Hey All,
This is a game I haven’t played in roughly Four years. I first found it on the discount shelf in Game Stop during my freshman year of College; I believe it was a Tuesday. Ah GameStop’s and college, such an perfect union , but I digress. I went home installed it and began enjoying it from the start. The game started out by getting us acquainted with universe where the humans existed. They existed on a planet called “Edumea,” and the story starts with you playing as Gideon, the main character, as you pilot a shuttle into your space station, and prepare to meet the alien’s who’s ship has just appeared in Orbit.  Edumea was similar to earth, and they apparently had a myth that they had lived on another planet and after an attack they fled to Edumea. But that is enough of the story for now. I played for an hour or two just after installing it and then went back to doing whatever work I had to do.

I had no classes on Wednesdays until 3:00 PM, so I decided to play for a few hours while killing time until class when I woke up the next morning a little bit before 8. I was hooked. I played for a few hours with my roommates coming and going from class, I remember at one point I was starting one level and my roommate, Jay, was leaving for class. He came back a short while later, felt to be about 20 minutes, while I was part way through another level. The conversation went something like this:

“Hey Jay, Forget something? Your Keys?”
“What?”
“Oh was class cancelled you came back pretty quick.”
“Dude I left like 2 hours ago”
“HOLY SHIT, This game has made me lose track of time”

He had left around 11:00 am it was now 1:00 PM and I hadn’t eaten lunch, not even sure about breakfast. So I decided to play another level or two then go grab some food, since I still had 2 hours.  I keep playing, my other roommate, Ian, gets back and it’s 2:30 now. I just go “Oh Shit” pause the game, get my shit together, run out the door, and grab food in the café before class.

I tell you about that to just give you an idea how strong the story is for that game, hell it was written by ORSON SCOTT CARD! Now there are some downsides. There are a few glitches, and the controls work well for the most part. The game could have used a bit more time in the oven; it would’ve been solid gold (somewhat like the color of the box), instead of only 14K.

To this day it is one of my favorite games ever, but due to some issues on the console platform it came out on first, it lost a lot of possible sales, and the PC version didn’t do well enough because of the poor Xbox reviews. This was supposed to be the beginning of a trilogy that I will sadly never get to see the end of, but here’s hoping some company see’s the diamond in this rough.

I installed this game recently and lost track of time again over the period of a few days and a few nearly sleepless nights. Even though this game may never get its story finished, I Highly recommend you go and pick it up if you can get past the early 2005 graphics. If you enjoy a story go get this game. You’ll love it.
~S.P.O. Spartan-104

These next few weeks are going to be quite busy.
Next Tuesday: A Brutal Concert: Chimaira and….

Saturday June 28th-29th: NOR’EASTER LAN! Going to be Awesome.
Week of June30-July5: Visits to a few places: A polis once known as New York City, to visit a Cousin who excels in the area of music, and sound engineering. Then I may visit my northern domain for some much needed relaxation..if possible.

Then it will be a return to the grind of Increasing my knowledge.

…It has begun, just remember who it was that informed us of T.S. Elliot’s mistaken prediction
Till next time,
~Animalistic

Hey all Ive been pretty busy lately running around doing stuff, but have no fear for The Emperor has returned!

Here is a Big update ranging from My last real entry up till right before Ozzfest 2006:-D. Part II will be coming later today/tonight.

Massive Update part 1!
The Night of Saturday July 22
That Night I ended up sitting around photoshopping, even helped Kristina with a tattoo dilemma the wonders of Photoshop.
After Photoshopping I went out on a walk with a good friend of mine, she wasn’t in a great mood (friend troubles) but thankfully after a 2 hour? walk she was cheered up a bit so that was good.

Sunday July 23
Woke up a lot later then usual (almost 11am), I hate waking up late. I got an IM from my friend Dan letting me know that high tide was coming up. So we decided to go get my friend Lorrie. About 40 minutes later everyone was ready and we get to Dan’s house, and of course by then the tide has gone out a tad so we ended up only going out for almost 2 hours. I got soaked at one point, I was sitting up at the front and leaned flat on the front and we went almost straight into a wave. Oops:-p. heh it was alright. They got a good laugh out of that too:-p. After we headed in we decided we would go hit up a local restaurant/Sports Bar, and get some food. But of course I decided to change first and so did they. Dan Came around to pick us up and we headed to the place. I got a Mountain Dew Dan got a Pepsi, and Lorrie got a …Sierra Mist? When it came time to get food we all ordered basically the same thing minus a few toppings, The Bobby Orr, it’s a Small sub roll stuffed with chunks of steak and covered in cheese, with a side of Steak Fries, and Beans. It’s a great meal. We talked about Random stuff, Dan and Lorrie got into a conversation about Guinness beer and also how so many people don’t know how to pour beer from a can (tilt the glass pour half of it down the side, upright the glass and empty the can). Any who we all had fun doing that and we headed back to his house I believe we then watched Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Which of course was awesome (who wants to build a giant wooden badger with me?) after all that we realized we were all relatively tired so we called it a night, and Dan drove us home. It’s always great hanging out with those two. Once home I just relaxed for most of the night talked to a few people and then headed to bed.

Monday July 24.
Woke up for another day of work, and then off I went. After work, I got home and talked online to a few people for a bit, and then watched a movie I have really wanted to see but never got the Chance, “Serenity.” I had watched all Of Firefly a while back, the series Serenity had come from. It sucks because Firefly was a great show but somehow I missed it when it was originally on in 2002, however it was cancelled because of lack of viewers, currently it has many fans, the problem was most of its current fans were unaware of its existence, or its time of airing was bad, at the time for some reason or another. I highly suggest watching all of Firefly as well as the movie Serenity, and yes in that order Anyway after that I was hooked again and went on a researching warpath for everything about the movie and the show. After that it was pretty much the end of the night.

Tuesday July 25
Went to work of course, came home relaxed for a while, and then Played a bit of CS:Source with a friend of mine. In other news on this day AMD bought ATI which I believe shall lead to some interesting Tech Developments in the coming years. Not much happened today that I can remember other than what was said and some planning for Ozzfest.

Wednesday July 26
Another day of work and relaxing when I got home. At work today I headed to one office to help out this guy Mike with his Palm and getting it to work on his desktop and his laptop, while putting files from his palm on his old comp on both, while there I got to see the summer help he hired this cute girl named Samantha;). Played some more CS:Source with 2 friends of mine, while on the phone with my dad’s ex’s daughter who I had known for so long which made her like a sister to me, I hadn’t talked to her in a while so it was good to hear from her. Called it a night around 1AM. Another slow night.

Thursday July 27
Woke up shot an Ewok and went to work, ok ok maybe I didn’t shoot an Ewok. At work I believe I worked on Mike’s Palm again, I just can’t remember what I did, hmm maybe I started working on it today who knows. Got home, relaxed, watched a movie, “The Hulk,” Listened to some music that a friend sent me, Stradivarius, they weren’t bad. Did some more stuff on my comp which was most likely playing this game I am addicted to, I’ll describe  that later, possibly talked to Joe for a little bit since he got home on Thursday, if he wasn’t in NH all the time I’d probably be hanging out with him a lot more. That was about it for Thursday. In Other news, the US finally Ceded control of the Internet to an “international organization,” however I’m not quite sure how well that will work out. Hopefully it’s for the best.

Friday July 28
Work was work, Worked on Mike’s Palm Pilot again because it refused to HotSync correctly with the laptop for some odd reason, I ended up spending 3 or so hours on it and in the end we had to just have him Sync to his desktop and not use it with the laptop because it would keep erroring out, on the bright side I saw that cute girl again hehe cute faces can brighten days:p And since the Palm was the last thing I did I went home after finishing what I had done. We also got a chiller in our office (a type of air conditioner) we finally got working. Got home Talked to a few friends online, then went to Joe’s. Me and him played HALO for a few hours and then one of his sister’s boyfriends came over and the three of us played till 1am, killing each other and having fun with glitching the game.:-D

Saturday July 29
At around 2 am got a frantic phone call from a friend of mine, but later on in the day got a call letting me know she was all right. Woke up Early to head to Six Flags in a town known as Agawam Massachusetts. The 5 of us (Kathleen, Richie, Erin, Ryan, myself) met up with 5 others (Jared, Peter, Peter’s GF, Chris, Chris’s GF) got in the park and met up with another two (Matt and Lauren) and we all went on a ride then the 5 of us went to the water park while the other 7 stayed in the theme park section. That was quite fun. Later on Matt and Lauren met up with us in the water park. They seemed pretty kool. We had fun on all the water rides, and then as that was coming to a close we headed to the Theme park area, they went on the Batman Coaster first, which they seemed like they had fun on. While walking around the theme park Matt and I talked about his cell phone/PDA and I realized He was in my Comptech class for about a week or two back in sophomore year of high school and then he asked what I knew about computers, since I mentioned myself as a computer guy, prior to me knowing that he in-fact knew how to handle his technology. We had some cool conversations about technology and his fun job working for Compucon. It started raining a couple times and we began on a hunt for Chris for he had Kathleen’s keys to her metallic chariot. After sometime we found them because they didn’t answer their phones, Jared because he was a prick and Chris because it was on vibrate and he didn’t have it on him. We found them about 20 minutes after we split ways with Matt and Lauren. At this point the rain had let up and it was getting late so the 5 of us headed home and let the other 5 enjoy themselves in the theme park. On the way home the other 5 passed us with Jared mooning us. Later on I found out I became sun burnt even after using a bit of sun block, apparently not enough. Got home and talked to a few people and then went to Joe’s house. Put on some Aloe and beat some Halo (when I refer to Halo it could be 1 or 2). I slept at his house; we called it a night around 4.

Sunday July 30
When I woke up put some Aloe on. I got him out of bed around 1 after trying a few times prior to that. We played some more Halo then I went home first around 2 then went back to his place after a shower and returned again around 9, when I got home a friend of mine called me to help with their computer, I ended up reloading it and setting up most of their stuff. I got home around 11:30/11:45 and basically called it a night.

Monday July 31
Went to work and talked to Mike He needed me to put a few of his Palm’s files on his laptops, Like his address book just so he can have important numbers. So I went to his office to do that, while doing that I found out what I thought could have been the problem with Hot syncing and Hot Shit I fixed it, I was quite happy, after that As I was leaving I started talking to his summer assistant Samantha, Turns out she just graduated Notre Dame High school and was going to go to Providence College. She seems cool. Went back to the office and we had a relatively easy day. After work My Friend Rachel from Wentworth came down from her place in Vermont and met me so we could head into Boston and get Dan (My Dad’s Ex’s Kid who’s basically my brother) we picked him up at South Station. Then Headed to my dad’s house to pick up His new girlfriend’s son James. We all then proceeded to my house to drop our stuff off then went to Joe’s house to hang out for a bit. Later on we went back to my dad’s to get James’s money and a cooler of Gatorade. Then we, stopped at Lauren’s house (My ex who was coming with us to Fest de la Ozz with her BF Mike G.) to give her a brief rundown of the plans for Ozzfest, returned to my house and got ready to call it a night.

Tuesday August 1
Woke Up early got everyone up and dressed and headed to Joe’s. And of course Joe woke up late which delayed us a bit. We left his house I got some gas, and we headed to IHOP, got there around 7:20 where we met Lauren and Mike. We all ordered some food, chatted a bit; I gave mike a brief summary of how we were going to get there. At around 8:20 we headed out. At the turn off for 95 a semi wouldn’t let Mike turn off so we ended up having to talk to them part of the directions so they could catch up with us, when we got to 495 we found them and then we got to the Tweeter Center. And Now I shall Split this Blog. The Next Update will describe the events of Ozzfest and the rest of this past week.

I may even edit pictures in later=-o.

Well On Saturday I woke up around 9am and relaxed for a while. Later I joined my mother in acquiring some breakfast at a local diner. Before Breakfast we noticed that the moving Vietnam Memorial Wall was in town so after eating we decided to stop by and honor it by going to see it. It was quite touching, especially considering the fact that quite a few family members had been in the war and died because of war related illnesses. We were there for a little while, but then decided it was time to leave.

I was at home until about quarter past 1PM at which point I had to leave for a meeting with members of the group I am in at Wentworth so we could plan the activities that we would be doing during the first week for the freshman to participate in. That only took about an hour to do, soon thereafter I headed off to Quincy, where I met up with Samort.

Samort andI hung out briefly playing an interactive visual game revolving around the Movie “The Matrix”. After that brief interlude we were off to the mall to see what Samort could sell, so he could purchase some new things. While at the mall we found out that all the store he wanted to sell them at would do is rip him off, so we left.

We then head back to the domain of Samort. While there we feasted on Pizza while enjoying some visual entertainment projected from Cathode Ray Tubes. We then entertained ourselves with Dynasty Warriors 3. It was fun.
At around 8:15 I got a call from Kappy saying that there was going to be a gathering with the crew from Wentworth and that I should show up. At 8:30 I left Samort’s and headed to join Kappy Sl33py and the rest of the WIT crew back on campus. When I got there I headed up to there room and did my generally unmistakeable knock, and Jackie answered the door. When she answered the door she basically tackled me with a hug, it’s good to know when you’ve been missed:). I headed in and saw Kappy, Sl33py and The Godless Warrior, as well as a couple of their friends and roommates. It was cool being there with them again, and it only got better. I met their friends Adam, and Jeanette, and saw a very Fryedguy and their roommate Brian. Kappy Jackie Adam and Jeanette, played a game of Mario Party that seemed to go on for quite a bit. But they had fun, so thats good. At this point one of the room’s friends showed up, it was Carlos, who apparently they call Jesus:p. After him came two of Sleepy’s hometown friends, one of which was named Mickey and the other one’s name escapes me at the moment. At around 10 Farragher, Deftones, and Eileen showed up, which was awesome. Eileen said hey, farragher was like oh hey! and Deftones was surprised to see me. It was good to see them again. Deftones and I sat and talked about what we would be doing next semester, as Kappy and I did earlier (seeing as we are all (including farragher) all in the same suite). So everyone was hanging out and having a good time. At some point Adam, Carlos, Farragher and I all began playing Super Smash Brothers Melee. I only lost one game out of about 6 (Adam and I were the only two playing after a few games.) This was around the time that Ian finally woke up and joined us :p. He hung out for a few then wandered off. Then Ivan Von Girderboot joined the party. After a little while someone got the great idea to get some fireworks and set them off in the park and it was about midnight at this point. So we headed out and set them off. They were good and everyone out there looked like they had fun, oh did I mention some of them had had a bit too much to drink at this point. We headed back into the dorm and all just hung out for a while.  At around 3:30 I left with Eileen to drop her off at her house then for me to head back home. I dropped Eileen off at her house and then got to go on adventure to get home. After a brief slip up or two I was on my way home. I finally arrived home at about 4:53 and soon after I figured it would be best to call it a night.

Did I mention, I took pictures, however you need the password, maybe if you ask nicely or I feel you are supposed to see them I’ll give you the password. http://gallery.animalicity.com

Sincerely Your Emperor,
Animalistic
at about 4:53