So, with Spore and Fable Pub Game out I've been spending a lot of time playing games with out really digging into them.

Spore lets you sit down for three or four hours if you want to making things from plants to spaceships to creatures of every kind and sort. Than you can use that in the game. But for a guy like me, I might spend a half hour on the colors alone. Getting everything 'right' is something that motivates me to keep tinkering at it until I think it's good enough to put in the game.

I saw some Big Daddy's that somebody made... Wow. I thought I was pretty good until I saw that. The one I saw was dead on perfect. I started playing as them immediately.

And as for Pub Games? Well, I grind out 100k every day on that. 10 minutes I can always spare, and that is about all it takes when you know the glitch. Come time I pick up Fable 2 I'll have something like 4 million gold waiting for me. And that threw me in a huge moral morass, which I don't need when I pick up a game. Do I take advantage of this loophole? The game will be less fun, I know that, but walking into Bowerstone castle and buying the thing outright as my very first action is a pretty funny idea.

And in the original Fable I figured a way around the mini game at the first bar with the cards. By telling myself what the top row was aloud, I always knew where 25% of the cards were I needed to match. Like I check the top row and it is King Jack Ten Queen, I say repeat those cards to myself mentally and check the second row. When I find a match I know exactly where it is. When ten shows up I know the third card in the top row is ten, because that's the order I'm repeating it in.

Bottom line? I earn cash until I'm bored earning cash. Plate Armor and Greatswords at level 1. That's beating the system, and glitches fall into that category of 'They should have fixed this before they made it public'.

So, I'm back after a week or two off.  Uh, so that's good news? Hope you didn't miss me, glorious internet. I considered never coming back at all, and make no mistake that'll happen one day, but as it turns out I still have some stuff I want to do here. I'm happy to see my Van Buren section doing well.

I put aside most of my gaming recently. Sometimes you just can't work the time into it, you know? But now I'm starting to get my free time back and I'm seeing I'm still pretty up there in the point standing. It was strange, I kind of hoped I'd be off the front page, but I'll admit I liked that  I was still up there after so long an absence. Points are complicated that way. Really, it's an addiction. Sometimes you have to say 'No points this month' just to keep that itchy 'Gotta crack 25k' mindset at bay.

Oh, and incidentally? I just cracked 25k on Xbox live. More importantly my percent completed is between 80-and 90%. Thank you Madden 09!

But around here points seem a lot harder to get now! Things that scored big aren't doing that anymore. Oh well.

I'll see about touching up a few things here and there. Maybe the Anime. After toally explaining Naruto's life story I thought 'Maybe I should have put in a spolier warning'. Has anybody done that yet? I hope so. Anyway. Later.

Haven't updated anything for a few days. That has a lot to do with me thinking 'Where do I win' mentality. Simply put, this site is really like owning a pet. Constant reward for constant effort. Or you use it as a resource, but a gaming site is basically a place to learn about the quality of games. I won't use it like that more than once a month, because not enough reviews are up yet from guys I trust to judge them well.

I have a few ideas on parts I can drop big updates on, but that'll take a few days to build myself up a buffer of time to crack open a thousand words on something or other. I've updating my pics a lot, which is good. Some are funnier than others, but I think all of them are worth looking at.

...And that's what's been on my mind about the site!

So I'm settling into a routine around here. Log in every other day when I get up (around 3 am) and add something to something, figure out what I'll add to next time, and log out. But I look at my points and Holy crap! It jumped wayyyyy up. I have no idea why. It makes me really tempted to actually check out the tutorials and maybe figure out how the point system works, but no! I refuse to read the instructions. This site is easy enough to use, so I'll use it.

In good/bad news I'm just barely on the top halfo fthe top page of point users. That's good, I have a lot of points right now compared to many, but bad because I don't want to get wrapped up in that. Points only foster this kind of competition you can't win. You can ge the most points with a lot of work. Maybe that's worth it for bragging rights. But You can keep the most points with constant work. I'm not up for that.

Incidently BG 2 has been fun. I'm still awaiting the cossoal meltdown of party members, but I see that coming with the snips and snaps they say during others diolgoue. Also Bioware was a better company than I suspected. They have a guy named Hendak as the best gladitator of BG 2 working as a slave in the back of this bar, and in Kotor a guy named Hendak Starkiller (I'm pretty sure that was his name) was also a big time gladiator currently retired. So, you know, basically what I'm saying is I know way to much about RPG's.

Going back into all these games makes me think of playing a game through again. Namely Balder's Gate 2. About once a month I fire up a game, and this time it'll be in a classic RPG with the most dysfunctional party I can imagine. 3 women, all of which are secretly in love with the PC, and Minsc and Edwin hate each other so much they eventually have to fight to the death. That party combination basicaly shoehorns the player into being a thief, but that's alright. I expect the interparty conflict to be worth playing it alone.

And points... I have no idea how they are awarded. I'll just admit that right here. But the Anime sections are mostly bare, which is good. I'll fill in a bio a day for awhile. I don't think I'll ever be as high in the point ranking as I was, but that's alright. A fourm post here, a edit there, and I'll consider the time here worthwhile.

Until I just happen to vanish entierly one day and never come back. That's also totally possible. But my vainshing act isn't today.