Cheaters

As some of you may know, I'm a pretty notorious cheater. Starcraft, i typed in the magic words, "power overwhelming" and "show me the money". On Diablo II, I used Jamella Editor. In Castlevania, I used the duping items cheat. Twisted Metal, I used the button combinition, hold down all shoulderbuttons, up, down, left, right, right, left, down, up. On Final Fantasy VII, I used the GameShark (kinda sucks now because i lost the little thing that pops into the memory card slot). So what am I getting at? I'm getting at online cheating. You won't catch me cheating while going against other players. You won't see me using map hack, or morph hacks, or map hacks, or stuff like that, online. The way that I look at it, I'm cheating myself when i cheat on single player. When I play online, I'm cheating other's of a good time. So to all the hackers out there for Counter Strike, Diablo, Starcraft, World of Warcraft, etc., stop it. Number one, you're consuming the time of the developers, so that they are working on patches for the game, instead of creating new and more fun games, and second, your cheating others of a good time. and third, when someone actually has skill, they are called hackers, when they actually aren't. That's my basic opinion on cheating. I actually did play through the storyline of Starcraft without using "power overwhelming"... just a couple of "whats mine is mine" and very very very few "show me the money"s. I think I died a few times. I don't remember. It was last summer. And my dog is trying to steal my stuffed animals. I really likes my tiger one. He knows that that one is forbidden, completely. He can't even put it in his mouth. Well my contacts are bugging me, so i'm gonna take them out and go to bed.

Wow

I decided on blogging. I really just needed to start doing something else. Today was spent working on a new website that I'm doing. Sadly I didn't get very much accomplished. I've basically spent about 3 hours trying to make a border for the website, and figure out how the artwork theme should be. So far I haven't gotten much. I want this site to be as perfect as i can make it. As advance as i can make it, without making it bad. So perfect that the navigation and graphics, and content flow so well. I realize simplicity can be the best thing for a website. I mean look at my site. It's simple but done well(at least in my opinion). But the site I'm designing now is to get me out of the rut of just having a banner on top, navigation to the left and main body in center. It seems all the sites i desgn end up like that. Mainly because it's almost the perfect design. The site I'm designing does use that layout, kinda, but not really. I'm "enhancing" it to the next level. And graphics is the key to it. So far my graphics haven't turned out that well. I have three fairly good borders and they would look good on the site... but the look isn't what I was looking for. Maybe I need to try a new color scheme. I don't know. I'm gonna post a link to a picture of the three different versions, and you can tell me what you think. Tell me whether I should change the color scheme (it's blue, gray, and black pretty much now) or if the banner or logo needs to change. I don't know. They look alright, but they don't really go well together. I need to think of something. Well here's version1, Version 2, version 3. In version three, I can't think of what to do with the left border, so i just left it for now. Well I'm gonna probably go play some animal crossing or something. I have to work tomorrow and Saturday, so that's kinda a bummer. Well have a nice weekend and probably week and maybe even 2 weeks.

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Sorry, i forgot something. With my DS, and Mario Cart, My friend code is 025833069253. I already added you, pete.

Cold-sweat and the such

So i've been feeling pretty crappy for the last couple of days. Sunday, during the day, I felt fine, then evening came, and I was shiverring like it was 0 degrees. So I turned on my space heater and slept, and then i was sweating like crazy but still shivering, and whenever I closed my eyes, I dreamed... but i wasn't sleeping, and i was aware that it wasn't real, and i opened by eyes, and i would be laying on my bed in my room, i close my eyes again and back to the "dream" of knowing that i'm awake. The dream, was just wierd. I don't understand it. Wierd. It included me, but wierd. Moving on to day two. Monday. Well after about 2-3 hours of sleep, I was still kinda cold, and now i had a sore throat, and my chest would hurt whenever i coughed. Raspy voice, also. I had to work that day, which i felt fine, except i had a raspy voice so it was kinda wierd helping people, and talking over the walkie. Day three, Tuesday. Nose was runnin' a little bit. Still hurt when cough. Raspy voice. Sore throat. Other symptums. Day four, Wed. Same old same old. Not cold. Wasn't cold on tues, either. Tired though. Moving on today. Well it's nice, because my throught doesn't hurt, although chest still hurts when i cough. My nose isn't stuffy or running. Tired though. I slept for about 12 hours last night, and i'm still tired. I don't want to work tonight. I hope I feel all better tomorrow, because we leave for At Any Cost tomorrow. Fun week end. well I'm gonna let you go back to your life. Bye.

When the world caves in

Yay! One of the first ones to blog on this new year. Anyways, I'm running on low, because I got three hours of sleep last night. Why, you ask? It's not like i wanted to get only three hours. I went to bed at 10:45... I feel asleep at about 3:45. What happened? Well couldn't sleep at all. I was laying there for a long time, then about 12:30 I'm like, I'm going to read. So I read two chapters in my book and felt I should go to bed. Still couldn't sleep. My mind still racing about. I was laying threr for a while, and then I'm like, still not tired, gonna watch some TV. Watched some family guy and futurama, then nothing. Then I'm laying there again, and I just started talking to God. After that I fell right asleep. Sadly I had to wake up at 6:45. Had to go to work. :P I had plenty of energy, until about 3:00 in the afternoon, when sleepiness hit me, and well, I wasn't aware of what I was doing anymore. I went home at 4:30, when I got off work... actually I stopped at Rock 30 and bought an XBox for a friend, but then I went home and slept. for about two hours, and then I had to eat, and then after I ate, friends showed up, because I was hosting a New Years Party. So now it's 1:25 and I have to run powerpoint for churchypoo tomorrow. Apparently we are only having one service tomorrow, at 9:30. Running Powerpoint has it's perks for a day like when we have only one service. I can show up at 9:25 and still get third row, center. And now for what's on Roy's mind.

Lots of things are on Roy's mind. So much that I think I could write a novel. It mainly involves how idiotic American's can be. But I'm not gonna rant about that. I will tell you a story about how my brother was working in electronics, and a person hung up on him while talking to him on the phone. He wanted a raincheck. For those of you who don't know, rainchecks are slips of paper, that have a barcode, that gives you the sale price of an item that we ran out of, while it was on sale, at a later date when we have the item again. The person wanted a raincheck... over the phone. Sorry, but technology is advance, but not so advance that we can send slips of paper through the phone, without a fax machine. Another Guest (customer) called on of my coworders retarded, and wanted to see the manager. I have lots of stupid stories from work, but I will save those for another time.

I've really like the Castlevania games. I've really stumbled into them, recently. After I bought Curse of Darkness, I had to play all of the Castlevania games... in chronological order. So I'm starting with Lament of Innocence, which I am almost finished with, and ending with Dawn of Sorrow, which I will buy for my DS soon. Yes I bought a DS. I have no games for it right now, but I have one. I also bought a PSP. Why do you ask? I ask myself the same question, now. I actually bought the PSP awhile back, and I bought Twisted Metal and Burnout. I beat Twisted Metal, which was a fun game. I love the series. Don't really like TM Black... too gruesome for me. Burnout is fun, except the have too many Crash events. 100 Crash events, and only 75 of the other events... that are way more fun. I mean, for Crash, I have to wait about 60 seconds for the loading to finish, and then I crash... which takes about 30 seconds. And then I have to wait 60 more seconds after the event, and then the process repeats. So it gets annoying. And Crash gets way to repetitious (beyound me if that is spelt correctly... maybe it's not a word). Oh well. Maybe I'll turn around and sell my PSP. We'll see what will happen. Maybe they'll come out with a game that I will want for the PSP. Whatevs. There's a lot of games that I want for the DS. I just need to buy them. Anyways, I better wonder off to bed. Happy New Year, peeps.

bntea

I don't know. I just put that for no reason. Well I'm blogging and you know what that means? It probably means I have homework that I am putting off. Of course. I have a presentation that I need to finish for tomorrow, and so far I have most of the information that I need, most of my slide show presentation, and I have the time requirement thus far (barely)... just two problems: One, I have MOST of it done... not all. Two, I have to do it with a partner, and well, we haven't practiced it together and since it seems I did most of the work (which is one reason I hate partner presentations) he doesn't know what he is going to say, and the only way he will know is if he shows up at the school media center tomorrow. He was suppose to meet me there today, but he was a no show. Anyways, why I hate group/partner projects. Number one, I like to do a good job, and know what's going on so I tend to take charge and do most of it. Number two, I'm busy and can't ever meet the group/partner, out of class because Target is ticking me off and scheduling me every freaking day of the week that I am available to work which is every day except Wed. and Sun. Teacher rarely gives you enough time to do it in class. I mean it's research project, which means we spent the only two days researching and getting all our information right, and even we didn't get it all done, and then we have to magically find time out of freaking class. You know what? If they would've given me a month in advance about this, I could have asked for time off for this week, so that I could get together with my partner and work on it. Oh yeah, and tonight was a bad night. I signed up to go see Narnia with my church, which was an alright movie, but more on that later, and well I had to eat, so pretty much no time to get together with my partner. Probably part my fault for saying i'll do most of the work, but I like getting a good grade. And that's why I hate partners. Your grade depends on someone else also.

I don't know why I even care. It's a freaking number and and letter. Not even a word, it's just a letter. the grade I'm talking about now. But enough on the problems of society and crap. I have a project to finish, and hopefully I can find my partner and make sure he goes to the freaking media center (why not just call it a library? Whatever.). If that doesn't work, I'm gonna freaking just give up and stay in my head where it's nice.

Miss Nova

So Starcraft Ghost got some attention... again. SC Ghost has been in production for a long time. Just to give you a little update: SC Ghost was under the production of Blizzard and Nihilistic, at the start in 2002 or 2003 (I can't remember when they first announced it... it was a long time ago). Blizzard let go of Nihilistic in the middle of production, and hired Swinging Apes to work on the project. On the way they scrapped 90% of the code involved and most of the story line. This is about 2004. They bought Swinging Apes, so they became part of Blizzard. Swinging Apes added several things: graphics, new look for Nova (the main character), multiplayer, new playable characters, and the like. Right now, they've announced that you can play as protoss and zerg in multiplayer. So I don't know. Exciting, of course. But this is still gonna be on this generation of video game systems (XBox, PS2, Gamecube). Now that's a good idea, mainly because they have it all planned out for these systems already, and to start over and make it for the new systems would be pointless because they don't know all they can do with the new systems. But this might not be good for Blizzard mainly because it's gonna be close or after the new systems are released, and Ghost will slip under the radar and people may not buy it. Maybe. That's just my theory. I don't mind having it made on this generation of systems, but Blizzard might lose money because of it. Just to let you know, no release date is set for Ghost yet. Sometime next year is all we have to go by. That is all. Unless you want to here a story.

I was playing Shadow the Hedgehog, and I got made and was gonna punch my bed, but the remote for the TV was under my fist, so I punched that instead and it was bleeding pretty bad. The fist, not the remote. The remote is fine, it only suffered from loosing-battery-cover-and-batteries injuries. I think my hand is still bleeding though. Oh well.

The Video Games

I decided that this generation of video game consoles(PS2, Gamecube, XBox) sucked up the place. I have my reasons. The Gamecube, didn't have the software developers that you would expect, so they didn't that many great games. PS2 took a dive with it improving the PS2 so many times that the old school PS2 disks don't play in the slim PS2. The XBox... well all it has is halo and ninja gaiden, and a great firstperson shooter controler. Fighting games suck to play with it. Racing games aren't much of an improvement. In general, it seems I'm seeing the same thing over and over again. It usually takes shape in a first person shooter. It seems that standards are set, and developers get to that standard, and don't push beyound that. For example, Burnout series comes out with Burnout 3. What do other game developers for racing games do? They make that standard of putting crashing in their racing games. Now it seems that new games, such as LA Rush, aren't doing anything new. For those of you who play sports games, is Maddan improving or is 06 very very similar to 05? I don't know. I haven't played any sport games for many years now. The last one I played was NHL Blitz 2002. Which was fun.

Don't get my wrong with any of this. There are some fun and great games out there, but is there anything really new? We had first person shooters back on the N64, we had hack and slashes for many decades, we had RPGs, we had racing games. Is there anything that's gonna be new? Graphics are gonna get better. Really, I think we milked everything dry. The only thing that's gonna change with the XBox 360 and the PS3 are the graphics and the number of people you can have on the screen at one time without the framerate slowing down. Which are alright, but nothing new. But what's this other console. There's a third. the Nintendo Revolution. It has a pretty cool controler concept. If you haven't heard about the controler, just search it on ther internet. You'll find it. But seriously, this thing has gyrotechnology, it is like a remote, so that could be fun for first person shooters, with being able to shoot at the screen, like a guncon. It also comes with an attachment for the controler that has a joystick on it, so that also adds to the FPS movement. Sword fighting will be intersting with gyrotechnology (for those of you who don't know, that is that it can sense the movement of the controler). Fishing... not looking forward to that, but a good idea. I wonder about racing games. We'll see what the software developers have in mind. I'd keep your eye on the Revolution. I think it's gonna be the hit, just because people are gonna go, "The 360 is just like an XBox, except with better graphics... this sucks." Or "the PS3... this sucks totally because it has a boomerang controler, and the game get's registered to the system, so it can't be played on any other system except on the system it's registered to." I don't know about the PS3 part. It's just a rumour. But if it is true, it's gonna suck.

So I'm not gonna be rushing to target or walmart or bestbuy to buy a 360, or a ps3 for that matter. I'll probably buy one when it drops in price, but not right away. I'll probably pay full price for the Revolution, just because it will be affordable. Nintendo has said that. 400 bucks is just too much for the same thing, except with better graphics(i'm talking about the 360). I'm gonna go now.

Taste the Rainbow

So basically I'm sitting here play Black and White, when all of a sudden I'm like "I want something to drink." So I wonder around my house and go, "well, I have no pop, no juice, and I want somethign sweet." So I'm like "Maybe I should go to the store and buy a pop." So I didn't. I go back to playing Black and White, and then I'm like, "I really need a pop" so I finally go, "You know, I kinda need gas and gas is at a low of $2.29, so why not go get gas and get a pop?" So I do that. I get to the gas station and start filling and then I'm like "It's been sitting at $2.29 for the last week... I hope it didn't go up." So I look and I see that it's $2.24. I smile, and was happy. So I go in and buy a pop and pay for the pop and gas, and drove back home and sat here awhile and wondered what I should do. So I decided on updating my blog and that is what I am doing right now.

So basically I have to work at 5 today. I don't look forward to it because I will probably have to work in softlines, which is clothing for the people not up to date with store lingo. I suck in softlines. Last time i was in softlines I didn't even get to finish cause the Manager on Duty was like "You're a minor, you need to go home." and I didn't complain, but I felt bad for the other people because I had a lot left to do, and now other people had to finish it. Now in hardlines, anything else in the store, I roxor your boxors off. But no, they put me in softlines for whatever reason. I do not look forward to this night. Hopefully, by some chance, I will be in hardlines, or if I am in soflines, they will put me in Mens and Shoes. Because in Mens, very few people wonder over, and shoes is a small area that can get annoying, but atleast it's not very big. So that's my rant on working tonight.

On a happier note, Relient K's EP is apparently out. That's good news. I wonder if Target has it. Probably not. Oh well. I'll just wonder on over to the Rainbow Shop and pick myself up a copy. I also got my PS2 back a couple of days ago. I haven't played it, except i played Burnout 3 a little bit and played Darkwatch a little bit until I realized that Darkwatch was hard and annoying at some points. PS2 controler doesn't help with 1st person shooters. The layout seems nice, but somehow the PS2 controler's analog sticks are a little too touchy. It's hard to aim, in other words. The Revolution's Controler will be nice. Can't wait. But that's next year, so yeah.

I also watched the movie "Donnie Darko." That's an interesting movie. I'd recommend it. You need to watch that movie a few times to get it. And then do some reading about it. Then go to the official website, www.donniedarko.com. And then you might be able to fully understand it. Just kidding. You don't need to do all that. You just need to watch it. It just leaves a lot of things that make you wonder about the movie. The writer made it so you would think about it and come to your own conclusions. Now go rent it. Now. Go. Now. Ok. I'm gonna shut up.
Byes.

The Moon is Out

So I bought the DVD "Office Space w/Flair" today. I haven't gotten around to watching the special features. I have seen the movie, and that movie made me laugh a lot. I also bought Dark Watch today. I need to settle down on me buying video games. For one, I loaned out my PS2 to a friend, so he could play God of War. So I can't play Darkwatch, cause it's for PS2. Well i got it for the PS2. Anyways, another reason I shouldn't have bought it, is because I have Devil May Cry 3 to play and Area 51 to play. I also need to beat God of War a couple more times. Yeah. Anyways, I gotta go to youth, so I guess I'll catch you peeps on the flip side, yo. I'm not really street. I just pretend i am. That's what you call a poser.