Randomly Crap Out Your Opinions Thread

[clashcityrocker10]

I don't mind Call of Duty as a way to kill some time when the games get released, but I can't get into it much beyond that. I didn't even play the multi-player on the last game, just borrowed my brother's copy and went through the campaign.

[instantdeath999]

I actually prefer the single player to COD over the multiplayer. I never could get into most online games, though I've been playing a decent bit of online Mortal Kombat lately.

[Ultimatum]

While scores for FPSs are fairly high, a lot of these magazines also tend to award high scores to story-driven games as well. I might disagree with a lot of scoring, but high scores generally tend to be a great barometer for determining what games I will and won't like. I can't say the same of any music publication or critic.

[Onslaught_fei]

http://www.rocketscienceaudio.com/Ro...4/Default.aspx

Been watching Memphis Hates You 3 festival all night. Gypsyhawk is next. Dirty Streets atm. Check it out. Might not work in Firefox. Chrome or IE best.

[TheRollingBones]

I think I really, really need someone to explain all the hype about Daydream Nation to me. I haven't heard it in a while, and I'm nearly done listening again, and I still don't see all the insane praise it gets. Maybe it's because I'm not overly familiar with the noise genre (nor am I particularly fond of it), and I don't know it's influence and stuff, but I just don't hear it. I've listened a good 5 or 6 times, but I just don't get it.

Don't get me wrong, it's a very good album, but it just gets so much praise that I always feel a little disappointed, or like I'm missing something every time I hear it. I mean p4k gave it the #1 album of the 80's. (lol p4k, I know, but still). What's all the hub bub about?

[Ultimatum]

It's about as perfect as Alternative gets outside of Doolittle.

[instantdeath999]

On reviewers: Yeah, no question music critics are as bad as it gets. I really don't like critics in general, though film critics and literature critics tend to have a bit more of an idea of what they are talking about. Still, I occasionally feel like I'll vomit if I even read Roger Ebert's name.

On Daydream Nation: Well, it's hard to tell you "this is exactly why you're not liking the album". If it doesn't click even after awhile, it doesn't click. Sonic Youth isn't exactly music I can get emotionally invested into, like I can with some other alternative acts (The Replacements, The Smiths, etc.), but they were damn good at what they did.

Daydream Nation is almost the Velvet Underground & Nico of the 80's. Not for everybody, but pretty much at the peak of its genre. The best advice I can give is to ignore the hype... and that goes for pretty much everything.

[afterstasis]

I either have a stomach virus or the guy I buy my corn and potatoes from is waging some really nasty biological warfare on me.

[afterstasis]

They say stuff like cancer and AIDS are amongst the most extreme internal suffering, but how can it get worse than this?

[afterstasis]

Yeah, you can be gay and not have AIDS, shut up you goobers.