Portland.

Hayo. I'll be headed out to Portland tomorrow. No xbox for 4 days. Wow. That seems like an eternity. I have my Gamefly games coming in the mail. I'll let y'alls know how they go. I'll break 30k next Monday. Also, new Mass Effect DLC is out today. I'll get that on Monday, as well. Peace out, guys. See you in a few days. You stay classy San Diego.

Night Shift.

Well, here we are again. Night shift. I love it.

I got Fight Night Round 3 in the mail from Gamefly. Yes. So much fun. The first step in the achievement guide is, "Buy low blow and elbow to the face." It's going to be a good night.

10:00 pm - Arrive at work. Clean stuff. Kids in bed. Check some beds. Do laundry. Make coffee.

10:30 - Catch up with old co-worker who is returning to work. She's rad. Checka da beds.

11:00 - Hey guys, I got to play some xbox. Are you leaving yet? I think to myself... (bed checks.)

11:30 - Xbox. Engage. Fight Night time.

11:45 - Bed checks. E'eryone's safe.

12:03 am - Read achievement guide. It says a lot. I condense down to 'make a giant and rain ball punches.'

12:04 - I'm correct. I need to write a guide sometime.

12:05 - Wow. 21 ball punches before that guy threw in the towel. Good for him.

12:07 - Announcer - "Wow! I didn't know a boxer could throw up like that!"

12:10 - Bed checks. I'm tooth fairy tonight. She has strategically placed her hand under the pillow. Must wait for her to change her sleeping position before I can swap dollar for tooth. My my, she is smart.

12:15 - Achievements start rolling in. Ball punch. Ball punch.

12:19 - I've now perfected the art of ball punch > knockdown > elbow to the face on the way down. I knock dudes out in 45 seconds.

12:25 - I'm single handedly pseudo castrating a generation of boxers.

12:45 - Bed checks. Hand's still there. I'm 16-0 and I've yet to throw a legal punch.

1:15 - Announcer - 'Wow. With the elbow to the face, not only did Evander's eye socket get shattered, but also his dignity.'

1:20 - Bed checks. Still no tooth exchange.

1:27 - If only Frazier knew Ali's only weakness: 27 strategically placed groin shots.

1:44 - Despite this game being called Fight Night Round 3, I have yet to see the third round.

1:50 - Whatevs. I didn't want to be the tooth fairy anyway.

1:56 - Apparently, at some point in a fighter's heavyweight career, he no longer throws ball punches. I just knee people now. I just won that fight throwing ZERO punches. Fun times.

2:03 - Burger King just gave me a million dollars. Yes. 4 achievements so far for 500 g.

2:21 - Roy Jones Jr. You don't stand a chance.

2:22 - Yes. Roy Jones was the perfect height. I could knee him in the head while he was knocked down. 37 Second KO.

2:25 - 26-0-0 with 26 KO's.

2:32 - Chex on bedz.

2:39 - 80,000 dollars and a chance at the title!!

2:45 - 6 of 8 achievements. 750 g.

2:57 - Whilst on bed checks, I saw opportunity. I struck. Tooth fairy = accomplished. Now, the question is, what do I do with this bloody tooth? I got ripped off. I definitely would never pay a buck for a bloody tooth.

2:58 - 30,000 is getting really close. I'm at 28,156 right now.

3:10 - So far tonight, I've listened to full albums by Your Best Friend, Say Anything, The Sound of Animals Fighting, and City Light Thief. Victory.

3:18 - There was a fluke. 31-1-0 with 31 KO's.

3:21 - Boom. Heavyweight Title. My opponent threw 2 punches in that fight. 0 landed. Also, he looke like the villain off of Ghostbusters II. He deserved it. 1 Achievement left for 100 g. 900 so far.

3:45 - Oh Circa. You are too good to me.

3:58 - Boom. Game done. 4 hours. 1,000 g. Pumped. 28,406. That's a solid number. Getting come work done, then I'm going to Rock Band. Yes. Rock Band 3. With a keyboard. Yes.

4:49 - Wow. Keys are hard. Way hard. I'm having a tough time with medium. Well, got to get some work done before the 6 am shift comes on. I'm 1,000 points richer. Way pumped. Very close to 30 k. Bye dudez.

Big day.

So, Blogspot decided to put links in my text. I'm not happy about this. I may be buying my own domain soon and just shifting everything over. This is bull crap.

Also, I made a new page, titled Game Creation. Check it out.

Inferno Hell Death Mode.

Joe and I champed through Gears of War today. Wooooooooo. Super fun. Hardcore is quite tough on that game. Now we're onto insane.

The last boss in Gears is super lame. Not a fun fight. He can kill you on will, at any time, for no reason. Nonetheless, we triumphed. Way cool.

I like achievements that have you play games at higher difficulties. They make you work for your money. But they have to stack. If they don't, it's dumb. No one wants to beat a game on Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Medium-Hard, Hard, Super Hard, Way Tough Hard, Hell Mode, Inferno Hell Mode, and Inferno Hell Death Mode to get the achievements for each. Thanks, Guitar Hero. You suck.

I'm so close to 60%. So close. (Calculates.) I'm just under 57% right now. 53 more achievements on current games. That's all I need. I'll probably start the countdown soon.

ALSO. Big one. I broke 20,000 for the contest today. In 3 months, I've scored 20,200 points. I feel like a champ. Now, with me playing real games more often, this makes me feel even cooler.

Holy crap. The more I think about today, the more I realize happened. I bought Mass Effect today. It was an accident, actually. I bid $7 on it about 2 weeks ago, and just today the auction ended. That was a fun e-mail. Congratulations! I want $7 dollars! You get Mass Effect!

Today was a victory. Fa sho.

Boom.

The contest may or may not have changed. We're not sure yet. More on that around my b-day.

I hit over 1,000 achievements and also have a total of 20 completed games now. Pretty stoked on that. 16,000 points from 20 games (15 retail, 5 XBLA.)

I'm really glad I have a big buffer on Joshua and Joe right now, because I've reached my limit on playing crappy games. Don't get me wrong, I can enjoy easy thousand pointers like Disney games and certain sports games, but online forums are a pretty solid indicator of game quality, and I shant partake in garbage anymore. That being said, I'm getting a list together of games that I want to play.

- Mass Effect 1 and 2
- Dead Space 2
- Red Dead Redemption

- Plus I want to finish Final Fantasy and Reach.

Here we go. I got a solid few weeks ahead of me. Boom.

One month left.

Day One.

Man. What a good photo. Today, I beat Modern Warfare 2 on veteran. Wowza. What a task. Now, beating stories is more important than 1,000 pointing games. I had a great time beating this one. Epic story.

Also, I got my Star Wars game. It sucked. I played it for 20 minutes, died 60932 times, and wrapped it back up. It's going back to Gamefly. Can't do it.

I'm 5300 up on Joshua. 8500 up on Joe. I can taste victory.

Statistics.

I found out today that the average gamer has 11,000 gamerscore. Xbox released statistics for achievements yesterday. 6.3 billion achievements have been popped, total, by all Xbox 360 owners. As for the score, we're all above that. In fact, Joseph and Joshua both started the competition higher than the average gamer. *applause*

Can you tell I love stats?

Moving on. Today starts my 4 ish days off. Big points. Coming in hot. I'll break 25,000 today. I may get to 26,000. I have big plans.

Wednesday = Check new Warped Tour bands. Hopefully they don't suck today. A bunch of crappy bands are getting announced each week. Play Star Wars: Republic Heroes. Work meeting. More Star Wars. Drug testing. Pick up drum gear. Go to game night schnockered. Well, not really. Heh.

Thursday = Call of Duty campaign. Hopefully get drum things in the mail. Joe will be coming over around 3. Ilomilo run through. Fresh Life Group. More Ilomilo. Maybe some Rock Band.

Friday = I should be getting Fable II in the mail. We'll see. Either Fable II or Final Fantasy XIII. Today is Roman Numeral game day. Band meeting deal. Then we head to Joe's house for...

SUPER GEARS WEEKEND!!

Saturday = Wake up early. Get Gears of War Triple Pack. Play all day. Eat junk food. Play more. Drink some Dew. Joe does a keg stand. We start throwing things off of the balcony. Did I mention we'll be at my parents' house? No? Hopefully they're too busy to read this. Hire somebody to come wipe Joe's butt. Play more. Save the world from the Locust. Find Joe passed out in kitchen, naked, face down, with Mountain Dew cans everywhere. Joe still has a controller in his hand. Laugh and take pictures for future blackmail. Forget future blackmail. We (Zak and I) post photos on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Myspace. We then pix message the photos to everyone in Joe's phone. Call cops on Joe and try to make cops believe he's a trespasser and we've never met him before. Call mom and tell her Joe's been arrested, but is at the hospital with a film crew there to document the first ever Mountain Dew overdose. Tell her everything's fine, they wipe butts. Drive home. Zak and I work on SpecOps. Gotta complete MW2. Contemplate not answering Joe's only phone call from jail. Decide to pick up and pretend he has reached a chinese restaurant. Sleep knowing I made the world a safer place.

Wow. What a busy couple days. Sounds like a blast.

30,000, here I come. Watch yourself.

Earthbound.

First off, someone has broke a milestone. Joseph, congratulations on getting 5,000 points since this competition started. I got that many last week.

Heh.

I've spent a long time ruminating on this post. I didn't want to rush it. I want to convey the feelings that I felt in the most readable way possible. The game that spawned this, of course, is the legendary Earthbound. Get some coffee. Turn on some 8-bit SNES music. This will be long winded, I assure you.


Earthbound was developed by APE software and released in 1995 for SNES. I was 6 when this game came out. Joe, in retrospect, was still getting his butt wiped by adults/older siblings, even though he no longer was in daipers. Happy times for Jesse. Sad times for Joe. I remember this game being rented from our local store (Yeah, back when grocery stores rented games out to people) and I chose it for my week. Being six, I remember getting thwarted early on. I couldn't get more than 2 hours into the game. Also, I didn't know what saving was. My, my, how far I've come.

Not Joe. In case you didn't know, he still was incapable of basic hygiene. To this day, he still craps his pants at the slightest scare. Here is a direct quote from a recent blog post: "A tank is rolling towards me, I shart."

With my parents being in Hawaii and all older siblings out of the house, this caused me tremendous worry for Joseph. I doubt he is clean at this very moment.

Earthbound. Recently, I purchased a phone. Not just any phone, mind you. The HTC Incredible. The phone, as a phone, sucks. I can never hear people. That is far overshadowed by one basic fact: in the marketplace you can download an app and have access to EVERY Super Nintendo AND GameBoy Advance game, regardless of language, that has ever been released. Immediately I ran through the list of games. Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasies, Chrono Trigger, then booooom...

Earthbound. Downloaded. Loaded up. Playing.

The very essence of this game is magical. It was written be Shigesato Itoi, and draws hugely on his own life experiences. (More on that later.) There's no dragons, spells, or medieval anything. It's just a boy and his baseball bat out to save the world. The character's name is Ness and he wakes up to find a meteor has landed right outside his house. Ness' mother sends him out with his dog to investigate. Ness' neighbor is named Pokey. He's bad. He sucks.

After fighting some dogs and crows, I make it to the meteor. I'm alerted by an alien that I have to stop Giygas from destroying the world. The alien is a little bee that follows you for the next five minutes. Then Pokey's mother kills him with a flyswatter.

Pokey's family is evil incarnate.

I get the Sound Stone and learn that I have to record melodies of magical places around the world. Once you gather all eight, Giygas can be defeated. The world can be saved.

The game is most difficult in the very beginning. Money is gained when you defeat enemies. Ness' dad just deposits money into the bank account at save points. Problem is, dogs and crows don't carry a lot of money on them. Plus, when there's only one character, the battle system can take Ness out in no time. I took my time leveling up. I was patient. I bought cheeseburgers and a new bat. Then I faced the first boss and recorded the Giant Step melody.

Just getting this far in, I realize a writer of my caliber simply can't explain this game as it should be explained, but I'll keep trying. It's just too good. It's just. Too. Awesome.

I team up with Paula on the next town. There I find a cult of painter's all wearing blue KKK outfits. Not kidding. They want to paint the world blue. Easily dispatched. They're not fighters, they're painters. I'm saving the world and they can't stop me.

Then I meet Jeffrey. He's my favorite. He possesses no magic. He's the only one in the game made that way. But still. He fixes everyone's gear, and when the characters stay in hotels he invents new things. With Jeff's help, I solve the zombie threat in Threed with some fly paper and a jar of honey. Ingenuity at it's finest.

(Joe's pants are still soiled.)

Pu, a ninja prince of Dalaam, is then contacted via telepathy from Paula. He leaves his royal lineage behind because he has to save the world. He also lives on a floating island over a pink cloud. Shigesato Itoi rules. He just throws tons of random ideas together and parades a group of four preteens around, saving the world and kicking the butts of aliens, dogs, piles of puke, angry pedestrians, taxis, U.F.O.s, butterflies, and literally whatever else you can think of.

Once my party was assembled, I guess that about halfway through the game. I've fought gang members, snakes, mummies, and Krakens now. From here on the game gets funky. You think it's already funky? You're wrong. I enter a magical illusion made by an evil statue. I fight through a pyramid to battle a General Mummy. I ride around in a yellow submarine (Beatles??) I fight dinosaurs in a mystic underworld. One of the battles leading up to the end is Ness battling himself in a nightmare world that he's lost in, all projected from his own subconscious.

Despite everything sounding so random, Itoi's ability to keep everything cohesive is unparalleled. I was hooked so hard on this game.

Once you obtain all 8 Sound Stone melodies, you get access to the final area. This is the coolest/freakiest dungeon I've ever been in.

Jeffrey (the fixer upper) has a father who is an inventor. It's discovered that all the evil that has been happening is due to Pokey teaming up with Giygas. Once again, Pokey sucks. They discover that Pokey and Giygas have traveled back in time at the very spot you're located (convenient?) and are ready to destroy the world.

Jeffrey's father, Dr. Andonuts, built a Phase Distorter that can take you anywhere, at any time period. But there's a catch. No living creature can go. The plan seems thwarted. The world will fall into disarray. Joe craps his pants...

Alas! Dr. Andonuts hatches a plan. Guess what? He's also a brain surgeon. Seriously? This guy had to go to school for 50+ plus years to get his degrees. I mean, a brain surgeon aaaaand time machine inventor. Brilliant.

His plan is to take everyone's brain out and put them into robots. Going into the last dungeon, you have four identical robots, except Ness has a hat on. Battle. Battle. Battle.

Remember the 'more on that later' part. Well, I read up on the game before I played it. You just need to read this.

"In an interview on his website, Itoi describes how his inspiration for the final battle with Giygas resulted from a traumatic childhood event. When Itoi was a young boy, he accidentally viewed the wrong movie at a theater, a Shintōhō film entitled The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty. According to Itoi the film featured a graphic rape scene near a river that traumatized Itoi so much that his parents began to worry about his wellbeing. Years later, Itoi integrated the experience into Giygas' dialogue for the final battle.^"

Tell me you've faced a final battle of that magnitude. Don't even try. Nothing can top a battle that was written by a man who used the event as a catharsis from a traumatic childhood event. Giygas doesn't even have a form. He just has a scrolling red/black template of screaming faces that you have to fight. This guy was jacked up. More so, he made Giygas freaking hard.

Giygas can only be defeated by the prayers of people that I've encountered over the journey.

Pray.

250 damage.

Pray.

567 damage.

Pray.

1404 damage.

Pray.

3523 damage.

Pray.

VICTORY! Cue battle win music. Cue credits. Cue save the world speech!

I win. The game ends with me at my house, getting ready for bed. World saved? Check.

Earthbound was a pure gem. I've never played a game like it, and I'm sure that I will never play a game like it again. This game was good enough that I took 30+ hours out of my time while in the competition to play it. I just couldn't stop. I don't know if there's a way to get this game in the original cartridge anymore, but you can download it. Find a ROM. Find an emulator. Go get it. It was so rewarding to get to the final scene and watch the credits.

Trust me.

You'll thank me later.

Now someone, please, go help Joe wipe his butt.

Battlefield freakin Bad freakin Company freakin 2

First off, I love anniversaries.

My girlfriend BreeAnn and I just celebrated 3 years together and for my gift she got me a $50 dollar gift card to game stop and some body wash.

Body wash?!

I instantly throw it away, and even though my girlfriend also surprised me with a home cooked dinner when she gave me these gifts, I insisted we go to Gamestop.

Now.

8:30 pm. I convince her to go to Gamestop, but it closes in 30 minutes. Pedal to the medal.

8:30.5 pm She wants to drive... HER DODGE CALIBER! crap.

8:31 pm. Were just about to pull out when my mom's friend Carianne pulls in the driveway.

8:32 pm. Small talk, Small talk, small talk, look at time... cut her off. Time to go.

8:38 pm. Finally on the highway, Breeann suggests listening to music to calm me down.

8:42 pm. Not only is Breeann NOT speeding she is going UNDER the speed limit

8:45 pm. PA-PA-PA-POKER FACE PA-PA-POKER FACE!

8:50 pm. Breeann regrets getting me the gift card.

8:56 pm. We're here! Jett (Manager, yes I know and am known by my first name here) jokingly locks the door. I almost throw up. Door unlocks. YES!

8:59 pm. Buy Battlefield, Start singing the Sound of Music in celebration.

9:00 pm. Get in the car, Breeann asks to go to Petco (PETCO?!) It's hard to say no after how nice she was to me. Crap.

9:01 pm. Ever been to Petco at 9 pm? Don't do it.

9:03 pm. We get goldfish. She makes me hold them, making me put down Battlefield. I'm sorry battlefield

9:10 pm. Almost home.... almost home... What Breeann? You want to hit up the CoinStar at Rosauers? (Grumble, grumble, grumble) Sounds great honey!!

9:15 pm. This women just cashed in $50 in change, geez.

9:20 pm. HOME! Breeann says she has to go home... BATTLEFIELD TIME!!!!

9:30 pm. I pop it in. I love life.


9:40 pm. I can't join any multiplayer matches... Download update? okay that should be fine.... 2.5 GIGABYTES!?!?! Throw up everywhere.


The Next day.


Xbox left on all night. Internet sucks. Update downloaded. YES!

10:23 am. First multiplayer match, everything is amazing. Battlefield owns.

10:54 am. A tank is rolling towards me, I shart. Run into a building. It shoots the building and the building comes down, it comes down, IT COMES DOWN!!!

12:00 pm. finally started to get my stride going.. then something amazing happened--

Ace Pin: Be the highest scoring player in a multiplayer match.

Yes. Score the highest in the game. That's 23 people I just did better then. suck it

So now I'm rocking Battlefield. I still plan to win this competition. To quote what Jesse said last night--

"Its not over yet Joseph. Did I tell you I'm gay?"

Joseph out.

...

I got to work at 10 today. There were too many staff on, so I got to take most of the day off. Victory. I drove home. Postman is just leaving. Boom. Gamefly game. Up. Yes. I walk inside.

I put Up in at 10:30 am. I loved the movie. The jokes/comedy value of it was my favorite by a Disney movie to day. I see the game is collection based. I am wary. I give the envelope the stink eye.

The game has simple levels. You can tell it's targeted for younger children. My wife helps me kill the Anaconda (Teamwork badge!!111!) I beat the game in 3 hours. It gives me about 30 minutes of mopping up. Somewhere in there I eat.

I've discussed this with people. My couch has time warping properties. You sit down. 4 hours pass. No idea what happened. I pop the game out at 2:30 pm. I have 1000 more gamerscore now.

I'm at 53.6% completion. My 1,000th achievement is nigh. I need to make that a special one. I'm starting to feel like I have this sealed up. We have about 5 weeks left. I want 5,200 more points and 6.4% more completion. Right now, that's still 114 achievements on current games.

Gear up.

Friday.

Today was a day off. Excellence. I played through a ton of FF XIII mark missions. I have about 20 to go, but they're in puzzle format in a labyrinth type map. Kinda messed up. I don't like how they designed it.

I've been playing through a ton of games to get my completion percentage up. I've played MW2, Rock Band, and FFXIII. I need to get a bunch of achievements on those games. I need 130 more on past games to get up to 60 percent.

RIGHT NOW I'M AT 52.5%!!!!!!!

I set some goals up on True Achievements to track my progress. I love gaming stats. Total nerd.

Also, I have Disney's Up and Star Wars Republic Heroes coming in the mail around Monday.

Josh. It's time to bury you.

With love.

Growth Egg.

Iz my foto az kul az Joze? O no, he sukz 2 harrd.

I got the growth egg and 5 starred Neochu. Suck it, Guy.

Your Best Friend.

Go listen to Your Best Friend. Then come read.

XBL just put out an app that tests network connection and then gives you sweet Einstein avatar awards. I might put mine on for a few days, just for kicks. You just have to leave your xbox on for 30 minutes, 1 hour, and 6 hours, respectively. I'll just leave mine on all night to get it going.

I broke 900 achievements. Woot. Also, I'm at 51.5% now. I need 150 more achievements on my current games to get up to 60%. I'm really excited for that point.

Grind time in FF XIII coming up. Bring the thunda. Go listen to Your Best Friend.

-- Oh yeah, I finished Pimp My Ride. The last achievement I got was 'Speed of the Pimp.' Fml --

Pimp City Stories.

Hope's gay. I'm sticking with Sazh.

Today I got to work on Pimp My Ride. This game has made me realize a few things about video games.

1) Some games just aren't worth getting 1,000 points on. This is one of them. I was frustrated with Cabela's, but this really put the nail in the coffin.

2) Almost every crappy game I've played so far is collection based. This is included. Somewhere, some dude cranks out 12 collection based games and makes a killing. Please stop. They suck. You suck. Move on.

3)Pimp needs to be taken out of the dictionary. It needs to be an unforgivable word, because...

4)When a game tells me to "Get Pimpin'!!!" I'm under the impression I need to go slap some women and force them into prostitution for money. That's not the case. I guess that means you go break an ungodly amount of parking meters and billboards. So frustrating.

I'm about halfway through the game. I just broke 23,000. Here's my logs.

9:00 am - Put the game in.

9:01 - Bombarded by the word 'Pimp.'

9:01:05 - Contemplate atheism/suicide/disc snap/any combination of said items.

9:05 - Begin to forget English.

9:40 - 4 Achievements for 100 points. They all come at one time when you Pimp (ahem... complete) cars.

10:50 - This games like GTA without guns/helicopters/Mafia/any sort of fun.

11:30 - Getting quite tired. Need a hot pocket.

11:35 - Didn't realize my microwave has a 'magma cheese' setting. Mouth = Destroyed.

12:00 pm - Break 23,000. W()()T.

12:29 - More hot pocket. I let it cool down.

12:40 - Something is wrong with the cheese. It refuses to disapate heat. Mouth = 2x destroyed.

12:45 - The quality of this game is astonishingly low. They waypoints aren't fixed on the map, as they should be. It's more a hot/cold view. They move around until you go in the direction they're in. Oh, and I'm driving a Pimped out VW van 100+ mph. Wtf.

12:46 - Achievement unlocked - Industrial Pimpin. 40 g

12:50 - Dear Lord, who gave this guy a TV show?

12:56 - When Ryan gets back from Hawaii, I'm punching him in the throat. I don't care if he's 10 years old.

Pimp:Pimp - Pimp Pimp Pimp.

1:03 - Awesome. The cars get harder to control. That's how they increase difficulty.

1:20 - I can't handle more of this game right now. I think we're halfway done. Time to put Pro Tools on my computer.

1:24 - I get a text from Josh. I'm not kidding. This is what it says.

- theMAYFLOWA - Pimp My Ride Mad Pimping in Pimp mode.

That's my status when people look at me on xbox. I. Hate. Everything.

2:16 - I was gone for an hour. I got it all set up. Then I found out I have no 9V batteries. No recording today.

3:19 - Hip Hop Pimpin'. 40 g. I hate this game.

4:13 - Nearing my goal for this game. I want 700 g. The big ones in this game aren't reasonable, and I feel sorry for anyone who has this game 1k. Dinner's coming up. I'll try to complete this tonight.

6:14 - I played some Bulletstorm. Man, that games fun, mang.

Here we go.

Today is the day. I'm fully committed to victory. I'm sorry Josh, but losing is not an option. I will hit 30,000 and have 60 % completion by the time this is over. Period. I have 4 days off, kind of, starting tomorrow.

Today I got Pimp My Ride in the mail. The game opens up with, "Welcome to Pimp City."

Well, I guess I'm in the right place.

Let's get some points this week. Gear up.


UPDATE: Actual conversation, while playing Halo-

---Begin Transmission----

Jesse- "Well, Joe, I gotta go."

Joseph- "Do what?"

Jesse- (Tries to think of lie. Can't) "I have to go play Pimp My Ride."

Joseph- "Why?! What?!? Do you have a gun to your head?!"

---End Transmission---

Hope.

Well, I'm hope now. I'm not happy about that. He's the worst character in any Final Fantasy game to date. Go listen to a 5 year old whine about dropping ice cream for 40 hours.

That's Hope in a nut shell.

I'll work on getting a new photo. I have 4 left to go. Oh, bee-tee-dub, I beat XIII today. Legendary ending. Yesterday I beat Earthbound. I'll talk more about that later. I 'm still decompressing from what happened in Earthbound. It had some really strange events in it.

I'm really proud of myself. You may think it's gay, and you have every right to, but I think I had a cool gamer milestone today. I beat The Favor House Atlantic by Coheed on Rock Band. That may seem simple, but here's the little twist: I played guitar on expert and used my headset for singing at the same time. The singing was on easy, so that wasn't a huge feat, but it really opens up Rock Band for a whole new level of challenging. In all reality, I can do multiplayer by myself. I'll be really proud of those achievements. Legitimately playing two objectives in one game is not anything I've done before.

So. I'm pumped.

Also, Josh broke 20 K today. That's a big deal. Josh, you're way awesome.

46 days to go.

It's time to get back to business. We have 46 days left. Joe's not in the competition anymore. He hasn't showed up, period. I'm pretty sure my wife has a higher gamerscore than you, Joe.

That leaves me and Josh. Once upon a time, we were best friends. Now, we are the worst of enemies. We shan't stand down. We both want the same thing. Josh, I'm here to deny you victory. Boom. I said it.

Gauntlet. Tiz layd.

Recap on scores--

Jesse - 22472
(3495)
Joshua - 18977
(Joe is Gamefly points behind.)
Joseph - (Insert number for poop. That's what his score is.)


UPDATE: I tried really hard to play Alaskan Hunts. I even found a work around for some achievements. Then I wounded a beaver with a .500 magnum, tracked it, and got mauled by a moose in the process. Not even joking. So, I got 19 achievements in the game. It's going back. I can't do it anymore. Up next: Pimp My Ride. God help me.

Version 2.0

So, I changed everything. I still kept it simple, but not as bleak. Let me know if something sucks and should be changed. (That means you, Guy.) I'm still quite naive to the world of Blogz0rz.

Also, I'm adding pages. This competition will be over soon. I plan on running this bad boy for many moons to come. Gaming goals. Gamefly winners. Stuff like that should all be up in the near future. But. BUT. Even I have a limit, and refuse to spend to much time on the blog itself. I would rather be playing Cabela's Alaskan Hunts and getting raped by wild bears, lynx, red foxes, caribou, wolverines, etc. Serious. Every animal in that game will charge at you. For real.

So. Here's to version 2.0.

Gear up.

Still Hunting.

Well, this post won't look pretty. They moved the easy click photo button device somewhere else. I had a fun night hunting last night.....

What do all of these have in common, you ask? Check the impact zone. Boom.

Cabela's.

So. Sometime, somewhere, years ago, my younger brother played Cabela's Alaskan Adventures on my profile. He got 4 out of 46 achievements. I have to clean it up now. It just showed up in the mail. I wasn't going to blog about it, because I'm not happy I have to play this game.

Then I shot a polar bear in the face.



Today effing rules. Hunting: Engage.

UPDATE: I had fun playing hunting, but I needed to game for more entertainment, and not just achievements. So, I bought Pac-Man CE DX Pt. II: The Rise of Pac-man. (Or something like that.) It actually was a bunch of fun. Plus, it took less than an hour to 200 pt. So, I ended up getting 12 achievements anyway.