Gamereaper

Heya everybody, after a long week of delay, I finally have time to update my blog. So what goes on? A LOT of gaming, and I mean alot, in fact, I will be talking mainly about that. You have been warned, this will be a long blog. So let's begin:

First off, using my Rewards program with Gamestop, I managed to rack up enough points to get 1600 Microsoft Points for free! And with those points, I picked up Hearthfire for Skyrim and picked up the XBLA game, Quantum Conundrum. I'll start my nerd-rant at Hearthfire, for 400 points, it's not a bad pickup at all. They let you customize alot of stuff in the houses. You can have a house, extend off of that and get a Main Hall, and then three individual unique wings from there. You can also add in a grain wheel, armor bench, smelter, and other miscellaneous things of use around your house. There's also the addition of the unique clay bars that are needed for some things in the house. All in all, I find it a great way to make the house feel like your own, and on top of that, your smithing level will head way up there in no time.

As for Quantum Conundrum, it being a sort of spiritual successor to Portal, is right up my alley. Puzzles abound in this unique dimension-warping game. The idea is creatively used and the some of the puzzles are real head-scratchers. This game was very well designed and some of the humor was even reminiscent of Portal, one of the main characters being VERY much like Cave Johnson. If you like puzzle games, this one's well worth the money. I say, for 1600 MSP, I was highly satisfied with the combonation of QC and Hearthfire, a perfect 1600 points.

Oh and to continue my gaming rant (yes there's more!), I went to the Borderlands 2 Midnight Release with my buddy Cody. It was outright freezing out that night compared to the warm morning, but it was totally worth the wait. You'll meet some interesting people going to those things. I even found one of my old friends there that I rarely talk to.

Also, speaking of Gamestop, recently picked up the Special Edition of Blazblue: Calamity Trigger, for just $12.00! Honestly, for all the stuff I got out of it, I seriously considered this to be one of the best PS3 buys I've ever come across. It's a 2D fighting game with some seriously unique characters. The fighting styles all have some unique twist to them, for example, Hakumen fights using his own personal army of bugs, Rachel Alucard doesn't even fight for herself at all but rather uses her shapeshifting umbrella, and V-13 is a freakin' fighting computer virus with a mastery over altering space, time, and physics. The game is good fun if you want to put down Soulcaliber for a while. I thought, for 12 bucks, that's a deal.

We're nearing the end of my rant on games now. I recently obtained the Xbox Live Dashboard Beta. It's...strange to say the least, but I kinda like it. If you want to try something new, that's the way to do it. My only real complaint is when I saw the new Xbox Music app. At first, looking through it, I was kinda impressed by the large selection they had, they even had one of my favorite DJs on there. My complaint spawned when I saw that they were charging over $100.00 for a year membership on there. Seriously...that's twice than what you'd pay just to be a gold member!! I'm not paying that kind of money to listen to music that I can easily rip off Youtube for free. Though I seriously don't like doing this kind of thing, I like my music and I can't buy off the internet really, so I'm kinda screwed as far as legally purchasing the music. Last time I used iTunes, it basically stole $30.00 from me...

Well, now I will talk about something NON game related. Actually it's a kind of a problem I'm facing right now. Recently I made a new friend at my school, one that's a fellow otaku like me. She's talked to me for about a week now and she doesn't have many friends, so I try to hang out with her when I can, text her occasionally. The problem lies in her mannerisms.

She's said herself that the reason she doesn't have many friends is because she's rude to everyone, and at first, I didn't really believe her, but she QUICKLY proved me wrong. She keeps stealing my drinks and food and even snatched the manga I was reading from me. Then, one morning, she stole my phone from me and used it to listen to music off of it. Then she handed it back and said my music sucks. She called my girlfriend ugly, wants me to date her (which I probably wont, considering that for one: I have a girlfriend, for two: This new friend already has a freakin' child even though she's just a sophomore, and for three, she is indeed rude as can be).

I stopped texting her as much, but then she sent me a few texts saying she was worried that I was mad at her. She thought that I didn't like her at all cause she was being terrible to me, and then after not texting her for a while, I kinda felt like the jerk for being whiney about her mannerisms. I seriously have no clue how to approach this, she's either playing me as a fool or she just has a personality quirk that not many people can look past. If I applied myself, I think I'd be able to look past it, but still, DAMN she's got herself a bad frame of mind. I dunno, she's out of school right now cause she's sick, so that's giving me time to think about what to do...

Anyways, that marks the end of this seriously long blog, hope I didn't bore too many people to sleep. I'll catch ya'll in the next update.