I've heard that Digimon Tamers is pretty good. It's head writer has written for some of the more ****** up anime that I love, so it has more of a darkened, psychological tone to it from what I've heard. It's buried in my to watch list (435 shows, movies, and specials combined), so I probably won't get to it for(ever) a while.

EDIT: I also just finished Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky last week. It's one of those things where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. Individual chapters and certain parts drag like glaciers upon the ocean floor with the exception of a few oddly humorous bits, while the whole overarching story is pretty cool and thought provoking.

Bmwsu will be happy to know that I ended up beating Borderlands about a week and a half ago, and as I was going through the first DLC, my game got corrupted again! How could it not, I mean nothing was going wrong with it for like a week! Anyways bye-bye, level 36 character. I would've  gone back in and played all the DLC instead of the campaign just to cover it all once, but the stuff in there is specifically leveled for people who had just finished the campaign, so I would have no damn chance. It's easier going though the whole game again now that I have a better feel of things, but it still feels like a chore.  

I will probably watch Tamers once I finish with Adventure 02. I've never seen it before, but I've heard great stuff about it.

Lately I've been reading In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy. It's a really amazing book about the history of Google and the many innovations they've brought into the tech industry.

I've been watching Jackie Chan Adventures on Hulu, and it's a really well-written kid's show. I love how entertaining the show is, and how it's also smart enough to maintain a strong amount of continuity between episodes, unlike most children's shows. I've also started watching X-Men: Evolution after Hulu decided to suggest it to me, and it seems like a pretty good show as well. Although, I sense that I'm starting to get tired of watching kid's shows, but I don't really have anything else to watch right now.

Lately I've been playing a lot of TrackMania. It's a really awesome racing game that's built around user-made levels. I've been slowly working on a level of my own for the past month or so, and I plan to upload it to the Interguild soon. You can play TrackMania for free, or you can buy the full game in order to gain access to more game modes and the ability to not be forced into spectator mode after every 5 online matches. I love this game so much that I payed full price for the full game, rather than waiting for a Steam sale or something.

In the last month or two, I've finished Half-Life 2 and Analogue: A Hate Story. Both games were really good and I highly recommend playing them. It took me a while to figure out how to enjoy Half-Life since I didn't like it at first, but now I can't wait to buy the two Episodes. Analogue is part text adventure game, part visual novel, so there's a lot of reading to do in that game, but thankfully, the story is so good that it's all worth it. It's not a family friendly story, however, and if I say anything about what the story is about, it'd just be a spoiler. It's one of those games where you're better off not knowing anything about it before getting into it. Definitely worth the money.

For me, I've been playing a lot of Path of Exile lately. It's (apparently) a lot like Diablo II, and it's free to play, no Pay to win. If you want to spend money on the game, you can buy cosmetics - everything else is available for everyone. If anyone wants to play with me, tell me and I'll add you.  

Also I forgot in my previous post.
With one of my housemates I've been watching Game of Thrones. I've read all the books, but he hasn't. The show moves a bit too quickly at times and it is often difficult to recognize all the faces, so I often have to explain events to him.
With one of my other housemates I've been watching Breaking Bad. Good show, although the first two seasons have too little long standing plotlines for my taste. Pretty much all of the problems get fixed in the next episode. We're currently at the third season, which is turning out to be far better in that regard.

I'm also thinking about skipping Digimon Adventure 02 and going straight to Tamers. I've just finished the Digimon Emperor arc, which I already found very weak and supposedly it is only going to get worse from now on.

Season 4 is the best IMO. Season 5 is pretty good, but it's not done airing yet so I can't make a call yet.

Currently playing Professor Layton Miracle Mask. It's pretty fun lol

currently playing...eh...well...

Call of Duty.

Trials Evolution. One of the best level editors on console without a doubt.

I beat Tomb Raider (2013) today. I located every GPS cache, ancient relic, document, and weapon in the game. I beat the story and got almost every singleplayer achievement. I also found out that I was the 2920th person to finish 100% of the things in Tomb Raider (in singleplayer) worldwide, apparently. It took 60-ish in-game hours of playing, but I finished everything in the entire singleplayer game.

I've also been looking through Steam Workshop lately to find some mods for Skyrim. I found a couple that I liked, but they were nothing really special. I did some digging on Reddit and came across a page with a list of high-quality mods on Skyrim Nexus. I don't want to have to download SKSE (SSKE?) to have to play them, but luckily I found six or so that I was interested in on Steam Workshop.

-Alchemist's Hidden Valley
-Grey Ledge Manor
-Silverfish Grotto
-Windmill Shelter
-Legend of the Eagle's Nest
-Wyrmstooth

Do you guys know if all of these are compatible with each other? I don't have Dawnguard but I will be getting it sometime in the not-so-distant future, and I don't know if any of these need Dawnguard to run and the creator forgot to mention it in the descriptions or something. I want to make sure that these mods don't screw up my game so I need some info, and if you have any other mods that you think are fun and/or useful, tell me.

Even though there's a couple members who play Skyrim on here, I think you'd probably be better off asking a Video Gaming/modding community.

If I were to ever own Skyrim on the PC and decide to mod it, I most certainly would get http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=117615489

Those should be compatible, as they do not edit any of the same cells. I'd highly recommend SKSE, as it opens up many of the most popular fixes and such. I also recommend BOSS for mod list organization, and if you really want to get in to it I'd recommend wyre bash for cleaning up edits.

I've been playing TF2 and HL2 with an Oculus Rift dev kit my friend lent me. It's really awesome. Even with the low resolution, it's the most immersive gaming experience I've had by far. I was thinking there might be an advantage to playing TF2 with it, being able to shoot in one direction while looking in another, but not really. Actually, it felt much more hectic and disorienting, but that's the point I guess.

It's exciting technology. The consumer version comes out later this year I think, and Sony's making their own headset as well, so VR will probably have a pretty big presence in gaming soon.

I think it will be a fad like motion control gaming before everything returns to normal again. People generally don't enjoy wearing large, ridiculous headsets for gaming.

I dunno. Motion controls got old because they weren't practical for most games, so usually felt forced and unintuitive. VR seems a bit more universal. Like it’s a layer of immersion on top of the standard gameplay without really changing it. Adding without taking anything. I don’t think it’ll usurp traditional gaming, especially since it seems like a first-person-only thing, but it feels more like a natural extension to the experience than a gimmick. Also the headset isn't too bad, might be smaller when it's released.

I played this level of Thief Gold last night that was like a cross between an M. C. Escher and Salvador Dali work. Doors in the floor, staircases and lakes of water on the ceiling, doors that don't lead anywhere, lots of tricks with perspective. The entire third floor somehow turned into a jungle, and there were rooms where you seemed giant and ones where you seemed microscopic. It was all in a mansion that looked completely normal from the outside. And the best part was, the guards were acting completely normal about everything. The level feels like it could've totally inspired parts of my FR2 level despite not even knowing of the Thief franchise.



It was kind of ruined by the massive amount of guards patrolling the area, I'm used to having to be sneaky, but there were so many that it was difficult to truly explore such an environment, so I ended up killing a lot of them as opposed to lurking in the shadows.

Still a brilliant exercise in surrealism, though.

eh...well....


minesweeper

WHATS YOUR RECORD

Just finished Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal. It is basically the same as Creeper World 1 and 3 on Kongregate, but much larger and better. The final two missions of the story mode especially where pretty challenging.

I play it while waiting for streaming TV to buffer. I just beat the medium difficulty a week ago. I've gotten half way through expert: I need to give  it a shot when I'mn ot just waiting around.  

gonna lol at that, I think isa's record is like beat expert on 100 seconds or something alike

I don't really play it, isa -_-

what I do: study, work, sleep the hell

i actually got 93 seconds at expert!

Blargh, finished Mirror's Edge. **** that game.

Good things about it? Soundtrack was pretty good, the color designer deserves a medal, gameplay could be fun if you were caught up in the moment.

Bad things about it? Extremely difficult to get "caught up in the moment". The game is basically a first person platformer where you want to always be moving, parkour style. It's fun to zoom faster and faster and get in a groove of overcoming obstacles, but such an experience is near constantly interrupted by annoying trial-and-error gameplay. Like "oh, should you jump over here? Or over here? Or fall to your death over here? Or actually you're supposed to use this ledge in the complete opposite direction of the objective pointer without any hint whatsoever?". I don't like games where I'm coddled and everything you're supposed to do is completely obvious, but I don't like the opposite either, and in a game where the focus is continuous movement, it really kills the fun. Despite a tutorial at the beginning, you don't get particularly good at all the combos and moves you've learned until probably the 7th or 8th level... out of 10.

Speaking of which, next complaint, gameplay is too short/plot weakness. Yep, 10 stages/levels/chapters/whatever, only one or two of them are particularly long. Not every game needs to be a Skyrim, but I think 15-20 levels would've been an appropriate size considering the average level length. If it weren't for the budget, the gameplay and length makes it feel like an indie game you'd get on Steam rather than a widespread release by a AAA company. You can definitely tell the plot is just an excuse for parkour gameplay, which is somewhat understandable, but it feels like the game having to conform to the plot is partly what dragged the length of the game down. Plot = standard dystopian dreck. Said plot is made worse by the questionably lame main antagonist being introduced about 3 quarters in, and not even freaking showing up for the finale. Instead, introducing another questionably lame antagonist, which you resolve in an anticlimactic showdown for the ages. "Yaya, the lack of main antagonist in the conclusion is just sequel bait", this is not the kind of game you would expect to sell well enough to get a sequel. But it did! Except it's gonna be a prequel, hooray for no conflict resolution! **** that game.