• 21Jul 09

  Over The Breaks

  So this time my title was chosen just because it had "break" in it, which is relevant to this blog. Yes, that means I'm going to be taking a break from GameSpot, even though I haven't exactly been spending a lot of time on it anyway, haha. Lately it just seems like all of its appeal has been fading. OT hasn't really been interesting the few times that I've been on and neither have the PC forums, a lot of the unions have either been somewhat the same as the forums or have even been dying and my favorite bloggers have either stopped blogging or their blogs seem pretty few and far in between. I actually considered leaving, but I thought "Nah, I'll just take a break for about around 2 weeks (though maybe it'll be longer, just depends) and then see if I can rediscover my interest in GameSpot," so that's my plan. If I'm still not feeling it when I return, my next blog may be a goodbye blog, so we shall see.

  Before I end this, I just want to give a short update on what's been going on with me in several categories for those that are interested.

  Games

  Not too much to say here other than I'm really starting to lose interest in videogames. This may be a big factor as to why GameSpot isn't really as appealing anymore. I'm not totally giving up yet, as I still have not started on Fallout, Fallout 2, Company of Heroes Gold (thanks to the annoying patches) and Baldur's Gate II, nor have I finished the StarCraft, WarCraft 3 and Crysis campaigns, so the plan is I'll try to finish up some of those campaigns during this break from GameSpot and see if that renews my interest in gaming. But if you guys think I should try some of those classics first, I'll consider that.

  Music

  The latest music purchases I've made are:

  • The JV Allstars - Take Me Back To Spectre
  • Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
  • Katharsis - VVorld VVithout End
  • Negura Bunget - Om
  • Born of Osiris - A Higher Place
  • Suffocation - Blood Oath

  All of them are really great albums so far, and I haven't regretted getting any of them.

  As far as music in general, I've been really getting into the whole pop-punk thing lately. The JV Allstars, Blink-182 and Green Day have all been dominating my listening time lately. Also, an exciting thing is that yesterday my friend and I decided to start a Green Day cover band (nothing too serious of course), so we each got a music book for their album 21st Century Breakdown (I got one for the guitar, he got one for piano/keyboard). It's already fun and probably really good for my guitar playing as it's getting me to play something other than metal! Heh.

  Life

  Life has really been great lately, and this summer has definitely been the best one I've had so far. I've been getting out of the house way more, have actually gone to a party and tried new things and have been doing well in my 2 cIasses (psychology and sociology; finals are coming up in the next 2 weeks!). This weekend I'm leaving early Friday morning to go on this religious retreat thing to Arizona (as you probably all know, I'm not religious, so I'm doing this with my friends as a kind of "old time's sake" thing, haha) and I'll get back Sunday night, then next weekend I'll be going to Indianapolis for the Denker Tournament of High School Champions to compete with other K-12 state chess champions for the second time, so I'm very excited!

  Now I know in my last blog I said if I got a request, I'd give an update on the girl situation, but just give me until my next blog on that one, haha.

  So that's about it! I hope everyone else has been having a great summer too! And maybe if I learn a full song from that 21st Century Breakdown album by the time I do my next blog, I'll post a video or something.

  Peace.

  • Posted Jul 21, 2009 1:21 pm PT
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• 10Jun 09

  To Whom It May Concern...

  First off, I want to apologize to a few people, namely AuthenticKaizen, sammyjenkis898 and someone-with-a-satanic-name-that-I-can't-remember-because-I-didn't-get-a-chance-to-add-you-to-my-contacts-list-but-we-were-talking-about-Behemoth for not responding to your messages. I procrastinated replying (don't get the false assumption that I don't enjoy chatting with you guys by that statement though!), and then not too long ago I somehow accidentally clicked "Delete All" and subsequently lost all related messages. So if you guys are reading this, I didn't reply because I lost all the messages!

  Okay, now that I got that off my chest, I'll go ahead and just finish this with a few updates:

  • New avatar, sig and banner (my awesome Gemma Atkinson banner got deleted by the mods... after being up for at least a month). Avatar is from Justice's D.A.N.C.E. music video, sig is Suffocation's logo and banner is Cryptopsy's logo. Rate pl0x?

  • I hit level 29 and basked in its awesomeness for like 2 days... and then promptly got a point loss for my banner so I'm back to being a "Bionic Commando", haha.

  • I probably won't get a chance to get on GameSpot until Monday (which is probably good, 'cause I could use a break from it I suppose) because I have a Sociology essay to write, a Psychology exam to study for and a chess tournament in Colordado to go to. Wish me luck!

  So that's pretty much it for me! I've got some great news on the girl front if anyone wants to hear it, so if I get a request maybe I'll do my next blog on that. Hope everyone is doing well!

  Peace.

  • Posted Jun 10, 2009 11:30 am PT
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• 11Apr 09

  Ecstasy

  Duuuude. No lie, last night/this morning was the best experience of my life (so far)! I don't really feel like writing a long blog, so I will probably make it brief, but I went to a rave last night with some friends and it was so ill! From what we had heard, the place they were having it at was a little sketch, but once we actually got there it turned out to be all legit. I was going to roll at the rave, but unfortunately we got totally ripped off so it didn't end up happening. Afterwards we went to an afterparty waaay the hell out in the middle of nowhere in some guy's house. I took half of a white macintosh and we all were having fun until all of a sudden somebody was like "The cops! They're outside!" So they turned off the music and all the lights and everyone was just waiting in silence and it was freaky 'cuz we heard somebody knocking on the doors and stuff, but it turned out that it was some people that were outside at the time and they wanted to get in and the cops were only there because somebody was stalled on the side of the road and they were helping them or something. Needless to say, after it was clear, we took off back to my friend's apartment.

  When we got there I still wasn't feeling anything, so my friend had me take a shot of this crazy ass liquor and man, it really kickstarted everything! I was rolling so hard, it was incredible, haha. At one point, I had to go to the bathroom but when I tried to walk the like 10 feet to get there, I kept on stumbling and staggering and stuff! We also put on the movie Quarantine, and I wasn't scared at all surprisingly. I was just like "Hey... that dude fell down! Oh snap he got bit in the neck now!" Ah man, I don't know where I'm going with this. Fun stuff. I actually took two vids of me that I may post later. Oh and I'm sorry if this seems pointless or is just plain hard to read, I still feel like I'm rolling, hahaha. Peace.

  • Posted Apr 11, 2009 3:36 pm PT
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