Post 26 - Getting back on track

GETTING BACK ON TRACK

Alright so it's been a while since things have been on track, but it's about time I do what I can to get things moving. After my grandmother passed away a whole slue of events occurred and now I'm just trying to even everything out. If I keep my fingers crossed within the next week or so everything should be right back on track and moving along once again. I have my friends to thank for that. There's Mandy with her beating stick.


So here's an update on somethings I have planned and what not. From now on I'm going to try and post a new video on my Locke Downe channel every Monday and Thursday. That's going to be my goal and I'm going to see if I can stick with it. On that channel I plan to do professional style videos including:

- Original Skits
- Things I've bought recently
- Previews
- Impressions
- Reviews
- Collections
- Top Ten Lists
- Shout-outs
- Videos by Request
- Quickvids (this can range from collections to anything really)

...and mainly just stuff like that. However, if you're still interested in my own personal side of things and just random videos like Vlogs or other random stuff then you'll also want to subscribe to my LockeTalks channel. There you'll see all sorts of random stuff happen and I'll try to post it as often as I can, but I really can't give you an estimated date to say "videos will be out every weekend"... so I yeah, I don't know when you'll see them, they'll be a surprise.


Aside from that in life I'm still working on my goal to move out. However the details have changed a little bit. I want to have 1,500$ saved up, I want to get myself a new 42" HD TV, a TV stand, 2 Shelves and enough extra cash for first month's rent, activation fees, damage deposits and all that fine stuff. It's going to be one hell of a journey but our Goal Date is October 1st. So we'll see if we can do it. Luckily my next game purchase is Fallout: New Vegas so I should be good with saving money. Also, if you guys have any donations and stuff you'd like to send me let me know on my Youtube page by messaging me, or you can leave a comment in the link below and we'll arrange something.

As always guys, thanks for the support, and in the words of another great gamer (Sarynthra). "Keep on gaming."

- Locke Downe

Post 25 - Phoenix Update

PHOENIX UPDATE

I haven't really had the time to do one of this up. I was going to do one a week ago after the midnight premier of Iron Man 2. But at this point, I feel enough people have seen it to just have to say "It was great, go see it if you liked the first one"

So on top of that, things have been pretty good. I had a really rough week with very little sleep and I've been feeling a bit draggy. I'm on my second day off and still don't really feel like I've accomplished much for my time off, but it's all good.

Couple updates on pickups.

I decided to go ahead and pick up 3d Dot Game Heroes. Very few copies of this game seemed to have been shipped and with an excellent opening price of $44 I had to pick it up right when we received it. I'm going to be putting some time into it tonight and I'll come back with my findings.

This past Sunday I picked up the Black Wii. I managed to sell my white one for $180 and they gave me extra for bringing it to them...I felt a little bad because they obviously didn't realise they dropped price..but oh well..

So I picked up a black one that comes with all the stuff the white ones did, and Wii Motion Plus and Wii sports resort...which in store, retail together for 59.99. so overall, good bargain, and I llovvvee the black one. I've played more wii this week than I have the entire time in owning one (slight exaggeration, but still)

And yesterday I picked up a new PSP. Nikki wanted one for when Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep releases, so I figured with the recent bundle price drop (149.99) I'd pick up the Rock Band edition and get my old one ready for her.

Surprisingly enough, Rock band is really fun on the PSP. It goes back to their Amplitude roots, which was one of the first games I'd ever played on the PS2. Sadly when I sold my first one I sent that off with it and I've never been able to find another copy. But I really found that this game incorporated everything that was so good about that game, and what's great about the rock band system and put it into one package with better music. So I'm impressed. It also came with a school of rock UMB and a 4gig memory stick. great bargain.

So that'll be it for me for a couple of weeks..Nikki's picking me up Red Dead Redemption and something else for our anniversary (that's why she's getting the PSP, with a couple add ons) and I'm really looking forward to that. If I end up picking anything else up it'll be actual rock band (prepping for the Green Day release) and Darksiders on the PS3.

-Hybrid Phoenix

(originally posted on Phoenix Ignition)

Post 24 - Marble Hornets

MARBLE HORNETS

Alright, so if you know me and know me well, you will know that I am most definitely into horror videos (provided they're done right). After getting sent a link by Talcon to Marble Hornet's page on youtube, I fell in love with their little series. Now many people constantly debate: Is it real? Is it fake? - well to be honest, I think it's a game. That's right. A game, and that's exactly why I'm featuring it here today.

J is name of guy who runs the channel. He posts Entries every so often and we watch them. Every little single detail. Now, with every clip J often gives up tiny bits of info or insight as to what happens in each. This is where I think the game aspect comes in. I think it's up to us to notice and pick out all the little clues given in these clips. As an example, for those of you who were following his twitter at the time, you'll notice around Entry #24, he submitted an image to Tweetpic of five random numbers. Well it was the community who told J the numbers were date. Which is why I believe it's a game. J wants us to paste the pieces together and create a new sort of interactive medium, where we as an online community truly believe we're helping someone get out of a horror-movie situation... Either that or it's all real and the world's fucked!

Either way, I just thought I'd mention that to you guys and I hope you all go out and check Marble Hornets. The Slenderman is definitely the creepiest thing about it all. If I end up finding anything I'll post it here in my next Marble Hornets post. So until next time.

- Locke Downe.

Post 23 - Just Quick

JUST QUICK

Hey, I just wanted to let you guys know that the blog is undergoing some minor construction and due to some of the recent events in my life I will have to delay further blog posts until Tuesday May 25th. Sorry for the inconvenience.

- Locke Downe