It feels like it's been two weeks or more since I've written my last blog post. I guess it's because I've been so busy staying occupied that it feels like a large amount of time has passed. Well, last time, I was complaining about how I couldn't record any quality videos for YouTube because I didn't have the proper software to keep going with my plans. Well, Foolz3h introduced me to a program that allows you to convert .mov files (which are the videos recorded on a digital camera) into files that allow you to play the video clips on Windows Media player. That was the solution I needed to help jumpstart my plan into action for creating movies on Windows Movie Maker. Ever since, I've been going crazy using that program. It's a cool little program to use when you know how. Check them all out if you want on my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/colonelpork. Some of them probably won't be funny to you guys, since it involves me and my friends, but oh well. Just try to get me past 100 views on my videos:P. I'm desperate:cry:.
Other than that, I've been doing one of these four things:
Playing video games
Hanging out with my friends
Going to open houses
Packing for Georgia
As far as gaming goes, quite a lot has happened since you last heard from me. I managed to beat Half-Life 2: Episode One in just a few hours, but it was a great continuation of the original game. I was particularly proud of getting the achievement where you only fire 1 bullet throughout the entire episode, and you can only use the crowbar, grenade launcher, grenades, and gravity guy through the game to get past obstacles and enemies. It wasn't too hard, but I was proud of unlocking such an intimidating sounding achievement. After conquering the first episode, I started on Half-Life 2: Episode Two immediately. It is certainly longer, and it is more intense than the first episode. Thank goodness there's no "One Bullet" achievement in this episode, though, because I don't know if I could take that:P. I'm pretty far in the game, but the gameplay was starting to get stale and repetitious, since all I've been playing was hours and hours of Half-Life 2. That's when I started on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the Xbox 360. I'm definitely not that far (just got out of the prison at the beginning of the game), but it seems like a fun game, and works a lot better than playing Morrowind on my crappy PC (which was the system I bought Morrowind for:| ). As soon as I got out into the open world, though, I became overwhelmed with open-endedness (don't know if that's a word or not:P ) galore! So, I decided to wait until I beat some other games before taking that behemoth on. So, all I've been playing since then is some good ol' Resident Evil 4 on Pro. It's pretty hard, but I'm on the island, so I think I'm doing pretty good. One day I'd like to get the Wii Edition so I can try out the "Separate Ways" mode, as well as trying out the different controls.
I went to a couple of open houses last weekend, but they weren't anything special. I only stayed an hour at both. However, I've been hanging out with my friends Courtney (whom you have probably recognized from my videos:P ) and Britany a lot, especially Courtney, since Britany is on a trip right now. I don't think I've ever bonded with anyone as much as I have in the past month with this guy. It's like all of these years growing up, I've searched for that one true friend that would always be there for me, hang out with me every chance they got, and shared a lot in common with me, and just days before I am moving, I have finally found that person. It only took, what, 3 years since I moved up here? Yeah, it took me the entire time I lived up here to obtain that best friend I was looking for:roll:. But yeah, both of us share the same sensitivity that allows us to have some deep conversations, both of us share the same geekiness when it comes to video gaming (and Pokemon games in particular:P ), both of us share similar experiences with our heart problems (he had open heart surgery, though:P), and both of us even like some of the same hip-hop, which is unusual to find nowadays. He even said that I was his best friend that he ever had, which meant a lot to me. You have no idea how hard I try to be a good friend to people, and it looks like it is paying off. I'm just scared that I'm not going to find friends like that when I move. At least that he said that he and Britany would come down to see me when I'm in Georgia during Spring Break, and usually I wouldn't believe a friend when they say that they are going to do something like that, but this time, I believe him. In the past, when I always lived in different places, I always gained a best friend in each place. But as soon as I moved from those locations, I would lose contact with those people and never hear from them again. Those were in the days where I was still maturing and childhood was still engulfing me, so those friends were just childhood friends. Now that I'm an adult, and I've gained friends up here in Michigan, things are different. We VOWED to keep in touch, no matter where we moved to, and we agreed that we would meet again, no matter how much it would take to do so. Yeah, I know I'm boring everyone with all of my sentimental talk about friendship, but I just thought I should get that out of my system. It's been on my mind quite a bit lately, and I needed to express my emotions in some way. And what better way to do it than on a gaming website on the Internet:P ? Yeah, go ahead and burst out in laughter now. But don't worry, I'll just be laughing with you:twisted:.
This week, I have started gathering cardboard boxes together and packing my room up. Even though we're not making our first trip to Georgia until the 5th of July, my mom is telling me to get **** packed early, and wait until next week for electronic stuff because I gotta have my electronic stuff:P. However, I really wish I could get a laptop because it seems like a pain in the ass keeping my computer up here for two more weeks after we get back, and yet, not have very much furniture that I could put it on. That, and I'm keeping my Xbox 360 and my Wii up here as well. It's going to be hard to figure out, but I'll think of something. As far as the packing goes right now, I'm exhausted. My room is looking eerily empty, and it's making me depressed:(. No more game posters on the wall, no more junk cluttering up my closet, no more software cramping up my computer desk. It's just not the same. But I gotta do what I gotta do. At least by going through everything, I found a lot of junk that I didn't need anymore and threw it away, making space. I also found a bunch of old toys of mine that I am planning to donate to Goodwill or something. Of course, there's all of the nostalgia of seeing things you didn't know you had, either8).
Oh, and I MUST mention the game deal I got at a garage sale last weekend. I found Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the rare game that people proclaim as the best Castlevania game ever, for only $1. Sounds too good to be true, right? It is in a way. All it was was the game disk in some CD case that was in bad condition, not to mention that the disk itself was badly scratched. But I didn't care. For $1, I couldn't pass up this chance to play a game raved by people as one of the greatest games of all time, whether or not it works. I'm hoping like hell it does, but we'll see. This situation reminds me of a blog post Kravyn wrote a few weeks ago:P.
That's about all I have to report for now. Maybe I'll get back into Half-Life 2: Episode Two or make another video on YouTube or something. Making YouTube videos is incredibly fun. Hopefully tomorrow my Gamestop has that damned download station to get that Deoxys for Pokemon Diamond, because I had to walk out of that Gamestop disappointed last weekend:x.