So I've been skirting by on 5 hours of sleep each night since I've been staying up to play Halo 3 over X-Box Live with some of the guys at work.  We've just been doing Team Slayer and getting a feel for each other before we start branching out.

It's frustrating to find out that I'm just in the middle of the pack right now.  I'm more than a little ( Read more... )

X-Box Live gamertag: hotzp

I plan to be online frequently in the next couple of weeks.  Feel free to friend me so that I can shoot you in the face (I can also be convinced to play co-op).  Cheers!

Sometimes there's a tiny little voice that whispers to me, "Look at you with your khaki pants and matching socks and free Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance coverage!  You used to be different, you used to be somebody.  Now you're just another cog in The Machine.  I mean, sure, you seem to be doing okay on the surface, but at what price, ( Read more... )

I just beat Blue Dragon last night but I kind of made the ending anticlimactic by leveling the crap out of my party so that the last few bosses were total pushovers.  Blue Dragon suffers from the same problem as many Final Fantasy games: the game opens up a ton of challenging sidequests right before the final sequence of plot events, and if you ( Read more... )

I can't remember when I last stayed up until six or seven in the morning playing a console RPG, but it happened for the first time in a very long time today with Blue Dragon.  Of course, I'm paying for it at work today but it was worth it.  I'm not one-hundred percent sold on the Toriyama character designs, but the gameplay is solidly addictive and ( Read more... )

So, I finally broke down and bought an X-Box 360.  I'm glad I waited until they ironed out the kinks of the first generation models, because they definitely had a plethora of problems.  I grabbed it in anticipation of the soon-to-come releases of Blue Dragon and Eternal Sonata, and I'll also eventually want it for Halo 3 and Fallout 3.  I picked up ( Read more... )

So, we threw down at work the other day.  It was a hard core and OG (Original Geek) tussle.  There are terminals near the human resources area that are set up with typing programs to measure Words Per Minute.  I don't even remember who originally threw down the gauntlet, but all the geeky guys on my team agreed to the challenge.  We comandeered one ( Read more... )

For those of you who found the ending to Deathly Hallows too vague: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/

Penny Arcade has been blocked at work.

So I feel as if one of my friends is grooming me to be her next boyfriend.  She's currently dating someone else, but that relationship has been falling apart for the last few months.  In that time, she's turned to me for support, and I've gladly been there for her; however, I am also friends with her boyfriend and it makes me feel somewhat disloyal ( Read more... )