Prime TV…how fucked are they?

Prime TV Australia….where do I start?
Prime win the rights to the broadcasting of the Olympics. Well done.
But what do you do with it?
You provide the worst coverage EVER of the olympics. You jump from sport to sport every 5 mins, you put 5-8 long adverts through events and you reply the same fricking swim 4-5 times a day!
Starters, if you wanted to watch a certain event, you could not watch Prime because they will not provide a days schedule of events that they will be broadcasting….oh but they do say “coming up next” which actually means in the next 2-3 hours!
If you are watching the basketball or really anything else and there is a swimming match on, well your fucked. Swimming will interupt your viewing. Annoying specially if its just for the bloody medal ceremony.
Apparantly when Prime won the rights to broadcast the Olympics, they really meant they won the right to show swimming, swimming, swimming oh and swimming. Guess what? There is a crap load of other events running and they too have Aussies competeting.
The adverts! Well you could be, as I was, watching the Opals play , think it was Serbia, and the Opals were ahead by 10, suddenly a string of ads were thrown into our face. Finally they finish only to find Serbia was suddenly 7 points in front! WTF!?!?

Now we live in the age of digital TV, bringing us the wonders of HD and extra channels. Prime TV has many channels…STd, HD, View 1, View 2 and View 3. The olympics would be the perfect opportunity to uterlise this wonder of technology. They could have their favourite, the swimming on SD, maybe the equestrian on HD, throw the shooting on View 1, Handball on View 2 and another event (or even regular TV viewing) on View 3.
But no. In their wisdom they have the same thing on all channels. Idiots. This is the one chance you have in 4 years to prove you are the leading sports broadcaster. You are just shit.

And then to top it off!

Last Sunday, the broadcast of the olympics was interrupted to broadcast the contractual viewing of the AFL. I rejoiced! I got to see my AFL for the day. It was a terrible match but that’s not the point.
Now there were some cocknockers out there who were outraged that the olympics were taken off to show the AFL. “How dare you ruin my 14hrs coverage by showing 3hrs of footy!” And they did complain loudly to Prime.
So what did Prime do boys and girls? Did they stick to their AFL broadcast contract?
NO. They have removed the telecast of this Sunday’s AFL match so we can watch more olympics! Ok so you caved to the whingy bitches, weak just weak.
So of course Prime relinquished the match to the other Free-to-Air broadcaster, TEN so we can still see the game, right?
NO. They gave it to Fox so only if you have pay tv or are at the pub, do you get to see the contracted telecast AFL game. That is just fucked.
AND of course it would have been the North Melbourne game.

This has easily been the worst broadcast I have ever seen of an olympic games.
If you want to watch more than just 3 events of the olympics, switch to SBS. There you will actually see that there actually are more than 2 countries competing and surprisingly, not every sport involves a pool!

Oh noes!!!1!1!!

During August, well for at least 2-3 weeks, I have no internet! Mrs Drakkhart and myself are moving house which of course means relocating provider, new phone lines etc..
Don’t panic too much. Sparky has allowed me to use his net at times so hopefully I can get some posting happening.
So what have we missed?

North Melbourne win another match! This time coming from behind to defeat Brisbane. This keeps us in 5th position.
This week we have the Bulldogs. I’m confident on a win. We won last time we played them *fingers crossed*

Bah! last week’s golf day was cancelled due to weather, attendance numbers and the fact that as soon as I went offline, everyone folded. So hopefully we can get a day in before next month.

I have begun a new career in an area that is very very new to me. What does this mean? Well, I am no longer surrounded by console/pc games now I have tradies…So reviews or news on games will probably drop =(
But! I have some training for work and they are sending me down to Melbourne for it. The same time as the 1st week of the AFL finals! and yes they are flying me back later so I can get in each game!

Not being able to get to the net has cost me a finals position in the Dream Team race. Funny part is, they have a ‘burger’ cup comp….the bottom 8 fight it out! so come on the Kneejerkers!

Hmm…quick movie review
The Happening: Not bad, just reminded me of The Stand too much, which I love so The Happening didn’t really bring anything new.

Kung Fu Panda: Too much hype. Funny movie, good animation. Jack Black is still a riot. Kids will love it.

The Forbidden Kingdom: Jackie Chan v Jet Li; well worth the watch. Storyline is a hollywood take of the great Chinese films like Hero. Should never let Jet Li speak in english specially comedy!

A new place to eat:
Ellacure is a fairly new restaurant in Bruce, ACT. The quick review: Eat there now!
Great food and good prices, the atmosphere was fantastic and the staff were brilliant. One of the big difference is you must order your vegetables/salads for your meals as side dishes. Odd but it works. It has a very family table, pass the peas around fell to the meal.

Think that covers is for now.

Dawn of War II….Hell yes!

Still rated as the best RTS game I have played, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War has only missed one thing….Tyranids.
And when the announcement of them never to be added to DoW, many fans were crushed. One mate actually stopped playing as he is a Tyranid player for the Warhammer 40,000 table top version.

Here is the good part! GW did say they will only add them to a DoW sequel…..

Queue the drool here->

Yes, Dawn of War II has been given a sneak peak Trailer at E3.

JOY!

Thanks Terra for the heads up

The Dark Knight is the best night!

Hollywood has made another comic to movie flick, DC Comics have released another film and there is but one question?
Is The Dark Knight the best Comic to Movie film made to date?

Simply put……yes.

Myself and a few others saw The Dark Knight on Sunday. Included in the group were 2 comic fanboys (yes, me and IEKenner), 1 ex-comic fanboy and 2 joe publics.
We heard the reviews…4 stars here, Oscar performance by Heath Ledger…best comic movie of the year….best comic movie ever…
So since critics said these things, we expected the movie to be absolute crap.
We were wrong.

Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker is the most anticipated and talked about role ever. Was it worth the hype?

Simply put….yes

Sorry Jack Nicholson your crown has been stolen. Heath’s portrayal of the Joker was sublime. The insanity and madness shone through, the manically murderous traits were clear, overall, I can definately see why the are saying it is an Oscar performance.
Christain Bale is was again a great Batman and after this one, has removed Michael Keaton as my fav Batman.
YES! No bloody Katie Holmes! Maggie Gyllenhaal is great as Rachel Dawes, bringing real character to the role.
Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent played a great role in the story telling. And then as Two Face! Damn!

Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman returned again playing the roles brilliantly. Specially Gary Oldman. As James Gordon he brought the realness and ‘human’ touch to flick. So strong a performance.

Now, how about this guy, Christopher Nolan? what, he has done how many movies now? 7…yes just 7 as a director. But he knows what he is doing. The film flows seamlessly, the character driven plot was beautifully mixed with action, surprise and wonderful effects.
I think when the Joker did his magic trick with the pencil, it just summed up the film. Expect nothing, everything and the unexpected.
Yes it is a long film at 152mins but you will be enthralled by the cinematography, the soundtrack (no surprise it had Hans Zimmer behind it) and the great storyline let alone the brilliant acting.

What was so great to see was a comic sequel that was not driven by explosions, an overload of new characters and stupid gimmicks. This film was just such a pleasure to see.

This is the best comic movie to date and even if you don’t like comics, you must see this film.

Overall:

Bear in tree meets trampoline

Make sure you have a nappy on…you are going to piss yourself stupid.

Bear - Trampoline - Tranquilizer

What’s that Skip? How good was that Pie?

Well. As if the North Melbourne Kangaroos can’t confuse people enough, they go and win against the 3rd place Collingwood Magpies
And what a win!? A quiet 1st half to by the Shinboners which gave Collingwood a 13 point lead at the major break.
And then the 3rd quarter started and so did North Melbourne!
I have not seen Firrito play a better game…and of course that was the 1st time I have benched him in my Dream Team (of which he outscored 6 of the 7 players). Petrie once again played a MVP game and would have earned the full 3 points for the Brownlow.

This game had it all for me, beat Collingwood AGAIN!, get back into the Eight and signs of some consistency.
Bout bloody time North…..but now of course you will probably be beaten by Melbourne this week because you are expected to win.

North Melbourne 17.12. 144
Collingwood 14.12. 96

Embarrassed of your toilet paper?

Have you ever noticed that most toilet rolls holders have covers or hide the toilet roll itself?

Think about it.
At your home, do you have a classic plastic shell like cover over your toilet roll? or maybe the more fancy stainless steel cover plate? Or maybe you are living wild and have no cover and have the roll there for all to see!?
For all the people that do have the covers….why? Are you embarrassed to let people know you use toilet paper? Or maybe you are to scared to let people see you buy only the brown recycled cardboard that they called toilet paper?

And what about the feelings of all the toilet paper companies that work so hard in putting pictures of puppies or dolphins on your paper to make you toilet experience more pleasant?

Expose your roll! Be wild and announce to the world that you have, use and love toilet paper!

Just think about it next time you take a seat on the porcelain throne.

Golf Day!

So after a glorious 9 holes of golf last Sunday, we have decided to make a habit of it.

So to all those out there who will be participating in the monthly Golf Day, make sure you read The Golf Page for the details of where, what and how you can earn some cash!

Next meet is:

Sunday 3rd August
9.30 start
Capital Golf Course in Narrabundah

Let me know if you can/can’t make it soe we can get the numbers right.

The Decider

Well it is almost like it was written.
Game 1: NSW smash QLD
Game 2: QLD smash NSW
Making for a decider match for the 3rd game.

Hands up who didn’t see that coming? Yeah thought so…no hands raised.

So regular drill, Labour Club in Belco - food and beer.
Lets finish this!

Hack and Slash God returns!

Well, the teasers anyway.

Diablo III finally has teasers out making all hardcore hack’n’slash fans drool.

SD Debut Trailer here
SD Gameplay trailer here

It looks good…real good. Always good to have a mindless hack’n’slash in your collection. I think the battlenet play will be awesome, as long as they fix the hack’n'cheat issues.