Nick Postagulous
Monday, February 07, 2005
A Day of Discoveries
Saturday morning, after I discovered that I had no coffee (not one of the discoveries I'm talking about though) and went out to Publix and bought some Starbucks Sumatran, yogurt, and crumbled feta cheese, I was a lil hurtin' dog needing some caffeine. And, see, I've acquired this pseudo-addiction to expensive energy drinks (Sobe NoFear or, preferably, Monster). So, I stopped at the Texaco and bought a Monster. But they also had Rip It Fuel, which has a 99 cent price point.
A little research shows that it's actually the people behind Shasta and Faygo pulling this off. It's still got a gram of taurine in it, but they're sweetening it with high fructose corn syrup. And having a price that's half of Monster, I think I'll end up buying it more.
And while the market might be flooded with 16 oz carbonated energy drinks, my convenience stores are not. It hard to find a Sobe NoFear, I still haven't seen Coca Cola's Full Throttle, and Jolt's new products are no where to be seen.
Discovery II
After Nina's nap, which Alison vacated the house to help her mom unpack from her June move (gasp), we all went to the Kid's Kingdom. I thought it was going to be some small thing. But it was huge. And free. I think this will be a regular thing for the kiddo.
Video Game Discovery (3)
After spending 67 hours playing Gladius, and getting 20 very cool gladiators, and having over a million dollars worth of stuff and 999,999 in liquid assets (I don't sell since the game never expected me to hit the million dollar mark I guess), I win the game. And I tell you, the last three hours of that was really amazing. They really should have had some of the Dark God show up earlier, or at least stuff like The Beast of the Air and crap. They were killer (but I killed them).
After I killed the Dark God, the game prompts you to save. I did. The credits start. I skip the credits. It dumps me at the title screen. I load my game. The credits start. Noooooooooo! Yes, I worked on these gladiators for freakin' ever and now they're gone gone gone.
I wonder if I actually watch through the stupid credits if I can get back to my game. It would be really tacky of Lucasarts to force a person to sit through the credits. Is it not enough that you got my money? Do I really have to be forced to watch the credits.
But, even so, great great game. (If you like turn based combat)
