On MapleStory, Minecraft, Star Wars & birthdays

The one good thing about writing an entry every-other month is that I certainly save up a good deal of topics to cover:

Concerning Maple Story, or more directly when you might see a new episode. Since I was away most of August and was rather busy with the start of the school-year in September, I was only able to make a non-canon short for this month. In it, me (as in Brian, not Michea) rushes to Nexon's aid to help fix all their hacking problems. I turned it in a week ago, but I have no idea when it will be released. I am starting work now on the next full episode for release in October.

Concerning Minecraft, it's important to realize that my two fanatic loves in life are video-games and Legos. To this day I still visit brothers-brick.com every week or so and drop my jaw at the combination of engineering and creativity that makes me wish I had enough money to buy my own Lego collection. Thus consider Minecraft, an open-ended do-anything game that I fear if I ever give into and try, I will never be heard from again... So, I am doing my best to stay away. For all our sakes.

On Star Wars, or more importantly, the new Blu Ray release. To be honest, I have been duped 3 times now into buying these movies on VHS in 98, DVD in 2004, and now again on Blu Ray. I told myself that this time I could sell all the others at a local CD/Book store and the $80 would really only $50ish. Forget added "Noos!" or occasional blinking (I really don't care) but then I realized that the new set does NOT include any of the extras from the DVDs. Yes there are new deleted scenes, but NONE of the deleted scenes, documentaries, etc. seen on on the DVDs. Being a complete-ist, I now have to decide whether to keep both, or live without. I may just sell back the new set, and wait for a more comprehensive set down the line.

Finally, birthdays. Thanks everyone for your well wishes. To be honest, I was sick on my birthday, but that really didn't stop me from sleeping in and doing nothing all Saturday which was my original plan. It only added an element of mucus and fever. In all I watched "Stardust," finished a book, and tried not to think about being 32. Oh well. Here's to at least that many more!

Thanks all.