A little of everything is better than a whole heap o' nothin'

So in the absence of me making regular posts as of late (reasons to be explained) this post should outline pretty much everything that is happening in my life right now. It will be disappointingly short to accomplish such a task.

Read on after this picture of Chewbacca dog:

Deus Ex

I apologise for not posting lately, I spent the last weekend at the wedding of my mother and stepdad and then at Leeds Festival (which I plan to post something relevant to in the near future) and once I got back I went down to my dad's house for a few days. I got back on wednesday but there's been one problem - I've had no real internet. We've been switching internet and phone provider, and that means the phone line needs to be changed. This is taking longer than expected so I'm being forced to use a dongle, but speed and overly tight fair usage policies prevent me from my usual pastimes of playing video games on the internet and watching people play video games while talking at the same time.

Granted, there are plenty of single-player games I could play, but as I just got an oversized new monitor and don't want to try and make my current graphics card try to cope with the increased resolutions I decided to stick to something that wouldn't put a strain on it, which turned out to be Deus Ex.

I'm sure you've heard about Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which has just been released, but this is the game that came before (there was another game in between but it wasn't overly impressive). And it's damn awesome. Awesome enough to be voted 'Best PC game ever'. Twice. Years after its release in 2000. A game like that's gotta' be worth playing.

Extreme Truck-driving Action

In celebration of the new blog Youtube page, I'd like to post a couple of videos of my esteemed associate at his best (from his own Youtube found on the links):

QTfromK: Decisions, decisions

So now that I have nothing to do with my life until Uni starts up, I'm finding that seeing as I have more time "free" I find myself with more things to do and as such less overall time to be doing them. If that makes sense....probably not. Either way, I'm having to make a lot of decisions with regard to what I want to do with my allotted time before I go back to having it dictated for me again. The above 'I Fight Dragons' fanart seemed appropriate for this post.

A challenger approaches.....Mashirafen?

What is this?! Not related to Super Smash Bros. at all I'm afraid, though sort of important in the grand blogging scheme of things. Essentially I'm trying to come up with a dramatic way of introducing a new author on the blog, but it's not coming to be right now. So here it is:

A WILD MASHIRAFEN APPEARS!

Über-bargain: Team Fortress 2 is now free!

That's right folks, "The best war-themed hat simulator on the market" can now be downloaded and played to the heart's content for absolutely no cost. Aside from your soul of course. Thusly I present a 'Top 5' list of reasons why one would indulge.

Ground Zero (disambiguation)

In my experience all the best introductions begin with a tenuous link to Ancient Greek philosophy, so:
Just as Plato's 'soul of the philosopher' inevitably escapes the arduous cycle of birth and death, so too have I broken free from the chains of compulsory education at long last. Thusly, in my great beneficence, I have decided to share my thoughts on a variety of things with the world at large (or at least those few individuals who stumble upon this humble blog). Without any more delay then, and certainly with no further ado, I'd like to welcome anyone who has found their way here and talk a little bit about myself and what I aim to do with this blog.