Sony WTF

So, Sony's been making a lot of bonehead moves lately, at least in the Playstation department. Well, it looks like they're well on their way to the last nail in the coffin.

It seems that Sony has come out with a new version of the highly unsuccessful PS3, the 40GB Playstation 3, which has already been released in Europe and Japan. It seems, however, that the Sony geniuses have left out the "one" advantage that the Playstation has against the X-Box: backwards compatibility. Before the PS3 and the X-Box 360 hit the market, the major issue was that the 360 had only limited backwards compatibility, whereas the PS3 was fully backwards compatible. Well, X-box is looking pretty good next to Sony now. (No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. I actually made a positive remark about X-Box. That's pretty bad for Sony).

After years of having to abandon our old cartridge games when the next system came out, backwards compatibility has always been a big deal.

Funny thing is, SCE Worldwide Studios President, Phil Harrison, was actually quoted recently in saying, "Backwards compatibility, as you know from PlayStation One and PlayStation 2, is a core value of what we believe we should offer. And access to the library of content people have created, bought for themselves, and accumulated over the years is necessary to create a format. PlayStation is a format meaning that it transcends many devices -- PSOne, PS2, and now PS3."

Yet, after the development of the new system, SCEE spokesperson, Nick Sharples, was quoted in saying, "We have made clear on many occasions that our priority is on developing innovative new features and services for PS3 and not on backwards compatibility." Notice how he didn't make any mention of the games themselves. These guys just aren't getting it.

As well, Sony marketing has once again displayed complete disregard for timing. Thing is, the PS3 barely even has a library at this point. Most people are still focusing on PS2 games. If they're going to release a PS3 only system, you'd think they'd have the sense to wait until they actually have a game base. But then, it just goes to show, once again, that they are still putting their focus on the features of the system, and missing the very point of a gaming consul: GAMES! Get a clue Sony.

Superstar of the Year is Peyton Manning

Since the beginning of this blog, I have chosen random people to feature for, "Superstar of the Week". Now, it's time for the second "Superstar of the Year". The difference is that the Superstar of the Year is someone who I actually select for a J-Dubb's Theatre tribute, as opposed to just the first name that comes to mind, like with Superstar of the Week. This year, I've decided that there's no one better to represent the year of 2007 than legendary quarterback, Peyton Manning.After the disapointment of the loss of Seattle in the previous superbowl, preceeding a very disappointing year, the victory of the Colts ushered in a much better year in 2007.

Peyton manning has shown to be not only a great quarterback, but also a great personality. And the marketing agencies have caught on to this. Everybody seems to want him for their commercials this year. If the whole football thing falls through, he could always fall back on acting.

Spanking CBS

Well, looks like the Networks are at it again, demonstrating that they don't feel the need to show any respect for the customers because we keep accepting whatever shitty excuse for service they dish out.

A few minutes ago, I was watching a game on CBS between San Diego and Denver. It was an exciting game, as San Diego was pulling a huge lead for the first time this season. Then, as the third quarter ended, they decided to switch us over to a San Francisco game. The final quarter was about to begin, and CBS decided we wouldn't get to finish the game.

Seriously, how are they gonna think this is acceptable? I just found out that San Diego won, 43 to 3. They were in the 20's when the Network took the game away. Sure would have been nice to see what happened.

Anyways, the Networks are showing a blatant disregard for the customer. This is not the first time they've done this. Many times they have given us different games than advertised, or given us an infomercial instead of showing the game that they advertised. But taking away the game we've been watching for three quarters is just low.

But that's not all. Have you ever noticed how a network will play a certain commercial every commercial break, sometimes twice, and during multiple shows, until it grates on your nerves? Or how often, these days, a network will lose the signal right at the pinnacle of a show. That didn't happen when I was a kid. What's the excuse now? Don't tell me it's from upgrading to digital; if the end result is WORSE, it's NOT A FUCKING UPGRADE.

The Television Networks don't provide us a service. Their purpose is no longer to entertain, but to drink in the steady cash flow that they aren't afraid will dry up, because we have allowed them to become arrogant. They believe that they can slap us all in the face and we'll just keep coming back for more.

And they slap us in the face, because it turns a larger profit. Thing is, we have forgotten that; we don't exist so that the Networks can turn a larger profit, they exist to entertain us, while making a profit. If they feel they've transcended the need to provide us with quality services, then there is no more reason for them to be making money.

They will continue this dehumanizing lack of respect until we knock them off their high horse. Somehow, they need to feel accountable for their "services", or they will continue to display this lack of quality.

Factoid of the Week

The nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" originated as a coded message used for recruiting pirates.

source: www.snopes.com

Superstar of the Week is the White Rabbit

Oops! Superstar of the Week is supposed to be Monday. Looks like the White Rabbit is late again.

And Now for a Word from our Sponsor

Superstar of the Week is Joe Don Baker

Factoid of the Week

A few years after a couple of kids used a made-up name to sign up for a free yearly ice cream cone, they recieved a registration notice from the selective service for their non-existant friend.

source: www.snopes.com

Tribute to the Tazer Kid

So you've probably heard by now about Andrew Meyer, the University of Florida student who was tazered during a John Kerry speech. Otherwise, you probably live inside a media vacuum, much like me, who really only heard about this by chance. Well, from what I hear, it's been pretty prevalent on the "News", you know, that show you can see on your television boxamajigger.

Anyways, my claim today is that Andrew Meyer is a hero. Why do I say this? Is he a valiant martyr who's been oppressed for exercising his right to free speech? Eh, not exactly. I have a different reason for dubbing him with the title of "hero". (Hey, dubb, like J-Dubb. I've never thought about that.)

To start off, as mentioned, former presidential candidate, John Kerry, was giving a speech at the University of Florida. At some point, the student, Andrew Meyer, burst into the auditorium, pursued by the police. He ran up to the stadium demanding to ask some questions, to which Kerry gave consent. As Kerry prepared to answer the questions, the police officers grappled Meyer and began to haul him off, jumping and hollering, and screaming, "Why are you arresting me? Help! Help!" At some point, Meyer fell to the ground, while the officers huddled around him, demanding that he comply. This lead to one of the officers tazing him, while he shouted, "Ow Ow Ow! Oh my God!"

Now, Andrew Meyer doesn't seem to be very tactful. In fact, by all accounts he's an attention mongering drama queen, something which I would not normally condone. But I'm making an exception in this case, reason being; Here we have a structured forum, with protocol up the yin-yang. In bursts Tazer-Boy, hooting like a howler monkey. Next: CHAOS!!!
That's right, Meyer brought chaos, that which fosters life, into this dry lifeless void known as a forum. If not for him, these attendees would have sat there, draining their life energy, then proceeded through a lifeless day, eventually retiring to a boring nights sleep.

So, J-Dubb's Theatre salutes Andrew Meyer, master in the art of chaos. In fact, cheers to John Kerry, as well, for being tactful during this event.

And here's some of the video footage.



and this one has some interesting stuff that happened after they left the auditorium

Superstar of the Week is Alizee

Highlander: The Source WTF?!

Dear friends, I come before you today on the brink of a grave disappointment. I have just witnessed a great tragedy which goes by the name, Highlander: The Source. This is the latest, and possibly final installment of the Highlander series.

Highlander started in 1986, Featuring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery as immortals. In the 1500's, the immortal Ramirez (Connery) took junior immortal, Connor Macleod (Lambert), from the highlands of Scotland, under his wing. Macleod learned of his place as an immortal and his destiny to fight other immortals. By taking the head of a rival immortal, one receives the life force of that immortal in an electrifying process known as "the quickening". The last immortal left standing would receive "the prize"; a power allowing the victor to affect the destiny of the human race, for good or for ill. Ramirez was bested, however, by a shady character known as The Kurgan. In the 1980's, Macleod and The Kurgan faced off as the last two immortals standing. With the decapitation of the Kurgan, Macleod finally won the prize, or so he thought.
The next movie seems to have been stricken from the records of Highlander Cannon. Highlander 2: The Quickening, takes place in the future. This movie featured the exploits of Connor Macleod while utilizing the prize, and included the return of Connery as Ramirez. This film, however, is barely worth note, and the future of the Highlander series seems to have tossed this from the story line.


The third movie, Highlander: The Final Dimension, places us back into the current era at the time the movie was made(the nineties). Connor Macleod, believing himself to be the last immortal, is proven wrong when he witnesses a quickening in the distance. Turns out there's been three immortals in hiding for the last few centuries, and they've just popped back up. So, after the loss of two immortals, it's down to Macleod and the new/old bad guy, Kane. So Connor Macleod takes Kane's head and now he's really the last surviving immortal...
right?

Apparently, there's still a whole slew of immortals left. Enter Highlander the television series. The television series casts Adrian Paul as Duncan Macleod, an immortal-Macleod one hundred years younger than Conner Macleod. Duncan wields a katana sword with a dragon hilt, almost identical to Connor's iconic katana, which has a tiger hilt. The television series added a lot of depth to the shallowly entertaining Highlander series. This series ushered in new characters such as Joe Dawson of the "Watcher Society" (an ancient society dedicated to recording the exploits of immortals), Methos, the oldest surviving immortal(aged into his thirties), and Amanda Raven, on and off immortal love interest to Duncan. She also spurred a one season spin off of the series called, Raven.

Following the six-season series, came the final box office movie, Highlander: Endgame. This movie merged the worlds and characters of the movie series with that of the television series. It concluded with the self sacrifice of Connor Macleod and the succession of Duncan Macleod as the series lead (prior to this point, there was confusion as to who the lead was supposed to be). This was somewhat sad for poor Connor, who was thought to have won the prize on multiple occasions. It was a wise choice, however, as Duncan's character simply shows more depth.

So now we're down to Duncan as the hero immortal, destined to win the prize. We're all set up for the final climactic battle between good and evil. After decades, we're ready for Duncan Macleod, to best the last immortal and win the coveted prize, influencing the future of humanity for good.

That's where Highlander The Source comes in; or where it should have. The Source is a made for TV movie set in the near future. It's a post-apocalyptic setting with a decaying world, and Duncan is a changed man (Or so the characters say). In this movie, Amanda Raven is tossed out the window, (not literally) and the Methos character seems to have resurrected from the previous movie. This movie makes no mention of anything that happened previously in the series. Not even a mention of Connor Macleod and his self sacrifice. In fact, out of several movies, two television series, a Saturday morning cartoon series, and an anime movie, this is the first Highlander not to involve flashbacks of any kind. The chronicles of these ancient beings normally tend to be riddled with flashbacks; a testament to the many lives these people have lived. This movie, however, only had flashbacks to things that we already saw happen earlier in the same movie (as if we're stupid and have already forgotten). This and the complete lack of ties to anything prior in the series, were possibly the main contributors to the shallowness of this flick.

The plot was handed to us in jumpy, attention deficit scenes which often threatened me with motion sickness. And the plot of the overall Highlander series, the one where immortals fight each other to win the coveted prize; the plot which has existed throughout the entire two decades of Highlander was left on some freeway off-ramp holding a cardboard sign. Instead, we got to see some weak plot where Duncan enters "the source" of the immortals, a glowing bunch of whatever, and gains the ability to have children. Excuse me! I haven't been watching two decades of Highlander just to wrap it all up with Duncan being able to make babies! Nothing in the series, or even in this one movie for that matter, built up to this conclusion. In fact, the only thing this movie really had to do with the Highlander series is that there was an immortal guy named Macleod.

As for the anti-climactic end to this movie we got words on the screen telling us that Duncan can now have children. That's it; two decades and everything is wrapped up with words on a screen. It was like the end of a classic NES video game where the screen says "congratulations, you saved the princess", and then the credits roll.

And finally, to the dismay of any Highlander fan, not once did the iconic Highlander sword make an appearance. Even the mistake known as Highlander 2: The Quickening was somewhat redeemed when the familiar blade was finally revealed. But not once did we get to see the sword in this latest movie.

So, to conclude, I'm going to say, Thank you, makers of the Highlander series for this slap in the face. I can always use a nice red hand print, and you have provided.

Best of J-Dubb's Theatre

Occasionally, I'll post something that I'm really happy with and people seem to like, but then over the months, it will get lost in the abyss of old posts. Over the weekend, I decided to add a best of section in the sidebar, where I have included links to some of my posts, which I determined to be the best through an involved polling process which I call, "I like them the best." So now my favorite posts can be accessed from my sidebar.

I also added a video bar at the top which has some of my videos displayed, and can be viewed from this blog. Unfortunately, I couldn't choose specifically which ones to display, but it'll work.

Superstar of the Week is the Energizer Bunny

He's been going since I was a kid.

The Network Part 2

The Network series is now complete.

The Network: part 1 of 2

J-Dubb here,

My life's been pretty crazy these last couple of months. It all started one day when I decided to go for a drive. While I was out, I bumped into several YouTube personalities, including; Smosh, thehill88, and the Winekone. The strange thing is, each of these people ended up getting hauled away buy a burly bald guy, and a skinny guy with a big red afro. Fortunately, my kidnapping wasn't on their agenda, as their boss didn't even know who I was. As luck would have it, later that day I stumbled upon the lair of the mastermind behind this operation, Lisa Nova. Lisa was holding these people hostage inside her house and was forcing them to spam people's YouTube accounts. I had no other choice but to alert the authorities. Lisa Nova was hauled off by the FBI and everything went back to normal. Or so I thought...

My journey through the YouTubiverse brought me into the world of Lonelygirl15. After the arrest of Lisa Nova, I recieved a transmission from a group called La Rezisto over my computer. According to these transmissions, I had past dealings with the secret society, The Order, which had been erased from my memory. I began to feel as if I were being watched, and I was right. Shortly thereafter, I was kidnapped by The Order. I have no memory of what happened during that time. All I remember is sitting in front of my computer, then suddenly, I was running through the woods. Before long, I was being chased by people with bloodhounds.
Everything that follows can be seen in my latest video, The Network. This story concludes my saga through the Tubiverse. It was long though, so I had to split it into two parts. Here's part one...

Welcome Freinds

Hello friends. Welcome to the new and improved J-Dubb's Theatre. That's right, J-Dubb's Theatre is under new management now.

The J-Dubb's Theatre family is working hard to give you the optimal experience.

Now, in the past, J-Dubb's Theatre has been known to ignore popular trend. The old J-Dubb held a blatant disregard for pop culture that you as fans require. The media dictates these things for the good of society, and we at J-Dubb's Theatre will be sure to feed you with everything you need in order to help you find your place in society.

From now on J-Dubb's Theatre will:

.Give frequent American Idol updates

. Inform you on all the latest diet trends

. Include the wisdom of quotes from people like Paris Hilton and Justin Timberlake

. Inform you on which products are superior according to celebrity polls

. Talk about the importance of maintaining a high credit score

. and much much more

Also, J-Dubb's Theatre is now teamed up with X-Box, the worlds most superior gaming consul

J-Dubb's Theatre is brought to you by:

/

/

/

I Figured it Out!

I understand everything now! We're all being replaced!

Viva La Rezisto!!

Somethings Happening

There's something big going down. First there were the disappearances of J-Dubb and The Orders search party. Then our own search party missed two check-ins and we were unable to locate them. Now people are disappearing all throughout La Rezisto, and sources say, the disappearances are happening throughout The Order too. People with no affiliation to The Order or La Rezisto are disappearing as well. The media won't even acknowledge the disappearances. There's a cover up going on. Whatever the deal is, there's one thing I'm sure of; The Order isn't behind this. They're victims too. The freaky thing is, these people aren't just being taken, they are literally disappearing. I've seen two people vanish before my eyes. It's only a matter of time before it happens to me too. The question is; what is the common denominator? Is everybody at risk, or only certain people? Well, I hope I'll be around to update you some more later.

Now What??

We just got word that both J-Dubb and the search party for The Order have dissapeared without a trace. We have top trackers on our team who claim that there's no evidence as to where they could have gone. Now What?

Strange Phenomena

Last night, there were several UFO reports from our search team. Almost all our guys, and gals, reported lights in the sky. Two of them reported seeing disc shaped object and three people reported a spot light over them, lighting up the forest like daylight, then disapearing. There's been much speculation as to what this may have been. Some say they were tracking devices from The Order, some say it's another resistance group, some say the government is in on the search too, and others think it's not connected at all, just a coincidence. Whatever the case, it's very curious.