Note: Well, it appears in the time I've been gone Gamespot's kept up it's lengendary glitch status, along with a new and very sad adjustment: the word "s*ck" is apparently now automatically censored. Don't be surprised if something in this post looks off...
Well, it's been a couple months, hasn't it? So, I guess I'll drop by to unload all of my problems on you.
Had finals this week, and go figure, the morning of, I ended up dropping my laptop. A weak-**s two-foot drop and the thing busted like a pinata (forgive the missing accent on the n). Seriously, could less money have been put into protecting a $1500 computer for it to not be able to survive that? Now I'm out of my mind worrying about the possibility of my HDD being corrupted and three years worth of files going down the drain.
But it gets better! This week we lost our Internet connection. My mother and I spent a good number of hours trying everything possible to get the damn things to connect, but ultimately it was time wasted. It's strange, too, since all of them stopped working all at once, but this sorry little Laptop that we hooked up runs the Internet fine. And I don't think anyone simulataneously changed the settings on our five other computers.
Just went through a live session with a tech support person (Agent Jarnail was the person's name) and it also ended up being time wasted. Time I could be using to finish any one of the five or so games I'm working on (I know, I shouldn't play so many at once...) By the way, if you're wondering: Devil May Cry 3, very close, Persona 3, fairly close, though it's the sort of game that you can't be too sure when it will end, Bladestorm, which I have no idea on, Valkyrie Profile 2, which I've only just started, and God of War, which I just bought again since my brother, the little idiot, sold off the first copy for $3. Though it's a fairly short game and fairly addictive so it'll over and done soon enough. I'm also playing Patapon on my PSP, and I play Final Fantasy Chronicles from time to time, though it's on the extreme back burner.
And it seems that pretty much every problem that a computer has nowadays can almost always be linked to the Internet. I help this old couple down the street from time to time, and guess what they have trouble with: e-mail. Go figure. And now we all need virus protection, and when the subscription ends, another pathetic development with the Internet, they give you a pop-up every single day to pay them an outrageous fee to protect us from the virus they create. Yep, they have virus development supposedly to pre-empt the creation of it by someone else, though you can't be too sure that they aren't "accidentally leaked" from time to time. It's basically the "protection money" you used to pay that bully back in your school days.
The day we integrate technology into the human body, we better be sure we have everything worked out and completely standardized, 'cause Your Dear God, if I need tech support to use the restroom I will become the Terminator v2.20. Speaking of which, there's a PSN update coming up in the near future: fw2.20 that will a bunch of stuff, though nothing people have been screaming for. Still, a decent update overall. If you wnat the details head on over to PlayStation.blog. And don't expect me to provide a link either. Like my daddy always used to tell me "Find it your own damn self."
I guess I've provided enough for another two or three months.
Laters.