Hey folks!

Not really a whole lot to report. I mean who wants to hear me go on and on about how work is. Anyone? Anyone? ...Bueller? ...Bueller? I didn't think so. Haha! Guests are just guests, and there's the usual bad experiences that outweigh the good. If you ask me, it seems that a lot of them are growing more impatient with each passing moment. It's not a pretty sight when you are dealing with them. There have been many, many times where I wanted to turn around and say, "This was your choice. You wanted to ride this ride, and it will take you this long to wait. Probably even more depending on what's going on with the ride."

Anyway, that's enough of that. I got back into Netflix for myself after my dad cancelled his subscription to it. Right now, I am doing the free month trial which I have it set to have the premium stream service (stream up to four devices at once) and the DVD service. Once that trial is up, the monthly fee should be around $20, and that's not too bad. I included the DVD service because Netflix's Instant Watch tends to rotate their movies around in place for others. Plus, there are a BUNCH of movies not shown on Netflix that I've been very, very curious to see. At this time, I have over 500 things on the DVD queue, so I should be set to go through the list for a good while. I don't know how much I have saved on my Instant Watch queue, but I know it's just as plentiful. The system I am going to shoot for when going through my Instant Watch queue is start off with one movie and then watch a few episodes for each day. We shall see how that goes. I'm rather excited to have this service for myself!

Games! All the games! Actually, there are just two to mention at this time, and they are still Yakuza 2 and Tales of Symphonia. I have made plenty of progress in both games even though the latter has proven to be quite a chore. I know I have said this many times before, but I will reiterate it. I do mean what I say that I don't recall ever doing a lot of grinding in the Gamecube release. However, I just played it straight through and never bothered to gain almost all of my characters' abilities. Plus, I'm following a guide this time for the PS3 release, and that's where the grinding comes in. I never realized how many abilities my party has, and it's hard finding stronger enemies to battle to get more EXP. Still, I will plow on through knowing that I've clocked in over 50 hours of gameplay. lol

And now we have Yakuza 2. I believe I'm on the tenth chapter of the game, and the story is getting really, really good! I think I'm enjoying more than the first game, and that's probably for obvious reasons. With that said, I have clocked in over 40 hours of gameplay, and part of that has to do with a select few side missions. Anyone that has played this game might be familiar with the "Adam" Host and Marietta side missions. I realize now that I should have done a bit of multi-tasking in between these missions instead of waiting around before I got a notification to continue with either one... Still, I look forward to finishing the game rather soon. :)

That should do with all the updates at this time. There is an idea I want to share with you all, and I recently thought of it. A few of my gaming buddies might know of this, but there was a user that would host a thing called Retro Revival Week. The premise was dedicating a week of your time in playing old school video games and sharing with others what games you had been playing then. The rules usually consisted that you didn't go beyond the N64 and PS One era, and you were allowed to play PC games prior to 2000. I didn't participate much in it, but I had a lot of fun the one time I did it. So I'm thinking about reviving this idea and making it just a bit longer. Maybe a week and a half or two? I was thinking about a month, but that would be a bit too much after thinking about it a lot. When I came back from home the other day, I did type up a small draft of the rules if I did revive it.

Rules:

- Games that were released prior to the Xbox, Gamecube, and PlayStation 2 are applicable. This includes games prior to the Game Boy Advance.
- PC games made prior to 2005 are applicable.
- Game compilations (i.e. Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection, Midway Arcade Treasures, Metal Slug Anthology, etc) are applicable.
- HD Remasters of PS2/Xbox games and re-releases of 8-/16-/32-/64-bit games are applicable. NO REMAKES, REBIRTHS OR REMIXES POST 2005!!!

Again, this is only a draft, but I do plan on getting in touch with a few sources to help me refine this before I go with this. :) I'm excited about it! It'll be nice to revive this soon. To go with this, I am thinking of periodically posting journals regarding this and have open discussions on topics such as multiplayer experiences, favorite game of all-time, game series growing up on, etc. So stayed tuned on any further development on this in the weeks to follow. The tricky part is setting a good time frame to do this. It would make sense to do it during a time when there wouldn't be a whole lot of new video game releases, but I would hate to put it off until then. The sooner I can get this going, the better the chances I have in getting some involvement from all you fine folks. :)

All right, this is a good stopping point. I need to get to bed or else I'm not going to have much rest for work. That's a bad habit I really need to curb. As always, thanks for taking the time to read this post! I hope everyone is doing well out there. :)

Until next time! Eddie the Wolf signing off!