One month later....
First off I will say sorry to those who were waiting for a follow up to the New Super Mario Bros game and for not updating in a month, things have been up, down and back around the past few weeks and it has meant some things I wanted to do didn't happen. Luckily though I finally got around to updating this after alot of boredom and spare time!
So what happened in this past month? Well to start with Vagusnet (Site I am currently working at), decided to shut it's doors (don't worry, read on) after the domain was expiring and most people weren't doing any posting. Since that happened though we are now NOT closing down (yes we aren't closing) but will be under new management in the form of someone who is a close friend to VN (even though I don't know him, I am sure we'll get along fine). It's a sigh of relief from my end, especially considering VN was a site I felt alot of my effort went into. Watch this space for more, we'll start posting as soon as a few details get sorted and host is moved! Ain't too sure of my position either but I am pledging my help to getting VN up and running again, sadly some people won't be contributing like Duncan as he is busy with a home study course, however they will be on the forums still! Vagusnet closes but stays open, well that gave some people heart attacks, now you can breathe again and wait for the next level.
Also I have been playing in the SI World Cup - we got off to a bad start last week with only 1 game being played (wasn't even a game that was meant to happen that week) but things were still good! As always I played for my lovely UK team vs those USA bullies and we ended up doing rather well despite losing both maps, I was a player of the match both maps but my skill wasnt enough to keep a victory, we also had a silly svar (server variable) on one map, which meant the game was almost all research in half the time. Still alley was a fairly decent game and I enjoyed both, looking forward to some more SICup action Today (if teams show).
On a more positive note, I managed to pick up a new mouse at last! Although I would have liked the G5, I went for the MX518 and I have to say it's alot better compared to the old wireless ball which sucked, also means I can actually hit targets now and my games have been much improved thanks to it. I seem to have lost all the problems I had with the wireless ball by getting a new mouse, which must have meant the mouse was broken or the drivers were corrupt. I'll be making good use of this mouse, especially with some newer games like Prey which I picked up a few weeks ago and HL2 Ep2, TF2, Portal bundle which is coming out later this year.
Prey is good while it lasts and it performs better than Quake IV and Doom 3 did on my PC so it's nice to actually get a game that feels optimised for my system. Played some Multiprey (multiplayer) as well and that might not have the same depth as other multiplayer games but it's seriously mindbending at times (especially when your opponent is on the ceiling above shooting the hell out of you). Still haven't finished Prey single player either, nearly at the end but other games took up my time and this has had to be put on hold for the time being, although I was playing more multi then single. New Super Mario Bros has also been put on hold, I am on the World 8 final castle but it's a pain in the ass to actually complete so I gave up on it for now (usually play in short bursts to keep entertained and calm about dying on fireballs :().
Reminds me, I still have a few other uncompleted games which I am just being lazy to finish, like The Movies: Stunts and Effects, Metroid Prime Hunters DS, Perfect Dark Zero (omg I still haven't finished it :() and Kameo: Elements of Power. I just need to find myself a time machine, play them all and go back in time and edit this to say I finished every game ever made, then I'll be a god at gaming :P (I know time travel is virtually impossible so I might have to rely on stopping time for a while, but then I would be stuck as well and no one would be able to undo it :/).
Moving onto a catergoy that will probably slate my entire career and get my ridiculed by virtually everyone in the SI/NS/VN community, I say to hell with it, my life, my choices and my movies. I managed to pick up a copy of The Best of She-Ra which included my absolute favourite film of that time being The Secret of the Sword (I have wanted this for a very long time, now it comes to DVD and I get extras and some closure on that part of my life now that I don't have to wait for it!). While I may or may not get laughed at for this, Secret of the Sword is/was for it's time a great kids movie and even though I have got to the age of 20, I still find a blast from the past entertaining. This isn't to say the movie has it's flaws which I previously didn't see being very young at the time, despite these however it still gave me a decent hour or two of memorable moments. Although I can't watch it in my PC DVD Rom thanks to it being a Region 1 DVD and I ain't changing any settings just to watch 1 film, when I can watch it on the Multi-Region DVD player downstairs without any fuss. First import as well, never in my life have I imported something and while it wasn't the next big console or piece of tech, it certainly made me happy knowing how fast I got it.
Seeing as our SICup is fast approaching, I need the toilet and time is running out, so I'll end this blog entry with hopes that I'll post something more exciting a bit later.
-Craig
So what happened in this past month? Well to start with Vagusnet (Site I am currently working at), decided to shut it's doors (don't worry, read on) after the domain was expiring and most people weren't doing any posting. Since that happened though we are now NOT closing down (yes we aren't closing) but will be under new management in the form of someone who is a close friend to VN (even though I don't know him, I am sure we'll get along fine). It's a sigh of relief from my end, especially considering VN was a site I felt alot of my effort went into. Watch this space for more, we'll start posting as soon as a few details get sorted and host is moved! Ain't too sure of my position either but I am pledging my help to getting VN up and running again, sadly some people won't be contributing like Duncan as he is busy with a home study course, however they will be on the forums still! Vagusnet closes but stays open, well that gave some people heart attacks, now you can breathe again and wait for the next level.
Also I have been playing in the SI World Cup - we got off to a bad start last week with only 1 game being played (wasn't even a game that was meant to happen that week) but things were still good! As always I played for my lovely UK team vs those USA bullies and we ended up doing rather well despite losing both maps, I was a player of the match both maps but my skill wasnt enough to keep a victory, we also had a silly svar (server variable) on one map, which meant the game was almost all research in half the time. Still alley was a fairly decent game and I enjoyed both, looking forward to some more SICup action Today (if teams show).
On a more positive note, I managed to pick up a new mouse at last! Although I would have liked the G5, I went for the MX518 and I have to say it's alot better compared to the old wireless ball which sucked, also means I can actually hit targets now and my games have been much improved thanks to it. I seem to have lost all the problems I had with the wireless ball by getting a new mouse, which must have meant the mouse was broken or the drivers were corrupt. I'll be making good use of this mouse, especially with some newer games like Prey which I picked up a few weeks ago and HL2 Ep2, TF2, Portal bundle which is coming out later this year.
Prey is good while it lasts and it performs better than Quake IV and Doom 3 did on my PC so it's nice to actually get a game that feels optimised for my system. Played some Multiprey (multiplayer) as well and that might not have the same depth as other multiplayer games but it's seriously mindbending at times (especially when your opponent is on the ceiling above shooting the hell out of you). Still haven't finished Prey single player either, nearly at the end but other games took up my time and this has had to be put on hold for the time being, although I was playing more multi then single. New Super Mario Bros has also been put on hold, I am on the World 8 final castle but it's a pain in the ass to actually complete so I gave up on it for now (usually play in short bursts to keep entertained and calm about dying on fireballs :().
Reminds me, I still have a few other uncompleted games which I am just being lazy to finish, like The Movies: Stunts and Effects, Metroid Prime Hunters DS, Perfect Dark Zero (omg I still haven't finished it :() and Kameo: Elements of Power. I just need to find myself a time machine, play them all and go back in time and edit this to say I finished every game ever made, then I'll be a god at gaming :P (I know time travel is virtually impossible so I might have to rely on stopping time for a while, but then I would be stuck as well and no one would be able to undo it :/).
Moving onto a catergoy that will probably slate my entire career and get my ridiculed by virtually everyone in the SI/NS/VN community, I say to hell with it, my life, my choices and my movies. I managed to pick up a copy of The Best of She-Ra which included my absolute favourite film of that time being The Secret of the Sword (I have wanted this for a very long time, now it comes to DVD and I get extras and some closure on that part of my life now that I don't have to wait for it!). While I may or may not get laughed at for this, Secret of the Sword is/was for it's time a great kids movie and even though I have got to the age of 20, I still find a blast from the past entertaining. This isn't to say the movie has it's flaws which I previously didn't see being very young at the time, despite these however it still gave me a decent hour or two of memorable moments. Although I can't watch it in my PC DVD Rom thanks to it being a Region 1 DVD and I ain't changing any settings just to watch 1 film, when I can watch it on the Multi-Region DVD player downstairs without any fuss. First import as well, never in my life have I imported something and while it wasn't the next big console or piece of tech, it certainly made me happy knowing how fast I got it.
Seeing as our SICup is fast approaching, I need the toilet and time is running out, so I'll end this blog entry with hopes that I'll post something more exciting a bit later.
-Craig
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