My weekend was taken up by what has been called the long awaited Gaming Sleep-over. I basically went over to my friends new apartment for the whole weekend and played console games all day (and night) which was fun.

Lots of games were played, including Metroid Prime 3, Lego Star Wars II, Soul Calibur….THREE!, Guitar Hero 1 and 2, Parasite Eve and last, but not least, the GameCube remake of Resident Evil.

Really, the whole event seemed to be designed around me trying to play Resident Evil (survival horror zombie infested game) which I think was disappointing for the spectators. Instead of being totally petrified, I ended up being frustrated with the controls and running around like a drunk person an awful lot. Watching Jason play however, was fun. There was a lot of that on Sunday (since we didn't start actually playing Resident Evil until midnight anyway).

One of the best moments of the event was when Jason took over for me playing Resident Evil because I sucked at it and died way too much. He wandered around the mansion, looking for a zombie to do in. He found one, and this exchange (paraphrased) occurred:

All right zombie! You better be ready because you're facing a PRO now! Lets go!

*gunshots*
*zombie chomping sound*

AHHHHHHHHH, THE PAIN, THE PAIN!!

*blood spraying everywhere*
*game over*

So THAT'S how the pro's do it! I'll have to keep that in mind.

Metroid was a nice surprise. I was kinda hesitant about getting it myself due to the controls. I'm not really a FPS on a game console type person. Mouse and keyboard for life! But the wii remote really works well for aiming and the controls were fairly responsive. I think I'm going to have to purchase it. Very nice environment graphics as well.

Another moment, that sadly, I feel I need to report is when Jason and I were playing Soul Calibur. I'm horrible at fighting games you see. I win here and there, but usually…lets just say the results aren't pretty. At one point my     opponent decided to stop using the built in characters and have the game randomly design one, which is how I ended up fighting "The Leprechaun" Picture this. green shoes. green pantaloons, green gloves, no shirt and a hat that looks like it was stolen from the Lucky Charms guy. And yep, I lost to this guy, who did a little dance after he beat me up. Sigh.

Sunday we had a big breakfast when we all woke up, soo…around 1pm. I went to bed around 3am and Jason went to bed about a half hour before that. The full breakfast with blueberry pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, toast…the whole 9 yards. I was still full when I would normally eat dinner, but it was good.

After that, we watched Jason play some more Resident Evil until I decided that I really, really had to go do the laundry I was putting off. I'm borrowing Parasite Eve from them which is a fun sort of survival horror themed game with RPG elements, so I'm playing that in my free time.

Now onward to today. I'm probably going to call Canon this afternoon and order a replacement LCD for my camera since I sorta broke it a while back. Then I'm going fish shopping this evening to get a new fish (going for a Dwarf Gourami I think) to replace my MIA Zebra Danios.

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