Pixlbit Episode VI: Return of the Internet

On 08/16/2013 at 10:40 PM by Halochief90

Moving to a nicer and bigger apartment sure is awesome - I actually have room for a couch! Waiting over two weeks for your internet to be set up? Not so much. I enjoy checking my news sites, email, and RSS feeds daily but for a while there I felt like a cocaine addict abruptly thrown into rehab! Even though I have a stack of unfinished games, unread books, and shrink-wrapped movies, it’s not easy adjusting to a network-less world.

And speaking of a network-less world, I have almost finished The Last of Us. How has the main character lasted twenty years without internet? If I found myself in The Last of Us’ universe, were I not taken by the infection already, I would have likely committed seppuku long ago! With regards to the Adventures of Josh Brolin and Ellen Page, it’s a great movie/game. The gunfights can be intense and fun, but all the gamey stuff often takes backseat to the atmosphere and story (which is very interesting so far). Half of the time, you are really just slowly walking through the world, listening to the characters talk, and occasionally hitting the triangle button. It’s not a knock on The Last of Us as a great experience, but I do question the approach game-reviewers have taken on this game.

Anyway, not entirely my fault but I apologize for being absent recently. Hopefully, I will leave a comment on your most recent blog and catch up to everything else I missed.

transmet2033

08/16/2013 at 10:55 PM

I had the same problem. It tools two weeks for them to transfer my internet service. I survived because I had a short-term source for internet, but it still sucked.

Halochief90

08/16/2013 at 11:48 PM

It's pretty silly that it takes them so long to do it as well. It took them less than half an hour when they actually got here. Do they only have one guy to set-up for the whole city or something?

Chunopo

08/16/2013 at 11:34 PM

I feel your pain mate, when we first moved to Aus it was six weeks beofre we got internet, my X Box, TV and most of the things that distract me from the rigours of life, I only had my trusty 3DS and PSP to keep me company, it was tough but those boys saw me through it! Really want to play the last of us but I just can't justify buying a PS3 for one game.

08/16/2013 at 11:55 PM

Six weeks? Man, my gaming systems certainly helped a lot but there was still something missing inside me without being connected!

I don't know if you are planning on getting a PS4 sometime in the future, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sony released a suped-up version of the Last of Us for it.

08/17/2013 at 12:53 PM

I hope so because a PS4 is my next choice of console, I ve suffered the RROD on my x box twice now and they pushed me too far with the One dictatorship, Sony all the way from here on out. And yeah six weeks was tough but it really does make you think about just how reliant we are on it all, I remember being at school and actually having to go round to peoples houses and knock on their doors to see what they were up to! Now its mobiles all the way...... man I'm getting old!!

08/17/2013 at 05:33 PM

Everything going on with the Xbox One has even soured me on the 360. I rarely even turn it on and have vowed to buy all multiplatform games on PS3.

I do think we are too reliant on the internet. I exaggerate how hard the wait for internet is. I can get by perfectly fine without it but it just has become something I crave envitably. I don't know how long I could last without a TV though!

Super Step Contributing Writer

08/17/2013 at 12:04 AM

Dammit, I still haven't chosen a service provider for my new apt. and I move in next Friday.

08/17/2013 at 05:36 PM

Better get on that! I waited till the last minute because I wasn't sure of the exact address of the new apartment.

Alex-C25

08/17/2013 at 12:15 AM

Great to hear from you. Though I can live without internet for certain amount of time and days, i'm sometimes not sure if i'll last very long.

Damm, that is a very gory image for that visual novel. And since I mentioned that, where did you get the game and for which plataform?

08/17/2013 at 05:46 PM

Good to be back. Hopefully I up and disappear for so long again..

I bought the game from Rightstuf.com as it wasn't available on Amazon.ca. It's for PC. And yeah, that image might be kind of tame in comparison to a few other things I've heard about in the game!

Ranger1

08/20/2013 at 02:30 PM

Luckily I was still back and forth between places when I moved, so my internet was hooked up shortly after I moved in.

08/20/2013 at 03:43 PM

I moved out a few days before the end of the month and they cut off my internet the moment after I called them to transfer the account!

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