Roots
Okay, so this picture is not what it seems at first glance. While I did get a picture of him holding the controller perfect (complete coincidince) I didn’t get that AND the screen in the same shot. So this is some fancy Photochop scripting to make it work.
It was pretty fun. I was sitting there listening to the podcast music and decided to pull out the game from the mystery song. We were playing that for a while and then switched to Galaga. Andrea and I had fun challenging each other’s scores. I remember Mom could get perfect scores on the “Challenging Stages” in between the levels. We didn’t do that good! Hehe.
It was a night of good old school fun!
Crusin’ Podcast
Okay, other than the intro music, this Podcast has nothing to do with the Crusin’ series.
Topics include:
- Waking Up
- Busy Saturday
- Vanquishing
- Drivers in a hurry
- Podcast music
Again another mystery game music challenge at the end of the podcast. This one should be fairly easy.
02.20.12Weekend is Over
Well it was a good weekend all things considered. I had planned on not leaving the house at all, but that didn’t work out as I got called to do a computer sidejob. Seems a computer all on its own reset itself back to the factory default, wiping out everything. I’ve never heard of a system recovery being done automatically, but I guess with computers you never rule anything out. Tough I’m often more inclined to believe computers do what you tell them to, which may not always coneincide with what you want them to do.
I did re-affirm one of my long standing beliefs though. Never delete your e-mail. Ever. I dug up an e-mail from 20 some months ago that I had when I’d worked on this same computer before. And without that I’d have been on the phone with software vendors trying to get keys back. Because no one saves any documentation with their computer! Nay, that would be foolish.
At any rate, that was the only real hiccup on the weekend. Andrea, Luke and I just chilled here at the house mostly and played a lot of Guild Wars. We didn’t get everything vanquished that we had hoped, but we probably got 3/4 of the way in. Andrea’s been logged in for over two days now, and if mine hadn’t crashed mine would have too.
There were some casualties over the weekend though. My old reliable SOCOM headset finally bit the dust. That thing gave me a decade of reliable and quality service and was almost never used for the game SOCOM. I’ll be sad to see it go, but maybe I can use this as an excuse to get a new microphone.
So here’s some screens from the weekend of vanquishing. Be sure to click read more if you want to see them all!
TGIFFFA
Thank God It’s Finally Freakin’ Friday Again!
I’m really looking forward to the weekend. It’s the first weekend since probably November that I will have nothing to do. We aren’t going anywhere, and I don’t have to work (crosses fingers). So I’ve got big plans. Okay, maybe not BIG plans.
Need to do a few odd things around the house. We want to seal up the windows in the guest bedroom to keep bugs from crawling in this spring like they did last year. Probably should go a head and bug spray the house while I’m thinking about bugs. Honestly haven’t seen too many creepy crawlies since we moved in. But don’t want to give them any ideas.
One thing I’m really hoping to do is a Vanquish campaign in Guild Wars of Kryta, Northern Shiverpeaks and Old Ascalon. That will take a while, and there will be lots of AFK time as I’ll be bouncing back and forth between the game and hanging out with Luke. Andrea might even join in. It’s sure to net a lot of cash and hopefully some good items too. But that’s something that might take the whole weekend on and off. Plus I still want to get in some time with Zelda and Mario 3D Land.
I’m also working on another project on the side that I’m not quite ready to disclose yet. I like the way its starting, but I don’t know if I’ll have the follow through to complete it for one, and two how it will turn out when it’s done. So if you never hear about it again, know that it must not have turned out well! Haha.
I hope your weekend is fantastic. I’m hoping to Livestream a lot of the Guild Wars vanquishing this weekend, so check the Livestream tab from time to time and see what’s up.
02.11.12I’m taking it easy.
It’s weird. This past week hasn’t been too crazy, but sitting here this morning relaxing, it sure feels like it has. Honestly the weekend is going to be more crazy than my week, but I think I’m going to combat that by just going with the flow.
We are getting Luke to the photography studio (AKA JC Penny) to get some professional pictures taken. One of these days I’m going to save up and get me a nice DSLR camera and just take my own pictures. A gal I work with got one last year for Christmas, and it’s amazing the quality those things can produce in conditions that the little point and shoot can’t handle. But alas, it’s lower on the list of priorities. Of course I’ll be sharing the pictures of Luke once we get them. To get your complete fill of Lucas pictures, just follow Andrea on Facebook!
I wish I had time to play some Skyward Sword this weekend. That’s not going to be in the cards, but I will be keeping my 3DS handy and I hope to knock out Super Mario 3D land. I’m having to go back to some of the early levels and get star coins that I missed so I can progress into some of the later levels. Apparently there’s a toll on Princess saving plumbers in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 came out a week or two ago and that will probably be the next game I get after I beat Zelda and Mario. I’m not in a huge hurry because I still have a decent backlog of games to work on, plus all the old games that I always keep going back to. It’s not like I really need another new game right now. I have found that I really can only handle keeping up with one system it seems. I remember back in the college days when I had the Gamecube, PS2 and the Xbox, there was just not enough time, let alone enough money, to keep up with all the great games that come out. You just have to let some of them go. Hopefully XIII-2 doesn’t become one of those games.
Time to get this weekend rolling!
02.8.12Podcast for reals yo.
Heavy gaming talk in this podcast. Lots of stuff about Super Mario 3D Land, Guild Wars & Guild Wars 2, plus more Skyward Sword, but no spoilers!
Podcast music as always.
Vanquishing
I just can’t stay away from Guild Wars. I haven’t blogged much lately because I really haven’t had much interesting to say. Not that this is interesting either. But figured I’d post some screenshots from my vanquishing session from earlier tonight.
Setting out to kill every enemy in this frigid land.
Here's a fortress, but no one is home. Even the outposts are starting to be just as vacant in this game.
View of a homestead across the chasm.
Overlooking a beachside settlement.
Another small village. I just love the detail in this game. There was no need to put a village here, and most people won't even notice. But they did it anyway. It's the little things like this that make this game so immersive.
And vanquish complete! Took about an hour to kill around 200 enemies.
FRIDAY, hells yeah.
Finally getting around to blogging again. Work hasn’t been too bad, but I’ve had enough side job stuff to keep me busy at home. I’ve been doing better about getting up earlier in the morning, so that gives me a little time to piddle around and do stuff like this.
I’m excited to see Mom this weekend. Her and Duane are coming up to hang out. At first I thought I was going to be caught working all day Saturday, but now it looks like I’ll at least be getting Saturday afternoon/evening off. So good deal there. I don’t think we have a whole lot planned, but we’ll kick back and relax like we always do. I know Andrea is excited because they’re brining up a Futon for the basement! No more canvas lawn chairs. I’m sure when people see our setup and then see that we’re sitting on canvas lawn chairs they figure we have some priority issues, which might be true anyway. But when we moved into the bigger place and decided to have our living room upstairs and our TV and systems downstairs, we were suddenly short on furniture. They’re also bringing us a bed for the spare bedroom. So that just leaves one room that we’re just using for storage.
I washed the Toronado a day or two ago. Every time I do I think about how I want to get some things on it fixed up. But then I think again that I need to just keep driving it and have a “beater” as they say, that I can drive without care or worry, especially during the winter time. So I think I talked myself out of repainting it again and redoing the vinyl on the roof. The paint isn’t so bad, but I’d have to repaint it to fix the hail dents… and one thing leads to another, and another. But I do want to keep it reliable mechanically, and fairly respectible looking. So my goal is to get the exhaust fixed (hopefully this Sunday) and find something to fix my cracked bumper filler up front without shelling out the $150 for a whole set. I’m thinking I can take some thin gauge sheet metal and bend it into the shape I need. Finding a piece big enough is the challenge for that right now.
Played some more Skyward Sword last night. Still very awesome. The only part that I’m finding annoying is that you can pick up different items throught the game you use to upgrade your gear. Kind of like Final Fantasy or Guild Wars. Well every time you turn the game on, it acts like you’ve never seen these items before. I have 22 blobs of goo, and next time I go to play and find another, it’s going to stop the gameplay the first time I find one and explain to me what it is again, like I haven’t heard it before. So far that’s my ONLY gripe with the game.
Welp, better get ready for work. It’s FRIDAY! So I’m looking forward to a fairly straight forward day! Hope yours is as well!
01.23.12Half-Cast
I tried recording on my way to work this morning, but the battery died on me a couple minutes in. So I just got the drive home today.
Podcast Topics:
Luke’s First Word
Skylanders
Car Work
Podcast Music
Can you guess what game the last song is from? (Hint: Not Skylanders)
The Podcast Returns!
Well, I’m trying out a new recording method. I recorded this podcast during my daily commute. We’ll see how it goes.
Today’s topics:
Mario Kart 7
Mundane Ramblings
Podcast Music
Dubstep
SOPA
Animal Crossing 3DS
