Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Basketball Diaries
So over the end of last week I finished up a couple of left-over achievements from NCAA March Madness 08 and got all of the off-line achievements from NBA Live 07. Since both of these games have virtually no on-line communities, I don’t think I can 1000/1000 either of them. However, after less than an…
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Tour of Duty II
So I finished grinding out my 100 matches to pop the Tour of Duty II achievement in Battlefield 1943. In addition to finishing out a solid 200/200 on this XBOX Live Arcade title, I have been using FPS Freek stick extenders. I do feel these have helped me step up my game while playing either…
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Rock Band: Country Track Pack
So my wife helped me play throught the band tour on the Country Track Pack this weekend, and we unlocked 6 achievements along the way. I did attempt to go back and get the solo achievements for Expert Solo tour completion, but I just couldn’t bring myself to finish the tour. I am way out…
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The Best of Both Worlds
This has to be the absolute most popular game I have ever played. Why do I say that? I got more messages over XBOX Live about this game, as well as posts on Shacknews about this game. Granted they may have not been the most positive or constructive comments, however, people do notice you playing…
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Jumper
Jumper has to be the quickest 900 points I have ever gained. In less than 4 hours I had completed two runs through the game and gotten all the achievements except for the annoying Hard Target and Pack Rat achievements. I could have taken another run at Hard Target as once you have completed the…
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BOOM Goes The Dynamite
The Maloof Money Cup DLC for Skate 2 adds a quick 250 gamerscore with four achievements. The most annoying achievement to get is the BOOM Goes The Dynamite achievement that requires you to grind the left camera rig. This is not extremely difficult, but lining up the jump from the mini-mega ramp can take a…
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Battlefield 1943
Even with the server troubles that the XBOX 360 launch suffered, I was able to get in several games of Battlefield 1943. I was able to pop off half of the achievements in the first few hours of play, and this looks to be an easy 200/200 arcade game, albeit one that will require you…
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Spare Parts
Continuing my adventures with Gnar Gnar Binks in Skate 2, I was able to finish up the last Hall of Meat challenges to earn the Spare Parts achievement. Some of these were pretty straight-forward, while others seemed to be almost a little too random to be a little to frustrating at times. Even having a…
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Pull the Plug
Another Skate 2 achievement in the bag. This one had eluded me for some time as I had kept overlooking the entrance to the last fountain. I have been shredding it up in Skate 2 over the past week getting some of the achievements I didn’t pick up during my first play-through, as well as…
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When the Stars Go Blue
I guess as long as you get a “pool made out of Unicorn bones” it’s ok if Tim McGraw butchers your song and makes it more popular than your version.
Got any book recommendations?