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I haven't opened the laptop in a while, but I thought I should do so and let you guys know what I'm up to.

Not much, unfortunately. I've found some people that team up for Killzone Shadow Fall every few days, so that's been fun. I liked the multiplayer enough (barely touched singleplayer) playing solo, but as part of a group, it's been much more enjoyable.

I've also finished the campaign for Killzone Mercenary and hope to write a review soon. I want to play the contract mode a bit to get a feel for that.

I had a hankering to play the first downloadable game I bought for the PS3 back in February 2010, TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-shelled. I had only finished it with 2 turtles and there's an easy gold trophy for finishing it with all four. I thought "Why the hell not?"

So I played it with Raphael and then Michaelangelo and the trophy did not pop up. Worried, I finished it again with every turtle just to make sure.

No trophy. God. Dammit. Oh well, it was a fun game nonetheless.

Being obessed with buying games that I might never have time for, I used some points at Gamestop and bought Dark Souls (cuz there's no stopping all the hoopla over the sequel and a friend has been begging me to play it for about a year and a half), Killzone 3 (I never got into Killzone originally, but Shadow Fall has piqued my interest), and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (that game has come up on my radar, as I'm getting into third person shooters and this game's turn away from run and gun seems interesting).

My head's also been spinning around thinking about a possible Delta Green adventure for my small gaming group. For those who don't know, Delta Green is an extrapolation of HP Lovecraft's Mythos to a modern setting. Though modern at the time of the setting's creation was the mid-90s. It deals with goverment conspiracies regarding the supernatural and the extraterrestrial. Yes, it's pretty much X-Files.

I don't exactly know why I've been mulling that setting over, though a good part of it was spurred by the current fight against the federal government by Cliven Bundy. I have some ideas that swing from Bundy being a pawn of the supernatural, to the government realizing they need the land for some crazy ritual. I don't know which way to go right now.

I saw Absentia a couple days ago and was really amazed. It's a quiet horror movie dealing with a woman whose husband disappeared 7 years before. Things get weird, as they would in a movie, and that's what grabbed me. The movie doesn't give answers, only a limited insight to a possibly much larger, unsettling world. Considering this was a movie funded off Kickstarter with a cast of unknowns, it really shines compared to the rehashed and mediocre crap that is mainstream horror right now. 

I'm reading Skinwalkers by Wendy Wagner. It's a novel in the Pathfinder Tales series, set in Golarion. Golarian is the game setting for the rpg that took up the mantle of D20 fantasy once 4th edition D&D was announced. It's a fun and varied setting and the novels aim to provide readers a view on the multitude of story possibilities in the world. This book stars Jendara, a barbarian pirate woman who ends up fighting against a group of invading shapeshifters. It sounds silly--and kinda is--but it's not too bad of a read. I'm about halfway through now.