Saturday, May 29, 2004

Strange..
Isn't it weird that whenever I don't update very often, my popularity rating goes up?

Anyway, it turns out that my father didn't take this computer into "the shop" a few days back. You see, whenever he used the computer, the Explorer-shutting-down issue wouldn't pop up. The computer remained here, but where was I? Why, I was playing Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance. I sacrificed my precious online time to unintentionally make Raiden slip in bird poo over and over and over. And it was good.

Actually, I've been spending more time playing the VR Missions than doing the actual Sons of Liberty stuff, heh. The reason I play Metal Gear games is for the sneaking, and so as not to ruin the experience by playing some constant boss-after-boss killing spree, like in the last half of Twin Snakes, I ended up simply doing all of the Eliminate All and Stealth missions. It's good stuff, heh. I plan to buy the game eventually.

I also rented Rainbow Six 3, which, surprisingly, isn't too impressive in my opinion. Sure, I've only finished one mission, but still. If it doesn't grab me early on, I generally don't continue playing if I rented it. And there's no respawn in the multiplayer.. What's up with that? I watched my friend beat an entire mission on his half of the screen because he hid behind a box while I did all the shooting in a firefight.

People (*cough* AZURE *cough*) have been telling me that Raiden is a rather annoying character.. Well, he certainly isn't as cool as Snake, but he's at least tolerable. I'm glad that Snake is more important in the game than I had expected.. It wouldn't really seem like Metal Gear without the badass bandana.

And now, for some odd reason, my computer isn't being as stupid as it was before. It's starting up without me having to close RunOnce. That was rather worrying, actually. I'm glad that's over.

The "Which computer should I buy" project is due on Tuesday. Tomorrow and Monday will be filled with lots of typing outside of AIM.. Oh well. At least I have most of the research done, and it's not a miserably dull project. I'm going to enjoy flipping through consumer reports tomorrow, heh heh..

The only problem with that is that it gets me all obsessive compulsive with computers. For two straight weeks I talked about nothing but Alienware. Fun for me, yes, but not for those around me, who know nothing outside of HP and Dell.

I hope to get a customized Alienware Area 51 desktop computer with 1GB DDR RAM and 100GB Hard Drive.. But that's a rather obscure dream, if this computer is going to be nobody's but myself. With accessories and everything, the end total was around $2,500. That's quite a bit, eh?

Today I ended up going to the mall with friends.. I was the only non-Asian there, actually, and for quite a while I was the only guy there. We went to a wide variety of stores (well, it is the mall, after all), including many that I've never been in before, such as the Dickie's store, Sanrio Store, and the new Waldenbooks. It's technically not a new store; they just changed locations. I liked the original one more, though, because all of the manga wasn't crammed against a wall there, and you had room to actually sit down and read stuff. Not here, my friends. It took only two obsese thirty-year-old guys to take up all of the manga space today.

We also saw The Day After Tomorrow. It was.. Pretty good, I suppose. It didn't seem as cliche as people have been saying, though there were some scenes that were obviously leading to different scenes. The one person cut their leg, it was obvious they were going to almost-die by the end of the movie. They can't kill the love interest, after all.

And now I'm back here, at my computer, getting ready to go back to playing Substance. Good night.
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