I don't know how many calories I ate today, but I fasted yesterday except for water, and only had about four or five lemon cookies, a couple protein shakes w/ skim milk, a couple Lays chips, and about six scrambled eggs. For this week, I have to eat only foods with very little or no fat content, so unbreaded chicken, fish, eggs, skim milk, protein powder, yogurt, etc. Probably most of this will be yogurt and chicken, cause I'm not as big a fan of everything else. Especially protein shakes. They're awful. But unfortunately necessary for me most days. God, I want a pretzel.
Game Log, May 12 – Nuked and Amused
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 On 05/13/2014 at 02:48 AM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
2:00 pm – I setup my Xbox 360 at my friend’s place and had lunch. I’m trying to keep to about 700 calories a meal, but this one was probably about 1200 consisting of a Liverwurst sandwich, a hot dog and a few pretzels. Breakfast was about 500 though and dinner was about 800. So I’m over for the day, but it was much better than last week which added up to over 3K calories. Yikes!
2:10 – Hooked up the Kinect and used it to look at the sales section. I’m a little afraid it would be way too easy to accidently buy something with this device. What if I said “purchase” just in passing? I guess I would have one more screen to go to confirm it, so I guess that’s ok. It just makes me a little nervous.
Then I stated up Mars Rover Landing. There are a few goals in the game: land successfully ten times, and get five stars in the two sections of the game five times each. I’ve now done four landings, but I haven’t five starred anything yet. I came close though in the atmospheric entry section with a 4 ½ star performance. I am getting a little better at the arm movements to ignite the explosive bolts. I noticed they go faster if you do well on one segment. I also figured out you can change direction in the last phase and try and land in the very center of the target area. I messed this up several times and crashed. It’s hard to slow down while trying to change direction. I’m enjoying the Kinect as a kind of warm up to gaming every weekend now.
2:31 – I picked up where I left off at the beginning to chapter 9 in Child of Light. Something changes about your character at the beginning of this section, but I won’t spoil it. Let’s just say, I was surprised because I hadn’t noticed it last week when I stopped.
4:19 – I finished the ninth chapter, then I noticed that I hadn’t finished getting Rubella to the Circus in the Rubella’s Plight quest. I was pretty sure I’d missed it by now and went back to scour the Plains area where the circus was supposed to be (Luckily you can go back to previous areas whenever you want to). I couldn’t find it and so looked up a walkthrough, being totally stumped. Well. . , it was in the one place I kinda whipped past a few chapters back (I won’t spoil where). I hadn’t gone back there because some interesting story elements came up and rushed me towards a big boss battle. It was valuable scouring the plains area though, because I found a few corners I hadn’t seen the first time.
5:12 – I started up Borderlands 2 and my buddy, now a level 60 Gunzerker, joined me. I wanted to do some easy going levels, so I took my level 50 Assassin on Normal Mode and started the Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt DLC. My friend and I just churned through it. It was pretty easy. Most enemies except bosses went down in just a few shots. It's fun to run and gun!
6:58 – We beat the Hammerlock DLC. My friend had a one million plus damage rocket launcher labeled “Nukem”, and every time he shot it, a small nuclear blast was seen. One time I was sighting through my sniper rifle and suddenly my entire screen lit up bright yellow. Yep, my friend had just lit off a “Nukem” rocket right near my target. “I’m blind!” I yelled. That got a chuckle.
I did notice that most of the equipment I found was pretty useless to me, and I was leveling very, very slowly. This is the price you pay for playing a level 50 plus character on Normal Mode. I was pretty frustrated last week, so I thought I’d just enjoy some easy run-and-gun and see the story of the main quest in the remaining DLC.
7:20 – Puddin’ time! Had to run out for some Kozy Shack chocolate puddin’ and some soda. I was beginning to crash, but now I was back on my game. Nothin’ like puddin’ time.
7:29 – Started up the Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep DLC. It’s a really funny RPG take on the Borderlands 2 world using a lot of the characters in altered form. Three of the Borderlands 1 playable characters are playing a game of Bunkers and Badasses (Dungeons & Dragons) with Tiny Tina as the Game Master (Dungeon Master) in the Sanctuary Headquarters. Then you basically play the game being created in their heads with Tina changing things on the fly. It’s really fun with all the usual clichés thrown in, even the annoying ones.
10:44 – Finished the Tiny Tina DLC. This DLC is pretty long and you get some really hectic battles near the end, even though my friend and I were like Gods among skeletons in this play through. I think it’s the best DLC for the game. It’s funny, inventive, and challenging (or would be on True Vault Hunter Mode).
Packed up my 360 and left my friend's place.
11:30 – At home now and getting ready to wrap the day. One more thing though. I booted up Sega Genesis Collection for the PSP and played a little bit of Alex Kid. This is a platformer where you’re a kid running through a suburban 2D environement. You have to jump over cars and open chests and bet on a rock, paper, scissors game when you go inside houses. You have two moves: jump and punch.
I need 1000 coins to unlock an interview on this collection. I think I can do it. I made it to the second level which is a desert containing prairie dogs and dung beetles rolling dung. I’m strangely interested in beating this game even though I usually don’t go for platformers. My tastes must be changing.
End Log.
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