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I'm pleasantly surprised at how responsive it looks. I am getting more and more excited about it.

Spooky game music, you say? Well, the Frantic Factory music from DK64 really freaked me out as a kid: Also, the music from the NES 'Friday the 13th' game still gives me chills... ...why did my parents let me play that game when I was a child? I am so easily frightened now. Damn Jason and his sudden appearances.

Also being Canadian, I also enjoy hockey. Growing up in the wilds of Northwestern Ontario, I didn't really pay attention to sports or anything because there were no teams nearby (for hockey at least; Winnipeg had the Blue Bombers for football; I grew up after the Jets left Winnipeg originally). Then in college I was in Ottawa, and started following the Senators. But now that Winnipeg once again has the Jets, they're the team I follow (and they're not doing too badly this season, although I will concede we are still very early in on the season.) As for other sports... I listen to "The Tuesday Club", a podcast about the Arsenal football club (I think thats the right term?) simply because it has Alan Davies and the voices of everyone on the podcast soothes me to sleep... (I'm sorry I just love the accents...) So I kind of learn some stuff through osmosis, maybe? But I dont really follow it.

...that sounds like the plan of a mad genius. Would it be bad form to slap that code into my portfolio webpage while looking for work in an effort to offset hosting costs?

I just finished "Mario & Luigi: Dream Team". I thought it was fun. The animations (especially reactions and facial animations) were quite good, and the whole thing looked nice and bright and colorful. The combat was good. Nothing too new from earlier games in the Mario & Luigi series, but that's because it works well. The story was... well, the story felt like the weakest part to me. I just didn't care. The big thing in this game that I both loved and hated was the giant battles. They were very fun, up until they required you to tilt the 3ds for long-ish periods of time to avoid attacks. Occasionally Luigi would just lock up and rush to the bottom-left corner of the screen and not move, resulting in him getting pummeled until death. If it weren't for that bug, I would love this game so much more, but that one bug set me back so many times that I came to hate the giant battles. Overall, was fun, but now that I'm done with it I will probably never touch it again. 8/10.

Well that's not quite as bad as I had thought. Still hope it goes well for you!

Woooo! ...wait, that's not good at all. I hope things turn up for you.

I just got those same coupons today. Odd. And yet... if I had money to spend, I probably would be using them.

(Mild Breaking Bad spoiler inside)

My college program started with 40 people. 2 of them were female, the rest males. (In fairness, this was in a smaller Canadian college, for a diploma in Game Development... so I don't necessarily feel this is representative of most post-secondary education.) Just wanted to throw my own experiences in. (Also, I mention it was at the start of the program because by the end there were only about 25 people left who hadn't dropped out. Both females were still there.)

I don't think you need to worry too much, as Splinter Cell actually has very little to do with Tom Clancy himself anymore. Even the Splinter Cell books aren't written by him, they just have his name/logo on them. Tom Clancy has become closer to something like a brand than an individual, especially relating to games bearing his name.

Its not Halloween without the Monster Mash. (I hear it was a graveyard smash!) My favorite costume was the year I went as... I don't know what I was. I wore a trenchcoat, a top hat, I had a Freddy Krueger claw-hand-thing on one hand, a cape, and a makeup goatee on my face, So like.. some kind of evil Freddy Krueger magician? The part I loved about it was everybody asking what I was. I got guesses ranging from the Devil, to a magician, to a demon, to a hobo. It was fun.

Aw, I misread the title and thought this was a sequel to "Warlocked", the Game Boy Color RTS. This still looks pretty cool, and I'm interested in learning more about it now. ...but still a little disappointed.

That was... pretty disturbing. I guess if a turtle thing chomped down on your face, you'd scream, too. Actually, it reminds me of Zapdos' horrible cries of pain in Pokemon the Movie 2000.

Facebook has mainly become a way for me to talk to my mom without incurring ridiculous long-distance charges. For the longest time I enjoyed reading everything people were doing or talking about. Now... I just don't care. People are boring.

I love Halloween. It's the only time of year I can go into stores and buy candy in bulk without anyone looking at me funny. But seriously... I kind of like Halloween. I mean, I loved Trick or Treating as a kid. And I love the movies (mostly...) and the decorations. But its also kind of a symbol of how just depressingly lonely and antisocial I am. Most people my age are out going to Halloween parties and having fun, but since I became too old to Trick or Treat, I've just stayed home. I've never been invited to a Halloween party, and now I'm in a new city I don't know anyone in or know my way around, so thats probably not changing this year either. But I love the decorations the most. All the bats and jack-o-lanterns and witches and skeletons and stuff. It's awesome.

Online dating kind of weirds me out a bit... Maybe its just because my family is kind of old-fashioned, but I can't imagine telling anyone in my family I met someone online. (I suppose if it really bothered me I'd just lie and say we met at a bar? or something.) I don't know what it is but I just don't feel comfortable with online dating. ...but then I also don't feel comfortable going out and meeting people, so... I'll just stay here alone. In other news, I was encouraged today by some friends to try some self-help type of thing aimed at making you more likely to get a good job. Went in to it with a healthy amount of scepticism, but whatever. And then there was a worksheet to do: Filling out goals I want to accomplish, ones for 6 months from now, 1 year from now, 3 years and 5 years. And as I tried to fill them out, I realized something: I have no ambitions. I can't think of any goals I really want to work towards (at least none that are in any way realistic... I would work my ass off to be able to ride a dinosaur to work every day.) I feel kind of weird about this... I mean, don't most people have goals? Doesn't everyone have things they want to work towards? I just can't think of any, and its bothering me. (Sorry, my posts have been getting kind of depressing and self focused. I'll try to post more regarding whats going on with others and less about my weird thoughts.)

Oh jeeze, that sucks. Also, dibs, that photo looks beautiful. It looks like an establishing shot at the start of some sitcom.

I kind of want a house some day, but just because it will be a building that will be mine. *(once its paid off, I realize that)* I want to be able to do stuff inside and not worry about apartment neighbours. Yes there are still going to be houses next to me, but its different from sharing walls with people. I could listen to music loudly or stuff. I dunno. Woodworking in my pajamas in the kitchen, and no one can tell me no, you know? Freedom. That house in my mind is about freedom.

So... that's it, then, So yeah, I liked the way it ended.

Oh god. That reminds me of this:

Admit it, you're a Stephen trapped in a Twig's body.

Personally, at least some of it feels like I dealt with it as a kid because I didn't have much to play. For the longest time, the only games I had for my NES were Super Mario Bros, Friday the 13th, and Ghostbusters. (Two of those are known for being almost impossible to beat...) I didn't really have much of a choice: If I wasn't doing well, it was either keep playing or go do something else. So I forced myself to continue because often I had nothing else to do. Now I can switch between 20 different games on different consoles, not to mention all the free game apps and Flash games online... I have access to a near limitless amount of choices, so if I start getting frustrated, I can just... leave. I couldn't really do that as a kid, so I wonder if that plays into my perceptions of how difficult games were.

Did anyone else immediately think of a set of speakers when they saw the controller?

I do have to agree, the characters in GTAV NEVER SHUT UP. It drives me insane sometimes, especially in missions where you have to follow another vehicle. Every five seconds will be "Hey, you gotta get closer!", "Hey, don't lose that car!", "Hey, you suck at driving!"