Monthly Archives: March 2010

Funerals and Jobs

Posted on 31Mar2010 by | 1 Comment
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I’ll start with the job and go backward. There is a rumor that they are going to  move one of my shift’s crew members away from our team. This sucks pretty hard, because our team is really solid. We get along well and we cover each other really well. We have rapport and have a lot of fun on our shifts. Not a happy fun time at all. I’m pretty annoyed at that change.

Then the real happy fun time. My younger brother was killed in a car accident a few days ago. His funeral is coming up on this coming Tuesda. I have to attend that and the wake, which is on Monday. That’s pretty awesome. I really am not looking forward to sitting in a funeral home all day, nor the whole graveyard shift that’s going to take place (literally, not figuratively). That’s my updates on my life this week/month. Yay.

Oh, as a side note. I’ve added translation tools for those of you that read this (I know there are a few) that do not speak English natively. I’m pretty confident that whatever language you speak, we’ve got it covered. Enjoy! No bunny this time. I am not up for the search today.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-26

Posted on 26Mar2010 by | Comments Off
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  • Reality, I've always found myself just a little out of sync with it: Playing Final Fantasy XIII http://bit.ly/9JaYsp #outofsync #
  • And now, to the salt mines. Where lashes will begin and the wounds salted to taste with a pestle. Yah – fun times, fun times. #
  • FFXIII how I want to play you though I should be sleeping. I really should sleep really. Yah, not happening. Helloooooo gaming! #

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Playing Final Fantasy XIII

Posted on 22Mar2010 by | 2 Comments
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After the epic PS3 disaster, I’ve returned to playing Final Fantasy XIII. It hasn’t been easy, but I’ve been slowly making my way back to where I was originally. It’s been a long hard road playing through all the linear content again, having to skip the tutorials, watching the (really fucking beautiful cut scenes) again. I could skip those, but I’m not a monster, how dare you suggest such a thing!

The one upside to this situation is that I have a better handle on some of the fights that were difficult the first time around, because I know what I’m doing this time. Yay! I have to say that the linear beginning of the game is really annoying. Can’t say I’m a fan of the leveling system either, but putting the game down is an exercise in futility really. I just had to get over my initial anger and resentment. Okay, so I’m not over that part yet, but I’m working on it? ;)

I am looking forward to Thursday already. Last night’s work sucked pretty hard and I was tired when I left. Not just, “Oh, man I’m kind of tired I should take a nap.” I mean mentally drained, soul crushed tired. So I didn’t even bother playing (I’m about to do that now) and I’m pretty certain that several of my friends are annoyed with me because I haven’t answered any of their message. Oops.

I should probably call the lady back that wants her son’s laptop bag back as well. I’ll get around to that at some point. The machine is dead; motherboard fried. I don’t think there’s any real hurry in the matter. Her son should have taken better backups. I need to get paid for pulling that data off of there though. It’s like 75 dollars worth of work. :mrgreen:

You'd look good on my lap. Yes, yes you would.

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EPIC PS3 FAIL

Posted on 13Mar2010 by | 3 Comments
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I am just about livid. My room mate, who is not really a technological marvel has annoyed me to the nth degree today. I’ve been letting him play MAG on my PS3 account, which is fine. It’s normally not a problem, I just make sure to tell him don’t TK don’t speak to anyone, etc., etc., because I am part of a clan. I try to give him tips so he doesn’t mess up my kill to death ratio (that didn’t go so well it’s totally hosed but whatever). I decided to make him an account on my PS3 and then let him play his own guy. Which he’s been doing. Fantastic. Yah, except he uses the same theme as me because apparently it’s “cool” or whatever. It’ s just a bunch of anime characters from Death Note, Bleach, so on and so forth. Yay, I get points for being cool. Yah, now you can’t tell the two accounts apart without going to see who specifically is logged in.

I’ve discovered that all of my gaming data for Final Fantasy is on his account, because he didn’t log it out. Not a problem, okay stay calm. I copy all 34 saves (I’ve racked up over 24 hours of play, which isn’t a lot really, but it’s stuff I don’t want to do over again) over to my account on the same PS3. Fantastic. Load it up and get a nice warning telling me trophies will be disabled, can’t over write the saved data, and I can’t save my game.

WTF

Well that is just fan-fucking-tastic. I’m so pissed off. That means I have to play everything all over again in order to get the trophies I had back, and get to the point I’m at right now. It’ s such a waste of time. I just can’t even pick up the controller at this point. I don’t want to do it all over again. Needless to say, I’ll be changing my god damned theme, and telling him to log the hell out at the very least. I mean I specifically said to log in to my account and start Playstation @ Home (or whatever they call it, it’s basically folding proteins). Failure on his part of course. I can’t say I’ve ever felt like my time has been wasted to such a degree ever. Maybe talking to some tier 1 support monkey — but at least you can go to tier 2.

If anyone knows how to move save game data on a PS3 from one account to another (I don’t care how involved it is) without having to replay everything, or having my saves disabled and trophies disabled — that would be great. I really do not care how long it takes. I’m not replaying 24 hours of Final Fantasy XIII again. It’s a total waste of time, and I can’t even skip anything because the game is so linear at the point I’m at. This is the fail that occurs regularly in my life.

Yep, the skirts never did get this short at my school =-( More Fail in the life of prata

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What I Thought Was

Posted on 12Mar2010 by | 3 Comments
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What I thought was, I’d have a new and interesting person to talk to by the name of Jin. Had an interesting conversation with this person the other day. I’d like to continue that. Might be building a wordpress site for this person. I might even host it if they ask nicely.

It’s my Friday, and I’m really excited about that. Not that I’m going to do anything, because I don’t get paid until Monday and I’m broke. Yay me. I have to stop by someone’s house and install Adobe for them because I took away their administrative capabilities because I hate having to go back and forth to their house to repair stupid things like, “Oops, I got another virus for the 5,000th time and I can’t figure out why. Fix it right now!”

I started playing Final Fantasy XIII yesterday, absolutely fantastic; although linear at this point in the game. I hear it expands outward later. I hope so, because I’m kind of bored with the way it’s going at this point. I’ve only been playing for about 6 total hours though. So I can’t really get down on the game yet.

I also have Star Ocean to finish up, but I just haven’t been on top of it due to fatigue from the job (they are mentally killing me there) and the fact that I have been super focused on Heavy Rain. I swear that game is just out of this world awesome. I downloaded the soundtrack too, because even that is awesome.

I just woke up like 45 minutes ago after sleepin’ part of the day. I guess today was my catch up day because I haven’t slept worth a damn for the longest. As a side note, yes, I know you can’t really “catch up” as it were on sleep.

Here comes the money shot:

Elly from Viet Nam

Hour glass just doesn't do it justice.

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