• 30Aug 08

  Im bored, so I decided to write another blog post!

  I haven't done one of these in a while, don't know why but as I carry on installing all my PS3 games again after the HDD switch I thought a good ol' blog post could pass the time.

  So what have I been upto lately? Well I got my results from my GCSE's, and much to my surprise, I did alright and got enough to go into sixth form (not quite sure what that would be in America, 12th grade and onwards maybe). I got a B in Art and IT, a D in one of my Science exams, and a C in everything else w00t! So I was pretty relieved over that, my parents got me and nice new computer for agreeing to go to sixth form, and i'll be getting £30 a week for going because my mum doesn't earn over a certain amount! I feel kind of bad considering we do get by and have a nice house and what have you, but, I might aswell take it, I probably would have just got a job if I didn't qulify to claim the money. Now enough of my relatively boring life, lets talk games!

  Well, I still haven't got around to completing half of my games, I really want to and am going to make it my goal as of now, what with all the good games coming out soon I really feel the need to atleast get a bit further in some of them.

  I ordered Battlefield: Bad Company earlier, I really enjoyed the demo, and never got around to buying it until now, can't wait for that but im going to try and limit myself from it until I complete atleast one of the games I already have, lets hope that goes well.

  I also ordered The World Ends With You for the DS, because im getting one tommorow HOO-RAEIGH! Going to get New Super Mario Bros aswell so me and my girlfriend can play together.

  I want to start writing reviews again aswell, I guess i've just been quite lazy lately, but yeah, need to get back to that

  Well if you decided to read, thanks! Hope you enjoyed it.

  • Posted Aug 30, 2008 2:38 pm PT
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• 20Aug 08

  Switching my PS3's hard drive was one of the...

  MOST FRUSTRATING EXPERIENCS OF MY LIFE!

  Okay first off, the danm thing took 15 days to get here, got dispatched twice from Play.com, apparently.

  Then it arrives, and im woken up by a phone call from my mum telling me that a package got delivered to my nans house because no one was here to answer the door, well yeah I was trying to sleep FFS!

  Anyway, I go to my nans, get the package, come back and hey it's my new hard drive! Brilliant I thought, just a few minutes and i'll be using my new Hard Drive with ease. I get my PS3, the toolbox and the new hard drive layed out on the table, pop open the socket where the hard drive is located, unscrew the blue screw, take out the tray, attempt to unscrew the old hard drive from the tray AND HEY GUESS WHAT THEY'RE REALLY DANM STIFF!

  So I spend about 10 minutes unscrewing 3 of the danm things, and finally get to the forth. This is where it all turned ugly.

  I attempt to unscrew it, the screwdriver kept popping out and refusing to turn the screw. I try again about 20 times. I then say to myself, okay, this time push really hard and it will come undone. I push really hard, I can feel my hand shaking then BAM! The screwdriver pops out and I dig it right into my leg! I cut myself and im bleeding badly, I get up and slam my fist on the table in anger, OH JOY THE TOOLBOX JUST FELL OFF AND ALL THE TOOLS WENT EVERYWHERE. I was so angry at that screw at this point I just thought, okay this thing is coming off right now no matter what. I shake the tray it's in and bend it in so many unessecary ways. I finally managed to get it off somehow, and now because I was an idiot and bent the tray I need to bend it back into shape if it has any hope of being put to use again. OOPS I JUST SNAPPED OFF ONE OF THE PEICES OF METAL THE SCREW GOES IN.

  Well yeah I managed to finally get it to fit back in my PS3 and it actually worked to my surprise, I downloaded 2.42 off of Playstation.com, installed it back on the PS3, changed all my settings back to how they where and what not, uploaded all my save files and what have you. And now im here writing this blog while I wait for all my PSN games to download again.

  It hasn't been easy and I would definitley plan this out had I known the kind of state I would get myself into, but now it's just plain sailing and no more deleting stuff to make room for other stuff.

  • Posted Aug 20, 2008 7:10 am PT
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• 12Aug 08

  PSP or 360 Arcade? I hate having to make decisions...

  So it's going to be my birthday in around 80 days, yeah I know it's ages away but whatever. Im having a difficult time deciding what to get, I haven't had a good handheld console in ages and could really do with one, but the 360 Arcade unit is getting quite cheap now and with all of the brilliant looking exclusive games I would hate to miss out on them. I suppose I deserve this kind of selling my 360 in favour of getting a PS3 in the first place, I could have saved a whole lot of time and frustration and just got a PS3 for my birthday.

  • Posted Aug 12, 2008 8:48 am PT
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