Starting again

I have no want to start a war. After all it was my birthday yesterday.
But. I want to start writing here again...and if that causes problems, then I guess I'll figure something else out.

A lot has happened, but that is not what matters. What matters is I want to talk about video games again and this was once a cool blog that allowed for that. SO if I have to make a different one I will...but I helped come up with the concept..and the name. So for now I will continue it starting....

So...I did it

I got an Xbox360. It was long overdue I suppose..and now microsoft owns yet another piece of my soul. It was just a good enough of a deal that I didn't want to pass it up (thanks dealnews!). Basically I needed a new laptop as my old one..after about 6 years, lots of use and one notably melted part, had finally given out aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Microsoft was running a deal where students could buy a certain type of laptop and get this xbox 360 slim for free....so all I had to do was prove I'm a student!

And I quickly I became the owner of 2 (really 3) things...
1. Something to help me do my homework
2. Something to help me play modern video games
3. Something to distract me from my homework with modern PC games

You might notice that the third one bares a striking resemblance to the first.
In any event. The xbox360 I got is technically the new "slim" varient of them. This is amusing to me, as I remember the original xboxes and how they were refereed to as an "Xbrick" by me and many of my friends as, quite frankly they were HUGE. I also seem to remember that I had decided I was going to stick with Sony as my gaming systems of choice and nintendo depending on what I wanted to do, as I did not want microsoft to corner all of the gaming market...

Woops.

In any event. The original xbox's younger, slimmer, stronger cousin has been awesome. So what games have I been playing you might ask? Skyrim Nope. I never understood what was making people give over their entire lives to that game....just didn't get it, but then...
I started playing Oblivion. Okay. I get it now. WOW. Just wow.
For those who don't know, Oblivion is the game that came before Skyrim in the Elder Scrolls series. I wasn't sure I was so interested, but then Boris gave me his copy and I totally get it. The game has borrowed (Read: knocked down, beat senseless and stolen) large amounts of my time and apparently Skyrim is only more involved.

Now Juice wants me to play Skyrim, but I can't I've started down this path and I just need to restore Uriel Septim's heir to the throne...

Anyway, so far its been great and while I have more I want to write about more games and such, I should really be doing other things and this is already super long for a "return to form" post.
So. I'll leave you with this. If you live video game music, at least abstractly in the "I like musical scores" area and don't mind the occasional 16 bit version of it...check out Sound-test.org amongst other things, it is a very cool internet radio station for video game music. You'll hear old favorites and discover some new ones.

Till next time lets not make the blog go boom,
- Erik
Soundtrack of the moment: Yoko Shimomura - "In the flower garden" (SUPER MARIO RPG)