Yey, I finally made it! Although this Worms Reloaded review that I have done is, I think, too subjective and too amateurishly improvised to rank among my other reviews... Oh well...

(If you are THAT curious, just... I think... you know... where to go...)

Well, well, well.... well, well, well... I should try coming back with a review after so awful while... But with what?

Either Lumines or Worms Reloaded. I could make a sketchy one for Worms Reloaded right now I think. Not very complex, like the ones I have made a long time ago, but still...

I have been wondering around past Worms games, playing and replaying until having finished them yet again. I had a bit of a Mario fever, ditched quickly due to the ridiculous difficulty... But now I have got myself THE ODDBOXX (why the 2 X-s?). Well, I hope Munch and Stranger at least have a small bonus or something in compensation for the fact that it took ages for them to port the games. Having played Munch so many times on Xbox, I would have needed a little extra challenge beside saving all the Fuzzles.

I seen a friend of mine playing Mario Forever few days ago, so I had the sudden urge to replay those SMB levels, although I knew from the start that it was going to get frustrating. And well, it eventually did. It took me ages to complete that drag of a World 1, and now that I reached World 2 I have no mood to continue. It's too hard to be worth it.

Yet again, I've grown lazy.

On the other hand, I've been playing Worms 4: Mayhem managing for the first time to get all those nasty trophies. The result - I got in the end the really neat Kitchen Sink weapon scheme, which has all the weapons, including the more secret ones, but Alien Abduction is the only weapon out of those weapons that I haven't seen until this point. Practically, it "abducts" an enemy worm, who comes back after the abduction but looks from now on blue and with trippy all-white eyes and, oh how could I forget, the health goes insane either + or - at the end of each turn, which is very trippy, although not very destructive... Too bad there's no Super Banana Bomb. And I can't believe the programmers haven't noticed that the super-stupid AI worms have the bad habit of using almost only Concrete Donkey when you're playing with the Kitchen Sink. Those worms have no imagination whatsoever, not to manage they make the same mistakes as the AI from all the other parts of the series: too precise use of Bazooka and such, but pretty often they fail to see if there is terrain between they and their target (which at least makes the game a little easier). Oh well.

I've started Sam & Max 302, finally, but out of laziness I resorted these days more to Worms 4. Other than that, I read a lot (as usual). Among those books, the L'herbe rouge of Boris Vian, which, as I expected, ended very bad. Before that I've read L'ecume des jours, which I found a totally schizophrenic book, I found the first half absolutely wonderful, absolutely stunning, quite the thing that I always dreamed to found in novels. When I was really a child, I really hated something about fairytales, the Tarzan sort of adventure novels and stuff like that. Long before I heard about postmodernism, I had a sort of postmodernist temper. And an uglily romantic one too, being misanthrope and wanting all the time to get rid of the annoying children around me! I felt like a "cold and immortal genius" (my friends from Romania know to what I make allusion), although I was only cold back then, really. Not even science-fiction books satisfied me entirely. The acid satire of Caragiale attracted me at some point, to the point that I was ocassionally making amateurish dramatic sketches using the characters of nowadays politic life, but using the exactly same style of Caragiale. After that, I managed to get attracted by a poem by Mircea Cărtărescu: it was all written with small letters and it had no punctuation, not to mention the neologistic language. So started a long story of me involving poetry, literature, a story that hadn't finished yet...

Out of boredom with Worms: Reloaded, I returned to Worms 4: Mayhem and finished the campaign pretty quick. But this time I have to promise myself that I finally take better advantage of the wormpot and of the weapon factory...

Wow, I didn't knew there was a System Wars-derived union. Great. Although I seldom participate on System Wars or any of its derivates. Go figure.

I'm bored. Bejeweled 2 is a bit interesting, although mostly just for the Endless mode, which doesn't have that irritating "No Moves!" thing. The Classic mode has it, though, so I often reach quite fast to it and it's irritating that every time I have to start from level 1. Also, I had to disactivate the music, which is some very kitschy New Age music. I haven't made much out of Worms Reloaded, which even makes me want to start Worms 4 all over again.

That's right, I now write this from MP3.com! Trippy, eh? Most of your probably even forgot about the interconnected accounts, because, or so I see, the "My Other Accounts" thingy is no longer visible on GameSpot. But it's still alive here. The irony is that it took me, I think, about 10-15 minutes to log in, check out my profile page and get to this Post a New Blog page! Why does it load so slow? I have no idea, because it seems to be mostly a ghost town.

I was pretty surprised when I saw that I only added 1 album, 2 artists and 1 review on this account. Back on my Ponsardin account, I used to had hundreds! But this is obviously not the same account, although I decorated it a long time with the same kind of Venetian mask avatar that I used to use on GameSpot back in my first days... And I almost forgot: here I am level 2! Can you believe it?

In another order of events: apparently, I might have soon to write articles on video games for a magazine. It's a local one (albeit rather famous and very appreciated even in other corners of the country) where I debuted with 3 poems several months ago. Right after the issue with me in it appeared, lots of problems arose for the people behind it, mainly: the Local Council of the city, which financed the magazine, has decided to no longer endorse and finance it. Because of the financial crysis, they had to cut down on the number of employees, so, obviously, they cut down on the whole Culture departament for which they had no respect at all. In the meantime, for some instituitions some hopes have arrived, not necessarily for this magazine, which is now transferred to some foundation, but now there are only about 4 people in charge of it, which do the job without getting anymore money and are still looking for some way to get sponsors so that they could make the magazine even next year. At the moment, they have opt for a more restrained format and now they're trying to be less elitist, so they want to do in the magazine about more domains, and video games is quite the thing they need, alongside, say, photography.

P.S. Playing Bejeweled 2!

http://www.gamespot.com/users/Caddy/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25850247&tag=all-about%3Bblog2

There are the rules, but I don't have iTunes any longer and so on, so I just use my ordinary foobar:

1. If someone says, "Is this okay?" You say

"Cool Inside" by Pooma

2. How would you describe yourself?

"Kartoon Square Dance" by Jean-Jacques Perrey et Daniel Longuein

3. What do you like in a guy/girl?

"Love, Soul, Love" by Orchestra Monti Zauli

4. How do you feel today?

"flowered smother" by lovesliescrushing

5. What is your life's purpose?

"Starry Night" by Laika

6. What is your motto?

"The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch" by Brian Eno

7. What do your friends think of you?

"Tozvireva Kupiko (Who Shall We Share Our Frustrations With?)" by Thomas Mapfumo

8. What do you think of your parents?

"Pandora" by Cocteau Twins

9. What do you think about very often?

"Sybir" by Milpatte

10. What is 2 + 2?

"Workitonit" by J Dilla

11. What do you think of your best friend?

"Hoops Hooley" by The High Llamas

12. What do you think of the person you like?

"Stop Talking" by Memory Tapes

13. What is your life story?

"Dschinga Dschanga" by Roland Kovac New Set

14. What do you want to be when you grow up?

"Avant Garde M.O.R." by Stereolab

15. What do you think of when you see the person you like?

"Two Rivers, One World" by Pep Lladó

16. What will you dance to at your wedding?

"Colossal Youth" by Young Marble Giants

17, What will they play at your funeral?

"Some Enchanted Evening" by Les Baxter

18. What is your hobby/interest?

"Genemar III" by Gaston Borreani

19. What is your biggest fear?

"Blue Thunder" by Galaxie 500

20. What is your biggest secret?

"The Great Marsh" by Camel

21. What do you think of your friends?

"Thank you" by Pizzicato Five

22. What will you put as the title?

"monar" by lovesliescrushing

Did anyone heard of any of these bands, beyond J Dilla? :)