Socializing on Xbox 360’s Xbox LIVE
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:53 pm by Mark
Tags: call of duty, facebook, humor, microsoft, sarcasm, software, twitter, video games, xbox
So I’m sitting down to play another friggin’ boring game of Call of Duty: World at War on the Xbox 360. I hate that game. I truly do. I play it because a few friends drag me in, and tonight, I decided try and improve my gamer score a little.
But no bones about it, I hate the game. It’s laggy-slow. It commandeers bandwidth worse than the porn-hungry neighbor who “stealz ur internets.” The glitches and screen artifacts pretty much screw up any chance of having a decent experience playing the game in multiplayer mode. The bug reporting mechanism to the manufacturer, Treyarch, pretty well leaves you open to be bashed and belittled by the game’s developers for even having the balls to open your mouth about their precious turd.
And if friends would stop playing it, so would I. Which is why I’m looking forward to Infinity Ward’s release next month: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, because Treyarch, and their patheticly overdone World War II scenarios, can suck my left nut, right nut and anus. Or, better yet, Brandon’s anus…
So anyway … About an hour ago, I was abruptly disconnected from Xbox LIVE for an update. It took a several minutes.
“Okay, WTF?”
My Xbox restarted, downloaded a few more updates. Restarted again.
By 10PM EST, I was back online, with a new tab in my dashboard.
“Xbox Preview.”
Ahh, looking around… Facebook? Check. Twitter? Check. Zune Video Marketplace? Check. Xbox LIVE News? Check. MSNBC? Check. Dillbert? Check. The New Yorker Cartoons? Check. last.fm? Well… if you can call it that.
Yep … all working … trippy … so I send out a couple of test messages on Twitter, update my Facebook status, browse friends and leave a couple comments…
Then I start screwing around with the absolute worst interface ever: The last.fm app seriously sucks. I can’t even explain “why” it sucks, except to say, you’ll have to experience the suckiness yourself to understand. Basically, if you’re looking for something easy to use, sensible, start a channel and add music to it, you’re pretty well going to be in “WTF?” land for a while.
That aside … It’s still a bunch of neat new toys. If you’d like to sign up for the “next generation” Xbox 360 Dashboard, go and register. And get one of these, because you’re gonna need it…
Why, now, I can see when this Brandon twit decides to Tweet that he’s going to take a crap … without having to log into my PC … *rolls eyes*
October 26th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Ah you are player on Xbox LIVE? We are too! x112502x is you? Why is this number? Is date perhaps? Are you a parent? And see you have Fable 2 which we play most. We can help with many achievement and perhaps Dollcatcher if you like? We add you if you permit and you talk to wife as my English not so good. 🙂
October 26th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Yes, it’s a date. No, that’s not it. I’ve already completed the game, actually.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:06 am
We saw yes 1360 very good. You must have Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. It is not stupid Call of Duty but not difficult as Armed Assault. Look forward to play you online. 🙂
October 27th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Oh, Hell yeah! The Flashpoint games are pretty incredible, and I’m interested to see how they translate to Xbox with its limited controls. Haven’t been on in a couple days, but maybe tonight.