Whoops. Been about a month since my last post. Doesn’t seem like it was that long ago… Where’d July go?

Got an amusing work tale for once instead of a rage one. You’d be surprised at how many people think Walmart Electronics is some kind of free, 24-hour tech support line. Seriously, out of all of our phone calls, I’d say 3/5 are questions about stock/pricing and the other 2/5 are “MY COMPUTER GOT VIRUSES HOW DO I FIX IT”.

Anyway, this guy calls and says that he bought a Blu-ray player from us and that it “broke his TV.” I’m like, “There’s got to be a connection problem somewhere. It couldn’t possibly ‘break your TV’.” He swears that his TV “stopped working” as soon as he hooked the Blu-ray player up to it. I spend about half an hour listening to this guy ramble on about his problem before he gives me time to start asking him questions. I asked for specific details on his setup. He says he “hooked it up with the HDMI cable.” I asked him to be more specific. “Well, there’s HDMI ports on my TV, right?” “Right.” “There’s HDMI 1 and HDMI 2.” “Okay.” “I put one end into HDMI 1 and the other end into HDMI 2.”

Facepalm of apocalyptic proportions.

“So let me repeat that back to you… You hooked one end of the cable into HDMI 1 and the other into HDMI 2?”
“That’s right.”
“That means that both ends of your cable are plugged into your TV, right?”
“Yeah.”
He still didn’t get it.
“If both ends of your HDMI cable are hooked into the TV, what’s connecting your Blu-ray player?”
“…Oh, so that cable goes to the player?”

I had to spend another 5 minutes from that point walking him through how to move that cable. He didn’t even seem surprised when he realized what he’d done. Ah, to be old and tech-illiterate.

Anyway, onto the usual media sections: games, anime and… movies?! Seems like as soon as I finish one game/show/movie, two show up to take its place, hence the title of this post. BOOHOO, LOOK AT ME, HAVING THINGS TO DO.

Unfortunately, Gears 2 co-op didn’t happen. Arc’s new job means late night gaming is basically out of the question and my internet is too horrible to play during the day. Curses. Still been keeping plenty busy despite that, though. Halo 3 and Rock Band 2 multiplayer is always a given, but I put a pretty good chunk of time into Red Dead Redemption.

I can’t speak highly enough of RDR. It’s definitely a grower. What at first seemed like a just-decent Western take on GTA ended up being more enjoyable to me than any of the GTA games. What was once a boring, empty wasteland became a living, breathing world begging to be explored. Great characters, great soundtrack, beautiful visuals and super fun gameplay are topped off by an actual story, unlike the typical GTA “LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM OF BLOWING SHIT UP AND GET BETRAYED BY ONE OF TWO PEOPLE AT SOME POINT” routine. Long story short, this game is fantastic. Definitely my runner-up to GOTY 2010 behind Mass Effect 2 so far. (Hi, Sam.)

Next up is BlazBlue: Continuum Shift. I just completed the Story mode last night and, to quote Arc, “my mind is full of fuck.” Still trying to piece together all the things the ending dumped on us. Story Mode as a whole was lots of fun. Really glad they streamlined the routes instead of LOSE HERE, DISTORTION FINISH HERE, REGULAR WIN HERE, DISTORTION FINISH HERE, LOSE HERE, TRUE END GET. Things got a bit more crazy and convoluted than they were in CT, but hey, that’s half the fun of BlazBlue’s plot, I guess.

Gonna be doing multiplayer for a while. Going to grab some extra achievements, but I don’t think I’ll complete this one like I did CT. Why? Challenge Mode. No, really. Score Attack was the hardest achievement in Calamity Trigger and I got CS’s Score Attack achievement in one hour thanks to GIGANTIC TAGER, but now a new fiend has appeared, and its name is Challenge Mode. It’s just way too unforgiving for me for too little reward.

In closing, Makoto is awesome and Valley Pirate Girl Nu is love.

Onto my current timesink: Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. What is it with Zeta giving me great, castle-related XBLA games for my birthday? Last year was Castle Crashers and this year it’s Castlevania. Anyway, while it’s not very long (had it beaten in like 3 hours, if that), it’s the kind of game you just keep playing over and over again. Six levels, a hard mode loop and five characters with different playstyles means there’s much fun to be had. Went through the whole thing as Soma with Zeta as Jonathan, Bible Thrower Extraordinaire. Been playing a bit with Hojo, Seijika, CherryTonic and MinhT, as well. Who knows when I’ll put this one down.

Oh yeah. What is it with Dracula and his seemingly infinite stores of Biker Jackets and Curry?

Definitely going to be busy on the gaming front for the next… Well, a long time. I already had some Unfinished lingering around, and now I’ve got an additional four as birthday presents from Arc. Metroid: Other M comes out at the end of the month and Forklift Simulator 2010 comes out the second week of September. I just know I’m going to abandon everything for Reach, so I better get crackin’.

Been just as busy with anime as I have with games lately, it seems.

Tsundere megane twintail fang girl? Oh my. Highschool of the Dead is the same as it was when it started: A huge pile of mindless fun. Been loving every second of it aside from the recaps during the fourth episode.

…No, really. Episode 4. Recaps. WHY?!

:winky:

Took me long enough, but I finished Working!!. Really enjoyable show, aside from it basically revolving around the worst character. Eagerly looking forward to the second season, knowing full well that it’ll probably be just as full of Inami bullshit as the first season was.

K-ON!!’s still going strong. Recent episodes haven’t held a candle to 14, but they -are- delivering moments like the screenshot above, and that’s good enough for me. Seems like a fillery downtime right now while they keep the graduation stuff to the final episodes of the season. Fine with me. Let me enjoy the schoolday antics a little while longer.

Last but not least is the biggest surprise of the season for me, Mitsudomoe. Ant suggested in the comments of my last post that I pick this up, so I did just that. Hilarious stuff. It’s really immature, but I don’t care. If it’s funny, it’s funny. Give it a shot if you want some laughs.

On top of everything that got a screenshot, I -still- haven’t finished Cromartie High School (instead I just watch repeats like every night before bed), I’m at 2/12 episodes for B Gata H Kei and I only watched the first episode of Ookami-san. To make matters worse (or better?), I’ve got like 5 Blu-rays I haven’t seen yet. I did manage to watch Kick-Ass, though. I’ve said this before, but I’m the type who rarely sees movies and is therefore easily impressed when I actually DO see one. Maybe it’s for that reason that Kick-Ass instantly became one of my favorite movies ever. I dunno. I also saw Despicable Me recently. Not great, but good. Huge storm rolled through and after two hours of sitting in the dark I just decided, “Fuck it, I’m gonna go to the movies.” Would’ve seen Inception or maybe Grown Ups but their show times weren’t as convenient. Next on my list is Taken, which I’ve heard from at least 15 people is unhealthy amounts of Liam Neeson ass kickery. I’ll get around to it sooner or later. I’m just hardly ever in a real movie mood and it’d do nothing but water down the experience if I forced myself. Dig?

Aaand that’s all for now. So much to do, so little time! Next on my gaming plate is Mega Man Legends. As for everything else, impulses shall guide my way. Before you go, a video relevant to the post title.

Somebody, anybody, fund it.