Microsoft recently held a press event, mostly for the upcoming Xbox 360 console, in Amsterdam. Firstly I'd like to say that I can't imagine more interesting conversations between game journalists than those that likely occurred at this convention in Amsterdam. Secondly, we now have a flood of media to consume of the games coming out in a month and a half.
Most importantly, Bioware, maker of the best RPGs around, announced a new unique game ip for the 360 at the event called Mass Effect. Here's the official site, which includes a trailer. Voodoo Extreme also snagged some hot pics: 1, 2, 3, and 4. This game will be awesome. Trust me on this.
Silicon Knights made one of the few games that you really had to play if you had a Game Cube, Eternal Darkness. In fact, it was one of the few that if you didn't get to play it, you really missed out on something special. That said, they have in the past had some problems with completing their games in a timely fashion. Still, they've announced an exclusive game for the 360 and I'm sure that when it comes out it will be great. 1, 2, 3, and trailer.
IGN has an interesting interview with Bethesda, the maker of the totally awesome looking game The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.
Gamecloud has a nice collection of pics from 3rd party games.
Gamespot has word that the launch lineup, that is, the games that will be available on Day 1 of the Xbox 360 launch, will be finalized very soon.
Finally, though there's a lot of speculation about when Halo 3 will launch, Robbie Bach, head of MS' entertainment division, just said in an interview that they'll ship it when it's done and not sooner. Sure, there will be pressure to get it done for the PS3 launch, but given that there's no hard launch date for the PS3 it's more likely that they'll launch sometime within six months than on the actual day. Better to be polished and complete than on any specific day.
Thanks to VE and EA for the links.
"You don't have a clue / what it is like / to be next to you. / I'm here to tell you / that it is good / that it is true"
October 05, 2005
I Hear EA Kills Babies Too
What happens when all the competition goes away? This happens. Madden '06 on the PSP is evidently kind of quirky, in that there's a quirk that shuts the entire game system down. Apparently they've released several "fixes" that don't so much, you know, fix anything, the latest being the "final and official" fix.
This problem has been known about online for at least a couple weeks already, and if you don't think EA and Sony have known about it a lot longer you're crazy. Think they've stopped selling the game at retail or at least warned potential customers that the game they're going to spend $50 on doesn't exactly work?
Tycho makes a good point that, though every console maker certifies the games that get released, if you're Sony and you've got a handheld system that hasn't exactly caught on and a behemoth like EA wants to release a faulty game on your system, you might argue less than hard for some QA.
"A green and yellow basket / Sent a letter to my baby / On my way I past it"
This problem has been known about online for at least a couple weeks already, and if you don't think EA and Sony have known about it a lot longer you're crazy. Think they've stopped selling the game at retail or at least warned potential customers that the game they're going to spend $50 on doesn't exactly work?
Tycho makes a good point that, though every console maker certifies the games that get released, if you're Sony and you've got a handheld system that hasn't exactly caught on and a behemoth like EA wants to release a faulty game on your system, you might argue less than hard for some QA.
"A green and yellow basket / Sent a letter to my baby / On my way I past it"
Evidently We're Supposed To Post More
Our adoring fans have spoken, and we have heard. More posts for you all!
First up we have a link from Rob, which builds upon the greatest creation ever, the Banana Phone. Here it is, the Banana Phone Sequel.
Between this and a link Rob will send me later, I'm going to give him 20 Ra points because it is increadibly awesome.
"Too alarming now to talk about / Take your pictures down and shake it out."
First up we have a link from Rob, which builds upon the greatest creation ever, the Banana Phone. Here it is, the Banana Phone Sequel.
Between this and a link Rob will send me later, I'm going to give him 20 Ra points because it is increadibly awesome.
"Too alarming now to talk about / Take your pictures down and shake it out."
October 03, 2005
Two things that make me happy
Season two of Arrested Development is out on the 11th.
Batman Begins follows a week later.
And Amazon is offering them both at an obscene discount.
Batman Begins follows a week later.
And Amazon is offering them both at an obscene discount.
How short a shortlist?
Bush's nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is one Harriet E. Miers. Never heard of her? That's okay: she's never been a judge. But she is the White House counsel, and the person in charge of finding a nominee! Readers might recall that Dick Cheney was in charge of finding Bush's running mate in 2000.
No-one else has commented on it, so maybe this is just me, but isn't it weird that Roberts was named almost immediately after Day O'Connor announced her resignation, and then re-nominated to replace Chief Justice Rehnquist? It was pretty obviously that Rehnquist was on his way out; if Bush wanted a Chief Justice Roberts, why didn't he just nominate someone else on his list of Supreme nominees? Could it be that Roberts WAS the list? If so, was this due to some strict requirement of the nominees (neither Roberts nor Miers has any real history on the bench that might indicate their ideology), or the same moderate to severe incompetence this administration has shown time and again ("oh, crap, he died. guess we really do need to find somebody to replace him.")?
Weird.
No-one else has commented on it, so maybe this is just me, but isn't it weird that Roberts was named almost immediately after Day O'Connor announced her resignation, and then re-nominated to replace Chief Justice Rehnquist? It was pretty obviously that Rehnquist was on his way out; if Bush wanted a Chief Justice Roberts, why didn't he just nominate someone else on his list of Supreme nominees? Could it be that Roberts WAS the list? If so, was this due to some strict requirement of the nominees (neither Roberts nor Miers has any real history on the bench that might indicate their ideology), or the same moderate to severe incompetence this administration has shown time and again ("oh, crap, he died. guess we really do need to find somebody to replace him.")?
Weird.
Politics and Catholic academia
I'm not going to talk about the purge of 'homosexuality' from Catholic seminaries; the Church authorities can exclude whoever they want, of course, and I can think it's reprehensible and that's that.
What I do want to talk about the environment here at this most famous of Catholic-owned universities. We are, of course, not run directly by the Church -- while the people at the top of the hierarchy are all priests, they're only in charge in the most abstract sense, and faculty and students are free to hold and articulate whatever views we happen to have. That said, the vast majority of people in the philosophy department (grad students and faculty) are some species of Christian, with the bulk of those Catholic. We're also a relatively conservative body, politically speaking: picking out a member of the department at random, odds are relatively good (somewhere between 50% and 65%, I'd say) that they'll believe (a) abortion is wrong, (b) sex outside of marriage is wrong, and (c) homosexuality is wrong.
So, pretty much everyone is bound to have an opinion, more or less complicated, on these inspections, and everyone is extremely curious about what everyone else thinks. But this isn't something that people are comfortable just talking about: two friends in the department common room, or sharing a coffee in the busy cafe just off campus, will discuss it, but it isn't something that comes up in classes or between acquaintances. Academics, for once, are surprisingly reticent about expressing their opinions!
What I do want to talk about the environment here at this most famous of Catholic-owned universities. We are, of course, not run directly by the Church -- while the people at the top of the hierarchy are all priests, they're only in charge in the most abstract sense, and faculty and students are free to hold and articulate whatever views we happen to have. That said, the vast majority of people in the philosophy department (grad students and faculty) are some species of Christian, with the bulk of those Catholic. We're also a relatively conservative body, politically speaking: picking out a member of the department at random, odds are relatively good (somewhere between 50% and 65%, I'd say) that they'll believe (a) abortion is wrong, (b) sex outside of marriage is wrong, and (c) homosexuality is wrong.
So, pretty much everyone is bound to have an opinion, more or less complicated, on these inspections, and everyone is extremely curious about what everyone else thinks. But this isn't something that people are comfortable just talking about: two friends in the department common room, or sharing a coffee in the busy cafe just off campus, will discuss it, but it isn't something that comes up in classes or between acquaintances. Academics, for once, are surprisingly reticent about expressing their opinions!
October 02, 2005
The Worst Opinion Piece Ever
Don't have time to break this down now, but if there is serious disagreement in the comments that this editorial isn't among the most rediculously dumb editorials in a good long time I'll be happy to tear it apart later, though Amanda does it nicely.
"I've done no harm, I keep to myself / There's nothing wrong with my state of mental health / I like it here with my childhood friend / Here they come, those feelings again"
"I've done no harm, I keep to myself / There's nothing wrong with my state of mental health / I like it here with my childhood friend / Here they come, those feelings again"
October 01, 2005
Rabbit!
This is an ancient tradition (for some definition of 'ancient'), and a game that my mom's family has been playing since she was a little girl. It's very simple, and we're going to adopt it here, with 'internet variation rules'.
The first person to post a comment with just the word 'Rabbit!' in it in the first post of each month gets 15 Ra points. For example, the first post of this new Octoberish month is MosBen's review of Serenity below. The first person to comment in that thread with the word 'Rabbit!' wins, and gets 15 points.
The first person to post a comment with just the word 'Rabbit!' in it in the first post of each month gets 15 Ra points. For example, the first post of this new Octoberish month is MosBen's review of Serenity below. The first person to comment in that thread with the word 'Rabbit!' wins, and gets 15 points.
Running On Empty
Ok, this is the review of a fan, so take whatever grains of salt now. The way that I know that this is a fantastic movie is that I don't exactly know how I feel about it. On the one hand it packed everything I thought I wanted into a few hours and made me bite my nails more than once. On the other hand I hated moments of the film, and it wasn't necessarily because I disagreed with the direction the story took. The best way I can sum up my feelings is in relation to what some of us were talking about after the film: comic books. There is a strain of comics where the goal is to entice the visual sense; to show the most visually appealing characters and to portray the most exciting scenes. On the other hand there are comics that appeal more to the people that are struck by the characters presented and the words they say. Serenity is of the second category. Sure, there's plenty of visual pornography and it's done rather admirably, but the core of the movie is in the complex and often troubling characters and situations that the movie shows you.
Like all Joss Whedon works, nothing comes out the way you would think it would or would want it to. Nothing is clean; everything is messy. Every triumph is met with equal loss. You walk out of the theater thinking that you won but troubled by the thought in the back of your mind that you might have actually lost and just don't know it yet.
This is the mark of a true masterpiece. When you walk out of Forrest Gump you know how you're supposed to feel and how you actually feel. The same is true of Schindler's List or Titanic. When you watch Good Fellas you're not necessarily sure how you're supposed to feel, and that's what Serenity gives you; uncertainty. I love this movie and hate it. That's how I know it's good.
"Love is always the verb / When the moments have gone / From our creation / All over the world tonight / The young fires have burned / And now the heat is on / With this frustration"
Like all Joss Whedon works, nothing comes out the way you would think it would or would want it to. Nothing is clean; everything is messy. Every triumph is met with equal loss. You walk out of the theater thinking that you won but troubled by the thought in the back of your mind that you might have actually lost and just don't know it yet.
This is the mark of a true masterpiece. When you walk out of Forrest Gump you know how you're supposed to feel and how you actually feel. The same is true of Schindler's List or Titanic. When you watch Good Fellas you're not necessarily sure how you're supposed to feel, and that's what Serenity gives you; uncertainty. I love this movie and hate it. That's how I know it's good.
"Love is always the verb / When the moments have gone / From our creation / All over the world tonight / The young fires have burned / And now the heat is on / With this frustration"
September 30, 2005
Geekify Your World
You've all got seven hours left to enter the Geekify Your World contest before it's all over and the Ra points for September are locked up and finalized. Remember, it's a lot of points at stake and you'll get an entire post dedicated to your glorious victory. Right now Drew is the only contestant, which means he's going to get points no matter what unless at least two of you enter with killer entries. So what you got chumps? You gonna get steamrolled like this?
"Nothing you can know that isn't known / Nothing you can see that can't be seen"
"Nothing you can know that isn't known / Nothing you can see that can't be seen"
TGIFR10
Same deal as ever, load up a list of your mp3s, set the player to random, and post the first ten results in the comments. Just don't alter the randomly selected song list in any way, particularly in an attempt to alter the list to make it more socially acceptable.
Song - Artist
1. Gimmie Shelter - The Rolling Stones
2. Grandes Études de Paganini, No 3, La Campanella - Liszt
3. Friendship - Tenacious D
4. Fuck You Lucy - Atmosphere
5. Tomorrow - Stratovarious
6. Sky Is Falling - Blackalicious
7. Hello Helicopter - OSI
8. Side Of The Road - Beck
9. Kashmir - Led Zeplin
10. Never Understand - Angra
"She swore that she loved me, no, never would she leave me / But the devil take that woman, yeah, for you know she tricked me easy"
Song - Artist
1. Gimmie Shelter - The Rolling Stones
2. Grandes Études de Paganini, No 3, La Campanella - Liszt
3. Friendship - Tenacious D
4. Fuck You Lucy - Atmosphere
5. Tomorrow - Stratovarious
6. Sky Is Falling - Blackalicious
7. Hello Helicopter - OSI
8. Side Of The Road - Beck
9. Kashmir - Led Zeplin
10. Never Understand - Angra
"She swore that she loved me, no, never would she leave me / But the devil take that woman, yeah, for you know she tricked me easy"
Browncoaaaaats, Mount Up!
Serenity opens today, and I expect you all to be out there seeing it. To get you ready, I want you all to know what the goal is here. We're not satisfied with one successful movie, no sir. Here's what we Browncoats are about, son. A Big Damn Trilogy.
I also needs to give a shout out to Joy, who's in birthdayland today. An auspicious day indeed!
"A secret yearning lurks inside / Like a dream trying to hide / Another time, another space."
I also needs to give a shout out to Joy, who's in birthdayland today. An auspicious day indeed!
"A secret yearning lurks inside / Like a dream trying to hide / Another time, another space."
DeLay Is Out
This is old news by now, but I at least wanted to cover it a little here even though Drew has it pretty well covered. Tom DeLay has been indicted by a Texas D.A. and has therefore had to step down from his leadership position under the rules passed by the Republicans in the 90s. Before you pat them on the back you should keep in mind that a few months ago they were ready to get rid of the rules in order to keep DeLay in.
The more interesting part of the story for me is how quickly he was replaced by Roy Blunt of Missouri. Makes sense that they'd want leadership quickly, right? Well, the rumor on the internet is that David Dreier of California was actually in line for the spot, but got passed over. According to the rumor, DeLay didn't expect to be on the mat for long and didn't want someone in his seat that was going to be there that he couldn't get out later and Dreier fit that description. Why then would they go for Blunt, who carries a lot more weight in the party and probably isn't going to be pushed aside? Evidently, and this is so widely believed by people of multiple political stripes that I tend to believe it, Dreier is gay and has had a long term relationship with another man. There were other reasons listed, being pro-choice and from Southern California, but man even having homosexuality on that list sickens me. Seriously, that's just terrible.
"Ma, Ma--look what I did, Ma. Look what I did to my hands, I broke 'em. /You gave me the stone, gave me the chisel, didn't say how to hold 'em."
The more interesting part of the story for me is how quickly he was replaced by Roy Blunt of Missouri. Makes sense that they'd want leadership quickly, right? Well, the rumor on the internet is that David Dreier of California was actually in line for the spot, but got passed over. According to the rumor, DeLay didn't expect to be on the mat for long and didn't want someone in his seat that was going to be there that he couldn't get out later and Dreier fit that description. Why then would they go for Blunt, who carries a lot more weight in the party and probably isn't going to be pushed aside? Evidently, and this is so widely believed by people of multiple political stripes that I tend to believe it, Dreier is gay and has had a long term relationship with another man. There were other reasons listed, being pro-choice and from Southern California, but man even having homosexuality on that list sickens me. Seriously, that's just terrible.
"Ma, Ma--look what I did, Ma. Look what I did to my hands, I broke 'em. /You gave me the stone, gave me the chisel, didn't say how to hold 'em."
Lots Of Blogging To Do
Ok, lots of posts to get out in not much time. First let's hit this post over on Pandagon by Amanda. You know, I am sympathetic to the arguments against voting for Roberts, and I certainly don't like him as a Justice (just look at my initial thoughts to his nomination), but I can't help but get a little annoyed when people on the left jump all over Democrats for choosing an actual strategy and sticking to it when they haven't offered a real alternative strategy. Here's the current Democratic strategy as I see it:
1)Roberts was going to get confirmed anyway. He's good telegenic, has a really great looking resume, and no matter what the Republicans have the votes not matter what.
2) Rehnquist was a really conservative justice and even if Roberts is super conservative his votes probably won't switch the makeup of the court on many, if any, major decisions. Plus, there was no way in Hell Bush could nominate a moderate for Rehnquist's seat even if he wanted to.
3) Most Americans agree with things like Roe or Brown v. Board, but they hate politics. It will be far easier to make people interested in fighting off a real conservative for O'Connor's seat than Rehnquist's seat.
4) If the Democrats made it clear during confirmation that they didn't like Roberts at all, but voted for him anyway, they can fairly easily deflect charges of being obstructionists and can more effectively fight against a distasteful nominee for O'Connor's seat.
Yeah, it would have been nice to not have Roberts as Chief, and voting for a nominee you don't like is never an easy thing to swallow, but just saying that anyone that voted for him is on your shit list seems awefully short sighted to me. What good would it have done to the big picture if all the Democrats had voted no? The strategy as I see it has lots of value in the long term, what is the long term value here?
" 'Pictures at an Exhibition' played as he stood in his trance / Staring at his inhibitions / All the time believing / That it call came down to nothing but this chance."
1)Roberts was going to get confirmed anyway. He's good telegenic, has a really great looking resume, and no matter what the Republicans have the votes not matter what.
2) Rehnquist was a really conservative justice and even if Roberts is super conservative his votes probably won't switch the makeup of the court on many, if any, major decisions. Plus, there was no way in Hell Bush could nominate a moderate for Rehnquist's seat even if he wanted to.
3) Most Americans agree with things like Roe or Brown v. Board, but they hate politics. It will be far easier to make people interested in fighting off a real conservative for O'Connor's seat than Rehnquist's seat.
4) If the Democrats made it clear during confirmation that they didn't like Roberts at all, but voted for him anyway, they can fairly easily deflect charges of being obstructionists and can more effectively fight against a distasteful nominee for O'Connor's seat.
Yeah, it would have been nice to not have Roberts as Chief, and voting for a nominee you don't like is never an easy thing to swallow, but just saying that anyone that voted for him is on your shit list seems awefully short sighted to me. What good would it have done to the big picture if all the Democrats had voted no? The strategy as I see it has lots of value in the long term, what is the long term value here?
" 'Pictures at an Exhibition' played as he stood in his trance / Staring at his inhibitions / All the time believing / That it call came down to nothing but this chance."
September 29, 2005
October is a good month for evil
and for good. And neutral. Hooray!
Black & White 2 has gone gold (finally!), and goes on sale next week.
City of Villains is in closed beta, and there are rumours that it will ship at the end of the month.
This is extremely frustrating news. Not only are long-anticipated sequels to two of my favourite games being released in the same month, the period of time from mid-October to late November (Fall Break to Thanksgiving) is usually one of the busiest of the entire year.
Black & White 2 has gone gold (finally!), and goes on sale next week.
City of Villains is in closed beta, and there are rumours that it will ship at the end of the month.
This is extremely frustrating news. Not only are long-anticipated sequels to two of my favourite games being released in the same month, the period of time from mid-October to late November (Fall Break to Thanksgiving) is usually one of the busiest of the entire year.
September 28, 2005
CA Prop 73
In just over a month, Californians will be voting on Proposition 73, which will, if passed, require some form of parental consent for teenage women seeking an abortion. Here is an excellent summary and response to a great discussion on these, including links to the previous participants.
Hugo's response is essentially to state that his liberalism trumps his Christian communitarianism in this case--he isn't even defending that value ranking, so much as explaining it. Again, I approve of this, but the communitarian in me thinks we can and should do better. I'd like to suggest that there are good communitarian reasons to oppose initiative 73, and that while Russell identifies a problem with liberal individualism, he repeats the error at another level of abstraction. Liberals may be guilty of reifying and overstating the value (both descriptive and moral) of individual autonomy; but his brand of communitarianism reifies the value (again, both descriptive and moral) of familial autonomy.
Creationismtastic!
Ah, Creationism. It's like a legitimate scientific discipline, only except for the way it's grounded on anti-intellectualism and hence not in any way scientific.
If you haven't heard, Hearings have started concerning the Dover, PA, school board's decision to require the reading of a disclaimer in all biology classes before studying evolution.
But there's more! Seattle's own Discovery Institute, one of the modern leaders in politicizing science education, has started a blog to serve as their internet soapbox. Do check out the discussion over at Pandagon, which provides excellent demonstrations of the cliches and prejudices of both sides.
One of the major problems is how much of this debate gets turned into semantics -- what counts as 'science', what exactly is a 'theory', and so on. As I argued some years back, both Intelligent Design and a more literalist Abrahamic Creationism aren't worth crap even if they're considered full-blooded scientific theories. In particular, the physical evidence for ID is precisely the same as the physical evidence for a completely materialist theory of natural selection, and ID includes an argument from ignorance that's antithetical to the scientific spirit.
ID shouldn't not be taught because it's religion in disguise; it should not be taught because it's bad science.
That said, someone can still have good subjective reasons for rejecting the naturalism of science as anything but a methodological principle, but this is entirely compatible with the methodological naturalism of the working scientist and the high school bio classroom.
(NB The essay linked to above is not to be taken as an expression of my current views on anything, except to the extent that it falls in line with the outline I just gave. I was grappling with a sort of positivism at the time, which I have since left behind.)
If you haven't heard, Hearings have started concerning the Dover, PA, school board's decision to require the reading of a disclaimer in all biology classes before studying evolution.
But there's more! Seattle's own Discovery Institute, one of the modern leaders in politicizing science education, has started a blog to serve as their internet soapbox. Do check out the discussion over at Pandagon, which provides excellent demonstrations of the cliches and prejudices of both sides.
One of the major problems is how much of this debate gets turned into semantics -- what counts as 'science', what exactly is a 'theory', and so on. As I argued some years back, both Intelligent Design and a more literalist Abrahamic Creationism aren't worth crap even if they're considered full-blooded scientific theories. In particular, the physical evidence for ID is precisely the same as the physical evidence for a completely materialist theory of natural selection, and ID includes an argument from ignorance that's antithetical to the scientific spirit.
ID shouldn't not be taught because it's religion in disguise; it should not be taught because it's bad science.
That said, someone can still have good subjective reasons for rejecting the naturalism of science as anything but a methodological principle, but this is entirely compatible with the methodological naturalism of the working scientist and the high school bio classroom.
(NB The essay linked to above is not to be taken as an expression of my current views on anything, except to the extent that it falls in line with the outline I just gave. I was grappling with a sort of positivism at the time, which I have since left behind.)
Just A Reminder
Friday is the last day of the month, which means you've got just a couple more days to submit your geekified songs. I want to be clear that you need to submit here, and not in this post's comments. There are a lot of points riding on this contest, enough so that at this point just about all of the contestants could take the lead if they submitted something. Of course, as I'm writing this only Drew has submitted anything, so it doesn't look good for any upsets...
"At night I would pray for this / Then wonder if God heard at all / For the chances I've had are now long gone / And that star is no longer wished upon / For on this night it seems too far away."
"At night I would pray for this / Then wonder if God heard at all / For the chances I've had are now long gone / And that star is no longer wished upon / For on this night it seems too far away."
September 27, 2005
Here's A Good Tip
Every once in a while I come across a cool song or video that loads in Firefox, my web browser of choice, but doesn't give me the option to save the song or video as a file to my hard drive to be used at any time. The most recent instance of this problem was my recently discovered "Old Glory Insurance" video, which loads in Firefox with the Quicktime plugin, but doesn't let you save the video as a quick time file. Here's how you can make your own files.
The first, and most annoying, problem is finding out where Firefox caches files. This is troublesome because they don't want you to find out where they cache files precisely so you can't keep stuff that's supposed to be streamed.
Step 1: Open a Firefox browser and type "about:cache" in the command line.
Step 2: Go Start --> Run --> and then copy and paste the "Cache directory" which appears under "Disk cache device"
Step 3: This should bring up your Firefox cache. Most of these files will be under 100 kilobits, so just go through the files and find the file that's around the right size. Music files will be a handful of megabytes, videos will be several, probably over ten. If you really want to make it easy on yourself, open a Firefox browser and go to Tools --> Options --> Privacy --> Cache, and then clear your cache. After your cache is cleared, load up your video or music file in another Firefox browser, let it load completely, and it should be the only substantially large file in your cache.
Enjoy the keeping of things that you're not supposed to be able to...
"She never really had a chance / On that fateful moonlit night / Sacrificed without a fight / A victim of her circumstance"
The first, and most annoying, problem is finding out where Firefox caches files. This is troublesome because they don't want you to find out where they cache files precisely so you can't keep stuff that's supposed to be streamed.
Step 1: Open a Firefox browser and type "about:cache" in the command line.
Step 2: Go Start --> Run --> and then copy and paste the "Cache directory" which appears under "Disk cache device"
Step 3: This should bring up your Firefox cache. Most of these files will be under 100 kilobits, so just go through the files and find the file that's around the right size. Music files will be a handful of megabytes, videos will be several, probably over ten. If you really want to make it easy on yourself, open a Firefox browser and go to Tools --> Options --> Privacy --> Cache, and then clear your cache. After your cache is cleared, load up your video or music file in another Firefox browser, let it load completely, and it should be the only substantially large file in your cache.
Enjoy the keeping of things that you're not supposed to be able to...
"She never really had a chance / On that fateful moonlit night / Sacrificed without a fight / A victim of her circumstance"
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