Get Active

Not physically, I mean. That hurts too much, what with the pulling of tendons and the moving and the muscles contracting and the joints turning and the tendons stretching and all sorts of other nouns verbing. I meant this website. Which has been inactive since around September. In case anyone has been paying attention.

This is not because my life hasn’t been busy. In fact, my life has been surprisingly interesting lately. Too interesting. Now that it’s resuming regularly (except for PSAT’s tomorrow, which are these silly tests that tell us how well we would do on a test if we took it with a year’s worth less information than we will be) I can once again post with aplomb. (Look in a dictionary).

So, what has been happeneing? Well, I got into the LittleBigPlanet Beta, for one thing. It was cool, but I did notice a little thing. See, the beta went active on the 23rd. Of September. At around this point, I got tons of emails telling me to go to Sony’s official homepage. I didn’t. October came around. The beta continued. Sony, apparently, had wanted, wanted, to give me a beta code, but I, fearing salespeople, had shied away from their site. Great. So then, finally, on the eighth, Sony finally, begrudgingly, sent me a code.

Yay! Except… the beta ran out less than a week later. So, I missed out on fifteen whole days of awesome. But I can only guess that they did this because I didn’t go to their site. I will be going to the websites much more often now. That Resistance 2 Beta’s just around the corner.

As for the beta’s actual content, it was pretty cool. They gave us a handful of editing tools, way too many stickers, and the first area from the game (including the final iteration of the first level we saw, an awesome throwback). A few qualms, however- most notable with lag and the fact that gamers, appaerently, are not very creative. I noticed LittleBigColossus standing out from the pack, as did… wait… there’s gotta be another one…

So there’s that. Other exciting things that heppened whilst I was gone? Well, I became quite excited about the upcoming Fallout 3. After all, it features a unique experience concerning blah blah blah you can punch a guy so hard, his head falls off. That deserves a look-see. Plus, it’s made by that same guys as Oblivion, which I liked. A lot. Even though I got… wait for it… THE CONSOLE VERSION. I KNOW. Apparently, there’s some sort of unwritten rule that allows PC gamers to subjugate and cutterly control the lesser, console-playing masses. Judging from forums, this seems to be the general attitude. So, please accept my apologies. Also, if it makes anything better, I do occationally play Peggle.

Also, my body was recently brutally assaulted by some kind of martian death virus clearly not of this world. Perhaps this explains the headaches, stomachaches, armaches, and aches in various other body parts as well. I am thankful this is over with, as sickness effectively halves all my stats. Should I continue the metaphor, or end the article? I thought so.