grand Theft Auto, XBOX 360

The Glue:
Hey…this is going to be a quick one. I just wanted to give you a quick note on a band by the name of Red, that has some pretty cool tunes.

You might want to give them a look. They just released their newest album “Innocence and Instinct ” a month ago, and it really is pretty good.

Check out a music video of them here.

Till next week.

admin The Glue Red

The Glue:
For Today’s Glue, I’m releasing another episode of Tango Squad for your enjoyment. I know, perhaps, some of you have been waiting for it, I do hope that you enjoy it.

No rant this week. Simply enjoy the episode Again as always, thanks to the greatness of Bungie and Microsoft, for the license to create machinima and to use the Halo soundtrack as well. I hope you enjoy.

Sorry so short…but thats sometimes what you get when I’m tired and it’s a release week.

Till next week….

admin MYP 2009 Season Halo, Machinima, Tango Squad

MYP News:

Taking the place of this weeks glue, we have a MYP announcement.  Today, as you may have noticed, I am proud to announce that we have launched mithrandiryod.com 3.0. Yes, this is the third incarnation mithrandiryod.com has gone under since its inception. Before I go into detail about the changes that are now available on mithrandiryod.com, first a brief explanation as to why the change took place.

Over the years of maintaining the site, I did so out of my limited skills with dreamweaver, attempting to create a cool looking site of my own design that others would enjoy, and that I could post my latest works. Since then I’ve evolved slightly through the years, and the design changed drastically to something much more aesthetic and business like. I guess I hoped that someone would see the design that I offered and perhaps would find me more professional. Well as the years have gone on, maintaining the site, designed as it was, became too much of a burden. I found myself dreading, posting updates to any video that I may put out, and grew to hate working with and improving the site. I also found myself looking at what other websites had become and wondering, why not me? Why can’t I simplify my current setup to make things easier on myself? And so, I set out to do just that, and thus you get mithrandiryod.com 3.0

MYP is now built upon the Word Press architecture, and has been modded slightly by me for my needs. Besides the new design, the basic formatting, simplification, and the fact that the glue and video links are posted on the front page for easy access, there are other interesting new features that have been implemented. I’ve recently begun using twitter to update items of interest that may not make it into the glue or news announcements for MYP. Essentially, the MYP twitter feed is for those who want an update on what I’m doing for MYP, my random thoughts that may or not make it into the glue, and when I may post a release early so that it can be grabbed before the official site announcement the following Monday. Overall I’m pleased with the design, and user interface. I’m certain that it will make my life easier, and hopefully be easier for the viewers to look at. The standard pages are all there, from the about MYP, the FAQ, contact form, and projects pages. The only difference, I’m not going to have an individual page for each work. I think that’s too spread out and harder to navigate.

I’d also like to make a few comments about how “The Glue” is structured. It will still be appearing every Monday at 9:00, and still be formatted the same way, however I’ve decided to classify certain types of articles I write into different segments. If you want further info on this, please see the Glue section of pages for further clarification. I may add more segments later on, or ditch others, but the basic format should stay the same. I’ve always felt that it’s best to post all releases at the beginning of the week, as opposed to the weekend. I feel that workers starting a new week on Monday, may need something to boost them. I hope to perhaps be that, and thus the Monday at 9:00 AM release times.

Well that’s it for now. I should have some more next week. Feel free to take a look around, and don’t hesitate to tell me what you think. Till then, stay tuned…

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