/played
Halo 2 (360)
Brain Age (DS)

/listened to
Pod… casts…

/watched
Lost Season 2 Episode 4

Started again with the Lost episodes. It’s hard to find the time with this hot weather, sitting in front of the tv feels like such a waste.

And I’m still catching up on some of those so called classics I missed, like Halo 2. I’m sort of stuck since it’s starting to require FPS joystick skill which I lack completely, so I’m hoping to find someone who’ll run through it (and the original Halo) with me in co-op mode ^^. Online is hell, fun but hell. I really miss a mouse and keyboard :/

So, the game I’ve been waiting for all these weeks, finally sits in our DS. Brain Age (or Brain Training) is very addictive. Training your math skills, memory and even writing skills (it has difficulty recognizing my EIGHT!) was never so much fun.

You can compare it with the oldskool arcade high-scores, only this time, it’s more clearly a battle of the mind (even though other games are too). What keeps me going, is to keep my score as close to that of Elke’s as possible, but I’m getting my ass whooped seriously. She solves the 20 math problems under 20 seconds, where I have problems even staying near 30. That stupid 7×8=? always gets me :D. Not to mention the brain age itself, which I got down to 35 in 3 days, not too bad… only 10 years above my real age. Although, compared to Elke, who reached the brain age of 23 in the same amount of time, sort of makes me feel a bit stupid :/

Anyway, if any of you have a DS, I seriously advice it. If you don’t, get one with it. And pass by our place, there’s an option to do math battles, 16 players VS mode :D. That’s one nerd battle :P