By now, you might be cursing me for not following my 5-day rule. :DIt's actually because I went on holiday... again. Annoyance.
Pokémon Is Still A Fun RPG
I started playing Pokémon again!
Read MoreRavnica's Common Guild Lands
Join me as I keep updating my thoughts on the Ravnica guild lands. (This post is updated once in a while to add new facts that I omitted the first time round. ;)
Read MoreThe Five Day Rule/Guideline
I've sort of decided that I should make a good post at least very 5 days that I have access to my computer. Considering my bad case of writer's block, I can't promise that it will be a good post. This means I have no idea how I will write the post and about what. One thing is for certain, it is unlikely to be a piece of story, since I'm still planning the ending properly. The entire storyline is coming out nicely, with most of the main plot already... err... plotted. It will probably take forever to write out on the blog, although the prologue is already completed and posted on the blog. The story is actually written impromptu as I post, and not in actual chapters and posted over a certain amount of time. This usually results in much shorter chapters and a lot less subplot as I write through without much care. This means that some subplots might actually suddenly be forgotten until I reread the entire first few chapters and reintroduce the subplot themes again. My lack of writing has also led to a deterioriation of my typing and grammar online, since I write a lot less now.
As for reviews, I'm striving to improve my game reviewing so that it is at least of a proper game site quality. For now, you will usually find it short and amateurish as well as lacking in screenshots and depth. If there is lack of depth in my review, it usually means the game lacks depth to being with (or I'm just being ignorant). I just played a little bit of The Matrix: Path of Neo, and I'm every bit as disappointed with the graphics and gameplay as I was with the earlier Matrix game. As a result, I will from now on, save myself the trouble and tell you indirectly through my general posts what games I think are not worth the money. Path of Neo is still one of those horrendous movie games. OK, maybe not as horrendous, but certainly quite awful compared to the likes of Quake 4, Jedi Academy (yes, that dated game with the Q3 engine), Battlefront 2, Battlefield 2, and even the beloved Max Payne and its sequel.
As for Magic: the Gathering, it's my favourite pastime now, and I'm still always having fun building and tuning new decks. As of such, you can expect an article every now and then that is completely unrelated to my life and more to my hobby (not so random). However, expect me to pick out single cards and rant about them like I did with Firemane Angel from Ravnica earlier. That being said, I intend to pick out certain cards from certain guilds just for fun as to how some cards fit in with the guild themes of Ravnica and how well they fit in a deck using the strategy correctly.
As of such, expect a post about the same length as this one every five days at least. Still, this might just become another resolution I can't keep. ;)
Other Not So Important Lessons Learnt During the Holidays
The next 25. :D 26. My hosting and domain is running out soon. Yikes! 27. The New York City Subway ticketing machines use Windows NT 4.0. 28. They can blue screen, despite the fact that there only is a touch screen with at most 4 - 6 clickable buttons. 29. The NYC subway is expensive. Imagine paying RM7.60 (USD2.00) per ride! 30. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is maze-like and confusing. 31. The map they give you makes it worse. 32. iPods are everywhere, and I think those who scratched their iPod nanos deserve nothing in return. 33. The NYC Subway system is looks simple. Don't be fooled - it isn't as simple as it looks. I don't know where else on Earth there is a local train that suddenly turns express! 34. Their subway system is probably still a whole lot simpler than Tokyo. 35. TGI Fridays and chili's don't cost very much more over there than they do here. 36. McDonalds, Burger King and other fast food outlets are another story. 37. After 19 years in Malaysia, seeing pork on the menu feels strange. Really strange. Even if I've seen it on the menu a hundred times before. 38. Occasionally in the US, you will experience a lack of clouds. A lack of clouds obviously entails a lot of sun. Imagine getting tanned by the sun - in autumn. 39. When you actually use it, the PSP's battery life isn't so bad. 40. Malaysian Airlines deserves more support! I still say it's the best airline available. And no, I'm not doing this out of patriotism. 41. Japanese bookstores are usually a lot larger than other countries' bookstores. We're talking about 2 times bigger, minimum. 42. Always keep your batteries charged. You'll never know when they'll run out. 43. 1GB is sometimes not enough for photos. 44. E-mail enters my mailbox at an alarming rate considering my blog isn't popular. 41 e-mails in 48 hours. 45. A holiday should be spent resting, not walking your legs off. 46. I have no idea what Chewxy is doing to waste time during the holidays. 47. Blogging regularly is a chore if you have nothing to blog about. 48. BitComet might be better than Azureus at maxing out your connection speed. Maybe. 49. Hearing "Bankai" in Bleach is a hell of a lot better than reading it. 50. Writing these lessons posts is fun, but I as sure as hell shouldn't do it again this holidays.