Published on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 .
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 :)
Published on Sunday, October 19, 2008 .
I went out for dinner and I could finally see my breath in the air, woo! :)
Now for some random notes cause I haven’t been studying today as much as I should have been:
Rolling Bomber Special. Some people love it while some just think ‘meh’. I am firmly in the ‘love it’ camp. I want a movie!
Uh, hmmmm…. people who know me know I love me some Sakura. Alpha 3 ftw! I have it on good authority from fighters I trust that this game is art in motion and all my worries will vanish as soon as I get my hands on it. That doesn’t change how much her pic next to the health bars is weak and that she seriously looks like a guy :(
And if you are one of those people that has that insane need to dress up your dog this Halloween, at least do it with class! ;)
Published on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 .
Re-freakin-diculous Portal Speedrun. Seriously.
The player can’t seem to sit or stand still for a single solitary second but I guess that comes with the mentality for attempting a speedrun. Spoilers abound if you haven’t played through Portal in the first place (and why not, may I ask?) and the video does include GLaDOS singing Still Alive with the end credits. The player also spends just as much time outside the map as in it and I can’t imagine how long this took to figure out.
And now I want to play through Portal again.
Published on Saturday, September 27, 2008 .
For Serious. It sorta screams shovelware. I like Gordon Ramsay but you couldn’t pay me to watch Hell’s Kitchen so I’m sure as heck not interested in playing a video game about it.
Published on Saturday, September 27, 2008 .
A friend drove me to his house earlier today since we were hanging out off our campus — strikes and picket lines don’t make for the best background scenery — and it all started out well enough. My DS Lite has been accompanying me everywhere thanks to Final Fantasy IV DS and I’ve been gaining levels in the Lodestone Cavern cause the Dark Elf just ticks me right off. After what Mythril gear cost me I can’t wait to whack him to death with it! I’m at the point where I can one-shot everything in the cave so that’s probably a good start. Cecil is over 2,000 HP and even Tellah is annoyingly close to 1,000 HP so I need to see that happen before we head off to rescue Rosa. Anyway…
It was a lovely, sunny, beautiful day so we thought we’d head out for a run. My friend’s roommate chats with us a bit before we head out and he goes back downstairs and, when we return, the door is locked, the roomie is nowhere to be found, and we are pretty much screwed. With our phones, keys, wallets, and any other useful thing locked inside the house we were trying to remember the numbers of local friends so we could borrow a phone. I had lots of people I could call but borrowing a phone to make a long distance call is a tad crass. Thankfully, I recalled my roommate’s number so we gave Cookie a call to try and send her down the hall to find anyone with a car to pick us up. Just our luck, the whole floor went out to Swiss Chalet thirty minutes ago and they weren’t too keen on leaving. It’s starting to get dark at this point and we’re outside in our running clothes and I was lucky enough to have a windbreaker on. Another neighbour’s kid was wandering about with a laptop and was kind enough to let us hop on to our MSN account to try and track other people down. My friend had no luck but my brother was online even though he didn’t appear to be at his desk/answering messages. I took a chance and spelled out our predicament (and address) and asked begged him to come and get us unless he heard a call from us otherwise saying that it was all good. Then I had to give back the laptop. 10 minutes later he let us use his laptop again and my brother’s MSN subname had changed to “{driving} …goddammit.” so I knew he was totally thrilled about coming to save us ;)
He actually did a great job since he showed up as we were starting to get really cold. While it was fun meeting all the neighbours and discovering that there were other students in the area so we could bitch about the strike I definitely wanted to get back to residence and grab some food and water. We’re still working on getting back into my friend’s house since his roommate is nowhere to be found but he promises me I will get back all my stuff tomorrow asap since it’s impossible for me to get around the school, eat, or even buy off-campus food without my student card and wallet.
Stupid Dark Elf. Looks like you get to live another day.
