Ocarina of Time 3DS

As you probably can guess from the title, I've been playing Ocarina of Time for the 3DS the last couple of days, even finishing in the record speed of three days, 100 % completion without looking in a guide... well, except for the last three skulltulas and heart pieces, but otherwise, no help. And to think that when I got that game all the way back in 1998 it took me four years finishing it. With  a guide. All in all it's a very good remake, much better lighting so that you can actually see what happens in dark areas (or that might just be the console it's in now). Also improved graphics that take away the blocky feeling from the original. Nice game, but it's probably nothing I shouldn't have bought since I actually bought every single re-release of that game (the master quest version with Wind Waker and the special Zelda Collector's Edition). The only reason was to have something to play with the 3DS I bought at the same time.

A really fun system. It really feels like a 3D effect when you use it and you get the illusion sometimes that a couple of things in Zelda hovered over the screen when Link picked them up. A pity I only got one game to play on it. The big complaint though is that I can't play my Game Boy Advance game on it. Even my other game boy games would have been nice instead of having to buy them again and load them onto the sd-card (it probably would make it easier to bring the games with you but still). Now I have to keep three nintendo portable consoles, the Game Boy Advance SP, the Nintendo DS Lite and now the Nintendo 3DS. And the DS Lite has the problem that the folding mechanism is broken, but I don't want to throw it away since the backlighting is much better that the SP. I would wish they would invent some sort of converter you put on the back of the console and downloaded the game onto the card. Or maybe just something to play them on the 3DS without any trouble. The Game Boy Series was meant to be backward compatible so why can't they do it here? They even let you play the game on the console so why not give us that option?

He's Back

Playing Modern Warfare 2 again after a break on... almost a year. And I feel a bit rusty, no denying. The highest amount of kills I was able to get today was seven. Otherwise it average around three during the sessions. Of course, I didn't excel on it before so what can you expect. The fun thing with the seven kill was that I had the highest score in my team during that session... so you can pretty much guess we lost big time. But hey, I lost with style at least.

Of course, much depends on your teammates, and frankly, I don't know if they are helping that much. Then again who am I to talk who constantly lands in the bottom of the high score list after every session? But at least I don't kill my fellow teammates (not for lack of  "unfortunate accidents" and a trigger-happy finger). You NEVER drop a crate on a re-spawn spot. What a shame to be killed by that, it's a death only associated with noobs and the first things that happens when I re-spawn is a crate on my head. WHAT THE HELL? Here I just get in control of my body... and my own teammate send me back to another re-spawn spot... with a crate ON MY HEAD. With friends like these, you don't need enemies.

Speaking of enemies, the social democrats seems to have a rough time (which I don't mind). Just recently their new leader had to defend their stance in our military project in Libya. It began with S asking to send planes to Libya with a reluctant government, then when they finally cave in, the planes only shall take photos and uphold the no-fly zone. Planes that the US, France and Great Britain already shot down. Not stopping there, after 3 months the planes shall go back to Sweden, even though NATO and the UN still wanted the planes. Their argument is that we have done our thing and we shall let someone else take over this... that's the Social democratic international solidarity for you, let someone else do this cause we only stand in their way. Of course, that wouldn't do with those who were a bit more international in S so after taking a step back, they wanted to send the marines... that would take 3 months to get over there. And now they speak of keeping the planes and send the marines. The best part in the interview is when the reporter tells Juholt that "it seems that even your party friends have misinterpreted you". This comes back later in the interview when they discuss the problem that the party only attracts older men living outside the big cities while the young, women and people living in the cities ain't attracted by them his answer is "well, maybe it's a bit hard to see what we stand for". When his own party members don't understand him I can hardly see how he's gonna get those outside of the party to listen.

Street of Dreams

Oh boy, last week was a bit hectic. Never have I been out three days in a row, and that was probably the last time as well. But it was fun, it was a walk down memory lane featuring people I've learned to know during my five years here. It was also a regression of some kind since I began with my newest acquaintance in Sociology, onward to those I meet in the project management course back in 2009 (with one person I already know from 2006) and lastly friends I studied together with for four years and some of their friends. A wonderful end to a five year era filled with good friends.

So what am I doing this week? Just finished a paper for the sociology course... I would probably have been finished last week, but as you know, I partied away that. Having written essays on d-level it feels nice just to rush past most parts since it's in the wrist. So now I wait for my opponent to send her paper and it's on. 11 pages max isn't much to worry about and I got five days in front of me so this shall be no problem... if I don't get some invitations to some parties, but that's kinda unlikely. Enjoy the summer that's soon upon us.

Holy Water

And once again the water is gone, a pipe broke. And I, foolish as I am, left only 1/4 of water in a a small coke bottle. Why didn't I learn from last time and always fill the bottle no matter what the night before. Later this day when dehydration kicks in I probably blame it on the Greens since they've had a conference here this weekend and you know how much I detest them, they probably blew the pipe just to spite me. Yeah, thats gotta be it.

Well, better now then next week with the grand ending of my time at the university. Think about that, being completely wasted and no water to ease the suffering, dehydration or refill all the fluids that probably will leave the body (if the nights goes horrible wrong, but we don't want that, do we?). I wonder what everyone else is doing?

*looking on facebook*

Hmm, it appears Campusfesten was yesterday. Oh, I don't envy any of them who went there, waking up without any water, no, I think my feelings is more like shadenfraude or maybe some ironic amusement over the whole situation... or I might be an old cranky student who can't enjoy partying that much anymore. Yeah, getting old is bitch, and I'm not really that old. I'm 23 goddammit. At least I've began taking walks to at least attempt on a somewhat better health and more strength. Although, I should probably have started more than a month ago to be prepared for what's coming. Yeah, it's a Grand Finale alright, hope its only a figurative big bang and not a literal on in my mind on sunday.  

3 Day Funk

I don't know how I managed to be this lucky, but apparently, completely out of random, faith decided to put three parties on three different days adjacent to themselves. All of those deciding this were completely separate from each other and I only had the say in one of them. And that one was decided six months ago, the rest this week. So it's gonna non-stop between Thursday next week until Sunday that week. I actually think this is the first time I even attempt a 3-day party. So lots of preparations that is. Food need to be bought and cooked, the fridge shall have alcoholic beverages on cooling together with a coke for the late-night chips and dip to avoid complete hangover. Cloths bought and laundered and finally, the biggest challenge of them all: 

Total cleaning of the apartment

Spring cleaning. Gotta love it. A fun thing would be if someone calls me and ask if it's party time on Wednesday, that means four days... what's the record that doesn't include human and animal sacrifices at the Colosseum for the parties? The fun thing with all these are the meeting of old friends once again. The Thursday is for the newest accountancies I have had the pleasure to meet, my sociology friends in Sociology A. Unfortunately I think they might be left leaning, with a majority of sociologist's are sympathizing with the left party. Then Friday is the project management group that gets together again, after 4-5 months, but one and a half year since most of us were together at the same. And lastly Saturday, when the Pol. Mags. once again appears to enlighten the world (or just Karlstad since we probably wont be able to get anywhere, at least not me). Hopefully more people will show up, at least more people out of town will appear... mostly since more people have moved out of Karlstad since last year. Yeah, lots of memories will be touched upon, hopefully I will be able to stand all the other things around it.

Doing the Omoralisk Schlagerfestival '11 (3)

We came third? Huh, didn't see that coming. This just proves that last years lucky pick of Germany was just a one-shot thing. The funny thing is that we were in the lead halfway through. The reason? We probably had one of the more mediocre songs that appealed some, but not enough people to vote on us. Seeing as we didn't get any 12 points until the very end. You could also see that that was due to a schism between the balkan and former soviet blocks awarding high points to the neighbors, while the nordic block was divided and didn't stick together. And lastly, we probably lost a couple of points due to Ireland for being somewhat similar (at least every newspaper and eurovision-expert said they were similar, I don't know), for example maybe have been given 12 points from Denmark, but then again, can we really trust the danes?

Anyway, my other thought was shot down early enough, I had seen a Top 5 with Russia, a balkan country, a scandinavian country and 2 completely random countries... well not completely shot down, there was  2 scandinavian countries (Sweden and Denmark), 2 former soviet republics (Azerbaijan  and Ukraine) and Italy. Russia wasn't even in Top 10, but I should probably guess next years Top 5 and it will be a scandinavian country a former soviet republic, a balkan country and 2 completely random. Really, that is probably the best guess out there, taking into account the different voting blocks... it was true 2010 and 2006 with one of the blocks being more dominant in the years between that. I wonder if there is some statistical formula to pin-point the winner?

Well well, there is also another interesting idea that some has looked into that many winners are correlated with a certain political or economical phenomena, mentioned are Irelands economic upheaval in the 90's when they won 3 times in a row, Ukraine's victory in 2004 which followed with the Orange Revolution and Russia in 2008 who continued to win the world championship in Hockey and... ah... um... invade Georgia, maybe not so lucky for the georgians (I would present you with a link to the article, but they seem to have some technical difficulties to find it). So what can we expect from this? Wars? Revolutions? Miracles? Who knows, but it shall be interesting to see who wins 2012 since then we end the mayan calender in december. Speaking 2012, they already made a wikipedia page of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest with countries who already signed up... makes you sad, does it not?

Doing the Omoralisk Schlagerfestival '11 (2)

So we entered the finals this year, compared to the utter failure from last time... yeah, good times knowing that the Swedish people have no sense of what good music is. Still, they haven't learnt anything anyway so it's a bit sad we didn't fail once again. That would have thought them for the utter failure of not let Belgium win in 2003, or not send Roger Pontare in 2006. Yeah, this is probably some of the reasons why I detest this show, the people has no taste when it comes to music.

Otherwise there is election time in Sweden once again... not the whole of Sweden mind you, only the regional election in Västra Götaland and a local election in Örebro. So I can't vote, but that doesn't stop me from commenting on it... the lack of any political temperature in this election is. I frankly don't know what the election is about. All that I do know is that all party leaders are down in Gothenburg campaigning in the last minute... when they actually don't have a reason to be there since they are politicians on national level and it's not them who the people vote for. This gets kinda absurd when you read the comments in all the newspapers, but in my own biased mind, this problem stirs much more in those supporting the social democratic party. They don't seem to get that and continues to blame the right-wing coalition for the problems... when the social democratic party been in power since the region was created in 1998. Although it was in a coalition between the Center party and the liberal party, but since as usual the social democrats have always been the biggest party so they stand with most responsibility.

But really, all I can do since I neither live there or use any of the services provided I can't do much else then spew poison on those parties I don't like without knowing if they do a good or bad job. Therefore it's much easier to aim it on the national politicians since they probably don't know it either. And that's probably one of the more truthful statements you will ever see on the internet.