This Blog Is Brought To You By The Letters "Bionic" and "Wolvie"
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WHAT A WEEK!!!
To start things off, I'm moving out of my apartment next week (the female roommate has become too much of a bitch to deal with), which is going to be a slight hassle. Why? Well, my birthday is next Friday, and while I never really do anything for my birthday besides sit around and feel old, this year is a bit different. My only days off from work are Wednesdays and Thursdays, but next Thursday...as a small b-day present to myself...I'm heading to Dallas to see the live amazingness of Gojira and The Chariot. I've seen The Chariot before, but I'm really only going for Gojira. \,,,/ Nonetheless, this means that I've got Wednesday to move out of the apartment...which is cutting things a bit thin and close to the collar. Oh well.
On the gaming side of life, I played through Bionic Commando and X-Men Origins Wolverine over the last four days or so. Well, Bionic Commando took the four days of time. My first playthrough was on Commando mode, the hardest setting, and it was definitely tough as nails. My game save tells me I clocked in about 12 hours play time on it, which I'm satisfied with. Some people have complained about the length of the game (lower difficulties have clocked in at about 6-8 hours supposedly). Honestly, for what the game has to offer...which is basically swinging and shooting...I think BC would've ended up feeling too repetitive and thin if the game were any longer. X-Men Origins Wolverine, on the other hand, took no time to blaze through...and while the game definitely has faults, it's just tough to not enjoy the Hell out of ripping doods apart. Granted, the whole time I was playing, all I could think about was "this isn't like Wolverine at all"...and everything that isn't the combat sucks more chode than a starving $2.00 hooker...but then I stopped giving a shit when I realized that this game might just offer more brutality than even God of War. Both of the games were damn well a satisfying experience for me.
I should be S-ranking Bionic Commando sometimes in the next week or two, and I'm hoping to at least get through the Hard mode and get a vast majority of the achievements on X-Men Origins Wolverine in the same amount of time. Right now, I'm just waiting for Blockbuster to get copies of UFC 2009 Undisputed in. = D
AND SPEAKING OF BIONIC COMMANDO:
I'm already rockin' my Bionic Commando shirt (the logo on the front is complimented by the actual logo with the words "Bionic Commando" on the back), and I just signed up for the lock-in myself. Mainly, I just want more time to achievement whore on the Xbox I frequently play on. However, we've got 10 copies of the game in the store right now, and I'm hoping we'll have some crazy ass multiplayer matches tonight. I'll also more than likely start up on X-Men Origins Wolverine on Hard difficulty for some more achievement whoring action. Does anyone know if your character progress from a previous playthrough carries over or not? There were a lot of things I was in the process of finishing for achievements, but for some reason...I never actually ran across 2,000 enemies in one playthrough!!! Weird...
Next month, I'll be taking my first REAL vacation in my life. I'll be going to Perrysville, Ohio for a family reunion (my dad's side of the family), and I'm taking a week off to soak it all in. To boot, we recently found out that my grandmother has breast cancer and will be losing her breast in the next week or so. My feelings about that whole thing are a mixed bag. Personally, for as spiteful of a person and as little of a shit as she gave about her grandchildren over the years, I think she deserves this Fate. However, I feel bad for my dad throughout all this...because despite how bad both his mom and dad have treated him over all the years...it's still his mother, and I know that bond. However, the bright side of things is that I'll get to meet my two newest cousins, one of which is already born (little Sean, he's fucking adorable!!!), and the other is on the way (but he's gone breech, so right now, we're all hoping that things turn out okay for my cousin Sarah). I'll also get to revisit the place that I spent about 4 years of my childhood, and it's the first time in 20 years I've been back there. There's a lot that could go wrong and piss me off, but it's also out in the middle of nowhere...which I hear is an EXCELLENT kind of place for a vacation.
Anyways, that'll do it for this episode. Stay tuned next week, as we'll discuss the proper uses of different types of ground beef. Have YOU been using the wrong meat/fat ratios for your burgers? o.O The things you might NOT know could shock you...
(no, I'm not kidding...I WILL be educating you fools on ground beef next week...)
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