Plugging my way through the Downloadable Content for Fallout: New Vegas and that's been taking up 100% of my time with games so far, that and sifting through the relatively healthy modding scene for the game.

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Finished the first DLC which was Dead Money and didn't really get much out of it. Kinda interesting but really starts slowly with you trekking through the classic 3 stage collect dudes by killing dudes on the way to dudes game thing. Get those 3 then take them back to a central spot, then do the same thing but taking them out to do something then coming back each time then a scene change into the central attraction (a casino) where you track down the 3 once again one at a time to do things for/with them and end their parts in the story then you meet the dude that was talking to you the whole time and kill him (or not). I guess I got a bunch of new items like these gold bars that are massively heavy and worth a whole bunch... I don't really need money though but I took them anyways cause this is a video game and I MUST COLLECT EVERYTHING!

The only way to get through this stuff is to take ones time and just peruse through instead of trying to 'beat' it... FOR INSTANCE:

Did you know if you kill 1 of 4 killable NPCs in the Honest Hearts DLC you are instantly locked out from it's content? I sure as fuck didn't and not 2 minutes(less even?) I killed a dude that was standing on a dude that was killing me and was a mile away and apparently he was one of those dudes so it failed all the quests with him and gave me an alternate quest which I thought was weird. This alternate quest is called Chaos in the... park? zion? whatever it doesn't matter it's name it has you run from where you are in the area to the very end and retrieve just one item while ALL of the worlds NPCs are marked hostile (cause everyone has cell phones and heart monitors and were watching this guys hearts beat disappear as I killing him? video games you guys... they are really dumb some... all the time). So anyway you get to the item finally and then it tells you to leave, it was a map I got that apparently was supposed to allow me to leave and was the goal from the start? I don't understand this game cause I had a map when I entered, it's my PIP-BOY, and it was the reason I could even get to this other map in the first place. I guess it's a map from this area to home... like for whatever reason I had the map of my start point and my end point, but not the route I took there?

Stop it, don't think about video games they aren't worth it.

Making my way back the DLC ends and throws up some cards for what these people I'd been killing did after I apparently saved them... why the heck is this in the game? It should have failed me at the start when I killed that guy. Sure it showed some quest failures and maybe that's what it thought I'd queue in on but there's no indication that these failed quests lead to 9(% of the content of the DLC, especially when the first 1 or 2 quests you get are auto failed because you right away run into a scripted ambush that gets your npc companions killed without an option to save them, so seeing a few other quests fail right after that didn't set any alarms off... the gamebryo/bethesda games always have quests you prolly can't complete in one playthrough like that because they often have counterpart quests. Obviously I went on the websites inside my computer box and found out all the facts about this mess and re-loaded a save before I started the DLC so I could actually play it properly this time. Looks like the guy I killed was supposed to come up on this sniper guy after the first bridge and kill him? Even though the player is very likely shooting at the sniper guy and, oh I don't know... could possibly hit the important guy and create this really poor experience for themselves... that could happen, I figure. <emoticon face of relevant mood>

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I guess there are plenty of decent mods out there already but often times I wish even half of the weirdos that create those other mods for these Bethesda games would put that effort into making the actual video game more enjoyable or neat, instead of finding ways to work animated sex or worse into the game for some weird reason... come on guys there are actual games made by companies that cater to that sort of funky desire to look at a 3d dude shove his balls in a loli, WHY do these Bethesda games attract the people that want to put a shitty version fo already clunky and shitty sex games into this also already buggy game?

I only get frustrated with this dumb issue cause there are in fact really unique and wonderful creations from very talented folk and I know some of those weirdos are also talented too and if they would just put that work into something not creepy the modding community would be great instead of half cool and half super fucked up.

I mean...

Someone put work into that... and it's one of the more popular mods recently. To me putting these kinda mods in a game like this (or frankly sex games in general) is like taking the paper in-line from a porn dvd and making sexy origami out of it and then sharing that with the world, and possibly having your sexy origami fuck your neighbors sexy origami. What I am SAYING is your computer gives you access to proper sexy time material, why does sexy time have to enter into everything and then into everything's everything else.

I think that's all I have to say about games right now.