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Earlier this month the graphic card in my dad’s PC started to give up the ghost. We did get a new (a GeForce GTX 750ti) but it didn’t arrive on the day it was suppose to come. We then discovered that it was delivered to the wrong building but luckily the people that lived there turned it in. So now we’re back in business.

Later today as of this blog supposedly last Nintendo Direct of this year will be live. I’m a bit excited to see actual release dates for Fire Emblem Fates but after a slow reimmersion of Pokemon I’m hoping to see a surprise trailer for a new main series Pokemon game. And with Pokken and Genei Ibun Roku ?FE taking more of my interest I’m debating, if possible, I should buy a Wii U or not. I hope that, if information will be available in the Nintendo Direct, Shantae makes it in Smash. I really like the character and this is pretty much a popular third party IP entering a game with Nintendo, SEGA, and Bandai-Namco characters.

First day back to work and it was hell, but then again I was not actually ready to be back. So many things felt wrong, and some things were actually wrong. End of the shift was a kick: I was double checking if the manager that asked me to take care of a few things included prep (essentially things readied for lunch) and she listed off what they were. I did this gig for years, including prep, and despite her knowing I’ve worked here long enough she just booted up in tutorial mode.

Okay, I’ll admit: I have been procrastinating both my vacation plans and some writing but I think it’s time to get into things. After I’m done posting this blog I’m going straight to my PC in the living room and start up System Shock 2. As far as writing is concerned I’ve been having mixed thoughts about it. One moment I’m up to writing a review but then suddenly I ask myself what am I doing. When I email the current review I’m writing I’ll talk to the guy. Writing blogs on the other hand is something I have been seriously putting off, even though nothing has really happened. Though I have discovered something about my ability to write or work in general.

I decided to remove the mods I was using with the build I was playing with and started a new character with the previous in mind. It was a bumpy start but it got easier when I got ED-E up and running. Also decided to reinstall the game. While it wasn't necessary New Vegas was buggy before modding it, especially with the enemy actor models clipping close to me after shooting them down several yards away.

I’ve been playing much more of New Vegas as of late but I started a new character with a different build I didn’t think I’d actually go with, The Prostitute (minus the DLC trait Skilled). So far she’s doing great though remembering some things from my sniper character helped with a few things, such as getting ED-E and Boone quickly. I have been getting around and even had ED-E kill some Legionnaires on the Booted mission. There has been one problem and this is most likely because of a mod I’ve been using. I’ve downloaded a mod from Nexus to add two “races”, Red and Silver Fox. Originally I did it just for kicks but then had a backstory I’ll write up later. To the point of the problem there has been an odd character model glitch. She looks kind of slanted and her extended arm are awkwardly posed. Even bringing up the Pip-Boy the left arm poses in an odd position to the point it’s difficult to look at the screens. I’ll have to look into any files I might have required to use it but to “fix” my glitch I have to reload a previous manual save. Sure the last save and the current one was finishing up the Fly Me To The Moon mission but if this is going to be a constant thing that I can’t fix then I better back up my sniper’s saves.

Finally got a few of these. I really like them, especially the Cyborg perk.

I have been playing around on New Vegas and wanted to do a scientist build to start off with. Problem is one of the traits I wanted is in a DLC so I decided to go sniper. I’m kind of missing out on some of the things like locked doors and computer hacking at the moment but with the modded 9mm pistol and Varmint Rifle makes things a bit easy. After all a bit of adventuring The Powder Gangers want me dead and The Legion has a hit on me, but I made a pretty decent Caravan deck.

Managed to get through last week and now I’m working through this week. Wednesdays have been insane for me since for the last couple of weeks there were 10 hour shifts I was scheduled for. It doesn’t help that we get more business now since the other store was torn down for remodeling. While we did get a few of the employees from the other store it still feels like we’re getting our asses kicked.