Riskening is now upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. Most of the recent changes have been done on the admin side of things though so don’t expect to see TOO much new on the front page.
– DGM-payne
December 15, 2008
December 14, 2008
Follies at Ollie’s (and other Craziness)
(Here’s a random update…ENJOY!)
So I was at Ollie’s Outlet today, it’s a clearance item place for anyone that hasn’t heard of it, and noticed more wackiness than usual (only my second time there since it popped up in my location, but whatever). We first stopped at the Christmas stuff near the front door. My Mom was looking through the christmas cards and I joined in. Everything was fine and dandy until I came across a pack of cards with a photo of two live monkeys on the front (from some zoo foundation or something). I don’t know about you, but nothing says “Happy Holidays” to me like a couple of monkeys hugging in the wilderness. Next up was the book section, which has a wide selection of bibles and inspirational titles for some reason, but that’s not where the larfs were at. You like cooking with chicken, right? Well, you haven’t EVEN scratched the surface until you’ve used the fine title “Now You’re Are Cooking With Chicken” (yes, that seriously was the title), and I only found a price in pounds on the back that only added to the confusion (c’mon brits, step it up). This combined with a DK book about cats found in the cooking section only added to my amusement. You also like puzzles, don’t you? May I recommend SNAKES ON SUDOKUS, the fine official puzzle book of the movie. Moving on…passing through one of the food aisles I noticed at the end…wait, that can’t be real…Crab seasoned popcorn, seriously? No thanks, buddy. Behind all the farce though, I did actually find a few good buys (which is the other half of the allure of ollie’s). Including a copy of Enemy at the Gates (book), Universe At War ($5 game), The Dead Zone (dvd), Suicide Kings/Wagon’s East double feature (dvd), and Blaze of Glory (some 90’s true crime movie, only picked it up because it had Bruce Campbell and only $3 like the rest).
That’s my ollie’s story of the day.
The other part of the night after I got home was spent reading up on how much the WCG200 router/modem combo by Linksys sucks for atleast a good half an hour. I got stuck with one of these when my brother moved into his own place. PLEASE do not considering buying this or any other modem/router combo if you plan on doing anything more than regular web browsing. Limiting the connections while torrenting helped me but it’s only the tip of a huge dung heap of problems (ie. this unit has been known to not play friendly with wireless, port forwarding, vpn, large file transfers, torrenting or anything else with many connections). Do yourself a favor and buy a seperate modem and router, you’ll thank me.
Ugh…
Well, good news is that a new version of WordPress is out and I WILL update it soon. Other than that, expect atleast 1 more post (more if you’re lucky) from me before Christmas.
Until then,
DGM-payne
December 6, 2008
Resident Evil 5 Demo (…hell yes)
Yesterday the lucky ducks over in Japan got a demo of Resident Evil 5 over Xbox Live while the rest of us sit in envy…well NOT this time! Fear not fellow Resident Evil fans, you TOO can try out this demo before the official US release sometime in January (supposedly), and here’s how:
What you need:
- A blank CD-R (or DVD)
- The means to burn files onto this aforementioned disc (aka CD/DVD writer drive)
- These files:
Part 1 – http://rapidshare.com/files/170750985/RE5_demo.part1.rar
Part 2 – http://rapidshare.com/files/170888054/RE5_demo.part2.rar
Part 3 – http://rapidshare.com/files/170894406/RE5_demo.part3.rar
(UPDATE: Ok, everything’s finally uploaded. Sorry about the rapidshare links but I didn’t want to kill my own bandwidth. It took a hell of a long time to upload all 3 parts so appreciate it.)
How it’s done:
- Extract all the folders and files, including “Content”, from the RAR onto your desktop.
- Open your CD/DVD burning program of choice (I used a free program called ImgBurn, but anything should suffice really…even the crappy built in ones for XP/Vista)
- If using ImgBurn, select “Write files/folders to Disc” and open the “Content” folder under the “Source” option, click the “folder -> disc” icon to begin burning. A dialog should come up asking whether you want the Content folder to be root or not, select NO. (If not using ImgBurn, select the data disc option in whatever program you’re using and burn away)
- Pop the disc into your 360 and go into the Game Library, you should see it there with japanese writing and a little 5 icon (under demos section).
There you have it, a Resident Evil 5 demo without having to mod your console or any of that other crap and little more effort than burning a disc. Everything within the game is actually in english as well. JOY!
Enjoy! 😀
(Credit goes to the original rippers and the uploader on bitgamer.com where I originally torrented it, I’m simply just trying to redistribute it a bit in a more accessable way)
