After a gruelling two weeks of wondering whether Super Mario Galaxy 2 would eventually turn up I have now sent my claim form back to GAME (via email, I ain’t no snail mail sucka). If everything goes to plan I should be able to sit back and relax with my new copy of the fat plumber’s adventure dropping onto my doormat sometime next week. WHO AM I TRYING TO KID? The Royal Mail will probably lose that copy as well!

FML.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 was released on Friday 11th June, and while many kiddies and adults are enjoying the fat little plumber’s latest adventure I’m still going without. Yup, despite the game being dispatched LAST TUESDAY, I’m still Super Mario Galaxy 2-less. Bunch of bastards, I expect my copy to be here on launch day dammit!

PS: This carrot cake is all kinds of awesome.

During a versus game of Left 4 Dead 2 this evening I went on a tank rampage (I normally suck with tank) and managed to knock three people down. While I was going for the fourth the following came up on the screen.

Sarge : GET ROCHELLE
Hammy : fuck off u cheeser
Thermidor : gj

Cheeser? That is an AWESOME insult! Oh and later on in the game the following little exchange happened:

[TSE]Great_Kahn (Boost) : there is nowhere to fucking spawn
[TSE]Great_Kahn (Boost) : has this server been modded
[TSE]Great_Kahn (Boost) : ?? cant get far enough away to spawn
[TSE]Great_Kahn (Boost) : bullshit modded server tbh
PeeJay : nope, spawn blocking
[TSE]Great_Kahn (Boost) : are you a faggot
PeeJay : no, are you?

As could be expected, he ragequitted shortly afterwards. Not before shooting up his own team first though. >_<

This week’s Left 4 Dead 2 Mutation is campaign-based and involves the four survivors tossing aside their guns in favour of chainsaws with infinite juice. Is it any good? (more…)

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is easily one of my most anticipated titles of the year, and to ensure I get a better experience I have finally bought a component cable for the Wii. I got my HDTV around the same time as New Super Mario Bros Wii and the picture was a little bit on the blurry side. The cable won’t make the game HD, but it’ll help make the new galaxies look lurvely.

I did a test just now with New Super Mario Bros Wii and it is looking much better. The image is not quite so blurred but it helped bring out the jaggies. Not a good thing but then again, I probably shouldn’t be sitting as close to the screen as I do!

All in all it seems to be a worthwhile purchase, and with Mario’s latest adventure releasing in a week’s time I’m definitely ready. Thank god the cable only cost me six quid instead of Nintendo’s asking price of £17.99.

… now I’ve said that, the cable will probably randomly catch on fire.

The best part about being off work is that I can be awake at this time and not really feel that guilty about it. Ok, I’m normally go to bed around this time when I do work but it’s just nice to be able to sit here for longer. The birds are now singing and it’s gradually getting lighter. In about 20 minutes or so it’ll be full daylight.

Unfortunately today it’s a little cloudy out (it’s meant to rain later), but at least I can see a tiny bit of blue sky. Hopefully the weather will stay fairly nice.

In unrelated news, I now want to see Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.