Monthly Archive for November, 2008

Online/Multiplayer Achievements Suck

Seriously. I loathe them greatly. Also, the odds that I will get 100% in Little Big Planet are infinitesimal because, let’s face some facts here, some of my friends are morons. Today I played online briefly with a Toronto friend that isn’t completely* obsessed with slapping the crap out of my adorable sackperson every second of the day but there were these weird loading/lagging moments that made timing jumps rather frustrating. Also, you people that said you friended me on PSN are pulling my leg! I haven’t seen any new requests that aren’t from people I don’t already know locally and want to strangle. You can already guess why I am not joining the rush to get Left 4 Dead… as appealing as digitally blowing certain people away with a fake shotgun may be!

*just partially. I can live with partially.

writing again

ARGH <-- sums up the last little while. I don't want to talk about it much, actually. I just want to get back to doing things I love and enjoying things as they are. The absolute shortest way I can put it is that I haven't been feeling well the last little while. Long while, actually, I was just ignoring it cause I thought it was a flu or a cold or mono again. I booked a physical with the school docs and they said I was fit as a fiddle, so I ignored it some more. I finally couldn't take it anymore and went home to see my family doc and immediately I got sent in for a CT scan and a bunch of other tests. Exciting times, I tell ya. I see a neurologist early next month. Hopefully I will get in sooner if someone else cancels. So, yeah. I've been feeling like ass and generally not acting like myself and it's a MIRACLE that I have any friends left considering the way I have snapped the last few weeks. It's so mind-boggling to me that I can be unconscious for the vast majority of the day and not feel rested at all and sometimes (more than I want to admit) just bursting-at-the-seams furious and itching for a fight. Note that if I catch any of you playing internet doctor in the comments I will be less-than-pleased!! I can manage to be patient a little while longer :)

Anyway, since it's obviously not going away any time soon and there isn't a whole lot I can do about it aside from suck it up and wait I need to get back to living my life and so on and so forth. Those of you with 360s and PS3s might have seen me pop on a few times at random hours. It's been weird. It's no secret that I love gaming but lately I haven't been able to enjoy it the same way. There are rare days when I love it (finding a Ghostbusters level in Little Big Planet and the odd remix in Boom Boom Rocket) but otherwise it's been very hit and miss. This is really troubling for me since it is the blockbuster gaming season and I've got nothing but great titles to explore in my backlog. Those of you that rapid-fire your F5 key have already noticed that I was playing around with a new theme on OA. As per usual, don't hold your breath and I'm sorry I broke a bunch of old links. I'm just trying to play around and see what strikes my fancy moving forward.

What are you all playing these days? (any system) I wanted to like Mirror’s Edge but I will likely wait until I find a cheap copy. I will also probably look for a cheap 360 copy cause the demo looked way worse on my PS3. I DEFINITELY want more LBP friends so please add LadyGuardian to your PSN friends list if you are similarly inclined. I want to check out more user created levels that other people have hearted and finally play multiplayer with people that aren’t going to give me crap just cause I’m a girl. Seriously. What year is this, people? It makes me laugh when people stop playing and end up dying just cause they had to type a/s/l or tell me off for having the sheer gall to enjoy a game online. Oh well. It just means I beat your score that much easier ;)

I lack a good title for this

I was home sick last week and barely online in any fashion. I have a doctor’s note for the school I missed and I am not particularly looking forward to my meeting with some profs later today to discuss making up tests/assignments/whatnot. Meh.

Apologies to those of you that had comments not showing up or had to post many many times before something went through. Akismet has been ridiculously hyperactive the last little while and was eating everything. I just disabled it for now and we’ll see what happens. Ignore any spam comments you do see pop up (if any) and I will nuke them individually while I decide on what to do about it later.

Also, woo! I finally broke the 10k barrier on Xbox Live :)