This is the story about the time I spent the afternoon and night with Matt, Paul and Jacob. But I can’t just jump straight into it! I have to tell you what happened and why I saw them. Prepare yourself for the best report ever! It’s the story of…
Real Life
Night in the Woods
Have you ever finished reading a book and been left feeling not quite the same? Maybe it’s a feeling of emptiness, possibly sadness or even depression. You’ve been welcomed into a story — a world, which unfolds around you, presenting characters and people who grow and develop the more you delve in. It could be fantastical or relatable, or both. Discovering more and more until you realise that, sadly, it’s all coming to an end too soon. Then it’s over. It’s gone. The experience you’ve been welcomed into, the thing that was growing before you, has stopped and you know that you’ll never experience it the same way again. The words don’t change. Your interpretation might, but still, it will never be a part of your life like it was that first time.
Going to a Video Game Store used to be Fun
When I was a kid going to a video game store used to be fun. Yes, that’s correct, just as the title suggested. Actually, it doesn’t suggest it — it downright states it. I guess I should explain this in two parts. First, why it used to be an enjoyous activity and finally (which is redundant in saying as it’s only a list of two things) why it sucks ass nowadays.
I Heart Jack
It wasn’t until the mid-to-late ’90s that I had semi-regular access to a PC. It was a rather big thing. Sure, I had used them at school and at friends’ places but this was a computer I could access more often. It was my grandparent’s computer, and frankly, I don’t really know why they bought it.
I remember my grandma (a.k.a. Nanna) telling us that she got it by calling a number on the back of a magazine advertising them for sale. When she called the SUPER AWESOME PERSONAL COMPUTER HOTLINE the salesman asked
Run Application World.exe
Every now and again you’ll just be sitting there minding your own business, keeping to yourself, when all of a sudden someone says something stupid. It happens more often then it should. Most of the time it’s harmless. Sometimes it’s serious. Occasionally it’s downright insane.
I recently had one of those insane ones.
The Guys of Nintendo
Welcome back to part two of my harsh judging ways. If you missed part one, you can check out the five ladies of Nintendo here. Doesn’t saying “ladies” just sound creepy? Anyway, today we ain’t all about them feminine wiles. Today it’s about the boys!
So let’s take a look at the top five hottest male characters from Nintendo.
The Girls of Nintendo
Not so long ago I posted a video about how WarioWare came up with the idea for Fruit Ninja. I casually commented, just in passing mind you, that one of the characters in the game was hot. No thought about it, just a random attempt at humor.
But then I thought, what if I actually put some consideration into it? What if I was a sexist pig and decided to rank my top five hottest female Nintendo characters. Well, I wouldn’t do that. I’m too much of a gentleman. Then I thought, why don’t I do the guys too! That’s right, I’m a plain old pig. No sexism here!
However, we’ll start with the girls today and tomorrow we shall check out the guys. And you know what I mean when I say “check out”. *winky face*
I suck at NBA 2K16
I’ve been playing NBA 2K16 for a few weeks now. The first thing I did was make my favourite team, the Perth Wildcats. If you haven’t yet, you can see all about it here.
I do suck at this game, but not in the conventional way. At first I was playing on the difficulty of Rookie. I must admit, even though this was my usual habit of choosing the easiest difficulty possible, I kept winning games. And I don’t mean just winning games. I was beating the absolute crap out of every team I versed.
To try and rectify this and make the game a little more interesting I changed the difficulty setting to Pro. I’m about nine games into my eighty-two game season and I still seem to be winning pretty much every game. The exception being when I verse a team who is known to excel, such as Golden State, who Steph Curry plays for or LeBron with the Caveliers. I’m not just losing these games. I ‘m getting my ass handed to me on a silver platter. Actually it’s not even a silver platter. Or bronze platter. More like a ‘did not place’ platter.
Perth Wildcats NBA 2K16
It’s been a couple of years since I’ve played an NBA 2K game. I’m pretty sure the last one was 2K14, which came out in 2013. The only mode I ever used to play was MyCareer because I liked the idea of being your own player and progressing through your time in the league.
I guess it’s because the only team in the NBA I ever liked was the Indiana Pacers and since Reggie Miller left I stopped caring. However for the last couple of seasons I’ve been following my local NBL team here in Perth, Western Australia.
To be completely honest,
Where the pig at?
So, now bacon is apparently bad for you.
Sure. Okay. I guess we always kinda knew it wasn’t the greatest for our health, but it’s worse than we thought.
Bacon now causes cancer. Well, that’s just great isn’t it? What’s next? Video games cause AIDS? Why the freak not? You may as well take that away from me too. It’s not like I love anything else. TAKE IT ALL!
Have my bacon. I don’t care. Just be sure when you take my video games, because if you get it wrong I’ll hunt you down and make you pay.
Sleep well my sweet cochon.
I Suck @ Video Games 