BORREGO

I actually blew through BioShock 2 over the last 2 days. Surprisingly, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Irrational laid the foundation for a lot of kick ass fun with BioShock. If this keeps happening, then we’ll have a bunch of bad ass games started by Irrational, which tells you who the real Big Daddy in the industry is, bitches. I do applaud BioWare lately with what they’ve done with Mass Effect. I’m just suffering the blow I received by Microsoft with an Xbox that barely lasted over 2 years. Then they tried to tell me it would be a 100 dollar charge to fix it. The day before I was ready to sit down to play ME2, the Xbox died on me. I played ”Taps” on the stereo, then launched it into the air with a clay pigeon thrower, and shot the holy hell out of it. I’ll also note my BioShock 2 experience was had on the PS3.

New blog for the day. For me, for shits, for giggles.
Bioshock 2 hit the shelves today, and I couldn’t be more ho-hum about it. I’m sure it’s still a great game, but it’s pretty funny how the sequel to one of my all time favorites had a launch date that I nearly forgot about. I applaud the efforts of the many dev teams that tackled it, so I won’t go without congratulating them on a job that’s surely great, I’m just less excited about this one. Maybe Irrational could be more involved in a third installment?
I’m really gaining momentum on my solo album. I’ve been writing and recording for the majority of my conscious life, so I know it’s going to be my most kick ass project yet. Not having Striation anymore has eased the burden of team management, making this solo approach a lot less complicated and a lot more fulfilling. I wish it was complete now, but you have to give a baby time to develop before launching it out.

Bomb threat at work today. Who the hell calls in a bomb threat for the fucking gym at the Air Force Base? Either way, I got paid to sit and wait so it was an interesting experience either way. I couldn’t help but be paranoid of thinking the perp could’ve called the threat just so he could snipe us all out when we evacuated to the parking lot. I’m tired of people’s hate. If you’re so fucking pissed off, maybe quit whining, get a job, then buy a game console and take it out on something way more sensational than a bunch of construction workers trying to make a buck. Yeah, I know, life really sucks dude, and everyone owes you, but you’ll be thinking twice about making a bomb threat to a federal facility once they trace the phone call, then throw you in a federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison for 5 years.

More work at the federal building in Salt Lake. Looking forward to getting my 8 to 10 hours in, head home, then make an attempt to complete Mass Effect while my wife is busy playing through Mass Effect 2 in the spare room. I’ve seen some Bioshock 2 reviews coming in, and it sounds like they may have given it the respectful treatment it deserves. We’ll see on the 9th. I’ve been writing a lot more since Striation pulled the plug, leaving me with a couple hundred Striation CD’s sitting in boxes. I’m having more fun right now writing with my Nintendo DS Korg synthesizer, making kick ass new experimental music. I’ve been writing since my stoner years as a teen, so why quit now?

Told some of my friends about the ”What are ya lookin at, gay porn?!” incident for Ken Levine on his way home from picking up Rome:Total War. Freakin hilarious story. Right on cloud 9, and then some chumps blaring the horn behind them to yank him back down. They probably were going home to play their copy of BioShock.