I had a pretty decent Halloween holiday. The day started off with me getting up late and then helping my mom fix some of this god-awful cabbage stew. From there I went to go and pick up my grandmother and bring her to our house…and then we just kind of didn’t do much of anything but talk. I was going to carve a pumpkin…but it was getting too late. Around 7 pm I we started out to take my littlest sister to go trick or treating. A few days before it was really cold and I was sort of dreading that it would be just as cold on Halloween. But thankfully it had warmed up quite a bit…though towards the end of the night it started to get pretty chilly. Anyways, we get about halfway around the block (not a traditional block, just a big circle that connect back to our street) and we’re getting ready to walk over a hill. We’re right at the top of the hill when some fucking idiot with North Caroline tag flys over the other side of the hill and nearly runs us all over. On Halloween. When there are hundreds of kids out alongside the road. And this guy has got to be over the speedlimit by many times over. Naturally, I was pissed. I grabbed a rock and threw it at the car but he was already gone.
Thankfully we all made it out of Halloween alive and my little sister scored a nice chunk of candy (which I then proceeded to mooch off of :p). When we got back to the house everyone ate that nasty stew, so I made me some tomato soup instead. Everyone left, I went to my room to play some 360 then went to bed…it was a pretty good day. I took some pictures of the pumpkins and other things, but my camera seems to be on the fritz :/. If I can get it cooperating I’ll remember to plaster them here. Though I’ve got pictures from last year…I think. Maybe I’ll just post them instead…or maybe not.
In other news I started a new game of Crackdown this Halloween night since, for some reason, my savegame went corrupt. I actually haven’t touch my 360 in a few months so it was kinda nice to just completely start over. I was contemplating whether or not I should grab the DLC for the new weapons and stuff because I have some points to spare. I might hold off until the new Halo 3 maps are out, just in case. Anyways, I really enjoy this game…it’s sorta like an over-the-top GTA with the roles reversed. By now the game is old-hat to most people since it’s been out for a while. But it really is fun, I can play it and the hours just melt away. I haven’t tried the online COOP yet though. If someone has the game, hit me up sometime and maybe we can play some COOP 
And that’s it for now. I gots schoolworks to do 
Mek
3 Nov 2008Just another comments test; ignore.
WartornC
3 Nov 2008Ah man, cabbage stew is just fucking horrible. Glad you had a good day though =D
And damn, if my Crackdown disk wasn’t busted I’d totally help on co-op, but this is like my third disk so far so /o\
Mechadon
3 Nov 2008Yea I don’t know what it is about that game. I googled around to see why this was happening (before my savegame went corrupt, the game would freeze at the start screen) and it seems to be a pretty common problem. I had to remove my updates and then clear my cache and it stopped freezing…but of course that’s when it said my savegame was corrupt :/. I haven’t had any problems with the game disc though. I bought it used and it looks ok.
WartornC
3 Nov 2008Hmm, the funny thing is is that mine is also used (still looks pretty salvageable), and I also got the same freezes and corrupted savegames (Which also pretty pissed me off because I was a 4-star in weapons and 3-star in Agility). But I’ll try that and see if it works. But how did you remove your updates/clear the cache?
Mechadon
3 Nov 2008Ah let’s see…you can remove pretty much anything that’s on your 360 hard drive by going to the settings at the far right panel on the dashboard. I don’t have it in front of me at the moment but if you google around on how to remove updates from your 360 I’m sure you’ll figure it out, it’s pretty easy.
Here’s the instructions I used to clear the HDD cache: http://www.360-hq.com/xbox-tutorials-62.html
Clearing your cache can help out a lot by speeding up games and stuff :D. I started a new game before installing any of the updates. After that I played a bit and then tried letting it install the updates again…aaaand so far it’s working just fine.
WartornC
3 Nov 2008Ah sweet thanks, I’ll try that and see if it works.
WartornC
3 Nov 2008It didn’t work
I guess it’s just scratched since that’s now the error it’s giving me.
Mechadon
3 Nov 2008Ah man, that sucks :(. You could try to get it resurfaced I guess. There are a few places around where I live that’ll do it for a few dollars, maybe you can find someone like that where you live.
WartornC
3 Nov 2008I’ll check in with that, there should be someone that can do it. Another thing to note (Which I just found out) that there’s a huge ass crack on the top and bottom
WartornC
7 Nov 2008I’m stopping by Gamestop later today to pick up Gears of War 2, but while I’m there I’ll look for another copy of Crackdown
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