Alright, so pretty much, I have no idea what's going on after I graduate in 2 months. I'm not even sure where I'm living, I know it won't be here though because I just cannot stand living with my mother any longer, ever since Dad passed away she's been making my life as close to hell as she can.

And after I figure out where I'm living, what then? I mean, sure, I've got these plans to go to JCC for a year then transfer up to MTU. But, one, what if MTU doesn't accept my transfer? I mean, I fucked up the first time and they already turned me down once. Who's to say they won't do it again? And is that what I really want? I've been saying I wanna do graphic design and shit forever, and that I'mma major in Computer Sciences, but do I really wanna do that? I mean, I really enjoy computers and stuff, but my dream that I've always wanted to do was become a film director.

However, I told myself that it won't happen, and forced myself into thinking that my only real possible path is computers. And sure, I'm good at them, but do I really want them to be all I do, every day, for most of my life? I really love this stuff, but creating films that could even come close to having the impact that some others have, that could really be something worth doing. But at the same time, do I wanna end up passing up an almost guaranteed job in the computer industry by taking a big risk and changing everything I've already decided on?

God, I wanna just fast forward the next 5 years and see how it all ends without actually having to experience it.

Seriously, M$ needs to get a good ass fucking for how much it sucks. Microsoft has always pissed the fuck out of me, from it's shitty memory intensive OS to its fucked up content delivery and payment system on Xbox live, and from its fucked up licensing shit to its piss poor customer support for nearly all of its products.

But I've dealt with all that shit without making too much of a fuss, because to be honest, it's competitors (aka Apple) sure as hell aren't much better. But at least, if I bought an iPod or a Mac, it wouldn't fucking die for no explainable reason over a year after I purchased it.  My XBox 360 Elite that I paid $480+tax for died for no reason tonight, and it will take me nearly 6 weeks to get it back from M$, also, if for some reason they can't fix mine and need to ship me a new one (which happens often) I won't be able to access my LEGALLY OWNED PAID FOR content offline due to their horrible digital media protection BULLSHIT.

I would understand if my 360 dying was a fluke. But my 360 had the RRoD (Red Ring of Death) which so far has affected THIRTY PERCENT of ALL 360s SOLD. That means that 1 out of every 3 fucking consoles that M$ makes breaks from a hardware failure due to their use of shitty parts so that they can screw their customers out of as much dough as possible.

Seriously, so many people I know have had their 360s RRoD. Mine, 2 different Josh's that I know, Matt's, one of my friends online... that's just people that I thought of off of the top of my head. It's bullshit to the maximum.

M$ has gotten so much of my money it's ridiculous. I've owned both original Xbox and a 360, bought tons of games, have 2 PCs running Vista as their main OS, another with XP, I have TONS of Halo licensed merchandise, most of the revenue of that shit went to M$ also. I own their shitty 2007 edition of Office, in which they actually got WORSE than 2003, in my opinion.

M$, some of the stuff you make is actually worth the money. The 360 is great when it isn't dead on my counter waiting for you to send a box to ship it in, and when your servers aren't fried for 2 weeks at a time, and when you aren't artificially charging $10-$15 for a game that the developer planned on releasing for free, ect. And while I'm not too big of a fan of Windows, XP was a solid operating system, and contrary to many people's beliefs, I actually think that Vista was a step up from XP, aside from it's absolutely horrid usage of RAM. I prefer Linux, but because your damn Windows is so big, I realize that if I want all my shit to work without problems I HAVE to use your shit.

Luckily, I don't have to use your shit Office 2007, I now use OpenOffice.Org, which is considerably better in my opinion, yet is also free (standard edition of Office 2007 with OneNote, Word, Excel, and Power Point = $130). Maybe once Wine becomes a bit better I'll finally dump your OS too.

Seriously, M$, you're looking shittier and shittier every time I look at you. I still think you might be a bit better than Apple for now, but that's like comparing pile of shit to a slightly smellier pile of shit. One might smell slightly worse, but they still both reek of shit.

So yeah, that game wasn't that good overall. But I've felt like playing
it lately, but I can't. Quite a while ago, Auran (the developer, along
with Game Cock, of Fury) shut down all but it's administration, and
soon after that, they shut down the Fury servers.



Now, if the game is no longer for sale and they shut down their
servers, why didn't they release the ability for people to host their
own dedicated servers? Not many people played that game, there were
only 100-200 people online at any time, but it kinda sucks having a
game that I paid $50 for being completely unplayable. The game had some
serious issues, but most of those that were complained about in the
initial negative reviews were fixed in the Age of the Chosen patch they
release a bit after launch. The game looks great graphically, even on
my decent but not great PC, and it had some really cool combat at
times, mainly the execution moves.



My point is, Auran can make a total of $0 now that they are no longer
selling the game, and that they are no longer even hosting servers for
people that already paid for the game. So why not make the game
freeware, and include some way for people to host private, dedicated
servers? The game already had a free to play version, you just were
limited in what you could do, they could have expanded that to include
all normal features, then released a small dedicated server pack for
download.



Fury Trailer showing some game play.



http://www.youtube.com/wat..ch?v=7PP-mL6yTgw



Fury Cinematic



http://www.youtube.com/wat..ch?v=2z4MyEGbxzA