War....War never changes.

So Fallout 3 came out today and I've been waiting for it for...well, years, literally. I snatched up a PC version and have spent a few hours with it already.

Back into the Wasteland!

It is vastly different from the previous games (obviously, 10 years changes things) but so far I am enjoying it. Plenty of it feels like the games I know and love, including the "battle mode" which allows you to pause the action and select which parts of the enemy you want to aim at, then it all plays out in cinematic slow motion goodness.

You could always play it like a standard first person shooter...but that's boring and LAME.

Anyway. I'll probably be locked away playing this AND Fable 2 for some time. Outside of (perhaps) the WoW expansion, I am set until the new year for games, I think.

This is silence...only wordier.

well I just finished a massive cleanup of this shithole of a room. It looks moderately better. It feels better, at least.

I came across so much shit I never knew I had and some that I thought was lost, so it was kind of fun I guess.

This place gets dustier than a fucking tomb I swear to fuck. It's kind of gross when I think about it.

While cleaning I received some strange text messages from a number I don't recognize.

Here they are for the sake of weirdness.

I got 6 at once and they were all out of order and jumbled, but I pieced them together like the amateur detective I wish i was:

"ya. That is so true. you need to figure out if kyle is worth it. and also if you think about it if you date him now that would help you make up your mind about him in general. and if it doesnt work out it would be like just another experience and would teach you what not to do in the future. unless you discover that dating him was a total waste of your time but i doubt it. its your decision. he has already expressed to you how he feels. its now up to you. did you just change your phone number?

It is strange because it was like she was reading replies from someone else and I was getting her replies or something. I don't know how that works.

For the fun of it I eventually replied "I would totally date Kyle"

and got a "I think you just made your decision. lol" reply.

So Kyle, if you are out there, I hope I helped you get some sweet, sweet loving.

Keep it real.

EDIT: I just told her I want to make babies with kyle and received "haha. oh amandaline. haha"

MORE AS IT DEVELOPS.

New and old random thoughts. ILLUSTRATED.

I am having fun trying games that I've read were shitty. I am now playing Alone in the dark and guess what...I am enjoying it.

there are problems with it, like events where you basically cannot fuck up one bit, or you are forced to try it again...and again... like the driving bit where you dodge crumbling New York sky scrapers as you race to central park...but for ever thing that has annoyed me so far, there have been 3 other things that I've thought were awesome.

It's funny that this is pretty much the only "survival horror" game in a long time that deserves to actually be called that. You can use almost literally anything in the environment to aid your survival. Plastic bottles can be filled with explosive liquids (like gas after you puncture a gas tank of a car), then you can add rags to make Molotov cocktails, or attach double sided tape to make it stick to a target and so on.

It's brilliant and i am having fun so far. It's hard to say whether the positives will outweigh the negatives for the entire game, but so far there have been plenty of fucking awesome "scenes" so I am sticking with it for now.

I watched some of Batman Returns yesterday and was quickly disgusted with...how fucking awful it is.

I guess I MIGHT still consider it good if Batman Begins and the Dark Knight didn't exist...but I really don't think so. It's silly and stupid and cheesy (not in a good way) and just...not very good.

The only thing that holds up to the test of time is Michelle Pfeiffer...in the catwoman suit... and by that I mean it is still boner inspiring.

hmmm... what else.

Oh, right.

As I was telling Stephanie the other day I consider "Rua" by Clann Zú to be one of the best albums of all time.

Of course what that means is it is one of MY favourites ever. Like...ever.

I've known and thought that since the first day I listened to it, but I recently listened to it a few times over and the thought is now fresh in my mind again.

So everybody should buy it or download it and listen. Even if you don't like it, you will be at least 13.4% more awesome for having listened to it.

Well I have nothing else to say.

See you.

oh Barker, you sick fuck.

I recently signed up with one of those online game rental places so that I could save money on games in the long run and still remain a hermit.

So I am playing games that I originally passed on or didn't have time for and I just finished Clive Barker's Jericho.

Not only can I officially say i enjoyed it a great deal, but it is vastly underrated...or unappreciated, if you prefer.

You basically play as a group of people trained in occult warfare and set yourself out on a mission to save the planet from demons and bad people and all that shit.

The story is awesome, the characters are intriguing and the visuals are creepy and dark as fuck.

Exhibit A (yes, I did shoot him in the head. How could I not?)

You get to play as a guy who SPOILER ALERT...dies in the first 20 minutes of the game, but remains alive in spirit form which allows you top hop from teammate to teammate and try out their individual skills and abilities. Like a sniper who can use telekinesis to "steer" her bullets, or the dude who can astral project or the chick who cuts herself to cast blood magic and so on.

It is not perfect, but is a far cry from the crap a lot of people tried to tell me it was. I guess it got lost amongst the other first person shooters because it doesn't have any tough space marines or aliens in it.

Exhibit B

Anyway, God Bless Clive Barker for wanting to toss some of his genius into the gaming arena once again, now let's hope for a sequel that people actually play.

I can indeed.

I have been fighting with the urge to post something like this.

I don't really want to...but it's easy and I am bored.

Voting.

I am going to vote in this Canadian election on Tuesday and while I used to question why...the answer is simply because I CAN.

Which might sound like a load of malarky, but it isn't.

I am tired of people (this goes for apathetic Americans as well) complaining how they don't care for any candidates and that elections are a forgone conclusion. They use that as their reason as to why they don't vote.

Yet, engage them in some sort of political conversation and 95% of them do indeed have opinions either way.

I wonder, then, where the problem is.

I am old enough (cynical enough?) to know that the whole "you can make a difference" talk is horse shit. Of course it is.

No one person can really make a difference by voting, unless you are in a shitty Kevin Costner film.

But I feel drawn to do it anyway...again, Because I can.

In fact I could simply write "bollocks" on my voter card if I wanted to. Why? because I can.

I do subscribe to the notion that those who don't vote ought to shut the fuck up when the election is over. They all eventually complain about this policy or that or how they hate this guy and blah blah blah.

Anyway, Canadians need to man up and go vote. It's a good excuse to go do something...something like showing that robotic fuck Stephen Harper that you don't like his robot face or how his mood setting is always set to "smug fuck" mode.

Am I rite?

Well I had to throw that in...truth is voting for a smug robot is better than not voting.

PS. loves you. Just so you know.

The moon landing was a HOAX!!!!!

I don't really have much to say, but for some reason feel compelled to write something in this space.

In the Shadow of the Moon is an incredible documentary about the first men to orbit and land on the moon told in their own words, I recommend it to anybody who likes documentaries and movies in general because it is amazing.

Also awesome on a different scale is The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford.

You might remember it as that western that starred Brad Pitt and was shot in Alberta.

Or you might not remember it at all because it got a shitty release. I bought it randomly and was enthralled the entire 3 hours or whatever it lasted.

It's not really what you might expect. It is a western with very little "action" more of a character movie, but totally worth watching because it is amazingly shot and beautiful in its own way.

Seriously. Go rent it. Both of them.

In other news the other day iTunes decided to remove all the music in my library for some reason. Thankfully the files aren't actually gone. Just my stats and playlists.

Then I re-added them and the library file loaded in a bunch of doubles and tracks with the wrong file paths so I said fuck it and uninstalled it.

I only ever used it because I had an iPod, anyway. Now I do not and there is no reason to even use it. I always thought it was too bloated anyway.

So I downloaded winamp, which I have not used since like 1998 and it is still awesome and simple so I think I will stick with it.

I guess that is all for now.