Playstation 2 lives on

Magicbox reported;

"Sony's president Kazuo Hirai announced that the company will strengthen the PS2 software lineup, due to continuous high demands of the console, even after shipping 120 million units worldwide. Sony will publish numerous game titles for PS2, and they expect the life time of PS2 to last much longer than PSone."

I always did think that the last generation (PS2, Xbox, etc) of consoles were super seeded too quickly, even the PS2, which had been around for a lot longer than the Xbox. The console life spans are getting longer with each generation, I don't think the new generation should be replaced until they've been alive for 10 years. It says here that they expect the life of the PS2 to go on for a long time. I bet you they didn't "expect" this fact until recently, when they saw how badly the PS3 has been doing. When the PS3 came out, all the PS2 stuff dropped in price, and many who don't care about being on the bleeding edge have used this opportunity to get some great games for cheap. The Playstation 2 is still the best console out there, and it will always have the largest sales figures, even at the end of the Xbox 360s life.

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Pop ups

I'm suddenly getting pop ups in Internet Explorer for the first time in like, 3 years. I have been close to completely going back to using IE recently, since it's gotten closer to being as good as Opera. The problem with Opera is that it has difficulty with some sites like Rotten Tomatoes, but I won't be getting rid of it since this problem with IE. Besides, Opera has loads of other things I like anyway, like remembering my tabs, and the best RSS feed manager in the history of the universe.

Playstation 3 Home

It's been delayed until spring 2008, which is ridiculous. That makes the reasons I wanted to own a PS3 at Christmas go down from 2 to 1. The first being that Silent Hill 5 will be coming out next year, but who knows, maybe it won't come out till late in the year. Besides, Silent Hill 5 will be on Xbox 360 as well, perhaps I'll buy one of those again for the 3rd time. Maybe I should just wait until SH5 comes out, and then buy a 360, it'll be cheaper than it will be at Christmas, and it'll always be cheaper than the PS3.

Virtua Fighter 5

Will be out in Japan on December 6, 2007 for Xbox 360. It'll have online play, which is cool but it'll be crap and hated by serious players for it's lag.

Metal Slug 7

SNK Playmore announced Metal Slug 7 for Nintendo DS... If they use the same sprites again, I won't know if I should laugh of cry.

In other news

I'm writing about pointless stuff instead of doing something useful, like drinking coffee... I, I mean doing like, Uni work and stuff.

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Garden State

I was going to do a kind of review of this film, but I can't be bothered right now, I might do it another day. But does it really matter, no one reads this anyway, according to my last post.

I'm depressed again

You wake up sometimes and realise that you've missed the boat. That's how I feel about my entire life up until this point. I've looked at myself and thought what the fuck have I been doing with my life? I've done fuck all, absolutely fuck all. Check out Natalie Portmans life story for an example of someones who's actually been doing things. It's almost a joke how much stuff shes done in the short time she's been on this planet, I almost don't believe it all. Natalie Portman is about my age, in fact shes a hand full of months younger than me.

What makes it worse is that I've recently felt that I'm not actually capable of doing anything worth while. Like I've woken up to the realities of life, but in doing so I've discovered that I'm an idiot who can't do jack.

Basically what this all boils down to is that I used to be happy until I had to grow up. From that point on, I've been expected to fend for myself. As soon as I accepted this, I wanted it as well, I want to be able to look after myself. So all that makes me happy now is the prospect of achieving something so I can look after myself. But I keep failing, every time I fail, it feels like I'm getting stabbed in my ego repeatedly. I keep hearing this voice in my head saying you're useless, you're useless, you're useless, over and over again. The more it happens, the more I want to block everything out and just go back to a time when all I had to worry about was if the hard punch button was working on Children of the Atom.

Oh boy, look at me? I'm doing one of those depressed posts again. The ones that I said I wouldn't do again. Yeah this is along the lines of my older posts that were filled with me getting really upset.

Straight paragraph thingys

I wanted to have my blog all neat, with every post all nicely aligned in that way where the end of each line reaches the same spot. Oh boy I'm so tired, I can't remember what stuff is called and I'm not making much sense.

Back to Garden State

Ok... I wasn't going to say this because I didn't want to be too open on here because who knows who might read it. And even though no one reads it at the moment, that doesn't mean no one will ever read it. I don't like the idea of someone I barely know reading this. But I'm going to anyway, because I need to be emo.

Anyway... Yeah the guy in that film, that's how I feel. I mean, before the happy ending and minus the catastrophic childhood event. The whole thing about him feeling out of place. Like the bit where he's left alone in the pool for being different, that's me. Except unlike him, I don't have that one understanding girl who comes over and comforts me. I just stay alone.

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