Another fuckin' Nolan North game?

I'm a big PlayStation player. Not a gamer by the normal definition. I'm not someone who has all consoles from all generations. To me, exbox is not a household name. PlayStation, however, rings a bell.

Now, before I get off topic, I just downloaded Spec Ops: The Line from PSN. I began playing it and noticed right away that Nolan North is playing the lead. Another fuckin' Nolan North game? 

Whenever I hear his voice, I think Nathan Drake from Uncharted...., or Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed series......, or Salem from Army of TWO. The guy has been in a shitload of games. He even played a voice-unrecognizable character, as Le Crochet (The Hook) from The Saboteur. I didn't even know it was him until the credits rolled.

His voice has become the most recognized voice in gaming. He's the Morgan Freeman of gaming. So, having to play yet another game starring Nolan North is just another thing I have to get through. Like, beating a game. But Jesus, it's getting old.

To be clear, this is not a put down to Nolan North. I mean, to be honest, all us PlayStation gamers are a little jealous that we can't make it with Elena

Hooray for ghosts in games!

Years ago, I posted on PlayStation forums how much I'd love to see some ghosts in videogames. The post I made was shortly before SOCOM3 came out. I wanted to have Alpha and Bravo team encounter a ghost and be scared shitless. I guess Sony didn't read my post, or wasn't interested.

There were some ghosts in Final Fantasy XI, not just the ones that attacked you, but there was a ghost of a little boy in....I can't remember where, some place where teams go in to battle something nasty, and almost always get killed trying.

Today, I'm playing Assassin's Creed III, which, in my opinion, Ubisoft distributed way too early. There are so many glitches and....that's another story. Anyway, I knocking out all the Frontiersmen mission, and there was a mission to investigate a ghost at a lighthouse. I was disappointed to find it was only a sheet draped over a small tree placed on the Widows Walk. Creepy, but disappointing.

The next Frontiersmen mission was to investigate a sighting of the Headless Horseman. I'm like: Another boring fake ghost hunt. I travel to site where the beast was last seen, and found a skinny man with no head laying on the ground (presumably Ichabod Crane). Once I interacted with it, a cutscene started which showed that nearby to Connor's location, a rider, dressed in black, with a pumpkin for a head, with green light shining through a smile carved into the rind, atop a black horse, reared up as the horse belts out a whinny and the horseman's maniacal laugh echoes through the valley.

It was real! Hooray for ghosts in games. It's a welcome change from the ordinary.

From bad to much, much worse....

So this morning I reinstalled Fedora 16 so I can have a working computer until the final release candidate for 17 comes out next Tuesday.
I usually update the moment a new release is available. In the past, before Fedora 15, I would update 'cause I felt it was cool to do so. I would update, find bugs, send them in, and this would make me feel like I am making a contribution to the Linux community.
After Fedora 15, however, I update with every new release 'cause of the new features. The Gnome3 desktop environment has taken some giant leaps, with Google integration, extensions that can be installed via the web, and other really cool shit.
So, I guess I'm gonna wait 6 more days. I got a new problem to occupy me.
My PS3 has developed the BRLoD, which stands for the Blinking Red Light of Death. Apparently, this is a common problem with the PS3 "fat" models, and is popularly associated with an overheat condition. I should mention that whether my PS3 was in warranty or not, I probably wouldn't send it to Sony because their repair center never does repairs. Even if the problem is a dead motherboard battery, they receive your unit, and immediately send you another. People like me who never perform backups of game saves are SOL, 'cause the exchange unit will have a reformatted harddrive. And, if you take out your 320GB drive that has all your game saves on it before you send your defective unit in, the replacement unit won't recognize your drive. So, even though your saves are intact on your drive, the drive is now a paperweight (experience!).
There are several videos on YouTube that detail completely disassembling the PS3 to address the several causes of overheating as well as some of the incidental conditions caused by the overheat condition.
All of the procedural videos I have seen make perfect sense, and look very doable. However, most of the videos I have seen are lacking on one or more areas. One video may be explicit about the procedure, but vague about the necessary tools. One may be explicit on the how, but with no background on the why.
It got me thinking I should make my own video on the procedure. I'm afraid, however, that because I'm such a detail oriented perfectionist, I might make the video too long.
This morning I was looking for Linux video capture software. There are plenty of video editing software for Linux. There are even a few professional level video editing software for Linux. But, video capture software is scarce. I've used Kino before, but I have only used it with my miniDV camera over 1394. I'm not sure if it will work with a web camera. Cheese will capture video, but I'm not sure how versatile it is. It may not be able to capture video that would be worth editing. The search continues.
I can't believe I'm gonna be without my main source of relief until the weekend. Killing virtual characters makes it easier to deal with the idiots in the real world.