Black Sun

It's a pain. It's all pain. Life is a haze produced from a chemical reaction, passing us by.

The man read the words out loud to anyone who would care to listen. Here was his life, his sole being, running away as a shadow from the forgotten past. What is he? He no longer knows. The answers have eluded him for so long, and it seems as though they will never reveal themselves to him.

"This silence is disturbing me," the man said to himself, scratching his chin with a careless thought.

The man grabbed a bottle of old whiskey from a crumpled paper bag that lay on the floor beside him. The blanket of the night engulfed everything in the sky, followed by its compatriot, the moon. Oh, how the moon seems to mock him from a great distance.

"Pardon my asking, but how did you get all the way up there?" the man asked the sky after taking a gulp of the liquor. "That is in no safe distance from the ground. Mind you don't fall on us now, for you've done a great job at preventing so for a while."

The man looked at the ground and noticed an ant that struggled to carry the burden of food, the life-giving substance, and march it across the dirt. The man scrutinized the ant for all it was worth. He thought about how meaningless the ant's life was, carrying food to a colony which granted no recognition.

Raising his whiskey bottle in the air, the man took a mighty swig, "Poor ant. For all your troubles, you find no comfort in the seclusion of your own home. You and I are not so different. Only I can end your suffering, while you cannot do me such a fantastic favor."

With those words, the man motioned his hand down on to the floor and crushed the life out of the ant.

Back to School

Sorry guys, I haven't posted nearly anything at all during the summer. I was too busy playing games. Yes, that's my only excuse. Truth be told, I didn't do anything this entire summer. From the moment I got up every day, I would turn on my computer and stay there until the end of the day. This process repeated during the two and a half months of summer. I'll try to keep you guys posted, but really I don't think too many people read these things, and I usually don't have anything worthwhile to add on to here. Nonetheless, I will try, but since school has started, I might get even less time than I had. This summer went by so quickly, it seems as if no time had passed. But alas, all good things must come to an end, and it has.

It's back to school again.

The End of the Steam Sales

The Steam "Summer Camp" sale has come to a close, and with it goes a lot of the amazing deals for this online gaming service. It has gone, but it has left it's mark. I started off the sale without really any plans on buying anything since I had no credit card. The first day went...and I saw Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, with all the DLC content for it...for only 9 dollars. That's right. 9...DOLLARS.

I couldn't believe it. I was stunned. I was flabergasted. I was feeling things for Steam that I never thought I would feel for an online gaming service. Looking on, I saw that Oblivion wasn't the only deal that they had. I saw the GTA Collection (GTA, GTA II, GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas) for only 7 dollars.

Immediately, I began to panic. What if these deals run out? I knew they weren't going to last forever, but I was helpless to do anything. Sullenly, I looked on from afar as the deals waved their hands in my face tantalizingly. 

Thankfully, a friend was there in the nick of time. 

Later that night, I was playing some Team Fortress 2 (released FREE on Steam) when I started chatting with one of my friends. Eventually the conversation led on to the Steam summer sales. I told him that he should check out the sales. Unfortunately I couldn't buy anything, I said jokingly to him. That's when he had the idea. He was going to buy the games, gift them to me, and I could just pay him back later. I couldn't believe my luck.

YES!!!!!!!!

I was going to be able to get in on the action. It was a simple matter. I had the money, but in cash, and I could easily give my friend the money to pay him back. It took a while, but through the ten days of the Steam summer sale, I managed to download a "bucket"-ful of games and their numerous mods (which most are almost like full games).

In the end, I ran to the total of 7 games and 5 mods (and counting):

-Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (including the Vietnam DLC, and the Spectact DLC)

-Counterstrike: Source

-Garry's Mod (came with CSS)

-Half Life 2

-Half Life 2: Episode 1

-Killing Floor

-Unreal Tournament 2004

Along with:

-Age of Chivalry

-Dystopia

-Insurgency

-Pirates, Vikings, and Knights 2

-Zombie Panic! Source

All for the low, low price of (for the entire list): $45

Yep...$45. All of those games...cheaper than ONE full new retail game.

I sure will miss this deal, but all good things must end sometime. Now please excuse me while I go frag some aliens in UT2k4.

Feel free to add me on Steam: JungaBoon

New pc

I just got a new computer, thanks to my dad. It's a Gateway DX4850 with 8 gigs of RAM, 1.5 terrabyte hard-drive, 3.2 gigahertz processor, and an Nvidia GeForce graphics card. I can finally run Battlefield 2 and Battlefield Vietnam on maximum settings. I'm going to try World at War on this beast at some point. It's so awesome! Thanks dad.

New thoughts

I found out something new about myself today. I am content with dreaming. I'm content to watch as other people achieve their dreams, while I keep on dreaming. I do nothing about my dreams. But yet...there is a time when waiting is the best choice, right? I don't want to rush into things right now...especially right now.

Friday afternoon

I'm typing this while I wait for a download to finish. I plan on pulling another all-nighter tonight. It sucks because I left my phone at school. I have to get it back on Monday.

I'm downloading Forsaken World, a game made by Perfect World Interactive. It's supposed to be like an opposite of Perfect World, which I've already downloaded. I remember downloading and playing Perfect World some three years ago. That was when I literally had roughly around fifty games on my computer. Then one day, my computer wouldn't turn on properly. It just kept beeping. So we cleared out and rebooted the computer. It would be two years before I would figure out how to solve the problem of the computer beeping. There was simply too much dust on the memory chips.

So now here we are, and I decided to give Perfect World another chance. I now have three different MMORPGs on my pc: Runes of Magic, Allods Online, and Perfect World. All three of them are really good games, but I'm a really low level in all three. Still, MMORPGs are something that I enjoy. I don't know why. Maybe I've been playing too many first-person shooters (too much Call of Duty). It was time for a break. Nevertheless, I'm here now.

I'm downloading Forsaken World. Hopefully it should finish in a bit. I can't wait to play. It looks really good, a darker version of Perfect World. I just hope that my computer can handle it.

I'm getting a laptop soon...hopefully. Maybe. I'm not sure.

I'm back

Hey guys, I haven't posted anything here in a while, mostly because nothing much has really happened in a while, and also because finals is coming up. On that note, I have a final exam tomorrow for my Human Geography class, and THE AP exam on Friday (this exam on Friday will determine whether or not I get the college credits). So yeah. Lots of pressure right now.Lots.

On a side note, after my finals are over, feel free to add me on Allods online (I might write a review after the exam). My character name is Eirther, on the Imperial army