Patrick Havens on August 21st, 2008

I read about the glitch the other day.  It showed a golf ball landing ON the water, then as Tiger Woods you could walk out and hit it.  Needless to say, it sounded like a glitch, BUT… As a response to a fan video from Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08, Tiger Woods and EA SPORTS [...]

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Patrick Havens on August 5th, 2008

CTRL-ALT-DELETE has been doing simple sketch comics sorta as “sillies” or fillers.  The occasional laugher that didn’t take the artist Tim Buckley long to throw together (well as long as the normal strip).   In these its been some entertaining jokes, one liners and chucklers…. but todays hit home because in a way its true.  The [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 21st, 2008

Playing video games for a few years now I have played with a large variety of people from kids in their teens too grandparents in their 50′s and 60′s. The main constant is the relationships that are created in playing multiplayer games. I can count on one hand the number of anti-social people I have [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 10th, 2008

Growing up I jumped from computer to computer for a number of years. At times working on multiple systems at once. In no particular order I was on computers from Apple, Atari, Commodore, Colecovision Adam, TI 99/4A* and oh yeah the Trash 80 for dos. In that time I wrote some basic programs (and played [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 7th, 2008

Super Mario Bros was one of those games that a number of kids my age…. and younger played throughout its iterations. It was also one of the most cloned and customized games. Here are two different videos of extremely hard versions of the game. This first one is impossible. Just impossible, Its like they created [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 25th, 2008

Now I had talked earlier about my search for online gaming… and how I looked over some online casinos. Well I ran across a a few interesting ones. Plus a seriously specialized ones. —- Now I did find a number of other sites that you can gamble at including a number of Free Online Casinos. [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 25th, 2008

The US Government has been cracking down on online gambling every way they can. Besides outlawing it under a number of seemingly puritanical laws, they recently forced credit card companies into refusing to accept US Citizens use at Gambling sites. But some of those sites have just started specializing. As a US Citizen I can’t [...]

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Patrick Havens on January 2nd, 2008

Okay I admit it. I didn’t get a wii this Christmas. That doesn’t mean I’m going to ignore all reviews for the games that come by… especially extremely tongue in cheek and humorous reviews like this.

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Patrick Havens on December 14th, 2007

Voters at Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2007 poll have chosen “w00t” as 2007′s most iconic word. M-W says that the word is a gamer’s acronym for “we own the other team,” but I’m inclined to think that that’s a backronym, a back-formed acronym created to explain a word already in use. 1. w00t (interjection) [...]

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Patrick Havens on December 14th, 2007

One of the gifts I had debated getting my son for Christmas was a Nintendo Wii. He’s young enough I didn’t care for a graphics power house, and he’s starting to outgrow his v.smile Children’s Gaming system he’s had for a while now, and I liked the idea of one that would require him to [...]

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