Batman!

Well hello there! I haven't blogged in a while, and am thinking about turning this into more of a review/sort of thing, rather then grumblings about my average life.

First up;

BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM

Right, well I have finally got Batman: Arkham Asylum for the PC. After jumping through various hoops such as the f!cking Games for Windows Live crap, I got it to work.

First impressions?

Fucking. Awesome.

Due to the crappiness of my PC's graphics card, I could only play it in less-than-stellar performance, but it didn't matter. The combat is frankly amazing, but can get rather trivial or complex when many things are happening at once. It devolves into a clicking fest quickly but timing moves correctly can be outstanding. The layout of the place is rather well-rendered, and the atmosphere is great. The storyline, although nothing spectacularly groundbreaking, is to be praised for its execution of the "Batman vs EVERYONE" mythos.

Gadgets and tricks are top-notch too. Batarangs, Batclaws, Explosive Gels all come into play with great effect.

In-game cinematics were not so great, what with my graphics, but out-of-play cinematics were brilliant.
Level design; rather good, although I have seen a number of the arbitrary levels; the stealth level, the sewer level, the jumping-around level, etc. Oh well.

I've only encountered three boss fights at the moment. The first not-so-boss-like mutated joker goon was a simple matter of jumping out of the way. The next, Scarecrow, was absolutley fantastic. Seriously, that level was absolutley extraordinary. Let's just say you use the Bat-Signal in a more...potent way then usual :P.
Bane was nothing special, although it did piss me off what with slow reaction times through the game.

Also, a Batcave is used (of course) but it isn't as fancy as the ones in the movies. Oh well.

Last note; is it wrong that I felt more angry with goons trying to trash the Batmobile then I did when doctors were being kidnapped?

Bottom Line; It's awesome.

There we go. Toodle-oo for now, am having to pack mule stuff to Uni tommorow. Yay?

District 9!

Well, this week has been a good one.

+16 Started, and it's turning out to be a blast. I've got fairly good teachers in all my lessons, EXCEPTION being my Physics teacher, who is freaking AWESOME. Seriously, he's like me grown up. How cool is that?

Anyway!

I went to see District 9 today. I had been wanting to see it for a while now, so it was the culmination of a lot of anticipation. I think I was the most exicted to be there at the time :P

On the film itself, it is truly, specatcularly, awesome.

I might be raving about it, but it really was great, and very much appeased my sense in films. There were emotional bits, mega-gory bits, bits that were hilariously ironic, all of it.

Oh yeah...

And a HUGE. FUCKING. MECHA.

Seriously, to quote one of my respected movie critics, "it did aliens better the Star Trek, gunfights better then G.I. Joe, robots better then Transformers and special effects better then Terminator: Salvation" - MovieBob.

This film was great. The aliens were taken with a bit of Cthulu-esque imagining; i admired the intuitive, if arbitrary way that the humans couldn't use the aliens guns.

And the alien guns were pretty fucking awesome too.

And they left a fairly blatant open-ended story ready for a sequel? District 10? Hells yes!

"Ipsa scientia potestas est" - Knowledge itself is power...

Well, i'm gonna just steal greenpanda666's idea of a summer round up too.

This summer has been a fairly good one. I have gone out furlongs more than I usually did, and achieved a fair bit. The quick rundown;

- I have managed to get some nice new clothes for the upcoming school year, involving many trips to town, which have been fun.

- I've been to various people's houses and actually gone out and done stuff for once!

- I managed to get a fairly good set of results, although I didn't do that big a thing that I would have liked.

-I managed to make a fair few thing in my garage using odds and ends that i'm fairly proud of (see pressure pad)

- Health-wise, i'm not bang up to fitness as I wanted. My plans of doing excercise was sidetracked a few times, so I still have a gut.

- I managed to read a fair number of useful classics, such as Catch-22, Neuromancer and Y: The Last Man.

- I've managed to distinguish different alcohol, and have tried vodka and moonshine whiskey. (Tastes like shite)

- I have attempted to restard Keyboard playing. It's a start, although I would love to try out a saxophone.

- My main failure this summer is that I haven't been able to get a job. Ideally, i'd like to work where there's lots of books, such as the local library or Borders. But we'll see, I suppose.

I'm still worrying a bit about the subject's i've chosen for AS. I took Physics, Maths, Computing and History, but i'm worried that instead of taking Sciencey subjects I should have picked Artsy subjects; I would have changed for English Lit, Philosophy, History and something else.

Meh.

Bit scared now, since I wish I was good at Chemistry. Lots of things I could have done with that.
A list of interesting jobs I would have liked doing;
- Physicist, of the normal sort

- Astrophysicist, or something to do with space travel (like ground control, building it etc). I'm no Astronaut though.

- Meteorologist. Looking at a book I was given with various jobs, Meteorology fits in well with my subject choices. (Meteorology=Weather forecasting)

- Communications; filming movies/TV shows, etc.

- Editor/Publisher; Something to do with books would be mighty useful.

- Pyrotechnician. I would have loved to do this, but unfortunatly it requires high levels of Chemistry (Pyrotechnics are the fire displays in movies, gigs, etc, so the explosion guy xD)

- Programmer; Working on physics engines for games?

- Inventor; this is an outlandish and unpractical one, but hell its interesting.

- Pilot; very difficult with glasses.

Anyhoo.

I had a haircut. It's short. My stupidly long hair is gone.

School tommorow! Let's hope that I can keep organised this time, eh?