Wednesday 27 February 2008

19th Birthday

Its my birthday and ill cry if i want to

Streak if i want to

Rave if i want to

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Y-apHYIoc

Its like they don't even have hit detection!

So i was sitting on the bus earlier today and a black woman sat next to me.
well.. next to me is somewhat misleading since she was practically fucking sittiing on top of me - the fat nig.

Ive noticed that this seems to happen alot , whenever i have to be directly next to them, they touch me.
It has happened numerous times on buses , where they sit so ridiculously close to you that their elbow is practically embedded in your chest.
It happened to me when i was on holiday in florida , little fat sweaty nig , getting his sweat over my arm ./cringe

And thus , i set out to find a defense. a counterattack.

The video i made immediately upon coming home will explain the rest i hope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxgKioUofd0

Unfortunately , the plot i came up with fell through , the ammunition for my plan just wouldnt fly far and fast enough to do any real damage to those bastard insensitive things.
Perhaps i shall return at some point in the future to further explore this - who knows what sort of form it will take on next time. If i had the ability to do Anonymous1c4's SUV attack from PSU i'd be sorted.

On an unrelated note - I will be turning 19 tomorrow (the 28th of Febuary) , marking the last of my teenage years.
(*cough*Feel free to buy me something *coughcough*)

Sunday 24 February 2008

NiGHTS : Journey Into Nightmares

So... NiGHTS...

The underplayed and undertreasured game by sega released originally on the Sega Saturn back in the golden days of 96
Since then ... a 10 year long gap of false hopes begging fans.
Aforementioned Fans finally got their break when NiGHTS Journey of Dreams was announced in Early 07 with the actual release being around Christmas time.

My brother recently picked it up from game for a reasonable £20 , a special offer for when you buy something else.

I eagerly put the disk in and started up the game , the NiGHTS jingle being the first thing heard when you insert the game.
I was excited.
A lengthy opening FMV made me salivate , the gorgeous graphics and promise of being able to fly into nightopia again - i couldnt wait to start the game.

And then i did.
And it all went to shit.

The game starts with you at the world hub sort of thing , a small world with a fountain at the center and doors leading to all of the different worlds in almost a Mario 64 style way.
They introduced cutscenes into this sequel.. Lots of them... and unskippable too! and oh. my. god. they are lengthy and numerous and horrible.
You become forced to listen to that fucking owl and NiGHTS him/herself (s/he was originally intended to be genderless but they clearly tried to turn it into a girl by giving it a horrible female voice actor)
The game and story treats the player as an 8 year old child , the way they talk to each other is alike to how one would try to communicate with a retarded 4 year old from africa - and by that i mean s-l-o-w and basic with plenty of breaks inbetween words and very simple language.
Being almost 19 , this puts me in a rather awkward spot , if i wanted to be treated like a retard Id just get a faggy haircut and walk around like a goth - why then am i forced to endure these fucking cutscenes with a script ripped straight from a childrens book.

Moving On.

The graphics are far from spectacular. Im no graphics whore but this could have honestly have been on a dreamcast.
Whats worse is that not even does the game look horrible , it runs horrible!
The framerate during the (godawful) cutscenes is around the 10-15fps mark with the ingame segments running at no higher than 40.

The Controls are exactly what you would expect from a Wii sequel of an old classic , however THANKFULLY they have given the player numerous options on how they would like to play the game.
The game supports Classic Controller (or was it the gamecube control.. i cant remember) ,
The game also supports Wiimote and nunchuck which acts with the nunchuck controlling NiGHTS and the wiimote doing... next to nothing. (you can use it to dash but you can do that with the nunchuck too.) .
And then theres the godawful wiimote only gimmick style control scheme which has you waving the wiimote like a retard at the screen trying to get NiGHTS to fly in a straight line.

okay.. what else is there to bitch at...

The Mask system. What the fuck is that shit? Ive onl unlocked the first one so far but it transforms NiGHTS (im getting tired of typing it like that >_> ) into a dolphin when s/he hits water. Pointless much? the NiGHTS i knew back on the saturn could swim just fine without any need to transform into fucking ecco the dolphin.

Alright , i suppose i should start praising it now.
The game worlds are inventive and crea---
FUCK. i just remembered!
THEY PUT FUCKING PLATFORMER SEGMENTS INTO THE GAME
JESUS FUCK WHY
You run around with your character (not NiGHTS) and collect orbs and throw the orbs at people and it sucks IMMENSELY. I think Spongebob squarepants the movie had better platforming action than this shit.

Okay. where was I..
The game worlds are innovative and creative , each world has a clear theme and sticks to it.
The game also features some good music - Im not talking amazing music (see- NiGHTS into dreams) or Brilliant music (see- Jet Set Radio) however the music in this game is certainly nice.

I think ill end it there because i cant really think of much else to say.
Summary:
The Good-
>Music
>Game Worlds

The Bad-
>Unskippable Cutscenes
>Shitty Framerates
>Story and dialogue/script

The Ugly-
>Horrible Voice Acting
>Unskippable Cutscenes

Worth £20? Probably not , Your money is better spent trying to hunt down the original NiGHTS Into Dreams and a Saturn to play it on.
Id give its worth at around £10.

Saturday 23 February 2008

Misc. again.

I got an offer from Reading University. Yay.

Also - do not try to balance out a tiring day at work by eating a third of a black forest gateau by yourself. [I currently feel tired and slightly ill.]

Ill -try- and get a decent post up tomorrow i promise :<

Finishing Spree

Apolagies for no posts in the past 2 days or whatever. ive been too busy finishing stuff.

On Thursday night i finished the 50 episode long 'historys Strongest Disciple Kenichi' , which was actually a really cool anime.
I also finished Call of Duty 4 on Hardened (Hard) which i had been meaning to do for a while

On Friday Night i finished Crysis which was also really good - although it had a very Halo ending :/

*sigh* having nothing to blog about sucks.

Tuesday 19 February 2008

Surfs up?

One thing leads to another...

Original :



Inevitable Photoshop:

Uninevitable Photoshop:


also. Video - http://www.mengsbizarreadventure.com/uploads/SurfMovie1806.avi

Rockin' that TF2

So the past day or two has been 40% TF2 , 50% Audiosurf , 10% having my ears exploded by punks on vent.

I really have nothing much to blog about today. Sorry. :(

Sunday 17 February 2008

New Information on Jewbeat (Jubeat) and pictures of the new V5 GF/DM Cabs

http://www.konami.jp/products/am_jubeat/



Seems intresting , if not a little too easy and underwhelming. We'll see.

Also. Drummania / Guitar Freaks V5 Pictures - with amazing tag line im sure you'll all agree.

Saturday 16 February 2008

The King of Fighters XII

Its coming...

King Of Fighters XII video (70mb)

This is the bit where id normally show some screenshots , but i dont want to spoil it for you , just watch the movie.

"...wait... this looks the same as the old gam~OHSHIT" - was pretty much my thought process.

Games games games

Audiosurf:
Possibly the most amazing investment of $10 ever , the replay value is endless and the gameplay is good and there are crazy online scoreboards. Its a great game. go get it.

Professor layton:
jesus christ this game is hard. I mean most puzzle games pretend to be puzzle games but this one is truly devilish. The puzzles seem to range from riddles to word puzzles to optical illusions to spotting pictures within pictures and matchsticks and water volume puzzles and....
The list goes on and on,  ive completed about 50 puzzles out of around 60 which ive found so far which seems okay by my count.
If you have an R4 and such its definately worth a download.

In other unrelated news , i got an Offer from Surrey University the other day , who want 3 B's at A-level

Thursday 14 February 2008

Misc stuff with pictures.

1.
My neighbours garden is an absoloute tip.
I hope this picture will reinforce that the post 2 days ago was not actually exaggeration.


2.

...
What the fuck am i supposed to do with this?

3.
Found this on my phone ~ look at the pretty colours!


4.
Oh my.


5.
Found this whilst going through my pictures folder randomly.
It was from a shop in florida i believe.


6.
Another old picture.
HawkAhriman is a beast on ice skates.
And by that i mean not a beast at all.

Wednesday 13 February 2008

PSU pictures. again.







Bye Bye Neighbours.

My neighbours got evicted or something lol.
What does this mean for Meng?
1. No more listening to late night arguments
2. No more babies crying
3. No more wife crying due to (i assume) being beaten by husband
4. No more bonfires in the neighbours garden (chavvy neighbour is also pyromaniac neighbour apparently)
5. No more 10 year olds running around with megaphones (Seriously , who the fuck buys megaphones for children.)
6. No more mini-motors outside my house
7. No more needing to keep my music below earthquake level , this means i can play my j-pop Manly music as loud as i want without worry

This also means theres a vacancy next door , anyone fancy living next to Meng?

Tuesday 12 February 2008

Surrey University

So i went for an Interview at Surrey University today , the day involved sitting through a presentation of the Uni , then having a guided tour and finally the interview.

The campus is HUEEGEGGGGG , i mean i knew Universities were big but this was like trying to find your way through a small town. The uni had a starbucks,  a nightclub , 4 bars , 3 restaurants/cafes , laundrette , 2 post offices and probably some other shit ive forgotten to mention.

One the of the greatest things about the campus was the convinience store i went into. The term 'convinience' store used very literally because it had (and i shit you not) a wall of ramen , 8 shelves full infact. I really wish i had taken a picture but we were walking on the tour and i couldnt really stop.

The interview itself was rather laid back , i was - out of our group of 15 or so - the first person to be called for interview. However the interview was pretty laid back and just felt like a normal chat.
They said they'll probably give me an offer , so pretty good i guezz.

Monday 11 February 2008

Unnamed blog post

Stuff seems to have calmed down in the meng residence , and things going well in PSU as well ofc.
http://www.mengsbizarreadventure.com/uploads/PSUimage1.jpg
http://www.mengsbizarreadventure.com/uploads/PSUimage2.jpg

ps. Kraws is a rich bastard , sold an item for 3m wtf.

pps. lol @ pron titles.

Friday 8 February 2008

Fucking Ridiculous.

This is fucking ridiculous. My parents are practically forcing me to go to sleep at 1am.
Fucking bullshit i tell you.
'Go to bed earlier and wake up earlier' - what the hell is there to do in the morning? I should go out and become a ecstacy addicted nightclub goer , maybe that'll slap some fucking sense into them.

Filler post 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF9e2ZVAapE ~~ Super Mario 2 with Drums

The amazing Hinoi TEAM -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQGIIibJ3TI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQqNrYdw3yI&feature=related
^i fucking love their dance moves.

Massive Apolagies for shitty blog posts lately. I honestly have nothing to blog because my life is uber boring.




Thursday 7 February 2008

DOAH!!1

Nothing really to blog today.
I'll leave you with this mp3 -
http://www.mengsbizarreadventure.com/uploads/XD/PikachuButterfly.mp3

and this picture



ps. its probably a given but having your mum come into your room at 7am to see you playing PSU is never a good thing. She pretty much hasn't talked to me since.

Tuesday 5 February 2008

Phantasy Star Update and Smash Bros Brawl Music

Nothing much to blog about today so i'll just leave you with some screenshots of me in Phantasy Star Universe

PSU room

PSU boss



And here is a picture of what my monitor looks like whilst im playing , the larger resolution really makes all the difference.



Ive been downloading the SSBB bgm GST (1gb worth D:) and the game really has some amazing music, all of the series included has a large variety of music from classic stages and such. eg.
Mario - NSMB , mario 64 , classic
Donkey Kong - Donkey Kong Country , Retro DK
Zelda - WW , TP , LTTP
Pokemon - Gold/silver , diamond/pearl , collesium
Metal Gear - MGS1 , MGS2 , Snake Eater , Alert Music , MGS2 Boss Battle Music
Sonic - Green hill zone , scrap brain zone and.... http://www.mengsbizarreadventure.com/uploads/U04.mp3 (its amazing)
ofc theres also a shitton of stuff from metroid , yoshi's island , kirby , Starfox , F-zero , Fire emblem , earthbound , pikmin , Wario Ware , Animal Crossing , Kid icarus , and other stuff too.

Cloverfield

So the other day against my better judgement i went to see Cloverfield with some friends.
At the best parts of the film (which was pretty limited to that scene where beth or whatever her name was gets impaled and then sounds like she's being raped as she walks) the entertainment value was fair at best , the rest of the film is generally you (the watcher) praying that the main characters die quickly and hoping that the bastard behind the camera finds a tripod somewhere.
This film is shakycam galore , i closed my eyes for the first 10 minutes of the film because it was whizzing all over the fucking place , it was like someone was playing quake 3 on a cinema screen.
The film also has no real ending , instead they drop the camera and it runs out of film - i suppose if you want an answer you could always wait for Cloverfield 2 , i personally will not.

Heres a picture of what i wish cloverfield was.
Cloverfield

Monday 4 February 2008

A bit both ways.

Im sure you guys were wondering how my day at work went yesterday after staying up til 6am.
I bought the largest can of Red bull i could find , the size of a standard can (330ml).
The first 3 hours were alright , the obscene amounts of caffeine in the 'bull' kept me going .
After that. . .
OHHHH MYYY CHHUUUUUUUUUDDDD

As soon as the caffeine wore out it felt like i had been hit by a plane. Twice.

~~~

Im beginning to think that PSU may not have been such a good idea , it seems MMO's can bring out the worst in people. The original idea was for us to be playing a 6 player co-op game but recently it seems to be decending into an 'every man for himself salvage all you can em-up'
Maybe its just me but it doesent feel as team orientated as PSO did.

~~~
On the plus side i found out today that next week is college 'case conference' week , which basically means we get a week off. This will be great for catching up on my bullshit coursework

Sunday 3 February 2008

"Not today" says god in recent press conference.

So we all agreed we would start playing PSU on saturday night , after i come back from work.
Naturally everything that could have gone wrong went wrong short of god himself descending from the clouds to falcon punch my bus.

On a normal working friday/saturday at the restaurant , the customers all leave by 11:15 , this gives us a good 15 minutes to sweep and mop and just generally clean up the place and i will finish at around 11:30
Not Today. - A group of 40 (FORTY!!!) decided they would dick around right up until closing time then leave a shitton of stuff on the floor , tables , walls ,ceiling etc. So we cleaned until around 11:50

On a normal day, after we've finished we eat some supper and then leave
Not Today. - The boss decides to call a staff meeting after supper , he rambles on for around 15 minutes about teamwork etc etc. - its now 12:10 , i should have been home 10 minutes ago and halfway through my shower by now.

On a normal day, i can call my parents to pick me up if i want to because they have nothing better to do.
Not Today. -I call them only to find out they're in Hastings (far away from me.) . Riiiight , guess i'll have to take the bus.

On a normal day.... I DONT nearly get run over by the fucking bus.
NOT TODAY.

I ~FINALLY~ get home at around 12:30 , which is actually pretty good considering the situation.

At last , i was ready to play. And play we did.






We played through the night , fighting along (and dying along in my case) such characters as bruce boyd , i finally gave in at 6am , purely because any less than 6 hours sleep is not a good idea when im going in for work. Which at time of posting - is in 20 minutes, and im fucking nakkered.

Friday 1 February 2008

Worst Day at work Ever.

So the day started normal enough , a bit of a bullshit talk from the boss in a language i barely understand followed by a good 3 hours of normal work.

Then it all fell apart.

I pushed over a wine glass (on a table) and it smashed - it didnt even roll off the fucking table it just changed 90 degrees and smashed. Great.

Then i dropped a bottle of tiger beer and half a pint of Stella on myself and the floor (no breakages somehow) , then i got bitched at for shouting 'FUCK' in front of a large group of customers. [i was carrying 4 bottles of beer and 5 pint glasses in my defense]
Then i dripped some form of sauce down my leg whilst carrying plates [i was carrying alot of plates in my defense]

By this time im pretty much 'damp' from the tits down , Stella artois and tiger over the right side of my body and some form of sauce over my left leg , my left toe is sore because my shoes are too small and there is a blister coming.
I make a bunch of other stupid mistakes as well and then finally...

Sharp pain in my gaming thumb!
Slight dramatization below

Thumb
[Picture is a slight dramatization , it was actually glass in my thumb NOT tiberium.]

Fucking piece of glass in my thumb. wth? I still dont even know how it got there
Some pain and blood later i managed to get it out.

What a shit day :<

ps.

Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill D:




pps. For those who havent noticed ive edited the links on the right of this page and changed the homepage to reflect the new sections of the site.