And What Do You Have To Say To Your Competitors?

Well well, the 9600 series nvidia card is out as I learned today. I personally love it. It's not an AMAZING card, but it functions quite well and can run all the games on the market. One of the best things however is that the price tag is a mere 179.99, which makes me very happy considering that I have about that much money tucked away in my money-hiding crevices around the house for just such an event. The stats on the card aren't the most impressive I've ever seen (512 GRAM and a reasonable amount of processing power) but it's a step up from my card for sure, which is the good ol' 7600 GT with 256 GRAM. I'm probably going to go on a Newegg.com shopping spree once the warrantee on it runs out (if I modify anything in the computer it voids it, so I'm waiting for it to run out until I mess anything up...cause by then I'll have to pay for it anyway).
In other news I can't wait for this fall. Besides the fact that I'm going into highschool, which sucks, a lot of stuff I've been waiting for is coming out. The two main things are Spore, which doesn't look like a game so much as a "build and control awesome looking cartoony beasties" which is just as fun to me. Also, the 3rd Abarat book is coming out, which makes me jump like a small child who's been given too much sugar. The 3rd Abarat book has annoyed me for a while...considering the last one came out THREE YEARS AGO! Apparently Clive Barker has been writing other stuff and fine tuning the story for Absolute Midnight (the 3rd Abarat), but still, three years.
Anyways, I'm going to go immerse myself in reading the wonderful backlogs of Penny Arcade, one of the few comics that can remain funny while using profanity every other word. Good stuff.

Gack Gorble Snork

Yeah yeah I know...It's been too long since an update. I actually have a good excuse though...and that is that I've had the flu since Saturday. This was actually quite a stroke of luck considering school has become ridiculously tedious over the last month with only the exception of social studies (I got the whole week off school due to being contagious). I've sat around in general and played a crapload of Portal. Speaking of games, I also got to play Bioshock on Saturday, which I loved. It's the most amazingly entertaining game ever, just about all the environments are fully destructible, you can change a bunch of attributes and the like on your character..the list goes on. It's also ridiculously creepy, violent and scary, which makes it all the more fun at 2 am. On Sunday I sat around being sick and avoiding homework, putting it off for Monday cause I knew we had a three day weekend. As it turns out it didn't matter cause I skipped Tuesday of school as well, and Wednesday and now Thursday. I'm not going tomorrow either, I need rest even though I'm feeling a bit better. So all in all I got a week off of school...man am I happy about it. Though I do have to catch up on all the work I missed over the weekend....ugh.
I finally got the beta for my game up on Potatosheep.com today. It can be found at www.potatosheep.com/game.html. It's not much but it's a good beginning, with the physics and most of the glitches and stuff worked out. I'm going to be adding levels and stuff to it hopefully soon.
Another event this week was my 24 year old cousin stopping through town with two friends for a couple of nights. They're on their way to San Fransisco and decided to stop in. It was the first time I'd seen my cousin in at least a few years, so it was a grand time had by all to see him again, even though I was sick for most of his visit.
That's it really for now, if anything amazing comes up I'll post on it or something...hopefully soon.

The Times of Time...

I just realized today how dang long it's been since I updated this thing. I've been up to quite a bit though, so I'll attempt to catch the people who actually read this (if there are any) up on the last few weeks.
Lesse...I guess the first thing was the starting of the potatosheep forums. My friend and I collaborated, or rather he did a crapload of stuff I didn't know how to do, and we got the forums together. They were amazingly a minor success. I got several submissions, and they're still coming in. I'm overall quite happy with the forums.
Another thing that happened: I started an awesome game collaborationish thingy with Slouching Tiger: NINJAVA! The super beta beta beta version can be found at www.potatosheep.com/game.swf. It still has a HUGE amount of glitches that need fixing which I'm currently working on.
I can't really think of anything else to say at the moment, though I'm fairly sure there's stuff that I'm forgetting...I'll try my best for at least every other day updates for a while.