The Downward Spiral http://ds.initiated.com Introspective technocrat meets wisecracker socialite. Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:16:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 necromorphs ain’t got shit on me http://ds.initiated.com/2008/12/27/necromorphs-aint-got-shit-on-me/ http://ds.initiated.com/2008/12/27/necromorphs-aint-got-shit-on-me/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:16:03 +0000 Nick Mossie http://ds.initiated.com/?p=2795 well, a little bit of goo and dead shit.. oh and I am batshit insane talking to my dead girlfriend and all.. but .. hey.. I blew up that planet, so fuck ‘em :)

… Dead Space annihilated over the trip up NORTH

next is Mass Effect for the PC .. I’m downloading it over Steam right now.

I’m on a roll beating all these games.. Jon would be so proud… even though I still haven’t beaten Oblivion or Bioshock

I almost got Fallout 3 next.. but then I realized that Bethseda and I really don’t get along since their Elder Scrolls and Oblivion really haven’t done it for me… so I steered clear.

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I went on an uninstalling rampage like I always do.. well.. don’t uninstall the Easy Display manager.. you need that or you FN keys don’t work

]]> http://ds.initiated.com/2008/12/03/new-toy/feed/ the witcher http://ds.initiated.com/2008/11/17/the-witcher/ http://ds.initiated.com/2008/11/17/the-witcher/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:26:09 +0000 Nick Mossie http://ds.initiated.com/?p=2784 I just completed it… if you like single player, rich story, RPGs at all, you really need to get it.. it’s even better than the Gothic series, and that’s hard to pull of.  I think I want to read the books now… just such an awesome story and I loved the game play.  Hands down best action fantasy RPG I’ve ever played.

]]> http://ds.initiated.com/2008/11/17/the-witcher/feed/ since I borked it http://ds.initiated.com/2008/11/04/since-i-borked-it/ http://ds.initiated.com/2008/11/04/since-i-borked-it/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:23:19 +0000 Nick Mossie http://ds.initiated.com/2008/11/04/since-i-borked-it/ here’s a map from MSNBC

]]> http://ds.initiated.com/2008/11/04/since-i-borked-it/feed/ on this historic day http://ds.initiated.com/2008/11/04/on-this-historic-day/ http://ds.initiated.com/2008/11/04/on-this-historic-day/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:19:24 +0000 Nick Mossie http://ds.initiated.com/2008/11/04/on-this-historic-day/ I’m not registered to vote… at least not around here.

I’m registered to vote in Urbana:

Name: NICHOLAS A MOSSIE
Address: 1704 A TRAILS DR     Apt:
City: URBANA     Zip Code: 61802
PO Box*:      Campus*:     M.H. Lot*:
Birthday: 1979-01-15  Voter ID Number: something

.. but not here.  I checked my MO address, my g/f’s address (I have some bills there), and my 2 previous MO addresses before I was like.. hmm.. let me check Illinois.. and sure enough.. fuck.

For like the first time since I voted on Prop B I really wanted to vote… but alas.. I didn’t check.. but I thought buying a house, buying a car, getting a conceal and carry (which plugs in to the DOR), changing the address on my ID (which also plugs in the DOR), having a bunch of utilities in my name, and registering 4 firearms would do it.. but no.. I really had to send in this in… so I’ll send it in now… but it’s a historic election too late.

]]> http://ds.initiated.com/2008/11/04/on-this-historic-day/feed/ the chach http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/28/the-chach/ http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/28/the-chach/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:10:17 +0000 Nick Mossie http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/28/the-chach/ it seems like the kids these days are more chachi then when I was younger.. hell .. we were merely separated in to cool guys and geeks.. now the cool guys are king of chach and the geeks aspire to be them .. maybe going the route of emo

oh man.. sad face

]]> http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/28/the-chach/feed/ more thoughts on True Blood http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/21/more-thoughts-on-true-blood/ http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/21/more-thoughts-on-true-blood/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:31:15 +0000 Nick Mossie http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/21/more-thoughts-on-true-blood/ it’s come a long way since the pilot.. I still watch it.. usually on onDemand on Monday morning (or Tuesday morning if Amazing Race is running late from football) cuz Dexter is on Sunday.. Dexter is still better.. but True Blood is getting up there now.

]]> http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/21/more-thoughts-on-true-blood/feed/ couldn’t sleep http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/21/couldnt-sleep/ http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/21/couldnt-sleep/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:51:19 +0000 Nick Mossie http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/21/couldnt-sleep/ I couldn’t sleep last night.. lots of stuff going on in my head… some of it was probably caffeine, some of it was the Witcher game I’m playing (which is totally awesome), and some of it was just this non-stop dreaming trend I’ve been having.  I woke up about every hour at least.. I think Shannon and I took turns waking each other up too.

The other night too I had this overwhelming fear come over me.  Like all at once I saw my mortality and the mortality of everyone I knew… I unwittingly put myself through what I would approximate to be each of their deaths.. what I’d feel like… how I’d go on.. what I’d do next… it was a lot to deal with.  I don’t know what brought that on, but it was pretty intense.

I think I need some time off.. maybe just some sitting around time.. video game time .. I dunno.. I guess I always feel weird this time of year.

]]> http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/21/couldnt-sleep/feed/ twitter http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/20/twitter-2/ http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/20/twitter-2/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:05:47 +0000 Nick Mossie http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/20/twitter-2/ I put myself back on twitter… I don’t have any real plans of updating it, but I think having a universal "what are you doing right now?" question hanging out there is good for me.. for whenever I want to address it

]]> http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/20/twitter-2/feed/ magic http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/14/magic/ http://ds.initiated.com/2008/10/14/magic/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:28:12 +0000 Nick Mossie http://ds.initiated.com/?p=2775 I’ve started playing Magic again but I moved it online.  Since I really don’t have anyone to play with (read: since all my friends are less nerdy than I am) then I have to seek out other nerds online.  And anyway, one of the primary reasons I got out of Magic was that the people I was playing with were bringing me down.  It was more a life style for them, and for me it’s just a fun game to play when you are bored.  It’s like Hearts or Spades or something like that, but way more interesting.  Like how I think Solarquest is more fun than Monopoly because there’s more shit going on.. that’s all.

Anyway… Magic Online is a great invention for us older nerds that still want to play, but have managed to grow up, socially speaking, in to drunkards :)

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