PSP Antics

Writing about the new DS reminded me of the time that I bought a PSP. No I don't own a PSP, and yes that is confusing.

Last year, 'twas a friend of mine's birthday and we went to see a movie at the local mall before I got taken for 10 bucks in a poker game in the bottom of a local funeral home... Anyways, at the mall, somehow, I was coerced into one of my impulse buys that I seem to be plagued with. This time, it wasn't just a pack of gum in the checkout line, it was a 299.99$ portable entertainment system, also known as a SONY PSP. Never had I thought about buying one of these contraptions until now, but it was shiny and looked cool so I said "what the heck". The first store we went to didn't have any, but we soon found one at the Sam Go***** store down the way. At the time, there were only 4 games for the playstation, and I figured that Metal Gear: Acid sounded like the coolest of them. Boy, was I wrong. After the movie, on the way home, I began playing with my new toy. Nice accessories, nice looking, most def, but as far as capturing my attention for more than 5 minutes, it didn't. When I was informed that my impulse game buying reasoning didn't tell me that Acid was a D&D style game, my mind was made up, the PSP was going back.

It wasn't all for not. When I bought the device, the helpful sales rep told me about their rewards program where, if I signed up, I would get a 5$ gift certificate for every 50$ spent. Since I just spent over 300$, I thought it would be a good deal. It was. Even though I returned the PSP the very next day, my 25$ (I guess it's before tax and 299.99$ isn't quite 300) gift certificate arrived in the mail a couple weeks later.

If you're a shopper at Sam G****** then maybe you can tell me what it is that you buy there? I've been up and down their aisles many times and all I've ever found is overpriced CDs and DVDs. Needless to say, I was lost on what to buy. I settled for the first season of Sealab 2021 at a ripe price of 23.99$ on sale from 29.99$. I had some money left over, so I got a coke, too. Pretty good.

I kept the shrink wrapping on the DVD since I really didn't want it. I'd seen all the episodes already and I'm just not a DVD collector. The only DVD Movie that I have ever bought was "Kung Fu Hustle" and I've yet to watch it. Anyways, not too long ago, I took the DVD back to Sam G**** with the sale sticker peeled off and exchanged it for 29.99$ in goods including a Hi-Def xBox cable set and an overpriced CD (it's still wrapped in case I want to return it). Not a bad harvest. Especially considering that I've not spent a dime there, yet.

The New Portable Nintendo System

The new and improved Nintendo DS Lite. You have to hand it to our boys over at Nintendo, they continue to shurn out excellent games without falling into the "multi-media" frenzy that everyone seems to be craving. It's a video game system and I believe one of the reasons they are so good at making games and rock solid systems is because of their stubborness. They focus on the main objective and get it right. The new DS resembles the new Revolution System a lot. It seems as if they're trying to get us ready for the "revolution". As one of the posters on the engadget website described the design, "Not only does it look like an Apple product, it even comes with the 'Damnit!, I just bought one' feeling as well." Haha, so if you've just bought a regular DS, don't dispair, even though you're going to mis out on the new design, lighter and less bulky, your clunky, ugly, and heavy DS will still work all the same.
I own two gameboy systems, the original and an original advance. I haven't and don't plan on buying own of these new systems until they're giving them away. Strangley, I don't feel the need to carry with me a portable video game system. My pockets just aren't that big. It seems that back in the day when all I had to carry was lint, I didn't mind, but these kind of systems just aren't appealing to me anymore... which leads me into my next post.

Coincidently... School again

So, school has become more of a pain in the ass than I first imagined. Computer Science lab is quite a bitch with not only a lot of stuff expected from us, but we're expected to do it with crappy instructions and unrighteous expectations. Everytime that I think I have conquered everything, I'm mistaken and just forgot to count this weeks assignments. Oh well.

School

So school has really started to kick my ass.
I have a ton of reading that just keeps piling up and computer science looks as if it'll be a little more difficult than last semester's easy A+.