• 13Aug 08

  3 Years @ GameSpot, Back to School, Cross Country Tryouts, My Crysis Impressions

  Hey guys! Today marks my 3rd year @ GameSpot! It's been pretty awesome, and I plan on staying for a long time (even though I'm at Giant Bomb too)!
  
  - So yeah, I started my Junior year on Monday. So far, it's not too bad, but I am taking a couple hard clas$es, however theres a few easy ones in there to make up for it.
  
  - Today after school, there were tryouts for the Cross Country team. Originally, they were supposed to be at 6:30 this morning, but fortunately, there were some thunderstorms throughout the night and it continued to rain for part of this morning. But there was still cloud cover, which was good, so it wasn't too hot.
  
  - The way they did the tryouts was that everyone there ran 2 miles on the track. The top 25 finishers made the team. 26 tried out, so only one didn't make it. I came in 12th, with a time of 12:46. A week ago when I timed it, it was 12:36, so I think I just didn't have that great of a race today. I started out way too fast for the first lap, and then slowed down kindof gradually with my friend that I stayed with the whole time. But the important thing is that I wasn't last, and that's good, so I'm really happy.
  
  - As I mentioned in my last blog, I got basically a new computer for my birthday, along with Crysis, which I can run on all high settings (check out my blog below for the full specs of my computer). In short, this game is AMAZING. The graphics are incredible, the story is really cool, and all the gameplay features rock. I love this game. So far, I've gotten about 20 minutes into the 3rd level, and like I said, this game is seriously spectacular.
  
  - Regarding my summer gaming goals, I actually had only completed 75% of them by the end of the summer, due to the fact that after I beat Medal of Honor: European Assault and Star Wars Republic Commando, I pretty much just felt like playing CoD4 most of the time until I got my new computer set up with Crysis. By the way, I got to Level 55, which I guess was a bonus for my summer gaming goals. I don't think I'm gonna prestige any time soon because I just want to work on getting all the gold weapons. I don't want to have to rank all the way up again. By the way, another bonus was beating Medal of Honor Heroes 2 which I beat right before I started Medal of Honor: European Assault.
  
  - On a more random note, I've discovered over the summer that I LOVE peanut butter. On almost anything. Bagels. Pancakes. Waffles. Biscuits. SANDWICHES (PB&J, of course. Sometimes PB&Banana, somtimes PB&J&Banana). Rice cakes. Ice cream. BANANA MILKSHAKES, etc. I don't know why, but before then, I used to hate peanut butter, with a passion. But hey, I guess people's tastes change when they go through adolescence.
  
  So that's it for now, guys! See ya later!
  • Posted Aug 13, 2008 5:17 pm PT
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• 3Aug 08

  Today's My 16th Birthday!!!!

  Hey guys! I'm finally 16 today! I have to wait until the 8th though to get my driver's license, since I didn't get my learner's permit until the 8th last year, and it's required for me to wait a year after I've had my permit to get my license. Oh well. The important thing is that I will have it before school starts back up for me on the 11th, so I'll be able to drive to school. I didn't get a car for my birthday; I wasn't expecting one, because my parents won't let me get a car until I've earned the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in Boy Scouts (yes, I'm a Boy Scout. Laugh it up and make fun of me if you want.). This is pretty common for a lot of Scouts in my area, some parent had the idea to make an incentive of it so their kid wouldn't get lazy, and a lot of other parents copied them. It's no big deal though, because I already have my mom's old '98 Toyota Camry to drive in the mean time (she got a new car in February), and basically all I have left for completing my Eagle Scout rank is my Board of Review, and then I'm done.
  
  Anyway, without further ado, here's what all I got for my birthday, all of these items were on my birthday list, so I'm pretty happy.
  
  Valeo Pullup Bar - it has adjustable sliders that keeps the pressure on itself when put into a doorway; I need one of these to build up my arms and back because as a distance runner, I need to start doing some cross-training to stay in overall better shape rather than just my endurance
  Forrest Gump DVD
  Harold & Kumar go to White Castle DVD
  ATI Radeon HD 3850 Video Card - Since my dad was building me basically a new computer because he wanted mine to be the same for the one he built for my brother, who just graduated college and has his own apartment now, he started upgrading all this stuff on my computer, and then this video card was just a birthday present for me. I originally asked for an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX, but my motherboard wouldn't support it because it used a PCI Express slot, whereas this one uses an AGP slot. It's basically the equivalent of it though.
  Crysis - Of course, what good would an awesome new computer be without "system-hog" games to be played on it? Yeah, I look forward to playing this after my dad installs the operating system and other software on my new computer.
  
  And I should be getting some money or gift cards in the mail from relatives sometime soon, so I'll probably buy a 360 game or a new PC game with that, maybe Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2, or World in Conflict or something.
  
  Here's the specs on the upgrades from my old computer to my new one:
  
  New Motherboard - not sure exactly what's better about it, my dad said it was more efficient or something
  Hard Drive - 300 Gb, old one was 75 Gb
  RAM - 4 Gb, used to have 2 Gb
  CPU - Runs at 800 mHz, old one ran at 533 mHz
  Power Supply - 650w, old one was 430w
  Video Card - ATI Radeon HD 3850, the old one I had was an ATI Radeon 9800
  
  So yeah, that's it! I'm going to see The Dark Knight again with my brother and dad (it's the only movie I've ever even CONSIDERED seeing a second time in theaters), and then later tonight, we're going to a Japanese steakhouse for dinner, coming home and eating some Banana Crunch Cake that my mom is making for me. So this is a pretty awesome birthday for me!

  • Posted Aug 3, 2008 8:39 am PT
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• 19Jul 08

  I Think I'll Need a New Pair of Pants...

  ...because I got back from seeing The Dark Knight a few hours ago, and it was definitely the best movie I've seen all year. Even better than Batman Begins. Christian Bale and Heath Ledger are at their best performances in this movie.
  
  In other words, any fan of action films would do well to go see this as soon as possible.

  • Posted Jul 19, 2008 6:41 pm PT
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