Catch Up

I haven't posted in a while on here. It has been pretty busy though. I'll try to run through some stuff in order for anyone that reads this.

Slowly working on that fractal puzzle in Puzzle Arcade. It's just going to take time to finish.

I finally finished off Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 DLC. Was excited about those. Hopefully that next DLC will not have achievements attached onto it.

Bought Lego Pirates of the Caribbean. Watched my 2 daughters run through the game and played it some myself until the 1st run through was done. I did a little more work after that and got all the achievements I could before the next part of grinding out to find everything has to be done for the rest. I'll go back to that sometime soon.

I finished the Kinectimals game but not until I had to replay the entire game again because I missed a story based achievement that isn't supposed to be missable. My luck prevails yet again. Check over at TA for my review on how not to miss the achievement for unlocking all the maps.

So traded that in and got Fantastic Pets for the kids. I played through the first part just to get everything setup. The response is nothing close to Kinectimals. This game is going to get boring fast. I'll keep it for a little bit but if the kids don't keep interest. I'll be looking to get rid of this sooner than later and get the Kinect racing game. At least that one they can play at the same time.

My birthday came and my wife bought me Bulletstorm. I've read and heard nothing but good things about this game. Well, I'm one of them now. I just wish they wouldn't have put all the cussing in the game. I can't really play it around my kids with all the bad language. So forced to play it at night. The campaign was good and I still have a bunch of stuff to wrap up in it, especially skillshots. Echo mode is like Special Ops in MW2. The multiplayer is like Horde mode in GOW2 except you need so many points to get to the next wave. Three things I really enjoy (campaign, special ops, and horde) put all into one game. I'm enjoying all the modes through out so far. Definitely a game worth picking up to play. I highly recommended it.

After that, I found out my grandma wasn't going to make it much longer. It hit me really hard and for the next 10 days, I was pretty out of it. When she passed, went to SC and then Memorial Day weekend had started.

I am in on a Shadowrun boosting party now as well. I've had that game for a LONG time and I'm just now actually playing it to get points out of it. Just think, I got this game for $1.21 from Gamefly back when I used the service.

I can't believe I've started up 3 new games here recently. It's killed my finish old games I have this year and dropped my percentage down a ton. At least when all these 4 are finished, I know I'll be back up to the 90% range again for sure. At least I think that anyway.

I've already gotten the Fantastic Pets DLC that just came out. I hope the Bulletstorm DLC goes on sale so I can grab it cheaper before I finish the game so I can not buy it at full price to finish it off.

The final thing to add to this post is tomorrow makes 10 years of marriage. WOO HOO!!

Puzzle Arcade Kilopiece Colossus Achievement

I completed a 1008 piece puzzle in 2 hrs 28 mins.

TwistedFate posted in the forums over on xbox360achievements.org on a very good way to get this achievement. You can find it here: http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=114569&page=2

I will however copy and paste it here to save you time.

Before you read below, make sure you pick Picture Puzzle, set it to expert, I used the Dream7 picture as it has 1008 pieces but you can use any puzzle as long as its over 1000 pieces, and I picked the last puzzle style, 4th to the right for setting up my puzzle.

Now for TwistedFate's method:
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Close the Puzzle Preview window (Hit X until it goes away completely) You won't need to actually see the puzzle for this.

Create 3 piles. Corners, Edges and Middles. Make sure you rotate them at least once so they aren't at slightly off angles. Don't just drop the pieces in a random pile, stack them as neatly as you can on top of each other. It will take a little longer, but you will more than make up for that in a little bit. Also make sure you are near the middle of the screen with your piles so you have some room for the next steps.

Rotate the edges so that all of them have the edge facing the same place. Doesn't matter which direction, you just need them all facing the same way.

When you are done with your piles, grab a corner and set it down on the edge pile. The proper piece will snap onto it. Pick up the new piece and do it again, repeating and adding the other corners until you have the entire border built.

Now zoom all the way out. Then take your completed border and drop it on the inside pieces. Since you are zoomed all the way out the "hot zone" for autosnapping the pieces in is increased so you may pick up more than one piece at a time. (I got up to 7 pieces at at time) Go all around the border adding pieces by picking up and dropping the border on the pile. Once you have gone all the way around, rotate the border and repeat the process. Keep rotating the border every so often and you will have it done in no time.
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With the Dream7 puzzle, it took me almost 2 hours to arrange the 3 piles. Make sure to stack the middle pile in the middle of the board. By the time I was done stacking, I had a nice oval going with some pieces that connected when I put them down. So it doesn't have to be perfect but just keep the pile stacking as neat as you can without expanding it too much.

Once I started connecting the middle pieces, I got down to about 24 pieces and just put them in place as it was easy enough to figure it out. I finished the last part up in about 30 minutes.


I put this exact same info over on TA, so you can check it out and give it a thumbs up if you want. Just follow the link:

http://www.trueachievements.com/a29867/kilopiece-colossus-achievement.htm?showguides=1

Gaming Side of the House

Well a couple days ago I finished off Eyepet on the PS3. My kids fired it up so I got back into playing it. Just needed to collect all the missing prizes and items in the game. I'll be ready to trade this game in for EyePet 2 when it comes out but that's not until Sept.

That's also my 2nd platinum on the PS3 now. The 1st one was Start the Party which means both my platinums are Playstation Move games.

I also finished off of A World of Keflings on the Xbox 360 that same night. Just like the first game and just needed time to finish it all up.

So now I've started playing Kinectimals on the Xbox 360 again. I think I'll try to finish it off to trade in for the Fantasy Pets that came out. My daughter has already finished Kinectimals so need something new for her.

Also started playing Puzzle Arcade again. I'm more than 50% threw my 1044 piece puzzle. So when that's done, I'll have to do a 3 layer fractal puzzle and if the five 250 piece puzzle achievement doesn't pop, I'll do one or two more of those to finish that one off.

I need a solid group of 3 more Yu-Gi-Oh players on the 360 to help me finish that game off on the tag duels.

Teacher Present

Been out shopping with the family buying all the stuff to make a neat teacher gift for teacher appreciation week. Got everything. Hopefully tomorrow we can make it look good.

Eye Pet is almost complete. Just gotta keep passing some pet reports until I get all the prizes from that and I'll completely finish the game. YEAH!

Ignorant People

So of course I have a new phone so I list the old one up to sale to offset the cost of the new one. I make sure to post all the info about the phone, what you get with it, how much I want (no OBO, I asked for a price), put up excellent condition on it as it doesn't have a scratch on it and stil has the original pull off paper when you buy it on it.

So how about some emails me on it asking if I still had it, that they wanted the phone, and to text them. Stupid me texted and didn't just reply to the email.

I said I still have the phone.

Reply: How much and how is the condition.

I seriously almost replied did you not read the post? If you did, go read it again dufus.

I was nice though and replied: 100 and excellent

Reply: is it a smart phone
Reply: I only have $50 now

I seriously want to just smack the person now.

I replied: look it up online and it's 100

If I get another stupid text I will show no mercy and make this person feel beyond ignorant.

Why bother asking about a phone you can't even buy and someone's time. Sheesh!

Verizon Thunderbolt

Woo Hoo! I officially own a new phone. I'm really enjoying it and I've only had it a day.

I get to use the wifi hotspot until May 15th until the pricing changes on the phone. Will wait to see how that goes.

Don't know what else to post on it as I don't know what all I'll do with the phone yet. Just doing the standard stuff right now. mail, facebook, playing with the phone.

Brake Pads

Well my brakes have been sqeeking for about 3 weeks now but I hurt my back last week and couldn't get to changing them out. Back finally heals up and I changed them out a couple days ago. Couldn't get the screw to come off. So I got some leverage and got it to turn. Well, it was the wrong direction so I stripped the inside of the groove. The screw is still fine. The other tire was the right way but the left side of the car needed to be pushed up and not down. The ole righty tighty and lefty loosey was reversed. It still has a slight tight fit and I put them on. Will see if the bolt comes out by tomorrow any. If not, I'll say I'm good to go. Been sore for 1.5 days now from changing them out.