• 22Nov 09

  13 Going on 31

  Hello Gamespotters!

  That's right, Friday I reached the ripe old age of 31!

  It wasnt a bad day at all, actually.

  I went to see 2012 and it was okay. The special effects were sweet.

  I also picked up Assassin's Creed II, which Im having tons of fun with , and Tekken 6, which I played for five seconds before getting my butt handed to me by the cpu.

  I got various B-day well wishes from friends and relatives and even got a card from the local pharmacy with two movie tickets inside which I thought was very nice, since I only shopped there a few times.

  My cousin even gave me a present, he left me alone for nearly the whole day, which is a lot nicer than it probably sounds.

  Even the voices in my head wished me a Happy Birthday, which was nice and a bit unexpected since they usually just talk about sex-err I mean video games. =P

  Now I tell everyone that I'm a bitter old maid, and how, back in my day, we used apple iie'a, played on atari 2600's, and watched gobots, and someone else always has a better story about how old they are. Something like:

  "Well back in my day, i used to hang out with Double C, that's Chris Columbus, it was around 1490, and I called him C Squared and he called me a traitorous dog (it was a thing we had). Anywhoo, me and old C Bass would spend hours at sea, scavenging spices from the New World, invading continents that had already been populated, looking up and pretending the clouds looked like boobs, you know, stuff everyone did back then (he was really good at that last one). Hey, did I ever tell you about the time I saved General Patton from Lex Luthor??"

  Oh well. Hope you guys have a nice weekend and great week!
  

  • Posted Nov 22, 2009 2:51 am PT
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• 16Nov 09

  The Late Late Blog...with Alli

  Hello my lovelies!

  I know, I havent blogged in a few days (months), and some of you are probably wondering where I've been, if I've been okay or not even noticing I've been gone. Not to worry, I'm not here to judge (*judges them all guilty*). Soo where have I been..well its actually a funny story (actually its not so much funny as it is long =P).

  Well I woke up one day with a temp of 100, and since my immune system isnt always 100%, I was a little concerned. So I drank about a liter of cherry blast flavored Tylenol, (if you've ever taken Tylenol, you know its kinda like the doorman at your apartment building, after 6 hours, he goes on break to get a beer, and tons of salesmen and door to door religious fanatics sneak in). So 6 hours later, the temp soared to a record breaking 104.

  The worst part about having a 104 degree fever is that its not high enough to invoke hallucinations. Before heading to the ER, I stared out the window, hoping for a pink elephant sighting or maybe a large green beetle or something (the talking dog on the corner doesnt count, he's been talking to me for years).

  So I get to the hospital and they admit me, mostly to draw buckets of blood and flush my system with antibiotics. For you medical types, nothing ever grew out, no bacteria, or fungi (pronounced fun boys in Spring Break English), but they hit me with enough antibiotics to take down the swine flu (I was there for a week).

  I gotta say though, the new UCLA Hospital really impressed me. The old hospital, had two beds and one tv in each patient room (and I never got the tv). By comparison the new hospital has private rooms, hd tv's (in each room), 100+ channels, leather couch and desk chair in each room, an ocean view and wi fi internet in each room (not that I'd take a laptop there, I'm always afraid someone will play "Snatch n Grab", while I'm down in radiology getting spinal tapped =P).

  Anyway I'm fine now, except I have what John calls GAS (Game Acquisition Syndrome), cause I like buying games way more than actually playing games. For example, I picked up Borderlands and Smackdown vs Raw 2010, when they came out and despite not really liking Borderlands (too much fps for me), I havent really played them. Even better, I have a huge stack of 360 games that , mostly, Ive never even finished (some I havent even started), but at least they look cool, right?

  On a completely unrelated subject, I'm thinking of picking up some games this week and I;m not sure what to play. I was thinking about Brutal Legend and/or Tekken 6, but Assassin's Creed 2 comes out Tues. (and I actually did finish the original). I wanna play DJ Hero, dunno if I wanna buy it though.
  

  On the gaming front I downloaded Operation Anchorage for Fallout and went through a couple missions. Oh and Dragon Age! After drooling over it for months, I got the collectors edition on the release day and started going through it. I made a mage, (1st char) and got to level 5 and got tired of the whole not being able to open every chest I came across (you'd think I'd know what I'm doing by now, after Baldur's Gate 1/2 and Neverwinter Nights 1/2). Soo I made a rogue (2nd char), and rogue isnt bad, I can shoot arrows, and stealth, and backstab and I was killin stuffs and doing quests and I got to level 12 and I was having fun and all...until....

  I hit Gamestop about a week ago to get a friend a late b day present (he wanted Batman: Arkham Asylum for PC), and the guy there was preaching the awesomeness of the PC version of Dragon Age and well..long story short, I left the store with one of the two remaining copies of the pc version of the game and the hardcover collector's edition guide. Soo I start up a new charrie (3rd char), and I've learned enough about rogue to go back to mage. You know what? The pc version does look and play a lot better and I thought this would be the definitive version I play. Until...

  Wouldnt you know it, I have to share my mouse. I have a razer something or other that glows in the dark and eats mice, (I think), and its usually on the desktop, which my cousin uses. So after a week of playing footsie with the mouse, I decide to go back to the 360 and make a new charrie. (4th char). This one is doing quite well, Ive actually progressed through the game a bit, I think shes level 13, and has the Inferno spell (it creates a huge column of flames in a huge area and looks wicked).

  Anyway if you're still awake, sorry for the wall of text. Hope you all have a great week!
  

  
  

  • Posted Nov 16, 2009 2:09 am PT
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• 6Sep 09

  Is Your Car Lonely?

  Hello, my pretty little snowflakes!

  After a week in the 95-101 degree range (whew!), its cooled down substantially this weekend, and this coming week, they're saying its gonna be in the 80s, which is a lot cooler. My first week at school was torture, as many of you know, I'm not a morning person at all. Getting up at 6-7 is waaay too early for me. The main highlight of the hot weather was that most of the 17-18 year olds at school werent wearing much at all. It makes for a great show. (Come on, you know you look too =P). I wish I could get away with wearing two teacups and a paper napkin to school and call it an outfit =P.

  My roomate recently got a cat. Its cute and all but Im so sick of cats. Its always "someone else's cat", that's running around. My cousin's cat is always underfoot and now the roomie has one. Worse yet, now apparently the cat is lonely so she wants another one. (What the heck??). When did this start? My friend Eric's sister Jenny had a son and not two months later, decided that the baby would be lonely, so they had another. (Thank God no one at the bookstore told me my Psych book might get lonely, or I'd have to shell out another 135 beans). I'm starting to wonder if the evil relatives new Benz might get lonely, maybe they'll buy another one =P.

  I havent done too much on the gaming front this week, but I did borrow Kung Fu Panda and Lego Indy so I played a little of those and they're okay. I'm still trying to find my way around in Fallout 3, I'm only level 4. I did manage to kill some super mutant behemoth. (It was like a giant version of Arnold, with a fire hydrant in one hand and a load of hp). It took all my ammo and one grenade to bring it down but it gave me 75xp. (Yay!)

  Hope you guys are having a great holiday weekend!

  • Posted Sep 6, 2009 11:49 am PT
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