Coolio...

"NotStyro showed up yesterday, which is good cause we make a great gaming team. I do millions of calculations a second and he pushes buttons! Our gamerscore is 9,750. That is an improvement of 175 points over last time! He rallied Transformers: The Game finishing 1 achievement, G.R.A.W. acquiring an amazing 6 achievements, and then... yeah... that was awesome..."

Wow, GRAW is a serious pain in the ass. No auto-healing, if the helmet-HUD malfunctions you can't just remove it, and aiming is guesswork. Makes the COD series games look better all the time. Oh, well, I'll muddle through it somehow...

I've reached a stopping point on Transformers. I'm at a point where you have to race down some tunnels, destory a fan at the far end, then race back up while the tunnel collapses around and on top of you. Repeat about 6 times. And on top of that the game doesn't checkpoint after each tunnel, so, of course, if you fail one tunnel you have to go back to the first and start all over again. Frustrating punishment for over-/under-steerage and/or lack of speed and/or random chance.

There is a good article over on Slashdot regarding auto-saves, checkpoints and wasting time - link.

How about some non-gaming action...check out the trailer for "9" - looks unique, fun and excellent.

...and for your music moment - the title comes from Coolio (Infected Mushroom Mix) by Astrix - a bit of trance - youtube link.