Hey everyone. So by my title, you can obviously tell i'm not in the best of moods. First off, i'm gonna start with something that happened a couple days ago and then get into what happened. I was hanging out with a friend all saturday (we finally beat resistance!! yay!! pretty fun game.) playing random PS3/360 games that he has on his massive huge HDTV. I don't have an HDTV so graphics aren't a super huge deal to me as far as games go but after the first time I played GoW on his TV... wow... just wow... Anyway, he lets me borrow Daxter for the PSP cuz he heard that I liked the first Jak and Daxter game. So anyway, when I get home, I'm looking around for my PSP stuff. This is pretty hard to do since I haven't played my PSP in almost a year. Let's just say, there aren't too many great games out there for the PSP just yet... or at all... so I don't exactly play it that much. After finally finding my PSP in an old subway bag (yeah, i have no idea :P) I realize the batteries have died... Great. I'm just gonna throw this out there because I still don't understand it. How do the PSP's batteries die when i'm not using it at all? Apparently it takes battery power to stay off... fun. So i'm looking around for the charger. Well, it turns out my charger decided it liked Montana sooooo much (the last time I played it was on a college visit to Montana) that it decided it didn't want to leave. I haven't seen it since. So today, my friend let me borrow his charger too so that I could play Daxter but basically, this means that I have to buy a new power cord so I can sell my PSP as soon as I beat the new KH game that could be coming out for it. Spectacular.

Anyway, this is just kind of a small annoyance. Not reallya big deal to me. The big deal is in my school schedule. Now as most of you know who read my blogs, I'm extremely happy with my school schedule. The only thing was that I had a small problem with it. I had a single semester class for 2 semesters in a row. I write it on a little sheet and give it to the counselors to fix cuz that's what they do. Anyway, surprise, surprise, i come into class first period and I have a nice little revised schedule for me. Instead of changing the one problem in second semester, they decide to completely skew my entire first semester schedule. The one that I was really happy with. Great. So they put me down for Graphic Arts (which is actually just an art class. Not good for me since I can't draw AT ALL), psych and japanese are the same but then I had Forensics fourth period (i had it first before) and then a public speaking class. Of course, right after first period I go to my counselor and basically, in nicer terms ask wtf did you do? Well, she decided that this was the best way to change my schedule so that I could graduate on time. !!!! I freak out and basically say, I would rather take the same class twice than live with this. change it back! She says she can't cuz now the thing is full. Well, that's just great. Finally, she changes my english class this year to Contemporary Fiction (which i've heard is really boring and full of essays and work to do.) and just switches around the classes i already had. Now what I'm really pissed about is that, last year, I got my schedule in on the first day for this year. That combined with the fact that i'm a senior means that I should have had first priority for classes but because they screwed up and put me down for the same freakin class twice, means that all the sudden, i'm stuck in an english class I really didn't want to take. I even had 3 other choices for english classes that would have been fine but no, those are all full now. Basically, i'm pissed off at the school system for essentially f***ing up and because of their mistake, my senior year is screwed up. This changes my lunch which means i'm with no one since all my friends were at the lunch I had originally, and my mythology class was set to be my number 1 class for my whole high school career not only because the class was cool but because I was with 2 of my best friends, one which i haven't had in a class since second grade. Now that's shot... thanks counselors, thanks skyline. you f***ed up...

Well, now i've got that boring tutoring thing I mentioned earlier and work right after. Hopefully, after all that, I can play some Daxter to raise my mood. Sorry for the rant guys, and wish me good luck in Cntemp. Fiction tomorrow. I think i'm gonna need it...

Hey everyone! I'm happy to say after my last blog about how busy I was, my schedule's going to be getting a lot more open tonight. I'm gonna change my schedule so that i'm only working tuesday's and thursdays because after considering it more, with my current work schedule, i'm would miss every Skyline football game (football's really big at my school), all dances, and all movie days with my friends. Honestly, I could live with the first two (although missing all the dances would be tough X_x.), but I live for hanging out with 3 of my closest friends and going to movies/Red Robin. It's always been really fun and I honestly don't think I could make it through my senior year without it. So anyway, that's going to change which inevitably leaves more time open for you guys! That means i'll be posting on all your blogs (disclaimer!! sorry if i miss one or two, it's not on purpose X_x) and stuff! Yay!! Also, if I get something to talk about, i'll make another video blog. Right now, i'm seeing about making a video review about some game so we'll see how that goes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDIsTizGf80

In the meantime, please check out this video. It's actually just a song. It's called Hands Held High by Linkin Park although it's very VERY different than most linkin park songs. It's entirely rap but even if you don't like rap (I don't), please check it out. The message is very important, I think. I don't mean to offend anyone by playing this. If you don't agree, that's totally alright. Please comment whatever your beliefs are. I won't flame as long as you don't.

So, my first day of school has come and gone but i'm still not sure what i think about most of my classes. Here's a list of my cl*sses in order:

1. Forensics 1
2. IB Psychology (IB = AP or honors)
3. Japanese 2
4. The Classics
5. Criminal Justice 1

Forensics and Criminal Justice seem alright but not the best in the world. The teacher kinda seems odd... Oh well, at least he's not a mean guy. IB Psych is pretty cool cuz i'm with 2 of my best friends which kicks all @$$. In a school with over 1000 kids, it's tough to get in the same class as ur friends. Also, i like psych stuff so it shouldn't be too bad. Japanese 2 is gonna be hell but i think i'll be able to get through it. The teacher can be a little crazy and she's really difficult but at least she does know what she's doing. At a competition our school goes to a lot, we've won prizes almost every year including first place last year for Japanese 1. At least I'm friends with a lot of the people in the class. It's kind of one of those things where you become friends with everyone through mutual hardship. Finally, The Classics is mythology stuff. According to the teacher, we're gonna go over Greek/Roman first, then Nordic, then King Arthur stuff. The cool part (for those of you that don't like mythology) is that we get to watch TONS of movies. These are the few I remember: Troy, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Lord of the Rings, parts of 300 (yeah, it's that cool :P :D), and tons others i forget. Oh I think we watch The Odyssey too. I'm not sure tho. I don't remember hearing her say that one. Maybe I was too excited by 300 though :D. Anyway, mostly pretty cool stuff. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, normally we have 6 cl*sses but I got a senior waiver on my 6th period cuz i have more than enough credits so I only have 5 cl*sses and I get to go home early. Cool stuff. Normally, I'll be home a little after 1.

So in my title, I also said I was busy as hell. By that, I mean I have a bunch of stuff to do every single day of the week for about 3 months which is gonna slaughter my social life. Monday and Wednesday I have this tutoring thing my parents wanted me to go to. It's not like normal tutoring tho, it's like a time management thing... I dont know, it's not like one of those things slackers go to or anything even though it does sound like that... Anyway, the tutor is a friend of my dad's and we have a lot of theological discussions cuz he used to be a pastor. I'm really big into theology stuff (for a while, I was considering going to seminary and becoming a pastor) so it's fun to discuss stuff like that with him. Also, he gave me this psychological test which is supposed to judge my learning style the first time I went there, and I decided to show off and told him the name of the psychologist who came up with this (This particular test was created by Carl Jung) and what the purpose of every question was. I did this originally to ensure that he didn't look down on me at all. Needless to say, he wasn't expecting that and it worked. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday I'm going to be working at 5 till late at the pizza shop which is going to be a lot more boring now cuz my friend who used to work the same days as me, is now only working fridays. Oh well, still means free pizza. Finally, Sunday I have to do church stuff throughout most of the day. So none of this stuff I hate but it takes a lot of time away from u guys and gaming which I'm not too happy about. I would cut back on working but I really do need the money. I'm going to be going to college out of state so tuition is gonna be massive (21k a year) so i've got to get as much money as I can to help out with that. Fortunately, my parents and grandparents are doing pretty well so that along with a buttload of scholarships i'm applying for should get me through alright. Anyway, needless to say, i'm gonna be pretty freakin busy so like I said in my last blog, I'm not sure of how much i'll be able to do here for the next few months. I'm almost positive video blogs are out but hopefully i'll be able to check in on the written blogs and be able to read ur guys' blogs. Sorry LoRPG's, I can tell you right now, i'm not gonna be able to stay active at all... K well, enough doom and gloom from me, we'll see how it goes. Peace everyone!

Hey everyone, I realize now that I left without telling anyone I was leaving... Sorry about that. I went on a 3 day "camping" trip which turned out to not really be camping since we slept in some house lol. Anyway, I had a video blog planned but it just didn't turn out. Overall, I kinda had fun while I was there but I also kinda wish we had just stayed home. Normally my friend who I talked about who left for college goes with us but since she's gone... yeah. It was like a constant reminder that she's not here anymore.

Anyway, even though i'm back here, I'm not gonna be super active in the next few days. For one, school starts tomorrow for me and two, i'm going through some troubles in my personal life and as I decided a long time ago, I need to make sure my real life is in order before having a virtual one. I'll still check in here, post some blogs and stuff but i'm sorry if I don't post on all of your blogs. I will try as much as I can. As always, if you need to talk to me about something, comment or PM, I promise i'll get your message. Peace everyone!

First of all, I want to thank everyone who commented on my last blog. I really appreciated every comment and they all really helped a lot.

The reason why I'm writing this is mainly about Blue Dragon. I don't know about you guys, but as an RPG fan, I was really looking forward to this game! It looked really cool and seemed like it would be a great console exclusive for the 360. Unfortunately, most of you know how this turned out... For those of you that didn't check, Blue Dragon got a 6.0 on Gamespot and won the dubious Weak Story emblem as well. Not too good for an RPG. So far, it really seems like RPG's aren't doing too hot in the next gen world. Oblivion of course but aside from that? There hasn't been too much as far as I can tell.

Other than that, yesterday, I got Rayman: Raving Rabbids for the Wii which is actually surprisingly fun. I thought it would be this stupid mini-game fest much like Fusion Frenzy but it's actually really cool. It's funny, a lot of the mini games are very challenging yet easy to learn, and there are a lot of unlockables. I don't think it's as good as Rayman 2, which was one of the best platforming games around, but it still has a definite charm to it. I also preordered Brawl so i'll be able to get it on Dec. 3. Can't wait for that. Well, I think that's all for now. More as I feel the need to write about it. Peace!

Hey guys... sorry, i know it's not usually my style to write about stuff like this but it's been really bothering me lately.

This year, a friend of mine, who i have literally known my entire life, left for college and I already miss her tons... She's one of my best friends and with college starting up, she's been really busy so i haven't really been able to talk to her at all. Before, it didn't really sink in how little i'd get to see her now that she's gone in a different state but it's really starting to hit home now. It's as if a part of me just broke off and left. I've never been very close to my family so my friends mean everything to me. Not only is that hurting me right now but also the thought that, exactly one year from now, i'm gonna be leaving too, and most of my friends now, i'm never gonna see again. It hurts a lot. I haven't been able to get these thoughts out of my mind these last few nights. Anyway, hopefully the feeling will pass soon and I can enjoy my last year here. Sorry about the kind of emo post but I really had to talk about it. Thanks for reading.

Hey everyone! No video blog this time. Just posting my thoughts so far on my new games. First off .hack//G.U.

*WARNING POSSIBLE SPOILERS FROM .HACK//QUARANTINE*

After the events of the first .hack games. CC Corp, the company that runs The World, had a massive fire which destroyed almost all the data from the original game. Despite players continued requests to bring back the original The World, CC Corp decided to instead, fuse the old data with new data they had planned for another game, and created The World R:2. What this means is, the basic gameplay style is essentially the same. Go to the root towns and then use the chaos gates to travel from area to area but aside from that, the game is completely different. New character classes, new quest systems, new area missions, new dungeons, pretty much new everything. Even the towns are completely different from what you once new. Unfortunately the 3 person party limit is still there tho... This brings me to my first criticism of .hack//GU vol. 1. In the new version of The World, there are many more character classes. There are the8 different melee classes, Twin Blades (pretty much the same as the old Twin Blades. Much like Thief characters going for fast combos.), Blade Brandier (user of normal sized swords. Pretty balanced between speed and attack), Edge Punishers (use giant swords. Slow but has an area damage effect), Lord Partizan (spear users. Slow but very powerful), Tribal Grappler (hand to hand combat... weak but I guess it's kinda fast?),Flick Reapers (the coolestIMO, they use giant scythes and also have anareadamage effect), Macabre Dancers (they use these weird... fans? idk, they suck), and finally SteamGunners(they use guns. pretty self explanatory). Nextthere are the magic classes, Harvest Clerics are the healers and Shadow Warlocks are the damage dealers.

Now, since you can only have 3 people in your party, this limits a lot of the choices. Basically, there is no point at all in using a shadow warlock since you generally need 2 melee characters and a healer. As far as your second melee character goes, Twin Blades and Macabre Dancers are pointless as are Tribal Grapplers. The others are all fine choices. Maybe no so much the Steam Gunner if you are going to a high level place. Basically what this means is about half the characters you get throughout G.U. are completely pointless and will only hinder you in a fight. Your character, Haseo, is a rare character class called an Adept Rogue. They can use all weapon classes but aren't very good at any of them. They also tend to have only average to low HP so your going to need a tanker. Which really cuts your party choices down to 3 classes after getting a healer. Lord Partizan, Edge Punisher or a Flick Reaper. Blade Bradiers are alright but not ideal. Anyway, the original .hack was much better in that all the classes were pretty balanced. You never wanted to bring along a Twin Blade in the first game only because your character was a Twin Blade already.

I think i've blabbed enough about that for now. There are other criticisms i have but I realize that the time it takes to explain them is far too long. On to Resident Evil CODE: Veronica. First of all, scary as hell game. I'm almost halfway through and there were parts where i literally shouted in surprise (which at midnight with my parents upstairs, isn't a very good thing :P). Anyway, storyline is goodbut very disturbing on the part of the Ashford family. Also,the X version of CV has a lot of really cool cutscenes concerning Wesker which go a long way in describing how he got to where he is (basically how he survived the mansion). The only one I've seen so far is where he beats up on Claire (gasp! Didn't his mother ever teach him not to beat up girls!) and says how he hates Chris Redfield. Makes you think about Resident Evil5 and how far Wesker will go to make sure he dies :D. Anyway, so far, it's a great Resident Evil game and, if you've been reading the comments from my last blogs about RE:CVx, all the stuff about the music is true! Save room music is awesome and almost heals you as a player from the horror of the game. It's the biggest feeling of relief ever during a video game to hear that music. Then the heartbeat stuff when you open the door to an important room, just scares the crap out of u lol. Very cool stuff. Sorry about the uber long blog lol. I'm really excited about the games! I haven't really played enough of Zero to have any thoughts on it yet but i'll get there lol! A friend of mine is really excited to play Zero so i'm kind of waiting for him. Peace!

Hey everyone! Thanks so much for all your comments on my first video blog! I really appreciate all of them. To follow up, here's video blog number 2!

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So yay! Hope you liked it! Peace everyone!

Hey everyone! My video blog is finally finished!!! and by finished, what I really mean is that Gamespot finally fixed their video section :P. Anyway, here it is. Enjoy!

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Hope you guys liked it! Anyway, a bunch of stuff has happened in the last few days, some of it good, some of it not so good. I'll start with the not so good. My bro had to get some kind of jaw surgery on monday which SUCKS for him. Basically, he has to wear a giant ice pack around his whole face and he's swollen up like a balloon. Also, he has to wear these rubber bands that basically glue his mouth shut for all but 4 hours of the day. ouch... I feel really bad for him. Especially since he's a really, REALLY active guy so he's not gonna be able to do all the stuff he likes for at least a month...

Now for the good news! Tons of this stuff thankfully! First off, school registration! Normally this is a really crappy day for me cuz it means that the summer is ending and school is starting up again but! since this is my senior year and I have a bunch of awesome classes, i'm actually kinda looking forward to it again! besides, there are tons of really hot girls at my school so that's never a bad thing :D. Anyway, let me lay out my schedule for u guys so u can see just how awesome it is.

1. Police Science/Forensics 1 (yeah this is a forensics class. They advertise it as showing you how to do the stuff they do in CSI. How cool is that!!!)
2. IB Psychology (IB is basically AP or honors, whichever you are familiar with. Anyway, i love psychology stuff so this should be easy and fun!)
3. Japanese 2 (ugghh... the class i'm the most worried about. At least most of my other classes are easy so i can focus more on learning the language this year. I've got high hopes.)
4. The Classics (While it sounds like crap it's actually really really cool. The class i'm the most excited about right here. Basically, this is a class on ancient mythology. Greek, Nordic, Roman, stuff like that. We get to watch a bunch of movies like Troy, The Odyssey and other stuff like that. Really cool class.)
5. Lunch comes here. Yeah.
6. Criminal Justice (Basically a law class. I hear from my friends it's really easy but it's really fun. I'm looking forward to it.)
7. Normally, i would have a 6th period here but! since i'm amazing and got all my credits already, I HAVE A 6th PERIOD WAVER!!! woot!!! that means i get to go home at 1:14 every day!! yay!!

After having a really tough Junior year, i thought i would take it easy my senior year. Still got some classes that look good to the colleges (IB psych, Japanese) but it should be a pretty good year. Also, since i have the 6th period waver, i can work more during the week and get more cash for gaming! Probably should be a slow year tho since i've gotta start saving up for college :cry:. Oh well, i'll still be going with the greats like SSBB and Galaxy. Stuff like that.

Next, after registration yesterday, my friend and I went over to EB games to get Bioshock for the 360! Well, as I always forget... you can't get M games in Washington State until you're 18. crap... my friends a month off and i'm not till january. Anyway, we're scrambling to get someone down here who is 18 cuz we're worried they're going to sell out soon. Anyway, with my bro's surgery, my parent's obviously can't come and neither can my bro. My friend's mom is working and he's not sure where his dad is. So we decide that we have to wait till 3 for his mom to get home so she can get it for us. Anyway, we get to his house and turns out, his dad is just leaving for work! and he agrees to take us to get Bioshock before work! YAY!!! so we rush up at about noon to get it and the guy behind the counter looks up, "Oh you guys are back!" (he was laughing since he couldn't sell it to us and he could see us calling everyone we knew who was 18) he holds up a copy of bioshock and says the only thing he needs to say "last copy." JUST IN TIME!!! After making a show of falling to my knees, praying, we go up and get the game. With my friends gift card, it only cost him 6 bucks! Lucky for us we got there when we did since right when we left, a guy was walking up to the store looking at our copy like he was getting the same thing. By my guess, we were about minutes off from waiting for the next shipment. Anyway, we get home and waste no time... ordering a pizza! After that, we switch off for literally 12 hours (i didn't leave his house till midnight) and almost beat the game. Only 1 area left and we were just getting there. To shorten this blog, i'll give my thoughts on it next time but trust me, it's amazing. It has it's flaws but seriously, what game doesnt? It's worth the buy believe me.

Finally, definitely less exciting than Bioshock but happy for me. .Hack//G.U. came today!!! yay!! so now i have that to play before work at 5 where i get to toss tons of pizza dough (which is amazingly fun in case you missed my blog on that!) So yeah! Now i'm expecting a pretty slow week where I can sit back, and enjoy the .hack//gu awesomeness! Thanks for reading everyone and again, hope you liked my video blog. I promise they will get better lol. Peace all!

Hey everyone. The video thing still isn't working... crap. But what I really wanted to do was ask for ur guys help still. I haven't gotten any referrals so far that have finished the offers and it's a really good deal. Seriously people, these guys are giving away free stuff as long as you take the time to get some people to help you out! It really shouldn't be that hard to get people to sign up so they can get free stuff too right?? You can get a free 360 elite,playstation 3, Wii, Ipod Video/Nano, Flatscreen TVand this isn't usedstuff either, it's brand new!Anyway, here's the link again (NOTE: USE THIS LINK TO GET THERE!! IF U DON'T USE THIS EXACT LINK, IT WONT GIVE ME THE REFERRAL):

http://www.360Elite4free.com/index.php?ref=4014470

Here is the link to the news report confirming the legitimacy of the site. The report was created by CNN and is talking about the free ipods website. However, the company that runs the free ipod site also runs the free 360 site so it confirms both at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg5scaOGVb4

And finally, here's a link to Linkrul3s' blog, another user here on Gamespot who is doing the same thing. If you don't believe all the stuff i've shown you, believe him right?

http://www.gamespot.com/users/linkrul3s

I don't think I should need to show more proof but if you want more, i will find it for you. Sorry, i don't mean to sound pushy for all this but as you can probably tell, I really REALLY want that 360 elite :P. Please, help yourself and sign up for this as well! I really appreciate it guys. For the step-by-step guide on how to get these without paying a cent, check out my last blog or check Linkrul3s' profile a few posts down (i think his guide is a lot easier to follow than mine :P).

I promise that whether or not you guys help out with this, this'll be my last blog post about it. After this i'll go back to my normal posts and I promise i won't say another thing about it. But if I do get the 360 with ur guys' help, i'll be sure to get some kind of reward for u all! All I need are 9 referrals. Thanks all! Peace!