Hello SGC, it's been a while.

It's been a hell of a ride since I last wrote in this here forum blog; since July I've been to Ireland twice, I've started university, I've began Twittering (that's yamstersg, by the way; I hardly blog about games) and I've bought hardly any games because, like everyone else, I've been feeling the strain of the economic downtown and my student loan has barely covered my train fares for each month. What's more, with the aforementioned downtown, job pickings...

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Those of you who have had a read of my Burnout Paradise Cagney update impressions will have noted that I used some scrawled A4 notes to round off the article, namely by printing "THIS IS AWESOME!!" in the sketchy mess I like to call my handwriting.

For an insight into my utterly insane and potentially dangerous mind (and the appropriately-similar handwriting), you can have a wee gander at the notes here. There's not much, pretty much just the features that Cagney threw into...

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Picture the scene: Liberty City, 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Brucie and I roll up outside the bar in downtown Algonquin in our Landstalker and proceed to get smashed off our faces.

4 o'clock, and we emerge utterly sh*tfaced from the bar, ready to drive home. Naturally, our drunken driving antics attract the attention of John Q. Law, who's soon on our tail with sirens blazing and gunshots ringing out from the passenger window. A few drunken smashes and a few unlucky gunshots later,...

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I'm gonna be frank. Gaming is almost a religion to me. Maybe you can see it in the way I write, or the fact that I can even write things like this. It's something I hope to take forward into the future, either into development, into writing (considering Sarcastic Gamer is a start to that) or even both. So it's not really that strange of me to utterly stampede my way through Metal Gear Solid 4 in a matter of hours via two sleepless nights.

Not that they were bad nights, not at all....

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To those Sarcastic Gamers out there who could relate themselves to the alpha male (think Brucie from GTA IV) this will be a curious blog post. You'll probably wonder when I'm planning the sex change and hormone injections. Tonight, I was wearing a skirt, and goddamnit, I enjoyed it.

Well, technically, it's a kilt. Kilts have been a typical piece of formal Scottish dresswear for quite a wee while now (don't bother asking me to check the dates as it's very late and I needed to exercise...

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