Published on
Thursday, October 30, 2008 in
Musings.
I really have to learn to be more careful.
But I often find myself being too careful. And that is also a problem. But it seems like whenever I let myself go I do something so stupid that I completely regret it.
Today, for example, during a discussion I was making a joke and it came out wrong. It came out terribly wrong and I feel really bad about it. No one seem really offended just a bit “What? You shouldn’t say that.” look from a few.
I didn’t mean it at all the way it came out. I just thought quickly and it came out in a way that sounded bad and I could only laugh instead of properly fixing my comments. I feel ashamed and wanted to correct myself, but I don’t know if I was able to make that clear afterwards.
I just feel bad now.
What I shouldn’t do is attribute that to me acting more assertive. It was a mistake and mistakes are made. I still need to be more assertive, I just need to be more careful.
Published on
Monday, October 27, 2008 in
Musings.
Found a dead bird right under my bicycle as I left work today. Regret not taking a picture but I was a tad freaked the fuck out so I just left.
Not that I’m big on omens or anything but huh. Just gives a really weird feeling. I mean, it was a really pretty looking bird. It just now ceases to be.
Published on
Saturday, October 25, 2008 in
Gaming.
While I would prefer to have a new 2D castle crawling Castlevania every year, I’ll have to settle for the rate they put them out. That said, Castlevania Order of Ecclesia hit a few days ago and I am of course in love.
It’s kinda hard to take my opinion too critically on these games because I haven’t met one that I hate yet. Hell, I replay them in my sleep. But I won’t be afraid to acknowledge some flaws, even if I don’t let them bother me.
One of the issues with these games is the difficulty. Some argue losing the RPG-esque stat system would up the difficulty. This is one option, but Konami went another route in upping the difficulty in Ecclesia.
Fucking hard bosses.
I mean, goddamn. I have died at least six or seven times on each boss so far, if not more. I’m only on the third boss I think but they each have been quite a struggle to go through. Their patterns can be figured out, but surviving the damage output and taking down their massive HP has been almost frustrating.
I say almost because they have, in tradition, put the save points right by the boss rooms. And, as they have added a world map with multiple zones to pick from this time, sometimes the boss is just right off the bat when you get to the new area. So there isn’t much time taken getting to the boss, although before I get the patter down, I sometimes spend less time actually fighting them.
But it’s the castle crawling, RPG stat having awesome-fest that I can’t get enough of.
And it has a giant enemy crab named Blackula.
Published on
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 in
Gaming.
So, I bought Wii Fit last week. I have been using it every day and I actually feel better.
Now, whether or not I lose those final few kilograms I have been meaning to get rid of is another thing all together. But I just feel better. Hell, sometimes I feel as “good” as I do when drunk off my ass, but I have been able to accomplish this without alcohol at all.
Utter insanity!
But getting my body moving a bit more than normal has been doing wonders. And it is all thanks to technolomogy.
I mean, riding a bike is one thing. Stretching is another. Actually physical exercise is in a league of its own. I don’t know if I mind doing them per se, but when you give me daily charts and graphs and percentages and just numbers to monitor on a daily basis, I get a mental hard on. It’s like I have a status page from an RPG for my fat. It entices me to do things that I would never consider otherwise.
Bizarre motivation, to be sure. But I’ll take it!
Published on
Friday, October 17, 2008 in
Musings.
I have been doing a lot of studying recently about the mind and how one can get stuff done that needs to be done but doesn’t exactly want to put the effort out for.
I have a problem waking up and I found a genius thing that I can’t believe works.
See, I always get up, turn off my alarm and go back to bed for thirty more minutes. Now, I always figured that it was because I wanted to sleep until 7:30, but it turns out by setting my alarm a half hour earlier I can get up at seven no problem.
Huh?
Well I guess that I conditioned myself to want to get up and then lay back down for a half hour, so my body doesn’t give a shit what time I do it. Just that I do it. And I feel just as refreshed if not more because I am not rushing out the door.
Another one is with my Japanese studies.
I had 130 sentences to review yesterday and I was dreading it. So, I set a timer for five minutes and saw how many I could get done in five minutes. I only had to do this six times to actually finish all my sentences. That is only a half hour of work! I would easily spend more than that just dreading the thought of doing them.
Mind boggling.
Published on
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 in
Gaming and Japan.
I spent lots of money to go a far away city to see games! It was pretty damn awesome!
Continue reading ‘Tokyo Game Show Two Thousand Eight’
So, I am taking part in a podcast that will be done every other week. You would think with my sort of taste no one would want to listen to what I have to say, but we’ll just have to see about that!
XABY Radio #1 is up and ready to pleasure your ear canals.
