Ima Fire Tiger wants you to know that Sweet Business was his favorite gun from the Destiny 2 beta

I’M A FIRE TIGER AND WHEN I PLAY FIRST-PERSON SHOOTERS I ONLY USE GUNS THAT ARE AS BOLD AND AGGRESSIVE AS I AM. LORD SHAXX MUST HAVE KNOWN THAT I’M A FIRE TIGER BECAUSE WHEN I PLAYED THE DESTINY 2 BETA I CHOSE THE TITAN CLASS AND HE GAVE ME A BOMBASTIC TOOL OF ALIEN MURDER CALLED SWEET BUSINESS. THIS BAD BOY HAS TEN SPINNING BARRELS THAT DELIVER A STREAM OF DEATH TO ANYTHING STUPID ENOUGH TO FALL IN ITS SIGHTS. SWEET BUSINESS IS ALSO AN EXOTIC GUN, AND ANYONE WHO PLAYS DESTINY KNOWS THAT EXOTICS ARE THE BEST CLASS OF WEAPON, JUST LIKE FIRE TIGERS ARE THE BEST TYPE OF PEOPLE. THE ONLY BIG PROBLEM WITH SWEET BUSINESS IS THAT IT HAS A VORACIOUS APPETITE FOR CONSUMING AMMUNITION AND IT’S THE ONLY GUN THAT I REGULARLY RAN OUT OF BULLETS FOR, BUT THAT'S ACTUALLY A GOOD THING BECAUSE IT MEANS I DIDN’T HOLD ANYTHING BACK. FIRE TIGERS DON’T LET BULLETS GO TO WASTE, AND I’M A FIRE TIGER SO YOU BETTER BELIEVE THAT I EXHAUSTED EVERY MAGAZINE I PUT INTO THAT GUN. SWEET BUSINESS WAS MY FAVORITE GUN IN THE DESTINY 2 BETA AND WHEN DESTINY 2 LAUNCHES YOU’RE GOING TO SEE ME RUNNING AROUND WITH IT, MOWING DOWN ALIENS AND SCREAMING “I’M A FIRE TIGER, BABY!”

Destiny 2 Beta Recap

This past weekend the Destiny 2 public beta was available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. I unfortunately had to work that weekend, so I didn’t get in anywhere near as much time with the beta as I would have liked, but I did play enough to give a basic report on it and some thoughts on my experience. Enjoy.

Writing Project - July 2017 Update

“Don’t let your preparation for writing get in the way of actually writing.” That’s what my friend Ben told me when we met and discussed this little project of mine. Since then I’ve been trying to take that message to heart. I’ve written a fair amount of notes over the preceding years about various things in my story, but now I really need to focus on simply writing it. What little time I have for writing is now dedicated to doing just that. Even if it’s only adding a few sentences per session, I writing whatever I can and keep adding to the plot. Just like my planning for Asia, I’m taking this writing project one small baby step at a time.

In the Red

An extremely uncommon thing will happen this month. During a month where I have a source of income, I will finish the month having spent more money than I take in. I honestly can’t remember the last time this ever happened, and it legitimately might be a first for me. Generally speaking, I live a fairly frugal lifestyle and never spend more money than I make (except of course for when I’m unemployed) but with many notable expenses all happening in the same month I unfortunately will finish July in the red. Among other things, this month I paid for my rail pass for Japan, a pair of flights within Asia, a new camera and other things to go with it, the first few accommodations in Japan, a pocket wifi rental, some new travel clothes, and I had multiple dental bills. Thanks to the money I have saved up from many months of spending far less than what I earn I am in no financial danger from all the expenses this month, but it still hurts a bit to see that my net revenue for this month is negative. Depending on how things turn out there’s a chance that I might be in the red again for the month of August, but with so many major expenses already knocked out I’m not particularly concerned about any long-term negative trends. Soon enough, I’ll be back in the black.

Sugar Taxes

I have a huge sweet tooth, so as you can imagine I don’t like additional taxes on my favorite vice. At the same time, I can’t deny that sugar taxes work, at least for me. When I see a container of sweet tea that would normally cost about $2.75 but with the added sugar tax now costs about $4.25, it makes me hesitate, and more often than not I end up deciding not to buy the product. Curse you sugar taxes and your side-effect of making my diet slightly healthier!

Asia 2017: One thing at a time

In my preparations for traveling to Asia I’m relearning an old lesson that I learned before each of my trips to Europe, and somehow forgot after both of them. There are tons of things I need to think over and make decisions on, to the point that I’ve had nights where it feels like I’m trying to run in a hundred different directions at once. Working like this is extremely taxing on the mind and gets very little accomplished. What I’ve relearned is that it is far better to dedicate each planning session to resolving a single issue and concentrating my mental efforts on that issue. For example, one night I focused only on purchasing my Japan Rail Pass and a pocket wifi. Another night was spent solely on deciding my flight from Japan to Korea. While it might seem that I’m not getting much done on any single night, I’m actually making steady progress and accomplishing a lot more than when I was pulling myself every which direction and staring at a dozen different tabs on my Internet browser. As it turns out, it’s more effective to walk one step at a time towards your goal than to run in circles.

The Destiny 2 Public Beta Starts Today

The public beta for one of my most anticipated games of this year begins today for people like me who haven’t preordered the game (people who preordered got to start a few days ago). Until Sunday night I’ll have the opportunity to get a taste of what Destiny 2 will be like and hopefully my gameplay will in someway help improve the final product. During my time playing the game I’ll try to grab some screenshots and gameplay clips, and at some point next week I intend to publish a writing piece detailing my thoughts on what I experienced. If you’re on PSN and you see player named Attila_The_Pug running around, (and probably getting destroyed in multiplayer) that’s me.

RIP Chester Bennington

I had another post that had already auto-published on this website earlier today, however in light of the tragic death of Chester Bennington I’ve decided to withdraw that post for now and substitute this brief, impromptu tribute. There was probably no more influential band during my high school and college days than Linkin Park. One of the core components of the band was Chester Bennington’s vocal performance, which somehow could cover an impressively wide range. The man could scream like a demon, and sing like an angel. I’m not much of a music guy, so I can’t speak authoritatively to where Linkin Park and Chester Bennington stand in the world of music, but at least from my perspective we lost a great vocalist today. His talents will be sorely missed by myself and many other fans around the world.

Kingdom Hearts 3 coming in 2018

At this year’s D23 Expo we got a new trailers for Kingdom Hearts 3, a game that I’ve been waiting for since my college days in the mid-2000s. New gameplay footage was shown, in addition to the reveal that the world of Toy Story would be one of the locations visited in the game. At the end of the trailer was an announcement that Kingdom Hearts 3 will be released in 2018. If that date sticks then when Kingdom Hearts 3 is released it will have been five years after its initial announcement and thirteen years since Kingdom Hearts 2 came out. While I consider myself to be something of a Kingdom Hearts fan and I’m certainly looking forward to playing Kingdom Hearts 3, with how long I’ve been waiting for this game part of me just won’t believe it’s really coming out until I hold the game disc in my hands. It’s been a long, agonizing wait for Kingdom Hearts 3, but on the plus side I suppose I should at least be thankful that the game is real and will one day be released. Half Life fans aren’t so lucky.

Food without taste

Due to poor dental hygiene, I had to get a filling done on one of my teeth. The dentist applied anesthesia to the area around the tooth and performed the procedure, but afterwards some of the residue of the anesthesia got on one side of my tongue. For a few hours my tongue almost completely lost its sense of taste on that side. It was really weird to eat a cookie and have one side of my tongue register the sweetness while the other side didn’t. Tomorrow I’m going back to the dentist to get the second of the two fillings that need be done, and this second filling will be on the other side of my mouth, so I guess I can look forward to the same experience all over again, but on the opposite side.