Nobody Reads This

Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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I’ve been a little behind on my blogging since before Christmas thanks largely to a huge backlog of things I want to do. Namely, watch all of the West Wing. It’s a series that really blind-sided me, I’d heard it was around but never got into it. I pictured it as a really dry politics show talking rather typically about current affairs and expected all of the characters to be just cardboard cut-outs for agendas.

How foolish I was! The show is constantly putting on amazing performances one after the other and the speeches given by Martin Sheen as the President could bring a nation to it’s knees. I am constantly thinking: Jed Bartlett really ran for president he’d win with the largest majority the world had ever seen! It’s amazing and here’s an excerpt from an episode I watched just the other day, but if you haven’t watched the West Wing perhaps finding the youtube version would be better:

44 people were killed a couple of hours ago at Kennison State University. Three swimmers from the men’s team were killed and two others are in critical condition. When, after having heard the explosion from their practice facility, they ran into the fire to help get people out. Ran into the fire. The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels tonight.

They’re our students and our teachers and our parents and our friends. The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels, but every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we’re reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. this is a time for American heroes. We will do what is hard We will achieve what is great.

This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars.

I know it’s a big quote, but my God it’s awesome.

Annnnyway I’ve been indulging myself on city-sim games and if i’m honest am fairly tired of games altogether. First with missing the opening month of Wrath and second with the disappointing performance of pretty much every game i’ve bought in the last two months I can’t help but feel the industry is letting me down. I just now finished write my Rise of the Argonauts review, it’s not even remotely one of my well written reviews but that game was so unbelievably bad.

I finished Mirror’s Edge which I did enjoy and I got the no-guns achievement. I’d have preferred that game if it had no combat in it at all, they say they were being revolutionary by trying this brand new type of game out … Then why bother with gunplay at all? What a bunch of tools.

I’ve played about three hours of Fallout 3 … I honestly don’t get the reviews. It’s so very popular and yet I can barely stand it at all. It’s dirty, long and uneventful … Every time I go to play it I remember that it pretends to lend me play how I want but that’s really just a rouse. I have to use guns, there’s no other way.

I need a project … A real project to do, something I can quietly work on in my spare time but i’m not in charge of … I picked up the valve SDK last night, i’ll tinker with that but i’ll probably run out of steam really quickly.

It’s a shame … I’ll be playing Deus Ex 3 by the end of the year in all likelihood, but all I know is: I’m going to hate it.

I ordered a Murloc Plushie and a I <3 Starcraft T-shirt … I’ll snap a photo when I get them.

Regards,
JamesR.

Oh and i’ve been going to the gym … I really rather enjoy it.