The blog update where I write to help form a habit of writing

Not much new to report on the video gaming front lines of Twin Peaks. I've mostly cycled through my "Now Playing" list and am now working on the following:

• Burnout Paradise (PS3) - I am experiencing some weird issues connecting to EA's servers for stuff on launch (apparently putting my PS3 in my router's DMZ and linking my PSN and Origin accounts might help?). There's also the part where there are at most three public lobbies open when I play (evenings PDT) and those are sparsely populated by some ruthless people. Still, this is everything I remembered it being when I played it in college. I was not a serious gamer in my undergrad years, and stopped reading game news around the time Jeff refused that bribe money or whatever it was he did. As such, I missed the original Giant Bomb zeitgeist around this one. It's a shame, because getting the achievement for having eight people in Wildcat Stadium is probably going to be a bitch now. Should be getting my Class A license tonight. Wanna compete with my AMAZING Road Rules times? Please add me! I'm electricviking78 on PSN.
• Rocket League (Steam) - Hey, a current game! I played my first game with a Steam buddy last night. He's quite a bit better than I am, but holy shit does playing with folks you know make this awesome thing even more awesome. Tonight we'll hopefully have three people together to screw around online, hunting for heads and wearing stupid hats. I beat a season on rookie and figure beating one on the "normal" difficulty will constitute "beating" this game, though the achievement already popped. Wanna kick my teeth in, rocket car style? electricviking78 is my Steam name.
• Shin Megami Tensei IV (3DS) - Yeah, I put down Radiant Historia. I really like that game, but there's something about the SMT mythos that gets my goat so much harder. Strange Journey might be my favorite DS game for all times, and the distant cousin Persona games will likely push me to continued bad purchase decisions for years to come. I had started SMTIV a while ago, and coming back to it was relatively easy. The plot, at least so far, is straightforward enough. The protagonist is part of a martial outfit affiliated with a totally innocent religious government organization that is certainly not up to anything untoward, no sir. He is sent on a quest to investigate the cause of some latent rebellious tendencies among the common people, who have even begun *gasp* reading! Yes, this game is punitive with the way it tends to just fucking kill you in your first encounter with bosses. I could probably play smarter or read a strategy guide (the limited first run came with a book that pretty well outline the first portion of the game for you), but I've found that viewing my first encounter with my big bad as a "feeling out process". When you die, you are given the option to resurrect with no loss of experience for either money or Play Coins. Money is in short supply early on, but I got Play Coins out the wazoo. I'm like Patrick Klepek throwing rings at a Sanic with dem Play Coins.

What do you mean, am I still playing Yoshi's Island? Of course I am. I'm doing that right now. Yes, I am being diligent and finishing what I start. Yep, sure am. Fuck you.