An update!

So I thought I'd give this blog a little update after my short break from the ol' G-spot.

Games

Can't really say much gaming has been done other than some ODST and Halo 3 multiplayer. Being someone who didn't buy any of the original map-packs for Halo 3, the multiplayer disc was quite an expansion of content on the online side. Whilst the ODST campaign was fun with friends, well thought-out and a tad challenging it only managed to hold out for all of about two days as I managed to zip through it on legendary a couple of sittings. Fortunately this got me a fair amount of achievements from both the multiplayer disc and the campaign mode, leaving my gamerscore at a current total of 9134.

I have a couple games that are pretty much un-tapped achievement wise i.e. Fifa 09 and Fallout 3, so I might take a shot at using those to get a fair bit closer, if not to, the big 10,000 In terms of the future, I'm looking to grab Need For Speed: Shift soon after literally abusing the demo, as well as the obvious Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2 in the coming weeks/months. I'll also be picking up an original PSP for £30 through a friend on Monday after I found out you can transfer Final Fantasy 7 on to it for free using a Playstation 3. Portable FF7? Goodbye life

Tv/Movies

Pretty much nothing new on the movies side, although I have been keeping up with the new (and recently finished) series of Peep Show on channel 4, as well as FlashForward on Five every Monday night. Seems like a pretty sweet show so far, I'm just hoping it doesn't go down the long and winding road of try-hard cliff-hanging obscurity that put me off watching Lost

Books?! Yeah you heard

So, in a small spurt of out-of-characterness I actually purchased and began reading a book this month. It's one of George Orwell's cl@ssics and goes by the name of 1984. Being pretty well known and critically acclaimed I figured I may as well order it from eBay at the cheap price of £5 inc. P&P. I was a bit sceptical at first but have to say I'm impressed so far. Let's just hope I'll actually reach the end.

Music

In a weird turn of events I found out, today none-the-less, that I'm going to see Green Day tomorrow night at the Birmingham NEC I'm not the biggest fan of the new album, but a lot of their old stuff is great, and so I jumped at the chance to see them for a total of £34 including trains and a hotel room afterwards with 3 mates and a bottle of Jack Daniels Should be a good night seeing that the set list on this tour is largely made up of old material, and I'll be posting pictures on my twitter account tomorrow night for the few of you that are following me

Other than that nothing much can be said for music apart from discovering a band I had known about for a while called Death Cab For Cutie. I knew my brother was a fan but never really bothered to listen to them up until now, and I'm glad I gave them a chance. They seem like a great mix between slow Jimmy Eat World and Brand New. Just a shame to see they're on the soundtrack for the next movie in the twilight series ¬¬

Ooo I almost forgot. I also picked up Muse's new album "The Resistance" and I love it It took a good few listens for it to grow on me, but now I'm pretty much addicted to the songs Resistance, Guiding Light and Unnatural Selection.

That's all for this one. Follow me on twitter here or post a comment if you like Oh and sorry tofu-lion91, I may have somewhat stolen the layout of your awesome blogs for mine a bit. Let's just call it inspiration

So I'm considering coming back to Gamespot properly now. I've been inactive for over a month since school started, but I've got a week off and things are generally settling down. I might not be visiting OT much, as I'll probably be mostly reading other people's blogs on top of occasionally writing my own little updates.

Thanks

Hey again. Long time no see. I have not done a blog for a while as I have not really had much to talk about. I've tried to think of ideas as time has gone on but nothing has struck me until now. I can ask YOU, the reader, for some advice on a little computer related financial matter I have. Any advice would be greatly appreciated in advance, but we'll get onto that in a minute.

First off I'd like to mention I recently suffered a dreaded point loss on my account, taking my level 29 and 98% account down to a level 28. Whilst little stuff like that wouldn't bother me, getting through 29 took a good month or so, and I was looking forward to hitting the big 30. Sure enough I'm working my way back up again, but that's just a little explanation as to why my blog post "Radiant Silvergun" would seem odd in comparison to my level right now

On a slightly jollier note, some of you may know I got a pair of cats a week or so ago They're both 3 years old and are still getting used to the new house (in other words, they are petrified of anything that moves), but they are generally pretty awesome and I should have some pics of them up quite soon

Now, moving on to my little computer related conundrum I could use your advice with. I have around £350 to spend on a new computer. I sold my mac and monitor (I have another i can use) and was planning on upgrading to either an iMac, or a self-built computer with an intel processor so I can dual-boot Mac and Windows with ease. I'm using my laptop at the moment, but it's not very good to say the least. It's a good few years old, is missing a space bar, and can barely hop on it's own two linux-based feet.

An upgrade is in order, and all seemed well until a thought occured to me. I may be moving away to university next year, and would need a half decent laptop to take with me for taking notes or working in class, aswell as general use while I am there. Now seems as good of a time as any to buy a laptop in preparation of then, aswell as to replace this steam-producing heap of rubble I'm using now. I then run in to the problem that I have quite the nice, new desk in my room that would go to waste, aswell as my personal preferred taste in desktops rather than laptops for full-time use. Sure, I could use my laptop at the desk, but it just wouldn't be the same, y'know?

So what do I do? Do I go and buy myself a well-spec'd tower for my desk, but then run into a problem when I move away next year? Or do i buy a new laptop now which could be taken away, but would be less-preffered for use at home until then? I'm somewhat leaning towards the laptop option, as an intel based one could be used to load Mac OSX, and would be more efficient in the long run. Using it at my desk wouldn't be so bad, and I could use the other monitor for playing Xbox at the desk itself.

It's probably worth mentioning that I'm not too big of a fan of PC gaming, and so the need for a high-spec computer isn't exactly present, but would still be pretty sweet and would get me in to PC gaming if it was a possibility.

Anyway, leaving your suggestions as a comment would be greatly appreciated, and would help me out an awful lot. Hit the track button if your feelin' a little generous