Returning to Red Dead Redemption after GTA V
Last night I played Red Dead Redemption for the first time in over a year. I was playing the mission where you escort a train and protect it from bandits and found it quite frustrating. About 5 minutes into the chase each time I would die in some sort of frustrating way and have to return to the beginning of the chase each time. 5 minutes doesn’t seem like very long, but repeating the same segment over and over makes it feel like forever. This is the same reason I gave up on GTA IV, I got stuck on the bank robbery mission and never felt like powering through it. I’m glad GTA V has the mission checkpoint system it does, hopefully it’ll make it easier to finish this game. I haven’t finished a Rockstar game since San Andreas.
-posted via iPad after 3 hours of sleep.
Music video of the moment: “Lust for Life” by Girls
I heard this song last week on ‘Ra Ra Riot Radio’ on iTunes radio and have been in love with it since. Great song and music video.
I hadn’t previously heard of the band Girls, and maybe you haven’t either so I’ll share a bit of information from their Wikipedia page. They formed in San Francisco in 2007 by two members, Christopher Owens (who spent most of his life growing up in the cult Children of God) and Chet “JR” White. They released two albums, Album (2009) and Father, Son, Holy Ghost before breaking up during the summer of 2012.
It’s unfortunate that they’re no longer together as I really enjoy their sound. Check it out:
Darth Gumballs Plays: Batman Arkham City 001
Darth Gumballs Plays: FIFA Manager 13
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Two of my favorite commercials right now: Domino’s / Coke Zero
Innovation runs on pizza…. Love this:
Totally in love with Coke Zero’s “It’s Not Your Fault” football commercial as well:
Sunday Ticket Seahawks Stream is down (Now fixed)
If you’re watching DirectTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket on a computer you’ll notice the Seattle Seahawks game is currently down (experience technical difficulties).
@Directv tweeted out a workaround to view the stream:
Football streamers on http://t.co/QDaZagBzUw : Turn on Close Captioning by clicking the settings WHEEL on the top left side of the player
— DIRECTV (@DIRECTV) September 22, 2013
Games on http://t.co/QDaZagBzUw stream if you turn on close captioning, through the settings wheel on the top left. Our teams working to fix
— DIRECTV (@DIRECTV) September 22, 2013
Update: game feeds okay now if you turn off close captioning. http://t.co/KTAZfl8CXe only.
— DIRECTV (@DIRECTV) September 22, 2013
It works, fortunately. Having the closed captioning on the screen is annoying, but it’s better than missing the game entirely. Hopefully they get the regular stream fixed soon.
Go Seahawks!
How I watch football / Go Ravens!
Go Ravens!
My ultimate football setup, three games at once! Ravens game on the TV on DISH, the Pakcers game on the iPad via DISH Anywhere and the Cowboys game on the Mac via NFL Sunday Ticket Digital Edition (which came with the Madden 25 Anniversary Edition via Amazon)
NFL Network Game Center / NFL Redzone, great for commercial breaks.
Darth Gumballs Plays: Deadpool 002
Fixed the mic echo this time, though it’s still a little low.
Gumballs Plays Games 