Fallout, Towels and Snow oh my!

 

It’s snowing here now……in OCTOBER!! I really hope this doesn’t persist because I can’t handle a long winter. We didn’t get that much snow, but any time it snows before Halloween is bad. I haven’t even raked my lawn, and there are still leaves on the trees! My dog, who was born in January, doesn’t seem to remember the snow, so he was freaking out. He kept lifting his paws up because the ground was so cold. The look he gave me when I first brought him out was priceless, it was like, “wtf is all this shit?”

 

If you haven’t been reading my blogs, then well, you suck, but you also would have not known that my 360 is in the shop and I had to borrow one off my friend. Well, I had to return it to him on Monday and was getting pissed because Fallout 3 was coming out and I was not going to be able to play (oh noes!). On Sunday night, I decided to find my old launch 360 that red-ringed a while ago and try the towel trick. For those not hip on the 360 terms, the towel trick is where you wrap your broken box in towels and fire it up. It overheats the thermal paste inside and creates a good seal between the heatsink and the processor (I assume). I was skeptical at first, but after 30 minutes of baking (fire extinguisher at the ready), and 15 minutes of cool down, it actually worked! I couldn’t believe it. Now, this is only a temporary fix, and I expect it to kak out any day now, but being able to play Fallout has made my week.

 

On the topic of Fallout, this is truly an epic game. From the makers of Oblivion, Bethesda has really kept true to their style, while creating a refreshing take on open world RPG adventure games. I won’t go into details, but suffice to say that the immersion factor while traversing the wasteland rivals some of my favourite games, including Bioshock. There are no roads, or paths and you really get the sense that you are scrounging for anything that could possibly help you, or make you bottle caps (the currency in the game). Walking through nuked towns is both scary and beautiful. Every blown out house has a story of its own. I walked into one that only had one skeleton in the bathtub. You could imagine that he/she was spending their last moments relaxing in the tub; quite moving. I am only 2 ½ hours into this game, but I can imagine hundreds more moments like this one before I complete it.

 

So, I have entered into a whole new realm of nerd-dom. Over the weekend, I went looking for not one, but two Gears of War COG tags that were placed here in Toronto for people to find. Now, I normally contain my nerdy side to my house and this website, but this had me out walking around looking for little metal gears so that I could claim my 15 seconds of internet fame. Sadly, I didn’t find either one of them, but maybe it was for the best…

 

That is all for today, carry on.

 

 

X.