What About The Rest Of The Year?

Blogging? Am I still doing that? By missing E3 this year, I shot my blogging-self in the foot. Last year and the year before, E3 was a prime time to chime in on the world of gaming. Starting right now, there are only 4 games that I'm really looking forward to for the remainder of 2013. They are, in order of suspected release:

6/25/2013 - Deadpool
9/3/2013 - Diablo III (Console)
9/17/2013 - Grand Theft Auto V
Q4 2013 - South Park: The Stick of Truth

I'll definitely be talking about the Deadpool game, because it looks awesome and hilarious.

The other two games, Diablo and GTA, look to be early fall releases but I'm not really sure about South Park. Who knows? Anybody. I can wait for that one, because I want the South Park game to be done right or not done at all.

Good news though, I'll have plenty of time to play Deadpool before I get bogged down with the other new games. Deadpool is my favorite Marvel Comics character and I've been anticipating this game since I first heard about it. And it's about damn time that it was released. I'll try and get a huge chunk of it played shortly after release so that I can post my thoughts on the game.

There were some tempting pre-order bonuses, but nothing too blingy. So I put my pre-order in at GameStop and got two more challenge maps, two extra costumes, and a wallpaper. Let me see if I can dig that sucker up.

Let's Make A Move

April is more than halfway gone and it still feels like it's crawling. May 1st marks a monumental day in the long, sorted history of the DoNothingMan; I'm finally moving out of the campus area to a more adult residency. Gah, that already sounds boring as hell. Part of the challenge in moving, at least for me, is eliminating all the excess crap that I have accumulated over the years; trimming the fat, so to speak. Under the most scrutiny right now is my collection of DVD movies. A couple discs will be kept; there's no questions about the South Park seasons. But most can be sold; probably only for a buck or two. So, I'm dividing the my list of DVDs. The first section contains the DVDs that I am definitely selling:

1. Appleseed
2. Batman Begins
3. The Covenant
4. Escape from New York
5. Harry Potter 1
6. Harry Potter 2
7. Harry Potter 3
8. Leverage Season 1
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
11. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
12. One Hour Photo
13. Pan's Labyrinth
14. Pathfinder Unrated
15. Spider-Man
16. Spider-Man 2
17. Wanted

Previously, this list included Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park: The Lost World which I picked up in a box set. When I showed by stack to-sell DVDs to my roommate he immediately asked if he could buy the Jurassic Park pack. Knowing that he would give the movies a good home, I just let him keep them. I'm just that nice.

Now for the tough part, the next list consists of all the DVDs I intend to keep. It's still a long list and I would like to weed some more out, but I don't think I can. Maybe sharing will spark my desire to downsize.

1. 28 Days Later
2. 28 Weeks Later
3. Akira
4. Alien
5. Aliens
6. Alien 3
7. The Animatrix
8. Batman: Gotham Night
9. Benny and Joon
10. Black Hawk Down
11. Brother Bear
12. The Cell
13. Donnie Darko
14. Firefly - The Complete Series
15. Friday Night Lights
16. Fullmetal Alchemist Season 1 Box
17. Fullmetal Alchemist Season 2 Box
18. The Ghost and the Darkness
19. Gremlins
20. Gremlins 2
21. Hard Rain
22. Independence Day
23. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
24. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
25. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
26. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
27. Jeepers Creepers
28. Jeepers Creepers 2
29. The Matrix
30. The Nightmare Before Christmas
31. Predator 2
32. The Simpsons Movie
33. Sleepy Hollow
34. South Park Season 1 - 15
35. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
36. Spawn
37. Stargate
38. Starship Troopers
39. They
40. John Carpenter's The Thing
41. TMNT Season 1
42. TMNT Season 2
43. TMNT Season 3
44. The Venture Bros. Season 1
45. X-Men
46. X-Men 2: X-Men United

Holy crap, that's a long list. There are, of course, some funny stories associated with many items on this list. I picked up the Indiana Jones Quadrilogy reluctantly, asking the clerk in the movie section of Hastings if I could get it without the fourth film-astrophe. She laughed, but she wouldn't let me open it up and leave the fourth movie in the store. I guess I would have done the same, had I been in her shoes. To this day, I have not watched the fourth movie (and I know that some on this list are probably worse films) but curiosity will eventually get the best of me and I'll watch it, my eyes will bleed, and I'll melt into a puddle of special effects goo.