I still do this dumb game meme because it's fun for me to watch how i end up playing less games as each year goes on?? LIKE WHAT EVEN. oh well maybe this year will be different. or maybe this is just my new thing. it would also help if i tried to play new games instead of the same 5 titles OVER AND OVER AGAIN (but at the same time, if im having fun who cares??? IDK!!!1!) though I also tend to feel bad if i have unplayed games sitting on my shelf year and year. :x
( A CUT that i forgot to put in the first time cuz im good at things )

the news about PS Vita is driving me crazy. I just... I cannot resist.

I redeemed a bunch of vouchers from various rewards things I have and will soon have $110 in amazon monies, that, plus whatever my return is (hopefully more than $200 :|) will buy me a PSVita without dipping into my pay check money at all! This will feel like a gift to myself, essentially. And it couldn't have come at a better time!

PS Blog posted about Resistance: Burning Skies and they showed a tiny clip of gameplay during a live stream thing a bit ago. I ... I need it.

I know it seems funny to be excited about a Resistance game after being sad that the series was over... but well, this is the first step Resistance is taking away from Insomniac. I am interested to see where it goes and while the character development in Resistance: Retribution left me confused, the gameplay was still pretty fun. I am hoping this one will be good too. I'm sure it won't be an Insomniac game, for sure, but I'll take what I can get.

Otherwise I will be content to play Lumines for all of time.

oh yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh im excited.

so if you've had the unfortunate expirience of being eyebrowaddict or thekayla recently you'd know i've suddenly developed a borderline creepy obsession with deus ex: human revolution.

it all started with a trailer...
( this one, under the cut... )
AND THEN... i got the game for my birthday. sort of...well, my brother claimed he didn't know what games i like (despite me mentioning an interest in deus ex before my birthday :I) and just got me gamestop cards that equaled the amount of a ps3 game. soooo i got deus ex!!!1

idk if i can even say why i love this game. there's a lot of things in it. its so ridiculously shiny (i mean, dat trailer.) and you get mini cutscenes for punching dudes in the face which sounds lame but is actually hilarious and amazing all at once. or maybe its because you can also do things like this. but also maybe it has to do with jensen's perfect hair. srsly i keep talking about his hair. i don't even know you guys. look at this perfect hair.

i stayed up till 3am last night just to beat the game. idec that i still feel like crap and i got like 4 hours of sleep.......aaaaand i still want to play it like 9 more times. delicious platinum trophy. it also has a really cool soundtrack... i might try to get my hands on it when it comes out.

anyway, jensen has perfect hair, you guys. i've never really paid much attention to hair styles on characters this much. IDK WHY I EVEN LIKE HIS HAIR SO MUCH BUT I DO. though Zeke gets +10 for sideburns which are cool too, ngl SO LIKE......f-list, since I am certain none of you give two shits about Deus Ex:HR, so instead plz to share with me who you think has the best hair.

so festival of blood came out today.

it's really short. like, idk i can play inFamous with the efficiency of a robot but I beat it in 3hrs and I spent a lot of that time dicking around.

I spent EVEN MORE TIME DICKING AROUND (and pausing the game lots) but i already got all the trophies in it too.

..........in one day.

.........best $10 of my life.

NOW I WANNA GO BACK TO PLAYING DEUS EX but if i do my playfire profile won't show Festival of Blood on it in the timeline and YES IT MATTERS. hnnggg i do wanna play more though. at least Uncharted 3 next week is the last new game coming out that I want like burning. I can play it and then catch up on Resistance 3 trophies, Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One and Deus Ex. and bioshock.............maybe........someday

so like

that inFAMOUS 2 art book i have been slowly (but surely) saving pay pal monies for by selling things and doing commissions for...you know the one, right.

the other day i found out via my collector forum that the shipping on these books from this company is $100 to the US. I just about shat my pants and went to check for myself and sure enough, it is $100.

the forum also said that "australia is only $10 shipping :D" and i was like BUT WHY AUSTRALIA IS ALWAYS MORE WTH and its because the book company is ~*~in Australia~*~

i've done some poking around, via getting the weight of one of the other books the company publishes from amazon and slapping it into the australia post postage calculator.....looks like this company only sends express which is why its freaking $100.

so basically i was wondering if and when this book is announced and released if i could get an Australia middle-man for it. I don't mind if shipping is a little slower, it still will probs be about $50 but $50 is not $100 so...yeah.

but i do so need me a super special infamoose artbook in my life you don't even know. the extra $100 in shipping i was not expecting and would have to crap out several dozen more commissions to afford it....but i will do it if needed bcuz i need this ok

still though who ever heard of only using express and ~*~that's it~*~ for shipping. gujhaghgjg

it seems like wherever it is my collection gets posted there is always someone that doesn't get it. i can see not getting collecting but ... idk people.

take this comment i got on deviantART:

... Why throw away money on different regional versions? Different cover, ok, but that you could easily find on the internet and print.

there is a lot of things i could have said to this. a lot. "just printing it" isn't the same. it won't be the same quality, not to mention you can't even find decent size scans of most of the covers anyway. maybe for PAL/NA but probs not for japan...and probably not the inside of the insert, or the manual.

not to mention i don't even have a printer.

i replied with this though:

I'll "throw my money away" on whatever I damn well please. :U

There is more to regional copies than just the cover, and there is more to being a collector than just "throwing money away". Everyone's got a hobby.

that's right.

there is really no point in trying to explain these things to people sometimes. lol. at least this person says it to me and not on a forum where they don't think i'll find it. :D

ah, also the artbook isn't coming out in August... I expected as much because I hadn't seen any news from the publisher yet and August is fast approaching. Amazon changed the date to Dec 6th 2011...which if that is the date is funny because its the same day the comic collective book is coming out. At least I get more infamoose at the end of the year then, eh? lol my christmas gifts to myself. :b

also gives me more time to save up money for it all :3

tl;dr: collecting is srs bsns and infamous is my life.

"service engine soon" light comes on in my car...and the steering column shakes up and down.

BUT I JUST BOUGHT YOUUUUUUUU

edit also my local gamestop had a SUPER SUPER AWESOME 16inch mini cardboard cole standee but the employee there was a derp and basically said i couldnt have it in so many words...sadly cool guy wasn't there otherwise im 99% sure it would have been mine...... im gonna keep stalking them for it but if /anyone/ manages to find me one i will pay you money for it. I NEED IT LIKE I NEED AIR. no jokes.

btw, is it just me that finds this OMG INFAMOUS ITEMS I NEED THEM edit tacked onto the end of a FUUUUU MY CAR IS EXPLODING MAYBE entry kind of lols? ....priorities, i has them