I've been a bit remiss in posting on GS, but I'm not quite a ghost yet.

I came back from 29 Palms a bit earlier in the month, only to find out that I had a week-long field op the following week. Totally burned out from back to back fieldings, I just became kind of a recluse, so I'd like to apologize once again to those I'd shunned on XBox Live. It's the nature of the profilic beast that when I'm signed in, I'm also online, and I just wasn't in the mood to talk to anybody. (Trust me, my wife says I was quite the bear when I first came back from Cali.)

At any rate, I'm once again between field ops, since October promises another trip to Fort Bragg for a month (20 or so days) of pure military goofiness. Ah, who cares about that?!? You guys are here about the games!

One of my buddies heading out to Afghanistan hooked me up with a bunch of games to bolster me between GameFly titles, so I'll be playing quite a few. While I finally got rid of my copy of Halo 3, I can probably be enticed to play online with Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty 4, or GTA IV if you can handle a bit of n00bishness in the mix.

I finished my first playthrough of Inifinite Undiscovery, putting a final touch to 26 hours worth of game. It doesn't sound like a lot for an RPG, but I'll admit to blazing through the latter parts once I realized that a lot of content simply wasn't available on the initial playthrough. It'll be a while before I tackle the next difficulty and the secret dungeon. I know there's a lot of content I missed out on, and I have quite a few achievements waiting to be picked up here.

I also played Ghostbusters recently. Fun game, filled with the same wit and mayhem from the two movies and the cartoon series. Worth picking up if you're a fan, and the online content is really interesting. Along with teaming up with fellow Ghostbusters to bust ghosts, there are certain type of ghosts (Most Wanted Ghosts) that appear only after you've captured other ghosts from other levels. It's a nice bit of flagging that's not available in other games, and is a bit more exciting than what can be found in other titles. Plus, you can earn money to buy other costumes and whatnot. Really fun!

Also put to rest was Batman: Arkham Asylum, hands down the best Batman game to date. And while that's not saying much in regards to the Batman series, this game is definitely getting my game of the year vote. Fluid combat, dark atmosphere and visuals, killer soundtrack and voicework, plus penned by the master himself: Paul Dini of DC Comics and Batman: The Animated Series fame, this game has it all! If you haven't played it yet, you owe it to yourself to rent this game. (Because of the length, I wouldn't recommend dropping $60 on it!!)

Finally, I am plodding through Resident Evil 5, not because it's a poor game, but because it's M rating means that I only play it when my daughter's not around to get freaked out by the non-zombies and epic violence. Still not crazy about the controls, but Capcom has yet to make a game that I'm completely impressed by. Is it just me, or is Chris just hard to control? I feel like I'm slightly retarded every time I aim in on a non-zombie.

Anyway, that's me for now. I'll update soon! Thanks for stopping by!

I found this on myspace and it was an amusing end to a very blah and depressing week I've had...

Just because you were born in '97 doesn't mean you're a 90's kid. It's not like you could remember the original Simpsons. I am sorry but three conscious years of the 90's just wont cut it.


You're a 90's kid if:

You can finish this  Ice Ice _______

You remember watching:
Doug
Ren & Stimpy
Pinky and the Brain
AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
Rockos modern Life.

You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"

You just cant resist finishing this . . . "Iiiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised . . ."

You remember:
TGIF
Step by Step
Family Matters
Dinosaurs
Boy Meets World.

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer ****at school.

You remember reading "Goosebumps"

You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.

You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence . . . not

when everyhting was settled by:
rock paper scissors or
bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky. (Ours was Down, Down Baby)

when cops and robbers was a daily activity.

when we played Hide and go seek until our legs grew numb.

when we used to obey our parents

You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time.

"Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" was both a game and a TV game show.

Captain Planet. He's a Hero.

You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.

You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular.

You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything funny.

You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 . . . and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"

You remember watching:
The Magic School Bus
Wishbone
Reading Rainbow on PBS.

You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.

You remember those Where's Waldo books.

You remember eating Warheads.

You remember watching:
the 1st Batman
Aladdin
Ninja Turtles
3 Ninjas movies.

You remember Ring Pops.

You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.

If you remember when every thing was "da BOMB!"

When they made the new lunchables so that you could make pizza AND tacos.

You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.

Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your life with them.

You played and/or collected "Pogs"

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.

Furbies.

You haven't always had a computer and it was cool to have the internet.

And Windows 95 was the best.

You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.

Michael Jordan was a king.

YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff!

All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.

You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out.

You collected those Beanie Babies.

Carebears.

Gak was the coolest stuff invented.

Lambchop's song never ended.

The old dollar bills.

Silver dollars, which were cool to have.

You remember a time before the WB.

You collected all the Troll dolls.

If you even know what an original walkman is.

You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.

You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"

You know the Macarena by heart.

"Talk to the hand" . . . enough said

You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"

You went to McDonald's to play in the playplace.

You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.

Before the MySpace frenzy . . .

Before the Internet & text messaging .

Before Sidekicks & iPods . .

Before MIKE JONES .

Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . .

Before Spongebob .

Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.

When light up sneakers were cool.

When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.

When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.

When we recorded stuff on VCRs.

When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our walkman.

When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish from the library was THE cool thing to do.

You had slap braclets!

Way back.

Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.

Who would have thought you'd miss the 90's so much!!