True to my word, I’m going to keep this thing updated, so here I am!
See what I did there?
No?
*sigh*
As the title says, I’m going to change how this works. Instead of just being a general bunch of text about whatever it is I can remember at the time of writing, I’m gonna try sticking things in little segments. Now it’s nothing ground breaking, but it might work. You lot will just have to tell me in the comments *hint hint*.
Like most of the country, the hot summer continues here at Boidster Acres (acres, as if I own fecking acres 
), but why the hell does this country moan so god damn much about the weather. It’s too hot, too wet, too cold. Fuck sake people, it’s summer, this is how it’s supposed to be, enjoy it before it buggers off again and we’re left with grey skies for late autumn.
That feels better.
Speaking of summer, we’re going to be taking our summer holiday in 17 days time! Much w00tage! Not sure if Centre Parcs is ready for our collective behavious, but hey, they’ll learn. By we, I mean the notorious two otherwise known as father fil and paul, whom some of you may know, or at least know of, via a certain website, as well as repective families.
It’s also looking like we’ll be looking into a new collective project whilst away as well. Again, not much I can say at this stage, but the ideas factory is open for business, and hopefully it’s going to be something special. I’d love to get on with it now and get things going but certain factors have to be agreed and settled first. Gotta love the creative process!
What am I playing at the moment?
This week, and most of the past couple of weeks before that, I’ve been really into Far Cry Predator on the 360. I know it’s been out a while but I got stuck for a new game as nothing was jumping out at me, so thought I’d plump for this one. Intially I must say I wasn’t overtly impressed, with the possibility of a trade in happening in a few days. Yet this is one of those titles that sucks you in the more you play it. Ok, so it is another shooter, but does offer different ways to get through situations instead of just shoot, move, shoot again, kill boss. Plenty of variety in the scenarios helps too with a good mix of interior and exterior locations, some you just want to stop and admire. If it weren’t for the goons shooting at me I would have done for a while longer, but there were bio-chemist goons to kill.
Aside from that I’ve been getting into the DS and PSP again this month. On Ninty’s handheld, my last purchase was Trauma Centre: Under the Knife. If you don’t know it, you play a surgeon in training, performing operations, before being sucked into a viral epidemic which you must help stop. This one is all played with the stylus as you actually perform all operations with it, having guidance from your assistant and usually some medical big-wig as you perform each operation. Things get progressively more difficult, with each stage being timed and the fact that the patients heart rate (health in this case) is constantly failing. As it is split in stages it’s easy to pick and play in short burst, essential for a handheld game in my opinion and offers a decent level of satisfaction when you complete a stage. Although it does have teh odd one that is REALLY frustrating, like the one I’m stuck on now. To explain it would take to long, adn you probably wouldn’y have a clue what I’m on about unless you’d played the game. However, it is well worth the money.
On the PSP, I was hoping to be playing Syphon Filter, but the publishers have pushed the bloody thing back. AGAIN! Why, I do not know. America has it now, so what’s the problem. Does America now suddenly speak a totally different language to us? Is there content they have that we shouldn’t see, or vice versa? Whatever the reason it pissed me off enough to cancel teh preorder I had for the past couple of months. No great loss to them I know, but it’s still annoying.
In future posts, I’ll try and bring a little bit of gaming news that caught my eye that may not have made the mainstream for you people. Strange what you find out when you look enough.
What have I been listening to?
I’ve mainly been going back to older stuff in my collection. One song I seem to have on repeat alot right now is ‘Two Hands of a Prayer’, by Ben Harper (clicky for link to the website). I found it in my iTunes listing whilst it was on shuffle play, and I totally forgot how beautiful it was. There are loads more, but if I listed them, you’d be bored shitless after a bit, so I’ll leave it at one track for now.
In fact, I’ll call it a day for this post I think, because you probably are bored shitless.
I’ll look to update again by next weekend for more pointless ramblings. As long as someone finds it interesting/funny/passes some time for you/found this on the way to google/got the wrong page/etc. etc.
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