Tag Archive for 'soul calibur'

It's a Monday, and, believe it or not, I'm feeling pretty good about it. (Sadly, others are not feeling so good about it.) But then, I had a pleasant weekend with homework that took much less time than normal, some writing, and a Saturday night that was downright kick-ass. Succumbing to the ultimate in geekish desires, my suitemates and I, along with a friend who lives down the hall, sallied forth Saturday evening and took over the Virtual Worlds Lab. Photos of the lab don't seem to have materialized, sadly, so I will just have to describe it to you. We went to the VWL with the sole purpose of using the console room, a long darkened room, one wall of which is a projector screen. Now, I may be slightly off on the hardware here, but the room contains something like: 4 high definition X-Boxes, 3-4 Playstation 2's, 2 Gamecubes, and 3 digital projectors along with appropriate audio equipment to make the experience just that much more awesome. (Yes, I have become one of those geeks. It's simply unfair to true gamers to actually call myself a gamer, but our suite does now own an X-box and several games for it.) Needless to say, playing any game in the console room is a lot more fun than playing it on our TV in the suite. We fired up all three projectors and had two X-boxes and one PS2 running. The games of the evening? Halo 2, Burnout 3, Grand Theft Auto 3, and Soul Calibur 3. The first two I play fairly often at home. I only had a chance to watch Burnout 3, but Mark and I played a bit of Halo 2 on co-op, and that was great. It was very nice to have a set-up where both of us could easily see what was going on. Even on a fairly large TV like the one we have in the suite, it gets difficult to see when the screen gets subdivided. It was my first time to play Soul Calibur 3, which is pretty much an arcade-style fighting game (i.e. Mortal Kombat with massive graphics advances). Christian gave me a quick primer on how to play and then proceeded to crush me utterly. Mark and I were better matched for each other, but the real entertainment of the evening was when Jessica and I got started on one another. Our mottos: "Buttonmash them to death!" We gave up on that when our hands started hurting. The PS2's gamepad is really too small for me to hold comfortably for more than a quarter hour or so. That's what I get for having huge hands, I guess. All in all, it was a fun party. It's not something that I'd want to do every weekend, but it was definitely worth it. In the other reasons to be happy category: the weather is decently warm here; I visit Cornell later this week (!!!); I will definitely get to meet Bill Nye at Cornell; I have no midterms this week; Jon Stewart made the Oscars hilarious; and this is the first time all semester that I've had a fluids assignment finished before the night before it's due. All that's left is printing out the graph I made. Yes, this is a good Monday.