Yeah, the title is horrible. I know, but I can’t seem to think of anything else for a title. The last time I ranted about anything, was about 20 days ago, so I figure I should have something pent up inside me to release (no sexual pun intended), but yeah, I guess that would be a nice place to start.

Firstly, SOUSUKE, REB, NOI. ANYTHING FROM YOU GUYS? Noi, I know hasn’t had streaming gear for the longest time, so I know that’s something to rant about by any stretch. Reb spends way too much time just standing around doing nothing in Pokemon and by some stretch of saying, “What the hell” for having 50-something hours clocked into the game and ONLY having six badges? And Sousuke… I dunno, go off about how you’re pretty much at the same point as Reb and only have 12 hours clocked into the game? I haven’t chatted with you in a while, so not really sure what you could rant about just yet.

Anyway, FINALLY got my 360 back. After about a month of not having one, I finally saved up enough working at the arcade for a friend. In simple terms to save myself some money and actually buy some games, I bought myself an arcade system and just used the hard drive I had from my last console and transfered it over. Afterwards, I had $82 ($74 after that delicous Bacon Chicken Ranch sandwich at Subway) to buy games with. After traveling with Blinkin (a friend of mine) to five different Gamestops, two Targets, and a Wal-Mart, somehow, he walked away with more substance than I did the whole day.

My haul ended up being Halo 3, .hack//G.U. Vol 1 – Rebirth (finally <.<), and a MS Points card with 1600 points. All in all, cost me about $65 dollars or so? I don’t 100% recall. As for my friend? Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Red vs. Blue Seasons 4 and 5,  and iRobot. costing him a cool 27ish dollars. At one of the Gamestops we hit up, they had a sale on DVDs. Buy one, get two free. He took advantage of that, picking up the only season of Red vs. Blue that none of my friends had. I might head back to that one just to pick up the 3rd and 5th season myself, as well as pick up The Boondocks (Season 1).

So gaming wise, what I have I done lately. A lot with my 360 since I got it back. Been playing some Halo 3 alone and with some friends. Played two rounds with Dan… Clearly, he’s the better player since in every match, he got more kills than I did… Mirror’s Edge, I borrowed from a friend. Interesting game, frustrating controls, and half the time, I have no idea where the fuck to go. However, I’m trying to get the Test of Faith achievement (Completele the game without shooting an enemy). It should be easy for me under this condition.

I completely forgot how to disarm an enemy.

But slowly completing that over time and stuff. Bits of Call of Duty 4… And for some reason, a lot of Sega Superstar Tennis. I got it with the Arcade system, so if anyone is wondering if I actually bought this game separately, I didn’t. Although, the Curien Mansion stage is probably what hooked me. For those of you who don’t know what the Curien Mansion is, it’s from House of the Dead.

I should probably wrap up my thoughts here since I have to head to class in about 10 minutes. Here’s a closing thought, though. I was looking at the Tatsunoko vs. Capcom article on Wikipedia just so I could learn the names of the Tatsunoko characters I use (since they’re pretty much the only characters in the game I actually use. Screw Capcom, you’ve failed to put Talbain in another game). While searching for the names, I came across the Final Boss name and stuff.

What the hell. The final boss of the game is from Okami?

Mind blown.

Oh, and story is coming along. School work is a bitch.

Until then, later~

As I would so duly call the title, Bang! In The Groove players would know the reference.

To start off my post, the iced coffee tasted like shit. The Dunkin’ Donuts staff messed up twice. Yeah, it’s gonna be a bad day today.

Congratulate me, I officially talk to damn much. I realize I touched up on nothing substancial in the past week, but I’ve got some good ideas for my next few posts, so hear me out, alright?

Firstly, I’ll soon be alternating between three (possibly four, if i feel like it) RPGs come the 22nd. This list includes Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls, Final Fantasy VIII, and Pokemon Platinum. The fourth possibly still being Persona 4.  These are the games that I’ll be blogging my progress in with my new category segment, mach_gamelog.exe. Taking a note from several people who just use their blog to record their progress. This is just my version of it. I’ve decided to add a little substance to it, especially with Platinum.

So what’s my idea with Platinum? Make it into a story. Talk about my whole adventure with my team and my journey to the Elite 4. Occasionally tossing in some guest appearance from several of the other Backloggery trainers, if people are interested in being part of this. I’m trying to decide which Pokemon I’ll be starting with alongside my Chimchar. Most likely, it will be another Riolu… You know, because I’m lame like that and Vincent and Lucian need another little brother, right? I suppose, it’s just kinda weird for me to go through a 4th generation Pokemon game and not lug around my favorite Pokemon. Why make it into a story? Does anyone remember that walkthrough guide back during the 1st generation games that had a walkthrough in the form of a story? The guy who was doing that walkthrough had a Charmander named Charmer or something and then kinda made it as a journal kind of thing to walk users through the game as well as  make it simultaneously entertaining. I’d be damned if someone else rememberd this book as well.

Final Fantasy I and VIII will be some sort of journal thing. I’ll just be recording the progress of the game in some lame ass way or something.

So there was something I wanted to exclusively do with my blog a while back, but then I thought about it… Aren’t all these blogs about community togetherness? I was just gonna do a podcast called Error Report with just my blog, but are any of the other blogs interested in doing a joint one? I mean, it wouldn’t go under the same name that I thought of here, but something… You know, that represents the community.

I’m sure with all the creative minds here, we could chalk up some interesting topics for some hour long episodes or something. I have ideas for it if anyone is interested.

So much for a half-century post… At any rate, have a video:

Here’s to fifty more posts.

Until then, later~