Watashi Wa

It was definitely a blast. I couldn't have had a better birthday/start to Spring Break. My TOR poster is lookin' pretty awesome hanging up on my wall right now. I wish I could've tried out that game. It sounds like an MMO I could actually get into. I'm also going to buy PAX East '12 tickets as soon as they become available.

*GLOBAL HUGS*

Shakey-hands girl! Also the hot Enforcer that always was in the shot. So distracting. What? I should probably upload what few pictures I have too. Then maybe Andrew would feel compelled to upload his as well.

Friday was about the worst day possible. I awoke at 3:50 in the morning to make it to my 6:00AM flight to Detroit. Upon arrival, I was informed my flight to Boston was cancelled and that I had been rerouted to DC, then to Boston. My flight to DC was delayed once, finally got to DC and my flight to Boston was delayed twice on top of maintenance issues with the plane. I finally landed in Boston around 7:30, close to about 8 hours behind schedule. I essentially missed the whole first day of PAX East. Bummer. Because I was late, Nate couldn't get in to PAX either. That's what I was most upset about. Lesson learned. Friday night/Saturday morning was awesome though! Aaand that's about all I will say. Once PAX started on Saturday, things really started to pick up. We played Fallen Frontier (Metroid-vania style side-scrolling shooter a la Shadow Complex), then waiting to see Battlefield 3, which is going to be HOT. Seriously, that game looks amazing. Usually, I'm not one to say "OMG those graphics were awesome" but honestly, the Frostbite 2 engine is coming along very nicely. Most impressing to me were the lighting, smoke and fire effects. Oh, and the 'SPLOSIONS. B) I'm pretty much sold on this game already. All I want to hear about now is multiplayer, which if it's anything similar to BC2, I will love it. I think DICE released the footage today that they were showing at PAX. Everyone should watch that. After BF3, Nate and I went to wait in line to see a public demo of RAGE. Due to our streak of bad luck, we got right up to the theater doors (literally) and were told the room was full. Bummer. We then waited around and played a little Halo: Reach in the console freeplay area until the Rooster Teeth panel. Of course, RT did not disappoint and brought with them some serious lawls. Now excuse me while I go get some purple-flavored drink. Saturday night was the continuation of the Omegathon. The game of choice was Jenga. This was not your typical game of Jenga. The blocks were much larger, and the spire of blocks stood about...four and a half feet tall? I don't know, I'm horrible at estimations. However, this was the most intense thing I have ever watched with my two eyeballs. It would be futile to try and describe this event because any description I could conjure would not accurately describe the atmosphere in that room. Next were the concerts. Video Game Orchestra, Paul and Storm, and Jonathon Coulton. Yes, be jealous, because it was hours and hours of unabridged AWESOME. Halo theme, Zelda theme, ________ is the name of my __________ cover band, DELICIOUS WATER, Still Alive, All we wanna do is eat your brains! Naturally, the three of us being huge Halo fans, we entered the Halo: Reach tourney as there wasn't much we wanted to do on Sunday. We waited around in line (do you see my face?) until we were able to enter the room. We (or Andrew, rather) noticed a few 'pro' players were in the room. Eventually we sat down at a table for our practice round and absolutely demolished our opponents 29-9 or so. The tournament featured the two new matchmaking maps from the Defiant map pack. Our practice and first bracket match were held on Condemned. We waited for our team to be assigned a station. Our time came, and to finish our streak of unfortunate luck, we were of course matched against the team with one of the pro players. The match started, and the other team managed to secure the lead while Nate, Andrew, T and I tried to get our act together and start working on teamwork. About halfway through the match we were down by at least 7 or 8 points. Did we give up? NO! We pushed and continued playing to the best of our ability and managed to get the lead at 43 to 41 with only one minute left on the clock. All we needed was to hold our position and pick off anyone daring to enter our territory. Well, somewhere in the last minute of gameplay we gave up 9 points and only gained 2 because we lost. That last minute went by so fast I hardly realized what happened. Anyways, it was still one of the most intense and exhilarating games of Halo I have ever played. After the match, we got respect hugs from the other team. They obviously weren't expecting as difficult a fight as we put up, as evident by the many screams I heard from across the table during the match. It was fun, that's all that matters. Well, we all got free Defiant Map Pack codes. That counts for something too. And then late Sunday afternoon rolled around and everyone went home and I was very content yet sad at the same time. I never expected to have as nearly a fun time as I did. Nate and Andrew (and Andrews friends), you guys rock. Last weekend was literally one of the most exciting moments of my life. I finally got to hang out with Nate, who has been a very good friend of mine for psshtt....close to 6 or 7 or 8 years now? Andrew, you're just as awesome. I am already very much anticipating whenever we can hang out again, be that PAX East 2012 or sooner. Just one more thing...those pilots, you know how it goes...

And Gears 3. And Battlefield 3. AHHHHHHHHHHHH

PAX East. Boston, Massachusetts. This weekend. John (me), Nate (Than) and Andrew (Mandrew/Black Six) all in one place. There will be a whole bunch of nerding.

Oh god this is one of my biggest peeves. This, and smacking gum while chewing makes my skin crawl.

The top wasn't his totem.

Surely there are some "underground" jokes you could make. It'd be like a two-for-one!

You should buy Trinity Blood. Great manga, even though it never got a proper ending. :/ Also, the animes of the manga you listed are all really good. Full Metal Alchemist almost made me cry. Check out Samurai Champloo, too. It's my favorite anime ever.

MASS EFFECT 1 & 2

Gotta say, I do look pretty awesome in bold teal. In the words of Andrew WK, "Let's get a party going/When it's time to party we will always party hard/Party hard." Congrats to all the other promotees as well. You's gaht some work tah do. Also, in exactly 7 days I will turn 21. I'll also be at PAX East in Boston. With Nate and Mandrew.

Thanks for all the ideas guys! I pitched some of these, but my group decided on something different - LEGO playhouses. B)

This semester, I am taking a class called Principles of Marketing. We have one major project due that was divided into three segments. We were told to choose a company we would want to do a situational analysis on. My group decided to analyse the LEGO Company. At this point in the semester, we are supposed to come up with some new product that LEGO could market efficiently. It just so happens I am involved with a website full of members that are crazy for LEGO. So, I'm going to crowd-source this. If you could come up with a new line (like Harry Potter, Star Wars, etc.), set, or product (doesn't necessarily have to be a LEGO set, just LEGO related), what would you do?

So, who all will I see there?

Full body motion control > waggle

That's hardly the predicament. The problem lies in deciding what can be polled, and what would be better off left in it's own topic. I've seen this discussion - about having discussions in a Poll's topic - many times. Post count or not, if a topic is better off as a poll, it will be polled, and discussion can continue in the poll topic. Someone can make a poll, but the decision to close the topic is ultimately left in the hands of my staff in GD. I've kept this issue in the back of my mind for a while, occasionally thinking about it when it manages to surface amongst the financial management and principles of marketing material and Java I'm shoving into my head this semester. One thing you can probably count on though - I've been thinking about adding a rule to stop premiers from popping into a topic, deciding it's better in a poll, and linking to it. This is borderline acting like a staff because what can and should not be polled is up to the staff.

Hello, fellow bloggers. I haven't updated in a while, mostly because I've been incredibly busy with finals and, more recently, holiday activities, but for the next two weeks I am completely free. I hope all you guys' holiday festivities were joyous and merry, just as mine were. Christmas Eve was spent at my sisters' house and included our now annual family gift swap. This year, my brother-in-law drew my name and decided to purchase Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Goblet of Fire, and the Half-Blood Prince all in paper back to add to my collection. Looks like I've got some reading to do this break. Christmas Day, I opened my few remaining gifts. From my second older sister I got Inception on Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy. Interestingly enough, it came with a copy of the shooting script. Hopefully that will provide some insight into the mind of Christopher Nolan as he shot this amazing movie. Next, I got a Finn the Human key-cover as well as a Jake the Dog key-cover from my younger sister. If you know what those two characters are from, good on you. (For anyone interested, this is a picture of me as Finn the human for Halloween. ) My 'big' Christmas present from my mom and step-dad was the new Xbox360 S. I knew what I was getting, so it wasn't much of a surprise. I am, however, still extremely thankful. I went to plug it in to migrate some saved games from my old Xbox to my newer, better Xbox and unfortunately...the new Xbox was broken out of the box. It wasn't the fabled RROD, but rather, to the best of my technological knowledge, something was wrong with the video card in the Xbox. I could turn on the Xbox and it would be fine for about 5 seconds before it would freeze and the green light would turn red. This happened whether I used the composite cable or my HDMI cable. I also tried on my own personal TV and the family TV upstairs. So, we packed it back up and sent it back to Amazon yesterday. With Amazon's great customer service, I got the replacement 360 today. I hooked it up and everything works fine and I am now in the process of updating it and migrating all of my data. Yesterday, me and my sisters went to our dad's house to spend time with him and his family. The food was good, and much to my surprise, the presents were pretty good too. I was gifted a $50 gift card to Best Buy, $25 from one of my aunts, and $25 from my grandparents. Not too shabby. So, to recap: Xbox360 SAdventure Time key-coversInception Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital Copy$50 Best Buy Gift Card$50 cash Now, for the next two weeks, I just plan on resting and catching up on some of the games I've been meaning to play. Currently, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Halo: Reach are taking up most of my time. At some point I'd like to get into Fable and Dragon Age. I also want to keep reading The Chamber of Secrets. Geez, these two weeks are going to fly by! Maybe I can even put up the rest of my Bionicle collection for sale... Well, hope you guys had as great a Christmas as I did! 2011 is just around the corner!

True Grit is one I fear I many not be able to see in theater. I'm the only one in my family or friends that seems remotely interested in that movie. Along with what you said, I've read that it's pretty good...

Castlevania is pretty darn solid. Combat is super fun, story grabs from many different fantasy themes, and the ending will probably make you explode.

It was a really good sci-fi movie in it's own rights. As a sequel, it's whatever but I still enjoyed it. The 3D wasn't terrible, either. And the soundtrack is omgawesome.

'shopped.