Hell March 3

Hell March 3.

This is a tiny bit old, but I only found out about it tonight, so it's new to me at least. I mean, I knew Mr. Klepacki was making a new version of it for Red Alert 3, but I didn't know it was already out in the wild.

Anyway, it's pretty nifty. I like it.

There's less drastic a difference between HM3 and HM2 than there was between HM2 and the original Hell March though. For comparison: Hell March 2 and, of course, the original.

For you OW!ers out there, consider this to be Kane's new theme song, to be included on any new hypothetical soundtracks. *nods sagely*

I go bed now.

(EDIT) Links to Youtube videos replaced with newer links to newer Youtube videos, due to typical Youtube bullshit. (/EDIT)

NXE

Within 10 minutes of downloading the New Xbox Experience and playing around with it, my console locked up and I had to restart it.

Nice.

Also, they get points for allowing pointy ears on the avatars, but it needs more blue hair. You gotta have blue hair.

Overall, though, the whole thing is pretty sweet.

False Awakenings (a short story I wrote about a year ago)

After reading tokoz's post about the cool dream she had, it reminded me of something.

I wrote a short story about a year ago or so for a creative writing class I took at DigiPen. The subject of this particular story was the "false awakening" dreams that I have from time to time and which I loathe so very much. For a while, I'd kept meaning to post it here, because I was actually rather pleased with how it turned out (unlike the first one that I wrote for that class, which was utter shit). But then, I just completely forgot about it until now.

Well, for what it's worth, here it is finally. I've copy/pasted it directly from the doc into this edit window, but it looked like crap when I previewed it so I had to format it a bit, but it still looks a bit bad. The tabs were simply replaced with 5 non-breakable spaces, but the double spacing has been lost, sadly. Also, I had to go back and html-ize the italics and such, because those were lost in the copy/paste as well. I think I got them all. Meh.

( It's a bit long for a LJ post too )

A few notes:
-- The game I mention is Planescape: Torment.
-- Yes, we read Kafka's The Metamorphosis prior to being given this assignment.
-- The line "At that moment I notice a mouse standing on its hind legs: a bald mouse." was required by the teacher to be worked into our stories somehow, whether it made sense or not. I think I stuck it in at a pretty good point in mine, if I do say so myself. It was a bit better in the printed version compared to this LJ version though, since it came directly after a page break.
-- No, I didn't actually have any of these dreams IRL (that I can recall, anyway).