GoneWacko’s Blog

Impossible

Jesus fucking Christ, I started playing Guitar Hero 3 on Hard difficulty today and things went okay-ish until I reached Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance and Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodja. Not only am I not a particularly big fan of these songs, but they’re also fucking impossible to play. I’ve attempted to play the former song over 40 times now and I still can’t get past even 1/3rd of the song. It’s starting to get so frustration I felt a growing urge to smash the guitar into a wall, but I managed to refrain myself from doing so. There just isn’t anything as annoying as having to play a song you don’t like over and over and over again. It’s so bad that I’m even having trouble typing this because my fingers are so fucked up at the moment.

All of a sudden I see what Yahtzee meant with the steep learning curve. All was fine until I reached these songs after which things suddenly became impossible… Heck the game even gave me a 5G achievement for failing a certain number of times in a row

Expenses

December is of course very well known for being a month in which one spends quite a bit of money, be it for Christmas, Sinterklaas or new year’s eve (i.e. fireworks, drinks and food).

I don’t celebrate Christmas with presents, and I don’t tend to be the one who’s paying for the food. Fireworks look nice but I think they’re a bit of a waste of money, I usually just watch other people’s money shoot up into the air.

None the less, December’s been a bit of an expensive month for me. My new laptop was bought for me by my father because I mainly need it for my studies, but even so I spent quite a bit of ‘dosh’:

And today I decided to go buy Guitar Hero III because I had been playing it with a normal xbox 360 controller but some of the songs were already impossible at Medium difficulty, so I wasn’t really going to try hard without a Guitar Controller. Add another 85 euros to the total expenses.

I think I may need to draw on some of my savings for just a little while so I don’t enter 2008 with my bank balance in the red.

New laptop and Finland

Last week, my laptop mysteriously died on me. It seems to be under the impression that it’s powered on, even though it’s not (the LED is burning). It’s also acting as if it’s drawing power from a wall socket, even though it’s not (the LED is burning).

So after looking for a nice laptop to replace it with, my dad and I ordered it last Saturday and it arrived today. It’s an HP Pavilion dv9595ed (although these version numbers seem to vary in meaning per country). For info on what’s inside, check the specifications page (In Dutch, but you should be able to make sense of it anyway). You can also check out the product demo flash animation.

Apart from the 2 GHz Centrino Duo and the GeForce 8600M GS (shared memory ) I also quite like the

• Support for 802.11n, which is good because that’s what we’ve got at my home
• 320 GBs worth of hard drive space (5400 rpm)
• Integrated fingerprint reader

Yesterday I received confirmation from my school that I should be going to Finland for my work placement. Woo! There is no concrete assignment yet, but that’s being worked on. I’ll probably go to Finland somewhere around the 18th of February, for about 20 weeks. Exciting stuff!