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Ladies and gentlemen, I believe I've discovered the nerdiest item in all of space and time:
I saw it in a book shop this morning and had to get it, if only to find out what the hell it was all about. I also picked up volume 2 of Bleach and volume 4 of Dragon Ball while I saw them, since I don't think I'll be getting near another Forbidden Planet for a while, which is where I like to get manga. Well, apparently. I've only really bought manga there once, when I went there with Sam, Skippy and Jimerson while we were meant to be at an Edinburgh University open day. But it was an enjoyable experience.
I actually need to read more of Dragon Ball. I got the first volume... last Christmas, I think. Read a bit of it and eventually handed it to Erin, who seems to like them. I think I'll probably end up taking a couple of volumes, either the first two of DB or Bleach and Star Trek, into school on Monday to give me something to do when I get bored of beating people at Street Fighter.
Actually, holy crap. School starts again on Monday. Damn and blast. I need to get a peer review for a friend's university application written. It shouldn't be hard, I've known him for most of my life and he has all the right qualities for his course, I just suck at doing that kind of thing. Well, pressure generally helps me in these situations so I'll probably leave it to Sunday evening or so.
Saturday, as with much of this afternoon, will likely be spent playing The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. I'm about 3-4 hours in and it kicks some serious ass. The controls, once you get used to them (which only takes about 5 minutes), are excellent and while it deviates a little from the standard Zelda formula here and there, it still retains that essential feel of the series perfectly. I'll probably write more tomorrow once I'm further into it.
Also to do tomorrow, is play The Orange Box, which I also picked up this morning along with Zelda and my manga. My brother and I may end up taking a trip to PC world to upgrade the sound card on the gaming PC since it's been in trouble for a while and I don't want to miss any good stuff from Episode 2. It's kind of odd - the sound always had trouble during pre-rendered cutscenes where it cut in and out repeatedly but it never had trouble with Half Life 2 because that was all done in-engine.
Meh. I'll figure something out or just end up putting up with it. And then I can play me some Portal as well. I've read a lot of good things about it. In fact, the only bad thing I've read about it is that it's too short, which seems to imply that it's a damn good gaming experience. May discuss that more tomorrow as well. In the meantime, here's a video of Half Life 2 modded to use the Portal gun.
And since it's now almost 20 to midnight, I'll end tonight's post here. I'll try to get a woodle up for tomorrow, since I just remembered it. I also remembered that I meant to get a podcast done this week with Sam. And I also remembered that I've got to watch the latest episode of Heroes. Busy, busy, busy.
I saw it in a book shop this morning and had to get it, if only to find out what the hell it was all about. I also picked up volume 2 of Bleach and volume 4 of Dragon Ball while I saw them, since I don't think I'll be getting near another Forbidden Planet for a while, which is where I like to get manga. Well, apparently. I've only really bought manga there once, when I went there with Sam, Skippy and Jimerson while we were meant to be at an Edinburgh University open day. But it was an enjoyable experience.
I actually need to read more of Dragon Ball. I got the first volume... last Christmas, I think. Read a bit of it and eventually handed it to Erin, who seems to like them. I think I'll probably end up taking a couple of volumes, either the first two of DB or Bleach and Star Trek, into school on Monday to give me something to do when I get bored of beating people at Street Fighter.
Actually, holy crap. School starts again on Monday. Damn and blast. I need to get a peer review for a friend's university application written. It shouldn't be hard, I've known him for most of my life and he has all the right qualities for his course, I just suck at doing that kind of thing. Well, pressure generally helps me in these situations so I'll probably leave it to Sunday evening or so.
Saturday, as with much of this afternoon, will likely be spent playing The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. I'm about 3-4 hours in and it kicks some serious ass. The controls, once you get used to them (which only takes about 5 minutes), are excellent and while it deviates a little from the standard Zelda formula here and there, it still retains that essential feel of the series perfectly. I'll probably write more tomorrow once I'm further into it.
Also to do tomorrow, is play The Orange Box, which I also picked up this morning along with Zelda and my manga. My brother and I may end up taking a trip to PC world to upgrade the sound card on the gaming PC since it's been in trouble for a while and I don't want to miss any good stuff from Episode 2. It's kind of odd - the sound always had trouble during pre-rendered cutscenes where it cut in and out repeatedly but it never had trouble with Half Life 2 because that was all done in-engine.
Meh. I'll figure something out or just end up putting up with it. And then I can play me some Portal as well. I've read a lot of good things about it. In fact, the only bad thing I've read about it is that it's too short, which seems to imply that it's a damn good gaming experience. May discuss that more tomorrow as well. In the meantime, here's a video of Half Life 2 modded to use the Portal gun.
And since it's now almost 20 to midnight, I'll end tonight's post here. I'll try to get a woodle up for tomorrow, since I just remembered it. I also remembered that I meant to get a podcast done this week with Sam. And I also remembered that I've got to watch the latest episode of Heroes. Busy, busy, busy.
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