So, as usual, it's been a while. I wrote half a blog in my computer class a few weeks ago but it was thankfully the last class (It was terrible, I won't go into the details.) so I didn't have another day to finish it up and basically just forgot about it. Might as well throw that in now and get to the recent stuff after. I've been testing out my Xbox Live Gold subscription for the past week and a bit and I have to say I'm happy with my purchase. Gears has been the disc spinning mostly, but I also rented Viva Piñata for a few days. It wasn't as good as I was expecting. For not selling as much as Rare wanted, it has been getting a lot of hype and a lot of comparisons to Animal Crossing. To be honest, I see few similarities. The game is actually a lot closer to Harvest Moon, but not as involving. In Harvest Moon, I always felt like it was my farm, my animals. Same with Animal Crossing, there is a certain attachment to your villagers where you have favorites and feel disappointed if they leave. In Viva, there wasn't the same sort of experience for me. With the piñatas having little use save for being eaten or sold, I started not to care if they were around and started selling them off before they got eaten. After a few hours with the game piñatas are in fights and getting broken open all over the place and it is a little too crazy. I see the appeal of this game to some people, for example, loading up on pretty easy Achievements, and I do think the younger audiences that the game was originally aimed at would enjoy it. Personally, though, I didn't like it enough to buy it and I highly recommend that anyone who is playing the game currently get Animal Crossing for the DS. Okay, on to newer and probably similar thing. I'm almost done first semester. As previously mentioned, I finished my waste-of-time computer class so the computers could be used for grade 12 exams, so I had a spare for about a week and a half. I managed to finish my Twilight Princess art piece I'd been working on for art class and that is done, too. Hopefully I'll get it back soonish and I'll be able to put it up on my currently empty deviantArt along with the original sketches. I'm completely done Science, as well. I had my exam on Thursday and it was a breeze. Well, I think it was, I haven't received my mark yet. The L.A. final is on Wednesday and then I'm done. While exams are going on for everyone we get a two week study break. Since I have a bit of a break now I've been doing quite a bit of gaming -- what did you expect?

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