Countdown Initializing
So the semester is almost half-way through already. A lot of exams are coming up next week, and fortunately I haven't been scheduled a ton of hours at OSH this week. I'm hoping to get as much studying done before the weekend so that I might be able to hang out with Ben and Sam. Heros is a really cool series, and it's fun making commentary while we watch.
This weekend is looking to be fairly busy though. At the beginning of this month I got an invitation even on myspace from Melissa (I can't remember her last name...is it Solley? Well, here's her myspace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=15866639&MyToken=2c21c3f5-e434-4442-a138-41146d225336)
She's having a Halloween party this saturday. Some time ago we'd kind of chatted and did the, "Ya, I'll call you some time and hang out" But I was a lame-ass and never did call. So, I'm cashing in on it now, you could say. That and last I checked, she's another cooky, random, and fun person like most people I know are. So I'm anticipating having a fun time. I need to get over to Evangeline's though and pick up supplementary items for my costume. There's a heaven/hell theme to the party, and I've got to pick a side. Feel free to leave your opinion on this matter. :P
Luis and Austin's room mate Joey, who works at Gamestop on 65th with Justin, is helping organize a Guitar Hero II tournament at Gamestop on Saturday. Saturday is going to be fairly busy. Apparently the first tiers of the tournament will start on a difficulty less than expert. Austin and I always play on expert, and on a cheat-setting (Hyperspeed) so the notes come twice as fast. The cruel side of me is hoping I get pitted against a smart-ass 14 year old I can rail. However if that may happen, I must be ready if I get railed in the same manner. Who knows what beasts Sacramento harbors.
I've also gotten myself a copy of the Orange Box. Sweet jesus TF2 is addicting. And they fixed the Pyro! This flame-throwing monster used to be a flame-throwing piss-ant irritates-the-fuck-out-of-you-and-does-nothing-else class. Seriously, a heavy weapons man would have 300 health and 100 armor, and pyro flames would do...1 damage to each per second...so I mean, if you've got 5 minutes to kill one guy who can kill you in 3 seconds, it works out fine. As fun, crazy, and awesome as the pyro is though, they have also fixed another class which has captured my attention: the spy. Before he could only pretend to be dead, and disguise himself as other people. Though since none of the games had friendly-fire damage on, people could just shoot their team mates freely to weed-out spies. Now however they can turn invisible for brief periods of time. This is such an improvement that you can now constantly kill people as a spy and hardly worry about detection (at least within time to kill you). Yes, nothing is as satisfying as coming up behind a team trying to bum-rush one entrance, and stabbing every one of them in the back.
Portal was fun, and short. I wish there was a way to save the companion cube.
I also watched the miniseries of Afro Samurai recently. The first episode I thought was the most entertaining. The other episodes seemed to fall into the realm of somewhat-tastefully cliche. The teddy-bear-cyborg-samurai was somewhat cheesy, and I wish it had more music like they have in the intro. Make a bit of a samurai hip-hop whoop-ass.
And Spore...I'm really hoping it's going to come out in March this time around. Looking at it now I couldn't see why it wouldn't be ready by then, but I am not producing the game. In any case, the limitation to the scale of your creature is very loose, so I will most definately be designing my big-game-hunting planet.
I also want to do some more running some time soon, I've missed doing that a bit. It feels good to have your muscles worked and a little tired. To sense all the smells and sounds goind around the neighboorhood. I can't say I like running on tredmills, it's just not the same as running and actually moving your body. I like being aware of each breath I take and release. I like feeling alive.
Though I guess you can't feel any other way but alive. Otherwise it would mean you are dead.
This weekend is looking to be fairly busy though. At the beginning of this month I got an invitation even on myspace from Melissa (I can't remember her last name...is it Solley? Well, here's her myspace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=15866639&MyToken=2c21c3f5-e434-4442-a138-41146d225336)
She's having a Halloween party this saturday. Some time ago we'd kind of chatted and did the, "Ya, I'll call you some time and hang out" But I was a lame-ass and never did call. So, I'm cashing in on it now, you could say. That and last I checked, she's another cooky, random, and fun person like most people I know are. So I'm anticipating having a fun time. I need to get over to Evangeline's though and pick up supplementary items for my costume. There's a heaven/hell theme to the party, and I've got to pick a side. Feel free to leave your opinion on this matter. :P
Luis and Austin's room mate Joey, who works at Gamestop on 65th with Justin, is helping organize a Guitar Hero II tournament at Gamestop on Saturday. Saturday is going to be fairly busy. Apparently the first tiers of the tournament will start on a difficulty less than expert. Austin and I always play on expert, and on a cheat-setting (Hyperspeed) so the notes come twice as fast. The cruel side of me is hoping I get pitted against a smart-ass 14 year old I can rail. However if that may happen, I must be ready if I get railed in the same manner. Who knows what beasts Sacramento harbors.
I've also gotten myself a copy of the Orange Box. Sweet jesus TF2 is addicting. And they fixed the Pyro! This flame-throwing monster used to be a flame-throwing piss-ant irritates-the-fuck-out-of-you-and-does-nothing-else class. Seriously, a heavy weapons man would have 300 health and 100 armor, and pyro flames would do...1 damage to each per second...so I mean, if you've got 5 minutes to kill one guy who can kill you in 3 seconds, it works out fine. As fun, crazy, and awesome as the pyro is though, they have also fixed another class which has captured my attention: the spy. Before he could only pretend to be dead, and disguise himself as other people. Though since none of the games had friendly-fire damage on, people could just shoot their team mates freely to weed-out spies. Now however they can turn invisible for brief periods of time. This is such an improvement that you can now constantly kill people as a spy and hardly worry about detection (at least within time to kill you). Yes, nothing is as satisfying as coming up behind a team trying to bum-rush one entrance, and stabbing every one of them in the back.
Portal was fun, and short. I wish there was a way to save the companion cube.
I also watched the miniseries of Afro Samurai recently. The first episode I thought was the most entertaining. The other episodes seemed to fall into the realm of somewhat-tastefully cliche. The teddy-bear-cyborg-samurai was somewhat cheesy, and I wish it had more music like they have in the intro. Make a bit of a samurai hip-hop whoop-ass.
And Spore...I'm really hoping it's going to come out in March this time around. Looking at it now I couldn't see why it wouldn't be ready by then, but I am not producing the game. In any case, the limitation to the scale of your creature is very loose, so I will most definately be designing my big-game-hunting planet.
I also want to do some more running some time soon, I've missed doing that a bit. It feels good to have your muscles worked and a little tired. To sense all the smells and sounds goind around the neighboorhood. I can't say I like running on tredmills, it's just not the same as running and actually moving your body. I like being aware of each breath I take and release. I like feeling alive.
Though I guess you can't feel any other way but alive. Otherwise it would mean you are dead.