The Most Incredibly Detailed Game Ever Is?

After about 5 weeks of playing this extremely detailed video game(25+hours) I have come to this conclusion: SKYRIM isn't going to end, ever...

Okay, that might be an overstatement but still, I haven't even touched the surface of this game and it's obvious when I turn it on. The side quests, the miscellaneous adventures, the long drawn out major quests, you name it. I'm a level 25 right now, which is pretty good considering I went the first 4 weeks without doing the necessities to level up quickly. What I didn't think would happen is this, I have to build up endurance(me personally) to play it. It's not a game you just turn on and play for 15 minutes, at least not for me. I have to dedicate an hour or two to feel any sort of accomplishment. You just can't do much in an hour in this game and that's pretty incredible, coming from a person who has played video games his entire life. I can beat most older games in under two hours...total! To think people out there are still adding tips and cheats to this game and it's been out for 3 months come this Saturday, it's amazing.

Honestly, at the rate I'm playing I might not play or even need another game til my 35th Bday which is a year and a half from now. You can literally walk around the world of Skyrim for hours and hours but not see everything, it's truly one of a kind. I still haven't discovered everything. Every time I find something I explore it, and that takes an hour which then deters me from what I was originally trying to do. It can almost make you feel as if your not making any progress but you are, it's just a slower pace than normal. Cory(Bro in law) has had the game nearly 6 weeks longer than I have and he's around level 34 or something like that, and he leveled up the fast way, smithing(building weapons) and such. I can't even fully get into the detail this game has, it's mind boggling. For an RPG(Role Playing Game) it's the best game I've ever played and I have played A LOT!

I highly recommend it if you like RPG's or enjoy something so large in scale you can't fully grasp it's potential. I haven't played Halo Reach since I got Skyrim if that's any indication of how much I like it and Halo was the only game I played for nearly a year and a half...

Try it, buy it, whatever...just give it a chance if your into that kind of thing.

Superbowl Week...

So we all know the G-men outlasted The pats this past Sunday and I for one am thankful for that. No more talk about Brady and Montana being equals(rings at least) and so on...I went over to my friend Will's house for the big game, he's a HUGE Giants fan since he grew up in Jersey. Let's just say he was more than nervous at the end and he watches football games with his team playing like I do, Passionately. I made some homemade hot wings which everybody seemed to like a lot. I took some advice from my buddy Mike Tillman who's a big time griller/cook. He gave me some really good tips on how to maximize flavor. I thought they were really good, my only complaint is that they could have been a bit spicier and I like a hot wing to have a crispiness on the outside, mine didn't have that. I couldn't fry them so I baked them, tough to get em' crispy that way. Overall I'd say they were an 8 out of 10, not bad for my first go at it.

My new work schedule also started yesterday(Tuesday, same shift for everyone but me:(sad face), unfortunately I didn't go to work because Kim got sick Monday night, from what we have no clue. She's currently still sleeping in the bed, it's noon. Poor thing was having a really rough night Monday and so was I from hearing it, I hate it when you can't fix something.

The other thing I did this past weekend/week was go to the doctor to get some Blood work done. As a diabetic(I asked how much of one I was, she replied "full on", yay!) you are supposed to go every three months to do blood work unless it's under control or your doctor says otherwise, it's been 9 months...I don't fear the doctor like some people do, I fear results. Any way you spin it I have to do a better job or my diabetes will control me and not the other way around. I came home and took a swig of Dr. Pepper and then poured the remaining 11oz. down the drain, my tongue cried. Cancelling out soft drinks will be tough but I did it once, I can do it again, of course this isn't for lent, it's a permanent fix. I can have one with pizza or Mexican food every now and then but they won't be in my house anymore.

The thing I didn't get done was go to ATC fitness and start up my workout routine I've been planning for a while. Reading up on things and doing some research has opened my eyes a bit on how I'm gonna get back in shape and start to look better overall. It goes hand in hand with controlling my disease, the next part for me is eating better and that is a whole other ball of wax. I enjoy good foods, the problem is I wait to eat and then I don't have enough time to fix a decent meal. Instead I go for the quick out and pay for it with my health, dummy...I have got to be better about it, all of it or else I'm gonna be shooting a needle into my arm/leg/butt for the rest of my life and that isn't sounding very fun. The most nerve racking part is that I might have done too much already to prevent that from happening anyway. What an absolutely nightmare of a disease, there isn't a cure and I inherited it.

Movie Machine

So we rented(Redbox'd) Moneyball this past weekend since we couldn't find 50/50 anywhere. I had already seen it but wanted Kim to watch it really bad since it was really good and had a stellar cast. Her only negative was that she didn't like Art Howe's portrayal or casting decisions for the movie, I somewhat agree since I love Phillip Seymour Hoffman but felt Howe wasn't made a very likeable guy in the movie.

Also, there was an HBO preview this weekend which I always love because it means I get to DVR 5-10 movies that I haven't seen or saw and loved. HBO sucks overall since it shows the same things over and over but having it for a weekend every blue moon is perfect. We use to have HBO for several years but found the repetition and constant price hikes weren't justified. As I have always stated, I would rather watch a good movie than a TV show any day. Movies are complete for the most part(unless sequels happen) where as TV is a long drawn out process where I tend to get bored pretty easily. TV is great and all but there is just something about watching a movie that gets me excited, especially if it's being watched in the theater.

I'm a Book Reader...

It sounds stupid but it's official, I'm reading a book, on purpose, and discussing it. So far I really like it(Extremely Loud and Uncomfortably Close). We read one chapter a week which is tough since I wanted to keep going but my memory is horrible, so I go one step at a time. I have heard mixed reviews about the movie but to me, anything that has 9/11 themes will be scrutinized unfairly because of the nature of people and their personal feeling. Mainly, making money off a tragedy. I don't think this really applies here but again, I'm only one chapter in to the book.

I am looking forward to my Tuesday morning chapter and the discussions that follow it. Consider me a slightly cooler nerd if you will, not a book worm. Not that there is anything wrong with being a bookworm, practically everyone I know is one...except for me. And I'm not cool by any means but it's the stereotype I'm speaking of in general. Not sure how many posts about reading I'll do but since it's a new thing for me, I thought, why not?

Oscar Snubs

So after showing the lists of nominees I wanted to dive right into the list for snubs and believe me, there are quite a few. Being nominated for this award is what every actor dreams of getting. It's instant recognition afterwards, even if you were a nobody before. You get scripts thrown at you instead of you searching constantly for them. If you win, oh man, you are a legend...just like that! From there on out you are referred as Oscar winning actor/actress...for every movie you make, it's a big deal. It's also the first award ever given in any kind of arts and entertainment genre. The Grammys are a joke and have been for over a decade now. The Emmy's are great and all but they lack the overall excitement since winners are usually crowned over and over again. You won't find many Oscar winners holding more than 2 of them. Two is a lot but only four actors have ever earned an acting Oscar 3 times or more, only one(Katherine Hepburn) has 4 trophies. Only one director has 4 wins(John Ford). They don't give these away to just anyone, the Academy is stubborn as hell and they like to play favorites(see Meryl Streep).

Anyhoo, here are my big snubs for the 2012 Academy Awards...

Best Actor:
Michael Fassbender: Shame - usually the academy loves something striking and different(see Rooney Mara for Dragon tattoo or Portman for Black Swan)but the omission here was ridiculous. I think the academy hates male nudity and apparently there was quite a bit of it.
Ryan Gosling: Drive/Ides of March/Crazy, Stupid, Love - Pick one and choose. He's at the top of his game and one of the 3 foreign nominees in the foreign films needs to go home. It's an American award show, lets have some American nominees, just sayin'.
Leonardo DiCaprio: J. Edgar - Not the best Eastwood movie but you couldn't argue about Leo, he was fantastic.

Best Actress:
Tilda Swinton: We Need to talk about Kevin - I heard amazing things about her performance but no love was shown her way.
Kirsten Dunst: Melancholia - A career defining performance in a very unique film, so I've heard.
Charlize Theron: Young Adult: Look, I hated the movie but I couldn't say it wasn't a fabulous acting performance. If you can make me hate you through a movie like that, you deserve some credit.

Best Director:
Didn't really have any snubs to my knowledge.

Best Picture: Honestly, no animated film should ever go here, there's an entire category for those movies and they take away from movies where people are actually acting in them.
Harry Potter 8: I know it's not quite LOTR but it's usually accepted to put a 10 year project like this in a category for overall performance. Bad move Academy.
Drive: The Academy hates movies like this so it's no surprise they left it out.
Water for Elephants: I just thought it was a really good movie.

Best Supporting Actor:
Albert Brooks: Drive - I heard he was amazing and totally different than anything he's ever done.
Armie Hammer: J. Edgar - He was just as good playing Leo's life partner(secretly of course)as Leo was playing Hoover himself. Great performance overall and better than his work in The Social Network where he played two roles.

Best Supporting Actress:
Shelene Woodley: The Descendants - If it weren't for Clooney's brilliance overshadowing her, I'd say this was a shoe in performance.
Carey Mulligan: Drive - Heard good things but it was a stacked list of supporting actresses this year.

Well, there's my list. Again, the Academy has their reasons for certain things making the cut but I though some omissions were just plain stupid.