Because I'd bore my LJ readers to death with these ramblings. ♥

• 21Jul 08

  New banner, description, and a blog post!

  So I finally made a banner for this thing. :[ I know Andy used to harass me about it and now it's done. That said, I need to update this more often and I probably will if I can figure out how to RSS-feed it over to Backloggery. 8D;
  
  I've done a lot since that last post. Man, new PSP, a bunch of new games, beaten a ton more... yeah, this hasn't been updated in a while. XD; I have only one more DS game to beat before all of them are beaten (for now) so I've picked up Final Fantasy III again in the hopes of getting somewhere. :[ I checked a FAQ and I'm only like 60% through the game baaaw. It's not too captivating but I'm going to finish it, damnit. XD
  
  And I guess that's about it for now? I'm getting a new PS2 this week, I think. Nothing really wrong with the old one but my brother really wants his own PS2 so he's going to pay most of the price on the new one and then we're trading. o_O; I don't understand his logic there but he does owe me a fair bit of money so we'll call it even.
  
  It's like midnight. I should eat dinner.
  • Posted Jul 21, 2008 8:45 pm PT
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• 20Apr 08

  Backloggery

  I discovered Backloggery the other month and it's made such a difference for me. For the most part, I tend to start playing a game and if it's not utterly riveting, I'll usually put it down for days or weeks or months at a time. Even years, in some cases. So I have a lot of unfinished games lying around. Gamespot has always made me feel a little guilty to look at my list and see "oh, I should probably PLAY that game since I own it" but... Backloggery takes it to the next step.
  
  With each game added to your list, you can set it: unfinished, beaten, completed, or mastered. For some reason, actually SEEING a full list of everything in my unfinished section really gets me going to beat them. Before I got it, I had a fair few games where I'd nearly gotten to the end when I quit. So in the last month or two I've gone back and beaten them. It's great to prioritize my gaming like this, since it kind of reminds me what I should be playing and what I'm doing. Plus it's so satisfactory to go edit a title to bump it up to "beaten". Mind you, it's also making me a little lazier as far as gameplay goes. I'm not doing EVERYTHING anymore, which is something I often do. Like in Assassin's Creed, I fully intended to do absolutely every little thing in each city but... now I just want to BEAT it. Especially since in two weeks I won't have access to the console. Also with my laptop broken and being sent off for repair, I'm going to have a lot of free time in the evenings--I'm back to SHARING computers with the family. I'm very tempted to lug the old, old OLD desktop up to my room and configure it wirelessly just to have my own computer. But I'm not that desperate yet. XD
  
  Anyway, I've checked my e-mail so it's back to Assassin's Creed. ♥
  • Posted Apr 20, 2008 8:09 pm PT
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• 10Feb 08

  Why do I keep doing this?

  ERICA STOP ADDING TO YOUR LIST OF GAMES TO PLAY.
  
  Though in my defence, one of them was already on it.
  
  Stopped in at EB Games today to pick up Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicle and found DISGAEA (PS2) of all things. NEW. FOR $30. I almost died of happiness. n__n I've been searching for it for ages and gave up after finding the cheapest copy for $60 used. I also picked up Shadow of the Colossus for $10.
  
  I also got a new PS2 controller. It's silver and wireless. My first PS2 controller is, uhh, held together with duct tape. No joke. My other one, the one I got for the release of KH2, is dying too. The rumble's broken on one side and the L2 or R2 button (or both?) has stopped working properly. I haven't used it yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
  
  Now off to... I dunno. Something.
  • Posted Feb 10, 2008 5:01 pm PT
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