Sleep, Coffee, and Brainnnns.

First of all, forgive the last post, I was on about three hours of sleep across two days, but I felt I had procrastinated long enough. College picked up, I have my first assignment due in Creative Non-Fiction Tuesday, I have yet to start, I'm sure it will be awesome. The first assignment is some sort of memoir, which sucks ass, I was hoping that by taking a class focused on 'new-journalism' I can get away from writing about myself and how awesome/heartbroken/full of former-teenage angst I am. Despite that the class does have an awesome structure. Basically an hour and a half of every class is work shopping the writing tasks we get every week, which can be fun given the right group. There is a wide variety of ages in this class, maybe 'cause it's second year, so I can often get a perspective into someone's life I normally would not be able to, it makes me drunk with power, a type of personality voyeurism. This age/gender balance also makes reading another's writing a lot more entertaining. For instance in High School all I got to hear about was how awesome/heartbroken/full of teenage angst the author was, and a criticism about cliched or pretentious views would lead to me being labeled simple minded. (eg. Story focused gamers versus Braid/J.Blow)

Bought Tools of Destruction after playing Quest for Booty two weeks ago. That marketing by Insomniac really worked. I'm loving it so far, though after playing QforB the graphics are a bit of a downgrade (especially lighting), though the environments are much more vibrant. I've played snippets of other Ratchet games, but really haven't sunk into one until QforB, and now, Tools of Destruction. What's interesting is, after playing Tools of Destruction I look upon Quest for Booty in a different way. Tools of Destruction just has so much going for it, all the extra shit to do, the insane amount of weapons, a better balance to gameplay, and arena challenges? So addicting. So after playing about five hours into Tools of Destruction, I would not enjoy playing Quest for Booty as a semi-sequel nearly as much now. I know QforB was only 15 bucks, and thus was short, but I think a little more should've been added in, in terms of weapons, and replay value (trophies, challenges? please?)

Birthday is coming up, and as a family birthday tradition, there will be no surprise gifts being given to avoid massive disappointment. I'll be getting an Xbox 360 elite, hooray! Finally I can play Geometry Wars on a controller. *Drools* Oh... And I guess I'll have to download Braid for the highly rated time mechanics. Well.. I could really go on for days about games I'll want to get immediately, because let's face it the 360 really has the best game library going for it right now.

Life for the Playstation came out and as a Folding addict (Team 138404) I could not be more happy. The new interface is a much updated interactive globe, with cloudscapes (real-time?!) of the earth, weather updates, and localized google news stories for different cities around the world. Ever stare at your simulated protein folding and think, "Shit, I really wish I could look at the localized news of Riyadh and do this at the same time," I know I have, and now my prayers have been answered. Seriously though, it's pretty cool.

I forgot to mention last post that I checked out the Motorstorm: Pacific Rift demo through Qore, good times, hope they're going to be able to achieve as much as the developers/PR are claiming. I don't think the demo showcased enough of the terrain deformation that is being said will be available in the full game, but I can dream!

Fallout 3 will be my next video game arrival, can't wait!