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Dec. 26th, 2011 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geebsI think my family are hoarders. Pops a 3d blu ray home theater system from D for Christmas. I'd set it up myself, if the home theater cabinet wasn't full of all their old equipment (and old books and old ishes of Nat Geo and other random mags) that they don't want to get rid of. I think I've convinced them to move the blu ray player in the living room to the bedroom, and put the new player in the living room, and just hook it up via hdmi to the TV, and figure out how to where and how to hook up the speakers later. I also rewired things, since they had the cable box going through composite because the component connection was being used by the DVD player they don't watch anymore. So I switched the component cables to the cable box.
And since the blu ray player(s) aren't currently being used, I hijacked the TV's hdmi for my brother's ps3. It was hooked up via composite initially, and man did it look terrible. Well, it wasn't too bad with AC:B, but it was really hard to read the battle map in DW. Getting back to full 1080i resolution was a huge improvement.
Christmas was Christmas. Went to NJ Christmas day, new place, because my mom's friend moved. I was worried we wouldn't be able to continue the yearly tradition of Rock Band at first, but thankfully it was still played. Tried some new songs, finally got to do some Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac (namely "Edge of Seventeen" and "Dreams"), also butchered Phoenix's Lasso. Well, not really butcher, but as we started it, I realized I didn't actually know the words.
Today, hit LI.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
isabel79 had plans with 7500centfish, but those fell through, so I hit the mall with the former. Used the best buy gift cards I got for Christmas to get a 1tb portable hard drive. I tried to use the Macy's gift card, but since they're having a sale, I only used about $15 worth of it, I guess I'll go to Macy's again some other time to spend the $60 left.
AC: Brotherhood blather- More things I didn't know about the game, in addition to the art shops selling different maps and paintings in different regions, I didn't know the tailors in different regions had different dye jobs available. I had been doing Florintine Crimson with the black Auditore cape I got for rebuilding Rome all the way, but I've since switched to Wetlands Ebony (which is black with red trim). Speaking of, the Auditore cape is quite useful, since now I can kill with impunity and not have to deal with the mess of getting my notoriety down in normal gameplay.
Anyways, finally did completed all the shop quests and the mercenary and courtesan guild challenges, so I have Bartolemo's axe and Maria's dagger. I need to finish up the last Davinci mission (it looks like the bomber one is last for me, I did the machine gun, naval cannon, and tank ones already) so I can get the parachute in order to finish the last thief guild challenge to get La Volpe's sword. In terms of main story, I'm at the start of chapter 8. Sounds like I have to do a memory or two in that chapter in order to unlock the last Romulan lair, which I can't wait to beat so I can get the armor and dagger of Brutus.
I'm in no rush to beat the actual game, but there's still plenty of Courtesan, Thief, and Assassin assignments to do. I've still been sending my assassins on contracts, though I'm not sure what's the point- they're all full fledged assassins, and I completed the shop quests, so there's no need to actually do the contracts where you get "stuff", but I get them anyways. And don't sell them, because I have more money than I know what to do with. (because I don't have anything to actually spend it on anymore)
Finally, I've also learned to appreciate the utility of the smoke bombs. They're definitely useful. They were especially useful in that one thief assignment where you have a hand to hand brawl with another gang. I just dropped one of those and took the majority of the opposition out pretty quick! But they're definitely helpful in stunning a small group of guards stationed somewhere so I can quickly assassinate them to get past them without getting detected.
And since the blu ray player(s) aren't currently being used, I hijacked the TV's hdmi for my brother's ps3. It was hooked up via composite initially, and man did it look terrible. Well, it wasn't too bad with AC:B, but it was really hard to read the battle map in DW. Getting back to full 1080i resolution was a huge improvement.
Christmas was Christmas. Went to NJ Christmas day, new place, because my mom's friend moved. I was worried we wouldn't be able to continue the yearly tradition of Rock Band at first, but thankfully it was still played. Tried some new songs, finally got to do some Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac (namely "Edge of Seventeen" and "Dreams"), also butchered Phoenix's Lasso. Well, not really butcher, but as we started it, I realized I didn't actually know the words.
Today, hit LI.
isabel79 had plans with 7500centfish, but those fell through, so I hit the mall with the former. Used the best buy gift cards I got for Christmas to get a 1tb portable hard drive. I tried to use the Macy's gift card, but since they're having a sale, I only used about $15 worth of it, I guess I'll go to Macy's again some other time to spend the $60 left.AC: Brotherhood blather- More things I didn't know about the game, in addition to the art shops selling different maps and paintings in different regions, I didn't know the tailors in different regions had different dye jobs available. I had been doing Florintine Crimson with the black Auditore cape I got for rebuilding Rome all the way, but I've since switched to Wetlands Ebony (which is black with red trim). Speaking of, the Auditore cape is quite useful, since now I can kill with impunity and not have to deal with the mess of getting my notoriety down in normal gameplay.
Anyways, finally did completed all the shop quests and the mercenary and courtesan guild challenges, so I have Bartolemo's axe and Maria's dagger. I need to finish up the last Davinci mission (it looks like the bomber one is last for me, I did the machine gun, naval cannon, and tank ones already) so I can get the parachute in order to finish the last thief guild challenge to get La Volpe's sword. In terms of main story, I'm at the start of chapter 8. Sounds like I have to do a memory or two in that chapter in order to unlock the last Romulan lair, which I can't wait to beat so I can get the armor and dagger of Brutus.
I'm in no rush to beat the actual game, but there's still plenty of Courtesan, Thief, and Assassin assignments to do. I've still been sending my assassins on contracts, though I'm not sure what's the point- they're all full fledged assassins, and I completed the shop quests, so there's no need to actually do the contracts where you get "stuff", but I get them anyways. And don't sell them, because I have more money than I know what to do with. (because I don't have anything to actually spend it on anymore)
Finally, I've also learned to appreciate the utility of the smoke bombs. They're definitely useful. They were especially useful in that one thief assignment where you have a hand to hand brawl with another gang. I just dropped one of those and took the majority of the opposition out pretty quick! But they're definitely helpful in stunning a small group of guards stationed somewhere so I can quickly assassinate them to get past them without getting detected.
