There can be only one............

Well if you haven't guessed it I'm starting off my talk about The Highlander, not the films but rather the series.

I've seen the odd ep on FX but today the first season DVD boxset dropped through my door and I've watched the first ep. I'm liking it so far, ok pretty hard to judge it on the merits of one or two eps but I like the highlander films (except the third one that's pants) If I was trying to figure how this series fits into the highlander films, it would have to be set before the first film.

But as we know from the films timeliness are thrown out of the window!! Good old Lambert makes an appearance in the first ep of the series which is a welcome bonus. Basically I'm saying I'll love this series!

Gaming wise, I've completed King Kong on the 360 I enjoyed it. It's how a Jurassic park game should be. It's on the rails as I've mentioned linear as heck but worth a play. And if you're a gamerscore WHORE you'll get the full 1000 wack just by going through the game. None of this "play 100 games online to unlock 10 points"

Borrowed TopSpin 2 from a mate, but I hate it, far to hard for my patience these days!

Work is well, work. Direr by the day I've got an app from for somewhere else so hopefully I'll get off my ass and get it down tomorrow and put back in!

Later!

Nostalgia.................

What a powerful tool isn't it?

It's nearly my annual "Gut out my room while my parents are away on holiday because I get peace to do it time" And I was just rummaging about to see what I could keep and what to throw out, etc

Anyway while I was doing that I found my highschool year book from 2001. Even though I was never the most popular person at school and such it still give me a warm feeling just looking at the photos and thinking "If we all knew then what we know now........" and "God we were all just punk kids"

But it was such a good feeling just flicking through the book and seeing friends that you still see and friends of yore long gone somewhere out there.

Well on with the gaming bit.

On monday I popped up to edinburgh (again) and picked up Prey and King Kong at gamestation Prey has already been completed and it was a bloody fun game story line was good if predictable but hey I enjoyed it. A pretty funky FPS with you having to crawl through boxes to get other parts of the level and going up elevator type walls and hanging upside down. Great stuff.

Kong while it's an old game in terms of the 360 (so not that old really) It's fairly linear and the enemys are event triggered meaning they wait for you to cross and invisiable line before attacking. And of course if you go back across that line they turn tail and head to the respective activation points so you can kill them with ease. Thats when you're playing as the hero jack but with kong is a basic mash em up which are fun sections that break up the game!

If you can get it cheap like I did for the 360 £16.99 go for it!

Thats me out folks

Well time for another post eh!

What a torrid two months is has been peeps. I mean it's been hell with the odd sprinkle of heaven. But more hell than heaven!

New contracts are gonna be starting at work soon due to somerfield buying up a lot of other shops for other companies they want to merge all the contracts to this one horrible one, which is excludes time and half on Sundays the horror!

Anyway it basically means my position is also up for grabs but I'm NOT being made redundant oh the joys eh! Of course it's not just me it's everyone and some are losing their jobs which sucks so you can imagine the atmosphere in the place is not the best!

And the new manager as whole just can't manage, which bodes well for all. There was a mini staff argument the other day, luckily for the manager in the back of the shop where the customers didn't hear.

In the good side of things I've been out a lot, trying to get out with one of my workmates friends albeit it's been a less than successful task so far but it's been cool getting out drinking and generally meeting new friends along the way. So that's been good.

Staff night out this weekend I'm sure that will be fun! Sarcasms at 100% captain!

Anyway gaming wise been playing a lot of live arcade stuff and need for speed most wanted which has now broken on me. Teach me to by second hand games eh? I dunno how people can treat games or stuff that costs them £50 a pop it's crazy!

Anyway I can't think of anything else to say but good bye!

May Day Funess!

Yeah I know it's been a couple of weeks since my last update but I never said I would make the updates daily/weekly/etc!

So yeah today being may day and also a bank holiday for some means I got the day off as it's "voluntary" to work, basically I did that last one so that's how I got this bank hol off.

Well on my day off I headed up to Edinburgh to meet a mate so we could just generally piss about and besides I had some stuff to trade in at gamestation! Namely a spare Dreamcast that my friend didn't want when he moved house. So I cleaned it up a bit, added of couple of DC duffers of games and an extra control pad.

Didn't get much for the package twenty something for a trade in but as my mate said (a different one than the one that gave me the DC) "It's better than a kick in the nuts"

So what did I use my trade in credit for you ask? Another sega console this time a sega multi mega! Pictured here (about the middle of the page) It's a rare megadrive/mega-cd hybrid console that damn sexy looking. Also it runs with ONE adaptor not the two that sega megadrive and megacd need solo!

You can play music CD's on it portably with two AA batteries and one assumes with HUGE pockets! I suppose it would come in handy if something goes wrong with a music system at a party or something!

I'm still playing at oblivion although I haven't done so for about 4-5 days now mostly due to that bane of my life that is work! In saying that apart from me having to apologize to some old git at some point this week work was fine apart from the shittiness of some of the shifts 1-10 on wed and then back in 7.45-5 on the thurs OUCH!

But I've had a relaxing weekend sadly it's all over now and back to work tomorrow 3-10 oh well I suppose I get a sleep in!

A post before lunch time? Only the proclaimer would dare!

Well then lets get down to business.

Ok rant first. Last week at work was fucking terrible! Well that's not completely true it was fine till Thurs. Thur was just a busy day very busy and it's hard to deal with a lot of customers and bells etc!

Friday was a fucking nightmare mostly because the customer services manager decided to plonk herself in the fag counter while did all the supervising and the shit hit the fan. Then later on in the day I got into trouble with the new manager because the queues built up. Which in fairness to him he had every right to have a go at me.

BUT it didn't help that THREE of my staff left at 5 and no one else was coming in till 6. Which left me with three staff and being good Friday you can imagine it was busy. After getting moaned at I just give up and when the main supervisor for the night came down I just sat on a till for the rest of my shift.

And I had a quiet weekend in prob better than turning to drink although I dunno maybe I should have for the sat at least. Anyway on to something else.

So yes as I mentioned I bought he-man for the PS2 for £3 in mypreviouss blog. And as I expected it sucks even with the cheats it's a buggy mess. Although it's pretty funny as well. One example when I was roaming a forest riding with the battlecat I jumped of a cliff and landed on this blue machine like thing and I got stuck!!! Still for £3 what do you expect eh?

So I decided after much humming and hawing to get the elderscrolls oblivion for the 360. Now I hate RPG's with a passion (that's role playing games for you people not in the know) But by god this game is amazing. It's not a stat cruncher and you're not in those god awful turn based battles they happen in real time.

You can do the main mission if you like but you don't HAVE to there is plenty other things to do in the game. It's set imedievalil times so you can take part in arena challenges and such. If you have a 360 go out and buy this game!

Anyway I'm off for my lunch and then a god damn 2-10 shift at work arrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! (still I get tues and thurs off woo!)

It's been a while I know............

But hey, what are you gonna do about it eh? I've been a busy *cough* lazy ass forgetful *cough* boy!

So what's been going the humble little life of the ranting Scotsman? Well not much really! Things took an interesting turn in work this week when we GASP! Finally got a fucking manager! Everyone has actually been doing some work including the really lazy ass people in the shop I wonder how long the ass kissing will last.

Anyway this manager is a breath of fresh air to the store and a completely different kettle of fish to the previous manager who had been there for a bizzlion years or something. It can all be for the best I guess.

The store is also finally hiring new staff which I guess I'll have to at least help train cause if I don't I'll be in the shit with people that don't know how to work a till! The extra stuff I do for a freeking 50p per hour raise I tell you!

So then my usual games rant well I have Ghost reacon 3 for the 360 while it looks the mutts nuts and finally showing what the 360 has under it's hood the gameplay suffers a little because of it. I've noticed a few bugs in it more noticeable the dodgy A.I In the mission I'm on atm I've to protect a VIP, now with guns a blazing you'd expect him to hide for cover but no he stands out in the open like a dick waiting to be shot! I was ranting at my friends about this on live earlier this evening.

So rather than throw my pad down I played the Tomb Raider Legend demo for the 360 and needless to say I'll be buying it!

It has nice tight solid controls the graphics look lush (believe me there is a noticeable difference between the PS2/Xbox and 360 versions) Lara looks more like a believable human she doesn't have tits as big as two hills now.

Oh yeah I also picked up He-man for the PS2 for £3...................Thats all I'll say about that.

In other news I'm part of the "Consolevania players" don't know what that is? Head here can you guess which one I am (hint the one holding Guardian heroes) apart from that on the site you can download the fantastic consolevania show which is the best games related show I've seen! Check it out you know want too!

Anyway that's me out I'm gonna stare at Emily Booth on FTN's quiz night live!

Introducing the worlds smallest dinobot snarl!

Isn't he the coolest? He's a high quality bootleg from Just-it-toys you can buy him at the TF Source or Xybertoys and other places I'm sure! It's for collectors only because he small parts and you might have to glue on a fin or two. But as long as he's for show only you shouldn't have to worry! A must for any transformer or bootleg toy collector!








Well enough about snarl I've had one SHITE day. Work sucks at the moment simply because we don't have a manager and everyone is basically out for themselves. The person in charge of our department had a holiday last week so a lot of shifts didn't get covered for this week. Which left me up the creek last week and today. Apparently it was mine and the other supervisors fault.

HOWEVER the person in charge had my hours worked out before she went on holiday so she could have had those shifts covered. Still what do I care? The place will be shutting in about years time give or take. So no team work, no help no fuck all you're shafted essentially. Oh encase you don't know my job is working in a supermarket, as a checkout supervisor so after reading that and the paragraph prior you'll get why I'm pissed.

Game wise has been sloooooooooooooowwwwwwww mainly because I haven't had time. Downloaded need for speed most wanted demo on the xbox360 M.P It's pretty cool I'll prob buy it down the line.

Still on the plus side today I had a fantastic driving lesson so that's something,

Later all!