Setting off...

Well, everything I talked about in that "drained" entry is still lingering around in my mind, plus some. I'm not really ging through anything stressful at the moment, but I guess the best way to describe how I feel is stressed... but I think most of it is beyond my control anyways... so well, pray for me on that matter I guess....

Leaving to go visit home in the morning. Once again, a small part of me almost feels depressed about it... that doesn't even make sence... it's not like I don't want to go home or anything... I dunno... maybe that's a sign this place is starting to feel like home. ^.^() But I'm going to go home, have a great time, hang out with family and friends I haven't seen in 4 months, eat a ton of food and come back really fat on Saturday! Truth of the matter is that I will miss this place while I'm gone though, a blessing and a curse at the same time having two homes is...

ah well... I need to get to bed... I got a plane to catch!

See yall Saturday!
-Ross-

Enough is enough!

The PS3 hits stores today and Chaos insues... Nation wide there's a total of about 200,000 systems... that's right... All of America 200,000! This is quite frankly outrageous! Not only is that not nearly enough to meet the vast demand for the system but it's about half of what they promised would be out!
And thus, with the supply so limited we find enthuistiac people with way too much time and money on their hands camping outside stores nationwide to get their hands on what exactly? Well at this point and time a $600 paperweight. Were there actually any launch titles worth buying the PS3 for, I would fully have no probelm with these people camping out, heck, I might have even been inclined to join them. But not only has Sony launched the PS3 with a mockingly low supply, they felt they were perfectly justified with asking gamers all over America to frantically dash about trying to get their hands on one, and fork over $600 a pop (Which the president of Sony said was probally too cheap) when all the Launch titles are subpar at best!

And if I'm not enough to convince you of the disaster that is the PS3 Launch, get a load of this

http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/11/scea_vp_on_back.html

What ticks me off more than anything though is that Crappy system launches is by no means a new thing. Go back to the PS2? Sony was pulling the same crap they're pulling now back then! But at least the PS2 started with a $300 pricetag and had a decent selection of Launch titles, as opposed to the garbage they're launching with the PS3 (and asking twice the price for)

Remember the Xbox360 fiasciao of Last year? I knew people who reserved their 360's in November and didn't actually recieve one till April! No other way to say it that is unacceptable!

If this was any other industry the comsumers wouldn't stand for this! If this was a crop shortage, if this was a car shortage, heck, even if this was like a TV shortage or something trivial like that there would be an outrage! So why do we as gamers have to be walked upon by gaming companies as they throw a single steak to every store and watch the dogs fight over it?

Let's hope the Nintendo Breaks this trend.... With Gamestop alone getting about 750,000 units nationwide at launch, it looks like that might very well be possible. The Nintendo Wii, as well as being readily avaible at launch for first time in launch history in almost a decade, will sport a $250 price tag, and come with a game included as well as a launch library of many many worthwile games (Including the new Zelda game w()()7 w()()7!)

Can it be that in this day and age Nintendo is the only one who actually knows how to treat their customers? Personally I'de say that's about it as they orogionally all about gameing, whereas Sony and Microsoft were (and obviously still are) giant heartless corporations.

Frankly, as a gamer, I'm tired of having giant game companies push us around! Enough is enough!

I eagerly await the launch of the Nindendo Wii on Sunday and hopefully will be playing Zelda while the 3 people who actually got PS3s are staring at their $600 paperweight.

Drained

This last week has been... well Spiritually draining, I really don't know how else to describe it. Among various debates on and offline it seems a day this week hasn't gone by where I found myself having to stand up for what I believe in and why. And while in a way that's refreshing, it takes a toll on you as well. Stumbling around random internet sites I found a forum devoted to pratically militant athiests. Scanning over some of their threads, it's depressing how backwards some of these people have it. Calling God creul and uncaring for allowing bad things to happen. Calling him heartless for acts of violence in the Old Testament...

It really makes me sad how so many can take out of context, over anaylize to death and straight up ignore the teaching of God. It makes me mad that the United States don't seem so United these days. And it makes me sad that people very close to my heart are stuggling with things they don't even feel they can talk to me about (and that's about all I know about that one)

All of it has just left me feeling rather drained, physically and spiritually. How can one change the world and help to make it a better place when no matter what you say, no matter what do, someone is going to fight you tooth and nail? How can you help a friend when they felt they've done something so horrible they can't even tell you about it? So much pain sin and division is in this world it's really hard for it not to get to you sometimes I suppose. But this week I guess I just fill a little more battered around than usual.

One a brighter note, Thanksgiving is next week and I'm flying back home for a few days to see friends and Family I haven't seen in 4 months. As Liz said in a post I remember on her blog from a few months ago, I already feel kinda strange because I know that a part of me is going to miss being in Arizona with all the wonderful people there. Thus as glad as I'm going to be to be going home, I'm going to be glad to be coming back too... I guess Arizona is my home now too.

Next Month is Christmas and the end of another year... it's hard to believe how fast this one flew by and how much my life as actually changed this year. New home new job new friends new church new life. Maybe that's part of my drained feeling right now too. I've been here a little over 4 months now, that's a 3rd of a year!

Well, I guess that's really all that's going on with me at the moment... I'm going to try to do another comic soon, but as I'm currently torn between Final Fantasy 12 and Gears of War, and Zelda coming out next week, I doubt that'll happen anytime within the next few weeks...

Oh yea, and to all who read this... we need to bug Jordan about posting again... he hasn't had a new blog entry since I've been here... that simply won't do!

Love yall and see ya soon
-Ross-