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I love AltNation on Sirius. I listen to it more than any other station. But I recently learned that I could no longer listen to Sirius internet radio because they now charge you extra for it, even if you’re a;ready a satellite subscriber. So I came up with the idea of writing a script that would automatically read songs recently played AltNation and add them to an “AltNation” user on Last.fm. Then from there I could listen to that user’s library.

Today I’ve finally put that idea in to action and created a user called AltNationFan that gets automatically updated with whatever songs AltNation has been playing recently using the Last.fm API.

As far as I can tell (I’m still relatively new to Last.fm), you can only listen to the station via the Last.fm client by adding AltNationFan to your friends list. If that’s the case, I’ll keep an eye on the account and accept any new friend requests that come in.

Am I the only one who sees this in the Left 4 Dead 2 poster?

(I couldn’t really decide what do use for the little girl as there are no girls in TF2.)

It’s that time of year again. Time for me to rant about games even though almost no one is going to read it.

Last year I ranted about games I didn’t really care for, so this time I’ll focus on what I’m looking forward too.

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Got these cards from Netflix in the mail today that have codes for a free month trial.

Go to netflix.com/tellafriend

Use one of these codes:
M360065894295
M330045894955
M380045894205
M350015894215

Expires June 15, 2009

So I’m going to write a bit about games.

So today I packed up my Wii and PS2 in to their original boxes, not because I’m moving, not because I’m shipping them, and not because I’m selling them, but because I just don’t play them anymore. Read the rest of this entry »

I made a wallpaper thing. Used this tutorial as a starter.

I know. It needs work. I have better ideas that I might try out later.

I want to watch Chuck without the gimmicky bullshit please.

Thanks.

Pros:

• You can play with your friends.
• Gold and experience you gain as a guest will be transfered to your real hero.

Cons:

• The guest is stuck using a pre-made generic hero, with the same abilities as the host. Lionhead could have done better. I can understand them doing this for the local co-op since there’s only one hero (one save file), but if they can send the hosts’s hero data to the guest online, then they should be able to send the guest’s hero data to the host to allow both unique heroes.
• The camera tries to keep both heroes on screen, but fails horribly. Again, this make sense for local co-op since you only have one screen to use, but not for online co-op.
• Game freezes when one player pauses. I had to sit and wait while the host played with his dyes and clothing in the pause screen. You can’t even see what the other player is doing in the pause menu. You just see a “<Player Name> has paused the game.” message.
• Loading screens seem to last much longer than in single player.
• If you’re not playing with someone online, but see their orb in the game, you can hear them chatting over XBL, even when they’re chatting with someone else that’s not on your friends list. This could be a pro because its easy to quickly communicate with them, “hey, wanna join me?”, but it’s a con beause it’s annoying having to hear them talk to someone else while you’re trying to play on your own.
• The guest can’t just kill anyone at any time. Only the host can turn safety off. So yes, you can kill your friend’s wife, but only if they allow it by turning the safety off.

So basically, they took the Local Co-op, which is crap, then copy and pasted it for Online Co-op, so it’s still crap.

New patch out today, but I have no idea what this one does. Co-op was already available from the patch I downloaded last Thursday.

Joystiq says that there are rumors that this patch makes you corrupt if you cheated:

“Although unconfirmed, we’ve heard various sources say that those who cheated at Pub Games start the game with full corruption, rendering you quite hideous in appearance.”

At the moment, I don’t believe this to be true, because you don’t start the game with your Pub Game earnings. You have to merge your patron with your new character after the childhood intro. Also, my character is still 100% Pure and Good after applying the patch. I’ve had him standing around Bowerstone Market (unpaused) for the past half an hour while I look for info on the web, and nothing has changed on him.

Update: Went back in to Pub Games, cheated up 50k, went back to Fable II. Still nothing changed.