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My Current Addictions...

Have you ever found something that at first you didn't think you would like very much or you heard bad reviews from friends about so you didn't watch that movie or play that game due to the negative rumors floating around about it. Only too get curious and watch that movie or play that game sometime laterwhich resulted in you becoming mindlessly addicted too it? Well that darn bug has bitten me of late and I just can't shake that mindless zombie I must do what thee master tells me to do feeling.

My current two addictions are a mmo game I found on the web thats for free which is suprisingly entertainning called DarkOrbit. Also I'm a Anime/Manga frantic and I have fallen under the spell that soo many others have fallen under before me which is only possiblely could be known as I call the Bleach syndrome. The Bleach series is a super atom bomb of sorts for the anime fan world due to the fact that after it came on air for the first time pretty much every anime freak out there heard about it and well the show just became completely huge and loved by all that likes anime and manga. I might be a little over the top on everyone loving it but its hard to find someone who hasn't heard of it or likes it thats into the anime scene anyways. But yeah anyways I bought the first two seasons of the show andyeah I just can't go a day without watching a episode or counting down the days until the third season collection comes out. I swear its crazy how dim witted I am to be this hopelessly drawn into these types of things. Seriously since in the back of my mind I can pretty much guess whats going to happen next before the episode I am currently watching is over and yet I'm trapped into staring and wanting to see more of the series. Oh well its a great series and I'm really glad I get a chance to watch it so yeah I have noo regrets about being addicted to it.

As for my other addiction, its quite a bit different feeling then the anime film addiction through. The mmo addiction is pretty much based around the age olhunger of mine for space exploration, trade, and conquer games. Ever since I got a taste for star wars back when I was 6 I've always been looking forward to what the future may hold for humanity when it involved the nasa space program. Sadly through I won't be alive to really see human space exploration or colonation of a different planet I think. Which is totally saddening really because I would love to get a chance to live on a different planet or travel in space. But the space travel age is a very long ways away through, like most things we humans won't look to space until we have no choice but have too I fear. Everyday we destroy our environment by pumping tons of carbon up into the atmosphere. I listened to a public forum once on a government funded channel like BBC with a professor from the Unversity of California speaking about globel warming to a conference of some kind I forget what the conference was called. But anyways this professor said that even if we changed today to clean burning energy and stopped the total emissons of Carbonthat it would take a million years or something likethat for thecarbon in the atmosphere to reduce enough for our planet to start to return to normal climate degrees in all areas of the ecosystems that are on the planet. Do you realize that our sun could possibly cook all of us alive one day due to all the carbon thats trapped in the atmosphere or super bad weather conditions that even if we wanted too survive might kill all of us off. It's pretty scarely when I think about it. And the only answer would be to leave the planet and live up in space but of course we humans are too darn concerned with fighting each other to actually try to achieve at least inter-system space travel. Oh well, the more I think about our country leaders arrogence and blindness to everything the more upset I become.

Truely I have idea's and theories on how to fix our problems, I truely believe the way to go is through solar power for our energy needs. But the way we are collecting solar energy now is ok for an amature lopsided start with houses putting roof solar panels on and everything. But to truely get the most bang for our buck is to collect the energy before it hits our earths atmosphere since most of the energy is displaced and obsorbed. I think the professor said that earth's atmosphere only lets 4% of the energy the sun puts off touch the lands and the oceans. I think the estimated amount of energy earth recieves is more then thermal, wind energy, and water energy all combined times some. Its crazy, he evengave pretty sure firenumbers to back it up withso many facts that I really wished I could've saved the show on a dvd or video casset. Oh well I've talked on on I'll type somemore about darkorbit later unless you readers just wanna check out the site heres the address to it see for yourselves what the game is like..

www.DarkOrbit.com

Thanks for reading later days..

Ps3 Savings Plan...

I've decided its time to start saving my pennies to get a ps3. After years of being a faithful xbox gamer I heard today on the site that ps1 games are finally going to be released on the playstation network. Which is the news I've been hoping and waiting a long time for. I've been a gamer for as long as I can remember but I really became a serious gamer when I got my hands on the playstation console in 96. Uh the golden years of console gaming... For those short four or so years I had the most fun I ever had with video games. Vagrant Story, Parasite Eve, the first four releases of Resident Evil not to mention my favorite game of all time, Xenogears. I know its probably too much to hope for that all of those games will be released on the network but I hate the emulators on the net for ps1 games and after my last ps1 console died I just decided to get rid of my twenty or so games I had laying around. I feel soo bad even now for being soo stupid and getting rid of those games I treasured soo dearly but what can you do through. I haven't done any price point research for the ps3 yet or figured out where I'm going to purchase my system from but I won't waste my time until I have at least saved four hundred dollars in my savings.

Is it weird that I feel like I'm betraying my xbox a little for planning on buying a ps3? Hmmm, I still have the problem of selecting a game as well. Decisions decisions... Only time will tell I must retreat to my loft to ponder what the future may hold for me. Until we meet again readers have a good one...

Gears Of War 2 Impression...

After spending sometime with the latest epic game GEARS OF WAR I find myself with mixed feelings on the title. I was one of those few gamers out there that bought the 360 mainly because of the hype I heard from video game retail sellers and people I knew who had a 360 with the orginal gears game. After buying the game I wasn't disappointed at the least with it. In fact I spent the next four months or soo just totally obsorbed in the multiplayer aspect of it. I wouldn't call myself one of the best gamers but when It came to gears I had the habit of picking up the shotty and just appearing out of no where and blowing my opponents to little tiny dog chow bite sized pieces. I loved it, I remember I could just hang back and wait until my team was down to one person and just run a mock and take out three or soo people on my own. I found out the more the players on my team sucked the more fun I had with the game because they would die quickly and I would just run in right behind them and take my competition down with quick easy motions. Of course I would find myself being dominated by the more hardcore gamers that did nothing but eat sleep and play gears once in awhile. I remember one game I had a player tell me he had been playing ranked matches for the last 11 hours and he was hoping to go another 11 to rise his rank a few spots. At the time I loved the game but then and now I am still suprised that someone has the interested enough to just play for that long just to see your name move two spots on a list of maybe a million or soo people. Oh well I have A.D.D and video games help me concentrate for awhile but sitting in one place for that long just seems insaine to me.

Anyways, I think I'm getting away from the subject matter entirely. To get to the point I gotta say after completing the game on the easiest difficulty so far I feel that the solo story mode was a huge improvement over the first in length wise and play ability. This isn't a game that the gamer will have to be familar with to get into. Truely its a pretty easy pick up and play game which I think was epics plan from the get go. Which I think is good but also bad as well, I get a sense of water down Halo 3 flashbacks when I really ponder how the experence was for me the first couple of hours of game play. Heck when I fully ponder over the entire experence of the game I feel that epic could've really had a great thing going for them if they would of stuck with it and gave the game another year or soo to put more content into the story campaign. Anyways I do believe I'll stop right there and continue on with my thoughts with a review of the game before I get too carried away. Also I wanna beat the game on insainity before I my review soo I can fully experence the games ai at its mightiest.... Stay tuned readers have a good one....

Current Gaming of this week...

Once again I find myself driving to the local gamestop store and taking a dive into their local archive of 360 games to hopefully find a treasure of some sort that I might of over looked. What games did I end up with? Three rpgs actually this time around, starting with naruto rise of the ninja for only ten or so bucks. Naruto 2 broken bond for thirty maybe less I can't remember exactly and last but not least Mass Effect which is my second copy of this glorious gem of a game. Seriously, the soul reason I bought Mass Effect again is just because after watching the trailer for thesequal for the third time and wondering and plotting what type of twists and turns is awaiting in itI just got a hunger to walk down the well beaten path of the orginal once more.

Anyways,if youfast forward 72 hours after purchasing all three games you would find me in my current condition, which is annoyed at two of the games and yet to touch upon the third. The Naruto series I conclude is a waste of time and effort which is harsh to say but gosh they both pretty much are. First of all I'm not for cell shading, I don't know why I just don't care for it very much. Even through if I have to look at the first game and then at the second and make a conclusion about both titles I would say the sequal beats the orginal with eye candy appeal and story. But and thats a big wide load on the back of a sumo but... play wise I would choose the first. No matter how crazy it may sound I like the first one better just because I can choose to use the digital directionbuttons to control my character in fights which I can't or I didn't know I can in the second game. True dat playas I like the fight modes in both games but darn it in the second game I felt the controls lacked soo much response with the analogy sticks that towards the end of game where the bandit ninja dudes were just walking around I felt that I should've still kicked their bewee bums around the forest like high schoolers would with kindergardeners. But noo these little cpu fools danced cycles around me on the normal difficultly all because the controls with the stick instead of the button just sucked soo badly that I just couldn't use the darn thing.

But it gets worse,I think theres something off with my 360 or something because naruto rise of the ninja freezes on me in random places of the game. The disk is fine but the game in itself just picks and chooses when to freeze. I had this same problem with saints row 2, if I get the game to spawn too much stuffon the screen thats trying to blast me the processor in the unit I think gives out and freezes the game. But those two games are the only ones that does it to me through so thats why I haven't bought a new system yet. Oh well, I beat the second game in 11 hours and 3 seconds which should've been two hours sooner really when I think about it. Due too bad control set up and all those stupid side quests the programers put in for filler I mean. Oh well I can't even get very far at a time with the first without the game freezing on me so that games a disappointment constantly. But its still going better then the first through with the story and filler balancing through.

Anyways if any of you readers out there wanna refer a game on the 360 to me go ahead I'm pretty much dry right now...

Borderlands what gamespot should tell you.

Hey people if your a fan and looking forward to experencing the newest game from 2k thats called borderlands do yourself a favor and check out their website borderlandsthegame.com I just recently visited the their site and omg they just added a ton of different content that gamespot doesn't have up yet. I just watched their gameplay video and I was blown away with just how the gamesneak peeks thatthey got up so far. Of course they have a guy talking about the game in the background discussing where they are at and stuff you can do in the game. Its pretty much a great look into what the game has to offer and wow I'm totally looking forward to checking this gameout when it becomes avaible. Anyways the address to the site if you didn't know is www.borderlandsthegame.comcheck it out.

Got Prototype?

Today has offically blowed soo hard that simple words can't express the pain and annoyance I've been through. First of all I got off of work at 6:30 this morning and decided to camp out at gamestop to pick up my copy of prototype. To make a long story short the game never came... Yeah that totally sucked I was there till one pm waiting for the ups guy to come and when he did he said he never got the shipment this morning... I was soo not happy after hearing that news but what made the day worse was on the drive back home I got in a car accident totaled my jeep and broke my arm and tore some tendens in my leg. Worse day ever!!!

Stuff???

Soo I've been playing three games mostly the last two weeks. Bad company, Prince of Persia (the latest edition to come out), and UFC Undisputed. Also I have a few back up games lining up behind them as well that I don't bust out as much as I should through. Fable 2, Dark Athena C.O.R, Burnout Paradise, and Tales of Vesperia.

So heres my problem after playing all those games I just can't find myself getting into them. So I tend to play all of them and I think that just makes my indecisiveness even worse. When I was growing up I can remember my interest in a single game was as strong as anything I had experenced before at the time. I could play a game so single mindedly that the world would disappear completely and it was just me and 8 hours of pulling off all thefinishing moves on mortal Kombat on sega master system. I truely wonder what my problem is, I love video gaming its the only thing in my life that makes sense and gives me a smile when everything else disappoints me in the end. My best friend is too busy with his girl now and it seems his full attention is just on her and only her. Personally I don't like her one bit but hes in love so I treat her with the utter most respect I can muster and bite my tongue when I just wanna put the little tramp in her place. I dropped out of college couple months ago, I just couldn't afford it and Now I am just sad that I did. I guess I'm at a cross roads really and I actually realize that maybe I have a problem that I never really seen before. I'm a video game addict I think. Odd really when I think about it but not too surprising, the conflicts of life and constant let downs tend to be too much for some people which leads them too chemcial substances for personal relief from events they can't control. I always viewed those people as weak and well absolutely pathetic to say the least. Cruel to say and believe I guess, I've never viewed myself as a terrible mean cruel person but I guess my insight on things are rather harsh and one sided then again being human I'm far from perfect.

Seriously I'm probably the most defective person on the planet when I think about it. I have a speech handicap, I have a partial long term memory span, no short term memory, also I'm 6"1' and only one hundred twenty pounds on good days. So I really don't know where these self centered beliefs came from, maybe television gave them to me or maybe possibly the way others treated me ended in my sharp uncaring feelings towards others... Oh well this post has no true purpose soo I'll leave you all with a I hope you have a good day and hopefully my babble didn't bore you too much.

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Post Deletion?

Wow seriously what is the world coming too when a person expresses their opinion in a positive fashion and get their post deleted by a moderator?I recentlygot a notice from the site that my RE5 review got booted due to a infraction on their code of conduct terms of user agreement... My review yes maybe was a bit harsh but it did notcontain racist or abrusive expressions what so ever in it. Truely through they should at least give a reason why the post was deleted instead of pulling the plug and giving out a warning and saying go check out the user term agreement area for possible reasons why your post was deleted... Freedom of speech anyone? By the way if I am wrong and it was my other comment about Vee or Yee that was deleted I might see a reason why to delete that one soo I formally apologize for it but my review was unjustly deleted thanks....

Still kickin it..

I'm still here just lost my internet connection for awhile but I got its back now soo I'll start poppin up again up in diss place! Soo hows all my homeslices been?

No More BABY...

Well its offical I don't have a girlfriend any longer.... It sucks but hey now I'm more free to come on here and start posting and keeping up to date on the games I love to buy and play sooo fondly. Too all the young guys out there believe me when I say this women are not worth it do yourself a favor and wait till your out of college to hook up it will be will worth it believe me...