Trippness & Curtains

I’m firmly convinced that Sony now realizes a certain portion of their gaming demographic is affluent and eccentric enough to enjoy “recreational pharmaceuticals” as part of their 21st century, hip, trendy lifestyle. That’s the only possible explanation for the fact that they keep releasing interesting titles that just scream for being under the influence of some kind of drug. PixelJunk Eden, their latest addition to downloadable games on the Playstation Store is another example of this.

There’s really no way to adequately describe the game. I could say “You control a little spider thing that jumps around a day-glo garden, ramming into pollen-esque creatures and then swinging with its web in circles to send the pollen streaming into the nearest seed, so as to make it bloom into a plant with which to further explore the garden,” but that really doesn’t do justice to ambient techno beat, gradually shifting colors, or strangely addictive yet relaxing gameplay the title offers. On the other hand if I were to simply hand you a tab of LSD, wait 20 minutes and then put a PS3 controller in your hand, you’d “get it” immediately.

Other than that, we did the incredibly domesticated thing of finally going out and buying a curtain rod and curtains for the living room. It’s official. We’re settled down.

Another Slow Day

Some errands in the neighborhood, a little bit o’ writing, a little bit o’ gaming. That’s it.

Ho Hum

Just another one of those days. A little bit of work, a little bit of gaming.

Slowly Crawling Through

In Siren: Blood Curse, it rains blood from the sky, and no one that wants to kill you stays down for more than a few minutes, no matter how many times you shoot them or bludgeon them with a sledge hammer.

Yeah, it’s kind of a freak out.

YEEEEEEEEEEEE

Okay, Siren: Bloodcurse is scary.

It’s not Resident Evil “EEK! SOMETHING JUST JUMPED THROUGH THE WINDOW!” scary. And not Silent Hill “What the hell was THAT?! It’s just standing there, looking at me… I DON’T LIKE THIS!” scary. It’s more like undead nurse to the left has chased you into a house and your only recourse is to hide in the closet and you can see her poking through the room while calling out to you. In other words it’s “OhGodOhGodOhGod, please don’t find me…” scary.

Still Grinding

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Keeping It Quiet

Aside from some writing of the comic and messing around Portal in the Orange Box collection, not much else of note.

Faint Ray Of Hope

I just saw the trailer for The Watchmen. The movie itself could still reach inconceivable levels of suck-age.

But at least they got the look right, and some of the images are ripped straight from the panels of the comic.

Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaase Zach. Don’t screw this up.

Summer Cleaning

Tidied up the house with sweepings and moppings. Too tired to do anything after that except play Rock Band and Civilization: Revolution.

Slow Saturday

Aside from writing some comic, I tore up more Civilization: Revolution but mostly watched the Wife do it even better.