Okay, I'll admit it. I blew it. On the last damn day too. But hey, it was Christmas Eve, and I had absolutely no time to do any blogging. So let's just be happy that we got a solid twenty-three Days of Materialism. I did a lot better than the last two years anyway!

Christmas was pretty rad too. Aside from the ginormous day-before snowfall and subsequent driving through said snowfall, of course. I got most of the stuff I wanted, and tons more because I'm a spoiled little shit. But I spent more than half as much as I received (probably) so I'm thinking we can call it even maybe? The main thing to consider here is that I got Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, and it's everything Tomm promised it would be. Well, maybe not in the way I perceived it would be, but it's still awesome! I also got The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, but I haven't played it yet because I'm finishing up my second playthrough of Phantom Hourglass, which I don't hate nearly as much as everyone else. And I bought Pokémon Rumble with the one (shame, people!) Nintedo Points card I received, and the full version is even more addictive than the demo! Hooray! And finally, Z sent me Zombies Ate My Neighbours, which is still great, but I need someone to play it with.

Also I got a shitload of clothes and a bunch of movies and a sweet RC helicopter, but those don't really fit the theme of this blog, which has been "talking about a video game once a month" lately. Sad. Here's hoping that this new year will bring back the variety, creativity, and volume of content that this stupid site used to have before I started dating my girlfriend.

So I'm already through to the "c" articles in Gamespite Quarterly 3. That's already farther than Parish has gotten posting several articles a day for the last few weeks. And I've only had two evenings to read. Told you I'd burn through it.

So I finally saw New Moon last night. And I'm using "finally" in the "I finally ran out of ways to avoid it" sense, not the "I'm so excited we finally saw it" sense. It was not nearly as awful as Twilight, but still pretty bad. Robert Pattinson and Kristin Stewart still can't act, and the Bella character is the stupidest fuckwit I've ever seen. But Taylor Lautner was atually quite good! I was surprised, to say the least. Also the fact that the werewolves were all Hulk-out rather than full moon was neat. A little sketchy, but it allows for a lot more werewolf than the full moon mythos allows. Anyway, it's still basically two hours of whining, so I don't recommend.

So I opened TE at work today, just to take a peek (not to update at work or anything... that would be wrong), and it turns out that at least there, the site is horribly broken in Internet Explorer. Now, if it weren't for not having any alternatives at the office, I wouldn't touch IE, but them's the breaks. Quite unfortunately, I'm pretty sure I would get a scolding if I installed Firefox or Google Chrome.

So a while ago I discovered that somebody ripped the entire soundtrack from Super Smash Bros Brawl, made it all into MP3s and put it in a torrent. I can only assume this happened ages ago, but HOT DAMN I am excited. Whatever noble soul is behind this triumph of goodwill is my new hero. I seriously looooove the Brawl soundtrack. I wish Nintendo would release a 20-disc compilation of it. I love having physical copies of things. And we'll talk even more about that later into the month. But I do have some other music to get all smooshy over tonight though! Avast!

Ugh. Sometimes I forget just how wonderful medication can be. I've been down with the sickness for the last week (and not changing my routine at all to compensate for it), and today my boss finally forced me to head over to the walk-in medical center. I'm now doped up and... well, not feeling great yet, but that shit really does take the edge off. I don't get sick very often, but when I do, it really wreaks havoc on my physical self. I also finished Christmas shopping for my girlfriend today, which has been a three-month long endeavor, so woot on that.