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07:34 Jun 27 2010
Times Read: 565


got as far into the dragon age origins game as i could before it decided to corrupt nearly all of my save files. I read on the internet a few days back that the game is prone to doing that, so i made 10 save files just in case, and every single one of them save for 2 are corrupted now. Spent the last 15 minuets isolating the spot in the game that triggers...whatever the hell happens to corrupt a file. Picture an imaginary dotted line, stay on one side and your safe, cross it and BAM, dead. Was having a lot of fun with this game too, spent around 50 hours on it and now i don't even get to see the ending. So close to the end too, which really pisses me off. I wish games that are prone to breaking would do so early on so i wouldn't waste so much of my damn time for nothing. Guess i could always watch the ending on youtube but it's not gonna feel quite the same. Wonder if it's too late to get a refund on the game, then i'll see about getting the pc version of Fallout 3 like i should have done to begin with.


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00:13 Jun 24 2010
Times Read: 570


"Fuck you!"

"No fuck you! You ass hole!"

"Get the fuck out, fuck you!"



it's so nice when the family gets together.


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16:13 Jun 23 2010
Times Read: 571


Got my teeth worked on today! Filled 4 cavities in only an hour, which is pretty good. 2 of them were in the back/left part of my mouth so the damn numbing needle numbed up that whole side of my face, including m y good eye which makes blinking a bitch! I can talk just fine though which is nice. And i can't eat anything on the left side of my mouth, so i have en excuse not to eat twice my body weight when grandpa cooks dinner later.


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17:56 Jun 20 2010
Times Read: 574


Decided to get Dragon Age Origins yesterday instead of Fallout 3 GOTY. It's fun but damn they bleed you dry with downloadable content. They do that kind of thing that Runescape does surprisingly, where they have the introduction to the DLC add on in the regular game, but yo have to pay to actually access it. Kinda like dangling it in front of your face. So so far ?I've invested about $85 into the game, stimulating the economy. hahaha



I like the character creation. It's like Mass Effect where you choose the specialization and background but the story actually changes depending on the background. Like, for thecharacter i made i picked the "city elf" background so the introduction's story - which was a couple hours long on its own - went through the last few days of my character's life before all hell broke lose. So in a sense the first couple of hours of the game will be different if you pick different backgrounds.



Don't really care for the turn based combat but it's not bad, at least the voice over acting's pretty good.



And it does that thing where you select everything your character says, and get optional duologue based on race and stats. I am worried that the game's gonna be short because from what i've gathered the max level is only 20 and i'm already 10, though that may just be because i'm playing on the harder difficulty. Still, it is a fun game. And as much as i despise it - religion adds a nice bit of tension to the game, at least with the way i've developed my character.


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15:42 Jun 19 2010
Times Read: 581


well this should befun. Provided gamestop has it, i'll be getting the Fallout 3 GOTY edition today. Whichmeansi'll also be getting the GECK cd to make mods for the game -Bethesda's the best game company out there because of that, allowing players toedit practically everything about the game.



Also getting another composit cable to hook up the PC and TV so i'll still get the kick ass resolution. Gotta figure out how to use the xbox 360 controller on the PC and I'll be golden.



Only thing I'm worried about is wheather or not I have DirectX10 or not. I don't see it on the control pannel but when doing a search several of the programs have the option to run in "DirectX mode" so i think that means i have it. Surprisingly my craptop laptop has all of the recommended specifications to run Fallout 3 with ease, so i guess i can't call it the "croptop" anymore because that's pretty kick ass. Most likely gonna have to uninstall Morrowind just to make sure i have enough memory on the PC for Fallout which isn't a big deal since i kept the CDs, i can just leave the save files in case i wanna play it again.



Gonna be kick ass to make my own stuff for Fallout. The few things I did make for Morrowind were pretty fun so imagine what i can do with even better material!



First thing I'm doing is downloading the mod for a PSG1, I hate the rifle you get in the game, inaccurate as hell past 30 feet.



*And they do not have it so that idea was shot down real fucking quick.



*BestBuy of all places has it, that is a first for me. Gamespot, you fail! Bestbuy, you pleasantly surprise!


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Yay fake news!!!

12:40 Jun 16 2010
Times Read: 588


the onion news is priceless! Priceless! For people who don't know what it is - because i just found out about it over the weekend - it's a fake news source, kinda like the Daily Show on Comedy Central but without the liberal agenda.



They've got youtube videos, website articles and apparently even a newspaper/magazine. They're done so professionally that you get a lot of people who think that what they're reporting is actually real.



They do address a lot of real issues too, just in their own comical way. Like video game violence for example. Everyone knows how there are those groups who think video games teach kids how to kill people and stuff like that, but Onion News tells what they're really for - preparing kids for the apocalypse! By teaching kids how to lead squads of advanced super soldiers and cure zombie bites with medical kits.



Some of my favorite skits are the terrorist ones. Like the terrorist rep talking about the Freedom tower and how happy he is that the subway system is connected to it and it can easily be seen on a cloudy day. Kinda wrong at first but if you think about it, we know all of these things but we're still building it anyway. Also with the terrorists there was one where a conspiracy theorist who was blaming the government for 9/11 was in a debate with a terrorist rep about the subject. The Rep was saying something along the lines of "how would you feel if you spent months sleeping in caves planning something special, for someone else to take all the credit."



They also make fun of the media a lot which is kinda funny. And a decent amount of politics on both political parties. Like the "terrible aftermath of Obama's victory" saying how now that he's president, Obama supporters have nothing to talk about.



I love how professional it all looks. If you're not paying full attention to it or really naive - which a lot of people seem to be - you'd think it's real. Which makes reading the youtube comments just as much fun as watching the actual video.


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more Fallout!

11:20 Jun 16 2010
Times Read: 589


so far my newest Fallout playthrough's been fun. Made the HUD transparent, which has made things a lot more interesting. No more health bar, compass, not even the aiming cross-hairs. I still use VATS a lot for the shooting FRAG grenades out of the air, disarming people and tricky limb shots but all out of VATS shots are done without any game assistance.



I had a horrible shot at first of course. Took me a clip and a half of a pistol to drop a Raider who was charging right at me. Bullets kept flying past her head until she was like an inch from the gun barrel. Now though i'm able to snipe people with that very same pistol. Which was handy going for the Lockpick Bobblehead because that damn sniper had a beat on me.



Also can't see how much ammo i have in the gun on screen so i had several moments where i'd reload and only have 1 shot in the chamber. So i'd jump out from behind cover, fire my one shot and then get the crap shot out of me. Surprisingly i haven't died yet, though i've come really close.



Having to pay a lot of attention to my surroundings now too becuase i can't see nearby enemies on the compass. Sadly i've played this game so much i know where 90% of the enemies in game are, but i still have to be really aware to sneak past them.



Also been doing some more reading on Fallout New Vegas, and even if the story sucks the Hardcore mode should make up for it. That;'s the super super realistic mode where you gotta keep hydrated regularly, bullets carry weight and something about a damage threshold. On top of everything else you need to do to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland version of Las Vegas. So i figure if i turn that on, have it on hard difficulty and no HUD i'll be in for one hell of a game no matter the storyline.



I also found a way to mod Fallout 3 on the xbox but from what i've seen it's really complicated so i'm debating on whether or not to even attempt it.


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Fallout 3! ... again!

08:55 Jun 15 2010
Times Read: 593


Getting back into Fallout 3, been a while since i played one of Bethesda's RPGs so, even though i've done absolutely everything there is to do, it should still be semi-fresh.



Really wish i got it for the PC, then i could make my own quests and buildings and stuff like Morrowind. But the game does look fucking awesome on my new TV.



Doing things to intentionally make it more difficult this time around. I usually have the game set to Hard and give myself a disadvantage with the SPECIAL stats, but on top of that i'm not not using the heavily armored clothing like usual. Gonna focus more on looks than protection. Not a smart move but an interesting one.



Still not playing Very Hard again. Once was enough. Went from a challenge to just freakin annoying when a Raider survives an entire clip of head shots. I use the excuse that people are mutating slightly due to the radiation to justify the 3-4 head shots it takes to bring someone down on Hard, but even that can't work when it takes 12+.



I still find it funny how I got the SPECIAL stats damn close to how i really am.

Strength - 5/10

Perception - 5/10

Endurance - 1/10

Personality 1/10

Intelligence - 10/10

Agility - 9/10

Luck 9/10



In the process of getting the bobble heads to get agility and luck to 10. So that should be fun.



I learned something this play through too. That if you hold down the left button you can rotate the camera around your character. Doesn't do anything game play wise but i hated how you could never see how your character looks from the front, so knowing that i now can is kinda cool, especially because he looks freakin cool!



I wish the Chinese pistol was a better gun. Always been a fan of the Mouser pistol. Gonna see how long i can play using the 10mm pistol you get at the beginning of the game. I figure if i can dominate this game while being at a huge disadvantage i'll of mastered Fallout. Just in time for New Vegas too which to be honest i'm scared to play. No real reason, just got a bad feeling about it.



Also on a side note, to be kinda funny on Morriwnd i made a disease with the same name as my eye impairment. Set it to blind 75 points. It's funny but makes the game an utter bitch to play. Still really really funny though, at least for me.


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12:43 Jun 13 2010
Times Read: 596


today a friend and i got to talking about politics and i realized that i am way, way behind. hahaha Like the thing with Israel for example, I knew something was going on with the blockade but didn't know what it was, the news only showed a brief, brief clip of it. We talked for a good few hours, mainly me being informed of how much everything's going to hell and how badly Obama is fucking everything up so soon. So i started to look up political sources to educate myself and ended up finding this fake news thing called the Onion, which is fucking hilarious! Not informative at all but has to be the funniest news parody i have seen in a long fucking time.


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15:01 Jun 12 2010
Times Read: 600


Decided to play modern warfare 2 again, the online anyway. Wasn't the best way to start off my morning since i was rusty as hell and for the first hour and a half died whenever i saw an enemy.



My play style's kinda obsolete now though which is kinda a bummer. I go for the fast character so i have the perks which allow me to sprint infinitely, run faster in general and have extended knife range. All of them are Pro too so i am more or less a ninja. To my misfortune, almost everyone has a shotgun nowadays so getting close to people usually results in a face full of buckshot. The game moves a lot faster than i remember which is throwing me off a little bit as well. It's like: one second the target's here, then he's all the way over there, then he's back again, ext, ext. Makes it really hard to aim from the sights so i've had to rely on my knife a hell of a lot more than usual.



I did get good in the 3rd hour though and had a lot of fun. Nothing beats sniping a sniper with a throwing knife . Or sneaking up behind an advancing g squad of enemies and knifing them all in the back. Or, my favorite, jumping off of a building and knifing someone below. The "no fall damage" thing kicks ass.



There was this one sniper in particular i had a lot of fun with. On the sub base level. He kept going into this room on the upper floor on the right hand side of the facility and sniping out of that window. Now i hadn't planned to pick on him but when i was scanning that room i for some reason didn't see him - bad vision and all - so i took up position and he shot me in the back. To kinda redeem myself i snuck into the room and knifed him every single time he went in, which was often. Must have killed him 8 times in a row. No matter how many other enemy soldiers there were in the area, i snuck in and killed him and snuck out. I'm sure he even saw some of the sneaking on the kill cam which must have pissed him off too. Finally he sat in the far corner of the room so he'd have enough time to shoot me when i ran in to get him, but i was one step ahead. Instead of taking my usual route i flanked around the side entrance. He heard someone come into the room and turned to the main entrance only ot be knifed in the back. ... He didn't go in that room again after that. hahaha I WIN!



I still don't like this game all that much it has it's up sides but for me Battlefield is a much better game. You got wide open battlefields, vehicles, destructible scenery, parachutes, and most importantly - team work. You have the option to work solo - which i do on occasion - but team work is necessary to win in that game. It "should" be necessary in modern warfare but people don't generally use it. They just kinda run everywhere like a chicken with its head cut off spraying bullets. I had a lot of team work moments on battlefield which i would be amazed to see in a call of duty game. Like back to back shooting in a hallway. Or running into the middle of a firefight to repair an allied tank. Or breaching a building with a special forces squad after sneaking up on the area in the water.



But I digress. Had a lot of fun going stab-happy on call of duty. Now i just gotta figure out why my connection's so laggy. Paying for high-speed internet and clearly not getting the "high-speed" part.


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05:07 Jun 11 2010
Times Read: 603


i really fucking hate being ignored by people i care about. it's been happening all week and i for the life of me can't figure it out but people are acting like i'm not even talking to them. I'm sure if i hit them i'd get a response and while that's tempting, that would give them a reason to ignore me. hahaha



Seriously though, i have walked into a room, started conversation with someone and they just act like i'm not even there. My friends are doing it, my girlfriend's doing it, even my cousins are doing it. Did i do something i'm not aware of? And everyone who does talk to me apparently doesn't notice everyone else giving me the cold shoulder.



Slightly fucking weird, really fucking infuriating!



If this keeps up i'm gonna see how well they are at ignoring me after they've been slugged. If that doesn't provoke a reaction i'm gonna be thoroughly confused.


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yay anger!

22:54 Jun 10 2010
Times Read: 605


ok i guess i do have a bit of an anger problem. hahaha broke my kingdom hearts game, though it wasn't my intention. The fight with sepheroth pissed me off, kept getting him down to 1 life bar only to die. once wasn't even my fault. Grandpa had the unfortunate timing to come into the room and shout if i wanted to go to mcdonalds. So after about 50 losses or so i threw one of my old ps2 controllers at my bed post, which it ricochet off of and smacked the ps2 right on the disc tray area. Didn't break the ps2, tested a few other games and they work fine, bit it was just enough to get a nice sized scratch on the KH2 disc, too much for the disc cleaner to fix. So then i proceeded to break the cd into a bunch of tiny peaces and threw them away hahaha Felt good at the time, although the realization that i just wasted the last 2 weeks playing both KH games and not even getting to see the ending is getting me just as mad, so i think i'm gonna break apart my old ps1 since it's just collecting dust. Anger is fun!


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21:36 Jun 10 2010
Times Read: 606


got to talk with a person who knows a lot about the economy today, in MdDonalds of all places. He knew a hell of a lot more than i do so for the most part it was a 1 sided conversation, i was still able to talk a little bit about the stock market and banks but it was evident i didn't know too, too much. I learned a lot though which is always good. Was a very well spent half hour.



A little annoying when my grandpa wanted to join in the conversation though. It was when we were talking the state of banks and how the expected stock market plunge is gonna finish off a lot of them. Grandpa kept using a variation of "bury your money in the backyard". The guy kept trying to explain to him about spreading your wealth though a bunch of different banks but grandpa would say "so in other words...." then use that line again.



on a different note, I think McDonalds puts something in their food that makes it painful to eat burgers from any other restaurant. I can eat mcdonalds burgers just fine, but whenever i go to burger king i get the gas pains from hell. Same with taco bell but that's so damn good it's worth it.


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2 hours!!!

15:13 Jun 10 2010
Times Read: 609


i don't know why but no matter what time of day it is, something or someone wakes me up after only 2 hours sleep and then i'm wide awake for the rest of the day. Been going off 2 hours a day for about a week and a half now and it's really making me irritable. hahaha



Doesn't matter if i go to sleep when everyone else does around 10pm, someone wakes me up at 12. Go to sleep when dad goes to work and grandpa goes to church, someone comes home early 2 hours later.



Even today when i have the house to myself and no one is supposed to be here. go to sleep at 8am and my sister calls at 10am. Is this karmic revenge or something? It was amusing at first but now i just wanna fucking get some sleep.


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17:10 Jun 06 2010
Times Read: 612


was driving around with my dad today, decided to bring my monocular - which is kinda like a telescope - with me and i gotta say, i envy you people with 20/20 vision.



I knew there's a lot of shit i can't see but whenever i bring a magnifier with me i learn about how little i actually can see. Like, without the monocular i couldn't see license plates, text on billboards, signs other than the stop signs or details in buildings and cars and things like that. I can tell what most things are but they'd be bland without any detail, just kinda a blob of color.



With the monocular i could see to the end of a long street and still read license plates, see all the different billboards and little signs and posters that are on buildings, even see people who i couldn't even tell where there without it.



I know it's not but from my perspective i'd think it'd be hard to focus with that much vision. Like, you see so damn much it'd be hard to focus on any one thing. With me, i see clearly for about 30 feet and yes that is an estimation, so everything i see is in focus. Don't pay attention to much else. hahaha



The first real example i had of how inferior my vision was, was at a mall about a year ago. The Lighthouse - which is the vision aid place here - brought us to the mall to get a feel for it and the group i was with though it would be fun to try to ditch the teacher who we were with - which proved to be utterly impossible. We could only see a few stores down clearly in a long ass mall hallway, she could see us just fine from the other end of the long ass hall way which ran the length of the mall. So while we think we lost her, she was just a little ways down laughing her ass off.



I would almost be tempted to look into visual surgery if it wasn't for the free stuff i get from having low vision. Not entirely sure there even is surgery for optic nerve hypoplasia but if there was, i'd turn it down just because of the free stuff. hahaha



Still, i do envy the vision of you people with or close to 20/20 and i'm glad i'm not allowed to join the military becuase if i was i'd probably be killed by some jack ass in plain sight. hahaha


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02:16 Jun 01 2010
Times Read: 581


started packing p the furniture at the house today. Went by a lot quicker than i expected but we're still no where close to done in the long term.



It's kinda funny though, the house is now a little treasure trove. I've found a bunch of small things i could use at the place i'm at now.



Found an old mouse for the laptop in case the one i'm using now decided to die.



Found a bunch of Ethernet cables to replace the ones i've been using for a long while.



another ps2 controller



some old music CDs that i had tucked away in the corner and forgot about for the longest damn time



The Boondocks season 1 DVDs.



and some more cloths.



Going back next weekend to load up the living room furniture and as much of the other rooms as we feel like. wonder what i'll find in there!


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