Slicing towards 24320 GS, Superman and physics...

When I went to sleep last night I put on the mandatory show for sleepy-time. The series Smallville. For those of you who don't know... (Damn you!) It's a show about Clark Kents early days before becoming the Man of Steel. It's always been one of my favourite shows but I've always wondered: What was the people behind Superman smoking when they came up with this superhero? He's damn near indestructible, he can shoot fire from his eyes and he can lift... we almost anything. Let's put Superman up for the physics test... I will be using stuff from the movies, the comics and Smallville to the extent of my knowledge of course...

A rundown of Supermans powers for starters:
Speed: He can move faster than a speeding bullet. Now I don't know excactly how fast that is but it's probably damn fast. In one of the movies with Cristopher Reeves, Lois dies and in an attempt to save her life he goes back in time by flying backwards around Earth. For this to be possible he must be travelling at the speed of light (or near it at least.)
Flight: All who know of Superman knows that he can fly. Probably the first thing that comes to mind when you mention his name.
Strength: He has been lifting and throwing stuff through all of the medias shown above. In the lastest movie he slowly stops a Boeing something something plane from crashing. He is damn strong.
X-Ray vision: He can see through solid objects. Everything except lead.
Heat vision: He can emit heat from his eyes setting the spot he stares at on fire.
Indestrutible: He can take practically any amount of asskicking without it leaving a scratch. He cannot be shot or blown up for example.
Superhearing: He can hear stuff that happens from a great distance.

Supermans weaknesses:
Kryptonite: Green Kryptonite could potentially kill him and every villain in the world seems to have one or two of these rocks lying around. Lead is the only thing that protects Superman from Kryptonite exposure. There are also different Kryptonite that affects him in a various amount of ways.

As we can tell from the information above Superman is not really something that would work in real life based on his weakness alone. He could easily create a lead armor and be even more awesome.
Because of his powers I thought it would be fun, since I've studied some physics, (I'm not an expert mind you) to analyze if it's even remotely possible that a Superman would somewhere along the line visit our great blue planet.

Let's start from the top with the speed. As shown by physicists all around the world it's not possible to travel at the speed of light. The amount of energy needed to travel at that speed would rip everything apart. Period... It doesn't matter if he can take a bullet. To make things a little more easy to grasp: The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second. It's measure comes from the speed light has in vacuum. And not only light but all massless particles. As far as I know Superman is not massless.

What about flight then? Well, since he doesnt' have any soft of powering device we would just have to imagine that he is "moving himself". The only way I could see this possible is if he negates gravity. (The little thing that keeps us on the ground.) Now gravity is not random. Gravity is basically the difference between two masses. In order for Superman to "negate" gravity he has to have a higher mass than Earth which I find highly unlikely. If he had a higher mass than Earth, then Earth would get pulled towards Superman since, he now has a greater mass than Earth. Sorry to burst your bubbles.

What's next? Oh, his strength. We will actually combine his strength and his indestructability to make it easier to break the myth. The strength itself is hard for me to explain. I guess it is theoretically possible to have super-strength but combined with his indestrutible body we can start to punch some holes in the theory. In order for Superman to be indestructable he has to have higher density that normal people. Density is how close together the particles are to each other in any matter. This would also increase his weight substantially. Now I've seen Superman do some crazy shit but let's take one of the classics. Imagine you're falling from a building and Superman catches you on the ground. First of all his strength makes you very light for this hunk of skin. Coupled with him being indestructable it would actually be better if you landed on the ground. This guy can get shot. He won't even feel you crash into him. It will literally be like being launched into a mountain from a space station. You know the things that shoot rockets up in the air? In an episode of Smallville I saw Clark Kent catch a car like it was nothing in midair. The problem is that in real life the car would become dust.

The x-ray vision could work since we actually have machines that can do it. But let's think about it for a moment. Have you ever gotten an x-ray of any sort. Like when a dentist checks your teeth? Well they give you something to bite on to and then they all leave the room. Why? Well x-rays are waves at a certain wavelength. This particular wavelength is radioactive and can be dangerous to people. So the defender of humanity who wouldn't hurt a fly would not go around using it since it can hurt people.

The other two remaining powers, the heat vision and the super-hearing is probably not possible either. I just couldn't find a way to make it impossible so let's leave those to for someone else to crack...

Another little sidenote. What about his appearance? I mean why can't the people around him see that he is Superman? I mean, come on! If Clark Kent was my friend and he removed his glasses and put some gel in his hair and started flying I would notice... Please...

So to sum things up: Superman can unfortunately not visit us any time soon. Not until all the laws about physics have been rewritten. I feel kinda sad. I really like Superman. He is the epitome of justice and defender of all.

He is a hero...

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Can you see it yet?

Achievements (contains spoilers)
I am pissed! Really, really pissed! I will explain why but first: Huge day for achievements!

I had a long day in school so it was rather late when I got home. When I did get home I did some laundry for Emma since she was still working at the time. Then I booted up Afro Samurai and continued the story...

I was apparently at the level Kuma's Story. It was a snowy, very straightforward level in a valley of sorts surrounded by cliffs. There was no enemies save for one. A guy in a bear mask. So I was gonna chase him apparently. During my chase he'd dissapear and launch up through the ground in an attempt to kill little old me. I ran in to him twice while getting the first 2 mementos for this level. After that I reached a big snow field where the bear-guy was waiting for me. We had some sword-to-sword action before he once again fled up a destroyed tower. Here I found the third memento. After I climbed up the tower I found myself in something that reminded me of a ship. Of course it wasn't a ship since it stood on to pillars (which I originally thought was a tower.) This is one of those traditional japanese structures you see in all the movies. They are usually red I might add. After another fight with the bear-man I found my fourth memento. After climbing the last few steps the building caved down and I was now in a last stand against the bear man. The last fight was rather intense but I got him down without a bigger fuss. After that I got The Past Laid to Rest achievement for finishing Kuma's Story. I then had to redo the whole chapter to find the last memento which apparently also was up in the building before it collapsed. That got me the Widow Maker achievement.

Oh snap! He died...

The next level was The Empty Seven's Story. This was a rather big level. At least it felt big. It mostly consisted of a big room where you'd first be attacked by a smaller country's worth in men and later you had to pull levers to gain acces to another part of the tower. I got up the first path of the level, getting the mementos available on the way and was presented with a mini-boss of sorts. An old guy was shooting at me with a gun. After a succesful reflect the bullet hit another old guy who was set on fire (!?) This old man then started chasing me throught the room until I could lure him down a tube with gears grinding his body to bleh...
This put me back in the original room where I had to pull a second lever and climb up another part of the tower where I was presented with yet another mini-boss. This was an easier one. An old guy just summoned regular ninjas which was dead faster than Superman can run in real life.
Oh... back in the first room... again... Now I had to pull the third lever and climb up a third part of the tower. The controls really didn't make these climbs easy. I'm starting to get annoyed more than I enjoy the game now... Never a good sign. Before entering the last door at the top I got the last of the mementos netting me The Samurai Ghost achievement. But that's not all. I also got The Number One achievement for unlocking all skills in the game! Inside the door I got to face the boss which was a favourite of mine. The flamethrower guy. Yay! Not! This time he only had a stick though and was still easier than the first time I fought him. Upoon defeating him I got the All That Stood Are Gone achievement.

How dare you jump over my sword?!

Now I entered Ninja Ninja's Story which i'm not gonna spoil. It does contain either the longest or shortest boss fight of all depending on how lucky you are. I managed to get the Kengo achievement and the Four to the Floor achievement for getting 1000 kills and slicing 4 enemies at once respectively.

Now it was time for the last battle. This is also something I will not spoil. It's an enjoyable fight once you get the hang of it. Pretty hard at first though.Whn I finally killed the boss ( I died quite a few times at first) I got the Revenge Served? achievement.

This game is pretty awesome!

Not much left to do now. I would have to play through the story one more time on Hard before I'm done but I still had some random achievements left so I started working on those.

This is why I'm pissed. The card mini-game thing is killing me. It took me a few tries before getting the Kunoichi Suicide Queens achievement which is for slicing off a head, a hand and a leg from female ninjas only. The next one was even worse. The enemies needed for the cards have a tendancy to block... a lot... It took me about 35 tries to get the Off Suit Samurai achievement which is for slicing off a head, a hand and a leg from samurais. Only one card achievement left to get. And this proved to be the worst of the bunch. I never managed to get it even after about 20 tries. I did however get the Let it Flow achievement which means I've now spilled 2000 galons of blood (Awesome achievement!) The last remaining card achievement will have to wait for another day. Now I'm off...

All in all I got 11 achievements worth 325 GS!

Looks like it's steak for dinner tonight.

Go achieve something!

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Slicing towards 24320 GS, The Kings of Tylösand and other crap...

Today the new show called "Kungarna av Tylösand" started on TV. I was very intrigued as to what this show could be about. I knew that it took place here in my hometown Halmstad and therefore I was kinda curious as to what it was all about. Surfing the internet I came across some footage from the first episode so I decided to check it out. I'm very glad I did.
This must be one of the most stupid shows I've ever laid eyes on. It's all about drinking, puking and having sex. A show that needs to use the sex card is no show I'm interested in seeing. I really don't understand why people want to watch shit like this. Is it because you want what they have (please tell me it isn't so?) Or is it mearly the fact that you like to watch people fuck up as badly as possible? One hour of crap and not the good kind of crap but pure crap. From the behind-crap. Utterly useless crap... I think you understand where I'm going with this.
One guy apparently scored 2 times with two different girls. With TV-cameras in the rooms. Good for you! I'm sure there are better things you could do with your time. Cure AIDS, feed the hungry or even paint your house and later watch the paint dry! I'm sorry but I'm getting pretty pissed about this. The networks are giving the public what they want so you better start liking other shit.
Let's try to analyze what makes this interesting:

It contains:
Sex - Sex is nice and we probably all like sex. For ourselves. If you want to watch sex there's millions and millions of movies and clips on the internet. Watch it there so we can have regular shows on TV, please.
Drinking - Drinking can be fun but isn't it really more of an annoyance than fun? How many times doesn't people start to fight when they're drunk. I've had my share of fighting with people while under the influence and it's not fun. Not fun to watch either. I don't know if this show contains fighting since I haven't watched more than the clips online but I'm guessing it does.
Nothing more... - As I said I didn't watch it but I mean we've been through this before. Paradise Hotel, Big Brother, Jersey Shore and every other of these shows. It's done already. Give me more Ullared!

I can't really say I'm being more productive than these people and they are probably doing what they are doing because they wanna have fun. Just like me... We just don't like the same thing apparently...

I've ranted enough. Now I'm gonna go watch a good sexless (so far) show called Fringe.

The worst thing I've ever seen on television. Steer clear! Unless you like watching sex, drinking and puking...

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                                        It's a cheese!                                                  What might this be?

Achievements (contains spoilers)

Had a good run today as well. I continued through the story on Afro Samurai. I started by replaying the level from hell for the 3 mementos I mssed yesterday. But before that I got the Hundred Head Hunter achievement for chopping off 100 heads with a critical strike. Gief more blood bitte! 

The second playthrough of a levels always goes by faster than the first time around. I got The Demon of Vengeance achievement for finding all 5 mementos in the level not long after that.

Since I didn't know if it saves your progress only by picking up the mementos I was forced to play through the entire level again. I came to a place where you're supposed to do the minigames with the cards. I had done this last night but apparently I did it wrong. This time I got the Gutshot Android Flush achievement for completing an Android Straight Flush. I'm not really sure excactly how you get these achievements. Sometimes they pop and sometimes they don't. The only thing I do know is that it needs to be a specific type of enemy. As to which bodyparts you must sever... Well, your guess is as good as mine. 

After that I had to defeat the bitch with the flamethrower. I had a really hard time with him last night. It went a little easier today. He has different phases. The first one he just uses his flamethrower against you, the second he starts launching himself up in the air by flaming downwards and the last phase he launches himself up but shoots 2 more times downward before landing. Usually bosses with different phases gets harder the longer the fight progresses. But not this asshole. He gets easier as he starts launching himself. When I had laid him to rest Emma wanted to play Guitar Hero...

This guy looks pretty badass. He is pretty badass as well!

We continued playing through some songs on Easy to start things off in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. As usual it got pretty boring pretty fast so we decided to play Through the Fire and Flames after a couple of songs. The goal is to perfect it on Easy because the song contains a lot of notes which can give me the achievement for getting a 2000 note streak. We didn't get it but we did get the Half Mill' Club achievement for scoring 500.000 points on a song in Co-Op. Finally something from Guitar Hero! Then she ran off the the TV for some show she wanted to see...

This kinda looks like Afro Samurai except he is more mellow in this title.

I returned to the world of Afro Samurai and started the next level called The Lowdown East Pass. I was expecting a great big maze since it's become harder and harder to find your way around the levels. This was not the case however. The layout of this level was enjoyable and didn't annoy me as much as the previous one. It's getting harder though. Here I was introduced to badass article 39... I was gonna reflect a shot from a gun. With a sword... I like over-the-top crap! After getting shot about 675 times I finally got the I am Rubber achievement for killing an enemy with a reflected shot. Yay me! I suck most of the time until I manage to do something right. Then, suddenly, I am the king of the gaming world! 

Shortly after this litte encounter I got the Bushi achievement for unlocking 40 skills. I still don't know what these skills are but I don't care anymore. Afro is awesome and that's all that matters! 

After getting my 40th unknown skill I got The Number Two achievement for finding all 5 mementos on this level. And I did it the first time around! I'm awesome... This level was coming to an end and that's too bad. I kinda liked it. It was some puzzles and some asskicking all bundled up to an awesome level. 

But what did I see? The flamethrower guy is back? And this time he got a rocket launcher? Wonderful... Lucky for me this boss was a cakewalk and I got The Path to Godhood achievement for finishing the level. 

"I'm just gonna stand here, smoking my cigarette with an awesome shot of the rocky background behind me..."

Now Emma wanted to play Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock again. This time we didn't get any achievements what-so-ever but Emma is getting better and better everyday. She might even beat me someday! I guess she will be the one who gets me the Expert achievements then.

I dove back into Afro Samurai and started the next level. Even more linear than the previous level. This made the mementos easier to find. Halfway through the level, though, I was stopped by a miniboss of sorts. a copy of my own character. This guy was like nothing I've ever faced before. He kicked my ass from here to sunday. I just had to check videos on YouTube to understand what I was supposed to do. After some practicing I finally got the strategy down and once I understood how to do it he was rather easy. Flamethrower-guy is still on my most-hated list. He will probably remain there for a long time, too. Not long after that fight I got The Death Bringer achievement for collecting the 5 mementos.

Now I was introduced yeat another copy... Or something like that. It was a robot that threw me in the air and we had a bout flying through the air. Each time I started to get too close to the ground he threw me up again. The fight took a lot of time to understand. I didn't die but I didn't kill him either. I was kind of a deadlock. He catched me and threw me back up again two times before I killed him. I think that if you do it right from the beginning you won't see that sequence at all. I got the Copy-Cat Killer upon Slicing that mo-fo up!

All in all I got 10 achievements across 2 games worth 165 GS!

If this was "Kungarna av Tylösand" she would get naked right about now...

Go achieve something!

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Slicing towards 24310 GS, hardstyle and festivals...

Me and My Life
Got a coll from a friend today. It started out pretty trivial with him asking me why his MSN wasn't working. He had reinstalled OS on his computer and couldn't get it to work.
Anywho as the conversation progressed he said he wanted to show me a case that he built for some light equipment which we could use the next time we wanted to DJ. Well, you see... Every midsummer-eve we have an event of sorts. It's a dance event held where all the students gather in tents and drink a lot of alcohol. Four years ago we decided to go there since we didn't know where else to go. Prior to this me and a friend had bought a sound system which we could use if we wanted to play somewhere sometime. When we bought them we had never played anywhere but my friend had gotten a turntable as he wanted to start to play around with some DJ:ing. So four years ago we decided to pack everything up including a party-tent and go to a football-court and just play. No announcement or anything. That night turned out to be rather good with all the people from the other tent gathering inside ours, dancing their asses off. This turned out to be a tradition. We now go there every year and play for people that want to dance and have a good time. It doesn't even cost anything. Since then the "event" has also grown quite a bit. Every year we get some new piece of equipment for said event. It started with a few lights and this year we had a bigger tent, smoke, laser, lights and a lot of people. Not an enormous amount of people but more than previous year. Therefore we now want more. A dream would to make our events big as hell and be able to charge a small fee for a night of dance and fun. We are far from our goal but we are somewhat progressing still. Me and my friend talked about getting banners or backdrops where we could put our logo since it's been hard to understand who was in charge of the event. This year we got jackets with our logo on and the word "CREW" on it. This kinda failed though since people only thought we were security. We also want to do this more than just once a year and maybe getting an indoor place for an event too.We want to play hardstyle and the likes but in the end it's usually the people there who decides. If people dance to hardstyle we play hardstyle but if they don't we play something else. It usually varies between house, dance and hardstyle.

We had a blast as always. You might join us next year?

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                          Oh look i'ts a... crab...                                   What might this be then?

Achievements (contains spoilers)

I continued playing Afro Samurai today. It's still an enjoyable game. Not the best I've played but also not the worst. The story seems off and a bit strange but Samuel L. Jackson's character is awesome. He says all the profanity you might need from a game and is obviously the comic relief of the title.

Starting off on the second level called School Invasion I leveled up after a few fights. This got me the Ashigaru achievement for unlocking 10 skills. I don't really know what these skills are though. The character behaves as he did in earlier chapters and seems to take as much damage and so on. I guess I will find out later on. Before reaching the end of the chapter I got the Torso from Tail achievement which means I have now cut 50 people in half. This game just keeps getting better and better! Upon completing the chapter I got The Death of Innocence achievement. 

The next chapter started instantly and it was a single boss fight. I sliced the guy up like shish kebab (this game is rather easy) and got The Price for Vengeance achievement. In the first chapter I had missed a collectible forcing me to replay the chapter. The same happened on the chapter before the boss fight but this time I had missed 2. It seems they are getting more and more elusive. Damn colletibles! I Love you!!! So back to square 1... or something. I had a lucky break during the second time through the chapte and got the Three-way achievement which means I cut three people in half at the same time. After redoing the chapter again at a much slower pace I got the Afro Samurai achievement for collecting all 5 of the mementos and unlocking my second skill passed down from my father.

Uh-uh... You know he dead!

At the start of the next chapter I got the Rhythm Section achievement for achieving a total of 3000 combos. You fight quite a lot in this game about a black samurai. Go figure...

Then I was introduced to a minigame of sorts. A rather cool one at that too. You are presented with three playing cards which all represent something. In this case I was supposed to slice off a hand, a leg and a stomach for the Made Hand Ronin achievement. I don't really know what it is good for but I find it rather hilarious to just throw something like that into the game. This level was a real pain in the ass as well. Long and hard to find where the hell you're going. I got the Hatamoto achievement halfway through the chapter which is for unlocking 25 skills (which I still don't know what they are.) WHen I finally reached the end of the chapter I was pissed. The level is a pain in the ass and controls are getting more dodgy when I start to get the hang of how to control Afro. That makes it more annoying when he doesn't perform the way I wanted to. But now I was at the boss at least. Just slice him up and you're done. Well, I'll be god damned! This mo-fo is the hardest thing this game has presented me with to say the least. I hate games that are ont leveled. The game has been easy as pie up to this point and now it has me retrying over 15 times. Argh... I might just suck! After finally killing him I got the Love Lost achievement. Glad that's over... I'm not too happy that since I only got 2 of the collectibles on this chapter I have to do it all again. That will have to wait until tomorrow though. I'm too pissed to keep playing now.

All in all I got 10 achievements worth 140 GS!

If you fuck with the Afro Samurai you get combed... Combed? For God's sake I suck!

Go achieve something!

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Slicing towards 24310 GS, afros and the library...

Me and My Life
Well, what's new? Started off another boring day at school with math I'm snoozing through followed by an experiment in chemistry where we were supposed to check residues and such from various metals and the likes. It was pretty fun but the different smells that was released in that room brought out one hell of a headache. But I have to endure if I want a high grade I guess. On the break between math and chemistry I went to the reception and checked how many more hours I have to complete before I can apply for högskolan (university?) It seems I need 450 more hours which translates into one more semester. 18 weeks to be more exact. I then wanted to check how much longer I can apply for student loans. Here was the shocker... After the 18 weeks I'm currently studying I have 9 more weeks where I'm allowed student loans on this level of study. This is nothing short of a disaster since I'm sooooo close to graduating I can smell it. So I might just have to try and find a part time job (What?!? In this economy?!) to keep me and my loved one afloat. Everything usually turns out for the best. Only time will tell.
After school me and my girlfriend went to the library to check out a book written by an english-speaking author long before I was born. I had to have this bookfor my english course. I would never set foot in a library if I didn't have to. I might explore it a lot though since they nowadays rent out games as well. Seeing how I won't have money to buy games I might as well rent them and sack them for achievements! MUAHAHAHA! I'm evil... I'm gonna watch an episode of Fringe (Yay, I'm cool again!) before turning in...

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What might this be? Huh?

Achievements (contains spoilers)

According to the banner I've yet again switched games. When I went to the library and rented a game I just had to get one on the letter A (since I'm crazy.) I had Amped 3 and Afro Samurai to chose from. Amped 3 doesn't seem to be a very good game but Afro Samurai seems awesome.

I was somewhat right. It's (I'm guessing here) based of an Anime as far as I can see and it's one bloody game. It stars Afro Samurai. A black, katana-wielding badass with an afro worthy of some kind of reward. It's just bouncy and fluffy. He seems to be on a quest to find the second headband which he really wants to get his hands on. I can't really tell you why since I haven't gotten very far. The story doesn't seem to be of the epic kind but what can you expect from a Hack 'n' Slash title? The only downfall to the game so far is the somewhat dodgy controller. The coolest thing about it is that Samuel L. Jackson stars as one of the voices in the game. He got one hell of a voice....

Anywho, I started the game and was introduced to some sort of training mission (as always). Two guys charged me and I started to slash my way through them with the afro just tagging along. I immediately got the Mash Medley achievement and the Give Me a Hand achievement for keeping a combo going for 20 hits and slicing off an enemy's hand respectively. Awesome game! I started to play around with the controls and found a button which seemed to slow down time and a flash went across the katana. It stopped at the tip of the sword and then disappeared. I realized that you're supposed to slash when it's at the top for more power. Upon using it against a poor ninja (with far less skills than Afro Ninja) I cut him in half (yes in half!) and got the Closer to God achievement for cutting an enemy in half using a critical hit. I continued using this awesome move and got the Hats off to You achievement and the Hip Hop achievement for cutting off someones head using a critical hit and simply cutting off a foot respectively. I met one last ninja and got the This Little Piggy achievement for slicing off both fingers and toes from one enemy. This seems to be one of the more elusive achievements since it's purely based on luck. After that I got the And so it Begins achievement for playing through the prelude.

Slow-mo, mo-fo!

After this I started the actual game and rather quickly I got the Meijin achievement which means killing 100 enemies (damn, you kill a lot of enemies.) Now I found this game's collectibles Don't you just love collectibles? The more the better! There seemed to be five in this episode so going through it, slicing people left and right I searched for them as good as I could but I only found 4 before standing face to face with the boss. After defeating him I got the A Secret History achievement. Chapter 1 complete... But... But... One collectible is still there just waiting for me! So of course I replayed the chapter to find the fifth one. On my way through the chapter again I accidently got the Two Birds One Sword achievement which involves slicing two enemies in half at the same time. Following that I got the Slow Your Roll achievement for slicing an enemy in the midst of an attack (WTF?! Is that an achievement?) Finally I got the The Child Without a Name achievement for finding all 5 Mementos (collectibles which unlocks skills passed down from your father, apparently.) After this I just stopped playing since I had gotten a lot of achievements (a quarter of them, actually) in a rather short time. Don't want the game to be over too soon.

You just gut served, biatch! (See what I did there? Gut... I'm awesome...)

All in all I got 12 achievements worth 80 GS.

Go achieve something!

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Freeflowing towards 23310 GS and not much else...

Me and My Life
As the title suggests not much has been happening today. I woke up to my girlfriend telling me that her parents will be arriving in a bout 5 minutes. After that I was up... We were gonna go and pick up the couch that they bought about 4 weeks back. Since I know the people that work there me and Emma went along to make sure the pickup went as planned. The fact that Emmas parents are deaf might be another factor. We stuffed the couch on a trailer and then we were off again.
Back home we just chilled almost all day... Now I'm sitting here rather pissed of how Battlestar Galactica ended. I now wonder if I might've missed a season or something but using all the power of the internet I can't find any information concerning hwo to get a hold of the 5th season (which started airing 1 January apparently.) Therefore I started watching another show called Fringe. The first epidoe was rather cool and I look forward to continue watching it. I might also pick up some Anime since I found a site where you can stream almost anything from the artists in Japan.

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The picture on the left is the finished one and the right is a new one I started on today...

Achievements (contains spoilers)

Well I haven't been playing a lot today either. I started playing Batman: Arkham Asylum where I'm currently focusing on the challenges in the game. I started by attempting one of the easier achievements. After a few tries I got the Invisible Predator achievement which involves playing through an entire Predator level using only Silent Takedowns and without being detected. After that I started working on getting medals on the Predator levels. I got 5-6 today. In total I got 14 or 15. Just 8 or 9 to go.

The guards are totally retarded for not spotting Batman during these challenges due to the lighting. But I guess that's why they decided to become criminals

After that me and my girlfriend played Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock yet again. Easy is so boring so it's hard to play through to many songs without slipping into a coma. We did a few though before going into the Hard difficulty. Emma is doing really well (even though she has random fits against the game and TV.) She can get pretty upset when she loses. It's a good thing I'm not the one she's mad at.

All in all I got 1 lousy achievement worth 10 G. That's... not so awesome...

This guy has hair in a funny color. This means that he is using drugs.

Go achieve something!

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Freeflowing towards 23310 GS, sign language and Gekås...

As I suspected I didn't have time to write anything last night. Therefore there will be one big ass post today instead. I applaude you if you finish it all...

Me and My Life
Fridays are my "home from school"-days. My schedule is quite the breeze. I have two classes starting at 10.00 and finishing at 15.30 on mondays, one class starting 8.10 and finishing 9.40 on tuesdays and every other wednesday. That leaves only thurday which is also the worst day of the week with two classes starting at 8.10 and finishing at 15.30 with one big ass break from 9.40 to 13.10. This is where I usually do my flex-courses. There's only one thing that would be better and tat's to have wednesday off. Having one day in the middle of the week let's you recuperate your lost energy...
This friday we went shopping and spent a lot of money as usual. It's impossible for us to go and buy only the essentials. We always bring home more than agreed upon. The funny thing is that we were at the same store just one week ago and as I was packing the bags I said, rather, loudly that we wouldn't return for at least a month (or something like that.) Well, the cashier challenged us and told us that she'd expect us the following week. I'm grateful for the fact that I didn't run into her yesterday. It would have been embarrasing to say the least.
That night Emmas parents arrived for a quick visit. They are very easy to be around even though they are deaf. That might have sounded harsh and I don't like to admit it but I thought I would have a problem with the fact that they are deaf. How would I communicate if they can't hear me? But this is just me being prejudice of course. I feel bad for the fact that I was thinking that the first time I met them. I mean, they are far from retarded and you can get a long way by using only your body language. They do understand. Since then I've been learning some sign language. It's awesome to know it since me and Emma can say stuff to each other "in secret" if we wish. I'm not saying I'm good at it yet but I can use the letters to form words which Emma can pick up rather easy. It's worse the other way around since she has a tendency to speed up the signing on her part. She is able to form letters using the alphabet at lightning-fast speed.
The following day we got up early and began our journey to hell. Gekås, Ullared. It's a horrible store which I ansolutely hate to be in. Sometimes it's necessary though. Especially when you don't have any clothes to put on your back. The reason the store is as horrible as it is, is becuase of all the people who are shopping there at the same time. A kind of rush that is unimaginable occurs among all the trolleys and old farts who is attacking everyone that happens to be in front of them. The mentality in the store is mixed. We have the hags who keeps running their trolleys into your heals and the people that seem to find my rantings about how this place needs to disappear from the face of the earth funny. Today was an exception though. I didn't hate it as much as usual and my guess is that it is because of my new shoes. I usually get a staggering pain after about 20 minutes. Now we spent about 4 hours in the store and I din't have any pain. I could also stand the store for a longer peiod of time. But going there too often is out of the question. Once a year, tops.

Japanese picturepuzzle!

I'm starting to see an image form... Do you?

Achievements (contains spoilers)
Well, I must say I have been productive these lest two days. After Emmas parents went to bed me and her played Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock as usual. No achievements but a good time none the less. We started off on Easy since I wanna get the achievement for 5-starring all songs but later on we went over to Hard since Easy is a drag... We might even get the achievement for 5-starring every song on Hard? That's up to Emma to decide, though.

I love rock n' roll...

After Emma had gone to bed I continued my journey alone. I booted up Batman: Arkham Asylum and continued with the story. After some time I got the Poisoned Ivy achievement for kicking Poison Ivy's ass and flower. The fight was rather enjoyable as well. A bit too easy maybe but I guess I will have my work cut out for me when I try to do the same thing on Hard. With the exception for the last achievement in the story I was done and decided to start going after the collectibles. Seeing how I was now facing the last stretch of the game I felt confident enough to be able to find them all. I went back to the beginning and started to collect my ass off. Seeing how The Riddle has left maps in each region which shows secrets on the map it was rather easy to find them. After a while I got the Mental Athlete and the Riddle Resolver achievements which represents 70% and 85% of the riddles respectively. When I checked the map I realized that all the collectibles remaining was inside the building where the final fight would take place so I decided to get some of those extra achievements. At the entrance to "the party" Joker is having are 20 henchmen who are guests at said party. One achievement involved these 20 people. I quickly got the Party Pooper achievement for slapping all 20 henchmen silly. These doesn't attack you if you don't attack them so I guess it would be possible to miss this achievement by letting them be. One of the extra achievements proved to be quite hard when it didn't have to be. After a lot of tries I got the Catch! achievement which makes you throw a Remote Controlled Batarang and then steer it back toward you and catch it. It's supposed to be very easy but I was able to fuck it up more than once. It was starting to get pretty late so I decided to get the last extra achievement before going to bed. After finding the highest place on the island I got the Night Glider achievement which means gliding for 100 metres without touching the ground.

This is the type of stuff that you need to scan for the riddles...

The following day after returning from hell I went back to Arkham Asylum and took on the last fight. I realized that this was not the last building where the rest of the riddles were but cutscenes started playing and I couldn't leave once I had entered. I would have to get the remaining riddles after the fight. I will not say what the last fight involved but upon completion I got 2 achievements: The Mano-A-Mano achievement for defeating a Titan without any gadgets and the Big Bang achievement for clearing the game on Easy.
Seeing how I'd missed the last riddles by walking through the last door not knowing it didn't lead to the building I thought I had to get them now. It didn't take long to scoop them up though and it gave me the Crack the E Nigma achievement for solving all of the riddles. During these riddles I've come across tablets with information about the Spirit of Arkham. These tablets we're marked on the maps left around by The Riddle but when I completed all the riddles one last tablet was still missing. I had found all the riddles by myself but seeing how there wasn't any more marks on any of the maps I had no idea of where to look for the last tablet. So I cheated. I went online and after some running I got the World's Greatest Detective achievement for solving Arkham's greatest mystery. This is usually when achievements become a struggle. After you beat the main game the developers like to throw in the harder things for completionists to do. This was no exception. I now needed to do the Challenges which involves either fighting a bunch of idiots for score for 4 rounds or to do sneak-type missions. Every challenge has three obtainable medals. The Freeflow challenges (fighting) has three different scores and the Predator Challenges has three objectives for takedowns per map. I started off by collecting the Flawless Freeflow Fighter achievement for making it through all 4 rounds without taking damage. This was rather easy. Then I started doing the challenges and these were damn hard! One medal is achieveable but 2 and 3 were a joke! I finally got the Predator Bronze achievement which represents 8 medals in Predator Challenges. The rest will have to come some other day if ever...
All in all I got 12 achievements spanning over to days worth 230 GS!

Watch out for these guys since they can cut you up and down!

Go achieve something!

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Freeflowing towards 23310 GS, math and identification...

Me and My Life
Today was somewhat of a boring day... Not much happened. I had chemistry in the morning and then I had to wait for 3+ hours for my math class to start. These are those times when you just would like to go home and sleep the rest of the day. But math is one class I want to attend due to the fact that it's rather fast-paced, but more on that later...
During the 3 hour break me and Musse (Musse is just as cool as his last name) went to the police station to pick up my identification at the police station. It had arrived so we went there and got it. Then we went to Game since we like games. I was just browsing but decided I didn't need any more games at the moment. After that we went to a local pizzeria called Idas' and had some food in our growling stomachs. Mmmmm... They make one hell of a pizza at Idas'. It's Legen... wait for it... and I hope you're not lactos intolerent because the next word is... Dary! Barney Stinson is awesome.

The cameras at the police station is pretty dangerous... I came in with an afro and came out bald!

Back at school I attended my math class and damn nearly fell asleep. I really don't wanna miss any classes in math because it's easy to fall behind but at the moment the class kinda sucks. It's very easy for me to understand numbers apparently. Might have something to do with my disorder. I don't know. The only thing I do know is that math comes very easy to me so it's rather hard not to snooze off. I really hope it will get a bit harder later on. I might like an easy class but I hate being bored out of my mind...
I can't really tell you much more. I'm sitting here writing and afterwards I will be watching Battlestar Galactica (Again because I need to pan out my coolness which basically has to dazzle you right about now.) I don't know if I will have the time to write during the weekend since we're getting some company over in the form of my girlfriend's parents. There's usually some social activities involved during their stays. For your pleasure I will also include how my japanese picturepuzzle is coming along...

The crosses (if you can see them) are complete combinations but the rows are not complete...

Achievements (may contain spoilers)
I could say that today sucked when it came to my achievements but then I would be lying. I had a good run today even if it didn't seem like it at first. I played Batman: Arkham Asylum for a rather long time before getting the story achievement Double Trouble for taking down two Titan-induced henchmen. After that I continued playing but no more achievements for at least an hour. I really don't know how bad I was playing but I didn't seem to progress in the story very much either. Again my girlfriend asked if I wanted to play some Guitar Hero. I obliged of course.

This tiny, furry, loveable mutant is a Titan. You can cuddle with him all day...

Not a single achievement in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock today. One big reason is that we just started a new campaign on the Easy difficulty and there's 44 songs to complete and that takes quite some time. Also it's very hard to keep focus when playing on Easy since there is no nothing hard about it what so ever. It's actually so easy it gets hard... Therefore we played some Through the Fires and Flames on Easy and later I convinced my girlfriend that we should try the Hard difficulty. Emma is very adamant that she cannot make it on Hard because of the introduction of the orange button. She claims her fingers can't reach that far out but I asked her to humour me anyway. Well, about 8 songs into Hard (Yes, we managed about 8 songs on a difficulty that she claims to be too hard for her) she started to feel the heat. We decided to continue the adventure another day. But I'm really impressed that she made it as far as she did. I would probably not be able to play like her since she is using all four fingers like you're supposed to while I can only play with one.

But when notes come across the screen like this I am able to use thre fingers...

After we concluded shredding on our plastic guitars I returned to Arkham Asylum for some more non-existing achievements. But now I started getting quite a few instead. I continued playing through the story mode and got the Resist the Fear achievement for kicking Scarecrows ass yet again (he seems to be Superman's distant cousin since he simply cannot die properly) and after about 30 minutes I got the Crocodile Tears achievement for escaping Croc's Lair after collecting spores and running like a madman. There are actually not that many story achievements left in the game so I should probably start looking for collectibles. I think I finally got the last gadget for reaching them which is the Ultra Batclaw which can rip down walls. After some scavenging while progressing through the story I could got the Conundrum Cracker achievement which represents 55% of the Riddles. I decided to do one last thing before calling it a night and got the Freakshow Rodeo achievement coupled with the Freeflow Combo 20 achievement for riding on a Titan's back while pummeling at least 10 henchmen (which turned out to be 20 due to the fact that I also got the combo achievement). After that I was satisfied...
All in all I got 6 achievements worth 160 GS!

Go pick on someone you're own size!

Go achieve something!

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Freeflowing towards 23310 GS, christmas magazines and election...

Me and My Life

I woke up around 1 AM today due to the fact that I didn't have any classes. You see, every other wednesday we don't have any chemistry-class. The reason for this is that the schedule has been screwed up by the administration at the school or something. We are supposed to have a total of 100 hours of chemistry but according to the schedule there's more than a 100 hours planned. So instead of shortening a class or something like that, they decide to make every other wednesday into reserve-time. During this time students can ask for extra help. That's something I won't do. I like the fact that I can stay home some of the days.
I started off by doing some homework. Didn't get too much done but it doesn't really matter since I'm already ahead of my planning. After that I went and did the dishes and later on cleaned the bathroom. Did I mention I hate cleaning?

When the chores were all taken care of I could do stuff I LIKE to do. So I started to surf the internet for information about the different parties so I could form an opinion for the upcoming election. I still have a hard time deciding what the hell I find important. I did, however, find a test where you had to answer questions about different matters which, at the end of the test, showed which party that suited you best. For me the most natural party would be Miljöpartiet (Environment party maybe?) Their goals might not be very hard to figure out based on their name. Second best was Vänsterpartiet (Left party. My translations rock!!) and after that Feministiskt Initiativ (Feministic Initiative) (!?) Well, that should make my girlfriend happy... The test didn't really make me decide anything but it showed what parties to look into. And I know which parties I won't vote for. That's one chip off my shoulder (or three actually).

Around this time someone rang on my doorbell. Who could it be? We rarely get visitors unannounced so I got suspicious. Had to check the peephole before opening the door only to be greeted by a little girl who was selling magazines and books. We have something called Jultidningar (Christmas Magazines) in Sweden where kids can go around selling different magazines and books which will later on arrive at the recipients door around christmas. Personally I think it resembles child labor because I remember when I ran around trying to sell these things. First of all you get a provision on everything sold. It's not much but it's cash. Based on how well you do you can get bonuses like iPods and crap (A walkman when I was a kid) I can't really remember but back in the day the amount of magazines you had to sell for the top bonus was ridiculous. Somewhere around 5000 kr which is pretty fucking much.

But standing there looking at this little girl, who was already expecting a no, I saw myself as a kid trying to sell things for a keychain and I just couldn't say no. So I checked through the catalogue just hoping that there were anything of value to me. Found it! Avatar on DVD. Me and my girlfriend had decided to get this movie somewhere along the line anyway. The girl lit up like a christmas tree and gave me some shit to sign. Glad I could make her day!

 I'm blue, dabadee, dabadaa...

Achievements (may contain spoilers)

A good day for achievements I must say. I started going through Batman: Arkham Asylum and was determined to get the Freeflow Combo 10 achievement. So I found a place where there was a lot of enemies and started to smack them around. This achievement was harder than I thought though. Three buttons to press at certain situations. X for normal attacks which I was using frequently, Y for counterattacks against attacking enemies and B for a stunning attack against enemies with knives and such. The problem is to time it and aim each attack the right way. If I attacked an enemy with a knife with a regular attack they would block it and the combo would break. If I used a counterattack when someone wasn't attacking me it would break the combo. I did around ten attempts before I got the damn achievement.
After that I didn't get any "extra" achievements. By extra I mean stuff not in the story. I continued playing and got the Recurring Nightmare achievement for surviving yet another encounter with the Scarecrow and his damn gas and then I got the Zsasz Cut Down to Size achievement for saving Dr. Young from said Zsasz. At that moment my girlfriend asked me if I wanted to play some Guitar Hero with her.

Peek-a-boo!

The achievements racked up pretty quick during this sessions of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. There was only 6 songs left to complete before we'd done everything on the Medium difficulty so after just a short while I got the Back Up Hero achievement for completing every song as the back up guitar or bass guitar. After that we just had to redo one song because we only got 4 stars on it the first time around for the Medium Duo achievement which is, as you might've guessed, getting 5 stars on all songs on the Medium difficulty. After that we dove into the Co-Op campaign yet again but this time on Easy. See, we have to do everything one more time on Easy. There is also achievements on Hard and Expert but my girlfriend has not been playing the game as much as me so she has some trouble on the harder difficulties and my desire to get achievements is not her problem. I'm not gonna force the poor thing... Much... But I am happy she's willing to help me with what she can manage! Anywho, since Easy is very easy we got the Leaders of the Pack achievement which is for getting 100% notes on a song in Co-Op. Yay us!

Top hat and curly hair? I can only be Slash!

Back to Batman since my girlfriends show was starting on TV. I continued the story and got the Solitary Confinement achievement for apprehending the Jokers sidekick, Harley Quinn. Now I had gotten, what I thought was all the gadgets so I could actively start looking fo collectibles.
I went back to the beginning of the game and started tracking a lot of collectibles down. I then decided to get back into the building I first started in since I knew that there was still shit to do in there as well. The front door was locked but when I first started the game I remembered that I left this building through a cave accessible from the top floor in the building so I grappled my way up top and found a door. A door that seemed out of reach. After some missed jumps I finally got up there even though it seemed as it was more because of luck than something that was supposed to happen. I got inside and started to crawl through a ventilation shaft. I now realized my grappling thingie wasn't working. Hmmm? WTF? I got further in and saw a big circular hole in the wall leading to the big room in the building so I went through it. This lead me above the map unable to get anywhere. I clearly wasn't supposed to reach the door I came in through and everything in the building refused to load up properly. I got out and realized that I'm not supposed to return into the places I'd been just yet so I started looking for more collectibles and naturally found a place I couldn't reach and realized I need yet another gadget. Bah! I don't want to actively search for collectibles before I can get them all so I stopped looking. I did, however, manage to get the Mystery Solver achievement, which represents 40% of the collectibles. Then I shut the game off.

 Nananananananana Nananananananana Batman!

All in all 8 achievements from 2 games worth 110 GS!

Go achieve something!

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Freeflowing towards 23260 GS, washing and japanese picturepuzzles

ME AND MY LIFE

To make life easier for my girlfriend I'm putting this part on top instead of the gaming part. I can't really say or understand why but she is not extremely interested in my achievement-hunting. Shame on you! No, all kidding aside I put this up here for you, baby. Now you don't have to scroll down through enormous amount of crap before getting to the good part (If there are any good parts).

I had a pretty rough time falling asleep last night. My clock showed 3.30 the last time I checked it so my morning was not the most wonderful thing you can imagine. I got up and made my girlfriend breakfast. Yes, I am a very nice guy. I get myself ready and... You remember the shoes I bought yesterday? Well, it turns out that in a hectic situation it's harder to get in them than trying to break into Fort Knox. After a few moments of struggling I check the clock in the kitchen for the time and to my horror I realize that the bus is leaving in 4 minutes. It's a pretty short walk from my apartment to the bus stop but I still felt a small surge of panic wash over me. I rush out of the apartment and start running, which is not something I do very often, for obvious (fluffy) reasons. When I get around the bend so I finally can see the bus stop I see the bus standing there with it's engine purring like a big-ass cat. Or some other big, grey animal. Elephant!
Anywho, I get in my highest gear (2) and fly across the pavement like a fat man on wheels dropping stuff from my bag as I'm running. I now see two busses and I sprint for the nearest one. I get there in time and get on the bus only to realize that it's the wrong bus. WTF!? Get off the bus and run to the other bus which is standing three meters away. Finally on the right bus and on time. Whoohooo! I park my ass and at this point I'm ready to fall down and die. Check my mobile for the time and... WTF!?!?!? 6 minutes left?! Now I get it. The clock in the kitchen is set so you can't miss the bus, like 5 minutes ahead. I know this but yet I still seem to forget it. I ran all for nothing. I almost died all for nothing! And I dropped stuff...

I had a short day in school today. One hour and 30 minutes to be exact. Therefore nothing happened there.
Moving on. When I get home I find out, through a text from my girlfriend, that she is getting home later than usual. Yay! I get to wash our clothes all by myself. This is also one thing I dislike doing. At least by myself... Everything is more fun if you do it with someone. At least you can chat through the pain. But nooooo... I survived at least. The reason I don't like doing it alone is that I'm terrified of fucking up and in an instant make all our clothes into midget-versions of their former selfs. If you make a mistake it's like fucking over. It's not just one sweater you can never wear again. It's every piece of clothes in the machine which is like everything white or everything colored. I might be good-looking but it's impossible for me to wear a t-shirt that stops under my pecks (boobs). Not even me, in all my glory, can pull that off...

Now it's time to tell you about another passtime of mine. Japanese picturepuzzles! These are very fun to do and involves coloring in little squares to form a picture. The only thing you get as help are numbers in the margin to the left and at the top of the grid. For example if a row in the margin shows, say: 1 6 23 5 11 4 5, that means that the first square that is to be colored is a single one. It can be anywhere on the row but it has to be first of said number combinations. This means that there has to be enough squares to fill in the other numbers following the single one. After that there needs to be at least one space before the 6 can start. The 6 is easy enough as its 6 colored squares in a row. So the line above should be: 1 single colored square followed by at least one empty square followed by 6 colored squares in a row and so on. By using some math and crosschecking the left margin with the top an image slowly forms. This is something I really like what with my disorder and all. I will show some pictures to explain it more thoroughly. It's always easier if you can see it for yourself.

This is the left margin...

This is the top...

This is the grid which I've started to solve...

And here's one I've completed...

These are (for me) very fun and I recommend these for those of you who likes crosswords and math. It's a great combination (without letters of course).

ACHIEVEMENTS (may contain spoilers)
So for the gaming part of my day. I had a good day today to.
I continued on Batman: Arkham Asylum and I was aiming for the Freeflow Combo 10 achievement since it seemed natural to get it somewehere around here. But I didn't. I got one or two more collectibles and unlocked the Cryptic Investigator achievement first of all today. I found out that there are 240 different collectibles in this game and it's not all the same. You can find green question marks called Riddler's Trophies and you can find interview tapes from the inmates at Arkham Asylum. These are rather enjoyable as they give some background info on the baddies in the game. There is also Riddles in many of the areas as well and these give you a riddle which you need to solve by scanning things in your surroundings. An example is the riddle "Who is the main man in the Main Hall?" and you solve the riddle by scanning a portrait of Commissioner Gordon which is hanging in the main hall. They are rather easy once you understand them. The last collectible that I've found are Joker Teeth which are these joke teeth jumping around all over the place. When you destroy a fixed amount of these you get a collectible. There might be others but if there are I haven't seen them yet.
After that I got some story related achievements. I got, in said order, the Just What the Doctor Ordered achievement for rescuing three doctors from the Medical Building, the Daydreamer achievement for surviving Scarecrow's horror gas episode, the Baneful Payback achievement for defeating Bane (which is an awesome villain) and last but not least I got the Breaking and Entering achievement for getting inside the Arkham Mansion. After that I decided it was time to stop playing but before I got to a checkpoint, which saves the game, I found a few more collectibles which got me the Lateral Thinker achievement for finding 25% of the collectibles. This is also my 1,000th achievement!
All in all I got 6 achievements for a total of 95 GS.

You're about to get smacked over the head!

Go achieve something!

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