The Best Gamer Lives On!

Alright, it's been a while. The five people who checked this once a month have probably forgot about this little blog in the wall, but I feel compelled to keep it truckin. The end of 2008 couldn't come soon enough, but now we're gonna kick major ass in 2009. We have a new president coming in, we have Rays baseball to look forward to, and Darkfall.

I don't really hype games. I don't even look at forums or anything like that. About the most I do is check out IRC channels for MMO beta nuggets and the like... hell, I don't even beta. That's how much I don't hype games. But I gotta say, Darkfall looks pretty cool. If it comes out in a couple of weeks, I'll be back into games hardcore. I'm looking forward to it, even if it is a piece of crap. If it is, I'm probably done with the "MMORPG" genre completely.

Another thing coming up soon is baseball. I'm really excited. The Rays got Pat Burrell and Gabe Kapler to beef up the right handed offense, and they picked up Joe Nelson for the bullpen. Solid moves. I see them in the World Series again this year.

I've been working on a special music project with a special someone. I can't give out ANY details, and I feel bad about it. Lets just say that it's going to be the first music that I've made as true creative expression and in original settings, so I am very proud of it and it is all personal music. I'll post more about this when I am at liberty to say... since we've been working on it since September, we're going to continue keeping it under wraps until we're ready to show it.

Okay, I'll post more soon. I just wanted to get these few things out there. I'll get more into these topics as soon as I get a chance, so don't forget about me this time... I will update more often.

The Empyreans - Mega

Okay, I should've made a big deal about this a long time ago... sorry. Things have been pretty busy lately. My latest music project, an Empyreans album (#6), is done and ready for download (for free!). Without further ado, I present to you:

The Empyreans - Mega



Download it @ LINK NEEDS UPDATED, DIZ. DUMBASS...

Discuss it on the music forums @ http://theempyreans.com/

If you download it, thanks! I hope you enjoy.

I've got a ton of stuff going on lately, I'll be sure to get up some more in-depth posts ASAP.

~ Diz

I Am Noobiticus!

Okay it's been too long. I felt bad about not updating so I just put it off. Well, no more! So 20 Feathaz was a lot of fun to do, but the material that it was based around turned out to be a let down. Yeah, I'm talking about Age of Conan. It was garbage.

My group, The Empyreans (.com) are pretty amped on Warhammer lately. They claim it is the bee's knees, but I dunno. Lately I've been consumed with music, school, work, and having my car totalled by an absolute moron:

She hit me (and my buddy Kyle in the passenger seat) at 50 mph during rush hour traffic while I had been sitting at an intersection waiting for all the bumper-to-bumper to clear up during a yellow-to-red shift on the light. Out of nowhere, boom. No brakes sound, nothing. I went to the hospital, it was crazy. BTW, if you look at the pictures, my license plate is 911, and the date of the accident was 9/11, and obviously I dealt with 911 since they came to the scene and took my in an ambulance. Crazy! Since my LS is annihilated, I think I'm gonna snatch up a nice '01 Prelude.

There's also been a limited but incredibly productive talk amongst a few of us in the Empyreans about starting a gaming community site, based around a weekly podcast. I don't want to get into the details, but it could be the next big thing on the planet. More info on this will undoubtedly come to light in the future, if all goes according to plan. ^_-

I'm on the edge of my job, basically pulling a Peter from Office Space. Maybe because the job feels like Office Space. Moving on...

The Empyreans finished our sixth album this week, I'll make a big post about that in a day or two, with links to download it. I did a ton of work on it, it is like a movie score. 110 minutes, 30 tracks, lot of collaborating and stuff on it. It's awesome music, and I gotta say, maybe I should look into this more seriously. Anyways, I'll talk about the album, Mega, more in my next post.

Music is just so busy lately. Like, out of control busy. These past few months, June, July, August, September... have been the most productive artistic period in my entire life by far. I don't know what it is exactly, maybe living alone? Anyways, here are parts of a song I'm trying to collab on w/ Plastik. In visual format!!!



Now wasn't that just as good as hearing it, except 3 minutes shorter? Great... lets keep it going.

My Ohio State Buckeyes, the love of my life, why do you break my heart. I can literally see into the stadium from my bed, but now I don't even want to think about you! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE THE BIG ONES IN THE WORST WAYS. Especially to a team like USC. Los Angeles doesn't deserve a college football team. It's a town thing, people in LA wouldn't really give a crap one way or another about the outcome of that game. But here in Columbus? Hell, even the entire state of Ohio. It's a massive deal. and we got our asses kicked. Again...

However, my Tampa Bay Rays are going to the playoffs for the first time ever. And, yours truly called it (yeah thats right, go check my old posts). In a few weeks, make sure you keep an eye out for me on the Sportscenter highlight reel, catching a home run in the stands during their home games in the ALCS against Boston. I love these guys, I've watched about 100 Rays games this season, I hope they go all the way.



Okay, I'll be updating at least once a week from now on. I promise that. Next blog, more talk about the album we just finished, Mega, what our next project will be, and some other left-field stuff. Peace!

Dog Days of Summer

Man, it's been a while. I've been playing Age of Conan, working, attempting to change majors, and also settling into my new place, which is pretty cool.

I've had a migraine for about 40 hours straight now, absolutely insane pressure, throbbing & pulsing my soft brain matter against my skull. I honestly felt like I was going to pass out at a couple points. Anyways, it's hard to concentrate, so I apologize if any of this post is wack. Seriously, I couldn't hear out of my right ear during the onset...

Ironically, my Tampa Bay Rays are kicking ass in baseball. Currently holding the best record in MLB. However, they've just hit a small slump, I think they've dropped five or six in a row now... in two series against crappy teams (KC & Cleveland). However, their rookie 3B Evan Longoria got voted in for the All-Star game! Rock on...




On the flip side, all of my fantasy baseball teams are falling apart. Which makes no sense, considering I drafted every single Tampa Bay Rays player. WTF???

MOVING ON...

I've been owning in video games (as usual):




Now, Age of Conan. Where do I start. I'm going to just keep this brief. Age of Conan is on life support. It needs a lot of work, and I'm not sure if Funcom will be able to keep the playerbase active until they implement the rest of the game we paid for months ago. This is a big issue for me and if it doesn't pan out well, then I think I'm going to go ballistic Jihad ninja on a lot of ppl to take out my nerd rage.

If you're still hard for Age of Conan, or want to know whats up, check our guild out (theempyreans.com)... or if you obsess over me, go search for "adizmal" on youtube and you can find a couple new Age of Conan videos and clips from our guild and myself.

Oh yeah, one more thing. 20 Feathaz was finished a while ago, but I never posted about it here.




Go download the album at: http://sc0ttius.phpwebhosting.com/mp3s/20feathaz.zip

I'll post more when I get the chance. Lets go TEAM USA! OWN THE REST OF THE PATHETIC WORLD IN THE OLYMPIX!!! Later peeps.