Cheap Games

I've become addicted to finding clearance games at Target, or through Cheap Ass Gamer. I almost picked up Madworld for the Wii for $15, until it dawned on me that I probably wouldn't play it for more than 30 minutes. Dead Space is at $20 now. I will probably pick that one up after the next price drop. My backlog is strong and will keep me busy during the long dry spell that will arrive coincidentally with the arrival of my son at the end of September.

About the only thing I'm really looking forward to this Fall is Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, and I'm probably going to wait until December to pick that up. What the hell happened to me?

I'm Still Here

Been using Twitter mainly these last few months, but I haven't forgotten about MLR.

PSN finally got on the ball and let you setup a badge for similar to the Xbox Live ones. So, on your right, is my measly collection of PSN tropies. :)

Game Time

I've been playing Crysis for the last two weeks (game time seems to be hard to come by). I sort of regret not picking this up when it first came out. What I don't regret is paying $5 for it at Circuit City ($40 price tag, 50% and a $10 gift card). :)

I really want to pick up Dawn of War 2 and Empire: Total War, but I really want a price drop or sale. Steam has spoiled me with their weekend sales. I seem to get a $5 game every Friday. Last week was World of Goo, which is a fun distraction that I can play for about 15-20 minutes at a time. The previous weekend was Lost Planet.

So, there you have it, I'm doing my part to stimulate the economy $5 at a time.

What's That About Speaking Too Soon?

Well, I did. I figured out the issue. The Residential Gateway for Uverse doesn't like to route outside and then come back in. That's why I had the router behind a router message any time I tried to publish via WWW. So, Hemidal Doesn't Exist! is back in business. I'll probably be a little more tech, politics and crude over there. I'm going to keep this one more about gaming.

Blog on!

Short Lived

So, Hemidal Doesn't Exist is no more. I rebuilt the OpenSUSE box with Ubuntu and I've got a login for Hannah. I'm also having a beast of a time getting Uverse (switched from AT&T DSL) to pass traffic on port 80 and I'm not keen on throwing the box out in the DMZ (adds another firewall into the mix because I won't leave it out there exposed).

So, we've got a local Wordpress Blog for our house. I might fiddle around with it some and see if I can get it out there, but until then, The Slyngstad Family Blog is for internal use only. :)

Penny Arcade! - The New Hotness

Penny Arcade! - The New Hotness

You know... I use a laptop and my HP can get God awful hot, but I don't think it's ever gotten quite this hot.