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Name: Aradin
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Currently
Firefly - The Complete Series
By Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin
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Hello, My Name Is Your TV - Ludo

Hello, my name is your T.V. 
We've been together so long
So many memories
We solved so many problems
Situated comedies
I fed you ads and movie stars
And you always fell asleep
In my color bars, but there's this

World outside where the lighting's off
Scenes last too long and you lose the plot
All the girls, they lie and they break your heart
And nothing's done when the streets go dark
Here, see California, where pretty people dream

And the good guy gets the girl by the sunny sea

And when they'd yell upstairs, you'd cry
Little boy inside their lies
In the dark I'd watch your eyes
And I know the way they laugh
The jackals feast behind your back
Here you hide, but still they stab
In the dark I feel you die in that

World outside where the lighting's off
Scenes last too long and you lose the plot
All the girls, they lie and they break your heart
And nothing's done when the streets go dark
Here, see California, where pretty people dream

Now see that icy vacant lot where they made your nose bleed
The flannel spread, the heater on
The world is dead, the sun is gone, here take my hand, I'll take you home
You'll never have to be alone
The picture's warping slowly, the scrolling seems unending
The snowy edges blurring, the bars between us bending
Feel you start to breathe, you are alive inside of me
Forever tan and strong and loved, you'll never bleed again
In dreamy California scenes where bad guys meet their destiny
And the good guy gets the girl by the sunny sea


Just to update...

Other stuff has happened since the last one, but probably nothing that anyone here would care about.

@R@DIN24

This blog is problematic…


Saturday, July 26, 2008

Currently Gaming
Battlefield 2142 Deluxe Edition
By Electronic Arts
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Arya vs Joffrey

 

VS.

Life

FIGHT!!!

Life

4

~ Round 1 ~

4

  • Without a thought, Joffrey Baratheon strikes first and cannot hit Arya Stark.
  • Arya Stark fights on valiantly and misses Joffrey Baratheon, who dances out of the way.

4

~ Round 2 ~

4

  • Without a thought, Joffrey Baratheon strikes first and bruises Arya Stark.
  • Arya Stark fights on valiantly and cannot hit Joffrey Baratheon. What's this?! Arya Stark strikes again and slices Joffrey Baratheon in a spray of blood.

3

~ Round 3 ~

2

  • Without a thought, Joffrey Baratheon strikes first and bruises Arya Stark.
  • Arya Stark battles to survive and bruises Joffrey Baratheon.

2

~ Round 4 ~

1

  • In a blink of an eye, Joffrey Baratheon appears and nicks Arya Stark.
  • Arya Stark fights on valiantly and stabs Joffrey Baratheon in a vital organ.

Arya Stark squeaks out a victory over Joffrey Baratheon!

That really wasn't much of a contest. Arya could have killed Joffrey anytime, after Jon Snow gave her Needle. Speaking of needles, if anyone wants to play Halo later, let me know.


Aradin
"Stick them with the pointy end." - Arya Stark


Saturday, July 19, 2008

Currently Listening
The Pretender
By Foo Fighters
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Dead Again

 

Dead Again - Possible Oscar

Rocket launcher, rail gun, BFG Nine Thousand One,
Never saw it coming and I never had a chance.
Bad enough being dead, Sub Zero pulled off my head,
Master Chief is doing his victory dance.

Lost Asia in Risk, Diablo burnt me to a crisp,
Even though I had the Godly Plate of the Whale.
Two pair, eights and kings, Sauron got the One Ring,
Getting dysentery on the Oregon Trail.

Harry Potter came up short dueling with Voldemort,
Elspeth Holliday met the Blair Witch.
Spider-Man showed such aplomb till he met that pumpkin bomb,
Mr. Incredible didn't throw the switch.

Cliff racers, cave bats, stupid frickin' giant rats,
Deadly pirahna poodles, or soldier ants,
You were eaten by a grue, Hah! The wumpus got you,
Nancy Drew and Scooby Doo teabagged in Halo 2

Dead again,
Splattered all over a rendered killing floor,
Dead again,
Let me respawn and I'll be back for more,
Dead again,
Let me get to the checkpoint, then you can do your worst,
Dead again,
Then I'll reload but this time I'll shoot first.

My marble plummets from a height, should have rolled it to the right,
Jumped through lots of traffic but then fell off a log.
Russian cubes from the sky, and I let 'em stack too high,
Punched right off the screen by a humanoid frog.

T-rex got me, now I'm toast, chased down by a blinking ghost,
Landed on some spikes and dropped every last ring.
Bitten by a fanged slug, Jafar zapped my flying rug,
Trampled in a bog by a Barbarian King.

Mechanized war bots, Mudokan slingshots,
Centipede dropping a flea on my head.
Couldn't fly as Alfred Chicken, Duke Nukem kept on kickin',
Fought Guy of Gisborne with only some bread.

Skeletons hit me twice, dragon breath cased me in ice,
Couldn't line up all the jewels three in a row,
Shot up by Miami cops, beaten with karate chops,
Kept on missing platform hops, and the timer never stops.

Dead again,
How come these worlds have so many bottomless pits?
Dead again,
And everyone that I meet wants me blown to bits.
Dead again,
Reincarnation one byte at a time,
Dead again,
It's so embarassing to be killed by green slime.

Real life goes on until you're
Dead, or so I'm told,
Injury, catastrophe, or
Simply growing old
Fantasy's supposed to be where
You can find your dreams,
But all I find is game designers
Hooked on players' screams.

Smothered by a boa constrictor, drawn and quartered by a lich or
Eaten by a cat while dodging Beethoven's Fifth.
My flying ostrich drowned, monkeys thowing barrels down,
Torn apart by creatures out of legend and myth.

Zombies got a hold of Jill, nurses up in Silent Hill,
All those German snipers on the beach at Omaha. (MoHAA reference )
Swallowed by the sand worms, infected by some nasty germs,
Didn't slap the leather when I heard him say, "DRAW!"

Running from Koala Kong, made a turn that's really wrong,
Sephiroth's supernova fried us where we stood.
Broiled in a lava flow, squashed by Super Mario,
Didn't make my saving throw again,st lawful good.

Thirty zillion space machines blowning up in cut scenes,
I actually found a way to die in Myst.
Ninja swords decapitate, plasma guns obliterate,
Pocket nukes annihilate, reboot, transubstantiate.

Dead again,
Inching ahead until once more I choke,
Dead again,
The funeral bills would leave my whole state broke,
Dead again,
Something is trying to chew off both my legs,
Dead again,
Who in the hell dreams up these easter eggs?

Dead again,
All of the guys at work think I'm a freak,
Dead again,
They watch golf and NASCAR every week,
Dead again,
They'll never understand what I call fun,
Dead again,
'Cause any of my lives is cooler than their one.


I wasn't planning on adding anything else besides the music, but I couldn't decide on which quote to use below my signature, as is my custom, so I might as well post some interesting quotes from A Feast for Crows. No spoilers. Unless you happen to know what I'm talking about

Ser Andrey Dalt: "I have a wonderful horse and a very fine sword, and my valor is second to... well, several, actually."

Garin: “More like several hundred, ser.”

 

Ser Gerold Dayne (Darkstar): “Daynes have been killing Oakhearts for several thousand years.”

Princess Arianna Martell: “It seems to me that Oakhearts have been killing Daynes for just as long.”

Darkstar: “We all have our family traditions.”

 

Ser Daven Lannister: “How is Cersei? Beautiful as ever?”

Ser Jaime Lannister: “Radiant.” Fickle. “Golden.” False as fool’s gold.

 

Ser Daven Lannister: “I beat your brother bloody in a mêlée once. The runty little fool took offense when I asked him if that was his sister dancing naked on his shield.”

Lewys Piper: “She’s the sigil of our House. We don’t have a sister.”

Ser Daven Lannister: “More’s the pity. Your sigil has nice teats. What sort of man hides behind a naked woman, though? Every time I thumped your brother’s shield, I felt unchivalrous.”

 

Michael: “Wow. Littlefinger’s teaching Sansa how to think…”

 

“When she woke the next morning, she was blind.” </chapter>

Michael: …………. The next time I read that line, it better say something different.

 

Ser Jaime Lannister: “The girl has been pardoned. No harm will come to her. You have my word on that.”

Ser Brynden Tully: “Your word of honor? Do you even know what honor is?”

Ser Jaime Lannister: A horse.

Ser Jaime Lannister: “This defiance serves no purpose, ser. The war is done, and your Young Wolf is dead.”

Ser Brynden Tully: “Murdered in breach of all the sacred laws of hospitality.”

Ser Jaime Lannister: “Frey’s work, not mine.”

Ser Brynden Tully: “Call it what you will. It stinks of Tywin Lannister.”
Ser Jaime Lannister: “My father is dead as well.”

Ser Brynden Tully: “May the Father judge him justly.”

Ser Jaime Lannister: Now, there’s an awful prospect.

 

Woman: “Lady? I’m no lady. I’m the queen.”

Ser Jaime Lannister: “My sister will be surprised to hear that.”
Woman: “Lord Ryman crowned me his very self. I’m the queen o’ whores.”

Ser Jaime Lannister: No, my sweet sister holds that title too.

 

Ser Jaime Lannister (to Ser Ilyn Payne, who is mute, for those of you who haven’t read the books): “Well, shut your bloody mouth and kill me if you can.”

 

[More proof that Jaime has changed for the better]

Ser Ronnet Connington (Red Ronnet): “The bear was less hairy than that freak, I’ll–“

Jaime’s golden hand cracked him across the mouth so hard the other knight went stumbling down the steps.

Ser Jaime Lannister: “You are speaking of a highborn lady, ser. Call her by her name. Call her Brienne.”

 

Soldier: “It’s the bleeding Kingslayer, boys. Bugger me with a bloody spear.”

Ser Jaimed Lannister: “You heard the man. Find a nice long spear, and shove it up his arse.

Soldier: “You keep that bloody thing away from me!”

 

Ser Jaime Lannister: “Only a fool makes threats he’s not prepared to carry out. If I were to threaten to hit you unless you shut your mouth, and you presumed to speak, what do you think I’d do?”

Ser Ryman Frey: “Ser, you do unders–“

Jaime hit him.

Ser Jaime Lannister: “You have a fat head, Ser Ryman, and a thick neck as well. Ser Ilyn, how many strokes would it take you to cut through that neck?”

Ser Ilyn laid a single finger against his nose.

Ser Jaime Lannister: Jaime laughed. “An empty boast. I say three.”

 

Ser Jaime Lannister: “I am told your wife is pretty. She’d have to be, for you to bed her while your sister and your king were being murdered.”

Lord Edmure Tully: “I never knew. There were fiddlers outside the bedchamber…”

Ser Jaime Lannister: “And Lady Roslin was distracting you.”

Lord Edmure Tully: “She… they made her do it, Lord Walder and the rest. Roslin never wanted… she wept, but I thought it was…”

Ser Jaime Lannister: “The sight of your rampant manhood? Aye, that would make any woman weep, I’m sure.”

 

Lord Robert Arryn: “I want a hundred lemon cakes and five tales!”

Alayne Stone (Lady Sansa Stark-Lannister): I’d like to give you a hundred spankings and five slaps.

 

Prince Doran Martell: “He has gone to bring us back our heart’s desire.”

Princess Arianne Martell: “What is our heart’s desire?”

Prince Doran Martell: “Vengence.” His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. “Justice.” Prince Doran pressed the onyx dragon into her palm with his swollen, gouty fingers, and whispered, “Fire and blood.”

 

[STOP DOING THIS!]

Brienne sucked in air desperately, even as the rope was strangling her. Nothing had ever hurt so much.

She screamed a word. </chapter>

Michael: “Great. I have to wait 2 to 3 years for ONE WORD…”

 

Strongboar: “A fish on a leash. There’s a sight I never saw before.”

 

Ser Daven Lannister: “Half of Lannisport was mourning. The female half.”

 

Ser Jaime Lannister: “You were a knight once, ser. So was I. Let us see what we are now.”

 

Ser Bonifer Hasty: “No beast would be so bold. These are demons in the skins of wolves, sent to chastise us for our sins.”

Ser Jaime Lannister: “This must have been an uncommonly sinful horse.”

 

Ser Jaime Lannister: Make a habit of it, Lannister, and one day men might call you Goldenhand after all. Goldenhand the Just.

 

Ser Ilyn made the perfect drinking companion. He never interrupted, never disagreed, never complained or asked for favors or told long pointless stories. All he did was drink and listen.

Ser Jaime Lannister: “I should have the tongues removed from all my friends, and from my kin as well. A silent Cersei would be sweet.”

 

[And finally, one of the best parts of the book, after Cersei is arrested ]

Maester Vyman: “The bird was from King’s Landing. I took the liberty… I did not know…” He held the letter out.

Jaime read it in the window seat, bathed in the light of that cold white morning. Qyburn’s words were terse and to the point, Cersei’s fevered and fervent. Come at once, she said. Help me. Save me. I need you now as I have never needed you before. I love you. I love you. I love you. Come at once.

Vyman was hovering by the door, waiting, and Jaime sensed that Peck was watching too.

Maester Vyman: “Does my lord wish to answer?”

A snowflake landed on the letter. As it melted, the ink began to blur. Jaime rolled the parchment up again, as tight as one hand would allow, and handed it to Peck.

Ser Jaime Lannister: “No. Put this in the fire.”


//UPDATE//
Card Duel!

 

 

VS.

 

 

 

 

Life

FIGHT!!!

Life

 

5

~ Round 1 ~

5

 

  • Howling in fury, Robb Stark rushes in and crushes Ser Jaime Lannister, who reels backwards in pain.

 

 

  • Ser Jaime Lannister battles to survive and cannot hit Robb Stark.

 

5

~ Round 2 ~

3

 

  • In a blink of an eye, Robb Stark appears and slices Ser Jaime Lannister in a spray of blood.

 

 

  • Ser Jaime Lannister snarls as he counters and misses Robb Stark, who dances out of the way.

 

5

~ Round 3 ~

1

 

  • Howling in fury, Robb Stark rushes in and misses Ser Jaime Lannister, who dances out of the way.

 

 

  • Ser Jaime Lannister fights on valiantly and finds that Robb Stark is too nimble.

 

5

~ Round 4 ~

1

 

  • In a blink of an eye, Ser Jaime Lannister appears and cannot hit Robb Stark.

 

 

  • Robb Stark battles to survive and bruises Ser Jaime Lannister.

 

 

Robb Stark laughs at Ser Jaime Lannister. Pitiful!

 

How enlightening...
Coming up next: Arya Stark vs. Joffrey Baratheon! Don't miss it!

 

Aradin
"Vengence. Justice... Fire and blood." - Prince Doran Martell


Thursday, July 03, 2008

Currently Gaming
Battlefield 1942: The Complete Collection
By Electronic Arts
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Things to be Excited About

You know it has to be awesome

Coming this fall. Picking up where A Storm of Swords left off, and running parallel to the events in A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons features the characters that were left out of A Feast for Crows when the book was divided into 2 volumes. That's great, considering A Feast for Crows features Jon Snow for all of 10 pages (if that) and leaves out Daenerys and Davos entirely.

They may have gotten it right this time. Maybe...

Unless they rush it out again, like they did with Sonic the Hedgehog. Sega's still recovering from all those glitches. That was the one that should have been awesome...

And they still didn't fix that stupid camera!

I'll never play it. However, it's Sonic AND BioWare (creators of KotOR, Jade Empire, and Mass Effect), so it's probably going to be interesting at least. I can't get over the fact that they stole the subtitle from Oblivion, though. Although Oblivion did steal a lot from A Song of Ice and Fire (Seriously. The Nine? Similar to the Seven, don't you think?  And the emperor has the "blood of the dragon!" Sound familiar?).

At least 2 more games in the works, plus episodic content. And it will all be available for the PC, even if I don't get that 360 sometime soon.

The BBC is now backing the A Song of Ice and Fire HBO series. It still hasn't been given the green light, but it's looking very likely now. The options are down to ASoIaF or some King Arthur series. Like there haven't been enough of those already...

BioWare's upcoming PC action-RPG! Inspired by George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, and even more awesome than their other games. I'm in love already

A new Star Wars movie! And NOT written by George Lucas! So, hey, it can't be that bad, can it?

... Can it?

I think this is going to be released one of these days. Or has it been already? The project's been so quiet lately it seems like everyone has forgotten about it...

Mr. Fisher, welcome back. We've missed you.

Now available for the PC, and sequels have been promised! Hopefully they'll clean up all the little annoyances in the next ones...

Less than a month to go

It's already out. You have no excuse to not be playing it right now.


Aradin
No happy choices and no happy endings... The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. - Samwell Tarly, A Feast for Crows


Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Currently Listening
Mad World
By Michael Andrews, Gary Jules
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Mad World

Mad World

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me


Aradin24
A man sees. A man hears. A man knows.



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