too much / too soon / too late 'til you realize
October 08, 2001, 06:18 pmLately, I've acquired too much new music to process, no thanks to my sister, giving me a CDR jampacked with sound encoded in Motion Picture Expert Group Layer 3 format. In addition to that, I finally got around to getting the new Jimmy Eat World CD, Bleed American, and the Cave In CD, Jupiter. And then, while visiting the sister, bought the Son, Ambulance and Bright Eyes split, Oh, Holy Fools. Phew. It's overwhelming; I need to take a step back and put a few CDs on the shelf for a while.
This past weekend, I played "a healthy amount" of Phantasy Star Online Version 2; that is, I played long enough to actually get stuff done (aka leveling up seven times), but not so long that I wasted my entire weekend.
So jerkface and I went out on an adventure to tour the local Electronics Boutique, Software Et Cetera, and Toys'r'Us looking for GameCube kiosks and whatnot. But what we found was much more terrifying! At the Software Et Cetera, they had an X-Box kiosk setup, with controllers! I'm sure we all remember what the Penny Arcade kids had to say about the X-Box controller and it's mammoth size; let me just reiterate: the x-box controller is colossus! Also, when I heard that the analog sticks would be rubbercoated, I thought that it would make the controller feel more... solid. But the analog sticks actually feel really cheap and flimsy to me. Also, the buttons suck. There are two buttons waaaaay up on the right side that are totally useless. Bleagh. Jerkface and I laughed it up pretty loudly; I think we may have traumatized some young kids... maybe that'll teach 'em not to buy an x-box!
When we went to Toys'r'Us, we found another X-Box propaganda hut, this one with a hollow shell of an X-Box on display. It wasn't quite as big as I'd expected, but it's still Really big. No use for a handle on this console (unlike the GameCube). Take that, jerks!
During my weekly parole checkin with the Em and Pee, in desperation of some topic to talk about, I told my Em that I shaved my head last weekend. Her reaction was basically, Oh... You... shaved your head? Then she acted Really surprised when I told her that I liked it; I guess she expected me to have some hideous head deformities or something.