New House Pet

 

Good Monday to you little bots. Fall is finally here in Seattle; more rainy and cold weather to come so I can finally put away my shorts and tinny tops that I feel like a walrus in. I'm miss wearing boots (they are are so uncomfortably warm in the heat) and I can wear dark colors and not feel hotter than wearing lighter colors. And yesterday I finally had a pumpkin spice latte and a burned out my last summer smelling candle, now my apartment will smell of pumpkin and spices!

This past week my man bought a new addition to our family... a roomba. I think it is his subtle way of telling me that I suck at cleaning the floor. The cat were afraid of it at first but are now warming up to the little vacuum that moves their food dish around. As soon as one figures out that they can sit on it and go for a ride, I'm filming that shit!

The rest of the week consisted of me job hunting, setting up meetings, and playing some Destiny. That game still sucks, it's one giant grind mission after another, and the only time it is fun is when you play with your friends and you all are above level 24. It's the only new game out so that is why so many people are playing, but as soon as November and December releases roll out I bet you all a bunch of people will stop playing Destiny.

This weekend I meet with my good director friend of mine for an up coming project. The upside is I defiantly have the gig; the down side it's not until February. So back to scrounging up gigs and jobs until then. Also this weekend my man and I visited my mother for the day to help her set up her printer/scanner. Well my man set that up while I played with the doggies. It was nice to have my boyfriend visit and we all interact with each other.

This week is more of the same, finding work, cleaning house, going insane. Oh! I found my new favorite nail polish! It's by ciat`e and its textured and black with green sparkles in it. I just love it! Have a good week my little bots and finger crossed I figure something out for Friday's blog.

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5000+Page Views!

First off than you little bots for the 5000 page views in less than 2 years! When I opened up my blogger page today and saw this I was in shocked. This past January which was the bench mark for year one of this blog and I think I was around 2000 page views... but to be at 5000 before my year 2 bench mark is blowing my mind right now. I know I was off line for the past two weeks, desperately find work and jobs were preoccupying my time and energy. Also helping out the parents and a financial situation with my man had my head in a tail spin.

The week before last, my dad was home early from Peru not because he is finally retiring but a wild mountain dog that runs lose around their job site bite him on his hand. As a result he had to be rushed home to recover and get a clearance from his American doctor to go back to work. But while he was here I visited them a couple of times, went out to dinner and lunch, some shopping, and they gave me an early Christmas present! A hat/coat/umbrella stand! I've been needing on forever. I love it so!

So on monday of last week my dad was good to go and flew back to Peru.

Also last Monday I saw Neil DeGrasse Tyson show at the Paramount theater. If you follow me on twitter @SchadGirl you would have seen my gleefully tweets about this show. But to sum up for you lovely bots if you have the chance to to see him live do your self a favor and do it! Even if it means eating rice and beans for a month. It's more of a history and reflective piece and it lasted for us over 3 hours, well worth the price tag.

The day after I had to send two days over at my moms house while she recovered from a pre skin cancer treatment. She couldn’t leave the house and live in complete darkness for 2 days. It was a friendly reminder to never go out into the sun. I was going to come back home on friday, but I convinced my mom to finally get a smart phone for her and I. You read that right, i've been using a basic phone that could only call and do text. But I am no finally caught up to the 21^st century and loving my new phone. However this delayed me from coming home by two days. I had to teach my poor mom how to use her new phone and set up some features for her.

I'm back now, have some meeting with a good director friend of mine for some up coming projects! Been playing a little bit of Destiny and I have to say it gets old really fast. Unless you are playing with friends, you will get board and the lack of story will make you scream. If you want me to do a full review let me know in the comment section below or on twitter. Thank you once again little bots for 5000+ page views and I will let you know where we are at come our 2 year blog date.

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The Boring Life

Hey little bots, a day late blog but I figured you lovely people are too busy playing Destiny right now to even notice my delay. Not that I had much to say about this past week, job hunting and looking for part time work is so much fun to talk about. Yes I live the boring life but you keep coming back to read about.... odd.

The only new news is that I have started exercising regularly again. And we all know how well I've stayed on track in the past. Just this past Monday I've already messed un my limited calorie intake and as a result my body is mad at me. So now I cant trust a fart and eating broth type soups. I'm hoping that this only lasts a day so I can get back to working out. My goal is to finally be rid of my belly fat by the time ECCC 2015 rolls around. Get it roll...fat rolls... I like puns a little too much.

Well this week is going to be more of the same as the past, but with maybe some play time for Destiny just to see if they even developed a story for that game. Catch you all Friday for another blog posting.

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Bitch'n Friday: Good Month For Game Releases

Now that the summer slump of new game is over, it is time to focus in on the up coming game for fall and christmas season. Already September has pushed out peaked my interest in up coming games that have released and soon to be. Here are a few that I'm going to buy or have already purchased.

Dance Central Spotlight (Xbox One) – Out Now

I've been waiting for over a year for the new installment to come out for the One and it is worth it. The improved motion tracking with the kinect is so much better, I love the new and improved Fitness section. The routines change and keep you on your toes every time you play the same song. For $10 the game comes with only 10 songs; some people will not like the fact that it has become a micro-transaction game, but I see it as a way to truly customize your playlist and dance to the song you like. I recommend it for those who want a more dance routine workout or a game night game.

Minecraft (Xbox One, PS4) – Out Now

It's finally out on the next gen consoles after months of waiting and pushed back released dates (the One edition was released a day early along side of PS4). The worlds are bigger, textures looks about the same from the previous gen, and and you can import you already created worlds so you don’t have to recreate them! Hours of soul sucking commence!

Destiny (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3) - September 9

One of the first big titles to kick off the Fall games. I'm still curious and on the fence about this game, interested to see if they can flush out a story. You can read my thought on the Beta here: Bitchn' Fridays: Destiny Beta Review

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Xbox One, 360, PS4, PS3, PC) - September 30

This game seem interesting to me, an open world where you can choose what type of game style you want to play sound amazing. Check out Rooster Teeth demo of the game.

What fall games are you excited to play? Let me know in the comment section below.

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Bitchn' Fridays: Destiny Beta Review

Hi little bots, today I just wanted to to a brief review of the Destiny Beta now that it has launched on both systems and is available to play for anyone (no beta code required).

First off this game can be summed up in 4 words: New Phantasy Star Online. It's basicly a graphically updated version of Phantasy Star with elements of Star Wars and Borderlands mixed in. Visually the game is pretty, good music, and really feels like you are playing a MMO on the console. Playing it on both the PS4 and Xbox One there isn't a difference in visuals or game play, it all depends which controller you like using more and which console more of your friends are going to play on.

Game Play:

It's a first person MMO shooter, if you are like me and really suck at first person shooting games it's best to team up with a friend and tackle enemy’s together. In the Demo you are restricted to level 8, there was only 1 competitive multiplayer game type that I saw (the rest said restricted so I don’t know if that means you have to unlock them threw more game play or have to be a certain level), all of the story missions and free roam missions are in the same area (very repetitive game play).

Every time you enter a new area for a story mission or go back to free roam, you are dumped in the same spot with the same level 2 enemy’s looking at the same satellite tower. You go threw the same areas, new areas open up as you go threw the story line but it is still on the same map area and you repeatability go threw the same place over and over again. The enemy spawn points are supper obvious and you can predict when the enemy will re-spawn after another player has cleared that area.

As for creating your character and picking out your class and race, there isn’t that many options. You have 3 different races: Human,Exos (robot), and Awoken (blue people); and you have 3 different classes: Titian, Warlock, and Hunter.

after designing your race you come to the character creation screen where you have a limited number of faces to choose from all of which you can not alter, you can choose hair style, markings, and coloring for your character. I guess I'm a little spoiled when it comes to creating your character after playing Skyrim and Mass Effect so much that I expect to make my face look clownish if I so desire.

The thing that made me a little sad was the fact that choosing a character class really doesn’t matter. There are no perks to choosing one over another, all can wield any weapon in the game and the special attacks are the same. You have grenade type, special supper charge attack, and your bitch slap (aka melee). Yes, each class's special attacks does something a little different, but it all boils down to do you want to see your character use a golden gun or magically blast your enemy’s away when you use your charge attack.

Multiplayer:

It feels like any other competitive multiplayer, you just do it on the moon. No new wheel invention here as of yet.

Story:

Sigh, the story... it's like they expect you to know what is already going on in this world. I wish they gave your character amnesia so you can ask questions like who the hell are these blue people or the history. As of now the story telling is flater than a crepe. Hope they fix this before launch.

Graphics:

Graphics look good, your character looks fine in cut scenes, and load screens are pretty to look at. I didn’t see any glitches. The only down side is they will make a spawn point where the enemy comes out (say a bunker or room) black. This makes it supper obvious where your enemy is coming from.

Sound:

Like I said I have no complainants about the music, it was well done and fits in with the feel of the game. The sound effects for the guns and vehicles I've heard before. Very redundant, very pew pew pitching with the fire arms, and the bike sounds like one from Star Wars. Could have used some more gack sounds with the gun when firing, to give it more of that post apocalyptic feel.

Final Thought:

It's a pretty MMO for the next gen counsels. I don’t think it will be as great as every one was hoping it to be when the full game comes out. I just don’t see this winning game of the year. There are a lot of repetitiveness in the game play, a lot of grinding that might turn off a lot of players. If you like MMOs you will like this game, If you are more of a FPS type of player unfortunately it looks like you will have to play the MMO side of the game to unlock weapons/gear and upgrade your character for multiplayer. At that point you would be better off playing Battlefield or Halo Master Chief edition.

So Destiny Beta is out for everyone to play right now. It ends on Sunday, so if you would like to try it and form your own opinion about the game, please do! I probably will play the full game when it comes out in September. For more information about the game go to Destiny the Game.

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