Wrestling, Wrangling, and Wrong-doing…
Haven’t posted in a while for a couple of reasons.
One: I was in Canada for a few days, doing a little bit of work for G2, New York. I’d post photos and tell you all kinds of things I was up to, different pieces of wisdom earned and respect fought for… but there was none of that. I was in Toronto for just under fourteen hours (eight of which I greedily spent sleeping), and then off to Calgary for… well, because of wrangling flights, a lot longer than I probably should have. So there.
Two: Wordpress. I love it because I can throw everything up on the site regularly without having to learn pesky things like HTML, CSS, and Php. At some point, I removed a few items which I now want on the site, but have foolishly removed them. Wrestling with that.
Three: Damned video games. After a day of work, I usually want nothing more than to come home, relax, and see which of my projects I want to get a-goin’ first. Then I find out about Konami’s latest “Meme” expansion pack to their first-class, incredible online gaming experience, “Metal Gear Online.”
For those of you who have missed out on the past twenty years of gaming (or simply, those of you who decided to do things like go outside, engage in healthy social lives, or raise a family), Metal Gear Solid has been a legend. It’s the story of Solid Snake, a cloned warrior who fights against forces that wish to dominate the military and industrial aspects of our world. It’s been around since the first Nintendo, and a few months back made its final game on the PS3. It is, in a word, breath taking. If not for the incredibly-long gameplay and story(It’s built like a movie, kiddies. Three acts, plot points, midpoint, and all…), but also because it included Metal Gear Online at no extra cost.
The experience of Metal Gear Online is somewhat unique. In every way, it clings to realism. You’re guy’s a level ten? Real bad-ass? Take a corner wrong, you get shot in the head by a level 0. At the same time, the little things crral out of the woodwork that make the experience wholly unique. You can lay porno magazines as traps. Passing soldiers will crouch down, and gaze into it’s pictures with 8-bit hearts floating above their heads. Genius.
*sigh*… so, what has been keeping me up? There’s a new mode, whereby I can now play in “Survival” matches on weekends. I have taken to screaming with joy, crying with agony, and grumbling with carpal tunnel.
Anyhoo… working on the new design, a new film, and killing as many fifteen year olds in Omaha as I can before settling down for a night of slumber. I’ll be posting before the end of the year, to be sure. In the meantime, I’m gonna’ kill me some kids…
(and people wonder why I hardly sleep).
-J.