Pagoda of Gaming

So my parents, it seems, are going through a phase. They are gay for Ballroom Dancing. And I use Gay in the most adjectiveness sence of the word. I was, at supper tonight, put through the last hour or so of Strictly Ballroom. And I’m quite sure that it’s the worst film ever made and certainly explains to me why the Australian movie indusrty is the way it is. “But it’s a Baz Luhremann film, it was the one that put him on the map”, my mother mused, “that doesn’t make it better”, I replied. I really hate Baz, everyone loves the shit out of him, but after having indirectly seen all his films (there’s only fucking three) I can truly say that he’s never made a good film. I think this phase is also attributing to several other things, like why I’ve been woken up every morning this winter break with the sound of a fat retarded screaming italian man in my ear, and also explains their taste in television programming, something that has made me want to GTFO of the living room as soon as I could, think reality tv and dancing and you get the idea. I fear the most for my father, since I’m unsure if he willingly succum to the allures of that shite or if my mother is dragging him along for the grusome ride.

I have infact got the fuck out of the living room recently, like 10 minutes ago. I am currently cleansing my soul with some better metal snakes, specifically Dethklok. Dethklok, knocking shite music out our minds since 2007.

So it appears that I have indeed fucked up my parents internet connection. I’ve been put onto the naughty server for, you know, actually using it. They let all us heavy users run wild from what I think is midnight until 9am. So I’ve been purposefully fucking up my sleeping patterns to let me on at those times. My parent’s haven’t noticed it yet, mainly because they never use the fucking thing. If they usually want to look something up, I usually do it for them. I’m sure my worldlyness of the web makes up for their inate fear of tecnology, and even with the connection being slow as shit, I find what they want faster than they could find it themselves.

So I’m going to aberdull tomorrow, why? I dunno. I think the rents want to go to the cinema. Looking at the listings I assured them that the Golden Compass is the only choice, even though I’ve already seen it. Their phase also prevents them from going anywhere but the Belmont, so I’m assured of a sore ass by the end of it. I’ll get the chance to scour the sales, so I’ll post an alert if there is any awesome deals that I find. Maybe I’ll pick up some more Death Note Manga.

So Warcraft. I’m back, sortof. I’ve put Rin, my shadow preist, to rest for a while. The only thing I feel I need to do with her before the expansion is to haul her sexy ass through a Tempest Keep dungeon to get enough rep for my Alchemist’s Stone. I’m back with Hatake, except he’s not Hatake any more. I did a server move from Nordrassil all the way to RP-server Argent Dawn to play with a friend, and to level him to 70 before the expansion. It was a hilarious moment logging in and realising how shit I used to be at the game. If you check him out on Armoury, you can see the shitty armour and the shitty stats that accompany it, and that there’s the no epic mount and the mere 20G in the wallet and also that he really needs to rest up after every fight. It won’t be impossible to fix, it just might, take a while.

Argent Dawn, unlike Sporregar, seems like the kind of server that punishes for bad naming. So it was a hard decision. I went through my usual lists until I found something that seemed right. It was a toss up between Reito, Katake and the best one, Murderface. Unfortunatly, I was convinced by previously mentioned friend that Reito was the best choice for the realm. I’m currently in limbo about the name, I have the other two saved anyways if I decide to pay the £6 and change later on. I’m really starting to like the thought of a Tauren Druid called Murderface, despite what level of social pariah I’ll become on a RP realm because of it.
Reito (pronounced “R-eye-to”) is based cleverly off of Death Note’s Light Yagami, since his fellow shinigami Ryuk cannot pronounce “Light” the english way, he settles for the japanese equivelent, where you search and replace all the L’s for R’s and add an O after a T.

So the next post, I’m guessing, will be the Games Of The Year one. I’ve done the bulk of it, and by bulk, I mean deciding the position of things. I’ve got some nice things to say about EDGE too, and I mean that in the most sarcastic sence possible. I’ll give you a little preview, UR MR GAY is not my GOTY. I’m off to Hellfire Penninsula for the night. See ya!

You will most likely die from the hands of my arm when I come and fly and take off your face

I’ve been oddly busy the past couple of days, and oddly tired. Then there was the whole scare I had when the the rent’s internet connection slowed down so much that my torrenting went from over 100kbps all the way down to 10. The scare being I thought it was my fault, having reached the super-secret-fine-printy download limit when they shove the connection over to the high user server. That doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. *sigh*, the morning hits and it’s back to slowsville.

So there was a new trailer released for the Naruto “2008 PS3 Project”. I won’t embed it on the principle that it should be viewed in a higher-res than a Youtube video. CHECK IT. So it seems that there’s more emphasis on fighting in this game, unlike the 360 game, or atleast, fighting with more moves and hopefully characters. I will be a little pissed off if this game just copies the first 75-odd episodes and only follows bore-uto’s storyline. I fear that the way anime based games are going these days, this might be the case.

Now you all should know how freaking gay I am for Counter-Strike: Source. Well you should. It still remains in my heart as the best multiplayer FPS out there, even though It’s been a while since I’ve played. I’m happy and kind of annoyed to see it being localised for the asian market, as news from kotaku says it’s had a successful beta. HERE’s the news report with some pretty pictures, granted you can read asian-ese. I also found the official site for the game that I might mess about with later and see if I can get to play or atleast see more of it. The thing is, I’d totally play this, even if I couldn’t understand what the fuck was happening most of the time. I guess I’m just dreaming of Counter-Strike 3.0, a magical mash-up of CS:S, some CoD4 and a little bit of MMO, that’ll totally never happen. Well, I guess that Half Life 3 would have to happen first….

The Euro Playstation Store has got a bunch of new stuff to make up for the fact that Everyday Shooter has yet to reach our shores. HERE.

And more Source engine related news. Black Mesa Source (you know, the total conversion mod of HL1 to the source engine that’s all pretty and stuff) is still in development. The team released a bunch of screenshots recently and you can check them out HERE. This might seem a bit boring to some people, but considering that, yes even me, has hardly played the original Half Life, I’m quite excited to play the shiny version. The team look like they are doing a really good job, I’d like to see valve somewhat absorb the mod team and get them some money for their endevours. I’s totally pay a marginal fee to play this.

And finally under the catagories of “stuff I would have loved to get for Xmas” and “random and awesome crap I’d spend money on” comes the Slanket. Just look at how comfy those doushebaggy models are sitting on that sofa all wrapped up and warm, yet still able to drink their coffe and read their newspapers and have their orgy. I want one so much. Maybe it’s the fact that Failserburgh (copyright Martin Whyte 2007) is as cold, as they say, as witch tits.

So I’m heading back to dundee today for about 24-36 hours, since my father’s too cheap to get himself a night at a travel lodge, I am bound another night sleeping on the floor in my own flat. I’ll have pleanty to keep me occupied too. I want to head up to Highlander games and get some more cards for my new magic deck that I’m planning for use in the summer months. And I’ve also been roped back into playing WoW, though in a different guise, one that I’ll talk about at a later time. And there’s EVE, of which I’ve been doing very little more than training skills for. I did go on a couple of fleet runs with people within the alliance, just for me to see and get a handle on the controls. Gatecamping runs were fun, though there might have been more people to pod if it weren’t christmas day. And last night I saw our fleet attack and obliterate a POS (player owned structure), in this case, a rival corp’s base. It was an awesome sight to behold, seeing capital ships in action making big pew-pew with their seige weapons. And me, in my tiny frigate, floating right next to them.

The sky looks dead

I suppose that this is the “shit it’s only 9am and my parents are going to discover I’m already awake soon and are going to get me to do stuff” post. Gifts were already given last night, so the only reason to wake up today is preperation for the impending doom of christmas dinner.

I got a small haul of good stuff, nothing gaming related and a bunch of *sigh* clothes. There’s nothing that says “I disagree with the way you look” better than clothes for christmas, unless it’s bought from an online store that’s based off a webcomic or videogame. Let’s see. Death Note Mangas, volumes 1 and 2, The Dresden Files on DVD. The rest of it consisted of what the ‘rents consider as neccesities. There’s also the promise of a new bike, which I’m not to thrilled about, since the reason for the bike’s existance is only to shuffle me to and from work during the summer. That’s not a present, it’s a glorified bus ticket. There was also a bunch of Euros, I forget to what amount, but it’s for the easter holidays when I go and conquer france, I doubt they’ll put up a fight.

On a whim, I just bought a box set of fullmetal alchemist over ebay, the entire collection of episodes for £25. A gift to myself.

So anyways, I totally forgot to mention the new LOST and Heroes trailers that hut the web about a week ago. First, Lost:

And the shakey-cam footage of the chapter 3 teaser:

Interesting stuff eh? On a somewhat related topic, I finally got myself to wikipedia and learned myself up some writer’s strike info. CHECK IT. I agree with your strike writer people! Take the battle to them! And when the smoke clears smother yourself in the glorific entrails of your defeated foe! And then you shall know victory! And get more money!… And this also gives me time to catch up on a bunch of stuff that I’ve missed.

And finally, get your ass logged into steam and get some cheap games you fucking choads!

Enjoy your day of family happiness you fucks!

You can come see me, but I don’t glow in the dark

GOOOOO!!! NOW!!!!! GET YOURSELF SOME SUPER CHEAP GAMES!!! CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!

But srsly tho, a huge amount of stuff in their catalogue is at an even lower price than before. I just purchaced Uplink and VTM:Bloodlines for just under £9!

Don’t think you’ll get to download them mind you, something’s gone and raped the Steam content servers. But hey, they’ll still get added to your account! Be quick, I don’t think this’ll be around for long.

It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction

Now I could be going insane, with all the christmas cheer that’s been shoved down my throat lately, but I swear that I saw someone famous today. Jim Norton, previously known to me as Bishop Leonard “Len” Brennan. I saw him if but only for a second, crossing the street, and like all men at this time of year, being led around by the cock by a woman, carrying the motherload of christmas shopping. It was hard to investigate further, as I happened to be crossing in the opposite direction. Or, you know, I’m going insane and I saw nothing at all.

So yes, apart from that, aberdull was infact dull. The streets were lined with faggots who left their shopping til the last minute, myself somewhat included. I actually spent alot of time looking in the bookshops around the slim pickings they call their manga section. I saw the Heroes graphic novel, that seems to be a compilation of all the web comics in a nice hardback, I’ll maybe pick it up in the sales.

I picked up a few things, namely a whole bunch of blank dvds and some permanant markers, to aid me in my holiday quest of torrenting as much as possible. And the christmas edition of edge, which I must admit, through my coffe-shop skimming, doesn’t seem very christmassy, which I’m totally ok with BTW. I’m planning to write up my GOTY awards based on the awards featured in the Edge ones, except replacing all the wrong games with the right ones, and ripping a bit into edge’s hole as I go along.

I came across THIS site last night, full of clever TF2 greifing videos, here’s my favourite embedded.

And finally for today’s short post, something I’ve been wanting to mention for a while, but I either lose it or forget. The official Neo-Gaf Cooking thread, hosted by OnkelC. CHECK IT. Consider it a well put together thread that’s a combination of a cookbook and one of those magazines that just talks about food all the time. 30-something pages of delicious food. I always check in from time to time, when I can find it that is, the mods never sticky it.

Well it’s christmas eve I suppose, so you christians enjoy the birth of your ficticious super-hero, who, I must say is totally lame for a super hero. I bet Goku could kick his ass. I’ll be sitting here preparing myself for the clusterfuck that will be christmas dinner, whilst wondering whether or not CS:S or TF2 will actually run on my NinTop.

The stone for the curse you have blamed me