34. Centipede
Requirements-
Alert Phases: under 75
Kills: Under 250
Continues: over 25
12:38
Finished installing Act 1.
Watching 7th Circle. I don't like this one but I've watched it the least. I know the answer to it now, even if I didn't know what letters they are. It's Piervue Armement.
12:42
Act 1 Splash Screen
I hate this part so much, can't use any god damned gadgets its pure sneak
12:47
Meet with Mk.II
*pause*
Life Complete.
THE BOSS EXTREME
Total Play Time 3:53:51
Continues: 0
Alert phases: 0
Total kills: 0
LIFE Recovery Items: 0
Weapon Types Acquired: 67
Flashbacks Viewed: 140
Special Items: Not Used
CQC Uses: 33
Headshots: 52
Knife Kills/Knockouts: 0
Wall Press Time: 00:01:01
Sideways Rolls: 0
Forward Rolls: 33
Crawling Time: 00:31:02
Crouch Walking Time: 00:42:00
Time in Carboard Box/Drum: 00:01:39
Combat Highs: 0
Weapons/Items Acquired: 96
Total Drebin Points from Sales: 772172
Current Drebin Points: 2569530
Hello, my name is Gordon and I've recently bought Grand Theft Auto 4 for the 360. I am utterly amazed at everything this game has to offer - it's one of the deepest and biggest games I've played in quite some time now. Everything has been expertly crafted, even down to the achievements. Things you might have missed in the game are highlighted, such as doing as wheelie, stealing 20 cars through text messages, or even topping the leaderboards in QUB3D.
Oh QUB3D...
I know this is a game inside of a game so it is most likely nowhere near the top of the list of important things to consider for tweaking or fixing via a patch or update but please hear me out. I really like QUB3D. After a long day of doing missions, races, and bank heists - I like to stop in at the local pool hall or wherever I can find this machine and play - always attempting to get that achievement, to get first place.
But herein lies my dilemma - I am colorblind.
I can see color, yes. I can make it through 99% of life no problems, but the 1% of those problems I happen to run into really stop my life and remind me this is literally impossible. I started to play QUB3D and found the puzzle game quite interesting and quirky. I progressed through the levels and somewhere around either level 5 or 6 (hard to tell as you'll figure out), I noticed the "green" blocks no longer disappear after you match up a group of 4. This quickly lead to my failure in the game and I was left wondering what was wrong.
Piece after piece, block after block, I toiled away at this machine - my highest score still 3 thousand away from where I needed to get. "Why do they make these blocks impossible to break, except by random chance?" I would ask myself. I called my roommate in to have a look, perhaps both of us could figure this out. As I got to that magical level again I showed him the "green" pieces no longer match.
The look he gave me told more than any words could - a look of humor, and a sort of sad pity.
"Well those ones," he walks up and points at the screen, "are yellow. THESE ones are green."
I stare dumbfounded at the screen, there is no way I could have forgotten I was colorblind - there was no way this game would fall into that niche of puzzle games I have categorized in my mind. The niche of games that, while very fun, are close to impossible for me to play because of my less than stellar color acuity.
So I write to you today not so much for tech support (I apologize for wasting your time but this is the most relevant email address I could find) but to ask if you could possibly just forward this to someone who is open for suggestions or bug fixes. Many puzzle games put a little icon or symbol on the pieces for just this reason. I really do want to beat this game, I want to get 100% in it - I want to scour every part of Liberty City myself, down to the very gristle on the bone.
But for now the meat I can eat off that bone looks a bit too similar in color to the meat that is inedible.
Thank you for your time.
Hungrily Blind,
Gordon R.
The first rule of Rock Night is - you do not talk about Rock Night. The second rule of Rock Night is - you DO NOT talk about Rock Night. Third rule of Rock Night, someone yells Fuck This Song!, gives up, fails out three times, the fight is over. Fourth rule, only four rockers to a band. Fifth rule, one song at a time, fellas. Sixth rule, no sweatbands, no mullets. Seventh rule, songs will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule, if this is your first night at Rock Night, you have to sing.
These past few days have been a bit harrowing. Perhaps not that bad, but very annoying at least. Saturday morning my roommate Alex flew off for a week again, getting me back home around 11am. I looked outside and just like any other winter day in Washington - it looked like crap outside. I shut the blinds and plopped down at my computer. It wasn't until around 4pm or so that a friend asked me if I was snowed in or not yet. Thinking it was a joke I opened the blinds to see... nothing. Well actually it took a moment to realize the construct-eque kind of whiteness I was seeing everywhere was snow. It was snowing hard.
:(
Go ahead and check back to last year, I think I babbled about the black out weekend. Anyways the snow thankfully came and went without much ruckus - in it's wake leaving a lot of rain.
At first the rain was cool, it was the huge fat rain and it was melting the snow away quick. But then after a few hours it was still coming down. The next day, still coming down. That night... still coming down. It was as if Bothell was transported to the final fight in The Matrix: Revolutions. That night we went out drinking and then hit Denny's - still raining.
Leaving Denny's around 4am or so I cruised back toward my house, having to pass under a little underpass, my friend in tow. I get close to it and I see there is a huge pool of water. It was quite odd looking so I slowed to a stop, noticing a car on my right who was stopped, the driver doing something or another. I figured the guy would flag me down and go "gtfo noob" if I was about to make a grave mistake. Clenching my wheel I floored it, pegging my Honda out at 5 miles an hour. Deeper and deeper it went, not too bad so far. Then I got to the middle, and my headlights went out. Or... they didn't so much go out as they were completely UNDER water.
My entire vehicular life flashed before my eyes. This is how my car was going to die, not with a bang - but with a slow bubbling whimper. I keep the gas going and through some amazing stroke of luck I pull out of it, and continue driving as if nothing had happened. It really was one of the scariest moments driving I've ever felt.
And the rain never stopped.
The next day I woke up and got a call from my friend Aimee, she said she was flooded in - and how were we going to get to work. Calling work, Aimee, and texting others back and forth the only help I got from my manager was "walk" ;|.
So I did walk, I walked down and decided to find out how bad the damage was. The first thing I notice is that the street right after mine, on the northern (not sure which but I'll call it north to sound intelligent) side there is a huge field of grass. I'm not sure exactly what it's for, perhaps it IS a flood plane of sorts. Whatever it was it is now under water. It's a "huge fucking lake and the apartments near it are now probably beach side property. It's not as if it's a few inches all over, here you can see there is a fence, that's a full size fence that's pretty under water.
Walking down a bit further I get to the underpass where I made my little submarine car earlier. The water is a bit lower than it was last night but at least they got some cops out here to physically block it off. It's hard to make out with my shitty camera but there are barriers on either side of the pool, and as you can see they are about half way under water. Those are the standard concrete barriers you find on highways and the likes.
It wasn't until we turned down the cul-de-sac(??) that we found out just how bad the flooding has gotten. Down here there is a small (small) river that runs under the road and comes up at certain areas. It was literally overflowing over the sidewalk and just feeding the new river (was: road) with fresh water constantly. Even on the sidewalk the water was coming up to and going over the curb. The entire road was filled this high, deeper in some spots. It's just odd to think about the roads you drive on every day suddenly becoming some kind of archaic water canal system. Flowing over the edges of everything, blocking entire communities out of the rest of the roads - it was pretty intense. Some houses had to resort to sandbagging their driveways just in case. I couldn't imagine having to do that again :(
There is one "house" that got it pretty bad. I call it a house with a loose definition of such because I'm not entirely sure if anyone lives there. I see things that people might use if they lived there decorating the "lawn" and "yard", but I don't know how to get to this house and I don't know where it goes or does. Whatever it was, it was in low ground and at the time experiencing a good foot of water flowing through it. I hope whatever lives there is alright - as well as all their shit.
All in all it was a crappy few days and a crappy day at work. Apparently a state of emergency was declared - but nothing cool came of it :(
