Pre-Ordered GTA Special Edition today

Yeah, I know - that is a ton of $$$ but I liked the extras...especially the safe deposit box and the music CD.  Good think I won't get it tho until after I take comps or my future could be derailed.  This is really the only game coming out at the moment that I really want to add to my video game library.  Hope it doesn't take me as long to finish the game as it did for GTA San Andreas.  Looking forward to the improved visuals.

 

Posted by Jett_Fuel @ 2:27 pm EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

OMG - Heat Wave this weekend

It is frigging APRIL and yesterday it was 95 degrees and today was I think 97!!! - both records for this area on these two dates. If you have read my blog entries, you may know I am close to finishing up graduate school with my comprehensive exams in two weeks. I got some studying done yesterday, but today was just too hot and I was drained after yesterday studying in the heat. So I ended up goofing off some more. Played more Rock Band and am edging closer to completing the Guitar Solo Tour on Hard. Currently stuck on Enter Sandman. It is late and I should be sleeping but it is still uncomfortable in my house tho it is 12:30AM now. Short entry...cuz it is just too hot and I'm just too tired.

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Interesting commentary going on in the OFF TOPIC forum

Been watching and reading the couple of threads related to personal freedoms, video games ratings and underage gamers (under 17) playing M rated games. One of my all time favorite movies is V for Vendetta. I own the DVD and the Audio Book which is on my iPod. That movie has quite a message on sensorship and control by the government based on fear. I love the line: "People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of it's people" How true.

If you haven't seen the movie don't read further but go rent it.

The "hero" is a terrorist against the government partly due to what the government did to him personally and what it has done to the country and it's citizens. I watched the "making of" section of the DVD and Hugo Weaving (who plays V) had a good point (at least I think it was him - it could have been the guy that plays Gordon Deitrich) that one mans terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Whether someone is considered a terrorist or not depends on the perspective that person is being viewed from. Tho in the movie V does not target innocents in is fight against the "evils" of the government. He blows up buildings and kills those personnally responsible for the suffering he and others endured at the hands of those in charge of the detainment camp he was imprisoned at and experimented on.

Regulating the sale of video games is already being done by the industry through the use of the rating's system. It is up to the consumer to take individual responsibility for purchase and use of any particular game. Parents should be taking a more active role not a less active one in raising their children. It is not the government's responsibility nor is it the school systems responsibility. We are moving further and further away from personal responsibility and blaming everyone else. Just look at how clogged the courts are with lawsuits that seek monetary compensation for perceived wrongs that in many instances are just seeking to lay blame on someone else.

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Stressed out so I game

I am getting close to finishing graduate school.  I take the comprehensive exam which I must pass to get my degree in less than three weeks.    I have really not studied for it despite knowing the date is getting closer and closer.  Been getting overwhelmed to the point of avoidance.  So I have been playing my games as a way to not think about school related stuff.  I am also working full time and trying to fit in an unpaid internship because I have to earn 500 field work hours to graduate (I have about 220 currently so have a LONG way to go). 

I tried to use my games as an incentive to do something "good" for me by letting a friend hold my Rock Band, Guitar Hero 2 & 3 games plus the two GH controllers (figured he may as well play them if he had them and the Rock Band strat is too fragile to loan out).  I ended up just playing something else instead.  So I am nearly finished with Need For Speed - Most Wanted now.  Only have the last guy (Razor) to beat now.  I have had that game since just after getting my 360 and hadn't played it in quite some time thanks to Oblivion, Bioshock, Halo 3, Guitar Hero 2 and Rock Band getting most of my gaming time love.

 

Posted by Jett_Fuel @ 4:52 pm EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

Long Time no Blog

I tried to write an entry earlier today but IE quit unexpectedly on me.  Grrr

Just finished up summer school and am enjoying a small break before Fall semester starts.  Got Bioshock this past Tue as a reward for the stress of the summer between school, work and other stuff.

 

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