Now, i feel completely shafted, you pay your money and buy a game, within 2 months, the game becomes free! that is really a stab in the back that EA performed to all of the paying customers, but what more can you expect from those money grabbing bastards?
Regardless of that the game itself is still fairly interesting and totally free, opening it up to many more people than previously. With the shockingly bad advertisement for this game, the game box cover which is something you'd pass by without even looking at because it's boring, it's suprising they got any players at all... but they did, simply not enough which i assume is what fueled them to make this move.
What it means though is that people who haven't bought this can really capitalise on the situation.
for info about the game in my last blog about it click here: http://srgtf.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-way-to-feed-my-geekyness.html
or to view their website: http://www.battleforge.com/portal/site/BattleForge/landingpage you can download it there.
it's certainly worth a go for anyone into RTS and the fantasy genre.
Wednesday 27 May 2009
Less than a week later!
You know, it's usually a month or more between visits to see simmons, due to money and other such things. However, i'm writing this just under a week after my return from the land of the loch ness monster and already we have scheduled our next time to be together... in 2 days!
This marks the first time that Simmons will have come down to the land of teenage pregnancies and sluts to see me. It's quite exciting in that within this time he is going to meet, my nan, my dad, my dads partner and some of my friends and it will also be the first (probably of many) times he will see me wrestle live.
Anyway, i haven't provided any music yet so here goes: What i'm currently listening to.
You just can't beat a bit of Queen.
Poor simmons though, he doesn't even like wrestling that much, maybe going to a few live events will help that and triple x usually has something for everybody to enjoy. I must say however, the fact that he is likely to be meeting my dad for the first time at the show itself and just as possibly sitting with my family for the show is something i feel slightly bad for him about, but he'll be fine i'm sure. My crazy lil old nan is likely to love him so it should be alright. Can old women be fag hags!? I will have some friends in the audience, perhaps I will sit him with a group of those as opposed to my family, it may be more comfortable for him.
Either way, i'm looking forward to the show, it should be a lot of fun. The card is pretty strong as you'd expect of Triple X and it's an adult themed show as it always is, i love not having to watch what i say too much. Triple X is also a great oppertunity to catch up with guys i don't often see, due to location and it's always great to mix with those guys backstage.
Ah interesting days a coming!
Going to catch a movie at the cinema I think, Simmons is currently thinking 'drag me to hell' i guess it'll either be that or night at the museum, both look good, so perhaps both! The cinema has a KFC next to it too, so i think we'll stop in there first and fill our selves up ridiculously.
Anyway, lots of cleaning to do, want to make my flat immaculate for when he gets here.
This marks the first time that Simmons will have come down to the land of teenage pregnancies and sluts to see me. It's quite exciting in that within this time he is going to meet, my nan, my dad, my dads partner and some of my friends and it will also be the first (probably of many) times he will see me wrestle live.
Anyway, i haven't provided any music yet so here goes: What i'm currently listening to.
You just can't beat a bit of Queen.
Poor simmons though, he doesn't even like wrestling that much, maybe going to a few live events will help that and triple x usually has something for everybody to enjoy. I must say however, the fact that he is likely to be meeting my dad for the first time at the show itself and just as possibly sitting with my family for the show is something i feel slightly bad for him about, but he'll be fine i'm sure. My crazy lil old nan is likely to love him so it should be alright. Can old women be fag hags!? I will have some friends in the audience, perhaps I will sit him with a group of those as opposed to my family, it may be more comfortable for him.
Either way, i'm looking forward to the show, it should be a lot of fun. The card is pretty strong as you'd expect of Triple X and it's an adult themed show as it always is, i love not having to watch what i say too much. Triple X is also a great oppertunity to catch up with guys i don't often see, due to location and it's always great to mix with those guys backstage.
Ah interesting days a coming!
Going to catch a movie at the cinema I think, Simmons is currently thinking 'drag me to hell' i guess it'll either be that or night at the museum, both look good, so perhaps both! The cinema has a KFC next to it too, so i think we'll stop in there first and fill our selves up ridiculously.
Anyway, lots of cleaning to do, want to make my flat immaculate for when he gets here.
Friday 22 May 2009
Back from the land of kilts, bagpipes and irn bru...
First of all, i'm writing this sat in my boxers, a t-shirt and listening to Chris de Burgh - Spanish Train. So, if you want to read it the way it was wrote, i will give you all of the means necissary!
Here's an embedded youtube video of the song:
The rest is up to you!
So it was a great 10 days, full of chinese all you can eats, KFC boneless boxes, more cola and pork chops than you could possibly imagine, Other than the food i also spent time with Simmons, never a bad thing! During the time there we viewed that which is likely to be our home for a few years, a nice flat in close proximity to Dundee City Centre, just far enough away that loud traffic wont be a problem. It's quite a big place, plenty of room for 2, massive bedroom and living room and it already has an internet line installed... when viewing a property which is not yet empty, i find it is imperitive you check for the little blue modem sat somewhere about the place.
May 20th also marks a full year passed since Simmons first encountered me screaming about iraqi's, headshots and a war which was only happening in 3D from the comfort of my bedroom. It's hard to really comprehend the fact that i've known him for so long, yet in a weird way it seems that i've known him much longer... I can't quite explain it. Suffice to say that it's been a fairly intense year in the terms of how much we have learnt of each other.
And the next song has come, again embedded!
The 10 days i spent in Dundee were just fantastic and i got to see a side of simmons i hadn't seen quite in it's full glory before: Completely and utterly wasted. We went out to the student Union near his place for what was only going to be a couple of drinks and a few games of pool / time crisis, it turned out to be a long night of double vodka's with either red bull or coke (Diet coke on his part... i still don't get the reason behind drinking diet fizzy drinks...) Jager bombs, Becks, some cola and whiskey pitcher and several other drinks.
It became apparent at some point, that perhaps simmons had drank one too many and he asked me to go and get him some water, which i did, up at the bar which was fairly crowded i glanced back every few mins to make sure he was ok, a while after standing at the bar, i get a call from him, somehow he had managed to slip past and randomly headed outside, down a road and sat on a little wall where he was telling me to get him... anyway back to the flat and let's say simmons wasn't at his most charming... Although watching him clean up the mess he had made just a few hours later was satisfying.
and the kebab i ordered that night once he had fell asleep was fantastic, if anyone is in the Dundee area in the future, i very much suggest Istanbulli if you're in need of kebab, or 2 huge burgers, salad and shit loads of kebab meat in a bun... it's open until like 3AM each night and if you manage to relay what you want to them on the phone who can barely speak english, chances are, you're not too pissed to hold the food down once it arrives, a nice fail safe system they have implemented!
On to the next song! I'm going to assume you have not yet finished with the last 2 and wont link it, i'm likely to save myself a lot of embarrassement in not doing so...
So anyway, back to England it is... The flight was good, some really nice views, i don't think i'll ever fully get over the beauty of looking out of a plane window and this was just over Scotland and England, i can only imagine some of the sights in other parts of the world. I was greeted once i got off the following train ride, with what i can only describe as a somewhat pungent stench of stale piss at Coventry train station.. fantastic...
Next song!
Anyway, i still really wish i was still in scotland, although the prospect of moving there is getting closer and closer, which is a little scary, but exciting at the same time. LPW show tomorrow, and after a nice relaxing 10 days, i'm looking forward to letting out some aggression and shouting some obsceneties at the 'crowd' inverted comma's for obvious reasons there.
For now? I'm not sure, perhaps i will go take the washing out of the machine, talk to some people on MSN and eventually retire to my bed... that's going to feel odd...
Here's an embedded youtube video of the song:
The rest is up to you!
So it was a great 10 days, full of chinese all you can eats, KFC boneless boxes, more cola and pork chops than you could possibly imagine, Other than the food i also spent time with Simmons, never a bad thing! During the time there we viewed that which is likely to be our home for a few years, a nice flat in close proximity to Dundee City Centre, just far enough away that loud traffic wont be a problem. It's quite a big place, plenty of room for 2, massive bedroom and living room and it already has an internet line installed... when viewing a property which is not yet empty, i find it is imperitive you check for the little blue modem sat somewhere about the place.
May 20th also marks a full year passed since Simmons first encountered me screaming about iraqi's, headshots and a war which was only happening in 3D from the comfort of my bedroom. It's hard to really comprehend the fact that i've known him for so long, yet in a weird way it seems that i've known him much longer... I can't quite explain it. Suffice to say that it's been a fairly intense year in the terms of how much we have learnt of each other.
And the next song has come, again embedded!
The 10 days i spent in Dundee were just fantastic and i got to see a side of simmons i hadn't seen quite in it's full glory before: Completely and utterly wasted. We went out to the student Union near his place for what was only going to be a couple of drinks and a few games of pool / time crisis, it turned out to be a long night of double vodka's with either red bull or coke (Diet coke on his part... i still don't get the reason behind drinking diet fizzy drinks...) Jager bombs, Becks, some cola and whiskey pitcher and several other drinks.
It became apparent at some point, that perhaps simmons had drank one too many and he asked me to go and get him some water, which i did, up at the bar which was fairly crowded i glanced back every few mins to make sure he was ok, a while after standing at the bar, i get a call from him, somehow he had managed to slip past and randomly headed outside, down a road and sat on a little wall where he was telling me to get him... anyway back to the flat and let's say simmons wasn't at his most charming... Although watching him clean up the mess he had made just a few hours later was satisfying.
and the kebab i ordered that night once he had fell asleep was fantastic, if anyone is in the Dundee area in the future, i very much suggest Istanbulli if you're in need of kebab, or 2 huge burgers, salad and shit loads of kebab meat in a bun... it's open until like 3AM each night and if you manage to relay what you want to them on the phone who can barely speak english, chances are, you're not too pissed to hold the food down once it arrives, a nice fail safe system they have implemented!
On to the next song! I'm going to assume you have not yet finished with the last 2 and wont link it, i'm likely to save myself a lot of embarrassement in not doing so...
So anyway, back to England it is... The flight was good, some really nice views, i don't think i'll ever fully get over the beauty of looking out of a plane window and this was just over Scotland and England, i can only imagine some of the sights in other parts of the world. I was greeted once i got off the following train ride, with what i can only describe as a somewhat pungent stench of stale piss at Coventry train station.. fantastic...
Next song!
Anyway, i still really wish i was still in scotland, although the prospect of moving there is getting closer and closer, which is a little scary, but exciting at the same time. LPW show tomorrow, and after a nice relaxing 10 days, i'm looking forward to letting out some aggression and shouting some obsceneties at the 'crowd' inverted comma's for obvious reasons there.
For now? I'm not sure, perhaps i will go take the washing out of the machine, talk to some people on MSN and eventually retire to my bed... that's going to feel odd...
Tuesday 5 May 2009
Tedious Tuesday
Ah, so the theme of me rambling about a boring week with little to do continues. Yesterday I ended up doing nothing, the shopping still is not done. Shortly after the last blog post i remembered it was a bank holiday, meaning some of the shops i would go into would be closed, so i put it off until today.
In all fairness i could have still gotten practically everything i wanted yesterday just from tesco's alone i was probably pushing it back since it's not at it's warmest outside. Regardless, today it will be done, there is only so long one can go on eating the most plain of foods to put off going to the shops and that time has creeped up on me.
So, i awoke at around 4:30 am today, which is an hour later than yesterday, so i'm slowly getting toward a more normal sleeping pattern, hopefully i can push that forward by 2 hours today and wake up at 6:30 tomorrow. I have already watched the latest episode of 24, which for the most part wasn't all that exciting, i feel like i'm just waiting for the showdown between jack and tony which is almost certain to happen and then of course a cure for jack to be found... CSI miami is still downloading at a very slow 30kb/s but with only 700 seeds and over 6,000 leechers i guess that's fairly fast, it should be done by the time i get home from shopping. I guess later i can continue catching up on Bleach too and perhaps fill my day on facebook...
Yes, this week is going to be boring and i have no real intention to make it any more fun, I should probably start preparing to pack some things for monday at some point, but knowing me i'll leave it till the night before and end up taking still slightly damp clothing and have to wash it again when i'm up there... but i'm aiming for that not to happen this time :)
Going to pick up a new shirt today perhaps, my last one has been dyed to have a slight blue colour, this is because i'm lazy when it comes to seperating my whites, saying that i don't have many primarily white clothes and so it makes no sense to do so. The shirt is for my wrestling gimmick, the idea is to come out dressed in suit and a dog collar, clutching onto some kind of large bible, going for the 'new age' religious look. I should probably look through a few websites for common pieces of scripture which can be warped to meaning vile things aswell to quote in any promo's i might have in the future. Perhaps i will also download a series of tv which i haven't yet watched. I never really gave Lost a proper looking at, i think i watched the pilot episode and nothing more, i should probably give that a real go, since people seem to like it, although watching a tv show about some people stranded on an island doesn't seem like the most entertaining way to spend an afternoon or evening, but i could well be wrong.
For now, i'm going to go and get ready to go out shopping, perhaps do a little cleaning in the hell hole i call my home.
In all fairness i could have still gotten practically everything i wanted yesterday just from tesco's alone i was probably pushing it back since it's not at it's warmest outside. Regardless, today it will be done, there is only so long one can go on eating the most plain of foods to put off going to the shops and that time has creeped up on me.
So, i awoke at around 4:30 am today, which is an hour later than yesterday, so i'm slowly getting toward a more normal sleeping pattern, hopefully i can push that forward by 2 hours today and wake up at 6:30 tomorrow. I have already watched the latest episode of 24, which for the most part wasn't all that exciting, i feel like i'm just waiting for the showdown between jack and tony which is almost certain to happen and then of course a cure for jack to be found... CSI miami is still downloading at a very slow 30kb/s but with only 700 seeds and over 6,000 leechers i guess that's fairly fast, it should be done by the time i get home from shopping. I guess later i can continue catching up on Bleach too and perhaps fill my day on facebook...
Yes, this week is going to be boring and i have no real intention to make it any more fun, I should probably start preparing to pack some things for monday at some point, but knowing me i'll leave it till the night before and end up taking still slightly damp clothing and have to wash it again when i'm up there... but i'm aiming for that not to happen this time :)
Going to pick up a new shirt today perhaps, my last one has been dyed to have a slight blue colour, this is because i'm lazy when it comes to seperating my whites, saying that i don't have many primarily white clothes and so it makes no sense to do so. The shirt is for my wrestling gimmick, the idea is to come out dressed in suit and a dog collar, clutching onto some kind of large bible, going for the 'new age' religious look. I should probably look through a few websites for common pieces of scripture which can be warped to meaning vile things aswell to quote in any promo's i might have in the future. Perhaps i will also download a series of tv which i haven't yet watched. I never really gave Lost a proper looking at, i think i watched the pilot episode and nothing more, i should probably give that a real go, since people seem to like it, although watching a tv show about some people stranded on an island doesn't seem like the most entertaining way to spend an afternoon or evening, but i could well be wrong.
For now, i'm going to go and get ready to go out shopping, perhaps do a little cleaning in the hell hole i call my home.
Monday 4 May 2009
Mundane monday!
It's 8:15 am and for the past 15 minutes i've been glancing at the time on my computer. Each glance but a minute or two apart yet feeling like at least 20 minutes a time. I am bored beyond belief. I am not sure whether my compulsion to watch the time is frustrating or somewhat entertaining in such a state of boredom, either way even whilst writing this my eyes continue to be drawn to the little numbers which never seem to change in the right hand corner of my screen.
I went to bed early last night and woke up at around 3:30am since that time i've exhausted most means of entertainment. I've read some bleach, which i'm really starting to get into, though i'm only able to really read so much in one sitting, after a while the almost unpronouncable japanese names become blurred, along with the somewhat similar looking charecters i find myself losing concentration and being unable to distinguish a few of them. I have played some battle forge, done a few pvp maps, which for all of you none-nerds means player vs player. Won most of these battles, when will people learn tower rushes vs my deck is not a good idea? When will people learn that trying to rush my second orb, whilst the only way of winning vs me is not going to work if you're spawning troops whilst in fight at half health? I played a pve map (Player vs enviroment) on advanced, it was fairly easy. I've watched some tv; CSI - Criminal intent and South Park. Y'know, i still love south park but i yearn for the day to return where it has me laughing out loud as it did in the past, perhaps my age is stopping me from finding some of the jokes quite so funny, saying that, the 'gay fish' joke episode was perhaps the best episode of south park i've seen in a long long time.
Infact, TV is lacking at the moment... Most good series are on a break or between seasons. Heroes has just finished, CSI miami and the original are both coming toward the end of their respective series, 24 has a few weeks left and kings has took a break until june. Weeds isn't again until around june time and i've no idea when dexter and burn notice are back, there's probably a few months until both of those.
There is nobody on MSN at the moment, even simmons (who woke up around the same time i did) has desserted me to go back to sleep. Facebook as boring and pointless as ever... no all that's left is me, my keyboard and Nightwish which i'm currently listening to.
The plan for today is simple: Listen to music a little longer, type some more rambling boring content for this blog that nobody will ever read then later go shopping with the aim of spending as little as possible on food for the next week, saving as much as possible for the 10 days i'm spending in scotland next week.
This weekend was fairly... entertaining though i guess. Friday was the BHW show, which for the first time in around 2 years i teamed up with gang* to face john bull and scott grimm. There were no tables, ladders or chairs like in our last encounter and this time me and gang* were playing face, which does not come natural to me at all and i expect it doesn't to him either. It's weird, being a heel i sometimes find myself cheered, as most heels do from time to time, there's always that 'bunch' of usually teenage guys who find the heels to be the most entertaining, being a face however, i find it hard to get past a feeling of indifference from the crowd. I don't feel comfortable being in the face role, especially in front of 'smaller' crowds. If you don't get a reaction to the usual face stuff (clapping, stamping, cheering your tag partner on etc) it's hard to really get into the match, as a heel, if you don't get a reaction for something, you punch your opponent in the face, hit something which looks nasty or cheat and you get the heat no problem. It's something i need to work on. The only time i really did well at being a face was at a charity show a couple of years back, 500ish people all pretty hot for the show and that was really easy to work, other than that, it's very difficult for me, since i not only enjoy to being the heel and working in the wrestling style of a heel but i also find it much easier to connect with my heel charecter, it comes to me naturally most of the time, i guess it's who i might be, if there were no concequences in the world and so it's easy to tap into.
Saturday was fairly fun, i went up town to do the shopping i am now going to do today, i met my dad up there randomly and he invited me for a quick drink at one of the pubs in the town centre. I went in had a drink, had another, his partner came in, we had a few more, got an indian take away i ate it at his then came home... shopping failed completely! It was a good afternoon / evening though, usually i only spend good lengths of time with my dad when he has my little brother for the day or evening and go around for dinner, it's rare i spend time with him alone and in light of things he now knows about me, it was a good oppertunity to see that nothing in our relationship had changed. Plus, celebrating with him on his new job (after having just been made redundant after 26 years of work for the same employer) seemed like as good an excuse as any.
But today... today will be boring, i'm thinking about going to eat another 'crunchie blast' ice-cream, these things are fantastic, like a magnum but with toffee like icecream in the middle and the exploding candy stuff you would once find in a 'wonka bar'. How has this ice-cream eluded me all of my life?
Ah, i forgot to keep checking the time during writing this and listening to music and 45 minutes has managed to pass... perhaps this day wont drag as much as i thought.
This week is going to be slow as hell though, regardless of what i fill my time doing, roll on next monday, i can't wait to take my flight to scotland! The complimenty vodka and coke on the plane is fantastic and after that i get to be greeted by simmons. Meeting his mother for the first time whilst up there... that's sure to be fun, lets hope the obvious awkwardness of the situation doesn't force me into 'Chris Stone' mode, or have me make some kind of inappropriate joke which she is bound to find insulting... I can only imagine how pissed simmons will be if i manage to make his mother hate me the first time i meet her... i'll have some serious apologies to make if that happens through any real fault of my own.
Anyway bored of rambling now...
I went to bed early last night and woke up at around 3:30am since that time i've exhausted most means of entertainment. I've read some bleach, which i'm really starting to get into, though i'm only able to really read so much in one sitting, after a while the almost unpronouncable japanese names become blurred, along with the somewhat similar looking charecters i find myself losing concentration and being unable to distinguish a few of them. I have played some battle forge, done a few pvp maps, which for all of you none-nerds means player vs player. Won most of these battles, when will people learn tower rushes vs my deck is not a good idea? When will people learn that trying to rush my second orb, whilst the only way of winning vs me is not going to work if you're spawning troops whilst in fight at half health? I played a pve map (Player vs enviroment) on advanced, it was fairly easy. I've watched some tv; CSI - Criminal intent and South Park. Y'know, i still love south park but i yearn for the day to return where it has me laughing out loud as it did in the past, perhaps my age is stopping me from finding some of the jokes quite so funny, saying that, the 'gay fish' joke episode was perhaps the best episode of south park i've seen in a long long time.
Infact, TV is lacking at the moment... Most good series are on a break or between seasons. Heroes has just finished, CSI miami and the original are both coming toward the end of their respective series, 24 has a few weeks left and kings has took a break until june. Weeds isn't again until around june time and i've no idea when dexter and burn notice are back, there's probably a few months until both of those.
There is nobody on MSN at the moment, even simmons (who woke up around the same time i did) has desserted me to go back to sleep. Facebook as boring and pointless as ever... no all that's left is me, my keyboard and Nightwish which i'm currently listening to.
The plan for today is simple: Listen to music a little longer, type some more rambling boring content for this blog that nobody will ever read then later go shopping with the aim of spending as little as possible on food for the next week, saving as much as possible for the 10 days i'm spending in scotland next week.
This weekend was fairly... entertaining though i guess. Friday was the BHW show, which for the first time in around 2 years i teamed up with gang* to face john bull and scott grimm. There were no tables, ladders or chairs like in our last encounter and this time me and gang* were playing face, which does not come natural to me at all and i expect it doesn't to him either. It's weird, being a heel i sometimes find myself cheered, as most heels do from time to time, there's always that 'bunch' of usually teenage guys who find the heels to be the most entertaining, being a face however, i find it hard to get past a feeling of indifference from the crowd. I don't feel comfortable being in the face role, especially in front of 'smaller' crowds. If you don't get a reaction to the usual face stuff (clapping, stamping, cheering your tag partner on etc) it's hard to really get into the match, as a heel, if you don't get a reaction for something, you punch your opponent in the face, hit something which looks nasty or cheat and you get the heat no problem. It's something i need to work on. The only time i really did well at being a face was at a charity show a couple of years back, 500ish people all pretty hot for the show and that was really easy to work, other than that, it's very difficult for me, since i not only enjoy to being the heel and working in the wrestling style of a heel but i also find it much easier to connect with my heel charecter, it comes to me naturally most of the time, i guess it's who i might be, if there were no concequences in the world and so it's easy to tap into.
Saturday was fairly fun, i went up town to do the shopping i am now going to do today, i met my dad up there randomly and he invited me for a quick drink at one of the pubs in the town centre. I went in had a drink, had another, his partner came in, we had a few more, got an indian take away i ate it at his then came home... shopping failed completely! It was a good afternoon / evening though, usually i only spend good lengths of time with my dad when he has my little brother for the day or evening and go around for dinner, it's rare i spend time with him alone and in light of things he now knows about me, it was a good oppertunity to see that nothing in our relationship had changed. Plus, celebrating with him on his new job (after having just been made redundant after 26 years of work for the same employer) seemed like as good an excuse as any.
But today... today will be boring, i'm thinking about going to eat another 'crunchie blast' ice-cream, these things are fantastic, like a magnum but with toffee like icecream in the middle and the exploding candy stuff you would once find in a 'wonka bar'. How has this ice-cream eluded me all of my life?
Ah, i forgot to keep checking the time during writing this and listening to music and 45 minutes has managed to pass... perhaps this day wont drag as much as i thought.
This week is going to be slow as hell though, regardless of what i fill my time doing, roll on next monday, i can't wait to take my flight to scotland! The complimenty vodka and coke on the plane is fantastic and after that i get to be greeted by simmons. Meeting his mother for the first time whilst up there... that's sure to be fun, lets hope the obvious awkwardness of the situation doesn't force me into 'Chris Stone' mode, or have me make some kind of inappropriate joke which she is bound to find insulting... I can only imagine how pissed simmons will be if i manage to make his mother hate me the first time i meet her... i'll have some serious apologies to make if that happens through any real fault of my own.
Anyway bored of rambling now...
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