A Galaxy Far, Far Away...: August 2004

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

That's a bold statement, my friend...

Ripped off from Brad's blog so go me!

01. I have never kissed someone of the same sex.
02. I see a therapist.
03. I'm the youngest child.
04. I am drawn to things associated with sadness.
05. I would consider getting a tattoo.
06. I use hairgell every day.
07. I am extremely influenced by kindness.
08. I love to write, even though I think I suck at it.
09. I can't live without TV.
10. I’m probably emotionally scarred.
11. I lived in Tahoe.
12. I spend money I have.
13. I'll be in college for over 4 years.
14. I love brand name clothes.
15. I’ve had a concussion before.
16. I'm not good with confrontation.
17. I loved the Backstreet Boys.
18. I have more than a couple horrible memories.
19. I'm addicted to Degrassi.
20. I’m spiritual… but not religious.
21. My first kiss was unexpected.
22. I start school on Jan 4th or 5th.
23. I love taking pictures.
24. I hate girls.
25. I can be mean when I want to.
26. When I allow myself to get close to people, I get very attached.
27. I am bisexual.
28. I have way too many pairs of shoes.
29. I've seen She’s All That at least 50 times.
30. I dress how I feel that day.
31. I love Charmed.
32. Sometimes I cry for almost no reason.
33. I hate when people are ridiculously late.
34. I procrastinate
35. Winter is my favorite season.
36. I have too many clothes for my closet/dresser.
37. I love to sleep.
38. I wish I were smarter.
39. I believe that it is wrong to be gay.
40. I have a lot of drama.
41. No one really knows me.
42. I love my hair.
43. I sometimes fight with my parents.
44. I am passionate about my interests.
45. I have had the chicken pox.

46. I'm a hopeless romantic.
47. I feel empty sometimes.
48. I am/was clinically depressed at a point in my life.
49. I am addicted to coffee.
50. I am very outgoing.
51. Christmas is my favorite holiday.
52. I can be very insecure.
53. I don't notice it, but I'm told I'm very softspoken.
54. I hate ignorant people.
55. I love my laptop.
56. I prefer brains to beauty.
57. I state the obvious.
58. I'm a happy person.
59. I'm extremely mellow.

60. I contemplate suicide.
61. I hate cleaning my room.
62. I tend to get jealous.
63. I like to play video games.
64. I love John Mayer.
65. I get more upset when I see an animal hurt than a person.
66. I'm a vegetarian/vegan/don't eat beef.
67. I don't like to study for tests.
68. I am too forgiving.
70. I have a good sense of direction.
71. I love school.
72. I've played a musical instrument for more than 5 years. (almost)
73. I tend to feel inadequate.
74. I love kisses on the forehead.
75. I love the color blue.
76. I can sew.
77. I am addicted to drugs.
78. I wear contacts.
79. President Bush is a complete and utter moron.
80. I become stressed easily.
81. I don't take criticism well.
82. Conformity is stupid.
83. Chris Carrabba is one of the suckiest men alive.
84. So is Conor from Bright Eyes.
85. I love my family.
86. I don't mind getting shots.

87. I am a perfectionist when it comes to certain things.
88. I always wanted to learn to play the drums.

89. I can be too hard on myself.
90. I don't like my nose.
91. I am very religious.
92. I still act like a little kid.
93. I am ridiculously indecisive.
94. I believe in a higher power or some form of an afterlife.
95. I love music.
96. I'm in love.
97. I have problems letting go of people.
98. I tend to think with my heart more than my head.
99. I don't really like ice cream.
100. I can't live without books.
101. If my house burned down, I'd try to save my cat.
102. I hate the town I live in.
103. I hate my hair style.
104. I only dance when I'm drunk.
105. I still sleep with my old stuffed toys.
106. I eat between three and four standard bars of chocolate a day.
107. I fangirl symphony orchestras, musicians, conductors and/or composers.
108. I say "I love you" very lightly, but I usually mean it.
109. I sing a lot, often without realizing it
110. I'm drunk
111. I am an atheist
112. I have stolen something worth over $5 before
113. I know I'm going to hell.
114. I have been seriously lost before.
115. I like cats better than dogs.
116. I like silver better than gold.
117. I like (most) fruit better than (most) candy.
118. I consider myself brainy as opposed to brawny or beatiful.
119. I stay up late, and sleep in late.
120. My parents yell at me for trying to tell them how to run the family.
121. My favorite color is not on a color wheel.

Monday, August 23, 2004

"A Balrog. A demon of the ancient world. This foe is beyond any of you. Run!!!"

I finished beating Doom III earlier today on easy difficulty and it took me damn near 20 hours to beat it. The graphics are simply stunning: the real time shadows and lighting, the excessive amount of bump mapping (mmm bump mapping), the particle effects. For all the hype it got, the story was actually pretty decent compared to what many were thinking you could breeze through it in a few hours of gameplay, but those people were dead wrong. It was real neat how everything was interactive, the physics of objects in a room like cans, trash bins, rollie chairs, the rag-doll physics the game used (becoming quite popular for any games associated with dead bodies of any kind and boy did this game have a lot of that).

Anyone interested in playing the game and finding out things for themselves *coughspoilerscough* might want to skip the next paragraph....otherwise read on.

The whole story takes place on the Mars surface...okay, maybe not the entire story =)...but most of it takes place there inside the UAC (Union Aerospace Corporation) complex that has been discovering life forms on Mars, as well as testing a new way of making new power sources and drinking water by using some kind of technology to split Iron oxide into H2 and O2. Also, there is research being done on prototype teleporters that, well, teleport you..... Your character is a grunt from the Marine Corp who has been assigned for guard duty or some other random thing to do to ensure the integrity of the complex. You are then told to go retrieve a scientist and that's when things start to go to hell...literally. This game is a satan worshiper's best dream...or nightmare...whatever they like best. The demon's jumping at you, the pentagrams all over the walls and floors, the eerie resounding laugh of satan, the zombies, the blood spattered walls. This game has got to be the scariest game I have ever played in my entire life...ever. Imagine walking down a corridor and suddenly the power surges and when it comes on again, there's a creature on the floor that jumps at you from 20 feet. Other than your weapons, you only have a flashlight to see down the dark halls and rooms. I don't feel like rambling on about the entire game, but there's two things that were pretty kick ass and pretty scary too and that is 1) The teleporter takes you to the bowels of hell for a couple hours and 2) the last boss battle is against a Balrog.

Overall, I thought it really was a great game compared to what I expected it to be. The graphics were amazing...probably the best I've seen in a video game yet. The story line was well thought up, but still pales in comparison to Halo. Controls were real nice and the way to interact with computer terminals and your PDA were just dandy. Sound made it very creepy at times. Anyone capable of running this powerhouse of a game on your computer, I advise you to do so...with the lights out, volume up, and a clean pair of shorts handy. Anyone NOT capable of running this thing can just wait for it to come to XBox.

Friday, August 20, 2004

It's been a while

I started playing a certain game known as Star Wars Galaxies back in the first week of July 2003. I've been through it all and have done it all. It took me several months of playing to do what I wanted to do even before I got to game and that's become a Master Bounty Hunter. I did it and I was overwhelmed with joy. After that there wasn't much left for me to do since I still wasn't able to hunt down Jedi (the patch didn't come out yet). After the patch came out the missions were borked half the time and couldn't accomplish a mission if my life depended on it.

What I did under a little under 24 hours ago was one of the greatest feats to do in the game...unlock your force-sensitive character slot. In other words, becoming a Jedi. I went from having 6 mastered professions to having over 25 mastered professions in the past 2 months or so. No these professions aren't just a walk in the park to master...they take time...lots and lots of time...thus why most RPGs are a timesuck. The last profession I mastered that was my unlocking profession was Chef...who would've known?

I know this post means nothing to 99.99999999% of the people who read this thing, but to me I am really psyched to the point where I jumped out of my chair screaming "Oh my god, holy shit I did it!!!" when I unlocked.

Monday, August 16, 2004

Enter Sandman

I've been having problems trying to sleep these past few days. Mainly due from the extensive gameplay of galaxies. This will make it my third time in the past week I've stayed up through the night to the morning. Guess once I get finish grinding every profession in the game, all should be fine with my sleeping habits. I've got a funeral visitation to attend to today for my first grade teacher...probably one of best teachers I ever had. Only a day or two until my new computer gets here. I also changed the song.

Last friday I went and saw AvP with Ryan and Dan. I remember when it was first starting I realized how slow it was at the beginning to get things started. *spoiler for anyone planning to see the movie* The thermal visions the predators used were quite different compared to what someone would see in the original 2. Apparently this movie had a lot more to it than critics take it for. Saw on the forums for it at IMDB that there's an extensive collection of books and comics written about AvP long before this movie was ever considered. I was rather glad that pretty much everyone died early except for the black chick who formed some kind of weird alliance with the Predator...an enemy of my enemy is my friend. Sure the idea of it is a little off-centered, but it makes sense why he didn't slaughter her mercilessly. He witnessed her kill an alien and therefore he knows she is on his side because of all things, Predators despise Aliens...it's almost like the same way as Nazis and Jews....they hate each other with every inch of their bodies. For those of you who may not know this, but Predators kill for sport...not like the Aliens who kill anything that moves. In the first Predator movie, he doesn't kill the latino woman because she's defenseless...so where's the fun in that? In the second one, he doesn't kill the pregnant lady because he knows he'd be killing another innocent. In AvP, the Predator finds no threat in Bishop and walks past him, but Bishop shoots flames at him with some kind of gas canister thus turning him to a threat and that makes the Predator kill his ass. At the end of the movie when the last Predator was skewered by the Queen's tail, it was funny because when the last person alive knelt over by him it was almost like she was gonna start makin' out with him. Then finally at the end a half alien/half predator chestburster bursts from the dead predator's chest leaving it open to a sequel. Will there be one? With the critics response to this movie, I don't think there will be, but you never know.

I still need to see the Bourne Supremacy and Collateral before those leave theaters. Upcoming movies to see are Hero and Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Looks promising and I've heard phenomenal things about the first two movies.

Thursday, August 12, 2004

My life is so fun

Guess what I did today so I played some more Galaxies and stuff and like am mastering all the professions in the game and stuff so far I've only got to work on the entertainer and artisan professions to work on and I'm working on musician currently and dressed up as a Tusken raider as I play music and I went to a red's game today and gots a bobblehead of joe morgan and i dropped his bat in the peanuts and had to get it from the peanuts and the red's sucked and gave up 11 runs in the first 4 innings and the reds only scored and i played ddr and final fantasy x and it gave me the runs and i am cool better go to sleep now!!!!!!!!11

Sunday, August 08, 2004

What a weekend

Well it all started Friday night as I was the first to get to UDF and it took a while, but soon Eric got there...then Ryan...then Casey, Peter, and Dan. I decided to get a douple scoop of cookies n cream on a waffle cone...mmmmmmmm how good that was. oh god yes!

Ok, getting back on track here we headed over to the theater afterwards and watched The Village. *SPOILER WARNING* I can say that I really didn't enjoy it as much as Signs. I don't really like love stories, my expectations of it were too high expecting it to be freaky-deaky all the way to the end...just like Signs, but the fact that Adrian Brody, the half-retarded guy, was the creature that just completely blew up in my face. I wanted mayhem dammit...I wanted those creatures to be real and I wanted those creatures to swarm the village. Oh well, didn't turn out how I wanted it so therefore, I didn't like it nearly as much as I did going into the thing. Can't say I've ever seen The Sixth Sense or Unbreakable and I can't say "Oh god...not another M. Night Shybabahabalan twisted-plot ending". All I saw was Signs and the ending to that movie really wasn't that big of a twist as The Village was. Overall, I thought the movie was so-so and deserves ** from me. I'm REALLY anticipating AvP this coming Friday because that movie is going to be the shiznite. Not to mention, Resident Evil: Apocolypse....and last, but definitely not least, Star Wars on DVD...oh god yes!

After the movie, Ryan and Eric decided to come over for a little while. We watched a few movies, did our thing, ate some donuts, and came up with one of the craziest ideas ever.

Sunday, August 01, 2004

Change can be good

I decided to switch this blog back to my normal template (if anyone noticed anything different) and decided to use that System of a Down blog that Eric found on my dream journal. I especially like it because of the midi file embedded in it. Chop Suey!