Another day, another octopus.
Napping with my puppy, thinking about what’s wrong with the world and what’s right.
Jan 132006
Jan 132006
Quantum entanglement on a chip.
Nothing like quantum mechanics to make you go “Holy shit, awesome!” and “wow I’m dumb!” at the same time.
Jan 112006
Bwarrr harr harr harrrrrr. Yarrr, the Kennesaw, she be a fine ship.
Jan 102006
There’s a very good chance I may be moving to Kennesaw. Stay tuned.
Jan 102006
I had to drop my easy-as-cake CSIS 2300 free elective for a required easy-as-cake Sociology 2105 course that I somehow missed (actually, I misread the catalog as saying that one of my lower division major requirements would cover it, a mistake my advisor apparently also made).
The only real difference is that my intelligence will be slightly less insulted, and I have five classes I have to actually be present for rather than four and an online course.
We’re reading Everything’s Eventual for our first assignment in American Pop Culture. Stephen King. Bwahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahhah
*gasp*
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Jan 092006
I just beat Shadow of the Colossus, a game that everyone else on the internet was shitting themselves over. My review is not quite so rosy.
It’s a beautiful game once you get out into the world, and the Colossi are outstanding, so why the hell is the temple so ugly? The textures are so bad they remind me of the caves in the first Tomb Raider.
Other than that, I thought there were a lot of tedious parts. The game is essentially 16 boss battles with travel time, and the travel time is the problem. Yes, it’s great that it’s a huge seamless world. Maybe I’m just not fit for serene traveling.
I don’t know, maybe it’s not the traveling. Something just felt missing. The ending makes it abundantly clear why the story doesn’t start until the very end of the game, but lacking any real motive for killing these guys, while old school, just makes the experience feel hollow at first. I spend the first two-thirds of the game, which I was very excited about playing, trying to convince myself to keep going, that I had to at least see the ending.
Overall I give it a 2 out of 4. The idea itself is awesome, but it needs something just a little bit more “spicey” to get it going. The game is fun, the atmosphere is nice, but it just didn’t completely click with me. I’m glad I played it, but I doubt I’ll ever play through it again.
And that’s my mini-review of the game a lot of people want to call the Game of the Year. Right now I say Resident Evil 4 for that.
Jan 082006
I’m not trying to cover anything. We really don’t know where you are or why.
Jan 082006
Impressive work trying to cover your ass, ass.
Jan 082006
I wasn’t going to post anything about this at all on Jux until everything got settled, but since Jux also serves as a historical record, note that Kenny moved out of Vivian’s house on Thursday in something of a rush, for reasons not entirely known. Travis and I don’t know where he is or what he’s doing. We’re concerned.
And that’s all that’s going to be said about that, here or in the forum. Jux is neutral ground.
Jan 062006
Well, damn. That book ended 60 pages sooner than I thought it would. George R. R. Martin used one of my own favorite tricks against me!