Pixel Theories | a gamer getting older...

Coffee won't help.

Sometimes working these hours makes one think, or perhaps just me, that you're in another country or some distant part of the world. But often it reminds me most of traveling and not being able to sleep. Which by the way, after my last stay at a Travelodge, has me rethinking of where I stay while travelling. Because the last thought on anyone's mind before they sleep in a strange bed should be "will I still have a rental car in the morning?". Amongst other things.

I forgot to mention the meaningless rants and moments of "not so deep thought" as they are also strange side effects of late hours as well.

4 hours to go.

Goodnight Sweet Prince

For three years you've been my right-hand man. You're untimely death by way of drowning was unfortunate. Who could've imagined that a cardboard cup would bust at the seems in the middle of the night and take you from tour of duty.

But I somehow will manage to survive with this new 3G iPhone.

Snuggie Makes Easy Masque of the Morlocks Costume

Just watch the video.  I don't really understand why anyone would want one of these, as a decent size blanket does exactly the same thing as this Snuggie claims to do.  It just got my attention though as I the first time I saw this commercial I remembered Masque of the Morlocks.  Pretty obscure I know, but that's something we nerds to well; pointing out the obscure or not so obvious.

Looks like you'd only have to add a hood and a belt to make this a Masque costume for next Halloween.

Pumpkin Mania

Photos of all the pumpkins should now be in the sidebar via Flickr.  I carved two and my wife carved two.  I'll get night pics tonight; working the graveyard shift now.  I guess we had a few kids, but not many since we live pretty far out as townships go.

Shane over at 4CR is having a Pumpkin carving/Halloween costume contest; it ends Nov 7th.  And Kotaku is gathering an assload of pumpkin carving pics.  It's not too late to kill some pumpkins for Internet notoriety!

This one has to be my favorite.

Didn't make the NXE Early Preview

I'm guessing it's because that I am not yet a Netflix Unlimited subscriber yet.  We're still with Blockbuster for now.  I had thought of switching as November got closer, but decided against it.  Looks like that decision may have cost me a couple of weeks of NXE.  Oh well...

If anyone got in please let me know how fast the new dash is.  My only real gripe with the system so far is the speed of the old dash.  I would also like to know if there is any dropoff in speed when you're in-game.  Really dying to know.  Good luck!

I take really good care of my games.

Dropped off a few games yesterday at a local GameStop, I was hoping to get enough cash to get a 4000 MS points card.  It was sort of weird because I rarely go there anymore, it's usually to trade games in, never buy. In total there were 5 games and after confirming with the sales clerk that I was merely trading games in and thinking about buying something, she started inspecting the discs.

She asked if I had even played the games.  I told her that I had, and tried to get as much GS points as I could in the process.  She seemed surprised; and said that they looked new.  She went on to describe how bad the condition of most of the games they get for trade-ins.  I told her that The Simpsons game which I bought used off of GameFly is in pretty bad shape.  It had been scratched pretty badly when I got it, so I put it through a cycle in my disc repair kit.

She said it's still looked pretty good.  Which leads me to believe that there are an assload of kids out there that are doing something other than playing vids with thier game disc's!?!  I know it's a maturity thing, and the majority of gamers are kids that probably don't buy their games with their own hard earned cash.  But, now I have serious reservations about buying games used.

Anyway I was out the door with my 4000 MS points card with only $10.99 out of my pocketbook; time to get Braid, GW2 and Bionic Commando!!!