
Demo impressions are useless, play the demo. I’ve decided instead to tell you more about the Girl. I have a fantastic woman in my life. Most nerds are happy with any woman, maybe I would be to, but luckily I have an amazing woman who likes me for some indiscernible reason. She has a lot of very good qualities and many of the qualities she lacks I have in spades. We’re a great team and more then that we know it enough to use our differences to our advantage. For instance, I can read a map very well. She makes knows how to encourage me. I encourage too but since everything I say sounds like a lie or a backhanded compliment I think she does a better job at it then I do.
All of this pails in comparison to what she did this morning. At PAX she pre-ordered Brutal Legend for me, a very sweet thing to do already. Then, since she’s Allison and everything good happens to her, she won the limited edition 17 inch Eddie Riggs statue. That will be in my apartment near the end of the month, but it wont be mine officially. I can handle that. No, what happened this morning what selfless. She received an email giving her the code for early entrance into the Brutal Legend demo and gave it to me without second thought. I opened by saying we have complimentary weaknesses, Brutal Legend is my weakness. I would not have been able to do the same thing, had our roles been reversed.
I will be playing the demo today until I can’t anymore. Don’t talk to me, I’m not interested. Unless of course if you’re the Girl, then I have all the time in the world. All of this was written in the time it took my Xbox to download the demo. Bye.

I have once again earned the nickname Nick “last to know” Coffman. I’m gonna tell you regardless, Peggle is fun as hell. It’s what I did today. I was all geared up and ready to go when out of nowhere I just think, “maybe I should download Peggle?” Big mistake. My whole day was just wasted spent watching a Pharaoh Cat wink at me. Tomorrow is D&D, I still need to level up and pick a new feat, I think I’ve gotten myself farther behind then is physically possible to rationalize. Tomorrow is skull-cracker Tuesday, time to catch up.
I am not an FPS fan, I am not a Halo fan, and I am especially not a console RTS fan… but I do have hope. The idea of an RTS built specifically for consoles to appeal to an FPS crowd (perhaps only through fan service), intrigues me. Still, I would be hesitant to shill out even the 5 bucks to rent this game. If only there was some way to try it for free in my own home…
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The original Japanese-only release of the Resident Evil 5 demo was short lived. For all of 2-3 days you had a chance to jump through some Internet loop holes and snatch up a sneak peek of one of the hottest titles of 2009. And better yet, you could do so before anyone else on your block. It was like some sad version of Christmas that requires hard work and manipulation of your Live account just to get an insubstantial block of data that represents an early build of a game you’re already gonna buy. So, exactly like Christmas.
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Your foppish, British dandy of a Xbox Avatar looks too dapper for his own good. Here he stands in a bowler hat and cummerbund, peering sadly through his monocle, so alone. He wants to be part of the in crowd. He wants to be cool. He wants to fit in. In a word he wants to be emo. To get a bit more descriptive, he wants to be a trendy emo kid going to a high school party. Or a member of Three 6 Mafia, depending on if he doesn’t like skinny jeans.
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