LittleBIGAwesome!

'Bout a week ago, at like 11 'o dark, I had this innate and uncontrollable urge to go buy another game. Course, LBP had just recently been released and I was itching to see if it survived it's hype, and/or if I could possibly get into the genre that it was portraying for it's profound appeal.

Which, if you bear with me, I'd like to digress into the time frame of the inital debut for LBP, I had taken a stroll...rather a drive, to Family Video in LaPorte, to rent whatever lame or possibly decent movies had come out. Never before realizing, I have a harder time finding movies to rent, when I hear so much about their reviews by working at a theater. Nonetheless, after being unable to find a movie, me and Amanda...(grammatically that's incorrect, but I don't care) strayed into the Video Game corner, and sure enough, Family Video had some copies, two to be exact, yet to no surprise none were available. Walking out of the corner in sheer disappointment, we settled on The Happening.

Speaking of which, wasn't THAT bad of a movie...Mark Wahlberg(sp?) probably saved the film.


However, I perhaps digress too much from the main focus that I want to present. A week later, on the spur of the moment, me and Amanda, went to LaPorte to go purchase LBP. A game both of us were eager to try. I was going to take out $60 from my account via ATM in town, but the fucker was down for some maintenance, so I had to put the whole $63.92 on my credit card. Which already had about $44.00 worth of a charge on it anyways.

I must say, in this day and age, when the video game prices are skyrocketing, shelling out more than half of a Benjamin for a game you've never actually played before and having no set stance on the game based toward your liking, is rather asinine. Though, just like SoulCalibur IV, I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of fun LBP has to offer.

Though I only own four PS3 games, I have to say without a doubt, with the exception of LEGO Star Wars : The Complete Saga, no other game this gaming generation yet, has so far been worth every single penny, dollar, mileage, time, and brain cell.

Consensus, LittleBIGPlanet, is a LittleBIGMustHave, and is simply LittleBIGAwesome!

How could you NOT love this type of game...just look at it!?

A Time for Lighter Moods

I say to ye, thou must dance, dance thy Chocobo Dance!

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Thy Fool

Thy fool so full of one's self,
Ponders not this life's secrets,
Instead thy fool daydreams,
Whilst the day turns to dusk,

And forth of thine foolish mouth,
Does his empty prayers spill,
Drifting toward a silent sky,
Void of the god he denies,

Shattered shards of human heart,
Embrace the cold decor of hope,
Never shall thy dream awaken,
So long as thy fool slumbers,

For eternity shall thy fool be king,
Within thine own faux world,
Ignorant of that which was forsaken,
Be it thine own sanity or reason,

Lone forth from now til evermore,
Thus as his false reality will be broken,
Still thy fool shall continue smiling,
Whilst his crimson core turns all to ash,

Thine foolish fool devoid of humanity,
Desecrating his last hope in raging fire,
Alone at the brink of destruction,
Thy fool is laughing.

I wrote that entire poem at the spur of the moment, took about 10 minutes....

The Beginning Excerpt

An excerpt from what has finally been decided to be my first novel. As such I remember having mentioned it once before, but was as such unsure in which direction to take up the endeavour and where to direct it. I have finally set upon a course of writing, however slow it may take, however despite all of that I still have not decided upon a fitting title beyond "Untitled" at this point in time.

From the Preface:

"So long as there will be Light,
So shall there be Darkness,

Such is the way it must be,
For two opposing forces,

Destined to destroy each other,
When neither can exist alone,

Either shall not reign,
Thus has fate foretold."

Identity what?

I think I want to become a super-villain. Minus the super part. But villain all the same.

Pros
1 Line badass catch-phrases
No taxes
Free everything
Everyone knows your name
Get to kick the shit outta your nemesis, Mr. Goody-to-shoes

Cons
Odd...I can't seem to think of any...well I'll add some, IF I think of 'em

Nostalgic Summer Days

Nostalgia...many of us experience it, and it usually comes about through a reminiscing of good past memories.

I am for this summer, playing, and completing the games I never did get a chance to buy and/or beat when I wanted to...

Playstation 2
- Fullmetal Alchemist 2 : Curse of the Crimson Elixir *Finished*

Man that's a mouth-full, yet I've beaten it, and as such being the last PS2 game, my PS2 has already been retired.

Playstation 1
- Inuyasha : A Feudal Fairy Tale *Finished*
- Final Fantasy VI *Finished*
- Final Fantasy IV *Finished*
- Final Fantasy V *Finished*
- Chrono Trigger *Finished*
- Chrono Cross *Finished*

Once those are completed...all that will remain is Next-Gen. Say hello my dear PS3.

As the Dust Sets

Well...as of today. My Playstation 2, for all intents and purposes that I can foresee, will now be under a state of retirement.

"Retiring" a console, whether it be an actual gamer term or not. *If its not then I claim it*....it basically means, for the sole purpose it provides, the console is no longer in use. Not necessarily meaning it does not work.

Quite the opposite, my PS2 is in well-kept condition and has no problems. In this way, "retiring" my PS2 means, I'm moving onto the next-gen consoles. I have beaten each an every game I own in my PS2 collection, and therefore, wanting no more, have nothing left to do but "retire" the console.

Playstation 2
December 2002 - May 2008
"Retired"