Saturday, August 28, 2004

But mommy, I wanted the pink surface-to-air missile launcher.
Argh, I lost the post but it kept the title. Damn.

Comment Commentary
Shin- Starbursts can bite me.
Mal- Yeah, I know I am. :P
Shin again- Yeah, I know, but what can you do?
Azure- USB ports are your friends. Alienware has eight of them, which I think is uber-cool.
Syk3- Has anyone had the balls to call her Captain Kirk yet?

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The two-story Borders Bookstore in a nearby town has a bunch of paintings hanging up in their staircase. Last week I took a moment to pay attention to the paintings, and then I noticed that they were actually for sale.

Most of them are rather lame abstract ones. In fact, a good deal of them are literally just little splatters of paint across a canvas. I then thought to myself, "Hey, I could do that," and guess where I am now.

That's right, I have a few paint brushes here, with some canvases I found in my brother's closet, and I'm going to spend this week doing a bunch of half-assed abstract paintings all for the money. Corporate greed shall get me $200 a piece! :D

Because it's all for the cash, I'm sure that karma will be entirely against me and that something is bound to go wrong, but whatever. At least it gives me something to do.

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Mimmi invited me to play a couple "teaching games" of Literati earlier today. She totally schooled me in the first round, but it was closer in the second game.

It was funny. Throughout the first round I had 90% consonants, and I was dealt almost nothing but vowels in the second round. That's what lead to my defeat. *sigh*

But if was fun. It prepared me for the setting that will be held in Shin's upcoming Literati tournament- One on one. I had been used to four people at a time, but now I know what to expect.

Especially if Mimmi is my opponent in the first round. XD I'm so screwed.

I really doubt I'll get too far. I'm not too creative with my words.. But hey, there's always Literati Tournament Two: Return of the Tiles to look forward to.

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UPCOMING GAMES I NEED TO BUY:

August 30- Pikmin 2. I wasn't really that excited about the game until I watched the opening cutscene on IGN, which was cute, charming and hilarious all at the same time. I'm splitting the cost with my brother, who only shied from Pikmin 1 because of the thirty-day limit. I will also be reserving Metroid Prime 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 on this day.

September 7- Silent Hill 4: The Room. I have never really played a horror game, let alone Silent Hill, which is supposed to be the king of them all, but the footage I have seen really intrigues me. This one is probably going to result in another war between my mother and me playing these kinds of games, but my dad seems interested enough in this to blindly purchase it without reading the content descriptors.

*Quagmire voice* All right.

September 21- DDR EXTREME. A new DDR mix, what more do I need to say? There doesn't appear to be any groundbreaking gameplay additions (That's on the upcoming Xbox installment, Ultramix 2, which I sadly cannot buy), but the selection of songs is amazing- it's like a "best of" mix.

November 15- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. This is going to be such a joyous occasion, full of gaming splendour and violence. These two games are top priority- I have to check out my cash flow and see how much cash I'll have to buy games- so in the event that I only have enough cash for two games (Which is EXTREMELY likely), these two are the ones I'll have to go with.

January 11- Resident Evil 4. Another little game that will introduce me to the horror game genre; I wanted to buy it the second I saw the E3 trailer. It makes me sad that the pushed it past the holiday season.

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Of course, odds are I won't have the $230 (excluding tax) to buy all these games, but here's the beautiful part: Birthday + Christmas = the greatest gift of all: Checks from my many, many relatives.

Teh SillyCircus Day 13- "It's either money for games or money for college, now what's it going to be?"
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