Nick Postagulous
Friday, November 05, 2004
Almost Gamed Out
Tragic as it may seem, when I have Ratchet & Clank III and The Urbz shipping within the next week, I might be getting gamed out. Sometimes, and this usually happens late January and might continue for months, I’ll play too much playstation and I’ll just need a break from it.
I’ve really enjoyed Front Mission 3. I rank it in the top 10 (or 20 just to be safe) Playstation games, well, as far as pleasing me is concerned. I think I’m about halfway through half of it. I say “halfway through half” because such a small thing as going to a construction site or not early on in the game makes you take a totally different path through the giant mech espionage war.
They’re Always After Me Lucky Charms
I got the Bradygames 272 page GTA:SA strategy guide yesterday. When I first got it, I thought, “Wow, this is really comprehensive. This may be the first GTA that I get 100% on.” But then, after playing for about two hours and accomplishing very little, maybe not.
So far I’m still in Los Santos, the Las Angeles of the game. It’s huge. It’s only one of four or five cities in the game. As an example, using the guide I saw that there was a “country rifle” located in the middle of the boonies. It turns out is was actually in the backyard of a very nice house overlooking the Valley. Great view. But a total pain to get there from my sad little barrio. Round trip was about 30 minutes drive. And yes, I had to take interstates. This game is Huge.
The guide shows you where all the clothing stores are and what clothes they sell. Included is how each item of clothing raises your respect and sex appeal stat. I can’t wait for Victim to be accessible so I can get a biker jacket. However cool I might want to dress my little gangta, since I’m in the Grove Street gang, and our color is green, I get the most respect if I wear green.
Currently, my guy wears just green shoes and green track pants. Since I’ve worked him out so he looks like Mr. Universe, but covered with badly done gang tattoos, he eschews shirts. He also keeps his head shaved and has a goatee, as all good Americans should.
But with all the green, to get my respect up, I think I’ll wear the green shoes, green track pants, I’ll get a green shirt, and the green beanie. Sure, I’ll look the fool, but my stats will be better.
And who am I to judge looking the fool? My favorite getup for him to wear sometimes includes his “Helmut”, one of those German spike topped helmets, and his Green Hornet mask.
Then Make Like Johnny Depp
I have to hand it to Johnny Depp, in a way, when he’s sick of the US, he doesn’t whine and bitch like, oh, nearly everyone I usually read their blog, he just moves to France. I wrote a long unposted rant about how I’m sick of many of the bloggers that I normally read decrying the democratic process because they lost. Hey, I won. It was me, a Bush voter, that did it to you. Cry if you will, but please refrain from calling me a Nazi or saying “Oh, no. Four more years of nightmare.” Hell, visit Mexico or China, you jingoistic middle-class socialist brat. And I don’t mean Cozumel.
If we had it my way, we’d be in President Forbes’s second term with a flat tax with no loopholes for the rich, a soaring economy, and yeah, Forbes might have been weak on terrorism. But not as weak as we were, oh, in 1993 when Osama attacked the WTC for the first time and the Syrians offered him to us and we didn’t take him.
Nod
We taught Nina to nod when she wants to say yes. She used to shake her head at everything. We ate at Zaxby’s with my parents last night and Nina fell asleep on the way there. Here are some pictures.
The little fish vibrates around in circles. Mom and Dad brought it back from their cruise.
Nina choking me before bedtime. Look at that toe. So cute.
