Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Heavy Lifting? Not no more. ^_^

Whoops, a little late this week.

The move is finally and officially over. All the furniture is here, and while it took us the weekend to get it all moved around (and sending some to storage -_-), we're totally done. Which means I can goof off. Huzzah.

Got some electrical music today, while I'm still a little rough around the edges, I want to hear what y'all think of my flailing at the ivory. Here's the song I played this morning, complete with errors. =/
Click Steel to download (.wma, approx 1.6 MB).

Monday, July 14, 2008

Zomg.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/888/888967p1.html

Well, it happened. All I really got to say is... finally. But Sony... poor Sony. Their only hope now is Metal Gear Solid 4, and their Blu-Ray victory.

Who bets the next Microsoft console will have Blu-Ray and end up with MGS5? =P

Friday, July 11, 2008

What's a Novalith...?

Just earlier today I played Sins of a Solar Empire, and dragged out a game just to see what a Novalith Cannon could do. It took forever, but oh man... XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-SKublpoV4 <-- Something like that.

Been a busy week with all the unpacking, but things are settling down. And I got my piano back. =D Only played for a day or two to make sure I remember how... but eventually I hope to post some songs here. ^_^

Also, a few fun facts I picked up from the History Channel:
- The world's largest ice cream cone was assembled in Alberta, Canada, and weighed 24 tons, including 4 tons of syrup and toppings.
- Hidden images on the Great Seal of the United States arguably contain references to the Freemason society's plot of world domination.
- The French-made Chauchat light machine gun was used by American soldiers in World War I because the bureaucrats feared the American-made (and much more reliable) Browning Automatic Rifle might be captured, studied, and copied by the German Army.

Who says history is boring? =P

Monday, July 7, 2008

Back from a Great Weekend!

Fireworks are win!

This is not!

Ah, Independence Day. Celebrating our nation's freedom from tyranny, taking potshots at the President, and me getting pwned at pool. (Seriously, three games and lost 'em all. Frigg'n scratches.) Saw the movie Hancock on Saturday, which leaves Wanted and Wall-E on my "To see" list. Man, I haven't been to a movie theater since what... 300?

Aaaanyway, after spending the weekend with family, I'm home again starting today. Won't be a long break though; soon the rest of our furniture and junk will be here, and I can't say I know how long it'll take us to get all that sorted out. Less than a week, hopefully. I hate moving. But I want my piano. >=(

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Happy Fireworks!

I'll be gone to my uncle's in Houston for the holiday, so I'm making an early post this week.

For some reason I haven't been playing console games as much as I used to. There's always been the occasional Ōkami session or slaughtering my brother and his friends at Smash Bros., but mainly now that I have a computer awesome enough to run PC games, I've been getting drawn more and more into this new horizon of stuff I missed over the last what, eight years...?

The first of these *good* games I got my hands on was Neverwinter Nights (Diamond edition, with all expansions included). Yes, I'm well aware NWN2 is out and on its feet, but until I can find a patch to run it on Vista, I'm reluctant to buy it. Still, if I want a better RPG, my next choice is definitely Mass Effect, which I know for sure runs on Vista. After that, well, I doubt I really need more than two RPGs at once. >_>

A more recent game that I actually own is Sins of a Solar Empire, and it just might be my new favorite RTS game (sorry, but Rise of Nations is tough competition). I love how smooth the zooming works, and how everything in the solar system, whether you see it or not, is given special attention and detail. Research is a bit tougher to manage than most RTSs I've known, but like all games, you eventually hit that golden age where you forget about research and economy and focus on pounding your enemies into the ground. (Or wherever they go when you pound 'em in space.)

Okay, game rants aside, my brother's off to the Air Force this week, and he'll be back (or gone somewhere else) from Basic in mid-August. So I'm in charge of the house! (Let the pressure begin.)

Something is sure to pop up on the news soon to give me something new to rant about (besides the recent Six Flags decapitation, of which we're all clear the moral is "Don't be a retard"). But until next week, Happy Fireworks!