In regard to my last post, yeah, I wrote that ages ago and then left it sitting in drafts for a few weeks. I didn’t make any changes to it before posting it just before so it’s probably best to view it as a message from the recent past despite things moving on since then.

What exactly has happened since? Let’s see…dentist visits went well. Eating is much more pleasant now. The anesthesia sort of…didn’t work…on the second visit but the pain wasn’t unbearable and I’m very glad I didn’t put it off. Despite how much time has passed I’m still not entirely well and still have a cough. Yay.

I found I couldn’t wait for Dragon Age Origins to come out on the PS3 as friends were buying it left, right and center and I knew I wouldn’t be able to avoid spoilers. I picked it up on the PC instead which to my surprise turned out to be a really good idea. Essentially the PC version is outright better than the console releases, and on top of that it has none of the annoying DRM or online checks that have been plaguing PC games in recent years. It’s a really good game, but in a few regards I feel there’s wasted potential in there. With some small enhancements I think it could have been more immersive. I have actually finished the game already, but plan to go through it at least one more time since there were quite a few things I missed or didn’t do to my satisfaction. Assassins Creed 2 coming out tomorrow will probably eliminate any such thoughts for the time being though.

My next batch of anime Blu-rays should be shipping in a few days. “Bakemonogatari” and “Umineko no Naku Koro ni” aren’t really coming out fast enough for my tastes as I really want to see what extras show up on the later discs. Bakemonogatari has some episodes only released via webcast so I’m hoping these end up in full quality on the Blu-rays when the time comes. The last disc of Tayutama will be in this lot and I’m starting to think about what I might want to pick up from this season. White Album series 2 is a given considering I not only like it a lot but also have the entire first season on Blu-ray. Outside of that though I’m not sure. 11eyes is a maybe. Kampfer, Sora no Otoshimono, A Certain Scientific Railgun and Seitokai no Ichizon have all been okay, but don’t grab me in that way. Kobato has been disappointing. Ironically the second season of Queen’s Blade and the unfairly written-off Yumeiro Patissiere have been some of the better shows, but worth picking up on Blu-ray? Hmmmmm. I guess a few months of smaller purchases would go down well given I’ve been importing a few discs a month all through the recession.  ^_^;

There’s a few more things I could talk about, but I think it’s probably enough for one day. Might as well leave some things for another day.

I’ve been meaning to post something here for a while and today felt like the day. I’ve been a bit sick since getting back from the Armageddon expo and spent about three days in bed recovering at the worst of it. It’s improved a lot now thankfully, but as is often the case the last dregs seem to hang on a long time. *coughs*. Armageddon itself was a bit of a waste of time, but it was good to catch up with friends and the weather was beautiful.  In regard to Armageddon I don’t feel that it’s me that’s changed at all. I’m still into the same sorts of things (perhaps moreso in some cases), but Armageddon today feels far more parochial to me. The event is technically bigger, but feels smaller if that makes any sense. There’s a world of interesting things out there, but Armageddon seems to be limiting itself to the staid, predictable and boring. 10 seconds browsing my RSS feeds provides more stimulation. Really meeting up with friends is the only reason I feel like going anymore. I kind of regret not staying an extra day or so, but had quite a lot going on at the time and had a dental appointment to come back to. I ended up delaying that due to getting sick so didn’t really need to rush back as it turned out.

I haven’t really found any time for gaming lately. I want to play more Aion, but simply haven’t been able to find the time. It’s not that I’m playing anything else instead even though I do have a bit of a backlog currently. That said, I’m finding the wait for the PS3 release of Dragon Age really painful. Really looking forward to that one. It seems there’s not much on the pre-order lists currently as hardly any games want to go head to head against Modern Warfare 2.  I disliked the previous game in the series personally so have zero interest in this one, but thankfully Assassin’s Creed 2 has bucked the trend and should be out late November. I really enjoyed the original Assassin’s Creed faults and all so am really looking forward to this one.

I’m still a bit unsure what I think of the current Anime season. It looked very weak based on the early information coming out, but there’s a few I’ve been enjoying. Most feel like that could fall of the rails at any time so I don’t want to get my hopes up. I’ve been having some Blu-rays of shows from the previous season turn up. The anime companies are really starting to hang of Blu-ray mastering I must say. Putting their extra content on DVDs though does nothing for me. Nothing makes DVD look worse than watching it straight after finishing a Blu-ray.

It’s really been the time for new Operating Systems with Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6), Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 all coming out in the last month or two. I’m using all of them in some form. Ubuntu 9.10 was a bit disappointing with as many backward steps as forward ones, but the other two were reasonably solid upgrades.