So today was my 18th birthday! I don't feel any more responsible. I had some nice cake, lots of pizza, and I got a $25 Xbox gift card plus a controller charging station! I bought Halo 3: ODST for The Master chief collection, and funnily enough just in time to get a date-specific achievement. I'm very happy with My Xbox One a month on. I've finished Tomb Raider and Valiant hearts (I had played them both on PC before, but it was a good excuse to replay them) , all the campaigns in the MCC
Today I got my Xbox after saving up for months for it! I got a good deal at Costco ($409.99 CAD for the GOW bundle plus an extra controller and 12 months of Xbox live gold, works out to the console itself only being about $250) and tomorrow I'll head to Walmart to pick up the MCC. It feels kinda surreal finally having it, since it feels unfamiliar because it's the first time I've used it, but familiar because I've been ravenously consuming any videos and information I could get my hands on in
So, since I might have become a little obsessed about Halo in recent months, I thought I'd talk about the Halo series and my history with it. My first experience with Halo (that I remember) was playing a few minutes of Halo 2 split screen (I think, I recently watched a let's play of Halo 2 and nothing really jumped out at me as familiar, but I definitely remember there being a Grunt, and you know how memories are) at a friend's house years ago (I know it was after 2006, maybe 08 or 09) among a
I had a really weird, and vivid dream last night. In short, I was The Nostalgia critic, and I was following a 100 foot tall Dark souls character (He looked more like a player character from Dragon age Inquisition, but my mind said Dark souls for some reason) as he was taking me to jail. We were walking over a heavily damaged red suspension bridge when we passed a pirate ship on the bridge, and then Mr. dark souls ran into a telephone pole, spun around, and his head caught on fire for a few sec
When I woke up today she was only turned about halfway towards my closet, I righted her about halfway through the day and she has yet to move again. It is very possible that one of my parents moved her, as I sleep like a brick, so I probably wouldn't have noticed them coming in if they did it early enough. My desk isn't slick or uneven, certainly not enough to move a figure that much without it toppling over.
Right now I have all my 2015 Toa set up on a desk in my room. Yesterday I noticed that Gali had turned 90 degrees to the right, towards my closet. I wrote it off as someone coming in my room at some point and moving her for whatever reason. I put her back facing the right way and carried on with my day. A few hours ago I noticed that she had turned again. Again I wrote it off, righter her, and moved on. I noticed a few minutes ago that she had turned again. I'm positive that no one came in
I got another Brucklink order for my birthday! This time from the U.S., and everything came in such good condition that if I didn't know better, I'd say they were fresh out of the box. In total I got Lewa and Tahu Nuva, Tahnok and Lehvak, Tahnok and Galohk-kal, Pohatu and Onua Mata, and Turaga Vakama, as well as a bunch of replacement parts that let me finish up Nuhrii, Onepu, Kongu Mahri, and Carapar and replace some damaged-but-still-usable pieces. Another notable addition was Lewa's axe arm
I just discovered the magic of it. Yesterday I watched Titan A.E for the first time in years, it being one of my favourite movies as a kid. I forgot how violent it was, like a dude gets his neck snapped and then thrown down a flight of stairs on screen, another guy gets vapourized into green goo, and there's at least three or four scenes with Human blood. Also, I didn't realize how existentially horrifying it was as a kid, I mean, the Earth and moon get completely destroyed in the opening sc
I just went to walk the dog with my sister and we got eaten by mosquitoes, I managed to kill 5 of the little buggers. Honestly if I were made king of the universe, my first order would be for all mosquitoes everywhere to die a fiery death. The spiders can find something else to eat.
So I attended my sister's wedding a couple weeks ago, the same sister that I yelled about on this blog a couple times years ago (I've deleted most of the related entries because OH MY GOD was I being irrationally hateful in those posts) . It was actually pretty nice. It was outside but there was a decent breeze so it didn't get too hot. And it was nice socializing with people. There were also two separate occasions where a wasp got trapped in sushi container and a bottle of juice. It was inte
Found the Axle with stopper for Fenrakk's leg supports, completed Rahaga Kualus, Norik, and Pouks (Who I didn't even remember I owned) and made good progress on Keetongu, who I unfortunately had to cannibalize Rorzakh's hips and Ignika's shoulders for (Although to be fair those shoulders were originally Keetongu's arms anyway) . Made a tiny amount of progress on the Ussanui, but I was getting burng out because I had been searching for parts and building for most of the day by that point. Also
I think it's the only game I've played through twice in 1 week, except perhaps Bastion(Not sure though, it was a few months ago). Hopefully I'll be able to buy ME2 come March. ~ELM~
So I watched a "Mass Effect in 5 minutes" video and wow does that look like an awesome story. Except I utterly despise EA, with their stupid online passes. And Mass Effect 3 is going to be Origin exclusive. I don't knoooooooow. Maybe I'll pick up the first 2 on Steam at some point, maybe. . . . . . . . . . . ~ELM~ EDIT: also TURIANS ARE THE BEST ALIENS EVER. They're adorable AND awesome. I think it's the cat mouth and the spiky head.
So I finally finished Ravenholm. Now I just started Highway 17. Also: The ammo limits in HL2 are kinda ridiculous, only 18 ammo at a time for the Magnum, only 36 for the Shotgun, and only 90 for the Overwatch Pulse rifle. Whereas in Half-life 1, the Shotgun had a max of 133 ammo, and the Magnum had about 40, granted, their counterparts in HL2 are much more powerful(Especially the Shotgun, it has fair range and it kills almost everything in one direct hit. ~ELM~
So I played again up until a little while after I got the Shotgun(I stopped just after I got on the elevator). I think I'm building up a minor immunity. ~ELM~
So i got a little farther in Ravenholm, up to the first time you see Grigori(Albeit from far away. Then i stopped playing again. At least i played considerably longer this time. ~ELM~ EDIT: HOOOOOOOOOOKAY, I played a while longer, then I got to the bit with the first fast headcrab zombies. NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE.
So after my unsuccsessful trip looking for the various HF sets I wanted(Plus my Friend's Christmas present, which will be Splitface)in which I only ended up buying Nex 3.0 and Raw-Jaw(Both very good sets, if a little unexciting now that the new sets are out)i just ended up ordering them off S@H, alas, this would require my extra 12$ for the shipping that i was planning to use on Steam, but then I found out that Black phantom was out of stock, so i ended up just removing him and adding Jawblade a
i just decided to check out the LU Message boards since i wanted to see the reaction from it closing down soon. My god. I saw maybe 5 rational, reasonable threads in the entire subforum they have for it. All the others evidently had no inkling of how Companies or the world works(Not that i was expecting it from there). not even the few parents(Pull ALL the guilt-trips!)that posted topics. about half of the subforum is mindless lego-bashing. I can't even fathom how Lego managed to let t
So earlier i went on a mining expidition in minecraft, it was very successful, i found loads of coal and Iron, as well as gold, redstone, and even lapis lazuli, i was on my way out of a huge cave i had discovered, when a spider fell on top of me and threw me into lava, killing me and losing almost everything on my person(a few things fell beside the pool) i quickly grabbed some stone tools and made some more iron armor and went back down, I quickly found the cave again, but i had forgotten to
