Jump to content

Watashi Wa

Premier Retired Staff
  • Posts

    1,498
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Watashi Wa

  1. I have to recommend Game of Thrones and the following sequels, mostly so I can have someone to talk to them about. Ender's Game is really good and short. I've liked all the books I've read in that series.
  2. Watashi Wa

    New Job!

    Greetings, readers! Over the past three weeks, I've been in contacts with a federal contractor in the hopes of landing an application development/programming job here in town. The recruiter for the company ran across my resume and contacted me to set up an interview. The very next day, I interviewed at a Starbucks with the Program Manager for the company. The interview went extremely well, and I was told I had a great chance of getting the job, barring some horrible background results came back from the check. Two weeks passed and I hadn't heard back from anyone from the company. I assumed the worst. The same day I decided to contact the company, I got an email saying I was being considered for the job. Since then, I've been in constant communication filling out form after form. Tuesday, this week, I officially signed a letter accepting the position! My first day on site is tomorrow. I assume I will be flooded with paper work and people asking for my signature. I can't get on any of the computers before my security passes since I'm working on an Air Force Base. All day I've been jittery and nervous considering this is my first professional job. I guess this is why I went to school for four years.
  3. You definitely need to get Trials Evolution if you're looking for a great co-op game.
  4. I have a Jacobs sniper that regularly does 200k damage on crit + slagged. My Axton are specced for rockets as well as 2x turrets. I feel like I could solo a vault hunter playthrough by myself cause my guy is way OP. I was hoping Gearbox would bump the level cap so I can get longbow turrets as well. I'll have to wait for more DLC, I suppose. I'm level 49 right now. Once Nate gets to be level 50 as well we're going to try to beat Terra eventually.
  5. Teaser for a teaser for a trailer for a teaser. JUST LET ME WATCH THE MOVIE NOW GEEZ. ;_;
  6. If you've got the money to spend and don't have other financial responsibilities, go for it. If you settled for a regular 360, you could probably save a good bit of money. Especially with Holiday bundles coming out (I think Skyrim comes with one, but you've probably already played on PC...), you could get a relatively good deal. If you buy Xbox Live, search Amazon. You can usually find it for $35-$45. But as Tilius said, popular opinion is that the next generation is right around the corner... If you bite the bullet, feel free to add me.
  7. Any loot- based game is going to boil down to a farming/grinding pile after a while. Have you tried with a full party yet? There's a reason he's "the Invincible", ya know.
  8. 'Some Nights' is an excellent album.
  9. Hope you guys had a great birthday! Party over, topic closed.
  10. Alright, guys and gals. Halloween is just around the corner and I don't have a costume yet. Two ideas popped into my head recently and I need your help deciding between the two choices. 1) Handsome Jack (from Borderlands 2) or 2) Mordecai (from Regular Show) Handsome Jack, I think, would be a much cooler costume if I could find all the necessary components, but would be a bit more expensive. If I chose Handsome Jack, I'd also probably wear the costume to PAX East 2013 and get some fake internet karma points. Mordecai would win the "awesome" award, at least at most of the parties I might attend. It would be EVEN BETTER if I could find someone to go as Rigby (but likely won't happen). And the biggest pro for dressing up as Mordecai, he would probably be much cheaper than Handsome Jack. So! I need your opinions. If I had a bunch of money I'd go as Corvo from Dishonored.
  11. I'm on the last (available) book for Song of Ice and Fire. I'm going to jump to sci-fi after and was thinking about getting into some Halo. Or back into Ender's cause those books are great, too. Reading is too much fun!
  12. Watashi Wa

    This is not okay

    Yyyuuuuuuuuuuuuupp. Bunch of things still happen, keep reading!
  13. Watashi Wa

    Still Alive

    No! I had a great time. I'd enjoy hanging out with you again sometime. Maybe I'll make it up to Minneapolis again sometime. If I do, we'll be sure to meet! Thank you all for your sentiments! It really means a bunch to me. And yeah, me nieces are the cutest babies everrrr!
  14. Watashi Wa

    This is not okay

    AAaeearrrghhhh, the Red Wedding. Made me FURIOUS. Keep reading, though. Storm of Swords has been my favorite book of the series so far.
  15. IWHBYD Team Pilots (I'll engrave mine for BFAL with this, too :0) Purple Flavor None of these really have anything to do with BrickFair or LEGO at all, but OH WELL.
  16. Watashi Wa

    Still Alive

    Boy, has time flown over the past few weeks. Without meaning to, I recently slipped in to a bout of inactivity. I've managed to hop on the forums for a few minutes here and there, but I wasn't able to get much moderating done. Quite a bit has happened over that stretch of time, so here's a quick little update on what's been happening in my life. Over Labor Day weekend, I visited Nate (Than the Moa) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I flew out early on a Thursday morning and arrived a few hours later than anticipated since my flight out of Atlanta was late getting in causing me to miss my connecting flight in Houston. When I landed, I caught up with Nate at the airport. Over the weekend, we managed to visit Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Nate graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire, so it was neat seeing the place where he lived for four years. One of our favorite beers is brewed in Chippewa Falls, so we visited the Lienenkugel's brewery. I've never had a brewery tour, so it was cool to see a small-to-medium sized brewery house. We even got some free samples! Later in the weekend, we rented bikes and rode around Minneapolis. The scenery was absolutely stunning around some of the lakes and the weather was equally pleasurable. I couldn't have picked a greater time to visit. I enjoyed every minute (Friday morning was kind of rough, though...) of my visit and it was great catching up with one of my best friends in person rather than over Xbox Live. Oh! We also visited the Mall of America, which is much larger than you can imagine. While there, Nate and I met up with Takuma Nuva (Dunkaroos at the time). Obviously, we met up at the LEGO store. From there, we walked around the mall for a while and chatted. Towards the end of our meet up, we decided to go to the aquarium on the lowest floor of the mall. I have some pretty decent pictures I took with my phone. Maybe I'll upload them some time... Now, for a sudden change in tone. A few months ago, my family found out that one of my nieces (they are twins) has a benign tumor growing between her chest and heart. When I first heard the news, I was somewhat shocked. How could my sweet, precious niece who isn't even a year old have some sort of twisted sickness growing in her body? It felt wrong. It felt like a violation. My sister and brother-in-law took her to some of the best pediatric doctors in the country and received similar suggestions from both, a relief to our family. The precious girl needs surgery. The sooner the better. The operation was schedule to be about a week from now, but problems with anesthesia during a last-minute CT scan has postponed the surgery. It is difficult for me to come to terms with how this may affect my niece. Having to cut her body open feels like a major violation of her innocence to me. The sweet baby girl has been a trooper since before she was born and I know beyond a shadow of any doubt that she will fully recover from this surgery and live a perfectly normal and healthy life. Still, prayers (if you believe that way) and positive thoughts are highly appreciated. This is the main reason I've been absent the previous two weeks or so. The twins' first birthday was a week ago. And now one of them will be undergoing surgery soon. I'll probably be caring for my nephew whenever I'm needed over the coming weeks, so activity on the forums may still be scarce. Lastly, if you didn't know or needed reminding...Borderlands 2 is an amazing game and I am completely addicted.
  17. I would totally get Torchlight 2 if I had a dedicated gaming rig. I bought the first game on my Xbox and thoroughly enjoyed my time with it.
  18. ISN'T IT AWESOME?! I burst out laughing when the title screen came up. I knew at that moment that the movie was going to be an incredible movie.
  19. A bunch of things should be updated, thanks to Ziko.
  20. Seriously that is a great game and you should definitely play it.
  21. It was cool to meet you man. Aside from Nate and Andrew, you're the only other staffer I've met.
  22. I'd totally match you on this if I weren't 200 pages into a 900+ page book already. Maybe after Halo 4 launches.... That Grifball reveal video was amazing. And the ViDoc? Yesssssssssss.
×
×
  • Create New...