I've planned on giving you an update, but I've tried like 3 times and they never get posted because of various reasons.

So I received my computer stuff. I was giddy. I replaced everything I needed to, and everything worked. I was overjoyed. I ordered a new ATI video card. I got it, popped it in, and my computer stopped working. I was a little mad. I must have a defective video card, I thought. So I replaced my new card with my old card again... computer still didn't work.

I was pissed. To say the least. My computer symptoms include of not booting at all, but everything powered on. Not even BIOS, or POST beeps. I the card may have killed my power supply, but after a day of testing (several hours and 3 computers) I deduced it was not the power supply.

I did figure out what was wrong with my server though (which also had the same symptoms). Turns out user error on my part. However, no user error on my computer.

Tried three different power supplies, and two different video cards, and all power supplies work. Took out all unnecessary RAM, and still nothing. Physically, the processor looks fine (no burn marks or bent pins) but I can't test it because I do not have another motherboard that is compatibile with it. So I deduced the motherboard broke. I RMA'd it and am waiting for my replacement.

So that's my bad news story. Without a main computer, I find myself with a lot of time. I played a lot of Assassin's Creed. I started and beat it within a few weeks. It was very fun. I enjoyed it completely. The exploration, platforming, combat, story, and grapics were all amazing.

Some people call it repetative. I can definitely see that, but it was fun. You can't deny fun in games. Each assassination was a mystery and gathering clues was fun. Climbing buildings, and jumping from rooftop to rooftop was just fantastic. I love that kind of platforming (like the new Prince of Persia).

I'm just rambling at this point. The point I am trying to make that Assassin's Creed is one of my favorite games for realz not for play-play.

I did every mission, and collected every flag and killed every templar. Good times. I hate informer missions that ask you to silently assassinate people in a certain amount of time. They are generally surrounded by beggars/drunks. Drunks like to push you, and only you. Which alerts the guards when you are being watched, which makes you fail the mission and you have to start over. It was annoyingly hard. There's a good hard and an annoying hard. Good hard is challenging but fun. Other than that, the missions were rediculously easy, which is also a bad thing generally. So yeah. I still had fun.

E3 is around the corner. June 1st I do believe. Pre show anyways. I'll watch all three of the big press conferences, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony.

Microsoft hasn't had an interesting press conference in years, but this year Microsoft has been hush hush. There's rumors of motion controls. Anyways they've made me curious (for once).

I'm not expecting much from Nintendo. They basically can't keep their mouth shut. Already know about the Wii Motion Plus. Already heard about the new Zelda game for the DS. There's a possibility of a Mario game announcement. But it's hard to say. Nintendo has had boring press conferences at E3 for the past few years now. Actually after the year the Wii was released was when they started having nothing to talk about, except that they are freaking rich. Nintendo might surprise me though.

Then there's Sony. Sony has been announcing some stuff, but they have also said that they have a lot of things not announced in the oven, so they intrigue me. We'll see though. Sony likes to lie, but in the end they create a fantastic product. Announcements aren't their specialty in other words.

Then there's EA (which I am impressed by lately), Ubisoft, Konami and many other publishers. I still don't know exactly why Ativision Blizzard is not part of the ESA (the peeps behind E3) anymore. I can understand Blizzard not to attend E3, but that's because they put on Blizzcon. But Activevision has nothing. Ubisoft had UbiDays and yet they were part of E3. The companies surrouding Blizzard has always been a wierd bunch though. Blizzard isn't part of the PC alliance anymore even though they help found it! Just strange. They create awesome products though so I don't complain too much.

I'll be busy after E3. I have the new "Games to the Video" to finish before June 23. Hopefully E3 can fill in some release date for me. However I have 8 games with specific release date so I'm not doing too bad. But still so many other games without release dates. And that's my blurb on that.

I think I'll end this post. I was going to talk about web browser stuff, but if I ramble anymore, this post will be long and I won't post it. So have a good day.

Today, I ordered more memory and a new hard drive for my computer. I can't remember the last time I was this excited about something. FML.
-- F My Life