The Best Laid Schemes of Mice...

I hate to do this, to say this, I really do, but I get the feeling it's not going to have a huge impact on anyone's life ... but I need to put this blog on hold for a fair amount of time.  I have a lot in my life that needs to be cleaned up and organized badly.  For now, know that I am safe and generally happy, I just need to manage a few things, and that requires time.  I'll be back, I promise!  If you really truly care that much, hop on over to rainwave.cc and poke me on the forums or chatroom, I'll be around.

This is Gibbslap, and this was never the way I planned...

COMIC CON!!!

Sweet jebus things have been busy for me ... work has been pretty intense, plus the extended weekend at the parents' place ... still recovering from that, and then THIS happens.
THIS being NEW YORK COMIC CON!!!!
WHOO!
This is my first time going to something of this sheer scale, having been to a couple of anime cons in the past. I am SO PSYCHED for this, I plan on getting a ton of pictures and stuff and showing things off afterwards!  It does mean though that I'll be gone this weekend and won't be posting anything here.  Hopefully next week I'll finally pull my act together and get this updated on a fairly regular basis...
This is Gibbslap, and I feel oddly drawn towards NYC this weekend...
(pun, get it? Drawn? Ehh.)

Sunday Mornin' Update

Okay, just a few brief notes before I gotta get ready for church.

1. Portal 2 streaming is on hold for a few weeks, still haven't gotten it to work and I know that the next two weekends are both not going to happen due to other reasons.  Until I can get the livestreaming to work right, I'm going to work on filming independently and putting them up on YouTube.  Lame, I know.

2. I saved Hyrule for the first time yesterday.  I feel like that much more of a man now.  Like my life wasn't complete without doing that at least once.  I admit to using maps to find everything, but I assure you that it didn't have that much impact on the difficulty of the combat.  Now that I know what everything does, I will attempt the second quest without any kind of walkthrough help.

3. Killer7 is bizarre as hell.  The sharp noise/screen transitions (like when someone dies) are actually somewhat hair-raising, and the control scheme makes combat a lot more difficult than I anticipated.  It's taking a good deal of practice, but I'm making progress, slow as it may be.

4. Put Katamari Damacy in to give that a little spin ... also quite bizarre, though I honestly think Killer7 has it topped in sheer unexplained-ness.  Also, tons and tons of unlockable stuff.

5. LIMBO is going to take me a very long time.  Primarily due to the fact that I have to minimize it every few seconds because it just creeps me out way too much.

6. Almost up to the One Piece timeskip.  Simply haven't watched as much of it as I would like ... still giving myself a month to finish it, we'll see what happens.

7. Read all of Parasyte a couple nights ago.  If you're not squeamish, I'd recommend it ... while the images are rather disturbing, the story can be surprisingly deep, what with monsters becoming more human and humans becoming monsters.

8. Halloween is approaching, and with it come haunted houses and decorations - particularly at theme parks, which tend to go all-out with the gruesome special effects.  Cue sleepless nights from me while I scare myself into awakeness by looking at some of this stuff ... can someone explain to me why I still insist on looking at these things out of curiosity when I know it's going to give me nightmares?

9. Two weeks to Comic Con!

This is Gibbslap, and I swear I'm going somewhere with this.

This lacked a title O_o

Sorry folks, I have a ton of stuff that still needs to get done and I haven't tested the lag yet >_<  Next week! I promise!  And at some point I'll try to make up the two episodes that I've missed by now...
This is Gibbslap, and there's another glitch in the animus...

An actual for-real update for once!

Hey folks, I meant to do this yesterday, but the hours that I spent at the DMV kinda pushed it out of my mind.  Anyways, I've been formulating some plans for the next few months, basically between now and 2013, and setting some goals for myself on the nerdliness front.  Here is what I'd like to accomplish between now and 2013:
1. Complete 13 games by 2013 - probably my most ambitious goal, but one that I doubt I'll have much of an issue with.  Here is the list, in no particular order:
Legend of Zelda
Cave Story
Killer7
Hydrophobia: Prophecy
Monkey Island 2
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
Shadow of the Colossus
Hitman: Codename 47
Pac-Man World
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee
LIMBO
Tomb Raider
Beyond Good and Evil
If I get through this, that's a pretty decent chunk of my existing backlog taken care of ... not all, but a very long shot, but still a pretty respectable goal.
2. Get caught up with One Piece by November and Fairy Tail by December... I was originally hoping to be caught up on One Piece back in MAY, but that didn't really happen, and I'm still about 50ish episodes out.  This is one of those things that I just really have to work on, but it's hard to watch anime and do other things at the same time...
3. Resume watching Doctor Who and get at least to Season 4 ... I stopped midway through Season 3 when I watched this before and just never got back into it.  That needs to change.
4. Get my cosplay ready for Comic Con in a couple weeks ... what am I playing? That'll be a surprise ... to you as much as to me.
5. Tie up loose ends ... there are at least four or five games that are still counted as "unfinished" that I'm very close to beating, but have yet to beat for whatever reason.  If I get the chance, I want to at least beat the main story, to at least improve my Backloggery statistics, even though I wouldn't be fully completing them until later.
6. Start the video reviews!  Seriously, I have a lot to talk about if I can only get around to talking about it!
Those are what I have for definite goals at this time, I will be keeping you all up to date.  I'll try to update the backlog today, there's a lot that needs to be added to it, especially since I got the PS2 a couple weeks ago.  Also, streaming Portal 2 tonight! 8PM EST as usual, hopefully this time I'll be able to resolve the lag issues and make some actually watchable material.
This is Gibbslap, and eekum bokum.

LA-MULANAAAAAAAAAAAA

La-Mulana hit WiiWare today ... there was much squealing to be had in the Gibbslap household!  Time to start playing :D
This is Gibbslap, and ... remind me why I'm looking forward to playing a new version of a game that hated me?

Humble Indie Bundle 6!

http://www.humblebundle.com/
DO IT NOW PEOPLES
I mean seriously ... charity + cheap games.  What's not to love?
This is Gibbslap, and I did a good deed today.