The future?

What a nifty little weekend that was!

Aside from the Project BBC pilot being sorted, I’m pleased to announce that The Good, The Bald and The Stupid is now up and indeed running!

What does that mean for this blog? Well I’ll still be posting here, but probably not as much. Reason being, the new site is all about video gaming and it’s many ways to please and annoy, so most, if not all of my gaming related opinions and views will appear there.

That said, there are a couple of things I want to address here. Firstly, I’ve found that I have, over the past few months, really found my passion again for writing. I hadn’t actually lost it, it was just buried under other stuff, but ow it’s back and in effect. What’s better though is that due to the formats in which I’m writing i.e. here and goodbaldstupid.co.uk, I’m able to do that in a way that I enjoy most. My way! That’s not to snub anybody else I’ve written anything for, but it’s so refreshing to just let yourself flow when writing. Try it and you’ll see what I mean, almost theuraputic!

The second thing, and the most important of the two, is a post by Mr Williams (link to the right) which I found a few hours ago. To be honest it took me by surprise; surprise in that it kinda came out of left field for me but made me realise a few things.

Gaz, what you said struck a chord with me. I’ve been thinking back an awful lot about those days recently and realised what I missed about it all. It wasn’t the stress, the ridiculous amount of work we made ourselves do, the pillock TV owners who gave a whole new meaning to the word ‘cocks’, the nightmares of E3 and the deluge of work it brought, and definitely not the disagreements. It’s that rare thing that you find in people who share the same passion you do, the same drive to make something out of nothing and above all to have a fucking good time along the way!

If it wasn’t for you taking a chance with some guy who had never written shit for anybody before, I wouldn’t have learnt what I learnt (and it was a lot) or met the people I did or have the experiences that I still sit back and remember now with a smile.

In short, thanks dude!

Oh and if you think you can get away from us all easily, think again. London needs to enjoy the Amigos Experience one more time at the very least!

I raise my glass to you sir!

Project BBC

For the first time in a while I actually managed to keep to my own time schedule and as a result the pilot for Project BBC is now complete. I’m just awaiting feedback from the selected test group, and I didn’t even have to bride them to do it, and then it’ll take flight as soon as!

Weirdly enough, remember that other joint project I mentioned yesterday? Well it turns out that Project BBC and this could in fact turn out to be good bedfellows. Obviously more on that when both projects are fully under way, however you can actually now go visit the homepage of this new joint project. Please bear in mind though that as I type this (10pm on a Saturday night) the site has only just gone live, like five minutes ago so is light on content at this time as you would expect. It’s Phil you see, the dude just can’t sit on an idea longer than two minutes!* Do make sure that you stay tuned to the site as well to keep up to date with developments, but don’t forget to come back here as I certainly won’t be abandoning this blog!

That’s it for now here. There are a few things gaming related I need to get off my chest, but I’ll be sticking those thoughts up on goodbaldstupid.co.uk rather than here, seeing as that’s what the site is all about. Oh and likely the name is somewhat familiar to a couple of you. Just proves that good ideas never die. Question is, which one is which? Think about it…………

*Btw, that is a good point, not a fault

Control has been restored, good work men!

Ok, panic over!

Driving to work yesterday I realised what an absolute pillock I’d been over that technical issue. Amazing what a good nights sleep, mixed with an absent minded drive to work can do for the old mental powers.

If any police are reading this, I was paying due care and attention to the road………….Officer.

So that means I’m back on track with getting a pilot sorted out. I’ve enlisted (or is that badgered) a couple of trusted friends to lend me there opinions on the pilot, and if that goes well, I should be having this new project open to all within a couple of weeks, which for me is really exciting! Plus after a conversation only moments ago with one of those said people, i tlook slike there may be something else in the works from ‘The Three Amigos’, *bad British toff accent from Black and white World War 2 film* but it’s all hush hush, on the QT at the moment. Can’t let old Jerry get wind of it or the whole shebang will be done for!

It’s official, I’ve been playing Call of Duty 3 too much! Speaking of which, I’m getting more and more convinced that Grounds Keeper Willie from The Simpsons voices that Scottish guy in CoD3! Keep expecting Sergeant Skinner to join in the fight in his Vietnam gear.

Early this evening I was also reminded that yesterday, 22nd November, was the official first Birthday of the Xbox 360. It got me thinking about what I did that day, as somehow I was lucky enough to get one on launch. Well I’d wrangled the day off work (it was booked properly as Holiday, no skiving happened! Although it nearly came to that, but that’s another story.) and got myself into town and the local GAME shop for 9am. Think that’s sad? What about some mates of mine who stood for hours on a very cold night in London on Oxford street for around nine hours waiting for theirs! Although I would loved to have been there!

Back to the story. So I hand over my pre-order slip and pay for the goods, all while a guy next to me looks at the 360 box I was about to walk off with with more than a hint of envy. To the point that I wondered if I’d have a tap on my shoulder with a baseball bat in the car park! I’m kidding, he was actually pissed because he hadn’t been able to secure a premium 360 and was stuck with no HDD, and no way of getting them as Microsoft hadn’t gotten them out to many UK stores at that time. Poor bugger was so glum about it, so the assistant and I tried to suggest ways for him to get one. Admittedly ebay was the best we could come up with, and given the ridiculous prices of the consoles on there, getting a HDD let alone at a decent price would be hard. Oh look, it’s happening again with the PS3 on ebay.

People, $2,000 for a new console does not make good business sense! How the feck do you justify that amount of cash!?!? On a fucking console! I’d love to get one, but I refuse to pay even the Sony asking price, let alone another 300% or so! Mental, they’re all fricking mental because it’s the ebay sellers and Sony that are laughing.

Back to the story again. I get the machine home and have the house to myself. The next god know show many hours were then a blur of Hexic, PGR3 and PDZ. Ahh sweet-blissful-new -console-haze……………………………

Err, right…………..yeah anyway next thing I know my wife has come home from work with me still sat in front of the TV. Most likely I carried the look of a burbling idiot crossed with an e-number fed 8 year old on his Birthday, and as I proceeded to tell her why it was so fecking brilliant all I remember were the ‘That’s nice dear’ kind of answers. As if to say, I’m only being nice so you might talk about something adult in a minute.

She’s suffered a long time with this gaming thing with me you see. In all seriousness she’s cool about it. That’s until I start spending too much time playing games than spending time with her, or doing chores and all that kinda stuff. The actual measurement of time I won’t know until I actually do spend too much time playing games.

Speaking of which, she’s waiting for me to get off here so we can get our nightly Lost fix. So I shall bid you all good night!

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Good night!

*looks around awkwardly, then slips off quietly*

Houston, we have a problem

I was hoping to be able to launch my new idea in some form this week, but between work at home and away from home, and some technical difficulties (not forgetting our efforts to catch up with Lost) it’s all gone a bit South for the moment.

All that has happened is my plans for a bit more development time have been pushed to this weekend instead of, well, now. It’s annoying because I wanted to get this going as soon as possible, plus I’m getting hacked off having to skirt around what it is in these posts. My other worry is that I’m setting myself up for a fall when you lot turn round and tell me ‘is that it?!’

Why does tiredness always bring with an acute sense of paranoia!?

Random statement I know, but it’s been one of those weeks again, and sadly I think that’s gonna remain until the end of January at work. Long story, can’t be arsed to explain it, but let’s just say things are not so rosey in that particular garden. What’s going to happen, I don’t know, but that sense of security I had has been etched away a little bit more now. Even more so because I know where I want life to take me in the next two years. It’s only a job I know but it’ll allow me over time to expand myself and start doing things I really wanna do, not what I have to to pay the bills.

Gaming wise, loving Call of Duty 3 online on the 360, total improvement over 2 in my opinion. Except for the fricking moron who set a game off last night on Team Battle, hour time limit, no kill limit. Yeah a whole hour of the same map over and over…………..fuck me did it get boring! But that was the exception as most other games I’v played have been really enjoyable. Even more so when I can get people to communicate! Please people, if you play team based games online on any format and have voice chat facilities for god sake use it!

Gears of War also arrived in the post today. Only played it for an hour today so haven’t got enough to form a proper opinion on yet (more in a few days) but it just hasn’t grabbed me by the danglies yet. AI seems solid for allies and enemies, graphics are lush as expected, but I can’t help shift the hype-over-content feeling it’s given. Maybe it will change, but i~’ll certainly let you know.

That’s it for now, more Lost Season 2 to watch!

TTFN

New developments

It’s been a little too long since my last post, but that’s mainly due to being ridiculously busy at work, and home, then using the free time I have for playing Call of Duty 3.

However, there is another reason for not posting, one which I hope will become clear very soon. I’m going to get some pilot work done on my blog expansion today (Sunday). It’s nothing ground-breaking, but something I’ve wanted to get back into for a long time. A couple of you already know what it is, and in fact I’ll be asking for opinions of a chosen few on the pilot idea I have, once there is something concrete to have opinions on that is.

So I won’t post much more now, except to say thanks for sticking with this blog if you have. Hopefully things will change for the better here, but that’s for you to decide I guess, but I’m gonna have some fun making it!

TTFN

PS. I was also hoping to be able to change the appearance of this blog again but sadly the beta is now closed so it’s staying as is for now.