Plenty of people see entirely different things when they look at the 2DS. Some see a headache filled holiday season. Some see a questionable business move. Some see an ugly hunk of plastic. Some see a beautiful hunk of plastic. I see an ecstatic 7 year old.
Over the past week I have been tossing around the idea of getting a 2DS for my godson, Andrew. This is a new idea that only surfaced when the 2DS was announced. I was never planning or even thinking about getting him videogames for his birthday or Christmas. Now I am contemplating it... What changed? The price is definitely a part of it. A $40 price difference is pretty significant. Especially since that money can go right into getting a game or two. The last thing you want is new tech and nothing to play with it. The ugly design is definitely another big factor. A lot of the things that were cut, or changed for the 2DS will not matter to him. He will be super excited with just having the device. From everything that I have read, the 2DS is built very solid and should take a beating. Why are people worried about the fact that the 2DS does not close shut? Plenty of toys and gadgets have not had the ability to close shut, but are still around and kicking. I for one still have a bunch of different gameboys lying around that all work, assuming that I have batteries.
I think that he would love having a handheld console, and I apparently am too cheap to get him a proper 3DS. I just think that the 2DS is a little bit more practical. He is child number 3 of 4, and I can somewhat relate to his place in the family. There were just a few more in my family, I was 4 or 7. With an older brother he gets quite a few things second hand and he somewhat lives in a shadow. I think that the 2DS would be an awesome way to get out from that shadow and have the coolest toy(s) in the house.

In other news, I finished two amazing games, Fire Emblem Awakening and Steamworld Dig. I am currently working my way through Link's Awakening and hope to actually finish it this time. My mind is becoming muddled with many thoughts, so I best walk away from the computer for now...

One thing about RPGS that really get me, is when your main character has about one point of life left and the enemy will pass him/her up and kill your healer. Luckily I have played long enough to know that it is smart to have more than one but damn...

The labor day weekend has come and gone...wish it was longer. But I suppose it's back to work, and a short week at that which I am still happy about. 

So it's come to our attention lately that--gasp!--the next-gen consoles aren't going to match the performance or visuals we saw in the carefully curated marketing materials to date. You know, the ones running on PC graphics solutions worth $1000? Or the ones that were "in-engine" smoke and mirror nonsense that comes nowhere near representing actual gameplay footage? Yeah, apparently you still can't get the same results out of $400-500 boxes using laptop-friendly parts, that are designed to minimize heat and electricity use as much as possible.

Sorry.

Life is good in the world of FF14. I have been playing as a cat guy pugilist, kicking butt and takin names for the most part. But after I hit lv 21 I found that it was time to take brake from adventuring and try my hand at a trade. Part of this reason was because I can make materia now and have plenty of gear with slots for it. Yet I can not learn how to attach them to my gear until I have gotten to lv 19 in a skill of the hand.

One really burning one is. If it is so great, where is the second analog stick?

So my question today is what is your thoughts on the U.S involvement of Syria and do you agree or disagree with Obamas decision of a limited strike on Syria??

So here I sit at 1:15 AM, wide awake. I actually crashed early, around 10:30 or so, after finishing my book. It may be a long weekend for some, but I've had to work the whole thing, including tomorrow? today? Whatever. I got woken up by a terrified fifty-five pound dog landing in my midriff, and once I was fully awake, I realized that we're in the middle of a pretty decent thunderstorm. He hates thunderstorms. So does the cat. I love 'em, but spend most of them soothing terrified pets. And now I'm wide awake, and I was sleeping so well, too. One of those really deep, restful sleeps. Oh, well. Maybe later.

 Ok, so I'm thinking of buying a second hand 3DS. Convince me. What are games that I NEED on that system? That includes DS games. Should I get and XL or just a normal one? An XL is like 20 bucks more expensive btw.

    My buddy is still MIA this week and so I went and got some more games to feed the Cheery Chievo Chipper, ie. my Xbox 360. How many games could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck games. Well, this woodchuck can chuck a lot of games as long as someone OPENS THE GAME ROOM! Ah, well. At least I get to do another blog on the games I got before I go O.D. on Yogo froyo. DEATH BY BRAIN FREEZE!!! OH YEAH!

Dearest Pixlbit family, I have a note excusing my absence since I have been playing too much FFXIV : ARR. The login issues are getting better. Servers are being added- and dispite the inital confusion, *all* regions are getting a revamp, not just Japan.

 So I got massively addicted to Pokemon Red the other day. I was playing it for ages and had a lot of fun with it. Then I thought, you know what? I'll try one of the newer pokemon games. So I pulled out Pokemon White and was immediately greeted with seven hours of poorly written dialogue about cunts I don't care about. But hey, this is a pokemon game, the writing was never going to win any awards, right? 

Does any one remember this?

Any Steam players here? I've had the service for a few years already, but only really started getting into it over the past few weeks. Over the past few weeks i've sort of been going crazy on bundle sites like Humble Bundle, and Bundle Stars. Im simply in awe at the amazing prices of these bundles. You simply cannot beat something like 5-8 games for $5 or less.

Well the good is that I was able to get on and play for quite a while this evening, although I did have to wait about ten minute until some people left. The bad happend about 30 minutes ago when the server got stupid and booted me off. There were messages on the log in screen mentioning this was happening accross all the serevers. After several attempts and the same error messages I gave up. I understand that this is likely to happen but it still annoys the crap out of me. One thing for sure I will have zero tollerence for this kind of BS when they start hitting me up for subscrition fees. If I'm gonna pay to play this sucker better be running perfectly and I better be able to play whenever I choose without having to wait.

I am writing this because I am very angry right now. I am having a pretty tough time with Peace Walker. And do you know why? Because Hideo is forcing me to play on the normal setting. In Peace Walker you can not choose an easy setting. I have to play on the (harder) Normal difficulty. So naturally Im not progressing very well.