Well, first I say I'm going to blog everyday, then stop for a while. So then I try to start up again without directly saying it, but then the house desktop dies. So I am a computer programming major without a computer. Ironic, don't you think, Alanis? Thus, I've been relegated to surfing the net on my phone and the Wii, the latter of which is alright with the exception of only supporting up to flash 7 and the inability to make a blog post on this website. I can comment stuff, but no posting, gah.
The only reason I'm posting right now is because Matt left his Macbook here at home while he and JB took a trip to Tallahassee, a trip I couldn't partake in since I have a job (unlike Matt) and I don't get paid vacation time (unlike my brother).
Things aren't all bad, though. I'm now 21. Thus, explaining the Michelob Porter I'm drinking right now. It's so delicious. It came in a 12pk with 4 types of Michelob brews (3 of each) for just $1 than the usual 12pk. It's really the most pretentious beer packing I've ever seen, though. I laughed as I opened it, what with it's information card detailing each brew's color, taste, and ingredients -- all with a web address to visit to figure out the right glass to use and pouring style for each brew. Yeah, I guess that information might help me if I want to be a douchebag to all my friend's. I just love the way this Porter brew tastes and now I fear that I drank the best of the box first. I could look up the pack and link to it, but I don't want to run the risk of reading any opinions on the tastes, I want my own expereinces.
Eh, but really, big deal right? Come on, give me a break, I'm 21. I want to experiment with different things, so excuse me if I ramble on a little bit like a n00b, haha.
And so..........I just looked it up and saw some reviews...yeah I got curious, haha. Apparently this is a worthy Porter for a cheap price, but true English Porters are even better. Hm, something to look into!
But yeah, done with that crap...running out of motivation to blog....MEGAMAN 9 IS AWESOME!
Enjoy this: Legend of Miyamoto!
And I'm done.
So I just the Big Boss Emblem in MGS4, which required beating the game on The Boss Extreme difficulty in less than 5 game play hours, getting no kills, getting no alerts, using no special items (infinite ammo bandanna/stealth suit), using no restorative items, and using no continues. It was crazy hard, but crazy fun. Although, while my file says 4:57, it actually took much longer since whenever I got an alert I had to exit the game and start over from my last save. In fact, I beat the last boss twice because after beating him once, I found out my game time was 3 minutes over the 5 hour limit. I know, it cheapens it just a bit, but I don't care, I enjoyed it. That's the way I like to play MGS games, super stealthy...then again I've only played MGS4 and MGS: Twin Snakes because I never had a PS2. I should go back and play MGS2 and MGS3. (note: I need to start up a must play list for the PS1 and PS2, now that I have access to one) Still, I really loved the game play of MGS4...the storyline was pretty good, and I love how all the games were finally tied together (even MG1 and MG2 from the Megadrive and NES). However, the delivery left something to be desired and brought what could've been a great story down to sci-fi channel level with it's overly melodramatic dialog and editor-craving, redundant exposistion. All that aside, the game is still awesome fun and surely one that will inspire my (distant) future work.
Especially the parts where, while you were playing, the screen split in half and showed what else was going on. Highlight for spoilers: An awesome moment was during Act 4, when Snake, the
player, must fight off the gecko while Vamp and Raiden fight on the
other half of the screen. My brother was playing while the rest of us
were watching the fight and right as Raiden was about to land a killer
blow, my brother died and we all erupted into genuine frustration and
disappointment. Even us, the one's not playing, felt like we had lost.
Also, the microwave hallway was absolute genius. The game play was
simple, press the triangle button fast enough to advance. This allowed
the me to watch the scene playing out on the top half of the screen
showing what all the other characters are going through. However, as
the I had to press the button faster and faster due to the microwaves burning Snake, I literally felt
pain just as Snake was. By the end I was relieved just like Snake. It was amazing. The mission briefings definitely benefited from the ability to move the Mg Mk II around and see everything happening in real time, as well. It made those cutscences feel less like just movies and more like living spaces. Though, some more things to do would've been cool, like, let me jack into one of the computers and look through files or let me view things through the eyes of the different characters and let me hear they're respective thoughts on things. For example, if I switch to Snake's pov, I see and hear Otacon talking, but then I hear Snake think "Man I could use a smoke," or if I switched to Otacon when Snake lit up, he'd think "Gah, I wish he'd stop doing that in the Nomad, the ventilation isn't very good." Man, maybe I should stop, Kojima might take my ideas! haha.
So I just got done watching one of my favorite mini-series/documentary, The Drug Years on VH1. The whole history of drugs is just awesome to watch, and I really think it's something everyone should watch. Afterwords, aka right now, Dr. Drew's Celebrity Addiction Special is on and it's just reinforcing something I've believed a long time, keeping people from abusing drugs isn't about telling them to "Just Say No", that shit doesn't work. It's about education. Let people know exactly what the affects of all these drugs are, and then let them make the decision themselves. If, after learning all the terrible shit crack or heroin can do, someone still wants to smoke/snort/shoot up, then let them.
Now, if that person is someone I really care about, I'll do something about it. If I see some crackhead on the street smoking some crack, I won't do a thing to stop them, but if one of my friend's did that shit I'd definitely say something. But see, at the same time, I'm cool with weed. I've read up on crack and weed and I think that stopping someone from doing the former is infinitely more pressing than the latter. It's all about picking my battles. I can't control anyone but myself, and I can't put it upon myself to be some drug free warrior for everyone in the free world. That's why I'm sick and tired of all this war on drugs shit. But ah, whatever, like I said, all I'm worrying about is myself and the people that mean something to me.
Oh and this is just exacerbated by the fact that I watched Thank You for Smoking for the first time a couple nights ago, all the while using my new found "cinema appreciation skills" to analyze it the best I could. The Hero's Journey can actually be applied to the movie quite gracefully, and I love how the movie isn't about smoking, but rather uses it as a device to discuss things like subjective morality and freedom of choice. Also, I noticed the Entertainment Global Operations (EGO) as an important and deliberate choice of naming, but am still trying to figure out of it works into the whole idea of id, ego, and superego. What can I say, I'm really loving cinema appreciation.
I'm hoping that I can take the ideas I learn from that class and expound on them and include them in the games I hope to make down the road. I mean, I want to make a game that makes you think and can change the way you view things just like a movie can, something no game has really made me do -- a game that utilizes symbols and ideology effectively. The Metal Gear Solid series had the potential, but it's bogged down with horrible dialog and too much unnecessary exposition -- but mainly terrible, terrible dialog. Even if it's just a puzzle game. I want it to be a puzzle game with substance. Something that can be played for fun, but then, when the player actually looks at what's happening, a message and hopefully multiple messages make themselves apparent depending on who's playing it. I want to make a war game that doesn't glorify killing but rather makes the player feel guilty for the killing he/she has done. I want to make a game where, after you play it, you look around and question your reality. How about a game that's just as powerful for the person watching as it is for the person playing or a game that facilitates discussion on major issues? I just thought of Super Columbine Massacre RPG!, I want to make a game like that, but more subtle. Oh, and less based off RPG Maker. It's all pie in the sky dreams right now, and really, I have a lot to learn before I can implement the kinds of depth I'm talking about. But that's the thing, I finally have a dream, a goal to work towards, and I'm going to give it my all. *insert inspirational can-do music*
Oh, and to bring things back to reality, I'll have to wait until after this semester to apply for a Stafford Loan and Pell Grant because I need to bring my attempted:completed credit hours from 61% up to 67%. That got me down for a bit, but then I just remembered my new "I'm not alone" outlook and jammed out on the way home with a smile on my face to a perfectly timed radio broadcast of U2's Beautiful Day. And hey, another positive is that it finally got me to file my 2007 income taxes, so I should have a tax refund coming my way.
This post was brought to you by the continuous repetition of this song: Time to Pretend - MGMT (note: fuck SonyBMG for disabling embed for this video...seriously, wtf?)
So I go from missing one day to missing just shy of 5 months. Haha.
Anyways, holy shit...stuffs happened since then, like a lot. So once again I turned to an extremely stream of consciousness blog. Let's see, typing exactly what I htink as I think it. Banana, yeah, that's not going to work. Anyways, back on track, stuff that's happened....hmm.
Roommates have changed. It's gone from Matt, Jon Mcdougald, and me to matt, my bro Jonathan, Kent, and me. So Chloe's gone and I'm not even sure if she's still alive, what with Jon's completely apathetic attitude towards her when he lived here. However, Matt went ahead and filled the small animal quota with a cat. It's named Simba...I hate that damn name, so cliché. Funny, though, that it was later discovered that the cat is actually a girl and not a boy, thus rendering Simba to be an even more retarded name, but ah well.
I'm back into school full force this semester with 4 classes. Granted, one of the classes is online, but 3 credit hours is 3 credit hours. I'm taking Programming in C, Speech/Public Speaking, Cinema Appreciation, and Physical Science is my online course. Programming is a little slow since I know most of this stuff already, albeit in in a different language, Java, so my teacher is going to email me some different assignments. Though, this book does have a Pong program in it. I'm definately going to have to mess around with that. Speech has an awesome teacher, but I'm going to actually have to do some real research for this one, but I'm really looking foward to doing some public speaking and hey, there's some pretty hot chicks in there which is a nice change of pace from my last two semesters of only taking programming (sausage fests!). That sentence was too long and I don't care. Anyways speaking of hot chicks, my Cinema Appreciation class has some, too. Plus, the teacher for that class is awesome, too, and I'm already looking at movies differently after just a couple of days in the class. So all in all, awesome schedule.
What's not awesome is the cost. Since I fucked around and lost my scholarship I had to borrow money from my dad until I can get a Stafford Loan and (hopefully) a Pell Grant. For a while I didn't want to be in debt....but man fuck it, I'm going to be in debt whether I like it or not, it's part of life.
Money makes me think of work, which hasn't changed that much. I was going to get moved to electronics or photo lab, but I got fucked over so a cashier I stay. Everyone's hours are getting cut so I really need a second job, but I doubt I'm going to get one. I'm already pushing it taking four classes with this many hours. I wouldn't be able to handle it.
Though, I'm starting to approach my problems in life with a new outlook. Whenever something bad happens I just ask myself "Am I the first one to ever have this problem?" The answer is always "Fuck no, I'm sure someone else (insert problem) and they got through it, so can I." It's worked out at getting me through some tough times where I want to be down on myself. Another thing that helps is to always remember that I am less than a speck in the universe, or I'm just a brain in a vat and this world I live in is made for me by my subconcious. That might make someone depressed at first, but once you just free yourself from everything it really becomes an enlightening experience. Sure, it's just basic philosophy, but once I put things in that perspective, I instantly become awesome. This isn't to say that everything is how I want it to be, but it has made this time in my life infinitely more bareable.
I think I'm pretty tapped out right now, so I'm just going to hit the sack.
Darn, I missed a day. Oh well.
Something really cool, but very disappointing happened at work yesterday. I was ringing up this lady that was with her two daughters, neither looked over the age of 10, when the younger looking of the two started to mess with the spinning carousel that my bags were on by climbing on it. Our exchange:
Me: Hey, be careful, I have to move this and you could fall off and get hurt.
Girl: Oh...what's your name?
Me: What was that?
Girl: What's your name?
Me: Oh, my name is Steven. What's yours?
Girl: My name is Zoey.
Me: Wow, that's a pretty cool name. Looks like it's time for you to go.
Girl's Mom: Yes, Zoey, say good-bye.
Girl: Ok...good-bye!
At this point she walked up to me and hugged my leg. Totally unexpected! I didn't know what to do! So I ended up giving the most awkward and nonthreatening embrace with just the tips of my fingers. And that sucks. It sucks that when someone tried to give me an innocent hug my mind freaked out. If I could go back I'd drop down on my knee and accept that hug with open arms...but then again, hindsight's 20/20 and one can do anything when speaking in hypothetics. It just reminded me of this video and how I'm disappointed that I haven't taken this to heart like I thought I did.
In game-related news I've made my way back to 600 A.D. in Chrono Trigger to look for "The Hero" after defeating Zombor on Zenan Bridge. I can't wait to see the looks on everyone's faces when they find out it's a little kid! Haha, oh man! Guardia is screwed! Also, I started working on beating the challenges on Brawl again (legitamately, no hammers allowed you pansies). I got 100 KOs on Endless Brawl and beat 100-Man Brawl in under 3:30. Matt is about to beat 15-minute Brawl, but not before having an EPIC FAIL where he got killed by an item throwing Ike with less than 2 seconds to spare on his last run.
I've also been keeping with my Pokemon movie plan and I've watched the second (2000) and third (Unown) movies. I never saw the second and I only saw parts of the third on Cartoon Network, so spoilers ahead if you were like me.
I've gotta say, 2000 totally rocked! The whole legendary lore had me really involved and seeing Zapados, Moltres, and Articuno totally own Lugia was crazy awesome. Also, the whole scene where Zapados was trying to take over Moltres's island since Moltres got captured made me think of how cool it would be to have a Pokemon turn-based strategy game (I thought RTS at first, but there are too many pokemon to fit into a tech tree).
Although, when I watched the Unown movie I noticed that, while the second movie was insanely epic in the pokemon fights, it lacked any character development. Sure, Molly might seem a little annoying, but she's a little girl that lost her parents, how would you feel? Her journey from hiding in her dream world to facing reality really gave the movie some substance. Oh, and even though there is a whole "we learned something" resolution it doesn't beat you over the head with it like it did in the first movie. Also, there wasn't some crappy song playing to counter-act the pokemon battles. Now that I think about it, the Unown movie had a lot more traditional pokemon battles, though the fight between Entei and Charizard was the only one that came even close to the epic fight in 2000.
So, while I enjoyed the 2000's visceral action and lore references an insane amount, I have to say that the Unown movie was a better film overall. But really...they're figgin' Pokemon movies...what am I doing?! Whatever, I like it, haha.
Oh, quick notes:
- Chris moved back to his parents house yesterday. The house is a little quieter without the sound of the acoustic guitar (sad face) and the hardcore music (HAPPY FACE).
- I made this post from the comfort of the desktop after running a system recovery. Yay!
- I forgot to mention a couple days ago a white lady put my heritage to shame at work. Apparently she has a Filipino father and she speaks fluent Filipino/Tagalog. A white lady...speaks more tagalog...than me...someone who actually looks Filipino. darn
"Okay. I'll do it." (WarCraft)
For the past couple of days I've been blogging in the morning about the day before, but this morning the laptop that is currently being shared between the whole house was in Matt's room and he was asleep. Matt has an iMac, but it crapped out and he is too lazy to go and get it fixed, and the house desktop is crappy, but usable...unless it gets raped by a virus/spyware like it did yesterday. The laptop in use right now is Jon's, but he doesn't care who uses it, especially since he's hardly ever home during the day. Though, even the laptop is a little annoying due to a sometimes sticky Shift key due to Levee spilling vodka on it a while back. But hey, work with what you've got.
So I ended up playing some more Chrono Trigger (I'm in the future) and some Elite Beat Agents. I really wanted to end up blogging about how I finally beat Jumping Jack Flash on Rockin' (the last song I have to beat)...but I haven't. I also tried to do my taxes, but my W-2 from Domino's says that for $747 in gross profit I had $3.27 in taxes witheld...yeah, I don't think that's right. So I have to get that fixed so I don't get screwed out of some of my return.
In hindsight, I guess it was good that I didn't blog this morning since it would've just been a blurb about where I was at in Chrono Trigger and some random thoughts of what I should do today since nothing really interesting happened at work yesterday.
Today was a little more interesting since I was floating from register to register giving breaks and doing other random oddjobs that can end up being great time wasters. Case in point, after I came back from my first 15 minute break, and I was sent out to do cart pushing, which I don't mind at all as long as the weather isn't lame (which it wasn't). But after that and being a door greeter for a little bit, is when the real fun started. I was asked to do a price check for some "pet rug" since it wasn't ringing up. I go and look through the pet isles...can't find it. Look again, can't find it. I see Mr. Arevalo (aka Mr. Miyagi) I walk around the pet isle with him a little while he looks for training pads and...yeah.....so I got to waste a lot of time looking for something that wasn't there (hence why it probably wasn't in the system) for some lady that had gotten frustrated and left a long time ago. I also had an amusing exchange with a lady customer about how breast implants make women look fat.
Oh, and this morning a bird totally slammed into my window. It didn't die, but it left a bunch of mucus on the window...what a douchebag.
Right now Chris and I are watching Adult Swim and realizing that Squidbillies is pretty much the worst show ever...and Assy McGee is pretty funny.
I didn't get very far on Chrono Trigger due to the fact that I was grinding (something I never did as a kid) through the Guardia forest before being sent into the past to, at first, just level Crono up a little before hand, but it turned into grinding for cash to buy the 4000G sword from Melchior at the festival. I just had to have it. So after buying the sword and killing a few things in 600AD, I shut it off and went to go and pay my car insurance and speeding ticket.
So after that, I'm officially finished paying all my bills (hooray!) and, while I don't have that much money left, I do have enough for gas, which is awesome. Also, enough to have gotten some $5 large pizzas from Little Ceaser's last night, which was extra awesome. We used to just get free Hungry Howie's since Jon has a hook up over there, but now he is pretty much gone all day doing shit with his girlfriend.
Before pizza, though, Andrew came over to play some Brawl. He's trying to master Pokemon Trainer. I proceeded to own him with my Ganondorf, Bowser, Toon Link, Olimar, and Zero Suit Samus. But by the end he was getting much better and made me think of adding Pokemon Trainer to my group. Not only because of the way he was playing, but also because of the geek out we had after Brawl.
WARNING: EXTREME GEEKING OUT OF THE WORST KIND FOLLOWS
So Andrew let me know that he had a HUGE Pokemon itch he needed to scratch so I said he could play my copy of Pearl since he had sold his copy of Diamond (for a stupid reason). Though, as I booted it up and realized that I had to actually delete my file so that he could play...I was hesitant. Then I found out, by reading the journal summaries that game gives you about when you last played (brilliant), that I haven't played this game since May of last year. So I sucked it up and let him delete my file, but not before I played around on my file looking at my pokemon and saying goodbye to Pablo...my loyal Torterra.
The real shit started happening once Andrew started playing, though. At some point I had 8-10 different tabs on my browser all on bulbapedia as Andrew asked me when such-n-such learned this-or-that move or evolved. As I did this for him I got really caught up in it again, and I wasn't even playing. Just reading the information and having someone to talk intelligently about it with made it that much more engrossing. Also, I learned why my Budew and Buneary never friggin' evolved (darn happiness).
However, it didn't stop there. Once I started looking at legendaries I started to read the lore, and that made me even more hooked. The lore behind the legendaries for D/P is really interesting. So, long story short, all of that got me to watch the first pokemon movie again. I had forgotten at how much of a badass Mew Two was in that movie (dude totally killed folks!). Though, as is the way with pokemon movies, it kind of fell through when it was all "Nothing can defeat Mew Two...except the power of friendship!" I mean, the stupid song that plays while all the pokemon are fighting their clones totally worked against how epic that moment was. Ah well. I'll probably watch the second one tonight and so forth for the next few nights. After reading about it, I can't wait for the D/P Darkrai movie.
But for now I'm listening to the 1upYours podcast and I'm probably going to boot up Chrono Trigger to play while I listen. I've got to work tonight, so I don't know if tomorrow's post is going to be that interesting. But whatever, this is mostly for my posterity anyways.
I'm going to try to do this daily, even if it's just a little blurb.
Yesterday was Thursday so, as is the tradition we have started here, Matt, Chris, and I went to Applebee's to partake in .25 wings. It's so good when you're so poor, haha. Usually we go in the evening, but I had to pick up my paycheck to pay rent, so we went in the afternoon. Later I found out I missed a call from Arthur telling me to head over there with him and Jason so that they wouldn't feel like fatties by themselves; oops, haha.
Also, Matt rented Big Brain Academy Wii Degree and we played that a bunch yesterday. I'm pretty much the smartest person in the house (I got a B- on my first "test" while Chris, Matt, and Emily all got C++s), but I'm probably the slowest, well, second slowest. Emily is pretty slow, but that's okay; she's a woman, haha. Just kidding....ladies (Demetri Martin reference). But yeah, so long story short, that game had me yelling obscenities at the top of my lungs for a good half hour (at least) when I was trying to get the gold medal on one of the events. There's no hyperbole here, I wouldn't be surprised if someone could hear me from down the street (we did have the back door open).
Another game I've (re)started playing is Paper Mario, but I'm taking a break from that today. The game is great, but I've done up through the first chapter so many times it was getting a little boring. Also, seeing my hits do 1 damage is pretty demoralizing, even if enemies have only 4 hp. Now I'm in new territory, though, so hopefully I'll start to enjoy it more. However, before I go back to that game, I'm going to satisfy this sudden urge I got to play a classic. So this has been my day so far.
Also, I've been wanting to go back to FFXII to do hunts and get the last few espers now that I got my save data from Kent's memory card, but I should beat PM first.
Alright, quick updates from where I last left off:
- I ended up taking Java and C++ this semester, but C++ got canceled due to my teacher get paid too much.
- The jury summons turned out to be some civil case and I thankfully didn't get picked. However, I got to sit through a fun couple of hours of everyone (read: the prospective jurors) talking about random stories that had no bearing on the case at hand.
- Money is still tight and I still work at Wal-Mart (8.80/hr is decent for basically no comute). I was actually about to be in the positive a good amount, then I got a stupid speeding ticket.
- The Wii auction went over swimmingly...that is if one were to swim in shit. I returned all the stuff I didn't want and have since much enjoyed Zack & Wiki, Link's Crossbow Training, and (surprisingly) even Sonic and Mario at the Olympics.
- I've had some decent (read: completely plastered) parties at the new place, but I haven't puked since that night I last blogged about. Though, the partying has slowed down. I haven't been shit-faced for a month. That's not to say I haven't been drinking. I like it, though. Self-control is awesome.
- I didn't make it to Video Games Live (sad face), but I did make it to the Foo Fighters/Jimmy Eat World concert (HAPPY FACE). Yeah, it was pretty fucking awesome (except for when I lost the shirt I bought (sad face)).
- I saw Golden Compass. It was alright, but, even though I didn't read the books, I knew there was a bunch of stuff being skipped; the pacing was really off at parts.
- I haven't seen National Treasure 2 or I Am Legend, but I did see Sweeney Todd.....<singing> and it was beautiful! </singing>
- I didn't buy Superbad, but I have re-watched it since it's DVD release.
Oh, and...
- I moved out of my dad's house in mid-January and have been living with Matt Wood and Jon McDougald in a house rented from Matt's dad. Some time in March we took on Chris Lewis as our resident bum (aka bitch that cleans everything but doesn't have to pay rent). So it's been good times for the past 2 1/2 months.
- We also live with this crazy bitch, Chloe. She used to piss and shit everywhere, but after much training we have gotten her to do that stuff outside...well she still ocasionally pisses in the house, but she's a little bitch, what can you expect.
P.S. Quick note about Chloe. Jon bought her (for way too much), but ask anyone here and he/she will tell you, that Chloe is my damn dog. I've trained the shit out of her...one day...I will take Matt's advice and train her to get me beers from the fridge. Until that day, she is my stupid, cute bitch and I love her.
P.P.S. No, she wasn't named after a character on Smallville....psssshhh...that would be silly....*ahem*
This mood once again?
I just got an email alert from my phone! Let's see what it is...hmmmm....cool. It was a notice that Dustin L. replied to a thread on Facebook about how his schedule for next semester is going to let him come home for weekends earlier when he wants. Which reminds me, I registered for next semester and right now I'm looking at taking Intro. C++, Intro. Java, and Physical Science. Costs a grand total of $68(something). I'd have one class Mon and Wed, and two classes Tue and Thur.
I haven't paid for them yet, I have until the 17th, which just so happens to be the day I have to go to the Courthouse for a jury summons...FUCK! That sure would put a damper on the holidays, having to listen to some idiot about how they broke the law. It's good that the people around here (or almost anywhere) aren't smart enough to come up with clever shit like Law & Order. So it should be pretty clear cut...that is if I make the jury. Hopefully my interview is shit-tastic.
Which doesn't segway into what I wanted to mention next. Money. It's tight. That's what she said. But yeah, money. I'm hoping to get a new job over at the base. I've been talking to Alyssa and she works at the deli over there and gets paid almost 11 an hr. So if I apply for a cashier position, I could make even more. I'd just work Mon-Thur after school, so gas wouldn't be a huge problem.
Also, I've....wait...I already talked about how I've been thinking about auctioning the Wii in my closet (tee hee hee), but yeah, now I can say that it's been given a thumbs up by my cousin. Though, I'm not just doing the Wii with friggin Wii Play and claiming that I have 14 games (5 "games" in Wii Sports and 9 "games" in Wii Play) like all the other auctions do. I want this person to get the full Nintendo experience, so I'm packing this shit right. I'm talking system, 4 remotes, 4 nunchuks, Wii Play, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario & Sonic, Zelda, Zack & Wiki, Metroid, and other stuff. Right now, though, I just have the system and the Wii Zapper. I need to go out and buy other stuff tomorrow.
So yeah, last weekend was pretty crazy, I partied at Josh/Derek/Joel/Darrius's apartment Friday and Saturday and got completely plastered both nights. The first night it was in a good way. Kent and I brought Rock Band over there and tore it up. Well, tore as much up as we could provided we had to keep it down a little because of their whiny neighbor. So I couldn't take it to the limit with the vocals like I usually do. Which is another thing, why can't people fucking have fun with karaoke sober? You suck at singing? I don't fucking care, there's an easy setting, put it on that! Just fucking sing! I mean, I felt like a douche singing every song like I wanted every chick in there to bow down to my greatness. It's a friggin' burden.
Oh, but that was an awesome thing about both nights. Female interaction. No sausage fest allowed that weekend...well except for Sunday, but that was poker, who the fuck wants....wait what the fuck am I saying, we need more girls to play poker. I mean, hell, wear something low cut, too. That way you can "distract" us. I put it in quotes, because yeah, I'm looking, and yes, I will lose a couple of hands because I'm looking, but there's no way you're winning everything from me if all you're playing with is the twins and a cute giggle. But yeah, I'm getting ahead of myself.
The first night was awesome. And 151 is fucking gross...but awesome. The second night was not as awesome (read: puking). I didn't even plan to drink that much the second night, and really I didn't, but I guess my body hadn't fully recovered from the night before and decided to tell me how much of a douchebag I was being to it. Well, I should correct myself, the first half of the night was even better than the first night because we played some awesome jenga, but then my body turned on me and made the night go south. But it's all good.
The only thing I regret, ironically, is bringing Rock Band the first night. Right after I said we'd bring it, I instantly regreted it. Because I knew what would happen, and sure enough the second night it did. I walked in and did people say "hey what's up, Steven!" no, they said "hey Rock Band!". Fuck you. That's why I made sure I didn't bring it that night. That's also why you don't buy beer for people you don't know. You need to be wanted because you're you, the fucking awesome dude that made everything fun by just being himself. Not for being the guy that people invite for Rock Band or because they need someone to pay for beer. That's bullshit, and was a mistake that I'm NEVER making again. But I think I set it right the next night. Next time we party over there I sure as hell am not getting drunk, though. I want to let people know that I'm fun sober, too. Even if my drunk laugh is friggin' hilarious.
But yeah, poker Sunday night was plagued by another pot being short money. It ended up being short $21 dollars and after a lot of money counting between Jason and Doug due to earlier transactions, we finally got it sorted out...kinda. Doug is still short $10 of his own personal money, I hope he found it. But yeah, I had a good night. I bought in with $7 and ended up with $23. However, after pizza I was only really up $4, but hey, I was still up! I need to get a time adjustment sheet from work tomorrow so that if I don't get a job from the base my schedule will be good at Wal-Mart.
Wait, I'll probably just wait until after January to apply at the base. That way I'm able to get Jan 20th and Jan 24th off easier. I'm going to go to the Foo Fighters concert in Pensacola on the 20th and the Video Games Live concert in Orlando on the 24th. So yeah, that should be awesome fun. I need to get on buying Foo Fighter tickets before they're sold out...I hope they aren't already. Whoever's reading this should go to both of the aforementioned concerts, as well. They're both sure to be awesome. Hm...anything else?
Oh, I randomly got caught up in looking at old journal posts. Not mine, I assure you. That's right other people's, but really, that's why they're on the internet, right? And by old I mean like a year or two old, lol. Oh and the whole thing with GameSpot firing Jeff Gertsmann? WHAT THE FUCK?! My mind was blown and I've been following this whole thing very closely and have as a result dropped my GameSpot subscription and stopped visiting the site so they can't get any ad money from me. Also, I've lost some respect for Eidos.
Oh but I've gained respect for the internets...more specifically all the Phoenix Wrong stuff on Newgrounds. I spent a lot of time looking at and laughing at those tonight. I really need to get 'Justice for All' and 'Trials and Tribulations'!!! Oh, and apparently Andrew has gotten into writing something that could call for the use of my acting skills...I'm sure I have a little...at least. But yeah, after hesitating I said "fuck it, i'm in" for whatever he has planned. I always have times were I'm totally psyched to do something like this, but I have to do it AT THAT MOMENT, or once the feeling passes, I just don't want to.
But I need to change that. I need to be balls to the walls every time! That's what got me to have an awesome Friday night (the one I spoke of earlier). In fact, that night I was lying on the couch about to call it a night. My dad came home and voiced his surprise that I was turning in for the night since it wasn't even 10 o'clock. So after thinking about it for a second, I was like, "HE'S RIGHT! The FUCK am I doing lying here already?!" And off I went into events I've already chronicled.
Chronicles....I want to check out the Golden Compass this Friday. The cast looks awesome. James Bond AND Borat? Nice. Not to mention polar bear armies! Maybe I should read the bo-...right, lol. This month looks pretty nice for movies, actually; Golden Compass, then I Am Legend, then National Treasure 2 (leave me alone), and then Sweeny Todd. Good stuff.
Oh fuck. I just sighed and thought I was done, but then looked down to my right and what do I see, my jury summons. I was planning on explaining the whole thing when I started that last sentence, but then I remembered I already did that...fucking crap. Oh! New email! Let's journey together! Oh wait...false alarm, the graphic was just still on my phone because I didn't clear it out from the last time. Wow...it's like I'm in some fucked up loop...
Superbad comes out today (Dec 4th). I could get it. We'll see. I think I'm done. Yeah. I'm done. Now time to cut this sucker up and make it look a little less like just one huge block of text.
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