Friday, July 22, 2005

Oh-em-eff-jee.

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Mimmi- Let the record state that I <3 oatmeal cookies, but not chocolate chip.

Shin- It's not the cookie. It's the principle behind the cookie.

Solo- Yeah, it's not as bad when you have in-ear phones withou the plastic cramping your style.. Though I must say, I find it hard to sleep unless I'm on my side, and it's not nice to have an earbud get shoved even farther into your skull than necessary, especially when you're trying to sleep.

satan665- I have 1.1 books to read.. After that, if I actually read and don't goof off, I think I'm going to go on a Potter binge. Books five and six, back to back.

Mimmi- ..Shin, you bastard, look what you did. You went and angered my cookie supplier.

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I've been thinking about it a lot for about a week now, and I think that I might as well come out and say it now:

I want an Xbox 360. Badly. As the release date draws nearer, more and more screenshots and movies of games are released, and several games have caught my eye.. At least, as far as launch-or-close-to-it games go.

Then it has the hard drive, and all of those media options.. Not at all necessary, but it's nice to have. Since the hard drive comes with every console, developers are most likely going to put out downloadable content more, right? That was the case with Xbox this generation.. Since it came with the hard drive, developers didn't worry so much about making something that only a handful of people would get. Playstation 2's hard drive was hardly used.. To my knowledge. Knowing my recent track record with game information lately, I'm probably dishing out Bizarro-world info here.

But I guess the big one is the whole Live thing. I know a hell of a lot of people who have Live right now, and it would be nice to play games with them more often. Random get-togethers don't quench my thirst for multiplayer gaming.

But at the same time, I can't help but think I'm just caught up in all of the hype.. You know, getting an itchy trigger finger, making a decision I might regret later on.

I know I will be getting a PS3 eventually.. With games like Devil May Cry 4 and Metal Gear Solid 4 on the horizon, it's hard to imagine me not getting my grubby little hands on it. But if the prices are going to be as high as they say at launch, and with this otherwise unimpressive preliminary launch game lineup, I think I can hold off.

(But then comes the complications of harder to find games, like Atlus stuff.. When Shin Megami Tensei 4 or whatever comes out for PS3 and I am left Sony-less, I don't know what I'll do.)

..But all of this next-gen speculation is still a little early. There's still four months to decide whether I'll preorder one or not, and more information will be coming soon (They're supposed to be doing something on Monday, for example)..

It's so sad that this is what I spend my days thinking about.

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A couple of friends spent the night at my house.. Just left around noon. They did not get any sleep at all (spare half-hour naps once the sun had risen high in the sky), because they were too busy with The Sims 2, Katamari Damacy and Guild Wars to care about sleep.

I, however, have some goddamn common sense and at least took the time out of our busy schedule to get four hours of sleep.

We were going to hook up their Xboxes for the sake of Splinter Cell multiplayer, but that didn't happen since my dad was 100% sure that if we tried to move one TV into another room we would immediately drop it and cost him $450.

But they're gone now, and I'm enjoying some quiet time.

..Well, as quiet as blasting Glassjaw can be.
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