It's been a while...

But I'm back! It's interesting what boredom yields. I'm missing someone very much. I've decided to revisit this stupid little blog since I've got nothing else going on.

I will probably continue to update this blog more thoroughly but for right now I've got one minor thing I'd like to philosophize on.

What is the greatest tale in human history? The Bible? The Koran? The Illiad? The Odyssey? One of Shakespeare's?

Of course it would be impossible to reach a general consensus (I doubt there are many atheists who revere the Koran like Muslims do).

Just curious. More later.

Interrogative:

Does anybody read this?

Interrogative 2:

Did anyone else ever put more than 2 things on their blog?

Mass Effect 1-2 and Video Games in General

If you have not played either of the Mass Effect video games on Xbox 360 or the PC, you are a deprived person.

People love books, movies, music, and the like, but nothing can tell a story the way a video game like Mass Effect or Fallout 3 can. Why?

Because video games have the ability to tell different stories each play through. Mass Effect, it's older cousin Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and many other games do this nowadays. Mass Effect is a prime example.

In very simpleton terms, you start off as a space marine. There are about a dozen different alien races in the galaxy, and each has its own unique characteristics. The beauty of Mass Effect is that you have the option, in every conversation, of how you would like to approach each situation.

For example, in Mass Effect 1, you and your crew discover an ancient alien race that was thought to have been wiped out. The rachni, as they are referred to as, waged a fierce war with several of the alien races, with the rachni losing to the point of total obliteration. Your squad discovers the last remaining queen. She is capable of reproducing. You are given the choice; wipe the violent rachni out for history (justified genocide?) or leave them alone (and possibly come back and wage more violent war?).

This is a large scale example; the system works with even the most minute conversations as well. For example, in Mass Effect 2, your character had to interrogate a person. Do you resort to violence (torture?) to get the information, or not (and quite possibly not get the information)?


My words can't give these two games the praise they deserve. Do yourself a favor, and get the first one; blow forty+ hours of your life away by playing it twice, then purchase the second one; rinse and repeat.

By the way...

Learning the Arabic keyboard is the most fun I've had on the computer since Half-Life 2 and Portal.

My quotes

"Love is a four letter word, but I hope you don't mind me saying it to you,"

"Being in love does not require putting head over heel; rather, heart over head,"

"Follow your heart, and the rest will follow,"

"The shoe hit her face?"




If this were an AP or SAT test, surely the question would ask "Which one of these four does NOT belong?"

But life's not an AP or SAT test, so too bad.

Another quote...

For some reason, I'm on a real quote hot streak here. More on that in a second.


"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness,"-Ralph Waldo Emerson.


I've never been into poetry, but I really like short and sweet quotes. Quotes can be witty and funny. They can be deep and abstract. They can share wisdom or stupidity. They're easy to remeber, and due to this, dropping one at the right time can make you sound a lot more intelligent/funnier/(insert adjective here) then you are. In contrast, dropping too many makes you sound like a total bookworm (not that I have anything against that!).

Going to see Sherlock Holmes 'morrow. I'm sure Robert Downey Jr. will provide me with at least one quote to put up on this here blog.

Love

"Love is that special condition in which one person's happiness is essential to your own,"

-Robert Heinlein