i am absolutely devastated that the sims 3 has been delayed until june. they just built up all that anticipation and then what? we have to wait another five months? *sigh*
i have, however, been playing the resident evil 5 demo. i don’t think i could ever get bored of taking down zombies. can’t wait until release!
now let’s just hope it doesn’t get the same treatment as the sims.
A.C. Newman’s new album Get Guilty isn’t out until January.
I don’t think I can wait that long.
hmm, exactly six months. i am trying to study for my exam next tuesday but i have been getting very distracted. mostly by mirror’s edge. which is simply a fantastic game and i can’t wait until i have finished study entirely (for this year anyway) so i can really get in to it.
i’ve become completely addicted to a game again. it has happened a couple of times before, more notably with the sims, and now, it’s happened again with cake mania on DS. there are times when a game catches my attention enough that i will play it very frequently and spend a fair amount of time on it. diner dash and bioshock were like that, still are actually. but then there’s addiction: when you start dreaming about and constantly thinking of one game, and avoiding anything else just so you can play that game. that’s when video games have the kind of affect that drugs can. it’s always only temporary, and i’ve finished cake mania now (luckily it is quite short) but at the end of the day i do wonder if it’s almost dangerous.
so south australia has beat the heatwave record. eleven days of temperatures over thirty-five degrees… i think today was thirty-nine. apparently the cool change won’t be here until sometime next week. needless to say everyone’s looking forward to that, i’m looking forward to being able to get some proper sleep and perhaps turning the air conditioner off for the first time in a week.
it’s not like i’ve been outside much to feel the heat anyway over the past few days. on friday i managed to slice my foot on a mirror and do such a good job of it that i ended up having surgery and spending two nights in hospital. it is still quite painful and i’m mostly having to rely on hobbling around and using crutches, much to my house mates’ amusement.
so…yeah. i’ve been taking a break for a while. i suppose that was quite obvious.
last night i went to see i heart hiroshima, dappled cities fly and the presets for free! it was the opening night of the fringe festival. it was quite awesome fun.
mass effect is impressive. i know it was released a while ago but i have only recently had time to sit down and play it properly. it will be taking up a lot more of my time from now on i think.
yesterday at about 12:10am we drove to target for the opening of their gigantic toy sale. honestly i didn’t think anyone else would be crazy enough to be there as soon as they opened but it was actually really busy.
i felt really ridiculous because i am twenty and i don’t think you are supposed to be that excited about toys by the time you are twenty, but we were rushing around the store like little kids to look at everything. the main reason we had decided to go though, was because i have very recently discovered the attraction of transformer toys. last week my mum bought one for the kids at her work to play with and i was testing it out and thought it was pretty cool. i was seriously impressed by the mechanics of it and they must have some pretty clever people behind their making. it just made me really want one.
so. we went to target at midnight to get transformer toys. i really wanted the yellow one from the movie, but they didn’t have them, so i got one of jazz (the silver pontiac in the film) and dylan got the decipticon tank. so crazy, i know, but i don’t regret it, i just regret not having one as a kid… i mean i loved barbie but she just never could turn into a car and back, you know?
i went to see the transformers movie last week actually and it was pretty awesome. i had just been expecting an average action movie with a lot of explosions but it turned out far better. i was gripped watching the the robot effects, which are especially effective in the cinema, but it was also very funny, which was a pleasant surprise too.
i’ve also seen the new harry potter film. i really hope the new book is fantastic and the complete opposite of that movie. normally i love the harry potter stories too much to care that the films don’t do any justice to the books, and i’ll enjoy watching them anyway, but this wasn’t even worth it’s title really. i know they have to make them, and whether they make them badly or not millions of people will still go watch them, but it is silly because you obviously can’t fit pages of detailed story into a couple of film hours, it nearly always doesn’t work.
totally unrelated is the fact that i had a really bizarre conversation on the phone at work they other day…i’m such an idiot on the phone.
it has been an exceptionally long time. when i think about it, quite a bit has happened since that last post, but i’m not going to attempt to fill in all the blanks.
new year’s eve was great. actually the whole time we spent at nadine and adam’s was fun. i’m really glad we got to do that.
living arrangements have changed quite a bit. for the good i think, though when dylan went away it was pretty quiet in the house so i worked to keep myself busy…then quickly spent the money i earnt anyway. where we live now though, i am right across the road from the school that i will be going to for one day a week once uni starts again as part the practical aspect of my education degree.
recently i have spent most of my time trying to prepare for going back to uni at the end of february. i spent quite a while trying to create a timetable with no clashes. i eventually succeeded but it looks like it’s going to be horrible to follow.
the last thing i will mention is the film i saw last week. dylan and i went to see ‘the fountain’. i really enjoyed it. it was very pretty and it managed to confuse and amaze me as much as the matrix did the first time i saw it. i can’t wait to see it again.
hoping to update a little more regularly once we organise our internet at home…maybe. =p
we bought lego star wars 2 and dead rising. dylan has been playing dead rising almost non-stop since we first put it in the machine, which means i’ve only had a quick look at lego star wars but it looks promising, even if only in co-op mode.
dead rising is pretty awesome. killing zombies is usually pretty fun for me though. although, for some reason capcom decided not to test this game on standard televisions, only on HDTVs. This is odd considering the number of people actually in possession of an HDTV is still quite small and the majority of xbox 360 users have their console connected to standard televisions or monitors, but also because of capcom’s reputation for looking after their buyers.
I only bring this up because i am incredibly frustrated that most of the in-game text for dead rising is entirely unreadble due to it being far too small on my standard TV, since it was designed to be viewed on an HDTV. A number of other people have found this equally annoying, but as of yet capcom has yet to do anything sufficient towards resolving the issue.
more important news is that i’m catching a bus back with dylan to see my family on wednesday. i am looking forward to a bit of a break and a change of scenery next week. but for now, where’s that lawnmower? i feel like mowing down some zombies…