Last night I went to the beach with a couple of friends to get drunk and take a midnight swim... naked, of course. That was the most fun I've had in a long time, it's just that I somehow got a hold of some weird beer/white wine mixture that's been kicking my brain's ass for the last 24 hours. Here's a public service announcement: Stick with one drink through the night, and don't go crazy with cocktails!

So I was snooping through Jeff Gerstmann's profile and found out that he's in a band, and at first I thought: "Hmm, must have been one of those pet projects everyone has, probably not worth looking into." And that was that, until last night when I checked out some of their stuff on Youtube, and holy mother of God, are these guys rockin'! I knew Jeff had a golden voice, but damn, I wasn't expecting anything of this caliber, and the other guy who's name escapes me isn't bad either. Just goes to show that there are still multi-talented people hidden all around the world, I suppose. 
  

I got my avatar from Chrono Cross, a game that I really love, but that isn't necessarily the best in the world, and I'm not all that attached to the character of Lynx himself, and yet I just can't see myself changing it. It's become fixed in my mind as the picture I use on Giantbomb, so even if I find some other great avatar material such as this, 

I've just reached 775 wiki points, which brought a great big stupid grin to my face as I recall way back when that illegal amount of money was first brought up. Every so often even random series of numbers can make someones day that much brighter. :)

It's hot outside, and inside too. Mosquitoes everywhere. There was an electrical surge and my computer fried, and my new Xbox 360 was delayed in the mail. Also, my favourite pizza place closed unexpectedly, apparently the owners couldn't afford to pay rent. 
 
At least I've got SMT: Strange Journey to keep me sane!

 I think that an excess of information can be detrimental to the enjoyment of many games. This gets us in two ways: 

1. Thanks to over-abundant media coverage,  we already know what the game's about, who the main character is, what kind of gameplay we'll experience way before the game is even released. Now I know that if trailers don't show the game off they won't be very successful, and if I just don't follow up on a game it'll end up being a surprise for me, but in our day and age information is hard to avoid.
2. In-game tutorials and waypoints becoming constant annoyances rather than helpful reminders. Take Alan Wake, for example; there's never a time in that game that you're truly lost in the woods. And as we all know Final Fantasy XIII takes it's tutorial practically through the whole story.

Forgot to post my status yesterday, I was at 20 days! Now I'll just have to wait another month to get that quest, it better be worth it...

I've got to say, for such a small place we had a really nice convention going on here in Forli, lot's of interesting stuff for sale, but the best part for me was the cosplaying. I didn't get any pictures of the people there, unfortunately, but here's a picture from before the event. Bleach is really big here in Italy, and most of the cosplayers were duplicates of those characters. My friend here was doing Isshin Kurosaki, it wasn't too bad in person.

Ever since they've been out I've taken a lot more time to look at all the pages and pages of information that's stored here, and I'm really amazed at the quality and quantity of articles and such. Before, all I did was look at the news and watch the videos, and while I still love them I've realized that I can do so much more, especially on such a (relatively) small website such as this. It's the first time that I've looked at an internet community and not seen just faces, but people I can relate to and that are not quite so dissimilar to me. It's enough to have me give the new quest feature 5 stars out of 5, wonderful job and keep up the good work!  (Even though I'll keep on obsessing about that limited edition quest I didn't snag, drat)

Just wanted to tell you all how great this site is, it's got all sorts of things, like videos and pages about hamburgers, it used to run on pancakes and booze but now it runs on a lot of things. Got to run, investigation team go!!