Diablo 3

Rejoice!

Diablo 3 hath been revealed and it is looking good albeit somewhat similiar to it’s predecessors.

Still full of hack’n’slash goodness, the gameplay trailer on the website reveals extremely well-done animation and physics! Even if I wasn’t a true hardcore fan of the first two Diablos, this looks like another must-get title for me.

Their website is also another plus for them. It’s amazing!

Gaming Frenzy

I’ve decided to bring my XBOX360 out of hibernation and work it a little. I’ve just picked up a second-hand copy of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six : Vegas 2. I picked that over the much praised Call of Duty IV but it remains to be seen whether I made the right choice.

These are definately on my ‘must buy’ list -

• Fallout 3 (XBOX360)
• Fable 2 (XBOX360)
• Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning (PC)
• Majesty 2 : Fantasy Kingdom Sim (PC)
• Dungeon Runners (MMO) (PC)

These looks good but will depend on budget. YES I actually have a monthly allocation for games! How nerdy!

• GTA IV (XBOX360)
• Spiderman : Web of Shadows (XBOX360) Looks pretty sweet.

My weedy plant

Was just surfing around and came across this blog header

“I woke up this morning still alive, so I’m pretty cheerful” Woo!

I can’t even remember which blog I got it from or what it was about but somehow it just seemed like such a right statement. It gave me that whole ‘we-take-life-for-granted’ feeling and I think I really should appreciate life a little more. Funny how a little sentence can change your perceptions and recharge your interest in life.

It is ironic that my table plant has died.

If it were an animal-plant, it would be a camel. The weedy thing absorbs water like a sponge! It was on Friday when I forgotten to water the poor thing and when I got back into the office on Monday, it had shrivelled. I tried to revive it with an extra helping of fresh water and it left it overnight.

The next morning, TWO stalks were poking it’s head up high in defiance to my neglect. IT WILL SURVIVE! The rest are still rather limp but it looks promising. It might still make it with sufficient prayers and well wishes.

I bet my plant is pretty cheerful…

I shall name it Lazarus.

Gloombug

It is my fifth day and so far I can’t say if its the best place to work. Everyone is really friendly and great but there is that persistant fear of the powers that be that hangs over the place like a cloud. Still I find many are going about as usual and if they can survive in such an environment, then why not I?

Hellboy 2

Yeah! Just stumbled across the new Hellboy movie which is due out in July. July 11th to be exact (not sure locally though). Tis’ to be directed once again by Guillermo del Toro, also of Pan’s Labyrinth fame. This is seriousl going to be on my ‘to-watch’ list.

Moving on

Its pathetic but since the last post about my new place, I’ve uhm,… left it…

YES, I quit.

I’ve gotten another job offer that makes so much more sense. Spending long hours for nothing in return just doesn’t cut it as much as it used to. You can either work for the money or for the glamour. I guess in broadcasting, it was kind of cool to work on tv shows and such but it just wasn’t where I wanted to be at this point of my life.

Well, it was a good experience.

The future of ‘me’ is going to be right smack in the desolate wastelands of Cyberjaya. I’ve gotten an offer to lecture there and while some may think it’s crazy to go there, I see a potential for myself there which I just can’t let down. Furthermore, it’s going to be games design for me bwahahaha.

Yes! I will be in the games design department! How fleegin cool is that? Its like nerdgasm!

I’ve even gotten a place to stay there as I REALLY don’t want to be travelling up and down from Cyber to Deejay. It’s insane and anyone that travels through the Puchong LDP can attest to that. I’ll be living with a couple of MMU students but I guess that’s more appropriate than living with LUCT students. Something about lecturer student relations or something.

Cyberia smarthomes (where I’ll be living) is a decent enough place, the management must be middle-aged based on the way they just let everything go to fat. One of their carparks was even submerged in water. I thought that was really poor planning on their behalf. Beggers can’t be choosers and so that’s where I’ll be for the time being.

Call me if anyone is stupid enough to wander into Cyberjaya anytime soon. WooTs.

New job

I’m now an offline editor for a soon to be aired gameshow. It seems that my life revolves around jobs that have no fixed working hours. It is my destiny and I cannot deny it. The problem with no fixed working hours are,… you feel guilty leaving early. I’ve been clocking in 12-14 hour days lately and I’ve been told to pace myself or I’ll get worn out too soon.

My current office,…

Tons of tapes I’ve got to capture. I’ve estimated this at about 140+ hours of digitizing goodness. BLEAH

Yes, I’m currently using a Mac much to my disgust. I still don’t see what all the hoo-hah is about this expensive bit of hardware. Worst part of it is the fact that it can’t run most games. Honestly, I don’t see what use is there of a machine THAT DOESN’T RUN GAMES! IT JUST DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE!?!?!

Colleagues on the couch in the mornings are not a good sign of things to come.

New Toys!

Metrojaya coughed up a RM10 voucher which led to me and YY buying ourselves each a Keroro Gunsou model set. I got the keroro mecha while she got a Giroro model and we spent an afternoon putting them together. It wasn’t easy. There were tons of little plastic bits which we had to assemble as well as tiny stickers to paste on. It was tough especially when you have sausage fingers like I do.

The mecha had totally pose-able joints and a little detachable ship. It’s gun and shield were interchangeable and… well it was totally awesome. Metrojaya had them on sale but the normal price was about RM26 per box model.

I personally thought it wasn’t all THAT expensive especially when compared to some of the other stuff on sale. I saw some stiff ugly superhero figurines that were going for RM80 and above. I find that really ridiculous. Aren’t toys for kids? How are any kids going to save up their pocketmoney and buy an action-figure when they all cost so obnoxiously much?

Giroro had a little problems with his mouth but he had changeable hands and feet. Even his eyes could change! Damn the Japanese are masters of the model building world. YY managed to beat me at assembling her Giroro but I blame it all on my sausage fingers! It was an unfair advantage and I insist on a rematch.

I’m definately thinking about collecting the set.

Gary Gygax is no more!

It’s really second-hand news as he passed on on Tuesday, aged 69 but I figured this was something worth mentioning.

For those that don’t know or don’t really care, Gary Gygax was the father of Dungeons & Dragons. Big deal you might say, but I’m a huge fantasy fan and this sorta thing was what spurred my interest in the whole games, reading, drawing, etc. Those of you that know me can testify to my nerdiness.

Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings might have been the pinnacle of fantasy writing but Dungeons & Dragons was what made the whole thing fun. It’s a pity but I guess the guy led a jolly long life filled with gaming. *Envy*

Bloody Flag Season

Election is not far away and already the disease of flagitis has spread and infected the neighbourhoods. I never did and never will understand the need for the millions of flags portraying party loyalties and posters of candidates littering the nation. I honestly feel all parties should be banned from hanging up their rubbish and inconveniencing society. There are better ways of doing it.

Instead of a 10,000 small flags, why not just a few big ones? I understand these flags are a boon for printing houses everywhere but isn’t it a massive waste? You spend millions on an ineffective campaign method and in return, you don’t really help anyone. You have flagpoles falling down on roads, strings of flags obstructing the view of drivers, flags falling down all over the place and making an outright mess of the place. Even the ACT of hanging up flags is reason enough for violence in opposing parties.

How many times must you see a candidates face before it sticks in your mind like diseased blutack. How long until you start to despise the face you see daily, grinning all around, hanging from trees and signboards. How long until I snap and whip out my pair of industrial scissors and go on a flag butchering rampage?…

Another stupid thing is, these forms of branding actually cancel themselves out. They love (or have to) hang opposing parties’ flags around each other. It is like some sort of pattern, Barisan, Opposition, Barisan, Opposition, Barisan, Opposition… Anyone that actually votes based on the number of flags they see has got to be majorly irresponsible or a plain doofus.

What is worse, candidates are normally quite ugly (to be blunt). I’ve seen some with pretty doofy faces not realizing that these posters are counter-productive for them. I feel for most candidates, they should let their deeds do the talking cos the face really isn’t helping much.