listen up!
if you’re a gamer living in the pflugerville/round rock/north austin area and wish you could get your gaming needs met in a local store instead of feeling like you’re selling your soul every time you walk into a gamestop, game crazy, or other big name chain gaming store, then you need to check out apollo games in round rock. they’re located in the southwest corner of the la frontera shopping center, around he corner from the brooklyn pie co., next to baja fresh.
the guys that own/run apollo are realy cool and more than willing to work with you to take care of your gaming needs, so if you want to help the economy while you get your game on: support local business and go to apollo games!
so, not that i have (or ever had) a readership, but assuming i do (did), i just want to post an update.
as alluded to in the previous post, i’ve been playing world of warcraft during almost every “free”, “waking” hour i’ve had since last november. way too much for sure (though, not south park way to much). the reason it takes over all (for me) is two-fold:
- i dig grinding games; there’s something special about hitting that next level…
- it’s nearly infinite, especially when you take into account how many different variations of race and class you can create.
luckily, the spell appears to be breaking somewhat, as i’ve been spending more of my free time reading books, playing guitar and even buying a new one (pictured at right), and dusting off my ps3 (soon to get back to my 360 as well!).
so will updates to the blog flow more freely now? i don’t know, there are still many things to do around here… we shall see…
–noun
1. a prolonged period of dry weather.
2. a period of little or no productivity or activity, low income, etc.
3. what happens to all other personal stuff when you start playing World of Warcraft.
Origin:
1885–90
blog.decompiler.us is 3 years old today. yay, me!
so yesterday morning i downloaded the latest update to the 360 dashboard, which included the new ‘avatars’ features, which some (nintendophiles) say is a rip off of miis on the wii, and yet others (xboxophiles) say was in the original plans for the 360, just didn’t get implemented until now. i say both of them are using the avatar concept that’s been around for, uh… ever.
we could argue the finer points all day, but for me it comes down to this: while the xbox 360 avatars seem to have somewhat less of a selection of eyes/ears/noses/etc., they have a metric a$$load of cloting options that is going to expand and expand with prizes from games and downloads from marketplace. (ps - to the people who are going to whine about how m$ makes you pay for little stuff like avatar clothes: vote w/ your dollar and don’t freaking buy any. it worked with the horse armor…)
anyway, here’s my avatar (right) and the gamer picture i created for my gamercard (upper left).
you know the only thing i wish they’d add to the avatar thing at this point, is a choice of how you want the character to stand, like when you position your characters in the awesome rock band photo creator. i may be a g33k, but i don’t stand like that dork-a$$ avatar…
