cold wolf's New Writeups

Valparaiso University (place)

2002-11-09T22:14:17Z

Location: Valparaiso, Indiana. It's freakin cold here...

History: uuuhh... I guess I wasn't quick enough here, but dammit I've had this write-up in the works for several months now and it ain't going to waste now! Anyway, I won't repeat what's already been said here.

Academics: VU teaches a good number of study areas for its size (around 3,000 to 4,000 undergrads). This is one of the reasons why I chose to come here. The have: engineering college, business administration college, arts & sciences college, nursing college, and an honors college (named Christ College). They have a school of law too, but who cares about the law? And of course you can go to another country and learn their shit too, like Japan, Germany, Britain, among others.

Life at VU: It ain't bad. The food sucks (naturally)--and there's no all-you-can-eat cafeterias here! Anyway, it's a very beautiful 310-acre campus with an awesome church building in the middle…

Wendy's (place)

2002-08-19T06:23:36Z

Having worked at a Wendy's Hamburgers resturaunt for spare change for college, I'm a bit scared of the place. zgirll must have been part of the day crew. Damn the day crew...

I worked there for many moons, and now I find myself avoiding the place like a plague.* Let's start with the service. We try our best to be kind, at least until we just can't take it anymore, which is about 2 hours into the shift.** Every person that has ran the register always came to this simple conclusion: "People are fucking morons!" The store is completely run by teenagers, and when it isn't, that means a manager only a few years older than the teenagers is present. The only one older than 25 is the General Manager. I'm just starting college, but somehow someone younger than me is running the store. He's a short Mexican that replies with "poke your butt" when presented with the question "guess what".…

L.A. Machine Guns: Rage of the Machines (thing)

2002-07-11T07:29:19Z

Developer: Sega
Type: Arcade game
Genre: Shooter
Released: 1999
Players: 2
Controls: Optical guns (2)
Description: Second greatest arcade game in existence, quite on the heels of Crisis Zone. While Crisis Zone is only a single-player game, LA Machine Guns is best played with a friend. You and your buddy stand on a platform that houses the sub and both of you take hold of one of the rather large, almost bulky (yet very cool) light guns that are side-by-side. Now, these guns are not ordinary arcade light guns. They're positional, which mean they stay put, but you can point the gun in whichever direction you want (as long as it's forward)--they're best utilized when you use both of your hands. The thing that makes them extraordinary is their force feedback. These things kick like rabid mules (20x per second), and if you get too excited and grab the gun too firmly, you'll feel the…

Dreamcast (idea)

2002-07-08T10:19:54Z

State of the Dreamcast

E2 is all about timelessness, so since no one else has bothered to mention this, please allow me the pleasure.

Sega has officially abandoned the Dreamcast and is now a full-time third party developer. Sega has extended it's excellent franchises (Sonic the Hedgehog, Virtua Fighter, Soul Calibur, etc...) to today's (mid-2002) consoles, the Sony Playstation 2, the Nintendo Gamecube, and the Microsoft Xbox.

It is strange why such a wonderful console would just cease to exist. It has been phased out of today's stores (Dreamcast shelves are either nearly empty or simply not there) and hasn't been heard of in a while. Too bad, though, since it's graphics engine was, at the time of it's arrival, superior. Unfortunately, the controller was a little awkward, but it was nifty in some twisted way, with the build-in LCD and memory card ports. Hell, it even had a…

Crisis Zone (thing)

2002-07-08T09:32:41Z

Developer: Namco Arcade
Type: Arcade game
Genre: Shooter
Released: 1999
Players: 1
Controls: Optical Gun, Pedal
Description: Greatest arcade game in existence. It features the compact version of the legendary Heckler & Koch MP5 as the weapon of choice. The force feedback permitted by the light gun is rather satisfying and not annoying. However, the most satisfying feature in the game in the completely destructable environment. Not only is the subsequent destruction that is delivered by the MP5K extremely satisfying, but surprisingly realistic as well. The developers researched the power of submachine guns extensively to create a convincing world for the player to interact with. Quote from the official site (see sources):

The development staff did some heavy research into the impact machine guns have on their targets and created a world in which all objects within a stage

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