Having only played the demo and not really being able to form a sound impression of the game from said demo. I’d like to say that I do in fact love katamari. We Love Katamari is an original game which basically involves rolling this ball around various places accumulating items smaller than ur katamari, when it gets bigger, you can pick up bigger things. Tis quite simple really

Add on top of this rather abstract game the jazzy j-pop soundtrack and we’re talking proper quality. I’m hoping its preowned at work so I can grab me a copy of have a wee go during my lunchbreak tomorrow. In the meantime I keep demo’ing it up and I’ve downloaded a song from the original katamari game which I’ve now got playing on the main site (its about 1.5mb so if your on dialup its gonna slay your connection) so it’ll take a minute to start streaming but then it’ll work fine after that

Also of note is Hitman: Blood Money, a nice little game of assassination. Though last night I took to running around maiming people with a hammer for’t laugh. Im hoping the game doesn’t tap into parts of my pysche I never knew existed cos t’would be quite shocking

Its becoming more and more apparent that the only thing I talk about on here nowadays are games, I don’t seem to have much else going for me atm. Except this chow mein, I proper love chow mein these days. Its like… a pot noodle but more expensive… but also more filling. Did you know this is my first cup of tea today? My first! Its outrageous

Anyhow, the picture, thats me holding onto my katamari as it rolls along

Man I’m doing so shit at updating this, seems like ages ago I last wrote something, and I know I’ve been meaning to add stuff before now but I just haven’t had a chance with work. I’m doing too much like so I’m gonna have to cut back come the end of the month probably. Until then I’m just earning some more pocket pennys so I can get myself a 360

Well my Guitar Hero playing days seem to be coming to an end, I’ve gotten stuck on the last 2 songs on extreme mode after finishing hard mode and they’ve taken the game off the tv at work and replaced it with The Da Vinci Code *chortle* its so lame

On other Gamestation relatedness, I got my contract through today, in the most destroyed envelope I’ve ever had delivered to my house. It came in a plastic bag with something like “lol we accidently started knawing on your envelope, ring us if somethings missing and we’ll chuckle at our absurdity” I should have taken a picture but I was too worried something decent was missing. Anyhow there wasn’t owt missing, not that I was aware of anyhow. As well as the contract there was what I presumed to be a game,then I realised it was just the staff handbook for Gamestation, made out to be like a game. I thought it was genious personally

Hmm what else… Lost in Blue… I’ve made me some furniture, and discovered some materials to make a bow and arrow with, but I can’t seem to kill anything on it

Animal Crossing, I’m working whenever the shops are open or theres something going on so I can’t really play it decently

Mario Kart DS, I don’t like it, I don’t see what all the hoohah was about personally, its just a heavily cut down Mario Kart: Double Dash but it has DK so its not all bad

Trauma Center, I’m stuck, after turning into a story about medical terrorists releasing parasites called GUILT into people around this city I’ve stopped doing normal operations and gone as far as defusing bombs, and operating on patients on an airplane going through turbulence. Now I have to do 5 GUILT removal operations in 10 minutes, with each operation taking about 3 minutes each, so its pretty much impossible until I get more practise in

lol oh yeah theres my rather large phonebill that made me shocked until I checked it all and realised it was cowwect

Right I think I’ll leave it there for now… No doubt I’ll find more stuff to whinge about soon, I should really start writing about all my games in the games forum rather than on here, tis where they’re meant to be like but alas, another day

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So yeah anyhow, finally got round to updating the site. Been putting it off for about 2 weeks now with me not getting much time off work(s) and anytime I am off, I’m gaming away on either Guitar Hero or my newly acquired Nintendo DS but tonight I accidently left it in a guy I work with’s mam’s car, so I’m currently gameless. Which sucks, I had planned on attempting another operation on Trauma Center and failing that I was going to play a bit more on Lost in Blue having just recently discovered a new area and the ability to make a fishing rod courtesy of some jungle vine. And of course an hour or 2 chatting to my townsfolk on Animal Crossing. But alas, nothings

So as for the update:

• New Gallery – Bit o’ Manga Bottle
• Updated Gallerys – MSN Drawings, Characters

I’ve got a couple more updates in the works but I’ll be working on them a bit more tomorrow (Day off again) its just stuff like a new interface for my videos similar to the Gallerys section and similar to a DVD chapter menu. Oh and I fancied having that Benny in the bottom corner changing between various pictures, probably some sort of random rotation between the blog pictures seen as theres so many. Ooo and potentially some music but thats unlikely atm

Now for the picture… hows about me and my newest character, Manga Bottle

Update: lol, well it was actually easier than I expected to get the picture changing randomly at the bottom there, I think its a nice touch. Bit shocking I see 2 hours of coding and holding a piss in for the same duration as proper easy mind, I was scared if I went to pee I’d lose where I was at in my chain of thought

So tomorrow be my first day back at Gamestation, so I originally set out to make a Gamestation outfit for my lil me (I actually lie, I made it this morning when I was updating it all. I now come with a selection of 8 different outfits: Normal, Ladbrokes, Gamestation, German Jacket, New Jacket, Suit, Johnn Quiz Suit and HEV Suit. Some of which have never been seen before but are being used in some pictures at later dates) when I decided to swat up on the gaming industry as it currently stands. Essentially being out of it since January I’ve missed quite a lot so I thought t’was necessary. Now, this week of all weeks to the gaming world is a pretty big week. Unless your into games you won’t have a clue what I mean by that, but to the others all I have to mention is e3 and I needn’t say any more

e3 is the largest games trade show in the world. Games developers basically show off what they’ve currently working on and console manufacturers start building hype for their consoles (This year its the PS3 and the Wii) so as I’ve been browsing the games thats currently on show on e3 Insider, I’ve come across a few that have made me be all like “omfg” such as Spore, a game by Sid Meier (He of The Sims fame) which involves taking a single cell organism all the way upto interplanatery colonisation. Another game which I literally just watched the e3 trailer for Mortal Kombat Armageddon. I’m a fan of the MK series and this one adds a create a character feature (Another thing I’m a big fan of) so I’ve seen one of my must buys this year, so expect to see a Mortal Kombat edition Benny at some point in the foreseeable future

I could rant on about games till my eyes bleed (Which as it happens it looks like they’re doing, they’re pretty bloodshot atm :/) but I’ll leave that to the gaming forum. Though I won’t add anything until the weekend probably. Long day tomorrow with doing Ladbrokes till 10 after Gamestation from 9. Be nice to get back there though, quite looking forward to it

So until I come to add anything again, get thinking of ways to get me into e3 one day and fulfill a lifelong dream :E

Work was proper dead today, I mean like, so dead it wouldn’t normally merit a mentioning. But in my boredom I began looking at the prices for various things (A price in betting terms is how much you’ll get if whatever it is your betting on wins, so if I bet on a horse whose price was 5/1 I’d get £5 for every £1 I put on. Plus you get whatever it was you put on back to you. So on a 5/1 horse I’d get £6 if I put £1 on. Don’t know why I thought I’d go into all the betting spiel, seemed like a good idea, and relevant to this post *shrugs* never mind eh, least you’ll feel a bit more knowledgable about the betting industry now I guess) Anyhow! So I was browsing our prices and got into the World Cup section and saw the prices for te various teams to win in the group stage

Now I’m no football mastermind but I know that the chances some of the teams are gonna win the groups are pretty unlikely whereas some teams are pretty much certain. As far as my knowledge of international football teams goes I think that pretty much every group are gonna be won by a team with ease. So I put all these prices into a machine we’ve got to work out how much you’d win and for a £1 accumulator (The money I win off one team goes onto the next, and so on but all teams need to win, if one wins the bet is a loser) and it came out as £34 which didn’t seem like a lot to me, so I decided I’d stick £10 on it to make it a bit more interesting

Now when I went to put it on, the betting shop across the road had better prices so if I win the bet I’ll get something like £360 for £10 on which is pretty swish. I don’t particularly think its a stupid bet either (Unlike most of my other ones “lol that horse is called Benny the Onion, I’m gonna stick some money on it” and in most cases they seem to fall at the first jump or don’t even bother to run ) so in honour of my biggest bet to date I’m gonna make a seperate page on here… omfg a spider just crawled through my window. But its gone now, as you can see in this clip I just recorded. But anyhow back to the bet. Yeah I’m gonna make a new page over on the right there and stick the info up there so people can follow it and laugh when my first team loses

Update: Got the page sorted, its a little hastily thrown together but you know, you’ll get over it, its not like anyone really cares anyhow

Finished work today at about 230, went to put a bet on a horse called “Love That Benny” and another one thats won before for me and was making my way home when I was whacked around the head. I turned around thinking some yob like cretins had hurled something at me and saw this pigeon flailing towards the ground people chuckling around me. Some pigeon had decided to try and ram raid my head :/

I’m pleased to say it failed in its mission and I’m sure its got more of a headache now then I have. You may have won this time pigeon, but next time I’ll be all matrixing on your arse

If you’ve read the forum you’ll know I’ve recently bought myself Guitar Hero for the Playstation 2, somehow it manages to work where every other game doesn’t but I’m not about to curse it

Picked it up today and totally sucked arse at it, I was struggling to do songs I was easily beating the high scores everytime. In my rage at being so shit I went back a few songs to something easier and then tried playing that on a harder difficulty level, such as one of my better songs and I managed to thrash my high score on it. So much so in fact that I only missed 1 note in the entire thing which I’m so gutted at, I’m gonna try outdo myself later on. Alas I had to boast about my leet simulated guitar skills

For those who didn’t know (Mainly because I never told anyone) Operation: Clean The House You Mong (Also known as OCTHYM don’t you know) is currently underway, I’ve set another load of washing off and did a better job of seperating the colours frm the whites as sergeant major mother told me how to do. The previously washed stuff is hanging up to dry on the clothes maid thing, it kinda looks like some sort of shitty torture device. Not that I’d know what a good torture device would be, although I always chuckled at that one the medieval folk used to use with the helmet with an iron spike that held your tongue down in it. Thought that was pretty class on a torture level. But we digress…

I’m going to take the hoover downstairs to sort all of that out in a minute and then I’ve got the last of the dishes to put away. All in all, its going quite well… Minus the 4 phonecalls this morning. One of whom was working asking me to do overtime to which I lol’d in their face. Well, their telephonal face but you get the picture

On the note of work, I’ve accepted a job offer at Gamestation again, so I’m starting working there for 16 hours a week come Friday proper chuffed like

But back to the dishes now, as is usually the case when sergeant major mother goes away on business me and my brother take to cultivating microbial cultures in leftover food in the kitchen. Normally to the degree that most things in the kitchen, are indeed stuck together by some brightly coloued furry stuff. This time was no exception. Indeed when I seperated 2 dishes I do believe I set off some sort of spore attack as my asthma went mental after that. I felt it was my duty to record said microbial growths, in the offchance we have accidently slayed some sort of uber medicine that can cure cancer that we grew in some 2 week old salad cream

Exhibit A would appear to be some sort of green eyed monster if you tilt your to the left, but alas no, it is in fact a Scottish Raspberry Yoghurt. Exhibit B would be a 2 week old bowl of some chocolate stuff my brother was eating, it happened to grow a green skin over its entire surface. Now I am witness to this not being entirely green the previous day, so some sort of crazy mould sexing was going on to breed that foul beast

So I get home today and theres a hastily scribbled envelope bearing my name and address on it so I opens it, most curious as to its contents…

Inside, there was another envelope with “Emma” wrote on it, and a letter to me:

“Dear Percy Renolds, I hope you do not find this letter too intrusive but I have tried to contact you by phone without success, so I am writing to introduce myself.

My name is Jessica LolI’mAReporter and I am a journalist with an agency that writes and photographs features for women’s magazines and national newspapers.

I read the article published in the News and Star today about Elizabeth TwoSwordsMcGuire of Cleator Moor and I was wondering if you were any reltion to Elizabeth or knew her at all?

I would very much like to talk to Elizabeth, about perhaps selling her side of the story to a magazine and I was wondering if you do know her, whether you would consider passing on the attached letter to Elizabeth in order for her to get in contact with me, should she decide to pursue my proposal.

*load of company spiele*

If you would like to find out more or incur any problems in carrying out this request, please do not hesititate to call me on the above number

Kind Regards

*Scribble that could be a signature or a small picture of a devill ball or something*

Jessica LolI’mAReporter”

The names have been changed to protect the innocent, the reporter and myself

So firstly, how did she get my address and details, and if shes been trying to ring me, where is there any evidence of her trying, or if she has been shes made a poor attempt at it

So herein lies my dilemma, having researched the persons name who I am to take this letter to I know the story that their interested in. Do I take this letter to this girl and tell her the deal and encourage the press to hassle people but also give this girl the chance to earn herself a few? Do I keep the letter and add it to my ever expanding wall of items, never opening it and revealing its contents to the world again? Do I ring up said company, and enquire as to how they got my details and why they believed I would be any better at them than finding this girl?

I feel like I’m in a game and I’ve just been given a quest by an NPC. I don’t see any potential gain from this for me personally, but I find it so bizarre and random that I just might go ahead with it and accept this mission

Edit: Felt the need to post a picture of said letter up here

Urgh, got sent by work to a meeting yesterday. Was pretty boring like, the main guy hosting it reminded me of Marv from Sin City, reckons he could have thrown cars around in a tantrum if he wanted to. It also just turned into a big whinge fest from about 3 different employees and some Scottish guy with a vendetta against management for putting his Scottish shops in the same group as English shops

In fact, probably the most interesting aspect of the meeting was indeed getting there in the first place, we were told to go to the ‘Holiday Inn’ in Carlisle, so we went to where I thought it was and ended up getting lost, everyone we passed was ‘Premier Travel’, so after eventually stumbling into an Asda we found out that a few days before the place had changed its name, so we had to backtrack and find it again. Then to top it off, when I went into the meeting room I was greeted by a tarten carpet… a tarten carpet… I didn’t even think they existed. The fact someone sat there and thought “hmm… I know what would go well in this room… tarten carpet *scribbles on order form*”

Now I’m no interior designer, its true, a little known fact maybe, perhaps a littler known fact was back in year 8 we did something called CareerQuest that was like a multiple choice, tick these boxes sort of thing and it gave you what it thought was the ideal job for you, mine came out as interior designer. It was a load of bullshit but thats beside the point

Now I’m no interior designer, its true, but a tarten carpet… is never appropriate for a room… tarten does not belong on the floor… in fact it quite hurt my eyes as it happens. I was not amuseds