2012 and Bastion

This one's from a game called Bastion. The game is awesome and its soundtrack is even better. A whole album-full of good pieces of music.

There are a couple of new things going on in my life. The most noteworthy is probably the fact that I got myself dental braces. I wasn't really happy with my teeth so now I have a chance to get them looking less weird. It is, in fact, pretty painful at first, but I'm kind of used to the constant headache now already. The washing is annoying as hell, but also livable.

Of course it's a whole new year now - 2012 - and happy new year then, I guess. Not much changed for me with the coming of this year. Only now I must remember to write the correct year whenever I'm writing the date on something. Beyond that, everything's the same.

School's really stressful and somewhat annoying. Got to do a lot of studying to get rid of all the debts that have accumulated. But I'll manage, since I have awesome friends who motivate me more than anything else does.

Now, since I'm a quite big gamer, I decided to talk about the games that I play and update you on my newest discoveries and emotions, and maybe do a bit of reviewing.

As you may have already figured out, I have recently had the pleasure of playing Bastion.

It's an action-adventure game. Its most noteworthy aspects are the storytelling, the soundtrack and the art design. The storytelling mechanic in this game is a brilliant idea. One of the side characters is the narrator. He comments on every move the main character makes, and it's both amusing and useful.

The narrator has this smooth southern US accent, which gives you this smooth bad-ass feeling. The art design is pretty cartoony, but the whole theme of the game and the style of the gameplay doesn't even hint in the slightest that the game is a kids' cartoon. Now the gameplay is fairly easy and very thrilling. The constant narrating gives you something to listen to when there are no enemies around, but when the fighting starts, then the real fun begins. The fighting is quite fast-paced and let's you choose your own style of combat. You can use guns or a huge hammer or a machete or maybe a bow, if you'd prefer that.

The weapons are customizable and you can pretty much adjust everything about your character to your own preference. The graphics aren't at all demanding so you can play it on even the most low-end PC's.

I think that's quite enough of games for one post.

I hope I'll be posting more often in the future, but until then - enjoy life.

O.

Christmas time

Those are just the two most awesome presents I got. The Aperture Laboratories T-shirt is from my brother. My jaw dropped when I saw it, I love it. The book is from my mom. It seems really-really interesting. I'm going to read it, but probably not all at once. I have other stuff to do, too.

Enjoy your breaks.
O.

Braindead

I'd love to live here for a couple of weeks, not leaving the room, only eating take-out. I'd love to get away for some time.

All images were taken from this awesome blog. Feel free to check it out. The blogger chick is also pretty awesome, so feel free to check her out, too.

There's also this cool lifestyle blog by my friend Stella. You'll find some good music there, find out what cool people do nowadays and probably see some cool pictures, and get outfit ideas I guess.

No writings from me today.

Bye-bye.

O.

Just chillin'

I'm was just sitting here in Frens Cafe and thought I'd write something.
I recently celebrated my birthday and the party was pretty fun. It wasn't exactly as I'd have liked it to be since I didn't have all of my good friends there, but it was good enough I suppose. I got an awesome Star Wars T-shirt and other cool stuff, including money. But the present I liked the most was a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey. I'm not an alcoholic or anything, but I enjoy good whiskey. It's one of the few types of alcoholic beverage I'm even willing to drink. I enjoy the taste, but almost never the feeling of drunkenness, which is why I seldom drink at all, and never to get drunk.
Back to the party now. It was a 20's themed party. The men looked exactly like I expected them to, but the women's outfits seemed a bit exaggerated. There were about 25 people there, I suppose. I'm never good at guessing the number of people at a given event. I'm always off by at least 10 people so there was probably +/- 25 people.

Well, it's fall once again and the days are pretty short and dark now. Winter and Christmas come soon and I'm actually looking forward to them. It's a time to be spent with good friends and family, and that's exactly what I'm planning on doing. I have some thoughts on what I want to do to make Christmas great for the people around me. I'm going to bake gingerbread cookies and be really friendly to everyone so that they can enjoy these dark times. I want to make that grey unwelcoming place called Koidula a bit better for my classmates even though I'm not really feeling a good vibe from them and I'd rather spend time with my Sütevaka classmates. FYI I'm going to see them today so that will brighten my day. I quite miss them actually, although I've known most of them only for a couple of months. And of course not only classmates - I have a lot of good friends there and I wish I could see them all more.

The only thing keeping me in Koidula is the education. I greatly enjoy physics and maths so I'm going to keep going there to educate myself in those subjects. Otherwise I would leave right away. Hell, I wouldn't have even gone there in the first place. People there are so judgmental and uptight, and so fixed in their own opinions and points of view. Of course I'm not talking about absolutely everyone, but in overall, that's the emotion and impression that school and most of its people still give me.

I've gone on long enough for one post. Sorry for the lack of images and music, but I'm using a horribly slow public network and am unable to upload any photos.

Have a good one.
O.

The ol' switcharoo

Just a quick update on what's going on.
First of all I'm changing schools. Going from Sütevaka Humanitaargümnaasium to Koidula Gümnaasium. It's sad that I won't be able to see all of my good friends in Süte every day. Most of my best friends are there (but not the very best) - people who are very dear to me. On the other hand, in Koidula I'll get to study the things I want in a manner I want. There's physics and math which I can't do without. In addition to that there are better teachers (in my opinion). Today, my class sent me off with an extremely warm goodbye and that made my leaving that much more bearable.
Secondly, I've seriously taken up programming now. My bro's teaching me, or giving me directions at least. It's fascinating and I can't wait to write something myself. But first I need to learn a bit of theory.
Then there's the Ewert and the Two Dragons concert which was fucking awesome (pardon my French). Went to see it with a good friend and overall awesome person.
Anyway, keep doing what you're doing.

Have a good one.
O.

Hint hint

Inspiration

Procrastination is one of the biggest problems I have. I delay things until the last minute all the time. I'm not actually complaining, because I haven't had any problems with it so far. Thus I have no reason to stop procrastinating, because I haven't learned any lessons about it being bad. Now that I think about it, it isn't actually a problem, maybe a potential problem, sure, but not a real problem at the moment. So I'm going to leave it at that.

On a side note, I decided that a post a month is suitable with my laziness level and I guess I'll be able to keep that schedule. So expect that in the future.

There's a lot of stuff going on. Seems I'm a real theater visitor now. I'll be going to the theater quite a lot in the near future. Also, I'm going to the Ewert and the Two Dragons concert with on of the coolestest (intentional) people I know. On the other hand there's some real interesting stuff going that I'm not going into detail about here. But be assured, it's intriguing and pretty deep on occasion (at least for me).

Life's a bitch. Just thought that needed saying. But I suppose everyone knows that already anyway. Just a reminder.

Uhmmmm... there's nothing reasonable coming from me anymore.
So whaddaya say we get to the unreasonable stuff.

Epic pictures. Love 'em.

Anyways. The thing is that I'm in fucking love, alright. And if anyone who isn't involved or I haven't involved myself asks me about it, I'm just going to: A) change the subject, B) keep perfectly still and silent or C) walk away. Immature you say? Well, here's a link to how many fucks I give: right here, click, I dare ya.

I think this is a good time to thank my best friend Stella for much needed advice, the occasional up of the cheering and some justified pushing. Thanks Stella :)

But what can I say about the girl? Well, she's everything I have ever looked for. Even considering the fact that I haven't been looking for any of the things that she is. So I guess she's everything I should have been looking for. Makes sense. I could write a couple-thousand word novel here about her, but that is definitely a thing that I'm not going to do.

Oh and one more thing - I think that the next couple of posts will not be very cheerful. Figure it out yourself why.

And I guess that's it.

Stay awesome.

O.