Contrary to what I said in my last blog, from who knows how long ago, I have not been keeping up with the D-Toid Blogosphere. I miss you guys. Srsly. Unfortunately, my rapidly declining bank balance keeps informing me that I have many more important things to pay for. Electricity, heat, internet, tuition, rent, and the list grows longer every day. Desfortunamente, this means my gaming budget has had to be slashed by a whopping 100%. Yep, you read that correctly folks, I paid very very close to zero dollars on gaming in the last calendar year.


Yeah, it's only 30 degrees in the 'Shire, but it's not even cold yet. Damn you electric heat.

What I have been doing is trying to hold it down for all of the technologically inclined folks up here in East Bumfuck. I recently hosted a Halo Reach LAN party, which is funny since I own neither a 360 nor Halo Reach. For old times sake, several liters of Mountain Dew and far too many five dollar pizzas from Dominoes were consumed in between beers and blunts. All it all, it was pretty fun, and many good laughs were had. Sadly, this is something that hasn't really made a dent in the public perception of the gaming populous here.

What I have been actively working on is regular meetings to play and practice in various fighting games. Lucky for me, my blood brothers and fraternity brothers have been all about this, which has been all sorts of awesome.


You about it?

A pretty HD tv, a pair of six button fight sticks, Tekken 6, SSF4, and MvC2 have been the flavors of choice of late. A six man rotation and the sticks helps me forget the fact that arcades are all but dead on the American east coast. Regardless, it's been a ton of fun, and having a stick makes T.Hawk's 720 throws soooo gooood.


TONY HAWK 720 DOUBLE DOME SLAM!!! (as described by my little brother. he's 16. also awesome.)

Also, I've been working on building a music library so I can potentially start DJ-ing. I'm a Chemical Brothers guys living in a Nickleback world, and it's almost literally painful to deal with the shit they put on the radio. Not even worth turning on. I've been working on getting my college friends into the music I have, and songs that I introduced to campus have been party hits. Also, a friend from Greece has been educating me as to the history of European techno and house music, so the horizons are ever expanding.


A tasty morsel. Up the quality, headphones or a subwoofer a must.

With that, I'm out.