So there I was, sleeping. However, in my dream, I remember receiving an email from Amazon, where I had pre-ordered the Halo: Reach limited edition, saying that it had been shipped out. I was pretty excited that I was receiving it a week early though I also might had actually received it already in the dream.

Unfortunately, for those who know how Amazons pre-ordering works, you arent charged until the item is shipped, or ready for shipping. The problem for me, is that I dont have the $85 or so dollars to pay for it, not until my paycheck gets in, anyways. So while I was very excited to having received Reach a week early, I was now going to be charged an extra $35 for an overdraft fee.

An other weird thing that took place in my dream was that the copy of Halo might not have exactly been Reach... I remember someone (my sister, I think?) asking me what the difference was between Mass Effect 2 and the Halo game, called Halo: Mass Effect or something ridiculous. I told her one was a first person shooter and I dont remember anything after that.

Anyways, it was definitely a bittersweet dream; so satisfying, yet extremely unfortunate at the same time.

So I just received my third 360 (second replacement) back from Microsoft yesterday. It died while I was at a friends place playing some Modern Warfare 2; I was very sad.

But the most interesting thing was that my warranty was expired, yet Microsoft repaired it without charging me anything. Im not complaining, of course, but was amazed. When it died I signed it up for repair, bought a box and let the UPS man take it to Texas. However, a few days later I realized that when it read "Standard Warranty Expired" on the Xbox support site, that meant that the warranty was indeed expired.

I guess I thought that it simply meant the non-three year RROD warranty, but that is the standard now. So I was kinda nervous that I wasted six bucks on a box and that when Microsoft said I would have to lay down a good $120 or so I would have to decline and ask for it back. I would then have to produce a new Sams Club receipt out of thin air since I couldnt find the original (which I would need to have Sams Club make good on that extra 3 year warranty and fix it).

Much to my surprise, however, there was no incident of any kind, and they sent me a new one (though it would have been cool if they sent me one with HDMI). Also I got another face plate.

So, thank you Microsoft for overlooking the fact that my warranty was expired.

Now maybe Ill finish playing through Lost Odyssey...

(This is slightly long.) So today I bought a new computer. I kinda missed my old computer that I spent $400 on, because I wanted to play Oblivion on it, which ended up dying or something. Im not really sure, but I think the video card fried on it. It was a GeForce 6600 GT AGP and was decent for the price at the time. I think.

Anyways, so here I am, having stayed away from PC gaming in favor of my Xbox 360 that I received for Christmas a couple of years ago (that was actually a different 360 actually due to RROD). Actually before I got my 360 I decided to stick with PC gaming, and told my parents that I didnt want one as much any more, but was surprised on Christmas day with one anyways.

So my pc died after a while so Ive been stuck with a crappy internet only piece of junk and have had to do my gaming on my 360. Which Ive been fine with for a couple years, though I have thought of getting a new comp several times before.

One of the main things I liked about gaming on the pc is the fact that you can mod games. For some reason, if there is something I dont like about a game and I can actually change it, Im going to change it. Mostly regarding attributes and stuff, not graphics or sound or anything.

Like the game Operation Flashpoint. I changed alot of things to my liking in that game, first starting with how things were named and crap and eventually weapon attributes. Of course all the data was borrowed (stolen) from other mods, but it didnt really matter since it wasnt anything they could prove. Hah.

Also, Oblivion I modded some as well. And Call of Duty 1 & 2. In fact I made a pretty decent sound mod for COD1 that used the Close Combat 2: A Bridge Too Far sounds. Too bad after all that work I deleted it. Ah well...

The other thing thats great about pcs is that the games are cheaper. Not only do new retail games start $10 less, but they seem to drop in price faster than console games. Im not sure if it has to do with people tending to buy console versions of multiplatform games more or what but saving a few dollars every time is always good, especially when one spends $300 a year on games.

But the best thing about pc games? Pirating. Aww yeah. Free games.

Just kidding.

Oh yeah the specs of mine pc:
XFX GeForce 8200 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.0GHz OEM Processor
Kingston 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 Memory
XFX GeForce 9600 GT Video Card - 512MB GDDR3
Western Digital Caviar SE 320GB Hard Drive

And the whole thing was $400 after rebates.

I think I might be the only person who has to actually quit a job since its conflicting with my other job.

Anyways, I bought Burnout Paradise last week since I had the urge to drive really fast around a city and not have to worry about cops and flying out of my car like in GTA IV. Also I was playing Mario Kart Wii at a friends place and was pretty bored with not only how slow the game was, but how lame the music was compared to the SNES game.

Also, Burnouts showtime mode is hilarious since your car is bouncing around and all the other cars are freaking out trying to get away from you.

And I just bought Ace Combat 6 from Target. It was like 21 dollars and I figured I might as well considering its like 30 bucks new at other places. And it doesnt look like I can get if for that cheap online unless I look really hard and I dont want to.

Oh yeah and I played the Resident Evil 5 demo last night coop for the first time. Its pretty much awesome. Im glad they give you the option of the 'newer' controls or the old Resident Evil 4 controls since I dont think theyre bad at all.

It was funny because my friend and I were actually playing the first level of Gears 2 and we couldnt pass the part where you are supposed the clear the hospital because there were like locust in the wall or something retarded so we just played the RE5 demo. Played Gears after Burnout Revenge was really weird too since in Revenge youre going 200 mph the entire time and you cant even see whats ahead of you sometimes, especially in split screen.

Anyways Im done.

apparently:



I drew it on the graffiti application on Facebook for a friends page, who did a simple "kill all commies" scribbling.

Also, Ninja Gaiden 2 just came in, which means... something.

Weird that the case has a cardboard sleeve. Also weird that the shipper guy just knocked on the door and left the package on the ground. This and not delivering on Saturday means I will never ever use DHL to ship anything ever.

sucking at the Lost Planet online demo makes me black.

I played against this guy and after raping me and two other guys in the demo (he somehow happened to always have the rocket launcher) he sent me a message saying
"haha niger"
I decided to play it safe and say something along the lines of
"i dont know how me getting owned makes me black but ok"
his reply was
"haha ok negro"

Another wierd happening was some time ago I was with three others playing some Halo 3 and in the pregame lobby said
"Youre all a bunch of Nigger lovers"