I’ve some new holiday photos coming up son… caves, castles and sunshine (because nobody remembers in England remembers what that is). First I have to escape the clutches of this:
The enthralling Geometry Wars 2.
No posts for six weeks, very very slack. I just can’t be bothered – the xbox 360 takes priority over blogging every time, until it RROD’d and I had to drink to cope and then couldn’t type. Recently I’ve been bingeing on Mass Effect and Grand Theft Auto 4.
And taking pictures of the fence spiders!
Remember the start of Trainspotting where Renton does the “choose life” monologue? Back in ‘96 I thought it was just a bunch of made-up activities that only applied to EastEnders characters. I realise now that it was actually a checklist of things I would be doing over the next ten years. Most items are ticked off, just in time for my twenty-seventh birthday later this week.
But enough of that, Rez is coming up on Xbox Live Arcade. While I have played it to death on the PS2 already, I fancy getting it again for the achievement points and proving to the world that I can get the ultimate butterfly ending.
Until then, I’ll consider a third run through Rapture in the fantastic videogaming experience that is Bioshock. It should have been tougher though, gets far too easy about halfway through, even on hard.
PS. This just in – if you’re using the Compare People app on Facebook you definitely want to read this. Or just remove the evil being from your applications. Privacy violations are bad mmkay.
Nobody cares about my internet related posts, so back to the other recipe. Sunday’s treat: home-made beef burgers.
Served in a wholemeal bun with grated mature cheddar, a shard of crisp lettuce and dollop of peri-peri ketchup. In the background you’ll notice a glass of 46% Arran whisky, from bottle 8 of 188 produced.
You might also notice Hitman Blood Money for the Xbox 360. I finally finished it using a guide – I just wanted to see how the story panned out. Really good game but could have done with being a couple of missions shorter.
PS. We have bought some Patak’s sauce for the next curry based on the collective wisdom of the comments. See – your words are valued here, so write some more.
This bank holiday I was mostly painting in:
Okami (PS2, excellent game)
Bathroom (Real life, I strongly dislike DIY and everything it stands for)
At least the end results look good, despite my best efforts to get paint in all the wrong places.
How was your bank holiday weekend? Filled with wind, rain and the mundane, or exciting like in Hollyoaks, perhaps with some emotional trauma on the side?
Blizzard, purveyors of the finest videogame crack, have announced Starcraft 2. I know this news is about a week old but I’m still in the early stages of excitement, even though it looks the same as the first one with new graphics and units. I suppose you could say that about every “real-time strategy” game though, it’s just different graphics and units.
Given Blizzard’s track record I don’t expect to see anything for at least a year, they like to get things right. In the meantime I’ll be saving up for a computer that can run Starcraft 2. The Mac Mini just doesn’t cut it as a gaming platform (although it can run Starcraft, Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 just fine).
I would like to think that the #236 audience (both of you) played and enjoyed the first Starcraft, so what do we think about Starcraft 2 so far?
OMG Zerg rush kekekeke!!! ^_^
All dazzle and no substance, that’s the way to win people over. By the time they realise, it’s too late and you have their £6.30. I watched 300 last night.
The battle sequences are excellent but if you want something to watch you’d be better off renting a good film instead. I suggest The Departed, Pan’s Labyrinth and Children of Men.
Alternatively, if you just really have a thing for Spartans, God of War 2 is out shortly. My neglected PS2 will be reunited with electricity on account of this.
The fish fingers fell out of the packet into the hot oil so I had to eat them.
If I had time for a proper post, I’d use that time to play Worms on the Xbox 360 instead.
On the way to writing this, I stumbled through Freakonomics blog and found Swivel. This looks exciting, dataset mashups for information ninjas. It might even get a post to itself in the near future.
I’ve been re-reading Nymphomation by Jeff Noon, probably my second favourite book after American Psycho. Consider this a recommendation, even though it gave me nightmares about blurbflies.
That aside, I set a new personal best for Lumines 60 second time attack mode – 95. It’s no 114 though.
High
Last night I managed to move one step closer to my goal of becoming 60 second time attack mode LuminesLive! world champion. My new high score is 114, and I am now 64th in the world instead of 65th. Not much, but it is progress! I must point out this is the result of throwing blocks down (in the spirit of throwdown), not any gay techniques like smart.
The dip between high and low seemed to appear around the time I commuted to work this morning. The culprit that brought me to work is currently at large - the police have released an artistic impression of the suspect and his vehicle.
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