I love Metal Gear. I feel awful that I decided to get an Xbox 360 and not a PS3 (they’re £100 more expensive) because it means I can’t play MGS4.
I was using digg and someone posted this justin.tv stream. Some guy is doing a Metal Gear Solid marathon – playing all of them in one session. And that means I get to watch Metal Gear Solid 4 being played! Yay!
I wish I could donate, but I’ve no money.
Still another hour left, but I guess not much else will happen.
I guess my happiest thing today was McDonalds with Samantha (my youngest sister). We went to Asda, because I need to buy the stuff I mentioned yesterday. I saved thirty-something pence thanks to the VAT cut on a pair of jeans. I realised that that’s totally almost a chocolate bar and was kinda happy. Thanks, government.
On the other hand, Woolworths is closing down, leaving 27,000 people without a job… That upsets me.
I think I might work on KoA some more.
Oh, I think I might have fixed this blog’s database problem. Was stupidly easy. All I had to do was repair them, which was made easier when I realised that I could do that with PMA.
I suck at keeping to memes, apparently. In my defense I wasn’t really around last night to update.
So, on the 19th the best thing about that day was seeing people from high school. The best part wasn’t even seeing my proper friends for the first time in months. Random people – like Luke Taylor and stuff – just chatting about random stuff. People apologising for being dicks during high school. Awesome. That made me happy.
I’m not sure what my favorite part of today has been… Probably getting my xbox to connect with my laptop and watching random things. I still have a couple of House MD to catch up with, and it’s cool that I can watch them on an actual TV rather than my laptop. Even though it streams them from my laptop, I didn’t notice a proformance hit at all locally.
I’m going to bed now, but before I do I want to write up what I should be doing tomorrow:
I’m typing these up as revision, but to be honest I’m just resummising the presentations from Blackboard.
I can’t believe it was only 0130 before I had a brain melt and couldn’t do any more coursework. I’m gonna have to get up tomorrow, head to college, skip tutorial and do coursework. All. Fracking. Day. I’m not kidding. On pain of death Shamess, you will do it.
To be fair, I don’t have much to do for business. I need add a feature to my computing stuff though… That may take an hour or two.
Just think about it; after tomorrow, you’ll have nothing to worry about but exams.
Thing Thing 4 is Kongregate’s challenge game, which I need to do in order to get the Kongai card. I have all of them since I’ve been registered, and I refuse not to get this one just because the sodding game is crap.
When it was released it didn’t start out too well; it didn’t start at fraking all, actually. It just didn’t load. How Kongregate managed to pick a game to promote like this when it wasn’t even playable is beyond me.
Now it works, and I have to say that I quite prefer sitting at the page and refreshing it every few minutes in the hope that it’s a good game. Apparently though, it isn’t. It’s a sucky little platformer in which you have to run around shooting gimps using the god-damned-mouse. As a laptop user, I strongly dislike mouse orientated games since I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING MOUSE. What I do have though, is a tracer pad that I love and am fairly apt with. Not so apt when the freaking recoil of the gun you’re firing puts you so off target you virtually have to be at the bottom of the screen in order to fire straight.
I died.
After monotonously killing damn near thousands of these things in the same way – namely keep firing till you run out of bullets, then run into the pool of ammo that has accumulated. Rinse and repeat. – you go into the next area to do the same thing all over again.
Granted, I’ve only been able to get to the five level without wanting to claw my eyes out, but even the landscape is the same. The same background over and over again. Of there is one exception of when you have to kill gimps falling from the ceiling in a frate elevator, which reminded me off Metal Gear Solid, but that really was the only good point of the game. Not the playing, the thinking of Metal Gear Solid.