The Lusty Argonian Maid

Recently, an interesting turn of events took place. A couple of weeks ago, right before christmyass, Jilly and I were at the BK Lounge having a quick bite to eat and were talking about the PS3. We had been discussing getting one for some time now, one of the reasons being due to the lack of availability of Wii’s and the game, Oblivion, being a big draw to the system for us. I additionally wanted one for all sorts of other cool stuff I was thinking of doing with it.

So, we were dining with the King, and talking about getting a PS3 off Amazon, since I didn’t want to pay the $40 in tax it would cost (Amazon does free shipping on PS3 orders as well as many other orders). I mentioned that New Hampshire doesn’t have sales taxes, just talking about taxes. Jilly was like, “let’s go to NH!” and at first I thought it was crazy, but then I got on Google Maps and realized there’s a mall right on the border of NH and MA which is only about 1 hour and 40 minutes from our apartment!

So, we just dropped everything, got in the car, plugged in the address in our new Tom Tom and were off. We got the 80 GB (“top-of-the-line”) PS3, since the 40 GB is not compatible with PS2 games. We also picked up a copy of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

I really love the PS3, it is just awesome. As soon as I got it home, I connected it to our network and we were on it watching Brad Neely on Youtube on our TV. Now, I’ve set up my Linux box with Fuppes UPnP server to stream audio, photos and video to the PS3. It can additionally transcode media formats to types that the PS3 is compatible with, but I haven’t got that part working yet. I plan on partitioning the PS3 HDD and installing Linux on it, maybe PS3Ubuntu, to run ZSNES and other stuff. I’d love to get StepMania working on this thing!

As for games, the 80 GiB version came with a copy of Motor Storm, which is a really cool racing game. I played it back in its beta days when my buddy Owen had it. Of course, we haven’t played anything but Oblivion, which is addictively great. Fantastic game. I haven’t played through it all yet and am already thinking about my next character (either some sort of crusader, battlemage or just pure mage).

So, christmyass rolls around, and what did my parents get us? They got us a freaking Wii! I couldn’t believe it. So, now we have both a PS3 and a Wii. The Wii they got came with Metroid Prime 3, which I played a bit and is really good. I also picked up Super Mario Galaxy with a Gamestop gift card, which is what I’ve been playing whenever Jilly is playing Oblivion.

Super Mario Galaxy is awesome. I love what they’ve done using the Wiimote. The game is fun, somewhat challenging at times, and plays a lot like a supped-up version of Super Mario 64, which it should, being the official sequel. What’s really cool too is that in some parts of some levels it is very 2Dish, playing like the old Super Mario World. Absolutely love this game. I’m also very much looking forward to Super Smash Bro’s Brawl, which comes out in February. I may just pre-order it on Amazon.

So, life is great.