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Listening to: Matchbox Twenty - Unwell
Recommends: Dope Wars, Drug Wars
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If you haven't played Dope Wars or Drug Wars before, I suggest you go download it. The shit is absolutely addictive!

It started the other day at SHRDC when I borrowed Harith's Sony Clie to mess around with. Came upon this game called Dope Wars. Pretty simple game, no graphics whatsoever. Completely text-based. Started playing and I was hooked! The objective was pretty straightforward - buy and sell drugs, while staying alive in the mean streets of a certain city. You'll have cops coming after your ass while you deal with your dope.

There's a sense of pride watching your "virtual" dollars increase by leaps and bounds. Was then told by Reza that there was a PC version of it. Downloaded it the day after. This one had graphics though it was cartoonish. At least there was something to look at. Information and tips sometimes came from a character which was an old lady in the Subway. Interesting.

The following day, we were in a different lab and there I went to download the game again. This time I found "Drug Wars". More graphics and this one had sounds although I didn't have speakers. There are more cities, more weapons, more drugs and there are even Mafia who hunt you down in addition to the cops. I liked it so much I even saved the installation onto a disk and brought it home. I give "Drug Wars" TWO-THUMBS UP!

I've just finished watching "WWE Smackdown # 213". Pretty short with only 4 matches but the main reason I bought it was for the "60-minute Iron Man" match between WWE Champion Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar. Now I've never really been much of an Angle fan before this but lately, I'm rooting for him. I was even rooting for him to win this match, which he lost at the end 5-4. I guess since I started playing the newer Smackdown games, he was a pretty good character to use. Angle has also been said to be one of the most, if not THE most talented person in the wrestling business. He also won the 1996 Olympics gold medal in wrestling - with a broken neck at that. Now can you beat that?

For those who want to know - the "Iron Man" match is one where the wrestler with the most pins, submissions, KOs and countouts is declared winner. For the first time in history, the 60 minute match was on broadcast tv (in the USA at least). This was only the 3rd "Iron Man" match in WWE history, the first being Shawn Michaels Vs. Bret Hart and the second pit The Rock Vs. Triple H.

Oh, I just remembered. Someone forwarded something pretty interesting to me the other day. Egyptian Horoscope. My Egyptian horoscope is "Anubis the Protector God". Pretty interesting huh? "Anubis" - that's a name I heard before - probably read it somewhere or heard it on some documentary or movie. My bet would be "The Scorpion King" or "The Mummy" trilogy, I can't be sure. E-mail me at royalrumble79@yahoo.com if you want a copy.