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I always thought I was an “RPG” player and fanboy.. but I find I have less time to devote to trundling through long stories and prefer just to relieve some stress. I would say my favourite genres right now, in no particular order are: First-person shooters (Counter-strike, Call of Duty), Third-person shooters (Metal Gear Solid, Gears) and Action RPG’s. Action RPG’s encompass a slightly wider scope of games but generally qualify if they still have some sort of real-time fighting system such as Zelda, or Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. I’m definitely not a fanboy, having owned systems by Sega, Sony, Nintendo and now Microsoft..

First I had the Wii (which I still have but am debating on whether or not its worth keeping or selling while the value is still high) and I would make arguments like.. ahh even though it looks like its a N64 game, its still fun because the actions kinda make it more interesting. And now with the X-box 360, I’ve decided I would easily trade that arm-waving action for some really good graphics. That being said, it shows while the graphics are a weak point, there’s still many hours of fun to be had beating up people.

I think the systems really cater to competely different things. There’s just no imagining playing Assasin’s Creed or Lost Planet on a Wii.. while on the flip side, there’s no Cooking Mama or Tennis on the 360.

The 360 vs the PS3 is a whole different matter though, they’re both essentially made up of: one part personal computer and one part graphics card, and are much more directly in competition. Which wins out? At THIS level I think I could say graphics are a non-factor in the comparison. I am perfectly happy with the level of graphics of the 360. I personally think PS3 has the edge on technology (although Gears of War would beg to differ) but now it really comes down to the games. The following is a list of games which I like, look cool or I wanna play:

Slideshow of a few 360 games I wanna play.
(These are ALL in-game shots. The only one I’m not sure about is Battlefield: Bad Company because its from the teaser trailer. But the bottom of the trailer says its the in-game engine)

UPDATE @ 6:09pm : wohoho.. Out of Foreign Customs! (in 6 minutes too.. maybe it’ll be $0 duty!) Could it be a pre-weekend delivery..! Too bad it’s USPS.. which means it’ll stay in the post office. But I can pick them up Saturday at least.

Stepped on my crumpler, didn’t even say sorry.

!*(@*(@&!*(@!(@&

Maybe I’m being petty.
It’s been a long day.

Well, lost my post.. but here’s the bottom line: USPS tracking number: EC 919 694 286 US

Anyway, I like my idea, so I will put forth the effort to rewrite that part of the post. Since our weakest link is our none-too-great vocals. How about we arrange songs and just target instrumental.. then end up with songs that could be used in a church before worship or such. Something almost exactly along the lines of our ‘Here I Am to Worship’. We could post them online, make a site, and push them for free download. I think it would be more a joke and really just a place for us to collect our songs.. but it would be super cool still heh. and it gives us a “goal” and direction.

As far as solos go.. and their place in it.. It’s what makes it us, so to take them out would really be taking the TPX out of the songs. Anywho.. its not like they’re meant for congregational worship, just our own way of worshipping God as us.

Playing them at NTCAC would be a conflict of interest.. but hey, if anyone else in the whole world downloads and listens to them even once.. I’d be ecstatic =p..

The second part of the idea was worship-friendly backing tracks.. which would be very-much similar to the above except without solos.. and then put it as donation-ware and if we get even $1.. hoho. we can say we’re paid musicians!

Hello Jason and friends.

Upon hearing that you went ice fishing last sunday, I too went fishing this past.. saturday, the coldest day EVER. But we had a hut.. but it was still ridiculously cold. Anyway, here’s what we got.. going for glory. Got out onto the ice around 6:30, stayed until about 2pm.