miffy495

Congratulations! Get ready for ridiculous amounts of work!

Damn, I was just about to mention that one. 'Blix, if you haven't seen Arrested Development and you want to see that guy being amazingly funny, check it out. Also, his frequent appearances on animated shows (I know of at least The Simpsons and Family Guy having him on) show exactly how seriously he takes his 'actor's studio' persona.

I did order one book a while back. The girl got me the first volume of the "Complete Bloom County" thing as it came out a couple of weeks before my birthday and, well, Bloom County is awesome. The second was available for pre-order, and pretty cheap, so after I finished reading volume 1 I ordered 2. It's been delayed four times now, so I can definitely see where you're coming from. I do most of my book shopping from a used bookstore pretty near my house that's got a really good selection though, so it normally doesn't bother me that much.

Monster Hunter (tr)idle? Not really interested in the series myself, unfortunately. Too bad, as I'd like to get some Wii onilne action going but there's not much worth doing. Maybe a Mario Kart or Smash Bros round sometime? I dunno.

I've already made a commitment for this afternoon, but I will be back in the game starting next week if all goes as planned. Can't wait.

Well, it's done and submitted. I honestly don't think it's that good, but oh well. It's worth 40% of my mark in that class, but the other 60% of that course I did not lose any marks on whatsoever. Did the math and realized that even if this paper is a C, I still get a B+ in the course. With two As, an A-, and my honours thesis being at least a B+ in order to pass (and my supervisor very confident that I'll get through it fine) I could afford to take the hit without ruining my GPA. I just wanted to sleep so fucking bad. Of course, in the past, papers that I've thought were ok but not as good as they could have been (the category this one is in) did quite well, so maybe I'm just too hard on my own stuff. At any rate, it's done, and so am I. All I have to do is write that last exam and defend my thesis and I'm done. For today, just woke up (it's one in the afternoon, but I didn't sleep until about 7, so I'm still kinda tired) and am going to shower and head over to the girl's to try to forget that I have any responsibilities left.

I just loved listening to Patters being so proud of himself for getting a helicopter to climb to the maximum height with only one rotor blade for about 5 minutes. Of course, this was followed by me taking an ordinary tour helicopter and smashing it into him in mid-air. This caused his tail and remaining blade to be separated from his copter and him to fall the maximum distance the game allowed. I watched this laughing my ass off while still very safe in my own (totally intact) helicopter. Good times. Good times. As I said in game, he had a very long time to contemplate his impending death, and it probably made him a better person.

Goddamn, man. I assume if you're posting here it means you're ok, so that's good, but shit. That's the kind of thing that'll change the way you look at the world for a long time, if not for good. Also, the very first comment on that article is by some guy confused that a shop would be open that late on a Sunday because "Sunday is a day for thanking the big man." What the fuck, people?

It's 4:20 in the morning and I'm still writing that damn 4000 word paper on the competing views on single event probability proposed by Carnap (1945) and Popper (1959) for that damned analytic philosophy class. I'm so damn tired, but can't let myself sleep for two reasons. First, this thing is due in 11 and a half hours, and if I let myself drift off now I'd probably sleep past when I need to have it in. Second, I've pumped so many fucking energy drinks into my body that I don't think I'm physically capable of sleep for at least another 6-ish hours. I really want to be done and not think of logical formulations for confirming scientific theories, or how we can justify a claim that there is a 20% chance it will rain tomorrow when there is no observable phenomenon "20% rain." Looking around my room I see enough empty cans of red bull, rockstar, monster, full throttle, and beaver buzz (Canadian energy drink, eh?) to give me about 7 heart attacks, yet somehow I'm still writing. Sorry to bitch about all this, but I needed to take a bit of a break (1200 words to go...) and it seemed like venting would be the way to go. Goddamned fucking end of term.

Amazon.com won't ship games to Canada, though it will ship movies and books, so it's confusing. For games, they make you use amazon.ca. I just use the super saver shipping (which in Canada is on orders over $40, but the game counts, so whatever) and since they ship from Vancouver it's only a few days from their ship date to arrival. Ordering games from amazon.ca really isn't that bad. I get 'em fast, they usually qualify for free shipping, and they pack them well. No customs charges or other bull either. I got no hate for amazon.ca.

MODERATOR, WHEREFOR ART THOU?

Ok, I caved. I went on Amazon to price check 3D Dot Game Heroes (looks sweet) and saw that that game was $40. So I thought "hey, that's a good deal. I wonder what they're charging for Red Dead?" Went over to that page. It was CDN$59.99, which is $10 less than most new releases where I live because near as I can tell game distributors love scamming Canada (less than the Europe, of course, but a scam is a scam). It also came with a $10 coupon from Amazon for future gaming purchases if I preordered it. I hate EB/Gamestop, so do most of my buying from Amazon anyway, so I figured it was like paying $50 instead. I'll use the $10 for the new Mario or Metroid and all will be well. Well played, Amazon, well played. My preorder is for 360, so those of you who are doing so can add that into your multiplayer equation.

Yeah, fuck homework. I need to play and relax for a couple hours. In.

I'm in classes with enough jerks who get their education paid for. I've worked at least 3 shifts a week since my final year of high school in order to keep paying for my classes (at one point I managed a movie theater by night, worked a coffee shop on weekends, and had classes during the days. 5 shifts at the theater, 3 at the coffee shop per week. To be fair, I only had four classes that term instead of the full 5 course load.), so I feel like I should get my money's worth and actually learn something. I see people who have made it to almost 25 and thanks to being in school have still never worked any job, and it's a bit irritating to me. I don't want to be that, so I work my ass off. The downside is I haven't had a social life outside of my girlfriend and going to maybe 1 out of every 4 of the weekly game nights that the few friends I've hung onto from high school have. I went drinking on Friday with a friend I hadn't seen for about 10 months but had been incredibly close with for 6 years previous, and it was right back like old times, so that's good. I desperately needed a break, and ran into him while walking to work, so we made plans. Trying to re-make the most important of the old social connections I had a couple of years ago. I was pretty popular for a while there (my 20th birthday was a 50+ person affair that took over two bars), but the effort I've been putting toward school has been taking its toll on my personal life (my 22nd (most recent) was me, my girlfriend, and two mutual friends). Still, have made more plans with this friend from old times and another of my best friends is returning to Calgary next month after spending two years living in London, so I'll have the people who count most. Maybe all this school stuff is a blessing, and I'm just cutting out the people that don't really matter in favour of the ones I truly care about. One way to look at it, I guess. EDIT: Sorry Sombre, I was writing while you posted. That was all a response to 'blix. Good work getting that shit done, man. After this last year of work, I now have entirely new personal meaning for "longest paper I've written," and can certainly relate to the "thank god that shit is finally done" feeling. Congrats! Mind if I ask what it was on? Your mention of Akira intrigued me.

Well, against all fucking odds, my honours thesis is finished. I'm so tired. I haven't had more than 4 hours sleep in a night for about two weeks. I still have a 4000 word paper to finish for my most difficult class, due Wednesday, and a ridiculously easy take home exam to write for my easiest class(this is a course which I do not take seriously at all. I did a writing assignment for it during the 15 minute bus trip to class and got an A. I really don't care about this one). Then on Saturday the comic convention happens, with Leonard Nimoy and Malcolm McDowell in the same damn room, and I will be in a gymnasium writing the last exam of my undergraduate career. I'm going to try and go for an hour in the morning before running off to the exam at least. Sigh. So yes, exams are so incredibly shit. On the other hand, I'm three things away from being done and I can't wait to write what I have to and just walk out of that campus laughing and probably drunk.

Oh shi... Happy birthday, sir! May your evening be full of drinking and mirth.

I was just going to say that his chest hair kind of looks like Australia if you squint at it. I guess I got beaten before I could play...

Cross platform as in Mac? I don't think the MI mac ports are out yet, but if it helps raise your expectations, I accidentally downloaded the Mac version of Sam and Max S3E1 the other day because I didn't notice I had access to both versions. I'd assume that, given Telltale's generally "not evil" practices, you'll be able to get the mac port as soon as it's available.

I was attempting to make a suggestion to the mods. As in "should this person be administratively raped through the pants?"

I do most of my gaming on Steam now, just because with the sales they run it's so much cheaper. The last time I bought a console game it was because I saw Brutal Legend for $20. I have so much to play and so little time to do it in that new releases aren't too big a deal for me until they go on sale. I really wanted Dragon Age, but was able to wait for it to be $30, same with Borderlands, etc, etc. I don't buy used, I have kind of a thing about that (though I don't hold anything against those that do), but I do often buy very late. I've been thinking about No More Heroes 2 a bunch lately, for example, as it's a Wii game that's several months past launch and will probably now be reasonably cheap. Best advice is: think about how much time you'll actually have to play things. If you don't have time to play a game, don't buy it until you do. I find that trying to budget my time is much more effective than trying to budget my money. The problem with Steam is that the purchases are all digital so you click a button and forget you're spending money. If I think about whether or not I'll have the time to play it before I click that button, it works far better as a method of holding back.

As someone who speaks English, that made no sense to me. (sorry to be a pedantic dick, I know what you meant)

Through the pants?

Yeah, my ping was about 100, but I was downloading an update at the time, so that may have tampered with my results. Also, I'm very far West, so those of you in the Eastern states or Ontario/Quebec areas may see better results.

Y'know, I wrote a thing about this back when the PSP Go came out, but never put it anywhere. I need to start a blog or some shit. The gist of it was that while I'm very similar to you in terms of loving having a physical copy of things I buy (I still buy CDs instead of downloading songs, buy DVDs instead of sign up for streaming services, etc) I've found that it's bothered me less and less in the case of video games. I attribute most of this to Steam getting me in gradually, but it's more than that. My hindsight rationalization of why this is specifically the case with video games is that, in most cases, they're single use things. I will listen to a CD three or four times in a day sometimes. It is a very rare and special video game that I will play through more than once. When my usages are limited on music and movies, I get very indignant. With games, by the time I hit a limit I probably won't care any more. Steam links it all to an account, so it's less of an issue there, but even something like PSN where you're limited to (I believe) 5 downloads doesn't matter that much to me. I was going on a trip, bought Assassin's Creed Bloodlines on PSN the night before. Downloaded it, beat it in a week, deleted it. I still have four more downloads. I don't know what the hell I'll use them for. The length of time it takes to complete a game, to me, makes all this digital stuff much less scary to me when put in the context of games. ...Of course, you may have been talking specifically about physical games with digital pack-ins, not the general trend towards non-physical gaming purchases. In that case, I'm totally with you. If I'm going to go out and buy your game in a box, the least you can do is give me a fucking slip of paper with some backstory. I miss the days of the old-timey Crimson Skies aviation magazine that came in the box.

I know, but it's so much more satisfying when you do the strumming and whistling yourself. I almost want to go camping this summer solely to do that around a fire. In other news: It's 5 in the morning and I just finished compiling the final draft of my honours thesis. Shit. I guess I'm pretty much ready to graduate now. That's some crazy emotion I'm getting from this moment.