Don't mess with me! I have a purple belt. It matches my purple shirt and my purple pants..

Guten abend fellow Pipeline citizenry!

Yes yes I know it's been like 2 weeks since my last update, but y'all can love me or leave me...LOVE ME PLEASE!!! *begs*


Anywho, not much happened the week following my hallucination post (which mind you, was freaky as before it ended) however this past week I have some stuffs to write, starting right..meow!

Okay, so this past wednesday I travelled down to sydneyville to watch a friend participate in some circus production of romeo and juliet. Now while I admire their courage in putting on a public performance etc, and there were quite a few well skilled people thar, and my seems to thoroughly enjoy it so I was all too happy to help support her. Putting on several random circus acts with a lesbian scene in the middle is NOT Romeo and Juliet, needs moar character development. Aside from that, twirling shit without fire is only so sexuall-visually stimulating. Otherwise I believe I may have offended that friend when the two of us who travelled down there to see it promptly travelled back to newcastle as soon as it was over, my friend didn't seem overly keen on staying and so I took up the asshole reigns and took responsability for bailing. (God im so good at that, the asshole thing of course :D )

Then on friday, in an unlikely turn of events, I actually saw my friends (SHOCK HORROR!) and 5 of us decided to sit down and finally give the new micro-expansion for Sins of a solar empire a run, Diplomacy.

Now after a rocky 3 hours in trying to get it up and running (mainly because idiots don't have it installed or the correct version etc) Once we got it running, it was good and smexy. Excuse my tangent for a moment while i discuss why I like micro-expansions as opposed to DLC. Think bigger DLC with a decent development time, I am NOT a fan of paying $15 ( *cough* AvP *cough*) for three maps..if you want to just add more multiplayer maps, how about including it in a free patch when you address proper gameplay issues? or add them with a proper expansion that actually adresses and adds gameplay or story mechanics to the game? Or better yet, if you want more maps, give decent mod and map making tools to the community! Until Little Big Planet, I haven't seen a game support the mod community since Battlefield 1942, which remained popular, supported and loved for years because of its community, Desert Combat being a primary example of how dev's can contribute to the community and get into the industry at the same time, God's we all loved Battlefield so much we put up with that Vietnam shitbox (mind you, "ride of the valkyries" on a scooter is pimp as). Okay, digression aside, The game is Beautiful! It adds enough to change the game immensely, allowing you to now take a diplomatic route in conquering the galaxy alongside your usual resoure hog, culture pushing or just plain militarty powerhouse! Adding the ability to set other teams missions for resources and even paying pirates to send fleets at certain planets is great! you can even have an allied victory if you decide to team up with a friend (or the most powerful computer) and bankroll their military or visa versa, The only gripe I have, which isnt really one, because we shouldnt have had large fleet size on in a 10 player game..was the computer team..bankrolling pirate fleets at my poor little homeworld.. When a fleet of 1000+ pirate ships hit all 10 of your homeworlds..you be royally buttsecksed! Our game froze, on all of our computers, it was glorious looking, but OH so laggy. But that aside, it was GREAT!


The last thing I have to post about is my current experience working my way through Splinter Cell: Conviction. Now this is all from a standpoint of never having played ANY Splinter Cell game until this one, so bear with me, Its fun if you like espionage and stealth, It could be better, but for what it is, I like it. A nice variety of gadgets, guns and whatnot for whatever job you like. you can gun and run, blow shit up or be a sneaky fugger..Personally, the favourite thing of mine is the presentation of the game, it looks so good, you can interrogate people, smashing them against/through nearby enviromentals to get info, and your objectives and hints, are displayed in a very cool kinda way, as projected like writing on nearby walls or what have you, destroying immersion a little, but I don't know, it just gives me a such a cool feeling when I see it. If you are a Fan of this series, or of any Tom Clancy game, its up to the scratch you would expect. Albeit a bit of a weak storyline.



I must bid you fair, sexy people a good eve, for there are pants that need to be doffed and minds to be molested

UP UP AND AWAY!


"Hey baby, I put the STD in stud, now all I need is U" - Stepo - and now Zen's favourite pickup line.

Zenhurak - Anhidonic, Narcissistic and Pantsless.