Alone

I used to like having the place to myself.  But not so much now if no one ever wants to talk to me.

You know what sucks?  When you try to talk to your good friends and they never respond to you, though you know that they are there.  I just want to know what I did wrong, if anything.  Just be honest, I'd rather have the painful truth than have the even more painful cold shoulder.

As much as I hate to admit it, there's a certain extent of loneliness that I just can't bear and when things like this happen, it hurts a lot.

But, rants aside, lots have been going on in life.  Just recently did a long presentation for Mobile Computing class, and a bunch of smaller projects and such coming up.  Still have to take my GRE too, holy shit.  I need to stop procrastinating on everything for once.

Oh, and I has ponies at last.  Blind bags, to be specific.  I have one for Fluttershy, and will be getting an Applejack tomorrow (trading a fellow brony for one).  Can't wait for that.

Been playing an insane amount of Dungeons of Dredmor lately, it's a really addictive rogue-like.  A bit odd at first, especially the skills and such which was a bit confusing at the beginning, but fun once you get in the hang of it.

Also my birthday is next Monday.  As if it's of any importance.  I feel after the 21st birthday it doesn't really matter anymore, at least until you turn 80, but I won't make it that far I'm sure.  Turning 22 though.

Yeah, haven't made a posting in a long time, but...not really much to comment on, you know?  Just...really sick of the way life is going lately, the way people have been, and just seeing my best friends fade away from my life.

Day 1: Already a Nightmare

I can't fucking believe this family I'm a part of.

My grandmother has a pet cockatiel.  Had him since I was a kid, but my parents made me give it away to her because it made too much noise (which it didn't, but my stepfather has zero patience for anything...).  Now that she's in the hospital, we're taking care of the bird...or at least I am.  Tonight, they wanted to keep the bird in the laundry room where I'm sleeping.  Where there's no ventilation, and the whole room smells like I could get diseased within minutes.  They didn't give a shit.  I wanted to move the bird into the living room where there is ventilation and it wouldn't smell, but they didn't want to hear the bird make noise.  Well, what about me?  Obvious they don't care at all...

I am definitely returning back to the apartment as soon as I can.  The sleeping arrangement is just unfair, and it sucks that I have to be treated like crap on a week that's supposed to be a vacation for me.  Going to work on figuring a time when I can be brought back.

Not really in the mood to play anything at the moment.  Just might watch the new MLP episode I didn't get to see today and that might be it for the night.

I'm not suicidal, nor will I ever be, but it's nights like this I wish I weren't around.  Seriously, what the fuck.

Spring break!

Freedom for a week!  Time to relax, play games all day, pig out on snacks and soda, and just overall be lazy for a week, right?

...damn wrong.  Instead of my comfy bed at the apartment, I'm at my home outside of campus with the family, sleeping on a mattress in the laundry room because my obnoxious aunt had to stay over and take my room.  Which is apparently the "guest room"...since when.  Oh, and when I mean obnoxious, I mean she can't shut the fuck up for a second.  Loud as hell, and had a massive headache because of it tonight.

Play games all day?  Nah.  A little, yeah, but I won't be able to use my gaming desktop at night which is a real bitch, since that's pretty much the one good time I have, seeing as how I gotta catch up on work during the day.

Snacks and shit?  Well okay, maybe there's that.  I actually don't "pig out", but I'll still eat the same way as I always do.

Seriously, I don't even know why I'm staying here for my spring break.  Well, the only reason I knowingly have is to spend time with my little brother, but aside from that, would've done much better just staying at my apartment on campus.

Anyway, several new games I've been into lately.  Still playing Borderlands like mad, Level 59 now, progressing through General Knoxx DLC.  But, also been playing Tales of the Abyss on my 3DS.  Played it already on the PS2, but since it recently came out I figured "why not", and got it.  No different than the PS2 version really, aside from a different text font and the usage of two screens instead of one.  Oh, and it loads much faster.  That was my main beef with the original game which took forever to save (unless if it was just because I was using a 64MB card instead of the official 8MB...).

Also started playing Quest 64.  Still not as good as Paper Mario or Hybrid Heaven, but I never actually beat it, so giving it another shot.  Concentrating on Rock/Wind/Water magic, water mostly for healing.  Majority of the good stuff comes from rock and wind.

Oh, and Chips Challenge.  Holy shit, does anyone remember that game?  I recently got a hold of it and played it a little on a virtual machine, brings back so many memories of me playing it on my old Windows 95.  Used to love that old computer, logged so many hours of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Warcraft (yes, the original) on it.  Some of those older games I really miss, so glad virtual machines exist.

Day one of my (sucky) spring break starts tomorrow.  At least there's a new My Little Pony episode on, most likely will have to go on Livestream to watch it.  Or YouTube it that night.  Maybe both if it's good?  Then again it's My Little Pony, it's always good.

Thinking of which, a little something for the CoD fans out there:

I love Applejack.  I love Call of Duty.  This video is probably one of the few things that made today better.

Peace out

Gunslinger

Actually, my Hunter in Borderlands (now level 40, recently started Playthrough 2) has more points toward a Rogue spec, but I figured the title was more fitting considering I'm using pretty much nothing but revolvers (and a Bulldog shotgun from Playthrough 1 which I still enjoy using, despite my revolvers being much better).  An Equalizer with high ammo regeneration, plus two other revolvers, one being corrosive and the other explosive.  The latter of the two is quite helpful in taking out those insane waves of skags I have to deal with in the beginning.

I've played this game several times before, how in the hell am I getting more sucked into it than ever before?  And to think I still haven't even started the DLC yet.  Just hope my addiction doesn't get too bad.

Next time I'm in game, I'll be sure to get some screenies of my character's stats and gear, just for the hell of it.

Don't think I'll do all the quests like I did in Playthrough 1, especially since I'm not getting that good amount of EXP for it.  Would rather just kill mobs like there's no tomorrow since it seems to be a much better source of experience.  Once I complete Playthrough 2 I'm gonna start going through all the DLC.

If anyone wants to join me for co-op, I'm still looking for the multiplayer experience sometime!  Of course I still gotta make a GameSpy account, but will do so when the opportunity for multiplayer gameplay arrives.

Get You One!

Hey, name's Scooter! I's named after my sister. Hey, come get you some wheels!

Yep, that's right, been re-playing Borderlands again for the...4th time?  Actually trying a Hunter this time.  Would always play the Soldier every time I played this, but figured I'd go a different route this time.  Still using shotguns though, but have most of my proficiency levels in pistols so far.  Oh and I have the Game of the Year edition, so I'll finally be able to play all the DLC later on (haven't gotten to play all of them the previous times I played this game).

Only level 14 so far, but if anyone else wants to join along sometime, I'm up for it.  Would prefer to play with people about my level though, not fun to have a level 60 bring me through the whole game.  I like a challenge.

Definitely hyped for Borderlands 2, but...gonna be some time before that's out.  Figured this would tide me over in the meantime.

Weekend of relaxation, may be going to the arcade with a friend tomorrow which should be fun, but Sunday I gotta study for my first text in my Mobile Computing class...gonna need lots of luck for it.  Not exactly my most favorite subject that I'm taking this semester.  It's a shame it's not take-home like a lot of my other exams are.

And now I leave you with a really cool pony crossover:

See you all next time

Knite, Level 1 Human Fighter

Taking a shot at Pathfinder, and actually enjoying it so far, getting the rules and such pretty well.  Of course I'm just going by the solo adventure that came with the box set, but might try other things with the game afterward.

Staying at the apartment for the weekend, which means I'll have peace and quiet Friday-Sunday.  Perfect time to be lazy, play games and stuff, the usual.  Had considered walking over to the nearby movie theater, but there's not really anything out I'm interested in seeing, plus it's a 45 minute walk in somewhat hot weather.  No thanks.

I may actually spend time this weekend working on a video, if inspiration comes to me.  It's time I got something new up anyway, and with no roommate to bother me all the time, I may as well.  Still want to do something MLP related but it takes forever to acquire an episode off of YouTube for use, will have to use "other methods".  Even then it'd take a while to think of something good.

Oh, and, I may be auditioning for Wheel of Fortune on the 26th.  I shit you not, I love the show, I'm really good at it.  Was watching it tonight and saw that the bus is coming to where I live on that day, definitely gonna go for it.  Even if I do well for the auditions it's probably still a low chance, but it's worth a shot.

Funny, I love games like that, yet I suck at Scrabble.  Seriously, think I only won like 20% of the games I ever played on Words With Friends.

Birthday is coming up faster than I realize, close to a month to go, still don't know what I want for it.  I know I want a new laptop but not really sure of what else.  A good Applejack plush would also make me happy, but they can get pricy.  Hell, I'd even be happy with one of those small Applejack blind bag toys.  One of the bronies at school had one, he showed it to me and was able to hang it off the top of my laptop, as if she was just chilling up there and watching, it was awesome.

Been looping this for some time, love it

I shall update soon on video progress and whatnot.  See you all then.

Not dead!

Wow, a week since the last post?  Geez, I've spent way too much time in Minecraft...

Yeah, I've been back to playing Minecraft again, online this time, found a random survival server that just started up, been helping out with building a few things, and having fun doing so, really enjoying the multiplayer experience.  Partially the reason why for my disappearance.

Mostly though the reason is because of my grandmother, been really depressed lately because of her, still can't stand seeing her in the hospital.  She did get moved to a different floor through for physical therapy, so she is showing some improvement, but it's still tough...

Tomorrow I get my Pathfinder stuff, hoping to start getting into the material and playing the game a little (yes on my own, better than nothing).  Pretty much the one thing I have to look forward to tomorrow for Valentine's Day.

Well, one other thing too.  Only sent something to one person for Valentine's Day, and I'm sure you can guess who it was.  If not, you obviously haven't been reading all of my posts.  Hoping her getting that will brighten her day once she gets it.

To close this off, I think I'll show off what I made for the server (yes it was all handmade without flying, yes I had to get all the materials myself, yes I have lost all sanity):

And yeah, my skin is of Derpy Hooves with her paper bag costume.  Best skin I've ever used.  For those that are wondering how my character is a pony instead of a human (and somehow never heard of the mod), I'm using the Mine Little Pony mod.  Look it up on the Minecraft forums.

See you all next time.

RPG time

I haven't posted the past day or two?  Oops, sorry.

Having trouble sleeping tonight, mostly because I've been thinking about my grandmother, who didn't look so good tonight when I went to visit her.  But, this will give me the opportunity to make a quick post and catch up on here.

I've been getting into Pathfinder lately.  For those that don't know what it is or never heard of it, it's basically a carbon copy of D&D 3.5 edition.  It has some slight changes to combat and some other aspects, but it's quite similar.  I actually find Pathfinder to be better than D&D.  I've never played D&D but have tried learning it and have gotten kind of confused in the process.  Pathfinder has been pretty smooth to learn just by going through the book (which I downloaded a PDF for but anticipate to get the actual hardcover book).  I also am planning to get the beginner's box which I've already ordered on eBay, and it should be here by next week.  By then I hope to learn it and maybe even get my younger brother into it.  If he likes Heroica, why not?

Someday I'll get the bronies at school to try it too.  After all, we could do a My Little Pony-themed campaign.  I remember seeing once online somewhere that someone made custom races for Earth ponies/unicorns/pegasi.  I'd definitely be up for that.

In the next couple of days, I'm stopping by the campus grill to get this really awesome sandwich, something you guys should try out sometime (of course I don't expect you guys to actually come here and try it, just something to make on your own).  It's a hoagie roll with chicken tenders on the bottom, with marinara sauce on it, then a layer of mozzarella sticks, more marinara, fries (with crispy flour coating), and finally topped with a layer of melted mozzarella.  It truly is amazing.  Hell, now that I think of it, I should get this tomorrow after my classes.  Yeah, I'm gonna do that.

Pictures shall be posted next time.

Need New Laptop

So apparently I can't Livestream anything without my laptop slowing down.  Even with simple NES games.  And I don't think anyone wants to watch me play Minesweeper on a Livestream.

My birthday is coming up though within a couple of months (April 2nd, to be exact), so I may be asking for a new laptop then.  It may not be Alienware, but I should be getting something better than my current one (an HP dv6875se), considering I actually get one anyway.  Only thing I really want for it anyway.

Still have interest in playing multiplayer for some of these NES games, or even Minecraft or Terraria or whatever.  Someday I'll get into doing that.  For tonight though, will probably spend some time playing whatever else I've got lying around on my desktop.  Will probably check through my NES games again to see if there's anything good I haven't really played much of.

Also, where are all of the funny Super Bowl commercials at?  I mean, Pepsi had a decent one, at least the ending of it was funny, but...no others yet.  Only reason why I have this on after all.

Hate to end this post with just general stuff, so here's some musical ponies for you.  Had this in my head earlier today.

Going Nuts

This is probably the one thing keeping me sane right now, Derpy is awesome (but Applejack is still best pony to me).  Makes me want to get a lava lamp for no real good reason.

Today has been a very depressing day.  Of course, the reason is obvious, I went to see my grandmother today, and she didn't look too good.  She kept slurring her speech still, could really only open like half her mouth when talking.  She couldn't move her right arm with the exception of turning her wrist a little.  She had a bit of trouble moving her right leg around, which my brother and I only saw her do when we walked into her room when she was asleep, after which she couldn't really move around at all.  I was in tears.

Turns out it actually was a stroke.  Really do hope though that with enough therapy that things will be back to normal.  However, there's no telling.  If after a year or so there's something that doesn't go back to normal, nothing can be done about it, as the doctor had told us anyway.

Because of this, I most likely will not be making my trip to New Hampshire in two weeks, which is a huge bummer for me but it's for good reason.  I'd hate to have my vacation and find out something worse happened.

Today was my little brother's birthday party, and we all went bowling.  It did help take the whole thing off of my mind for a little while, and actually ended up doing decently, highest I bowled was a 174.  Still, this and other things have been on my mind and just overall made this quite a depressing weekend.

I've homework to complete tomorrow, and would like to spend some time gaming afterward as well.  Would like to set up a Livestream channel to do some PS2 streaming.  May post a bulletin on my YouTube channel for it if I follow through with it.  Won't be anything interesting, more so since I don't have any co-hosts or anything, but hey, should be fun anyway, right?  If anything I'll do NES games or whatever else.

Oh and tomorrow's the Super Bowl.  I couldn't give a shit.  Sorry, not a football person.  Or a sports person in general...ok, I actually do like baseball, but I don't really keep up with it.  But, if I don't end up doing the Livestream, or don't Livestream the PS2, I'll watch it just for the commercials.

This song has been stuck in my head for some time (mainly Rainbow Dash's bit).  You know who you are for getting it stuck in there in the first place.

So my laptop is now yelling at me that I have low battery, too lazy to get the charger.  Gotta get up relatively early tomorrow anyway to watch my little brother so I should be calling it a night anyway.

Til next time everybody/pony.

Many Thanks

To those of you that sent me an email and/or private message on YouTube, I'd like to give you my thanks.  I'll be seeing my grandmother tomorrow morning with my older brother, hoping she'll be looking/doing better.  As for my friend's father, all is well as far as I know.

Trying to keep my mind clear tonight, been a bit of a rough day even after the brony meetup.  The meetup was pretty chill, we ended up watching videos, two of them played Yu-Gi-Oh (I prefer Magic, but it was interesting to watch), had some food, was good.  One of them ended up getting sick though, probably something that was in the food...but the whole group pretty much worked together in cleaning up the mess (yeah, the food she ate ended up coming back out...), and helped her get some water and assisted in helping her feel better.  It's the magic of friendship!

As for tonight, just been chilling, playing some more NES stuff.  Took a shot at Wall Street Kid, can't make money to save my life.  Or buy a house, apparently.  This is why I prefer making money off of Blackjack than the stock market.  Yes, if I can't get a job, I'll make a living off of Blackjack.  If I made $200 profit on my 21st birthday off of the $100 gift I got (after playing for like 3 hours), I can make a living off of it.  I still wish to get a real job, but still, something I'll be keeping in mind.  Long story short, no stock market, thank you.

Getting into tarot again.  Yeah, every once in a while I like to pull out my tarot deck and do a quick one-card reading just to see what the near future is like.  Bet you never knew that!  So, what's tonight's reading about my near future?  Queen of Cups.  Basically, it means showing compassion and focusing on the emotional well-being of others.  Geez, don't I already do this enough?  But yeah, I have a good feeling this applies to tomorrow as well.  Must take good care of my grandmother!

Little bit of time left before I should get to sleep, I'll probably play a round of Concentration on the NES.  Anyone remember that old game show?  I used to love that as a kid, even if I could never get it that well.  When it came to the game though, I'd just watch the older bro.  It's a fun game though, will play that for a while before I retire for the night.

Oh right, a little something I watched while at today's meetup.  If you're a brony, watch it if you haven't already, it's quite entertaining.

Until next time everybody/pony.

Best Wishes Needed

This morning, which I had planned to be a wonderful day out with a close friend and a fun meetup with the bronies at school, has just crumbled.  This morning I got a call from my older brother, telling me my grandmother was taken away by the paramedics really early this morning.  I don't know what happened to her, it's almost like some sort of stroke even though it isn't one, but she slurs her speech, and can't seem to walk well nor use her right hand/arm.  Awaiting an MRI scan, hopefully this will be taken care of soon.  She just turned 80 and still looks young...

But it's not just this.  I also got a message from that one good friend I was hoping to see today (her name's Kim, by the way), and turns out her father is in the hospital.  I called her this morning and she says all is well, but...kind of hard for a guy like me to feel better hearing that.  I worry like there's no tomorrow, especially for her, so...made sure to call her this morning to be sure she was okay, and then made a call to my older brother to find out if there was any more info about my grandmother, see if they found out anything, but, still awaiting for that MRI...

Any and all readers out there, if you see this post today, or the next day, or whenever you may see it, even if its so far away that everyone was already better, I don't care when, just...please, pray for the best.  Not just for my grandmother, but for Kim's father, or even her family in general.  Even if what her father went through isn't as serious, I still want them to have the best wishes from me and whoever else that reads this.

Will be putting up a bulletin on my YouTube channel as well, hoping for any non-readers out there to send their wishes as well.

Thank you everybody/pony.

Minecraft Adventures

Nothing like digging a huge mine, finding valuables, fighting baddies, and doing it all over again until you're blue in the face.  Strange how even after you see all that the game has to offer, you keep on playing it.  Yep, I'm talking about Minecraft.

Trying something a little different though.  After downloading a mod that gives you a bunch of types of worlds you can generate, I had some inspiration.  I want to give a shot at making an adventure map.  With a good knowledge of logic/circuitry and having much enjoyment from playing around with the Redpower mod, I figured I'd use it to make some really cool puzzles and/or mazes to use in certain parts of this map.

Only working on buildings for the beginning town so far, but making use of Redpower's various sized covers/strips/etc. to make (somewhat) detailed buildings, instead of them being all so blocky.

It's a shame I don't have any modding experience, otherwise I'd try to make mobs to use for bosses or whatever, but no biggie.  It'll just be less combat-oriented and more puzzle solving.

Depending on how progress goes, I'll try to have a screenshot or two (or more) up soon.  Still trying to figure a storyline and whatnot too, but for now I just want to play around with the building blocks I have from Redpower.  That's what is most fun after all!

Come to think of it...I could use Redpower's various colored wires as different colored keys, where you would need a specific colored key to open a certain door, while making one color (maybe light gray) used as a general color for most doors.  Kinda like small keys and boss keys in Legend of Zelda.

If I don't post again tonight, I shall tomorrow after I'm back.  See you all then!

"Yeah Applejack, Woo-hoo!" *crash*

Just got back from my only class today, had this stuck in my head all day, for no real reason:

So glad Derpy got a speaking role a couple weeks ago, she's awesome.  However...

Applejack is still best pony to me :D

So, grad forms are in, found out I still have to take the GRE because I performed so shittastically last semester, figures.  But, I can take it, no different than being a regular old student applying for graduate school.

Debating about dinner, was gonna fry some chicken but also considering making one of those small DiGiorno pizzas.  And not just any pizza, one with a cheese-stuffed crust.  Damn those things are amazing.  Only thing I do though before cooking them is I scrape off any cheese that may be on the bottom of the pizza; it always crisps it and makes the crust crunchy, in a bad way.  I don't know, am I just being OCD?  Still, it comes out really good and I enjoy it.

Did want to talk about Hybrid Heaven still but been playing a lot of other games at the same time.  Quick rundown of what I've played recently:

• Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (PC, already beat it but re-installed it)
• Terraria
• Minecraft
• Evochron Mercenary
• Kid Chameleon (but already wrote about that)
• Spelunky (just downloaded it, may play tonight)
• EarthBound (would play Mother 3 but waiting on my friend's return to continue it)
• Katamari Damacy / We Love Katamari

I have an EasyCAP (for when I play the PS2 games), so one day I should set up a LiveStream for when I play all these games.  If I get enough viewers I think it'd be fun to do.  Maybe on my free days I'll do really long gaming marathons for old games.  Yeah, that'd be pretty cool.  Would need a co-star though or it's not as good, at least in my opinion.

Gonna make some dinner and try out Spelunky, if for some reason I don't play it much, will probably end up just spending some time in Evochron Mercenary or whatever else that looks good.  Also need to work several hours tonight, should probably do that first...will see though.

Oh, and going to New Hampshire on the 15th for a few days with the family, until the 20th I believe.  Should be fun, hopefully will get the chance to be in the snow again (something I haven't experienced since I was 10 years old, which was the only time I've been in it).

Also thinking about the video I posted at the beginning of this post, still got Pinkie's words stuck in my head.

PICKLE BARREL KUMQUAT PICKLE BARREL KUMQUAT PICKLE BARREL KUMQUAT

CHIMICHERRY CHERRYCHANGA CHIMICHERRY CHERRYCHANGA CHIMICHERRY CHERRYCHANGA

Peace out everybody/pony.

Insomnia

It's 1:20 in the morning.  Why am I still awake?  WHYYYYYYYY

Watching Tim and Eric's Awesome Show Great Job.  Why the hell haven't I watched this before?  Practically a YTP in itself at times.

Been playing Hybrid Heaven lately, it's a lot of fun, will make a post about it in the near future.  Basically it's an RPG with fighting elements in it.  In my opinion, it's a game that deserved more popularity during the Nintendo64 days.  Considering the system didn't really have much else for RPGs...Quest 64 is the only other one that comes to mind.  And Paper Mario, which is probably the best the system had.

Been worrying about someone lately, probably more than I should, but still I worry.  I just follow my instincts and they've generally been right 95% of the time, and something in my gut just tells me I should be worrying.

1:30 now.  Starting to feel like I'm typing a mindless rant, just typing out things without even thinking about it, without editing sentences or anything of the sort.  Feels good.

Statistics class tomorrow (Computer Systems Performance Analysis, to be specific, but it's pretty much been nothing but statistics formulas and such so far).  Also gotta run around campus to get that graduation form signed and whatnot.

I'm starting to feel a bit of depression hitting me again.  Don't know why.  Really hope meeting up with the bronies at the end of the week fixes that.

For now, it's late, and it's time for bed.

Goodnight everybody/pony.

I hate Mondays (and Wednesdays)

Well, I usually don't mind Wednesdays, but I hate them both for one reason: the first class of the day.  Wake up at 8:30 am to get ready for my 9:30 class, in which I listen to a professor who's as monotone as Ben Stein, and is quieter than the sound of me typing on the laptop (which is pretty damn quiet).  I seriously have issues staying awake in this class, even with plenty of sleep the night before.  Ugh.

Graduation (for my Bachelor's) coming up, gotta get my forms turned in this week by Friday.  Kinda nervous, to be honest.  After my performance last semester I'm quite scared about my future.  It's worse when you have an older brother who's doing so well in school, soon going to pharmacy school, finishing graduate courses this semester.  I know my parents will end up giving me hell if I don't do as well computer-wise as he does with medicine.  I've got nothing against my brother, I'm proud of how much he's succeeded, I just wish my parents would be accepting of what I've accomplished even if I don't do as well as he did.

Thankfully this class ends soon (at 10:50), going to my Mobile Computing class after that at 11 (until 12:20), and then maybe my Analysis of Algorithms course at 12:30 (until 1:50), its the one class on these days that doesn't take attendance and everything is put online anyway.  Plus I'm quite familiar with some of the material.  Gotta work for a few hours today (I do search engine evaluation work for Google as an independent agent.  Gets boring/repetitive, but it's money).  Would also like to get more shirt designs done.

OH, yes, shirts.  Please, if you guys would take the time to look at some of my designs and maybe consider purchasing one of them, that'd be pretty awesome.

http://www.cafepress.com/amk_mcgear
http://www.redbubble.com/people/amknite

I gotta start finding a game to play during these classes, since all the stuff is online anyway, just showing up for the attendance.  Had considered Terraria but I'd need the laptop's processor to go full speed (which'd be a lot of noise), plus would have to start bringing my mouse with me so my fingers don't burn on the trackpad.  Meh.  Any suggestions anyone?  Preferably older games, can be PC, NES, SNES, and would prefer RPGs/roguelikes or anything that's more casual or doesn't require lots of attention or "zoning in" or whatever.

Looking forward to Friday, going to a meetup at school for a brony group I'm in, should be fun.  Not sure what's going on, but considering it's at the Student Union, it'll probably be Super Smash Bros. Melee, that's what everyone plays there (aside from Magic: The Gathering).

Also possibly going out with a friend to a nearby arcade, Boomers, if she's cool with going this week, waiting to find out.  Hoping so though, had a lot of fun when we got lunch before so do hope to spend some time with her again.

Thinking of that though, also trying to cut down on my Pepsi addiction.  Let's face it, I don't think I'll ever stop drinking it, but I gotta say I've really tried drinking it less than I have been.

I started typing this at around 10:15 I believe, and it's now 10:40.  Guess I had a lot to think about.  Now I look up at the notes on the projector screen and it's practically no different than what it was when I started typing.  Goddamn my professor is slow with teaching.

'Til next time everybody/pony

Too Tough to Beat

A pretty good description of what the game I've been playing lately is.  Less so nowadays since people can use save states, though I've been trying to play this without using them at all...well, at least to cheat my way through certain obstacles.  I only save when I'm done playing it for the day.  Played this a lot when I was a kid and barely made it to the second boss each time I played it before shutting off the system, having to start all over again from the beginning the next time I played.

The game I'm talking about is...

Yep, Kid Chameleon on the Sega Genesis.  Think about your old school platformers such as Mario; jumping on baddies, hitting blocks with your head for power-ups, collecting large amounts of a certain valuable, etc.  That's pretty much what this game is.  Only several times more difficult.  Also, the game's path has some variability to it; although you have to fight all the bosses in the game, some levels have warp points that travel to other levels, allowing you to take different pathways through the game's course.  Although you only need to play like 50 levels to beat the game (to the best of my memory), there's over 100 levels that exist in the game.

Basically you're the Kid Chameleon (nickname of the main character, Casey), who goes through a virtual world in an arcade game to beat the boss that captured players that could not beat the game.  Along the way you can smash prize blocks to get various goodies, including masks that give Casey various powers.  Such as...

...the Red Samurai!  Yeah, this one is definitely one of my favorites.  Fast, high  jumper, and can attack with a sword (with a nice kiai to go along with it, which my older brother and I would always imitate when playing this during our childhood), and can even break certain blocks below him if landing on them while holding the sword downward.  On some levels though he can be a real bitch to control, especially on those with jumping puzzles (*ahem* DRAGONSPIKE).

I also enjoy playing with the Iron Knight.  One thing that stands out is his health; usually each powered-up character has 3 health (Casey having 2), but the IK has 5 so he lasts longer.  He's heavy though, so if you land on certain blocks with enough height (4 or 5 blocks I think?), he'll slam right through it.  Well, except for prize blocks, they'll open up first, then you can crush them after.

Oh, what's that ring of circles around him?  That's his 50-Diamond power.  When you have enough diamonds, you can trigger a character's power, the first power costing 20 Diamonds if you have between 20 to 49, or the second power which costs 50 Diamonds if you have at least that amount.  There's a couple characters that have exceptions to this, but I'm not writing an FAQ here.

But, there you have the result.  Once the ring of health bars disappear, an extra bar is added, giving Casey 3 health now, and all characters 4, except for the IK who now has 6.  This can be used until the IK has 9, after which it won't have any effect.  Also, if you die, you lose all bars gained this way.


Oy, just said I wasn't writing an FAQ and already feel like I am.  Anyway, been playing this game lately, and yeah, it's hard as SHIT.  Now I know why I got so frustrated with this game as a child.  Mostly because I had to start all over again each time I played, since I could never leave the Genesis on overnight.  But of course the game doesn't suck at all.  It's a pretty damn good game!  But come on, like...

How in the hell am I gonna jump over that?  Well I guess I could try to get on that platform and jump over it...

...and cannon block outta fucking nowhere! Reminds me of that Super Mario Frustration video, with all those invisible blocks.  It happens in this game sometimes, lots of hidden treasures in this game, but then there tends to be those hidden blocks that screw you over.


And when you get further in the game, there's more traps waiting for you...

...yeah.


At least some of the traps are a bit obvious...

...so anyway, if you own a Genesis (and if you do, that's pretty awesome, I wish I still had some of my old systems), get it.  Though I'm sure most people have other ways of acquiring their games...


But, if you wanna support this game and buy it, check it out on Steam.  They have this game up for like $2.99, and it's well worth it.


Oh, and, if you do play it, watch the intro a few times.  On the third time around, I found something pretty cool...

See him?  Look closely!

Got a bunch of other games on my plate as well, so surely enough I'll write a little bit on all of them.  See you all then!

Oh god, a blog.

Eeyup, I made one.  Now I can complain about the world's problems, obsess about ponies, and talk about all the games I play, new and old.  Isn't that great?

Actually had it in mind to make one for some time after a good friend of mine talked about making one.

So, will be sure to have a link for this up on my YouTube channel somewhere in my info, for all the subscribers/friends/stalkers to look at.  Just writing this for an intro post though, will do another post tonight once I get some dinner in my stomach.