100 Day Challenge: Day 62
Wow, been really nerding it up the last few days.
My mom had borrowed some money from me a while ago (I'd forgotten about it) and she offered to sell me my little brother's Xbox 360 in exchange for the money. She only owed me 60$. At first I hesitated, I'm not sure why.
I realized a couple days later that the night she'd offered it to me, I'd been thinking earlier in the day that I really wanted to let my gamer side go and get into playing games again. Which lead to the thought: "I should buy a 360 or a PS3." Which was followed by: "I can't afford it right now." Kind of funny how things work out. I got a 360 with a hard drive, it's also a model with an HDMI output, and 3 games. HALO 3, Blue Dragon, and Kung Fu Panda.
Beat HALO 3 back when it first came out with Wayne, so I've been playing Blue Dragon. Heard it's supposed to be a really epic game. It seems like it, 3 discs worth of stuff and I think Xbox only uses DVDs. It'll be interesting to see how long it goes for. So far the games seems pretty solid, very reminiscent of the Final Fantasy series. The combat system seems pretty fluid and it has some subtle complexities that I'm figuring out, things like using the charge meter to choose how large of an area is affected by a spell as well as how long the spell will take to cast in relation to the rest of the combatants in the fight. It appears there are also some elemental factors as well. I'm only 5 hours into the game so I haven't had much to choose from as far as those go. There's a lot of speech in the game and the videos in game look like they're rendered on the fly in the same style the Zelda games on Nintendo 64 did. I'm hoping there will be some awesome cinematography done with the camera in game.
I also picked up a Magic Premium Deck the other day at Shopko. It's an all foil, Sliver deck. It seems like it has some serious potential for destruction. So far it hasn't fared too well though. I think I won 2 out of 5 games with Tom. Those were more due to bad mana draws on his part (mana starved). His Vampire deck just seems very well equipped to fight creature based decks. He's got Hideous Ends, for a converted mana cost of 3 he can destroy a non-black creature and deal 2 damage to the creature's controller, and a good number of his creatures have flying with deathtouch and lifelink. Wow just a really good combination. I think I can add some cancels to the deck to counter those spells, then I'd really like to add some more Crystaline Slivers. Pretty sweet for a converted cost of 2. I'm thinking I could add more more slivers, but it might be easier to add more Wild Pair cards into the deck. They allow me to cast a creature and then cast another create with the same total power and toughness. Now that I'm looking at the cards, I see some other strategies evolving.
I also just found out that they have Bamboo Blade on YouTube, wow talk about rounding out the nerd train 
A new console, a new Magic Deck, and a new Anime series to watch. Of course I'm also in inheriting a Sega Genesis soon as well. Wow, I am oozing with nerdiness. Now to balance things out I need to nerd out on my Karate practice.
Karate I've discovered is a something I'm having to redefine my goals in. I earned my 2nd Degree and now I'm wanting to focus elsewhere for a while, but at the same time I don't want to abandon it all together. Always the same problem for me, I find way too many things interesting and trying to focus on one or two at the expense of the others is a difficult choice.
It's got to be better than not having anything to get excited about.
I have a lot of excitement and enthusiasm for things. I must find a way to focus it.
Come to think of it, the whole point of doing this 100 Day Challenge is supposed to be learning how to work with the laws of the universe. I haven't been doing much of that. Well at least in a direct manner.