my favourite gaming platforms, in order of favouriteness, would be:

1) Xbox 360 - the controllers are comfortable, the game selection is massive and the quality of the games are great. the only thing i am unhappy about is the “new Xbox Live experience” dashboard thing - it’s harder to navigate / find things than it used to be.

2) PC - i love playing MMOs and the Sims and i can’t imagine either of them working on consoles (even though people have tried or have plans to try). also Unreal Tournament is one of my favourite games, and lanning with a bunch of people with PCs all in someone’s house is one of the best and funnest things to do.

3) PS2 - back before the Xbox 360 came and stole my heart, I was a bit of a fan of this platform. tonnes better than the original Playstation, with a remarkable selection in games, and awesome graphics for the time.

4) Nintendo DS - i have a new DS Lite, and it’s very cute. i can browse the internet on it and there’s a pretty good selection of games available for it. however, i have issues still - i have to carry around cartridges for whatever games i wanna play and don’t have the option of “copying” them to the device, and the games are freaking expensive for what they are.

5) PS3 - home to some of my favourite games, i can’t leave the Playstation 3 out. Metal Gear Solid rocks my GD world. and the console itself is really nice looking. however, i find the controllers (the ones without the rumble pack) uncomfortably light - i already had experience with the Xbox 360 by this point, which may have spoiled me - and the selection of games is disappointing. plus there are a number of games which just do not look as good on the PS3 as they do on the Xbox 360, which strikes me as absolutely ridiculous since it came out later and is supposed to be the “next generation of gaming” or some shit.

i bit the inside of my lip during my sleep last night. i don’t know how or why, but it’s somewhat annoying, but thankfully not too painful.

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there’s a whole bunch of console games coming out soon - the husband and i had to discuss pros and cons of each and come up with a short list. so far, confirmed want-to-buys include : Uncharted 2, Bioshock 2, and Batman. plus the beloved is going to get the UFC game, but I’m not interesting in that and am even less interested in going halfies, so that’s all up to him.

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got our WoW characters up to level cap the other day, me for the first time ever. we’ve been raiding at every given opportunity since, and i am having so much fun. just being able to get together online with 9 other people i enjoy chatting to and playing WoW with, and then chatting and playing WoW - it’s just tops. i know lots of people don’t understand it, but that doesn’t worry me - because i sure don’t get a lot of things that other people do, so it all comes out in the wash.

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went to our friends’ place for dinner the other night which was so much fun. with work and stress, we haven’t been doing much socially of late, and it was so great to be able to catch up with our peeps, eat yummy home cooked food and have a few laughs.

with considerations to the diet, i drank too much beer and probably should’ve passed on the icecream dessert, but the whole thing was awesomely awesome, so i’ve not got too much guilt.

biggest hurdles i’m having with dieting at the moment are :

bread - i want it more often than not. it’s not that we’re avoiding bread generally, just if it’s not necessary. but i want it all the time. particularly soft fresh warm white rolls with melty butter on them.

drinking enough water - i don’t like drinking water. it bothers me. but i’m trying to get past it. some days i’m getting to 2 litres, but usually not. water has so many pluses, not least of all that it gets rid of toxins from bad things eaten, and makes you not eat as much by satisfying that hunger / thirst response, and i know all this but i still have trouble. it’s just so … boring.

and in case you’re wondering, yes, that is something that reminds me in no uncertain terms that i am a spoilt, middle-class white bitch. i’m working on that too.

my whole life is a work in progress.

title from For Whom The Bell Tolls by Metallica

i havent posted for a while, because generally speaking, it takes too long. because i’m me.

but here i am now, and hopefully this post will actually not just remain a draft that eventually becomes no longer relevant that i end up deleting, like so many of its fallen brethren.

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i’m playing Warhammer and i’m loving it. i felt this way about Warcraft once. it’s exciting and brings some fantastic fresh ideas to the mmo genre, and even if i didn’t enjoy it, i’d be glad something’s finally giving Blizzard a run for their money. there’s only so long you can have market domination before you start slacking off, imo.

there’s a huge amount of games coming out on console over the next month or so. so far, Saints Row 2 has been one we decided couldn’t be passed up. actually, he decided and i agreed to try it - i’m glad i did, because i’m really digging it. i really love how games are becoming more like movies, but better. interactive entertainment for the win!

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i can’t stop listening to She Wants Revenge. maybe it’s the whole “killing me softly” thing, but I just can’t stop listening, no matter what. and it’s kinda cool, because i never expected to fall for another band again.

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we had discussions about our relationship, and things have come to a head. she told me she wasn’t going to change the way she behaves, so working from a cost-benefit point of view, i told her that she can’t be part of my life the way she wants anymore. it’s a basic relationship breakdown. and unfortunately who she is to me doesn’t fix or forgive anything. i know i’ve hurt her, and i am truly regretful for that, but you can’t treat people anyway you want, ignoring their protests, without something breaking down.

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my brother called me a bleeding heart today. too much of a soft spot, he said. a bit of a pansy, he said. he could be right.

* Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is the coolest thing i have seen for a while (possibly ever).

* We are going to see Root! in August - Yay!!!

* I am impatient for the open beta for Warhammer: Age of Reckoning, particularly since he has access to the closed beta.

* I am beside myself with anticipation for the Watchmen movie, and distressed at the idea of seeing the Dark Knight.

* “Pastries heated in a microwave oven will be softer and less crisp” … no shit.

We recently finished “Army of Two” co-op … what a fun game. Most of the reviews we’ve heard about it have been fairly negative, but we both really enjoyed it. I, of course, spent most of the time talking about the two player characters [Elliot Salem and Tyson Rios] being gay because that’s really hot, but that wasn’t the only reason I thought it was fun. The aggro thing was done really well - one person doing cover-fire while the other goes and shoots the baddies in the back - and the story was involved but not too complicated to follow over a number of playing sessions. I don’t know what it’d be like single-player, but I dare say it wouldn’t be half as much fun, because so much of what I enjoyed was being able to play with my boy, and our individual actions having an effect on the co-op gameplay - unlike with Kane and Lynch, where it felt like you were 2 people playing single-player games simultaneously.

Bought “Citizen Kane” and “Apocalyspe Now Redux” the other night, without having seen either - which is always a strange gamble - but we’ve watched both, and I am impressed, particularly with Apocalyspe. I have to admit I have always delibrately avoided war movies, especially if they had anything to do with Vietnam, but while this was rated R for adult themes, it didn’t have any devastating bits. Although there is this bit with some 4 legged animal getting mutilated at the end, but it’s in context so it doesn’t seem that wrong, just a bit confronting. It would’ve upset me before though I think.

Anyway, I don’t think any of the violence was unnecessarily gratuitious, and the whole war thing, while vaguely upsetting, didn’t break my brain like I had been concerned that it might. And besides all that - I absolutely loved the cinematography. I never went out my way to watch anything of Francis Ford Coppola’s, figuring he would be overrated like many other directors but I think I might have to check out some of his other movies [I have seen "the Outsiders" and "Dracula", but I haven't seen any of "the Godfather"s, I think because I thought I would have trouble with the Mafia violence. Since I love "the Sopranos" and "Goodfellas" I reckon it'd be okay after all!].

The same can be said of Martin Scorsese’s movies; having only seen “Goodfellas” and “the Departed” recently. I did already love “Taxi Driver” and I am itching to see “Raging Bull” and “the Last Temptation of Christ” but I didn’t really like “Gangs of New York” very much. I guess 3 out of 4’s pretty good.

We re-acquired ourselves some Bloodhound Gang albums this week, and while I am constantly revolted by the lyrics, I do find myself humming some of the tunes over and over. “Asleep at the Wheel” and “Hold Your Head Up High (and Blow Your Brains Out)” are probably my two preferred songs at the moment.  Classy stuff.

Oh, and the drummer from Def Leppard’s only got one arm.