Hey look! It's me . . . the only person who blogs on this fucking thing!!!! I can only assume that likewise noone reads this anymore, at which point I am really talking to myself. Not too different than normal life.
My 1 year anniversary looms near. It will be here this monday, so I am in Nashville right now. Although Nashville seems like a nice town, I still haven't really warmed up to it yet. It feels very country, despite Chowning's indirect attempt to tell me that it isn't really. Maybe I just need to find the underground part of the city. You know, where the Morlocks live or some shit. Regardless, I'm here having a great time until next tuesday when I will be headed back. Chowning likes her job a lot more now, and I've gotten to talk to some of her co-workers and they are cool folks.
I've had tons of time to watch TV while Chowning is at work. It has allowed me to watch lots of TV drama stuff on TNT. ER, Judging Amy, Law and Order, Angel, they are all on the list of things that I will watch while doing other things. In between all of the shows I've tried to find stuff that can fill the void of commercials. And so we get to the point of this section, I've got to watch a lot of G4. For those who don't know what G4 is: first, good for you; second it is the TV channel that is dedicated to videogames. I've watched many hours of G4, and decided that it is a type of geekdom that I'm not really in touch with. I'm not sure if it is intentional, but the whole channel seems to do a good job pandering to those trying to be 'leet and uber'leet alike. Although there is some good content in there, getting to it is like trying to wade through a pool of shit in order to scrape shit off of a good meal, and then enjoy the meal. That analogy has tons of problems, but hopefully it gets the point across.
For some reason this frustrates me greatly. Perhaps it is because while I do dwell in the land of videogames, where I get to fuck hookers brains out then kill them to get my money back, I don't want people that think that is ALL they are good for. Unfortunately G4 doesn't seem to help my cause. Most of their commentary seem to come from people who play games, and the people themselves seem slightly intelligent and able to discern the difference between good games and crap, but the writers or whoever does the dialog must want to maintain a 13 year old outlook on life, and the shows are filled with pre-pubescent sexual inuendo or comments on how they hate physical activity of any kind. Hey! Look at me! I'm apparently the only fucking gamer in the world who likes physical activity. I'm one in a million . . . now gimme some damn money. All I'm asking is that there be one show on the network which tackles games in an intelligent fashion. There can still be crude humor, but get away from the sterotypes of gamers. Not every person who plays videogames lives in a basement, doesn't shower, and blows his load when a hot girl walks in the room. I guess I'm just bitter. Videogames can be really cool, and do lots a great things to provide entertainment and even actually teach people things. Not everygame is Dave Mirra BMXXX.
Other things in life a going well. Spending the week at Chowning's pad is making me think that the next place I live should be a house. I'm not too sure why I'm thinking that would be a good idea. Perhaps it is just getting old and that is what I think other "responsible" adults are doing. It would be nice to have the extra space. I don't know how to go about getting a house, or when I will be able to do something like that. Money is still a tough issue. I'm done making large purchases for the rest of summer. Not to mention that I have plane tickets I will have to buy. All of my tournaments are drivable except for one which is in Cali. Guess I'm flying there. Jeez, and all this money stuff will only get worse when I go back to get my PhD.
Speaking of PhD, I'm still not sold on the idea, but I think I will. When I get back to the ATL I'm going to go meet with Chang again. The options at Northwestern aren't really there, however when talking with one of Chowning's co-workers who used to work with the USOC I now have Indiana on the list. Apparently they have a great swimming lab. So that adds one more school to the list.
The videogame front has slowed down a bit. I don't have any GBA titles to work on right now, so I didn't bring anything with me. Majora's mask will be done soon, although it isn't 100%. God of War, a very bloody game, is done and done, along with Musashi: Samurai Legend. Honestly the last two weren't really great games. God of War was fun, and the God Mode is very dificult, but it isn't good enough to keep me coming back. I'll be returning it soon. I'll start scouring the racks again soon for good titles. Meanwhile, it is hard to stay away from a DS. Unfortunately I shouldn't be buying any more stuff right now. But I got my hands on Yoshi: Touch and Go, which allows you to draw clouds with your pen as well as balloons. These clouds interact with Yoshi and tell him where to go. You also make him jump and throw eggs using the stylus. I only got to play the opening part, but it was really fucking fun. There is also a Kirby game using a similar presence. These two games are making me water at the mouth a good bit, however it is going to have to wait until I can find the capital. I think until then it will be digging through the achives for old games and renting XBox games. At least there is a new Conker game out, and if it lives up to the last Conker game it should be great . . . speaking of which . . . I think I have the old Conker game, and I never won that.
The modded XBox makes it nice when my income becomes stagnant. I wonder how the PA guys get new games to play? I guess they could shell out the cash, or maybe there is some underground pipeline of games. I should tap in to that shit. Speaking of PA, I got a chance to look at the PAX webpage, and man I want to go. For those who don't know PAX is the Bellevue Penny Arcade Expo, and the list of games to be played in competition is awesome. There is even a 40k in 40 minutes section for Mark. It's really cool, so hop in the van and lets roadtrip to Washington . . . again. No really . . . it would be fun.
Well, that is a long post. There is lots more stuff to talk about, like how the dynamics of the group are changing, but for now I guess I'll finish my normal prattling and let you all get back to your work. All zero of you that still read this thing, Out.
M
My 1 year anniversary looms near. It will be here this monday, so I am in Nashville right now. Although Nashville seems like a nice town, I still haven't really warmed up to it yet. It feels very country, despite Chowning's indirect attempt to tell me that it isn't really. Maybe I just need to find the underground part of the city. You know, where the Morlocks live or some shit. Regardless, I'm here having a great time until next tuesday when I will be headed back. Chowning likes her job a lot more now, and I've gotten to talk to some of her co-workers and they are cool folks.
I've had tons of time to watch TV while Chowning is at work. It has allowed me to watch lots of TV drama stuff on TNT. ER, Judging Amy, Law and Order, Angel, they are all on the list of things that I will watch while doing other things. In between all of the shows I've tried to find stuff that can fill the void of commercials. And so we get to the point of this section, I've got to watch a lot of G4. For those who don't know what G4 is: first, good for you; second it is the TV channel that is dedicated to videogames. I've watched many hours of G4, and decided that it is a type of geekdom that I'm not really in touch with. I'm not sure if it is intentional, but the whole channel seems to do a good job pandering to those trying to be 'leet and uber'leet alike. Although there is some good content in there, getting to it is like trying to wade through a pool of shit in order to scrape shit off of a good meal, and then enjoy the meal. That analogy has tons of problems, but hopefully it gets the point across.
For some reason this frustrates me greatly. Perhaps it is because while I do dwell in the land of videogames, where I get to fuck hookers brains out then kill them to get my money back, I don't want people that think that is ALL they are good for. Unfortunately G4 doesn't seem to help my cause. Most of their commentary seem to come from people who play games, and the people themselves seem slightly intelligent and able to discern the difference between good games and crap, but the writers or whoever does the dialog must want to maintain a 13 year old outlook on life, and the shows are filled with pre-pubescent sexual inuendo or comments on how they hate physical activity of any kind. Hey! Look at me! I'm apparently the only fucking gamer in the world who likes physical activity. I'm one in a million . . . now gimme some damn money. All I'm asking is that there be one show on the network which tackles games in an intelligent fashion. There can still be crude humor, but get away from the sterotypes of gamers. Not every person who plays videogames lives in a basement, doesn't shower, and blows his load when a hot girl walks in the room. I guess I'm just bitter. Videogames can be really cool, and do lots a great things to provide entertainment and even actually teach people things. Not everygame is Dave Mirra BMXXX.
Other things in life a going well. Spending the week at Chowning's pad is making me think that the next place I live should be a house. I'm not too sure why I'm thinking that would be a good idea. Perhaps it is just getting old and that is what I think other "responsible" adults are doing. It would be nice to have the extra space. I don't know how to go about getting a house, or when I will be able to do something like that. Money is still a tough issue. I'm done making large purchases for the rest of summer. Not to mention that I have plane tickets I will have to buy. All of my tournaments are drivable except for one which is in Cali. Guess I'm flying there. Jeez, and all this money stuff will only get worse when I go back to get my PhD.
Speaking of PhD, I'm still not sold on the idea, but I think I will. When I get back to the ATL I'm going to go meet with Chang again. The options at Northwestern aren't really there, however when talking with one of Chowning's co-workers who used to work with the USOC I now have Indiana on the list. Apparently they have a great swimming lab. So that adds one more school to the list.
The videogame front has slowed down a bit. I don't have any GBA titles to work on right now, so I didn't bring anything with me. Majora's mask will be done soon, although it isn't 100%. God of War, a very bloody game, is done and done, along with Musashi: Samurai Legend. Honestly the last two weren't really great games. God of War was fun, and the God Mode is very dificult, but it isn't good enough to keep me coming back. I'll be returning it soon. I'll start scouring the racks again soon for good titles. Meanwhile, it is hard to stay away from a DS. Unfortunately I shouldn't be buying any more stuff right now. But I got my hands on Yoshi: Touch and Go, which allows you to draw clouds with your pen as well as balloons. These clouds interact with Yoshi and tell him where to go. You also make him jump and throw eggs using the stylus. I only got to play the opening part, but it was really fucking fun. There is also a Kirby game using a similar presence. These two games are making me water at the mouth a good bit, however it is going to have to wait until I can find the capital. I think until then it will be digging through the achives for old games and renting XBox games. At least there is a new Conker game out, and if it lives up to the last Conker game it should be great . . . speaking of which . . . I think I have the old Conker game, and I never won that.
The modded XBox makes it nice when my income becomes stagnant. I wonder how the PA guys get new games to play? I guess they could shell out the cash, or maybe there is some underground pipeline of games. I should tap in to that shit. Speaking of PA, I got a chance to look at the PAX webpage, and man I want to go. For those who don't know PAX is the Bellevue Penny Arcade Expo, and the list of games to be played in competition is awesome. There is even a 40k in 40 minutes section for Mark. It's really cool, so hop in the van and lets roadtrip to Washington . . . again. No really . . . it would be fun.
Well, that is a long post. There is lots more stuff to talk about, like how the dynamics of the group are changing, but for now I guess I'll finish my normal prattling and let you all get back to your work. All zero of you that still read this thing, Out.
M
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