It is currently Saturday 5th June and in case you can't tell you're currently reading Gamer_152's blog. This week I've played more of Saint's Row and the game's taken a bit of a slow down for me. It's just really a matter of completing all the stronghold missions now to progress to the last few missions of the game, but this means constantly filling up my respect bar in between missions and with the activities of the game growing progressively harder this is becoming a task that is somewhat easier said than done. I've also had some unfortunate experiences in missions where I've found myself babysitting the AI that's supposed to be helping me much more than I'd like to, they genuinely don't seem to make any effort to get away from vehicles that are about to explode. Still, this will all pay off when I get back to the main storyline missions, and my brother informs me that Saint's Row 2 is a big improvement on the original, if I ever get around to playing that.

The big deal this week though is PAX 2009 which is on in Seattle, Washington from Friday until Sunday and I so wish I could be there. From the panels taking interesting looks at video games as entertainment forms to those looking at the development of video games and getting into the industry, all of them look awesome. They've also got some awesome game companies up there such as EA, Blizzard, Gearbox and Valve and they've got some brilliant personalities there; Randy Pitchford, Ron Gilbert and the Giant Bomb crew to name a few. I'll be very interested to see what comes out of there.

This Wednesday Valve added another free update to Team Fortress 2. Now under the terms and conditions of Steam, anybody using external applications to mess with their in-game experience can be instantly and permanently banned and Valve have decided to do something about all the people who have been using external idling applications to hang around on servers and cheat their way into unlocking items. Now they haven't gone overboard on cheaters but they've done what I consider to be only fair and removed all items from people gained by using such applications and all non-cheaters have been rewarded with a unique new hat: a halo. Unfortunately there have also been glitches and some people have been unfairly punished while others cheaters have retained their items. Both those who have had items confiscated fairly and unfairly by the update seem to be causing an uproar in the Team Fortress 2 community, with everything from saying they will quit the game to using mods to place homophobic slurs above their heads in place of the halos. Needless to say there are certain members of the Team Fortress 2 community who have come off as immature, idiotic and generally ungrateful to a company who has given them so much free content and simply made one slip-up. I'm sure this childish hysteria will die down eventually but it's rather sad to see certain members of a community in such an uproar about things that don't matter all that much.

Thank you all for reading this week and a shoutout to my old Gamespot acquaintance Jimb0 who is enjoying the delights of PAX 2009 as I write this. I'll leave you with this brilliantly made trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony. Enjoy your gaming, internet.

-Gamer_152

We're just on the edge of September and after a few weeks of no blogging I thought I drop a little something onto my profile page. Luckily after my laptop charger broke on the day I wrote my last blog I was able to get it fixed the next day and was only too happy to be reunited with my laptop. However I don't have a whole lot of time left with my Xbox 360 and Wii before I head off to university, half of my 360 is owned by my brother so I'll probably have to buy a new one and if I want to play any non-handheld console at all I'll need to get a TV and a TV licence. I'm making my way up there September 21st, unfortunately one day before Halo 3: ODST comes out as well.

But Inow have working copies of Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise and Saints Row to play. At first I wasn't so sure about Saints Row, knowing that however good it was it would be overshadowed by my experiences with Grand Theft Auto IV. Indeed this is nothing like my experience with that game but after a few initial worries and annoyances I actually started to really enjoy Saints Row. The story missions have really been the highlight of the game for me and the characters are all really interesting. It can't be ignored that it's just plain fun when the game puts a whole building of enemies in front of you and you get to systematically blast your way through them in a rewarding and well-designed way.

I've also played the demo of a downloadable PC title from Dejobaan Games, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! : A Reckless Disregard for Gravity and it's actually not a bad game considering you can pre-order the full 80-level game for only $15. The basic premise of the game involves 1. Jumping off of buildings, 2. Moving close to other buildings without hitting them and 3. Landing without breaking all your bones. For anyone who is interested I suggest you check out the free demo.

I also tried out Trine for the PC and it was a fun game but I'm not sure I don't really feel like paying £20 for a downloadable game right now. Batman: Arkham Asylum is also looking like a great game, I've seen the Giant Bomb quick look on it and the Gamespot review and the graphics, setting, combat and voice acting all look brilliant and I'm thinking of picking up the game and playing itfor a bit before I head off to university. I'm kind of waiting for the Giant Bomb review to go up for it though.

That's just about it for this week. Thanks for reading. I'll leave you with the amusing trailer for Death Tank.

-Gamer_152

This week it seems I am the victim of a rather tragic happening. For almost a year now I've been the proud owner of a Dell Inspiron 1720 and I've loved that laptop, whenever I was sitting around the house I always had my laptop close at hand. However there was always one slight problem I had and that was that there was a particularly weak section in the power cable for my laptop's charger and this has gradually worn away over time. I suppose I always knew that one day my slowly disintegrating charger cable would eventually leave me with half a wire between me and the power source and that my laptop would be rendered completely useless, but none the less it's still quite saddening to see the wire laying there, it's shining conductive innards exposed to the outside world as my laptop sits next to it helpless, without a power source to draw from. My laptop has served so many purposes; I would use it to chat with friends, check my emails, watch videos, read web comics, research anything I needed to, program software, read articles, visit forums, listen to music and (most relevantly) play video games among other things. Now that I am without my laptop, even for a day or two this does present somewhat of an inconvenience.

For now I'm making do with my family's old desktop but this is an old and very sluggish PC. Despite all my compressing, uncompressing, deleting, virus scanning and defragmentation, this machine still has occasional problems when just navigating the web and the frame rate it's giving me on flash videos has scared me away from watching them on here altogether. I was even a little worried about updating the instant messenger and web browser on here in case they put a further dent in the computer's poor performance. Hopefully I can replace my old laptop charger soon and all will be well, but I don't really know when I'll have the opportunity to do that as if I want to get to the shop where I bought my laptop I'll need someone to drive me there and I'm rather wary about buying a replacement online. So I could have my new charger tomorrow or I could have it in three weeks. I suppose the one thing I can be grateful about is that at least it was only the charger that broke and my laptop itself is still entirely intact.

Before my laptop broke I didn't do that much gaming with it but I did manage to play through a few things. I played some more Team Fortress 2 and that game continues to be consistently entertaining, but I also tried out a fairly new free MMORPG called Dragonica. It's no secret that the internet is currently sprawling with these kinds of games but this game was recommended to me by someone I know and there wasn't anything to be lost in giving it a try. The thing that probably comes across best about the game is the 3D chibi art style, but as for the gameplay itself it's probably best described as a cross between World of Warcraft and Maplestory. That's not to say the game doesn't have some interesting features in its arsenal that keep it from being just a clone of those games and the various gameplay elements of the game do mesh together quite well, but when I realise it is comprised of more or less what I've already played the game seems to lose its charm somewhat. Still, I think I'm confident I'll return to the game sooner or later and if I don't it was still all free so overall it's been quite a success for Dragonica.

I've also taken a bit of a look at the upcoming FPS-RPG game Borderlands. I'd heard a lot of talk about Borderlands but outside of the famed overhaul of the game's art style I didn't really know a lot about it and I wanted to check out what all the fuss was about. From what I've read and seen Borderlands seems to be exactly what I'd want from a game like this. Although it has an endearing graphical style, what really impressed me was the gameplay; the way the shooter-based combat and RPG game mechanics blend so well and the incorporation of the millions of different weapons and pieces of equipment seem to be what really make Borderlands look like an amazing game. It'll be great to get my hands on it.

Speaking of getting my hands on games it seems that there have been yet more games which have had their release dates pushed back. When this fate befell Bioshock 2 I was a little frustrated but I accept if the game needed more work then it needed more work. It's a bit disheartening however to see the same thing happen to Starcraft 2 which looked like it was shaping up very nicely. Also as is typical it looks like Europe is getting the short straw for another release: Dark Void. I'm actually quite happy I'm not super-hyped about Dark Void because while over in the States the game is being promptly delivered this September it looks like it's not going to hit this continent until February 2010, a whole 5 months later.

That's all for this blog. A special thanks to Jeb800e though for creating my new Gamespot profile banner. This week I'll leave you with this look at Halo 3: ODST which seems to have garnered some very positive attention on Giant Bomb.

-Gamer_152

It's a cool August afternoon and as the sun sets outside I find myself sitting here, very relaxed and ready to blog. I know that for those of you reading my last blog entry things were a little heavy on the Halo front but I promise much less of that this time. Recently I've been playing more Sims 2, Team Fortress 2 and a bit of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Now I've had my issues with Oblivion in the past but I've been in the a bit of an RPG mood and so I decided to give the game another try but try as I might I'm still finding the game doesn't seem to quite gel with me. Don't get me wrong, I can see why people like it but I reached a point in the game where I could no longer continue with the main quest line with my current skills and since then I feel like I've been thrust out into the big, wide world with no real sense of where to go or what to do and on the whole that's really impeded my enjoyment of the game. Even in places where I can win my battles I feel like most of them involve a large amount of me running backwards spamming the same in-effective healing spell over and over. I'll soldier onwards as far as I can but I still feel very lost and a bit bored.

This week I've also been thinking a lot about what games I want to purchase next, but this may be a bit of a problem when I'm off to university at the end of the summer and this could leave me half way across the country with no 360 and little money. However there are some great-looking games coming out including Brutal Legend.What I've seenof that game so farlooks great; the environments, the soundtrack, the humourand the character animations all look great. Jack Black and Ozzy Osbourne also provide surprisingly good voice work for the game. Assassin's Creed 2 is also looking like a big improvement on the original, it has more mission types, more attacks and better looking environments among other things. Then there's also a whole bunch of other games I'm interested in like Wii Sports ResortDragon Age: Origins, Halo 3: ODST and Scribblenauts. This is definitely going to be one of those times where there are just to many games coming out at once for me to buy and play.

That's about it this week, expect for one thing. Now I'm not deeply obsessed with achievements but I do like getting the odd achievement here and there, in fact they're often pretty fun to go after, this week I finally hit over 10,000 gamerscore on my gamertag and it's hard to believe that all my little achievements add up to so much. It's been very satisfying earning all those points. Aside from that one of my best moments this week was seeing the finale of Giant Bomb's coverage of the dying days of the Matrix Online. I'll leave you this reveal trailer for Command and Conquer 4. Thanks for reading.

-Gamer_152

Earlier this month I ended the blog I posted wishing everyone reading a great summer and I gotta say things have been pretty cool for me. I have actually spent much less time gaming this summer than in previous ones but none the less I've had great fun with what I have played. My main focus has really been on Team Fortress 2 for the PC and The Sims 2, although watching my friend building houses on my version of The Sims 2 last night I must say even with two expansion packs my version of the game still seems a little light on content to me. I may pick up another expansion pack for The Sims 2 or another small game next time I'm in close proximity of one of my local video game retailers but my real priority is pre-ordering Halo 3: ODST as soon as possible.

Speaking of Halo the 7th month of the year has definitely brought a good share of news and celebrations based around the popular sci-fi shooter. The 7th day of the 7th month this year marked Bungie Day, a day when Bungie and their loyal fans celebrate Halo, the Bungie community, Bungie's ongoing obsession with the number seven and their break-off from parent company Microsoft 2 years ago. The day was celebrated with a special playlist called Bungie vs. World in which players were invited to go 7 v. 7 on a variety of map variants created by the Halo community and hand-picked by Bungie. Teams of Bungie were also online 24 hours randomly dropping into player games and rewarding any teams that could beat them (or set a major record on the playlist)with the much fabled Recon armour. Sadly I didn't get the chance to play off against the Halo creators but I still enjoyed a Halo marathon like I'd never experienced before, managing to stay up 24 hours and play 75 matches despite taking out a 7+ hour break to eat andsocialize in the real world. It was also a nice surprise to see Bungie release new pictures and information on their next map pack which looks to be shaping up really well.

21st of July also celebrated the day 10 years ago that Bungie first showed the worldHalo: Combat Evolved at Macworld 1999 and it's amazing to look back and see the journey Halo's taken since then.

The news of Halo Legends has also recently hit and looks like possibly the most unusual branch-out from the Halo franchise yet. Halo Legends is going to be a 7-part anime based around the Halo franchise, the project is being financed by a new companyunder theownershipMircosoft called 343 Industries and created by five well-reputed Japanese anime studios. I must say that I'm rather sceptical of this new project, I'm no anime expert but I am well aware of the fact that translations of original fiction into anime don't have a great track record. I am further worried by the idea of six of the episodes involving the banding together of4 different studios which I'm sure must take some kind of miracle in communication to pull off. However I am somewhat comforted by the fact that although I'm sure he doesn't have a great level of involvement in the actual making of anime,Frank O' Connor, former Bungie content manager seems to be playing a large part in 343 Industries. I'm also somewhat reassured by the fact that the companies chosen to make these animes do have a very impressive portfolio of previous work, although it's beyond me why Toei, creators of such famous work as Dragonball are the ones producing the seventh anime, a Halo parody, in fact the whole idea of an anime Halo parody worries me a little. The real worry for me though is that from the brief flashes of what we've seen of the upcoming anime they are working with rather main elements of existing source material with one scene showing a brief shot of the Master Chief and The Arbiter clashing energy swords. If there's one thing I don't want to see from Halo Legends it would be a poor re-telling of the great story Bungie created for the games. When Halo has been put in the hands of companies like Mircosoft and Ensemble they did well because they stayed as close to Bungie's vision of Halo as they could without infringing on existing storylines but I'm worried that this may not be what we see with Halo Legends. All we can do is wait and watch.

That just about concludes my end-of-July blog. I hope you enjoyed reading and this week I'll leave you with Bungie's tribute video to 10 great years of Halo. May there be many more to come.

-Gamer_152

Today is a rather special day for mein the history of video game journalism and I thought it was only fitting that I took time out of my "busy" schedule to show my appreciation for my favourite video game website. I still remember the depressing, rainy Friday on which I returned home from college ready to be met by the warm embrace of the internet, only to find that comment sections and forum boards all over Gamespot were exploding with a pandemonium of comments about thedismissal of Jeff Gerstmann from the site. This was neither the first nor the last departure of a great Gamespot editor from the site but Jeff was then and probably still is now my favourite video game journalist and at the time it was certainly grim news.

I was excited when I heard the news that Gerstmann had set up a small blog on the internet and was back with a means to communicatewith the public again, but it still wasn't the same. When news rolled in of Giant Bomb, who they were, what they wanted to doand their big launch I was very expectant and I was one of the many who signed up on launch day, July 21st 2008. Since then I've had an awesome time reading the articles, watching the videos and hanging out on the forums of Giant Bomb. Jeff, Ryan, Brad and Vinny are all excellent journalists and work together brilliantly as a team, creating such madness as the Giant Bombcast, the Endurance Run and TANG, all of which have been a realpleasure to follow. Giant Bomb works because it is run by people whose experience has taught them how a video gameswebsite should be built andit has allowed them to buildthe kind of website they'd want to useand although I wouldn't have said it at one time, I'm glad Jeff, Ryan, Brad and Vinny left Gamespot because it allowed them to create something amazing.

Happy birthday Giant Bomb!

Another week of gaming has served to reinforce my belief that holidays are awesome and even if it's been getting so hot I've lost the ability to think straight I've still had a pretty good time this week. I've played Team Fortress 2, Rock Band 2, Metroid Prime 3 and another game I'll mention shortly but if you know me you'll probably be able to guess what it is. I have been thinking of going for the Bladder of Steel achievement on Rock Band 2 but I'm somewhat reluctant. The achievement requires that you play the entire 'Endless Setlist 2' without pausing the game and while I knew this would be a seemingly impossible task it was not until recently that I worked out quite how long it would take to play the setlist without pauses and it clocks in at over 6 hours. Even with me and my bro switching in and out between songs this is still quite the task to complete. I've still got a little voice in the back of my head telling me to go for it though, not so much for the achievement itself but just to know that I've completed the challenge.

The really exciting news for me this week however is that my limited edition copy of Halo 3 arrived as expected. Not only have I been packing in a fair bit of multiplayer sinceI was reunited with the gameI got it I also went through all the content on the special features disc. The short film on Bungie and the Making of Halo 3 documentary were amazing to watch as a Halo fan and I'd definitely recommend them to any major fan that has the limited edition version and hasn't seen them. Seeing that these people will do 12 hour shifts, will work until 3 a.m. and won't see their families or have proper meals for days it really brings home the commitment that the people at Bungie have towards the Halo projects and makes it easy to understand how they are able to produce such high quality games. There was even one occasion in the Bungie documentary in which the security guard mentioned that he has known people work 28 hour shifts in the building.

The reviews for The Conduit on the Wii also finished coming pouring in this week and from what I've seen since the games release I'm not all that surprised by the negative reaction from critics. I remember a long time ago hearing about this game and seeing how much some of the Wii fanatics were so hyped about it but I didn't really understand the appeal, what was different about this game? Was I supposed to be impressed purely because this was a traditional FPS being released on the Wii? As time went on the game didn't really start to look any better and it looks like it has turned out as a bit of a mediocre game. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against a shooter games coming out on the Wii, I thought Metroid Prime 3 and Red Steel were great, but the game just seems to generic and really doesn't look up to scratch when compared to other shooters these days. It seems that a lot of the people who like the game reallyare purely excited about it's an FPS on the Wii and like most people I'd much rather have a good FPS for another console than a bad one for that one.

I think I'll leave things abouthere this week as despite the electric fan in my room I seem to be a little bit on fire. I hope everyone else has a great summer and I'll leave you with this short but amusing YouTube video. Keep on gaming.

-Gamer_152

So I have finished the campaign mode on Red Faction: Guerrilla. It wasn't an amazing game but it was most certainly a very good game and was well worth the play through. For anyone who is the slightest bit into action-adventure games I would recommend Red Faction to them because I'm sure they'll enjoy it very much. Right the way through the game I found that the destructible environments and the emphasis the game made on all the destructible buildings was what really set it apart from other games of its kind. However Guerrilla has actually only taken up a small portion of my gaming time this week due to my purchase of another great game which I'll mention in a bit.

I have finally gotten around to ordering my collector's edition copy of Halo 3 off of the internet and that should be arriving in two or three days. I figured I had to get it before the annual celebration of Bungie Day (which falls on the 7th day of the 7th month) and with a little luck I may even be able to pick up the legendary Recon armour permutation on the day itself, which is being awarded to anyone who can beat the Bungie employees at their own game. Pre-orders of Halo 3: ODST are also going cheap on some sites as well but I figured I'll check if I can order it at a local store first, that way I can pick up the game after it comes out as soon as possible, or at least that is the plan.

I have also downloaded and played a little America's Army 3 this week and I find myself once again disappointed with America's Army. I thought that maybe in the new version the shortcomings of its predecessors may have been cleaned up a bit, but it seems not. The game is littered with bugs ranging from major technical issues to numerous gameplay problems. But even ignoring these annoying glitches, the gameplay in America's Army 3 provides feels bland and derivative and I really couldn't find much enjoyment at all in playing. Being essentially a propaganda tool of the U.S. Army, it is free to download for anyone with Steam but there's not much to be got out of playing the game.

I am happy to say though I have downloaded a game this week that has been nothing less than brilliant and that's Team Fortress 2 for the PC. I really liked the game on the 360 but my two major gripes with the game were that it felt limited in terms of the number of maps and it tended to demand quite a bit of connection which wasn't the most convenient thing when my router and my Xbox are not the best of friends. However not only are there tons more maps on the PC version, along with all the stuff the various server admins of the PC version have cooked up, but I've found myself surprised by just how rich of an experience I've received from all the new (well, new to me) content in this version. There's more weapons, more achievements, more players allowed per game and maybe it's just because I haven't played an online shooter in a while but I think it's just plain awesome. If you wanna play you can add me under the steam ID Gamer_152 and I'll be playing much more of that game this week.

Anyway it's absolutely boiling where I am with summer heat and the hot air blowing out of my laptop cooling fan so I'm gonna go sit by my electric fan and play some more TF2. I'll leave you with the trailer for the new series of the Halo machinima, Red vs. Blue. Peace out.

-Gamer_152

Has it really only been a week since my last blog? Wow... Well, ok I guess it hasn't quite been a week. You see I spent part of Saturday and Sunday round a friends house and I decided that sleep deprivation and blogging weren't a good mix. I've tried writing while barely conscious before and let's just say it wasn't my best ever work. However my exams are over and I am back gaming for real again. This week I've worked my way up to over 300 obtained pokemon on Pokemon Diamond Version, I've unlocked and completed all songs on Elite Beat Agents (although I'm still struggling at getting past the final mission of sweatin' difficulty) and I'm up to the final sector on Red Faction: Guerrilla. I've also played some of the online matchmaking on Red Faction and I've had a good time with that too.

Now don't get me wrong, all the games I'm playing at the moment are great but I've spent quite a bit of this week thinking about what games I am going to get next. I've already decided what site I'm going to get my limited edition Halo 3 copy from and as we speak I'm downloading America's Army 3 (which is free is anyone else is interested) for my laptop, however there are a few other games I have my eye on. Unfortunately my laptop is .2 GHz away from meeting the system requirements for The Sims 3 but the other major game I have my eye on is Prototype. I like the look of the big open-world gameplay of the game, the huge amount of skills to unlock and the abilities bestowed upon your character which give you the crazypower to run up walls, fly between buildings, turn your arm into a lethallysharp blade etc. I'm also thinking of getting Team Fortress 2 for my PC, I have it for my 360 but without the various extras of the PC version which they have been promising for a ridiculous amount of time it's not quite the same.

I am also considering getting Ghostbusters: The Video Game but from what I've heard Ghostbusters has fallen slightly short of being the video game it could have been. I wouldn't call myself a big fan of the movie but it's a movie thatI thought was very goodand it's good to hear that the game delivers on fan service, I only wish that it could have delivered a bit more in other areas because from what I saw it had the potential to be a great game. If I do get the game it will probably be one of my later purchases. I am also thinking of getting the Big Surf Island DLC for Burnout Paradise. I've been waiting for this one for quite some time and although the island isn't as big as I thought it'd be there certainly seems to be tons more content on there and it seems worth a look but it's not my number 1 priority.

As for games I already have I think I'm gonna finish up Red Faction: Guerrilla, play some more Pokemon and maybe go back to Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Lastly a special thanks to Gamespot for featuring me on their list of E3 bloggers and thanks to PJ24 for telling me about that. This week I'll leave you with Ryan Davis's review of my least favourite video game movie of all time (I really can't begin to explain how much I hate it). Hope you've enjoyed reading and there'll be more blog next week.

-Gamer_152

It seems like an eternity since I wrote my last blog and even longer since E3, but I suppose it hasn't been my normal week with things revolving much more around exams than gaming, through some miracle I haven't been entirely distracted by video games and I think I've actually done okay on my exams so far. I'm still playing Elite Beat Agents in my free time and as with any rhythm game it's great to see how much better you get over time just with practice, indeed I've come a long way from playing Walkie Talkie Man on Breezin' difficulty. Now if I can just get through Sweatin' difficulty I'll be very happy with myself.

As I promised a couple of weeks back I have spent a little time during E3 playing the copy of Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise my brother picked up. I must say even expecting good things from the game I was surprised myself by quite how much the few simple additions in Trouble in Paradise expanded on the original Viva Pinata and it was great fun to play. In fact I'd become quite forgetful of exactly how frantic managing a garden full of pinatas could be and it was good to get back to the crazily-paced gameplay, colourful graphics and enchanting music of Viva Pinata. Unfortunately the unruly nature of preowned Xbox 360 games struck again as within a week or two the 360 had already begun to refuse to play both the preowned Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise and the preowned Saint's Row. My brother decided he'd cut his losses and have the discs repaired and traded in as he'd lost the receipts for them but although GAME were willing to repaiir the discs for £1 but as I predicted they really tried to rip him off on the trade-in and would only give him £10 for both. So as I type this there are two non-working 360 games sitting on my coffee table.

My search for a collectors edition copy of Halo 3 stretches into yet another week as well and although I almost never buy games off of the internet I may have to consider it in this case, as long as I can find somewhere which isn't selling it for too much and will ship it to the UK. However my brother still seems to be purchasing games as his new fix this week is Red Faction: Guerilla and I do have to say it's a very good game. I didn't think I'd be so into this game but running away from exploding buildings and hitting enemies in the chest with sledgehammers is a very satisfying experience and I hope to spend a lot more time on Mars demolishing bridges and running down EDF soldiers.

I guess this is just about the end of things for another week. I'd like to give a quick shout-out to Jeb800e who has started a new Gamespot union for Metroid fans, Distress Signal 4. Also a big shout-out to someone who I think is a very underappreciated Gamespot user, the Best Buy employee turned Navy recruit (no really), CmdrMcNeil. Thank you all for reading and hopefully there'll be more from me next week. I'll just leave you with this amusing real-life Elite Beat Agents parody from Mega 64.

-Gamer_152