Oh right! This blog.
I haven’t forgotten. Honest. I’m just busy during the day, and when I get home I don’t feel like sitting in front of the computer any longer than necessary.
When I find myself with a bit of free time I tend to fill it with games. Lately it’s been Red Dead Redemption on the Xbox 360 (also available for PS3). Man, it’s blast. I haven’t gotten this into a game since Fallout 3.
I’m pretty sure Heather hates it.
When I first heard about it, I figured it would be another failed attempt at a western themed FPS, and I didn’t give it another thought. Then I started picking up on rumblings through the net that it was a game that shouldn’t be missed if you like open world (sandbox) style gameplay, and the wild west. It’s made by Rockstar, of Grand Theft Auto fame, and many people like to call it GTA on horses. Many people are stupid.
That’s not to say the game is perfect. There’s a fair amount of glitching throughout. One random event had me chase down a horse thief for a shopkeeper. Instead of blowing him off the horse, I lassoed him, hogtied him, and put him on my horse. When I tried to find the horse he stole, it was gone. I took the guy back to the shopkeeper, but he was gone, and when I turned around the thief had vanished from my horse. Another time the train pulled away from a station and left behind a man, sitting in mid air. So, more annoyances rather than game breakers.
I will say that I find it enjoyable in ways that I haven’t found any version of GTA enjoyable, and it really is a gorgeous game.
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I recently stumbled across an article about a hoarder that has me really thinking about how I live. I have crap in my closet that I haven’t looked at since I put it there when we moved in. When we first looked at this house it was so spacious, we thought we would always have room. Now it’s getting kinda scary. Not with towers of piles waiting to crush you if you bump them, but certainly the seeds are there. I’m going to have to buckle down and figure out what “treasures” are really “trash” and get them the hell out of here. Figure out what I can live without and then do so.
It’s not going to be easy. Every time in the past that I’ve gone through my crap in an attempt to thin it out, I’ve later found myself needing something that was no longer there. Just yesterday I found a need for a USP Zip drive that I used to have, but I got rid of it some time last year. Annoying. But I can’t keep going like this. It’s stupid.
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It’s looking like my Pacman Jaws design will go to print. The only question now is what version. Due to many comments asking for it, I’ve updated with a pixelated ghost version:
Jaws design @ © SplitReason.com
and have requested further comments before handing over the high-res artwork. Brian at SR said we’ll give it a couple more weeks and see what happens. I expect it should be printed by August, but the timetable is all up to them.