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Monday, February 8th, 2010
3:31 pm	Possible Warlords tournament at the PS... I don't believe it. The PS party is coming up. Work just arranged a chance timing to make it possible for me to attend...fully attend. Now, presuming that the controllers/cart arrive in time, I plan on bringing a real Atari 2600, complete with classic monitor, to the PS and hosting a 'true' classic party game...Warlords. This is a true party game from 1981. Truly simple. Simply fun for four players. Just something to step aside from thousands of hours of Smash Bros. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 18th, 2010
7:03 am	FC bound... Here it is. That time, once more. Vacation time! Heading north for some lunacy, at dirt cheap prices. Yup. Talking Further Confusion, 2010. And, so Mother Nature over heard. And, she weeps. And, weeps. And, weeps some more. Three years, running, it has been. Only, this time around, I've been hearing that the 'Storm of the Century' is suppose to be arriving over our usually fair state. What the...we've had months of beautiful weather. Now, clouds of doom??? Here's to hoping that the rain is around just long enough to wash the filth away...and not everything else in the process. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
11:51 pm	Life updates... The DSL is up and running! After 10+ years of dial up, the household has just gone 21'st century! (Yay!!!) Wireless, to boot. Now, I can YouTube @ home. (The PS3 handles it quite nicely.) And, other things that dial up wasn't so great at. First thing I did was try out the compatability of the DSi. Worked great...once I got closer to the modem. Then, I had three battle rounds of Zelda with some unknown from Northern America named Daniel. I once tried on-line Wheel of Fortune at the library. And, had several sessions of a Dreamcast RPG. (Really weak story line/game play.) But, this was truly fun. Broke myself away from the net to watch a sci-fi movie called "Moon". (Not New Moon...like the movie store employee suggested.) So far, it's great. A kind of "cabin fever" in space. Current Mood: amused (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 9th, 2010
6:37 pm	New little toy... Currently at work on lunch. Using a ~secret~ hot spot. Playing around with a Game Boy...more like Man. (Duel Screen.) It's so grown up...for it has net access...and so much more. The browser is amazingly powerful. So far, it can do all but YouTube feeds. I caught a stupid father letting his children rock climb up our pillars. Things have an exterior of jagged rocks. But, it's not meant to support weight. Luckily, no harm done. (But, what an idiot!) Let's try the posting option, now. (Crosses fingers...) Current Mood: accomplished (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
11:57 pm	Paranormal Activities...quickie review. It's Blair Witch for the 21'st century. No, seriously. Who was paid to hype this? Most horror genre movies are more terrifying, but numb us with clues. (Sometimes, so obvious that one would have to be asleep to miss one.) But, this one goes for the documentary approach. So, no stupid 100 piece band to announce the coming of danger. Instead, it's all realistically silent. And, it's all done from one camera. One, moving camera. However, they did this right. No Cloverfield handheld stuff that makes all viewers nauseous. The guy has a major handheld rig that makes the shots bearable. Most of the 'shock' value comes from distant noises and strange things that the woman does. In that respect, this movie can run on bare bones budget. In fact, it has three...count them, THREE actors. (Probably one out of every thousand movies ever made can support so few.) The stage is one suburb house in San Diego. All in all, there's just not much to be found, here. It literally is Blair Witch with just a slightly higher grade of effects...what few their are. Quarantine makes a far better viewing choice. In fact, the only way I see this truly thrilling people is if they live with a loved one that might be just the tad bit questionable. After all, how would you react if surveilance footage showed your significant other standing over your sleeping body for 5 hours...sleep standing, sort of. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
6:05 am	Sometimes, it surprises me what this old noggin is capable of producing... I just woke up from the craziest dream. My virtual self was out on the town (Who knows. Universal Studios town???) and decided to drop by the theater. The movie playing was a new Resident Evil flick. All in 3-D. Only, this one had quite a few more features. We're talking something along the lines of a hybrid stage play and movie experience. About half way back from the big screen...or, I should say screens, were the usual set of seats. Upon entry, I was handed more then the 3-D glasses...but, this NES Zapper looking light gun.  Told to put on the glasses immediately, I found some sort of objects that weren't physically there. Fuzzy and flashing, I tried the gun out and it was like a kind of shooting gallery. (Talk about some special glasses!) Oh, but that wasn't the craziest part. The upper section of the theater has some rather unique, almost sculpture style seating. One looked like an unpainted Jeep on a pedistal. Another looked like a seat nailed to a giant rectangle. Some other odd shaped seats and one that looked like it was inside a monotoned helicopter, up in the air, were there, too. ( Just some ramblings about the movie and personal life behind this cut that made the entry look cluttered in the preview window... )And, then there was something that I hadn't experienced since way back in the 1980's...being able to provide a show to an audience on a public arcade machine. If you're as old as me, you might actually remember the days when arcades were simpler (heck...existed.) and it was possible for one person to play with a dozen more around, just observing. ( Even more rambling... ) Current Mood: awake Current Music: a cooling fan (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
7:07 pm	Like sheep, they were... The other night, I had the chance to see just how sheep like the public can be. Kind of sad, really, The bay was completely empty of carts. God forbid, anyone go out and 'gather'. Instead, a small group just stood around and stared, waiting for their shopping equipment to be hand delivered to them. This was just shocking to behold. Instead of going not 20 feet to find, they just waited. Some of my faith in Humanity dropped away at the sight...I mean, as a species, has our civilized ways stripped us of any necessary skills that could save our lives, in case of true disaster? What will happen in 2012, when the Sun goes haywire, wiping out all satellite activities, causing all banks to close and those magic cards won't work and all the computerized registers can't communicate or transact sales? Stupid panic may doom us all...I do fear. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
1:55 pm	Quick review on 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'...artwork for the eyes; dribble for the mind. Last night, I had a chance to catch that Fantastic Mr. Fox movie. Let's just take a second to review the good points... + Nearly every minute looks beautiful. It's often easy to tell just how much effort went into the details of the puppets. How they brushed every frame and made things look great. + It can be a great, positive influence over the furry fandom. + There was lots of inspiration and freshness in the flick. + Erm...it did have some rather funny jokes... *lip twitches* Sadly, this movie had so much opportunity. It had an all star cast. Surely, a great budget. So, what went wrong??? For one, it made an effort to be downright dull. I mean, if detours of conversation led to mile long speeches, this movie went there. It had a kind of Spidey Sense tuned into potential action points, and would swing hard to avoid going there. It literally acted, towards the end, as if it lost an argument that there was no other direction BUT to do something action filled. Worse yet, this movie has little to do with being a “family film”. It's worse then Cars was about appealing towards children. (In fact, there was only one child in the theater. A few dozen seats were sold, though.) They almost expected the visuals to do all the work. As forewarned from a review, this movie's humor was very one sided...aside from the ever functional 'funny eyes'. As for the jokes...few truly worked. And, what did were often spread far apart. Not so great for a comedy. In my opinion, some very cleaver editing could bring this flick down to a rather functional ten minutes. It dabbled in visual scenes and lengthy conversations over progressing the story along. In fact, I got the impression that if the movie could have become six hours long, it would have explored a half dozen characters in equal length. As is, several seemed to be hinted at as have been left on the cutting room floor. (Which would have been for the best.) This movie had a plot goal in it. Believe it or not, they could have dropped the goal and gone the route of so many comic strips and made it a string of random sub-plots...and it would have flowed just as well. A minimum amount of scene alterations would have been all it needed. And, that's not saying a whole lot. Ugh...fox tails for neck ties. Let's not even go there. But, I expect it to be a mild fashion at (near) future cons...(Die. Quickly die.) In conclusion, the only thing 'Fantastic' about Mr. Fox is the very fact that he ever reached the movie screen, in the first place. So, cuss! Cuss, cuss, cuss, cuss...*growls* I really wanted this movie to be more then it was. Perhaps, it's a British deal. But, I've seen a few British comedies. Despite a cultural difference, those still work. This movie...doesn't. There was a review quote about how this movie proves that more then Pixar can produce family entertainment. (or, something like that.) Hint: Pixar has proven time and time again on how to produce a well rounded, solid hit. In comparison...this movie tried...and died. Sure to have a spot in most Fur libraries for it's cast. But, who else would bother? Then again, the movie's first preview ad was for a film that just proves that Hollywood/Bollywood (or wherever it came from) has gone beyond the point of being out of ideas. A film simply named 'Babies'. It's about Human babies from four sections of the Earth. Seriously. Naked, screaming, African six month olds. This is what surpasses for movie theater options, now. “Next week on Fox, it's 'Dead Air'. That's correct! Relive the good ole days of no broadcast static! Sure to bring back those 'better day' memories.” Perhaps, Hollywood needs to do like Windows and require a reboot upon itself. Just an idea... -Took me awhile to reach a hot spot for the net book.- (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 20th, 2009
7:55 pm	Worth a chuckle...and a few screams. From College Humor on YouTube... www.youtube.com/watch (Would have embedded it. But, they had that option disabled.) (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 13th, 2009
5:53 pm	Bad parenting... The other night, a page came over the internal radio at work. Some mother actually told her 6 and 11 year old children to wait by a poll at the front entrance of the store while she did her shopping. While I can understand a stressed out parent to want some time to herself, that kind of approach is absolutely bad parenting, coming to a level all so close to abandonment. It's absolutely shocking. On other tidbits, I've begun to save up for the trip to FC by buying gas gift cards. Surprisingly, most of the stations weren't even aware that they sold the cards. And, the one cashier that did know what I was talking about said the company simply hasn't been sending them out for quite awhile. Yet, the company didn't abandon the cards. As I was able to find one that still had some in stock. Just got to budget my income for a couple months. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
10:29 am	Mysteries of life... Just another noting... Yesterday, an oriental man felt it very necessary to go out of his way to shake my hand and give some praise. No assistance requests or anything. Several days back, some guy waved at me from across the lot. When I looked around, he reconfirmed. The other week, a car full of high school ladies felt it worthwhile to hand me a hand written note. A few other things like that have been happening, recently. And, no...it's happening when I'm not 'furred up', either. Very odd. Just like that one Comic Con where I was getting photo requests...yet, had no costumes or anything of interest. Just very odd. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
12:13 am	Has 'Bah, Humbug' ever been said better? Yes! The latest recreation of Charles Dicken's A Chirstmas Carol was not only done right, I am left with curiousity if it's better then anything that has come, before. Disney did not spare much of anything, here. The plot is so wordy, it can almost drive the movie further then the incredible visuals, at times. It reaches in deep to the original story and pulls out a great worth that other incarnations may have missed. Then, there's the use of this new age 3-D. At times, it will throw something in your face. (Like the snow flakes and that whip.) But, they rarely use it as an assaulting gimic and almost utilize it to make the whole experience somehow enriching. That depth has something all it's own to say. Which is something that not all 3-D movies can even hope to promote. The movie does have about a half dozen (or more) virtual rides. Can feel like being on a kind of roller coaster. Guess Disney would like that kind of stuff. The visuals move quickly and go in any virtual direction to create thrills. Sadly, seeing any previews pretty much rob all the best parts from those moments. Don't expect much plot movement. Just, camera movement. However, between the action scenes comes the meat and potatoes that make the movie go so deeply...perhaps, to the point that a child might become bored with. The scripture feels like it was pulled from the era of the original writing. If a picture can say a thousand words, they used every one up. Be interesting to play older movie versions, side by side, to see if any of them can measure up. In fact, it almost challenges the audience to think just a little bit. Then, there's that visual richness that took from Polar Express and egged it on to modern complexities. True. There's hardly a frame that could fool the eye into thinking it was real. But, sur-real is perfect. They pull off some visuals that real life would be a hard challenge to film. Still, nearly every moment of the film was a treasure trove for the eyes. In fact, Jim Carrey was so good, you almost couldn't tell he was in the film at all. If the credits were removed and any notions wiped clean, it be very hard to tell just how many characters he gave voice to. And, a nod to how far computers have come. If this is what virtual reality is for today, what will it be like, 30 years down the road? Will the computer have so much power that real life images will be as easy as math to it? Rant about Scrooge over. On to personal life: Work just traded my Monday off for a Saturday! Joy!!! I'm going to a local Renascence Fair in celebration for the rare weekend day! Hope to take lots of pictures/video. And, I half expect to see the new PlayStation 3 drive, when I get home. Also, got that winning prize gift card. Picked up the latest Katamari game. A bit pricy, though. At $50, I might not have otherwise bothered. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
6:13 pm	Bored. At work, today, my mind was so bored that it spontaneously jumped back nearly ten years and went to work on how to make a chess program function inside the IRC language. How very strange. Looks like Gurney's still got me hooked on that bit of frustration after all this time! Oh, yea...on another note...the strange sound found in a particular review of Superman 4 came from the NES game called Super Mario Bros. 3. It was when Mario stomped the stuffing out of one of Bowser's children, then was falling a million miles through the air to land in one of the many kings chambers and return the mutant creature back to a hideous human. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
11:32 pm	Just a slow day. A few night's ago, I placed an order for a 500 gig drive to replace the old (but, not very) 20 gig PS3 drive with. Hopefully, it'll arrive by tomorrow. (Also, ordered Earth Defense Force for the 360, based on a video review for $14.) Early this morning, I started up the netbook and set it's task towards transferring a back up drive that was used on the first laptop to the half-terabyte drive. Darn thing's been working on the task all day. (It's now 11:30 and it swears that there's still a good 30 minutes to go. Yiesh.) Meanwhile, I've had a marathon of season one Buffy between naps. Not too much else to say. Just a sleepy day for me. May tomorrow be just a tad more interesting. Perhaps, I could mention spotting Christopher Judge and Richard Dean Anderson having worked together before Stargate from the MacGyver episode called "Live and Learn". In the opening scene, when the two entered a football stance against each other and then a facial feature twitch, it just clicked. He had a lot more hair, back then. ... Oh, yea...a rather funny radio I've been meaning to mention about a certain corporation mascot. "If you see a furry, brown thing with teeth in our stores, there's no need for alarm..."   O.....K......then. Who in any kind of sane mind thought up this...thing. Thing's called Doma. Mascot of the "Oh, thank heaven." (Note no capital H.) company called 7/11. This thing is downright alarming. It's a gigantic, brown standing...monster with teeth and a bit of a face. Appearantly, it talks...like the last victom it ate is muffled and screaming from deep inside. One can buy it's merchandise from such a convenience store...like the gigantic soda mug. Simple enough seeming to me. 7/11 NEVER NEEDED A MASCOT to begin with! Going to Japan to purchase some radio active Godzilla urine to soak the freshest dog turd from India DOES NOT MAKE A COMPANY IMAGE! And, that's all I got to say on that. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
8:11 pm	Latest in a line of posts. The time has come. And, it's been a long time in coming. At home...the household is upgrading from dial up to DSL!!! The cost isn't all that much higher. But, I'm going to be paying part of the bill. Still...that's about $17 a month. Spectacular! For a full 6 Meg a second connection. Now, I don't have to shver at midnight to get my YouTube stuff! Yay!!! It'll happen in about 2-3 months after the dial up has expired. This also means that I've got to track down and change all those links to the old e-mail. (Boo!!!) But, it means ditching the spammers, in the process. (Yay!!!) Yesterday was a good day off and I headed down to the Barnes & Noble for their free high speed net to reference whom would make the best option for this upgrade. A fair deal of lousy options. Some weren't much better then the dial up I already had. However, it was the phone company that already serviced the household phone that had the great deals happening. After that, caught some footage of the up-and-coming Fantastic Mr. Fox movie and ran a few searches before the netbook's battery was exhausted. Went out to the truck and secured the computer. However, on the way back in, I was almost oblivious to the fact that "Max" (From the movie Where The Wild Things Are.) was coming out of the B&N. It barely registered in the corner of my eye, as did a portion of the conversation about how medicines had run out. Heh...I'm a fur and even I can be caught off guard in general public as it left me with a WTF? expression. (Do they even sell those cat sleeper costumes in the stores or was that custom made??? I didn't even have time to think about it, at the time.) There was more I wanted to put here. But, lunch hour is almost up and I got to get back on the clock. Thank you, work, for this mysterious hot spot without a reason. Not so sure about the midnight ending shift, though... Plan on visiting the library after workl Current Mood: awake (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
7:58 pm	Ultra tiny vacation. Started off with Sunday. Requested one of my many vacation days for it. Headed down to the SD meet...just a tad early. (But, not really.) It felt like the FC incident of a couple years back, all over again. Had to make a run to the near by library to verify the facts. (Just one of the reasons I bought a netbook.) Spent the first portion of the meet, assembling pieces to a fantasy version of Stratego. However, being outdoors, the wind was just strong enough to walk the pieces around the slick board. Had to put it away. Though, I did play games throughout the day, anyhow. A fairly entertaining session of Apples to Apples. Then, we swapped to the Uno deck I brought down. Eventually, that gave way to some Chess and Othello. Closer to the evening, the fursuit photo shoot started. I went a different route; Halloween costumed as Death. Wasn't alone on that. A totally black Storm Trooper also showed up. Along with, perhaps 20 suiters. All in all, a good day. An unexpected event followed; an evening at a restraurant with a fair deal of the attendees from the meet up. The food was superb. However, most of us went with some sort of party service and I wound up feeling that I didn't actually get my $30 worth of food. Couldn't tell what the total bill was. Thought it read something like $650 or more. Ouch. I certainly don't think $600 worth in food came out across the table. Kind of felt like my days at the resort. Where everything on the menu was $20 this and $20 that. And, totals were often over a thousand for a dinner. Just give me a fast food chicken sandwich for a buck-twenty-nine. The scenery of SD was drop dead beautiful. The following day was mostly for playing Wolfenstein. (Until I couldn't stay awake. I also rented the 2010 version of Price is Right and the new version of Punch Out. I thought TPiR was very similar to it's previous version and not worth the $40 price tag. (Torn jeans on a character's outfit. Would you ever see that on the show???) However, I felt Punch Out was most certainly not worth $50. It's like a modernized version of the classic NES game. Back then, Punch Out was unique and comical. A game based on reflexes and memory. Nothing like it. HOWEVER, today's market has other boxing games with a lot more interface. Which makes this modern Punch Out feel simplistic; tired. It adds a bit of graphic front end. But, overall, it's a $19.99 title, at best.) Then, snoozed until I traveled over to BW's to attempt imitating a totally amateur computer tech support member. About all I could find was a possibly dying HDD. And, that was when the PC was cooperative. After that, I took a run over to Wally's to look up replacement PC prices for BW. Not too much. The common low end eMachine's line and these Acer netbooks was about all that was below $300. Sometimes, some smoking deals come through. I'll keep my eyes peeled. I also picked up a mini PS2 to act as a replacement for my original. Only $99, brand new. Sweet. And, those surely won't be around much longer. On the way home, I decided to make an early (as in 10 pm) journey to Julian in order to purchase some warm clothes. Slept overnight in the vehicle at a trail's parking lot. Watched some MacGyver on DVD the following morning before ordering breakfast. The biggest stack of flap jacks I ever did see with sliced apples and whip cream. (Which would also be lunch/dinner.) Toured the town. Was shocked that they had next to no clothes shops, at all. But, I got a great jacket for those cold work days at the hardware store. (Of all places.) It was priced at $129...with a discount sales price of 30% off. I wanted the warm gloves that went with it. But, $40 for those was way too much. Also found a ski cap for the bargain of $2.99. Plus, a couple affordably priced gifts. But, my wallet is saying, "Spare me! Please!" It's certainly been an expensive "weekend", to say the lease. Wore the fox outfit the whole time. Got plenty of compliments. Sure. It's shallow. But, I like it. Came back to more local territory in the evening. Returned some library DVD's and learned that they now have a no renewal policy on movies. Still. 2 weeks for free is mighty generous. But, I still have to power my way through whole season sets. Tonight will have to be the complete series of Night Stalkers. So, I should get off this netbook and head home. (Probably to fall asleep to.) Work tomorrow. At least, I'm now prepared to be warm(er). Current Mood: tired Current Music: Sounds like A/C fans. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
11:20 pm	Trick or treat. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
10:27 pm	Writer's Block: Job search Are you happy at your current job? Do you think there's such a thing as a dream job? What do you hope to be doing five or ten years from now? Are you working towards that goal? View 986 Answers Interesting question. Why, just the other day, something along these lines was brought forth by a customer. Hundreds of people may circulate a day by me amidst my busy routines and I'd barely remember a face. But, she recognized my unhapiness and had commented upon both the past displeasure that I could never hide, nor my disappearance from my former department. Which leads to another associate's notice on how much I had been smiling. Hadn't even realized it. But, so true, it has been since the change. Believe in a dream job? Yes. I do believe that everyone is somehow matched to fit in, somewhere. But, I also believe that most of us aren't clued in enough to know what to truly pursue and we wind up taking what just happens to come along, just to make ends meet. Which makes me reflect upon childhood, when I'd play store keeper. So, in a sense, I guess that I always knew what would make me happy. Another childhood fantasy would be to play writer. Guess I'm making that dream come true, as well. Now, how to become a time traveler...well...the world's done stranger things... Long term goals. Do I want to remain in the job that I hold, today? Not really. Wouldn't be surprised if I am. Have a bad habit of just sticking to things that work. But, it's not where I wish to be. Instead, I'd like to work towards becoming a property owner. And, that property has to be self supporting as a money income source. I want it to generate enough to help friends that are in dire crisis for funds. And, I want my time back in order to pursue other dreams, such as writing. I may love retail.  But, it really does suck so much of my life away in a mind numbing flash. I'm now somewhere near eight years in a row in retail. Age, viewpoint and experience are mostly what I've seen come of it. The paychecks just propel me along and should be managed better towards creating a tomorrow instead of just a lusher today. Current Music: Crickets. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
11:31 pm	"You can count on it." That's what they Magic 8 Ball came up with when I asked if it was going to be a good day. Let's see... -Found that Bass Guitar controller for the 360...after searching over the whole county for one for over a week...at half the price the shelf quoted, too! (I wanted one under $30. All I could find was either $70, $100, $160 or designed for the PS2/3. Toys R Us had tons of them for $10.) -Found an unopened season set of Remington Steele at a thrift store. Over 1/3 off from what they'd sell 'new'. -Got the oil change and tire rotation done. No problems with too much work, this time. -While waiting for the service, found a rather unique physical game at the arcade that recreates that Ring Toss carnival game where you try to land a ring around a Coke bottle. Hooked the big prize for a hundred tickets, a yellow capped one, after a couple tries. (The arcade is a very cheap franchise. Anything above a tootsie roll is overblown on ticket value, almost rigging it so that one must spend a hundred dollars to earn a ten dollar prize.) -Great weather. Even heard tips that female furs are becoming more and more common in sightings around the local area. Current Mood: Laughing at Detect button. Current Music: "Hum of the box fan." (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
5:23 pm	Guitar Hero 5!!! If you've never heard of this series, then what rock have you found to hide under? The one called the Moon, perhaps? Just released, this is the greatest, most impressive version of the series, to date. It takes what the others had and steps it up a notch. We're talking ninety-two songs by almost as many artists. Improved visuals. (I'm not sure if the others had such syncing technology. Was too busy watching the note bar roll by.) There's now a "Party mode", where anyone can join or leave at will, while the virtually endless concert plays on. It recognizes the popularity of Rock Band and integrates all those options. (Mics/drum/bass guitar. It says four mics are possible.) In fact, if everyone just stays out, this party mode will give a full course concert environment. (Which, as far as I know, is a first...and a welcome option.) I am truly impressed with the advanced algorhythms that control the visuals. (Again, not sure if this was always there or not.) Each member of the band does what they are suppose to with the correct timing. The software literally is listening to the music and making the singer lip sync, guitarist pick and dance to the tones, drummer bang what should be nailed on cue, lights and effects go off to perfectly enhance the song. And, the cameras have that 'Surfs Up' hand held feel. There is also an absolute minimum wait time between songs in this mode. It's purely shuffle mode. It is missing a couple things, however. Logic to recognize when the song has a female singer, so as to change out the singer. (Very weird to see that. Though, the selections are predominantely male vocal. In carreer mode, they at least have a special guest singer for her song.) There's also a mode that tries to turn the full array of instruments into a 'fully functional' band, where you can create your own songs. I have my doubts that these 'instruments' can be as unlimited as the real things. But, having the option should lead to some great creations. (And, probably inspire some to go form a real band with real instruments, to boot.) Can't say what the online experience is like. As I never have the capacity to place any of my consoles on-line, due to bandwidth issues. Oh, and the GH series just keeps rolling along. The Fab Four are scheduled to arrive in just under a week. (As of this writing.) (Comment on this)