My update schedule recently has been worse than Mark X over at Broken TV, blame many many games. Mainly though blame Half-Life 2, which I've just got sucked into big time. My plan is to play all the big 360 releases first and run through the major Wii stuff when I have spare time. This is where single player shortness comes in handy, being able to blitz a campaign mode means I can spend more time with quick games like Mario and Sonic, Guitar Hero and XBLA games. Unfortunately HL2 isn't going down without a fight, Mass Effect won't and I'm not expecting Eternal Sonata to go quietly either. Fortunately a short campaign in Call Of Duty 4 means I can spend more quality time with the supreme multiplayer, one of the few online shooters I consider myself rather tasty at.
And amongst all this I have Metroid Prime 3 to play, I haven't finished PGR4 and Viva Pinata is guilting me with the small amount of time I've put in. Finished Skate though, which is nice even though I'm sure to go back just to find some truly stupid trick combos and finish some of the goals I left. Will have to deal with Tony Hawk first though.
Don't even get me started on music. I haven't bought a CD since The Holloways album a few months ago.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Saturday, October 20, 2007
The London Expo October 2007
London Expo is always an entertaining time. Whether its because of the tube system taking the piss or the actual joy of the people there. For me its mostly about spending money though so lets see the league table of who took my money this year.
Grinding at the bottom is United Publications, lacking the CCS boxset that was so tempting to me resulted in UP only taking £8 of my money through 3 fine posters covering Prince of Tennis, Yu-Gi-Oh and of course Card Captor Sakura.
Slightly up from that is Sweatdrop who got £10 with two brilliant prints. Sweatdrop always seem to have the fine prints and continue to give a reason for the Expo having an Artist Alley.
Tokyopop's wall of manga took £20 off me dispite my protestations that I wasn't going to spend money there this time. Lament of the Lamb 6, Fake 3 and Loveless 5 gave me the required spend to get an extremely sizable Pita-Ten artbook for £5.
Manga Entertainment got £25 thanks to their stand selling Terratag shirts. A fine zip up number (which looks like the top half of a boiler suit, and is therefore cool as hell) combined with Naruto Unleashed 2.1 got the cash off me.
The top prize for extracting money from my wallet though goes to Tokyo Toys. A supreme Tsubasa Chronicle messenger bag meant they took £34.
Cosplayer of the day is without any shadow of a doubt the fursuit Pikachu. I've seen Pikachu cosplay before but this one was truly excellent. Runner-up goes to another fursuit, a full size Kon.
Corporate stand of the day was easily Sony's showing off of Eye of Judgement. Giving out free cards and providing fairly extensive looks at the game meant that I can say this is a game I must have, And soon.
The new bag is excellent but it has left me with some sad news. After over 5 years of faithful service my Jeep backpack is now being retired. I bought it for £15 in TKMaxx back in 2002 ready for the 9th year at Bishops but now its age is starting to show. Its accompanied me through 3 years of Bishops, 2 years of college and a summer of full time work but now its over.
NJ's Jeep backpack
2002-2007
All the pictures are on my Facebook, because Photobucket's being a bitch.
Grinding at the bottom is United Publications, lacking the CCS boxset that was so tempting to me resulted in UP only taking £8 of my money through 3 fine posters covering Prince of Tennis, Yu-Gi-Oh and of course Card Captor Sakura.
Slightly up from that is Sweatdrop who got £10 with two brilliant prints. Sweatdrop always seem to have the fine prints and continue to give a reason for the Expo having an Artist Alley.
Tokyopop's wall of manga took £20 off me dispite my protestations that I wasn't going to spend money there this time. Lament of the Lamb 6, Fake 3 and Loveless 5 gave me the required spend to get an extremely sizable Pita-Ten artbook for £5.
Manga Entertainment got £25 thanks to their stand selling Terratag shirts. A fine zip up number (which looks like the top half of a boiler suit, and is therefore cool as hell) combined with Naruto Unleashed 2.1 got the cash off me.
The top prize for extracting money from my wallet though goes to Tokyo Toys. A supreme Tsubasa Chronicle messenger bag meant they took £34.
Cosplayer of the day is without any shadow of a doubt the fursuit Pikachu. I've seen Pikachu cosplay before but this one was truly excellent. Runner-up goes to another fursuit, a full size Kon.
Corporate stand of the day was easily Sony's showing off of Eye of Judgement. Giving out free cards and providing fairly extensive looks at the game meant that I can say this is a game I must have, And soon.
The new bag is excellent but it has left me with some sad news. After over 5 years of faithful service my Jeep backpack is now being retired. I bought it for £15 in TKMaxx back in 2002 ready for the 9th year at Bishops but now its age is starting to show. Its accompanied me through 3 years of Bishops, 2 years of college and a summer of full time work but now its over.
NJ's Jeep backpack
2002-2007
All the pictures are on my Facebook, because Photobucket's being a bitch.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Tumbleweed
Haven't been here for a bit but I have a few things to talk about.
I've been quite busy with work and gaming as October is a hell month as far as games are concerned. This week's XBLA releases don't help as they're both games I want to play (Every Extend Extra Extreme and Speedball 2).
London Expo is next week, or this weekend depending on your own grasp of the english language. I have a warchest of cash in the bank account to spend, around £150-160 for splurging which will hopefully result in me bringing home the other half of the Cardcaptor Sakura boxset which in turn will result in me doing little else than just trying to figure the fuck out of the ending. Hopefully something got cut from the English version that took all the sense out of the series ending. I'll probably pick up a few more Cardcaptors TCG boosters and some more volumes of the CCS manga. If I can find a CCS-era Sakura plushie (as opposed to my Tsubasa-era one) then that would be score. Might actually spend some time by Tokyo Toys as I haven't been tracking their stuff lately as their obsession with the damn monkey after its Big Brother appearance. Hopefully they're back to their proper purpose in the market (statues and wallscrolls).
I need a ham sandwich so I'll get one result in before going off to eat.
You Don't Know Jack Episode 32
Score: $5,135
I've been quite busy with work and gaming as October is a hell month as far as games are concerned. This week's XBLA releases don't help as they're both games I want to play (Every Extend Extra Extreme and Speedball 2).
London Expo is next week, or this weekend depending on your own grasp of the english language. I have a warchest of cash in the bank account to spend, around £150-160 for splurging which will hopefully result in me bringing home the other half of the Cardcaptor Sakura boxset which in turn will result in me doing little else than just trying to figure the fuck out of the ending. Hopefully something got cut from the English version that took all the sense out of the series ending. I'll probably pick up a few more Cardcaptors TCG boosters and some more volumes of the CCS manga. If I can find a CCS-era Sakura plushie (as opposed to my Tsubasa-era one) then that would be score. Might actually spend some time by Tokyo Toys as I haven't been tracking their stuff lately as their obsession with the damn monkey after its Big Brother appearance. Hopefully they're back to their proper purpose in the market (statues and wallscrolls).
I need a ham sandwich so I'll get one result in before going off to eat.
You Don't Know Jack Episode 32
Score: $5,135
Friday, October 05, 2007
Beautiful Voice, Great Writing and Smoking Hot
Now as you know I have far more appreciation for the male form than the female. This week though I just had to refer to some ladies as smoking hot though.
On Tuesday I did a 360 games run, I called this my 'Games I Really Want To Play' run. I bought Fuzion Frenzy 2 and Viva Pinata.
On Wednesday I did another games run, this was my 'Big Tough Manly' games run. I bought PGR3 and Quake 4.
On that day I also got a new pair of headphones and 3 CDs to listen to through them. This is where the smoking hot bit comes in.
The Zutons - Tired Of Hanging Around
KT Tunstall - Drastic Fantastic
Feist - The Reminder
You Don't Know Jack Episode 31
Score: $12,111
Not bad actually.
On Tuesday I did a 360 games run, I called this my 'Games I Really Want To Play' run. I bought Fuzion Frenzy 2 and Viva Pinata.
On Wednesday I did another games run, this was my 'Big Tough Manly' games run. I bought PGR3 and Quake 4.
On that day I also got a new pair of headphones and 3 CDs to listen to through them. This is where the smoking hot bit comes in.
The Zutons - Tired Of Hanging Around
KT Tunstall - Drastic Fantastic
Feist - The Reminder
You Don't Know Jack Episode 31
Score: $12,111
Not bad actually.
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