internet download limits make me sad

Hello there.
Here in Australia we have download limits on our internet subscriptions. This means that in our house, a house of 4 nerds, we can only download 60 gb a month. If you go over the limit, you pay extra per mb.

INCONVENIENT.

The billing period reset last friday, and I finally feel like this is a home again.
The odd thing though, was how well I worked while the internet was down. With schoolwork I mean.
We had our first week of lectures last week, and already; 3 homework assignements. I’ve finished one, and will commence the second shortly.

So much has happened, dear diary.

We picked up Resident Evil 5, as a birthday gift for Stian. He got the collectors edition, which was full of supersweet swag.

Me and Tukun have been playing it co-op. It is so cash. I don’t agree with people who say it’s racist because you mow down black people. It’s racist to zombies, not black people.
Your sidekick in the game is an African, but she honestly doesn’t look or sound anything like it. I don’t know what’s up with that.

I also bought “A Streetcar Named Desire”.
I’ve only been able to see half of it so far, because my pc’s DVD drive decided to stop reading it this morning.
The half I saw was really good, it’s so well written it busts out classic lines and memorable quotes every minute.
One of them of course being “Hey, Stella!”.

I will depart with another quote, slightly more poetic than the last one.

“All of these deaths, the long parade to the graveyard. Father, Mother…  Margaret, that dreadful way.
You just came home in time for funerals Stella. And funerals are pretty compared to death.” 

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Bobbleheads on the headboard of your bed, armed with various futuristic weaponry.

I bought the Master Chief bobblehead some days ago, and it’s just one of the many novelty items to spend money on in this fine country.

In semi-related news,  I bought some nice clothes at the Salvation Army, who knew looking so good could be so affordable ?

so you have to play tokio hotel on guitar hero . . .

Like most people, you probably checked out the Guitar Hero 4 setlist before buying the game.

I was a fool for not doing so. Much too late i discovered the game is tainted by the foul horsemen that are Tokio Hotel.
Knowing all along they’re there somewhere, within the depths of the game scared me. Knowing it’s on the way and inevitable much like death itself. And then the time came; Monsoon, by Tokio Hotel.

I have created a guide of sorts, think of it as a Bible to prepare for the rupture, of what to do when you reach the dreaded song.

You can do it the easy way, and simply mute your TV. But the image will still haunt you, knowing the notes you are hitting are in fact that of Monsoon.
The safer approach is to get someone else to do it for you, a local hobo perhaps, who will surely perish under the strain of the song. So make sure you get one nobody will miss.
I took it a step further, as my neighborhood is devoid of hobos, drifters, beggars or any sort of bums.
Through rigorous research i made the startling discovery that my cat, perhaps all cats, are immune to Tokio Hotel, and indeed all sorts of poorly produced music. My dear feline sat through the entire Minutes To Midnight album without as much as dent on her sanity to prove it. With my harsh training methods, I trained my cat to play Guitar Hero. She’s not very good mind you, she can barely beat it on easy. But I think we can all agree it’s the preferable option compared to losing my sanity. Whatever’s left of it anyway.

Remember the end of Thelma and Louise? When they speed off the cliff and remember the good times? That’s what playing the song is like, try to remember how much fun Beat It and Today was. . .

Good times.

Grand Theft GOTY

See what i did there? Grand Theft Game of the year. A pretty good pun in my opinion, I like it. I’m suggesting that GTA IV will steal the GOTY title from. . . . Actually i don’t know, because it’s still early, and who knows how good this year will be for games.

All i’m saying is that GTA IV is in fact good. Really good. I’m not going to review it because there are enough reviews out there already, but let me atleast verify that they are indeed right; this is a good game.

Although the vehicles are hard to handle (they feel harder than in old GTA games) and Niko feels sluggish and stubborn to handle. Those are my only complaints. Otherwise this is a very good game, atleast for as far as i’ve played.

I can’t get online on XBL because my account is suspended due to “problems with my payment option”. I’ll have to look into it, but for now i don’t really have any incentive to fix it. I won’t be playing GTA much online anytime soon, even if i could.

It’s really late now, i wish i were sleeping. I don’t know why i am not.

soon my love, we will be together

Finally got my hands on. . .

This game can be pretty hard to find now, got it preplayed at EBgames. Always wanted to get it.

It’s supposed to be awesome, and if it’s anything like Shadow Of The Colossus, i’m sure it is.

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Buy Street Fighter 2 HF on XboxLiveArcade.

The game is a piece of crap, mostly because of the 360’s D-pad.

Unlike the PS2 d-pad, the 360 one has 8 directional buttons. Making it too easy too accidentally press up/right instead of just right. So when i want Ryu to carefully move forward, he jumps up into the air and lands face first into Chun-li’s foot.

You don’t get this problem with four directions on the d-pad because if you press ONE direction, thats all you’re gonna get. If you want to move diagonally, just press two buttons. It’s no problem.

Not only are the controls bad, but SF2’s AI is… not even there, the game is old as hell. It seems your opponent adopts a certain.. routine. I was in a fight vs Ken and all he did was spam hadoken. So i would try to move forward but oh wait.. i cant, because gigantic balls of fire are coming straight at me. So i jump over them. But guess who’s waiting with a Shoryuken.

Ah yes, old school fighter games. Where the cpu is impossible to beat because it can read your mind. Probably the most frustrating gaming experience ever.

GG

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On another note, i’m borrowing Superman Returns for 360 from Kinag. The game’s pretty generic but what can you expect from a superhero game eh?

It made me realize how spoiled gamers are, regarding the much appreciated feature of autosaving.

See, apparently Superman Returns doesn’t have autosave. I played the game, defeated the bad guys at war world. Went back to metropolis, killed like a million robots (honestly, it seems like that’s all you kill in that game). I got sick of it and turned the game off.. And when did i realize i might have not saved? Say it with me now.. the very second i turned the console off. So when i turned it back on, i was waaay at the beginning.

Now i dont think playing games is a waste of time, but when you don’t save your game.. yeah you pretty much wasted your time.

. . . .

damn robots

PS: new theme, you dig? I cant seem to settle on one