To Boldly Go Where No Badge Has Gone Before...

Mnargh. It's too late to be writing this, but I'm gonna rush through it all.

Still playing Yoshi. Making progress. Want to soon have perfect on first two worlds.

I saw the new Star Trek film today. It was really good, in my opinion. Good mix of humour and drama. I'm not much of a Trekkie, but I do like the series-es, in a guilty pleasures kind of way. JJ did a good job with it. Quinto was great as Spock, and Simon Pegg was brilliant as Scotty. Here's hoping for a good sequel. The film deserves a full blog post for a review, but I just don't have the time, although that does tie in to something this summer...

Saw an advert for Transformers; ROTV at the cinema. Made me wanna see the first one so I can go and see the second one. Go figure, persuasive advertising.

I spent the end of today trying, in vain, to get my GameSpot badge onto the bottom of the site, but only succeded in getting a big lump of code. It's still down there, just in case it decides to suddenly change. I've pinged a message off to GameSpot to see if it's me or the code that is busted. I'll be honest, it's probably me.

Finally, I got "No More Heroes" today, for the low low price of £9.74, which had been reduced from £19.99, which in turn was reduced from a whopping £40. Closing down sales. Gotta love 'em.

Right, I'm just about ready to fall over due to lack of sleep. Me need bed now. G'night y'all...

It's all a conspiracy, I tells ya!

So a few days after I discover I need a new URL, my laptop goes and craps out on me. Anybody would think that the world doesn't want me to write this blog. Maybe I should take a hint.
But my laptop is now well and truly "kablooie", which is a technical term I learnt from Calvin and Hobbes. It jams at a repair screen that I can normally just go through once but now, it's simply looping. Fortunately I got the hard drive out (yay for voiding my warranty) and used a USB to SATA cable to get everything I need off of it, but it's a tad annoying. It's looking like my only option is an entire destructive recovery, which sucks majorly. I'm pretty much guaranteed to have missed something vital...

In gaming related stuff... There is nothing new on the horizon. I'm knee-deep in revision, so I've got little time for the gaming devices of choice. I'm still playing Yoshi's Island on and off, and I had a go at "New Super Mario Brothers" again. I was so excited about that game, but I think I played it too much and sucked all the fun out of it. Ce la vis.

And you know what else really sucks? E3 this year. It's on the first of June 1, literally days before my first exam. Last year I couldn't watch it all night because of exams, this year; EXAMS. There's definitely something strange here...
I'll still stay up to watch them though. Partly cause I like gaming news and surprises, and partly cause I like having emblems to furnish my little-viewed Gamespot profile. Go figure.

I've pretty much decided on a new URL. Go decision making skills =)

Catch you at the weekend.

What's in a name?

Quite a lot apparently.
After posting last weeks blog, I considered that it might be time to get myself a Casual Lamer Gamer YouTube channel, as is the done thing in this crazy day and age of online videos. I tried to sign up using the name "clgamer" which turned out to be taken. I thought I'd have a look at who actually had this name, just out of interest and then I found something out. clgamer.com is actually an existing website, apparently called "chocolate lemon". Normally I'd be angry at them, but they had it first, so there's really nothing I can do about it.

But this leaves me with a situation. I need a new name. I was never particularly happy with the Casual (Lamer) Gamer anyway. I'd initially planned to call it the "Lamer Gamer", but that domain name was taken, so I settled for clgamer instead. I know I could just play around with the address, but I feel I need a catchy name.

So from this point on, I'm gonna leave the blog nameless. The address will stay the same for the time being, but the blog is self is going through a refurbishment. I've had a few ideas...
- Some niche gaming reference i.e. threeheadedmonkey
- Something about pirates and/or ninjas
- Something totally random and off the wall e.g. ninetailedpiranha
- Just lavalampbamboo

So until then, this'll be the Un-named Blog.

Turning to games... There isn't much. I've been a tad busy recently, with a Psychology and a Drama exam on Friday (as well as leaving school), then my Leaver's Ball yesterday. In what moments I've had spare, I've been playing a bit of Yoshi's Island on the GBA, which is a good little platformer. I completed it years ago, but I've been going back to get absolutely everything, which is going well. I should probably get the DS version.

Anyway, I'm all out for today. Hopefully the blog will have a name by next weekend. If not... I don't know. Stay awesome, y'all.