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Day 4. This is unprecedented and I suppose that I will have the same reaction tomorrow when I sit down and write something up. Since I have already posted a blog a day for the first three days of October I am going to try and write a blog a day. This may only end up lasting a week, but I will definitely try to make it to the end of the month. Probably the biggest reason that I would like to try this is because my thought process has been slowly clearing up as the days go by. There are two specific things that I wanted to go over today, and I will probably ramble onto a third or fourth item by the end of it.
I have been doing a little Christmas shopping already. I already know what my wife wants and I thought that I may as well order some stuff early. Along with what I ordered for her, I also picked up some stuff that I felt was a good or great deal. A 32 GB memory card for the Vita was only $45 at Best Buy and I had to jump on that. Also, classic Doctor Who has been on special throughout the year for the 50th anniversary and I thought that I would order a couple more stories. I have been working through the Black Guardian Trilogy and decided to get a couple more Peter Davison stories, Resurrection of the Daleks and The Ark of Infinity. Rayman Legumes on Vita dropped to $30 and so I grabbed that because I have been working on Oranges and have been wanting a portable platformer. I did recently get PS+ just for the Vita games. Not to waste the opportunity, I made sure that my brother logged onto my account on his PS3 and add the games to my download list. I want to be prepared in case I actually replace my old PS3.
I have decided to sit down and try to speedrun through Metroid Fusion. I am not going to try and beat the best time out there, 48 minutes, but I would like to challenge myself and see how quickly I can do it. I practically know the game by heart and the moment I step back into Samus' shoes I can remember nearly everything about the game. If I put on the song "Blue and Yellow" by the used, I am sure that I can remember the rest. I listened to that song throughout my first couple of times through the game so I am sure that it will stimulate some long dormant memories. The time that I am going to try for is going to be 75 minutes, but I fully expect it to take a couple of playthroughs, but I think that I can do it.
I am going to leave it there and will hopefully be back tomorrow.

At this point I am sure that you are getting sick of hearing from me. I know that I will eventually run out of things to say, but for now I still feel like writing. It is quite possible that I may keep it up all month and write a blog a day. I am doing pretty good so far. It is October 3rd and I am working on my 3rd post of the month.
This apparently is not working out so well. I am actually starting this thing for the third time at this point. I did not like where I was going when talking about upcoming games that excite me, so I started over. Then I started to talk about problems with commenting on bigger sites, but what I was trying to say was not coming together nicely.
I always hear these horror stories about playing games online. If you play any of the big online shooters you are bound to run into some foul-mouthed little kids. I have played Halo online on and off for the past 3 years, but have only experienced these kids a couple of times. Even the brief time that I spent with CoD was not too bad. My bad experiences with gamers online always seems to be in the comments section on the larger sites. After reading an article and some of the comments sometimes I feel as though I have someting to add to the conversation. I think that it has finally sunk in today that I do not have a single thing to add to big sites. People can be extra vicious and rather than letting a stupid comment slide or ask for clarification, they attack. Apparently any comment that might appear to be anti-microsoft makes you a Sony fanboy and vice-versa. Since it was a hot topic, you comment about Dragon's Crown's artwork. If you like it you maybe were labeled a misogynist. This is what ends up being my problem with the bigger gaming sites. The communities can be toxic and quite uninviting. In the end, I have deleted my IGN account and I will only be frequenting the larger sites for what they do best, news.

It appears that I am feeling fairly talkative right now. Even though I may be self-conscious about my writing abilities, I know that writing is something that stimulates my brain. The other thing that helps me write is knowing that I actually do enjoy writing. I never really had issues writing papers in school. I even got an amazing scholarship for college because of an essay that I wrote. The one thing that I do really hate about writing is the editing process, which is why I rarely go back an edit what I have already written. I should make more of an effort to edit, if only to sound less like an idiot. I am sitting down and writing now because I finally feel my thought process settling down. If anybody noticed, my last couple of posts have been all over the place. There was a paragraph that was "finished" mid-sentence. I will warn you that I may re-cover some items from last time or the time before.
I think that we will start with movies. There are two specific points that I would like to talk about as far as movies are concerned. The first being the opportunities that I have to watch movies with my wife, and then the movies that I will never watch with my wife. My wife, Marie, had different priorities before she met me. Most of them have not changed, but now she is more willing to spend time actually watching movies. She has missed out on years of fantastic films and I have the wonderful opportunity to introduce her to them. She most like would have never watched a single Studio Ghibli film if it were not for me. Most recently we sat down and watched the Ghostbusters franchise. She enjoyed and laughed through both films. I know that Ghostbusters 2 has some problems, but I do not think that it deserves as much hate as some people throw at it. It is still enjoyable. There are certain types of movies that I still enjoy, but I know that Marie hates. Films that fall into the horror or gruesome categories or just plain stupid. So, whenever I find the time I do watch one of these types of films. Most recently I finished up Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, which is possibly my favourite zombie movie, ever. It is a fairly typical zombie film from the 70s, but there is just something about it that elevates it above the rest of the sub-genre. Some guy at work kept talking about Miami Connection and so I did watch that. It is quite possibly the funniest and stupid movie I have seen in quite some time. You need to check it out, Miami Connection. Also, on the topic of awful films, I have recently acquired access to a couple of Troma films and hope to watch Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuk'em High over the next couple of weeks.
I just wanted to talk a little bit about Kickstarter. So far I have backed a dozen or so items on Kickstarter. I need to stop backing projects. The majority of the games that I have backed are coming out specifically on PC and I rarely play PC games. I think that I just got caught up in the moment and had a lapse of judgment. A lapse of judgment that apparently keeps reoccurring. Shovel Knight is the only one that I know I will play because of the fact that it it coming out on 3DS. Hyper Light Drifter has an amazing art style and thankfully it is coming out on the PS4 and Vita, because otherwise I probably would not play it. Wasteland 2, Shadowrun Returns, Banner Saga, Project Eternity, and Torment are all games that I backed, but probably should not have. I have backed a couple of card games and so far one has delivered, Boss Monster, and the other two seem as though they should be going to the presses within the month. What I am trying to say is that I am not quite sure how I feel about Kickstarter. I should probably just block the website on all of the browsers that I use.
Just to recap the important bits. Ghostbusters 2 is not as bad as you remember. You need to watch both Miami Connection and Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, but for different reasons. Also, I think I changed my mind... I hate Kickstarter, but I also love it.  It is mostly hate.

As I predicted correctly, I finished up A Link to the Past over the weekend.  My favourite thing about the game is entering the dungeons and collecting the item and moving onto the next.  After collecting all of the items I go back as a Super-Powered Link and am able to knock out all of the bosses in an hour or so.  

I cannt think straight right now, my thought process is all over the place. I do feel the need to sit down and write, so I apologize if I end a paragraph mid-sentence. It has been a while since I have sat down and written anything so I fe
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages was the last game that I have actually finished. That was about 2 weeks ago, and I have not been able to settle into another game since. I bounced around games like Rayman Oranges. While I did enjoy Rayman, I had issues with the controls and set it back down after finishing a couple of worlds. I had picked up a Vita and messed around with that, playing a bit of Killzone: Liberation, Hotline Miami, and Symphony of the Night. Nothing has stuck so far, until last night. I really hate bouncing around games and prefer to just settle into the next one and finish it before moving on. Luckily I may have found it in A Link to the Past. I sat down for 2 hours or so and have been flying through the game. I have finished it a dozen or so times, so I expect to finish it with everything within the week.
I have also been watching a lot of stuff. My wife and I started and caught up on White Collar over the past month or so and are impatiently waiting for it to come back for season 5. I powered through a bunch of classic Doctor Who. Stories like, The Ambassadors of Death, Inferno, The Sea Devils, Planet of the Daleks, Frontier in Space, Ark in Space, Full Circle, and State of Decay. I will finish up th E-space trilogy with Warriors gate sometime this weekend. I also watched Ghostbusters again, love that film, and also Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.
I have also done a lot of beer sampling. I have been getting into rye ales, and have been picking up as many as I can find. I tried Hop Rod Rye, Southern Tier 2x Rye, He'brew R.I.P.A. Schell's Emerald Rye, 3 Floyd's Rye'da Tiger and New Holland's Rye Hatter. Most of them were very tasty.
I feel so scatterbrained right now...  Oh yeah, I remember enjoying the little bit of Hotline Miami that I played on the PC.  That is not the case on the Vita, not sure why...  maybe it isn't as good as everybody says.

I like to think that I do not really care about how things looks, but I may need to make an exception.  Behold, the one reason why I may pick up a PS VIta far earlier than I was planning.  

I had Samuel Smith's Organic Chocolate Stout last night.  It was good, but I was not expecting to find actual cocoa in the beer.  I know that there are chocolate malts, which is just how it is roasted and I was just expecting that.  So imagine my surprise when I take a sip of a deliciously chocolaty beer.  I almost felt like I should have had it after dinner as a dessert.

Plenty of people see entirely different things when they look at the 2DS. Some see a headache filled holiday season. Some see a questionable business move. Some see an ugly hunk of plastic. Some see a beautiful hunk of plastic. I see an ecstatic 7 year old.
Over the past week I have been tossing around the idea of getting a 2DS for my godson, Andrew. This is a new idea that only surfaced when the 2DS was announced. I was never planning or even thinking about getting him videogames for his birthday or Christmas. Now I am contemplating it... What changed? The price is definitely a part of it. A $40 price difference is pretty significant. Especially since that money can go right into getting a game or two. The last thing you want is new tech and nothing to play with it. The ugly design is definitely another big factor. A lot of the things that were cut, or changed for the 2DS will not matter to him. He will be super excited with just having the device. From everything that I have read, the 2DS is built very solid and should take a beating. Why are people worried about the fact that the 2DS does not close shut? Plenty of toys and gadgets have not had the ability to close shut, but are still around and kicking. I for one still have a bunch of different gameboys lying around that all work, assuming that I have batteries.
I think that he would love having a handheld console, and I apparently am too cheap to get him a proper 3DS. I just think that the 2DS is a little bit more practical. He is child number 3 of 4, and I can somewhat relate to his place in the family. There were just a few more in my family, I was 4 or 7. With an older brother he gets quite a few things second hand and he somewhat lives in a shadow. I think that the 2DS would be an awesome way to get out from that shadow and have the coolest toy(s) in the house.

In other news, I finished two amazing games, Fire Emblem Awakening and Steamworld Dig. I am currently working my way through Link's Awakening and hope to actually finish it this time. My mind is becoming muddled with many thoughts, so I best walk away from the computer for now...

With the 3DS and its eshop I think that I will probably purchase a larger memory card, and just download the majority of the games that I want for it.  I think that this is the smarter move, because I will not have to deal with losing, or swapping out of the cartridges.  Also, I have yet to resell a single handheld game that I own so I think that it just makes sense.  I will make an exception for....

Recently I have been listening to the shut up and sit down podcast.  It has been quite entertaining and has gotten me into the mood to play more and more board games.  While I may have a greater desire, I am having difficulty actually playing them.  The biggest problem is that I do not have a large enough group at my disposal for the time being.  Another problem is Fire Emblem Awakening.  Fire Emblem is all that I think about nowadays and all I try to do with my free time.   Getting back to board games…  I got my Kickstarter copy of Boss Monster just over a month ago and had only played it once.  Over the weekend I had the opportunity to play it again with some of my cousins.  The game is so much better once you know how to actually play it.  When I first played it, my brother and I were making it up as we went along because we did not really have the patience to read the wonderfully NES era rulebook.  The game is awesome and I am so glad that I kickstarted it.  I also recently picked up a copy of the cave, but have yet to play a round.  I am quite excited about it and hope to get around to it soon.