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Life Roundup
Posted by Tickthokk in Life Roundup, Movie Roundup, Video Game Roundup on June 15th, 2009
Maybe Video Game Roundup is dead. It sounded cool but I wrote the two paragraphs about video games and realized I didn’t want to dedicate a whole post to it. I even had a cool title: Round 2 – Fight! But instead, this time:
It’s Life Roundup!
The wedding is getting closer and closer. Jenny is finishing up with our disney plans for our honeymoon. Apparently everything we go to needs a reservation.
I’m going to C-Bus to see Ryan this weekend. Sunday and Monday, hangin with my best man. He’ll be borrowing Super Mario Galaxy, he said he wanted to play it. I’m bringing super smash bro’s as well. I might bring my whole Wii, just to play my virtual console games.
Saturday we had a cookout/party for Jenny’s grandmother, who’s birthday was two weeks ago. I grilled some awesome burgers, and she made some awesome potatoes. I cooked brats from Dorothy Lane too, but they weren’t that great. I’d rather have the kind you buy in a package. I want to cook Keibasas, but we can’t find them.
Video Games
Resident Evil 5
I’ve been playing the crap out of this. I’m missing one BSAA plate, and I know where it is. I didn’t bring a sniper rifle, damnit. I’ve almost finished it on Amatuer (but I’ve already beaten it on normal). I’m going for all S’s, but I’ll have to replay some boards because I missed a few. Justin and I are going through on Veteran, which will unlock Professional mode. I got unlimited ammo on the super duper magnum, it has 5000 attack power, and kills everything in one or two hits. Normal zombies: one hit. Those icky sloth creatures, one to two hits, that giant axe guy at the beginning? two or three. Bosses are cake. I got the achievement for damaging wesker in the first fight so much. It was rad. And the Excella fight was easy too, I didn’t even have to use the rocket launcher thing, just the mag. Oh yeah. Because of the kickback, you have to make the shots count. I got so good at it I received a 75% accuracy bonus on one level. I think I’m only missing 6 jewels too.
WoW
Ii, my rogue, is now level 21. I’ve been preparing for 21 because I had two awesome daggers enchanted with Fiery. It’s going to be awesome. My leveling plan has gone well. To recap, I leveled to 9 in Durotar, jumped ship and went to the Blood Elf area. Leveled to 17, at which point things stopped being “super easy”. I then came back to the Barrens, and even though and handfull of quests were Grey, they were still worth doing. Now I’m 21, and at 22 I finally get the Distract ability, which will make my sneaky sneaky easier. With the daggers I’m not sure if I need to.
Sims 3
I’m not playing it, but Jenny is. She says it’s harder than Sims 2. Apparently she was trying to get a guy to break up with his lady-friend so she could have him to herself, but he wouldn’t. And he wouldn’t Woo-Hoo with her either. Apparently in the Sims 2, infidelity and promiscuity are easy to come by.
Internet:
We upgraded to AT&T U-Verse, and it’s amazing! We had AT&T DSL and Dish for TV, they both sucked ass. My Download speed was .65Mbps tops on DSL, and now my download speed is 5.77Mbsp or something crazy like that. Fiber optics are the bomb dizzle. The router/modem they gave me does everything, I went from having three small modem/routers to having one bigger router. It’s wireless too.
Now for Movies:
A Scanner Darkley
I started watching it only because I was interested in the whole “we shot it live but turned it into a cartoon anyway” effect. It seemed like it was okay, but I don’t think I’m going to finish it. I honestly got 20 minutes into it (the thought bubble where the waitress is topless) and turned it off. I had enough of the “cartoon effect”. Either be real, or be a cartoon, but not both, it’s weird.
Freelance:
Tomorrow I’m doing a presentation for Bayer Financial Group to ‘tune up’ their website. I’ve got a 12 slide presentation, and we’re doing lunch.
I did some work for a company called Warmbat, they sell shoes/boots and seem based in Australia, I don’t have the full scope on it. I’m 2/3rds of the way through the project. It was interesting because I’m used to MooTools for my javascript purposes, but I had to use jQuery. I figured “hey, they both do the same thing”, which they do, but the syntax is way different. It was a learning experience.
Rockdoctor is getting closer to the finish line. As is the project at my day job.
Video Game Roundup
Posted by Tickthokk in Video Game Roundup on June 8th, 2009
Welcome to the first weekly/bi-weekly/whenever the hell I want Video Game Roundup! Yay! Because it’s the first, it’ll be a little longer.
Dead Space
So, I beat Dead Space on Saturday. Awesome game. The first run through took me a little over 10 hours. After I beat it, I immediately started the new game, so I’m going through it again. The white military suit is sweet. I’ve got the majority of my weapons upgraded fully. I think only the Ripper and Contact Beam needs work. I might go for the game only using the first gun, it sounds like it might be fun 
I’m already on chapter 10 on my second run through. Once you know what’s going on, where to go, who’s going to jump out where, it’s cake. The first time through you’re walking a lot, always turning corners cautiously, constantly aiming your gun. The second time you’re using the run button a lot, and your guns are more powerful, so you can just keep moving really.
Star Ocean: The First Departure
I got really mad at this game. I was loving it, a lot, but it does stupid bullshit to you. Let me explain. I was about level 35-40, going through this treasury in a castle that the king or whoever wanted me to clear out because of monsters. So, I get near the end, I’m two steps away from a save point. Battle. I go into the battle, stunned. Enemy gets first strike. There’s two magi. They both cast a big ass spell. The first one kills two members of the party, and severely injures the other two. Right after the first spell is done, here comes the second, wiping me out. Again, 3 steps away from a save point. I probably lost 20 minutes of game play. This happens all the time too, but usually in the field where you can save all the time. I got really mad and punched my PSP (Jenny was laying on me watching TV, it was an awkward punch). I immediately took the game out of my PSP, put it back in the Gamefly packaging, and sent it away. I really wanted to beat it too 
Resident Evil 5
Justin and I have been playing this together, and it’s a lot of fun. The writing is kind of weak, every other scene somebody says “What is that!?”, but the gameplay is fun. You can’t aim and move, but you get used to it. It looks to have a ton of replay value, probably more than Dead Space. Also some of the battles are super weird to figure out, like the battle with the “Masked person” after she becomes unmasked was really annoying. She’s beating your ass but you can’t kill her. I might buy this, but we’ll see if I get it from Gamefly next.
Guitar Hero: World Tour
The drums for GH:WT are way better than Rock Band. Rock Band’s was kind of confusing, especially if you’re used to the guitar. I’ve been playing career mode for guitar on Expert and it’s going along smoothly. I bought both the Queen songs from the DLC, and I sung them while Jenny played the drums. These games are always fun to play with other people, because even if they suck they still have fun. That’s just a general statement though, I’m not implying that Jenny sucks at it, she’s actually pretty good at the singing and drums.
WoW
I started playing WoW again. I had a level 5 Orc Rogue, named Ii (That’s two i’s) that I picked back up. Got him to level 9, then sent him packing for the Blood Elf starting area for an easier time. Which it is. I started getting all of the quests that are level 5 and over, which gave me a lot of free XP because it was super easy. Now I’m in Tranqueillen (omg, did I spell that right? I might have. *google* Nope, the E doesn’t belong after the U, but other than that I got it. +1 Nerd points!) and level 15. Things are still pretty smooth, but I’ve had some close calls. The only death has been me jumping off a cliff. You think you’re going to land in water, but nope, splat! There was a Gnome DK killing all the NPC’s in Tranq, and like 6 or 7 of us lowbies hanging around trying to turn in quests or fly away. Thankfully another 80 DK showed up to tell him who’s boss. There were plenty of /salute and /thankyou’s for him. It’s pretty annoying to rogue without the Distract ability. I won’t get it until level 22, but it leads to a lot of me not stealthing at all.