Ugh

It's been awhile. I know I said I was going to be posting more here, but that hasn't worked out. Between work and the hours I put in just last night to clean my desktop of malware/virii, I've been busy.

With all of the cover letters I've had to write for applications lately, I've come to two conclusions. One, I hate cover letters. Two, I can't write a good cover letter. Which is weird to me. I mean, my degree and certification are in English. You'd think I'd be able to compose a half-way decent letter to sell myself as such. But no. Maybe it's the same thing with my writing. I psych myself out If I could just have someone with a recording device following me around all day, I'd be golden.

Though the date will say it's from some time in early April, I'm not actually finishing it until April 19th. So, to further what I said above, I applied to the district I'm a Guest Teacher in. Hopefully, that gets me somewhere. But, I know there are hundreds of applicants and only two positions open, so I'm not holding my breath (which is a weird phrase anyway, since it's allegedly physically impossible to die by holding your breath).

I spent the last three weeks of work proctoring a computerized standardized test. Very few mishaps this time, which is a plus.

I bought Dead Rising 2 this past week. I was waiting for it to go down more in price, but then I watched the videos here and here. I've watched through a couple more of the Two Best Friends... videos and, other than Vampire Rain, the videos are pretty good. I'm not saying they're wrong about the fact that VR is a shitty game. Far from it. I just think it would've been good if they had attempted the game the way it was meant to be played (purely stealth without confronting the Vampires) to show how utterly ridiculous the game truly is.

But Dead Rising 2 is a pretty damn good game. It's a game where the sheer joy of destroying countless zombies is the main attraction. Unlike Valve's Left 4 Dead, which is a game all about survival and ammo conservation (kind of, the hand gun's ammo is infinite, but where's the fun in that?), Dead Rising 2 doesn't take itself seriously. The cutscenes do, but the gameplay does not. Where else are you going to jam a Servbot (think giant Lego head) mask on a zombie, then flay him with a machette on a stick? No where, that's where.

And that brings up another draw of the game. The game's teaser was Tape it or Die! That refers to the game's combo system. As Chuck (the main character) levels up, he gains access to combo cards, which tell the player what components are needed to make increasingly hilarious and deadly weapons (which also give bonuses to PP (the game's XP)).

My only real complain is sometimes the game's story takes away from zombie smashing. You can either kill thousands of zombies (and I have) or you can save your daughter (um...spoiler, I guess), but if you do too much zombie killin' you'll miss a deadline and fail the cases (missions) and then the truth is lost or something. Either way, it sounds important, so I just went with it. Though, I wish I could save more people (also a good way to boost PP).

In other news, I still haven't uploaded the new edition of Project Zero. I know, I said it was going to be within two weeks after Read an eBook Week, but things happen and I didn't have time to make some changes I wanted. I was tempted to just say I uploaded a new edition because I gotta figure 90% of the people who downloaded it didn't read it anyway.