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tido — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:34:16 +0000

As fate would have it, my house is full of troubles.

Went to the US a few weeks back to visit my grandparents. It was supposed to be fun, and it was quite fun until we came back. A few weeks before this trip, my fiancé stayed here with me and … actually, I’d rather not talk about this here.

Life aside, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is great. Meanwhile, Tales of Monkey Island is off to a pretty good start. Pre-ordered the whole thing in order to get my hands on those collector’s DVD. Man, I’m a sucker for them. As if my life needs more things in it. Probably why I went and got myself a PSP as well. Not really impressed with the screen; it has problems with interlacing and it’s somewhat blurry. Not quite what I expected after all the bashing on the DS. Sure things look better on it, but from the impression I got, it should’ve been a hell lot better.

Considering a new phone. Current phone sucks.

Got an offer at work I could not refuse. Missed out on it because of work policy. Sucks.

E3 2009

tido — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:28:34 +0000

Upcoming excitements from this year’s E3:

Be the best you can

tido — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:52:37 +0000

It’s a new alien life form

tido — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:56:54 +0000

Checked out EA Store last weekend and bought Dead Space for pretty cheap. Downloaded it, and guess what: I wouldn’t launch. Instead, an error message popped up telling me that it couldn’t connect to the authorization server. Who the fuck cares? I bought my game and I want to play it. After a few failed attempts, my patience ran out and I downloaded a crack.

Again, thank you for making life that much easier for us gamers.

Eh…

tido — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:35:19 +0000

Work is so so, but that is to be expected when you start pretty much from scratch. I’ll get somewhere, soon. I hope. Still waiting for a date to prepare for my thesis defense.

I have been neglecting a lot of my friends lately, not that I have so many in the first place. Note to self: Call friends.

Been satisfying my materialistic desires:
- Apple Keyboard (the one with anodized aluminum, cabled)
- Fallout 3 (yes, it is awesome)
- new monitor (full HD with component and HDMI, sweet!!)

Windows 7 (though beta) is awesome (so far).

The new Seagate 7200.12 hard drives are THIN (even the sales dude was awesomized).

Mother’s day this week. Got gift last week. Well prepared.

Valentine’s day next week. Need gift. May prove too difficult to handle.

GPS

tido — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:48:25 +0000

First work day at Atea (formerly Ementor). Got wicked awesome laptop and new phone.

Acquired new games over axe-mas:
- Left 4 Dead
- The Witcher Enhanced Version

Both are awesome games.

Righteous

tido — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:31:45 +0000

Went to London and Barcelona for a week.

Came back.

Got awesome hat.

Saw the following movies:
- Max Payne (sucks)
- James Bond: Quantum of Solace (ok)
- Just Like Heaven (apart from Jon Heder, painful)
- Låt den rätte komma in (ok)

New games:
- Fallout 3 (very good)
- Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (awesome)
- Red Alert 3 (this url: David Hasselhoff)

New Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) is pretty good so far.

The LG Viewty sucks because it can’t handle the interactive answering machine everybody seem to love installing nowadays. Or maybe it can, but it still sucks because it’s not intuitive enough for me to find out. Needs new phone.

Current state of affairs: Not awesome.

WiiWare

tido — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:38:23 +0000

Mega Man 9 is simple AWESOME. I’ve never played a Mega Man game for longer than five minutes before and, as such, cannot say that I’ve ever been a fan of the series. I bought this game a week or two back due to a recommendation from a friend of mine and I’ve been playing it for hours ever since. Retro awesomeness!

Also been playing:

Castle Crashers (pure multiplayer awesomeness)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (one word: addictive)
Mega Man 2 (NES)
LostWinds (cute game, a bit short but good)

A Super Famicom controller arrived the other day; ordered it for the authentic retro feeling when playing SNES games. Still waiting for the classic controller.

As you might’ve guessed, not much work has been done the last days. -_-;;

Cracked

tido — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:40:01 +0000

A few weeks back, I both received and played Mass Effect to my heart’s content. The story and gameplay was awesome. So awesome, in fact, that I decided to upgrade my graphics card to a GeForce 9600GT in order to bask in the glory that is its awesomeness. Besides, it gave my better framerate in TF2. The card was so big, I had to rearrange the internals of my computer.

While Mass Effect was a great game, I couldn’t help but get annoyed at the amount of time spent trying to get the game running. For some reason, the game plainly refused to run, kept throwing me back to the desktop. Even after scouring through the official forum for solutions, an official patch, and an official expansion pack that refused to install, it was still denying me the entertainment that I had bought with my own money. Then it dawned on me, I downloaded a crack for the game and voilà: The game ran. SecuROM bullshit!

Over the past few weeks, not much outside of school (and gaming of course, finally finished F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and Super Mario Galaxy!) happened. Still writing my master’s thesis, and things are going slowly.

No fun clips this time around.

PS. Damn host keeps disconnecting me all the time. Where’s my maintenance report?! *grumbles*

Curry

tido — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:31:56 +0000

So yeah, the trip to Budapest last week was pretty cool. It was kind of like Prague, only … cozier, and a lot warmer. We arrived at the airport to 32 degrees Celsius! Getting back to Norway, and Trondheim, was pretty nice as well. The last few weeks has been hectic and it’s nice to finally being back in the tranquility of my dorm room.

I’ve finally decided to order Mass Effect. I might need to upgrade my graphics card as well but decided against it because of upcoming graphics chips. Hopefully, the older models will get cheaper (or maybe the new models are cheap enough for me to grab one).

Finally found this clip after seeing it on a Japanese TV show two years ago:

I couldn’t get the second song (at 2:14) out of my head for quite some time. Browsing the related clips, I eventually arrived at this clip:

In other news, I’ve just received a job offer from Ementor. The contract is on its way, but the offer seems promising enough.