I really shouldn't be proud about this but I can't help but feel a little giddy at meeting this imaginary and meaningless milestone.
Well, I guess I'll work my way to 100,000 now. (Yeah, right.)
It is curently the 21st of Ocotber, 00:20 AM (GMT). It is my sixteenth birthday.
While I don't see sixteen as much of a deal as many a people think it is, I do think that it's a great time to reflect on one's self and look towards the future.
The past sixteen years seem to have gone in an instant as it seems only yesterday that I was blowing out my first candle on my first birthday cake. (That's the first memory I can actually recall.) I'm currently in my final year at secondary/high school and will be moving on to do my A Levels at college in less than a year. I am very excited. College always seemed lightyears away and now that it's almost here, it feels very strange.
It may also be the fact that I almost felt like I'd not make it to college. You may or may not have seen my previous blog post from a few months back but I came to an encounter with death earlier this year. I was stabbed in the lower abdomen whilst I fought against being mugged. I was lucky as the knife didn't penetrate particularly deep into my body nor did it cause any major damage. I do now, however, have a small scar where the wound once was. This year has taught me more than any television show, movie, book or game that your life can almost disappear in an instant. It's not a fairy-tale, it's very real.
In terms of celebration, I won't be doing much. Like I said I don't see sixteen as that big of a deal. However, I do plan to spend the majority of the day playing Fallout: New Vegas which should be fun. (I mean, who doesn't like running around with the 'Bloody Mess' perk? Am'right?!)
I hope you all have as good as an October 21st as I plan to have.
Take care all.
- Hobo
I recently began to start making small wiki edits across a number of pages and I came across the Dungeon Keeper 2 page which was quite bare. So I decided to mark down information as I played through the game, which is one of my favourites of all time, and then plant them into one giant wiki submission in hope of completing the 'Tactial Nuke' & 'Big Fan' quest.
I had a lot of editing the page and recording details as well as playing the game but unforuantely I was 120 points short of the 'Big Fan' quest. I don't mind too much though. Knowing that I'm the top editor on the DK2 page is pretty sweet for me. Though I'm not quite finished as I'd like to add a number of images to make the page seem less like a wall of text.
Do any of you have a particular page that you're proud of editing?
So, with the first half of 2010 coming to a close I took a moment to reflect on some of my favourite games which have really made gaming worthwhile during these first sixth months of what could be a very succesful year.
Visited the site a few minutes to go to find that I had unlocked this:
This achievement is awarded to those who complete Batman: Arkham Asylum 100%. I feel pretty proud, as I only used a Riddler Guide to find 5 trophies. I did leave one thing unfinished though, the 'Party Pooper' achievement. I honestly don't mind going back to complete the game again just for that one achievement, it'll be a blast to go through it once more.
This blog post will be my 1000th post on Giant Bomb, so I thought I'd take the moment to reflect on the time I've spent here and put them in to a blog, it probably won't be much of a reflection since I'm actually quite tired... but oh well.
I heard of the site a while ago and watched it grow from the blog posts that Jeff put up in to the growing community it is now, I didn't join at launch as I thought the site needed time to boot itself up and get on it's feet. I stayed at GS for a few more months and watched the forums slowly decay day after day and decided that I'd had enough and I felt the need to find a community that wasn't filled with a huge amount of loller. So a little before the site had become a year old, I signed up for an account and here I am now. I had posted on other forums in the past, but this is probably the most active I've ever been on a forum. I've tried to pose some interesting questions, pass news that wasn't already known and generally post good topics. I'm not quite sure whether I've succeded in that regard, but you're the ones to judge that.
I can't really think of much else to say other than that, I'd like to thank you all for the time I've already had here, and hope that it may become even better in the time I spend here.
Keep on bombin'! :)
-FlamingHobo
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