Mal

How to mellow me the hell out: Play a Yoko Kanno composed song, sung by Steve Conte. Pretty much all of them mellow me out.

Got it to work. Linux wouldn't do me any good since I'm so tied into Steam. Just one question... should I worry that this isn't genuine windows? It flashed a warning during install. I could work off this for now and reinstall later but that would be a pain in the ass.

I think what is up is that my brother has an upgrade disk, not a install disk. I'll see if I can get hold of an install disk else this'll be a long week and a half.

I derped. Derped really hard. How the fuck can I completely wipe a SSD so I can reinstall Windows? Oh, no access to OS since it is wiped but I can't seem to do a fresh install. Hence my previous question. Edit... I just might say fuck it and scavenge some money for a cheap build while scavenging parts from my current build.

Okay, I couldn't get to desktop at all with my latest attempt for a normal boot. Resetting OS drive after I stress out my GPU.

BSOD I am currently trying to figure out the cause. It stated yesterday but now its happening every time. Oddly, safe mode worked fine. I wonder if it is my SSD... It is a OCZ and apparently they're shown to be pretty crap. And its always on startup so its got to be something up during that time. --- Safe mode indeed seems to work just fine since I am typing from the computer in question. Regularly I seem to crash one minute in once I get to desktop. Any ideas? Since I am running fine in safe mode, I think my SSD is fine. My RAM should be fine as well. Since I am running well in safe mode, my CPU is fine as well. So, I think its either some program is causing a crash or my GPU is crapping out... or something entirely different. Help? --- Still running fine in safe mode. I really think it may be something on startup or soon after startup.

For 1-6... They're all roughly 12 hours long, maybe shorter. I haven't beat V yet but I can imagine it being about the same. The longest of the series got to be Origin since it has three characters who also has somewhat alternate move sets that you can unlock. Origin I think can last someone 50 hours if they went for the alt move sets. I can't say anything about Seven since I have yet to try it.

Sorry, not my type. Evil can reign.

Ys VI Ark of Napishtim. In some ways I think this is the easiest of the bunch that I've played because this is one of the few games where you can go to more high leveled area before you are suppose to. So I did find myself wandering into those places by chance and well, I manage to kill them. It made me 10 levels overpowered for a time. BUT. Then the game will catch up to you and you'll face with a damn hard boss. There are a few optional bosses you can fight too. I skipped one (it should be harder than the last boss which was piss easy) since I can't get to it since I can't manage to do a dash jump on command on the gamepad and with m-kb its clumsy as fuck. I will have to say this is a weakness since this move seems so hard to pull off. Story wise, this ties together the previous five (Four since V doesn't seem to deal with the Eldeens*) games. I know Seven doesn't deal with the Eldeens so going off of this game, I think when I play it, Adol will be dealing with the empire who in the last few games has been meddling with the ancients. V deals with another thing too. *V sorely needs a remake. Not being able to understand shit is annoying. Hopefully it'll come after the IV remake. VI maybe to update the graphic and game play mechanics a bit to be like Origin since the 3D-ness looks odd.

If anybody is going to push the consoles (Specifically the PS3) to their limit, I would think it be Kojima and the other folks behind MGS to do so. MGS4 had everything they could throw at it. Now they could use what they learned there to better the process. So far I am excited. Did anybody every took that game seriously? I sure as hell didn't. Now Ground Zeros... oh my. Then again, Kojima's name has ton of weigh of behind it.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/08/29/ale-chief-white-house-beer-recipe Oh... sounds good. Knowing how different honey can bee depending on whats plants its based off of, I am wondering what plants the bees collect from. Also, I demand a bottle of each as part of my tax refund. Well, anyways I will need more equipment to even start to do my own beer.

I like it too but I think it sort of got stale. I can't bring myself to finish the story now that I pretty much done all the side stories and I am near max level.

Okay... now I am just confused. Fuck it, I am going to play through XIII and XIII-2 as well, Final Fantasy heritage/purist/whatever-the-fuck be damned. I really have no grounds to complain if I haven't even play the older games.

I just realize I need an emulator since my brother's PS3 is not BC. Thanks for reminding me of that emulator. Edit: I feel like a heretic playing with a 360 pad and its pretty cool that we finally have a stable PS2 emulator. Okay, not just pretty cool but really fucking cool. This may make me want to dig up some Japanese gems.

I just remembered that I should play XII and indeed I have a copy.

Ys IV: Mask of the Sun More bumping mechanics and this time its old school. The remakes of Ys I an II really spoiled me since those versions worked really well but not so well in this SNES game. I think its just limited experience from the programing team. Overall though, I like it. Some boss battles and progression stuff were kind of screwy though. Story wise, I can see why a remake is needed. Some of the story really don't add up too well without one. Now onto Ys V! Which is Japanese only... this will be fun.

Pre-ordered. I'm completely unsure about this one since its with the new singer and I haven't heard of any clear recordings of him singing any of Kamelot songs. I've only heard crappy concert recordings. From what I gathered, he does sound quite a lot like Khan, just different... I'll see.

One sounds like Timmy Turner.

Videojuejo-related gripe uno: Shoots an arrow and have it stuck in the air by a rock. In the year 2012. Oh, okay.