One Month On...

Hello readers, Merry Christmas and a happy new year! I hope everyone is feeling refreshed and ready to work hard this term, I am.

I bought six PlayStation 2 games after Christmas, they're getting cheap these days.

I bought:
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
(For a bargain price of £1.95, brand new from Game in town)

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Jak II: Renegade
Jak 3
Killer 7
Killzone

There are reasons why I bought all of these games, some have great character design, others have great storytelling and back-story, and others just have a unique style. All useful in preparation for my game design task. Plus I wanted to buy Killzone to understand the story before the sequel is released next month.

Moving on, I have no reasonable explanation as to why I didn't blog over the holiday season, thinking back, I don't know why I didn't.

Just because I can, and I'm weird like that, I have some YouTube videos for my blogging comrades. Some of these (probably all of them except the last one) may be offensive to minors, so lock away your children. Most of them are kinda funny, but I enjoyed watching all of them anyway.

To keep it simple, I'll list these in alphabetical order. If you're not in the list, don't be offended! Just know that I didn't add you because you don't blog regularly. Yes I'm that harsh. :O

Bob: Ling Ling's Song


Joe: Gay Zombies


Johnny G: Horde Vs. Alliance


Kiwi: Pac-Man Cereal Advert (Early 80s)


Nathan: Harry Hill 's TV Burp - The Apprentice (again)


Ryan: Call of Duty 4 Review
by Yahtzee (His game reviews are almost always negative)


Last but not least,
Miss: Repetitive Caramelldansen-ness


In other news, I'm taking the role of "Organiser" of the After-Hours Gaming; that will be running on a Wednesday or Friday night at 6pm, I haven't sorted out when it will be yet. I'm also hoping to get the podcast up and running again, after some confusion and forgetfulness last term. My Gamelog is now up, it looks the same as this blog, but without the widgets and posts of course. That will be updated when I start one of my new PS2 games, because I haven't played on any of them yet.

If you read all this and watched all/most of the videos then congratulations to you. Thanks for paying attention for this long.

Oh yeah, a final note, I updated the music on the blog too, the theme this time is fire of course. But you already knew that didn't you.

Tracklist (It's on shuffle, but you should be able to guess who's who. Plus, it displays artist and track on the player if you look closely):

Franz Ferdinand - This Fire
Jimi Hendrix - Fire
Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire
The Ink Spots - I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire (Fallout 3 Soundtrack)

Keep Warm this Winter! :D

POWERBALL!!! and "Thieving Power Whores"

Please excuse the insane title, but this thing has to be mentioned. Before you read the rest of the post, if you don't know what one is, (I didn't until last week) I suggest you watch this video of a POWERBALL!!! in action. This video makes me laugh! :D



This whole thing started a few weeks ago when I noticed my wrists clicking when I moved them, and how boney they are compared to the rest of my arm, so I looked for a solution.

I bought a powerball on Monday, it arrived on Thursday and I'm completely hooked! You put the ball in your hand, start it up and rotate your hand. The gyroscope inside the ball rotates in unison with the rotation of your hand. Your arm, hand and wrist muscles receive a workout as you spin the ball faster. It's so much easier than using weights, and I can just wander round the house spinning the powerball in my hand. Anyway, before this post becomes an advertisement for Powerball, I must move on to something else. I haven't really got much else to say, but I can comment on the infamous Kiwi, who is currently recruiting people to follow his blog.