So I got bored tonight and entered all the Borderlands 2 shift codes I could find. So now I have 235 keys I can use plus some skins. Been really having fun in that game lately. Didn’t really play any of it tonight though (or much multiplayer in general) due to some internet issues. So I mainly hacked and slashed my way through Shadow Warrior and Dead Pool.
I love having options.
My attempt to sleep last night was met with failure due to some aches and pains. I only managed to sleep between moments when the painkillers did their dirty work. So for my first day back I was already exhausted.
Then afternoon hits and while I’m on my first break I heard there was an accident in our parking lot (and later on I heard it was on the crosswalk in front of the store so I’m not sure which location it happened in). Apparently a pedestrian got hit by a car, and from the sound of it the person in the car didn’t even stop because they really wanted that parking space. To make matters worse they blamed the pedestrian for not moving fast enough… An ambulance arrived on scene to take the poor guy away, but it was too late. We got a call back stating that he didn’t even make it to the hospital, he died not long after the accident. If all of this is true then this is downright manslaughter and hopefully this asshat gets their just desserts. It’s pretty sad that some people value a parking space or an object over the life of a living person. How we’ve fallen as a society.
Then I passed an asshole I didn’t really want to talk to (not to me but to people I do care about). But on the brightside I got off work early, but I couldn’t call home because our answer machine wasn’t working. So I ended up cruising the web waiting for a ride. I would have walked but it was pissing down rain and I didn’t want my laptop to get wet.
The first thing I did when I got home was jump into some PJ’s, make some berry tea and boot up Linux. I just finished eating a very bacon oriented dinner and now I’m contemplating some rest to make up for what I lacked today. Sleep away the terrible things and try to move in a more positive direction.
Over vacation I decided to show my brother the awesomeness that is Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition. We both played using my logitech controllers on the HTPC. After that I’ve been looking at my collection to see what other things can be done with two people in the living room. So far I’ve mainly found fighting games to be the best for us. Multiplayer FPS doesn’t really work on one keyboard, and fuck doing that with a controller. Portal 2 is still kind of wonky between two controllers let alone a keyboard and a controller from what I can tell. I still need to test Octodad, Lara Croft and the guardian of light, both audiosurfs and anything else that stands out in my collection.
Oh and speaking of controllers I recently got a Logitech F510. It’s basically a hybrid of the F310 and F710, it’s wired but also has a dualshock motor in it. I gave my brother the F310 since I don’t really need 3 controllers. 😛 Plus he’s interested in getting a copy of Mortal Kombat for himself anyway.
Right now I’m updating my gaming laptop so that I can start off lunch tomorrow with a bang (ha ha ha! bang!). Guess I’ll also have to think of what to actually bring to lunch.
Hello, I haven’t written anything in awhile. Been mostly relaxing and gaming, and here’s a video of some Borderlands 2 shenanigans with my friend Yutram.
I’ll be heading back in bright n early on Wednesday. So I figured for my six day vacation I’d just screw off since it looks like I’ll be severely busy when I return. I’ll write more about it later. Just figured I’d write something since it’s been awhile.
Someone abandoned a kitten in our parkinglot at work today. We got him to the shelter at least. Damn can people be cruel…
Unfortunately I don’t have a pic of the kitten, but he was really adorable. Could fit into one palm.
We’ve been playing Mexican music at work every other song as part of a Mexican food promotion, and it’s interesting because it has annoyed certain people. To an extent it annoys me because a lot of the songs are the same with not much variety, but to one lady I helped today she felt it was unamerican to play such music, and when I tried to lightly jest that “Well, America is the worlds melting pot” she blurted out “Next we’ll be playing Iraq music”. I promptly shut up. It would be funny if we were promoting middle eastern food after this though. 😛 It would be such karma.
Then I had a woman show me her friends ass on her smartphone when trying to locate a particular pair of underwear that we didn’t even carry. It was halfway down her ass. She also screamed a lot and on top of that she kept throwing things down on the ground. Her friend looked rather embarrassed and kept saying “Lets go home I’m tired of shopping”.
Oh, I probably won’t be around later today. After I get home I’ll have to wind down and hit the rack early so I get go to work for an early shift. They’re making sure I’m exhausted before my vacation starts.
I saw this article about a portable steambox called a steamboy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM63RuEhgHU
This sounds interesting, although the specs do leave me asking a few questions. Like does it use SD cards? What kind of quad core processor will it use? And of course what are we looking at in terms of battery life?
Either way it’s a nifty idea, and if it takes off that would be great. Although the amount of space they give you (32 GB) doesn’t really give you much room for some titles unless you focus on smaller side scroller type games. Imagine playing something like skyrim. Although you could factor in the in home streaming bit, that could be very useful. Hell it’s been great sitting out in the living room with a controller streaming some Devil May Cry or anything else controller friendly. I can fool people into thinking I have a console. 😛
“For us, E3 is a console show and an Xbox show, and for us as Microsoft, Xbox is our gaming brand, and it’s the thing we can fill an arena like this, we get millions of people to watch us on TV and we show our games and it’s a brand that people care about,” he said.
C’mon Microsoft we get the picture. You have a console to sell and PC gaming gets in the way of your little walled garden. They’re making Linux sound better and better everytime they pull this crap.
I usually try to post at least once a day. I sure blew that one didn’t I? 😛
I’ve just been tired both mentally and physically. I’ve even started getting these strange headaches that only last for about a second. It’s very hard to describe but they happen mostly when I’m at work, and very rarely during my off time. It only happened once today, but if I’m at work it happens up to two or three times. I’ve been keeping track of it but also trying not to worry about it. Work has been pretty stressful though. As usual they’ve been finding ways to cut us shorter at night. If they have their way in a few years there will be one person running the entire store. But yeah, lately it’s mostly been two people doing everything after 7pm which leaves us with 4 hours of dealing with summer traffic. I’ll be taking some time off next Thursday though for about a week so hopefully I’ll get my shit together.
So during my offtime I’ve been just playing games, researching this and that. Like tonight when I decided to try out OBS, an open source alternative to video capture programs such as FRAPS. It’s free and has a ton of features, such as plugins, the ability to record different video formats, overlays and a bunch of other fun stuff. I like the idea that I can record full 1080 to an flv/mp4 file. That’ll make my recording drives keep more storage for projects. 😀