Whats I"m Up To

9.30.2004

Tales From the Game Journal -3

So Tuesday I picked up good old Donkey Konga cause I like music games and I like quirky Japanese games. I'm gettin the hang of it although when it gets fast sometimes I clap instead of hit the bongos, and hit the bongos when I should be clapping. Some of the songs are meh, but on the whole its a fun time, I hope other people get it also cause multiplayer bongos would be cool.

As far as Sly 2 goes havn't played it since Monday, but I plan to play a level or 2 later, I'm on episode 5 I think. When Bentley the turtle had to go it alone and try to free Sly and Murry from Prison it was so cute, poor little guy. Story has taken some interesting turns.

Uh I played the Myst 4 Demo a while ago just because I hadn't really tried anything on the comp since I got the new Video Card so I wanted to test it out. But it made me want to get back into the Myst verse since I remembered how much I love the story. It came out yesterday and I was gonna pick it up when I found out online...that its only released on DVD-Rom....and I don't have a DVD drive :-\. So I'm thinking about getting one, crikey....

Oh! I Found my Halo CD and installed it hoorah, I'll play through that game yet. And thanks to the new video card no slowdown and I can see reflections and shiney stuff.

9.23.2004

int capslocks = 5;

Sorry folks crazy schedule, plus new videogames = not much time to write and complain online, just ask friends and family I had to do all my complaining to them.

Also note, I've been going to Gamespot quite a bit recently. They have a bunch of new Community options, you can keep track of games you have and comes up with stats for your game collection, like value, average rating of the game, favored system, etc. And others can view it I've even gotten little badges having to do with my collection. I got "good taste" and "old school" which I'm proud of. They even let you keep like a livejournal, with a pretty sophisticated friend listings, and of course comments. Also they let you have a list of games your looking forward to, and games your currently playing. I've even started keeping a little game journal of sorts. I might dual post there and here, still thinking about it.

And since its been a while I havn't worried about capslocks, but I just jumped back in. Capslocks = 5.

Tales From the Game Journal -2

Why do I feel guilty about liking the Pokemon games, the Game Boy RPGs that is, I could do without Snap, Channel, Stadium, Hey You Pikachu, etc. I always feel it hurts my gaming reputation if I'm in Gamestop chattin it up, and then say can I get Pokemon Leaf Green, which I did today. It's the same feeling I got when I was a Burger King today ordering a CROISSAN'WICH®, I hate saying that word it makes me feel like an ass. But yeah I liked the original Pokemon game, The other newest one is pretty nifty also. But goddamn there are too many Pokemon, I liked when I could actually name them all on site...now i have no clue half the time, since playing Ruby I don't even see too many of the original 150.

Sly 2:Band of theives is going well I'm on the third episode. There was no boss fight at the end of Episode 2, but they saved it for 3 since your robbing the same guy again. But still less than 20% done so I still got plenty left to do thankfully. Sadly Pikmin has taken a back seat since Sly 2 showed up.

I got 2 new stamps I guess they're called in my profile on Gamespot, not really sure how they get awarded, but I feel honored. I got the "Good Taste" and the "Old-School" Stamp/Award. Feels nice to have some validation. *beams*

9.16.2004

Tales From the Game Journal -1

I bought Sly 2: Band of Thieves last night, because of dinner with the folks, and some girlfriend issues I didn't get to play last night. I had to get up at 7 this morning for my 8am Calculus class, then I had a nice 2 and a half hours to get into it. I was also dealing with a nice big headache, so Sly eased my pain a bit. Can I say how much I loved the first game (Sly Cooper and the Thievious Racoonus), so much fun but tragicly short...or maybe it was just so good I didn't want to stop playing. Such great platforming nirvana. A nice direct path, and if you get good you can just blast through it and look like an acrobat. I live for presision jumping in video games.

But back to Sly 2, I've gotten through the first heist so far and its fun times, and from that it seems like it will definetly be a longer game. And of course the GTA influence is even felt here, with the much more open environments than the first game, and more free form. The HUB areas are much bigger as i said but the main objective areas are a bit shorter, so far you spend more time getting to a level, than the level itself. I say that, but I still am having fun playing it its a good game.

Hmm I should probably stop typing this up and pay attention in my PHP class. More later folks.

9.13.2004

Just for the record

If anyone of you uses a Netscape or Mozilla based browser, I appologize. The site doesn't work very well on them...yet. Its been like that since I added all the blogger stuff on the right side, for some reason it pushes everything down and adds a line down the middle of my posts.

Also I'm banditing caps-locks again. So keep track of the current count. Your keyboard could be next!

# of Caps-Lock(s) Liberated this semester: 4

9.08.2004

Dang

Bah I was gonna just spend some time at school, and chill at the comp lab cause for some reason its more relaxing than being at the comp at home. But then I remembered I have to wash my uniform...thats right. Walmart has a company that provides and cleans the uniforms, but they are dumb. Every week I should get 5 shirts and 5 pants, but that hasn't happened in a while. Instead this week I got 2 shirts and 4 pants. So I had to wash my own pants at least once and wash the shirt 3 times. Cause I'd just wear then over again but damn...they get disgusting. But today is the last day of work this week, thank jesus. My schedule doesn't quite seem feasable anymore. Mon - Wed, up at 7 for class at 8, then when school is over I goto work till 9. Then on Thurs I don't have work till 9, but I have a class from 6 - 9:20. And then Friday I only have 1 class and no work, which I usually spend relaxing with Catherine. But then its like...when the hell do I do work?? I have the 2 hours between classes. But that has to spent a bit washing my damn uniform. Crikey....

Also, I felt my Calc teacher shared some overly personal information today, which could inspire, a new Sticks Strip. We shall see.

And did I mention I can't stop listening to MC Chris?

9.03.2004

So Frusterated

I can't deal with these people anymore, I decided to read this thread on the Bendis Board, its Bush/Kerry Election thread which i normally avoid, just because they usually get me so angry. But this one especially, because people are justr saying things that arn't true and already making excuses for why Kerry will lose. Not to mention I just can't take John Kerry talking about Vietnam anymore, everytime me mentions is in anyway, or his purple hearts someone should hit him in the back of the head, because thats all he has. Got people Saying that 90% of the country is mindless sheep, people thing their so elitist, that their ideas are just so much better than anyone elses. They like to think that "We're gonna lose because people are dumb" and not "We're gonna lose because people don't agree with us". It drives me nuts when people talk like everyone agrees with then, but for whatever reason they can't. Making excuses for the troops saying their just following orders, they don't really agree with Bush.

I don't think I'm done ranting but i have to go now...I'll add more later.

9.01.2004

Test Complete

I had a little thing on here before called Radio Blog to see if it worked on my site. It would let me give the site a kind of soundtrack to listen to of some nice tunes I could provide. It worked but It screwed with the sidebars a bit, and I couldn't get it the right color...yet, but eventually I might work it in, just because I think its nifty.
Testing