Steel Battalion | "DESTROY ALL FANBOYS!"

So, my Steel Battalion finally arrived yesterday. Woo and hoo. The outer box is a bit beat up (hey, it was on the frontline, man!), but that big honkin’ special controller and pedals are in great shape and the game itself is complete and works excellently. Amusingly enough, for YEARS I’d been saving up some space just to store this behemoth if I ever got one and when I finally manage to find it, it’s after my brother moves back in and takes over the space I was going to store this in. Ha! Oh well. This is on top of the old tube TV in the bedroom for the moment. I have a backup spot for it, but it’s going to take some moving around of stuff to clear that space. I guess that’s my Sunday project, huh?

-GW

1. If it’s called “Dairy Dessert” it sure isn’t ice cream. Not by a long shot. Yeah, it’s cold and sweet (TOO sweet), but that’s about it. AVOID it at all costs (especially if it costs $2.49 for so much. You DO get what you pay for, folks. Yuck). Bonomo Turkish Taffy may have “tasted” like ice cream back in the day, but I’m not five years old anymore and this stuff is just a frozen fructose bomb with cancer color added for bad measure.

2. For some reason, lower bandwidth has gotten me a game demo faster than a connection four times as fast. I may write an article about this, but I’m too busy right now to get to it. Maybe once the weekend is over? We shall see. Oh, that demo was for the twin stick shooter Crimsonland on the Vita. Sword Art Online is still in the process of being downloaded, though. I only had about two hours to get it done but it’s FINALLY past the halfway point and I think I can get the rest of the game tomorrow in about the same time as it took today to get half loaded up. yeah, digital-only gaming sucks in some cases, especially when you’re in an area where the service is overpriced AND subject to sloth-like “speed”…

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