Board games!

During the Christmas sales me and my cousins were out shopping and we found the most glorious thing. Maybe not but close enough. A swedish version of Monopoly with paper money. Any of those categories are hard to come by and both at the same time virtually impossible, but some quantum mechanics worked in our favours and teleported it here. So naturally we bought it because it's a one time find.

Inside the kitchen walls we set the game up and started playing. I had a flying start and got two streets before my cousins had even gotten half way through. I even got the most expensive street and both the Electric plant and the Water Works, all payed themselves eventually.

After a while when all but one street were sold we started trading internally to make things interesting, I got all the orange streets and green streets. While my cousins had the red, yellow, purple and light blue streets. So the red and yellow side of the map was dangerous for me, especially with houses. Red wasn't that big of a problem however, when the youngest cousin ended up paying all her money and stuff to the older cousin because she ended up on the most expensive street several times. I was lucky though, I managed to avoid that street every time. The youngest one was eventually bankrupt and lost. Not a problem though, I had hotels on the orange streets and a bunch of houses on the green streets. The oldest cousin didn't have money to build new houses even though she could have so she hoped I'd end up on her yellow street before she ended up on one of mine. Not the case though and I won. First time ever.

We later on moved on to Risk, Halo Wars Risk. I don't mind people who play to win and with all means necessary, within the rules of course. Playing honorably isn't one of those things. It however becomes quite frustrating when two cousins do the same and I'm the obstacle that must be overcome, by both. In the end I lost badly.

Wish we were a little more people though, it was really fun with five people.

Proper nostalgia

After finishing Halo CEA I can say that it's still the best campaign of all the Halos, despite being 10 years old. Sure, I don't think I would have played it through in classic mode, not any time soon though, so the refreshed visuals helped a bit.

It was challenging and fun. Not frustrating and.. not fun.

Enemies felt smart and even grunts could take some sort of punishment, unlike later installments. Well, most of the stuff could take more punishment. Not the Hunters, they had a weak spot, a pistol bullet to their spine, well, their exposed backs and they'd die.

With Reach, I also forgot the joy of being against the Flood. An endless wave of Combat forms, Carrier forms and Infection forms. Best map is The Library, what Firefight should have been with one addition. Four floors that tie up the end with the start, so it would have been a huge circuit map. Enemies come pouring in and you have to keep moving.

Altough the best part of the game was at the later half. You had no allies left except cortana. Three sides were after you and fighting each other at the same time. On several occasion were there big battles, BIG battles, and you could stay and watch, then pick off the stragglers. Or slip by the battles. Then again, everyone is after you so everyone will turn on you if they notice as much as a foot sticking out from behind a tree. I don't think I've seen that many infantry units battle each other in any other Halo. None of the other Halo games had more than two factions battling each other at the same time, if I recall correctly. Halo 2 had some moments but they were few and not memorable.

Only Legendary left and some achievements.

Still offline

Still not able to get online, will probably remain like that for a while as well. Although, my wonderful girlfriend lets me borrow her account if I want to play some multiplayer, and I can still play single player games offline. So I've been busy with Skyrim and Halo CE now.

I've completed the Dark Brotherhood questline and can now do hits on radomly spawned people, small income, around 1200 gold. I also got Speech full and going on Alchemy as well. Leveling up is hard though, got to 54 now and it's very slow. Got some skills going, high but now they're getting slow to level up as well.

Think I'll try to get illusion up to 70 and then get invisibility, then I can train Sneak.

I want to get 100 alchemy so I can make potions that raise my Enchantment, then I'll enchant some equipment to get better at alchemy, then I'll make even stronger potions that raise my Enchantment, then I'll enchant some other equipment so that I'm even better at Alchemy. Then, I'll make the last potions that'll raise my enchantment skill even more. I'll see how far I can do that. Then I'll enchant some armor, weapons and accesorioes, hopefully I'll be as good as invincible.

Those pesky dragons keep breathing on me once and I have a small small string of HP left. Not that healthy.

Halo CE, got into it a bit, almost at the scary part. Well, it was scary the first time I got to it. Achievements in it are hard, really hard. Except the "Complete mission" ones. Then there are the terminals to find, and the skulls. Some were really easy, but now I've gotten to the huge maps and the chaotic mazes. It'll be a chore to find them without a guide. I'd like to try before I consult a guide.

Super security

After the Xbox general update I can't sign in, at all.

Then again they could have blocked my account again to make yet another investigation on my account. They only unlocked the XBL part of my whole account. So I phoned XBL support, again, to see if I could get the rest of the cake back. So either they took my only piece away or there's some problems with XBL, it's on service now.

Rage repping and afking

No, I'm not afking, but a lot of other players are. They seem to be very unaware that afking will lead to a two week cR ban. I'm talking about Reach. Anyhow, the systems put in place to detect all kinds of negative behaviour do know the difference between shooting randomly into the air and so on and actually playing.

Then there's been a case of major rage repping. With that I mean someone who gets so mad when loosing that they'll give undeserved bad feedback to another player, usually a player on the opposite team.

I've gotten more Unsporting and even Disruptive under communication, and I play with my Headset unplugged when I'm not in a party, and nobody but those in my party can hear me.

Okay, I might deserve the unsporting from one match, but I haven't gotten it untill today as well as the Disruptive.

Aaaaaand I think the modem has something against my xbox because it started disconnecting me randomly again, and won't let me back in...

Tic-Tac-Toe

Played a little Skyrim, and I actually managed to complete more quests than I got. Well I didn't get any quests, but I completed several. Also encountered a very very rare glitch, dragons flying backwards and staying still in the air. Started using a Bound Bow for unlimited arrows and to increase archery, to level up more.

Then I played Reach with Soyxor, some anniversery btb. It want really well, even though I missed the flag carrier three times with plasma nades at close range. I also noticed that a player called D 3 IV IV I S got matched against us three times in a row, as well as zooliki, or something along those lines, with his guest, or her. We got matched against them four times in a row on Anniv. BTB. Last game against them was really laggy, almost unplayable. Then we won.

After many trials and errors I finally got the "Stick it to the man" achievement, stick a plasma nade and kill the flag carrier. Six more achivements to go in other words.