In regards to Andrew’s recent post about snatching victory from defeat, I’d like to make a few alterations to his narrative:

Andrew makes an immediate leap from the destruction of the mining bases to his victory.

This is not the case.

As Andrew’s battlecruiser fleet decimated the mining bases I had established in the north, I hurriedly manufactured legions of hydralisks to defend my base.

Unfortunately, Andrew called off his attack before reaching my base, leaving me with 24-36 burrowed hydralisks and very few resources to rebuild with.

In desperation, I took an overlord, filled it with two drones, and flew it to his base in the north. The base was build on the lower level of a two part island. I found a corner he had not yet expanded to, and constructed a small hatchery to complete the first phase of my plan. I burrowed the second drone.

Back at my main base, I constructed a two drones. Placing them at the base of my hatchery field, I built the key to my master plan of revenge: two nydus canals.

The hydralisks poured through them and appeared at the lower level of his northern base. They attacked, and victory was sweet.

Earlier, Binkle’s corsairs had been absent-mindedly attacking a flying command center, and a queen of mine had managed to infest it automatically. In order to do more damage, I flew the infested command center to the upper level of Andrew’s island, where I would build some suicide bombers.

When the infested command center arrived (roughly the same time as Operation Sneaky Hydra), I realised he had expanded on the upper level as well. The infested command center plummetted to the Earth after being shot by a goliath.

My hydralisks, having done what they were sent to do, pulled back to the nydus canals. But…the siege tanks were already in place.

Firing down from the ledge, the tanks got a nice attack bonus, which defeated a great deal of my hydras. The remainder were destroyed when the battlecruisers returned to my main base.

Having no method of recovery, no resources, no units for defense and a poor defensive structure, I left the game. I didn’t want to sit and watch as Andrew (slowly, with limited cruisers) destroyed my base.

Cruisers move slow. They fire slow. And with such a small amount, he would have taken so long to kill me, and I had literally nothing to do but watch. To me, that seemed pointless. I was genuinely defeated though. I had no options whatsoever. So, I quit.

Also, I’d like to stress two things:

1. It was Binkle’s observors all over the map, but it was usually me noticing the dropship that appeared on the fringes.

2. There was no support from Binkle because he had run out of minerals without establishing a new mining base (a habit which I hope he kicks before the next game). However, he definitely tried to survive. He was taking probes to mineral fields, and returning them to a nexus IN A DROPSHIP. Truly ingenious in desperate times. If I had drones, and a base to take minerals to where they would not be killed, I might have employed the same tactics.

But at the end of the game, I had nothing to control but buildings and a few overlords.

I was sitting here studying Psychology at 3:40 AM when I realized that I neglected to finish the PD1 course modules.

Fuck…

Looks like I get a NCR on that course and I have to take it during my work term (which starts next month).

No big loss. I just hope that this doesn’t count as an actual fail or something ridiculous…because…well, frankly, these modules were fucking stupid, and I just didn’t bother with them. Plus, I kept getting bad marks on my interview responses. I read their suggestions, but they seem to want you to express a substantial knowledge of whatever question asked, without being too smart, while keeping your response below a certain number of words of reasonable length so as not to confuse the interviewer…

Ugh…

Oh well. The only downside to this is that whenever something goes extremely wrong (failing some academic text/exam/assignment/course, wasting hours on something that turned out to be fruitless, losing to Andrew in some foolish competition) I get an extreme pain in my right shoulder and my neck…

So, now that I realized I fucked up PD1…I have to experience that for a good 3 days or so…ugh…

Sony has to be pretty cocky with the success of its current console, and the dedication of its fanbase.

The article is pretty interesting. It is written with a few spelling errors, and the author seems to have his head shoved so far up a Sony executive’s ass that he can see what they’re eating. Nevertheless, it provides interesting insight into the plans for Sony’s gaming division.

The Playstation 3 has not even been out for a full month, and they’re already talking about the Playstation 4. The PS3 is not even an established success yet, and they’re already dropping the name of their next over-priced gaming machine.

And 2010? Isn’t that a little soon? They’re going to have their 700 dollar monstrosity out on the market for about three years before they drop another bomb on the wallets of gamers everywhere?

To me, this seems like a knee jerk response to the success of the Wii. The Wii is greatly outselling the PS3, and - unlike Sony - Nintendo is making money on each system sold. Perhaps Sony wants to cut its losses and release something newer before it is completely obliterated in the gaming market.

And I like that they’re planning on firmware upgrades to allow for motion sensitive controllers like the Wii. That’s brilliant. If only Sony could come up with their own ideas.

This is why, when I have the money, it is going to be the trust Wii60 package for me. The Nintendo Wii has all the franchises I’ve grown up with, but the 360 has a lot of games worth playing (Gears of War) as well as upcoming releases that cannot be missed (Resident Evil 5, GTA IV).

Boo on the PS3.

Sony. I hope you perish, and Satan comes to claim your souls. I’m sure that such an arrangement was written into the deal you made with him.

I was thinking about what sort of cool concepts could exist for a television show, in a similar vein to shows like Lost, Heroes, and things of the like. Epic character driven dramas set to a back drop that is larger than them, and picked away at piece by piece.

I came up with the idea for a television drama about a series of survivors from some sort of apocalyptic attack on the mainland United States and Canada. It would be a scenario that would start in several small towns, as people try to congregate towards larger city centres for various reasons, to discover the root of the attacks and the fate of the country (as well as the world).

The histories of many of the characters would remain obscure for some time (as I had chosen not to employ the flashback-style exposition evident in Lost, lest it seem ripped off). As such, characters would seek to fulfill minor goals (protecting the well-being of their children, looking to find a spouse who may or may not have survived the attack) before congregating in a group who was seeking to escape the desolate wastes of the country. They’d encounter obstacles like a local militant group of survivors who seek to restore balance in the chaos, but with slightly violent methods. Religious groups too stubborn to evacuate areas in their quest to save and preserve as many survivors as possible.

Things like that.

Then, while watching Battlestar Galactica in our lounge Saturday night at 9:00, a resident of my house, Ian, informs me of a television program called Jericho, which was extremely interesting.

After researching it, I’ve just discovered that the basic premise of my show idea is essentially the same as Jericho, in such a way as to make writing my show almost blatant plagiarism. I don’t know why I seem to have this ability to think of concepts for television shows or movies or books that already exist. This happened with Secret Window as well, essentially taking away my initial idea for Man in the Mirror from so many years ago.

I must not seek out all the writers in television and film…and kill them to preserve any potential writing position I might one day hope to ascend to.

There are more shipments coming in to EB Games. I’m so tempted to get one.

Also, in a point that might interest Binkle, apparently all of the store stewards who work at Zellers were fired because they were caught stealing XBox 360’s and other electronics out the back doors.

Just thought that would be an interesting tidbit.

I’d type more, but my stomach is still killing me and I cannot think straight enough to string together coherent speech.

I went down to the cafeteria, bought a Spicy Chicken wrap, ate it in my room, and an hour and a half later, I was in fits of bloody…nausea.

Ugh. I feel so terrible. I’m not going to PHIL 202 - despite the fact that I wasted me freebie class when I went drinking with Liam and Andrew. However, I do not want to throw up on Crystal, or Mulva - the army chick. It would be devastating for all parties involved.

Curse you Raccoon Eyes, and your low standards of cleanliness. Curse you straight to hell.