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Okay, so I completely took apart my PS3 and dusted the hell out of it and cleaned and cleared every little corner. To recap, my PS3 starting shutting itself off for no reason. The only thing I could think of was I had just done a firmware update, but until then, I've never had an issue with this. Usually, with my own PC, if it shuts down frequently, it's usually caused by excess heat, poor ventilation, or dusty fans. So I took apart the whole PS3, piece by piece and cleaned it all up. I've been leaving it on for long perionds of time, and it seems to have done it, for now anyway. 


I couldn't resist, and bought the HD version of Code Veronica X from the RE 20th anniversary sales on PSN this week. It looks great. Much better than I remember, and it is still one of the hardest games in the series. God forbid I get an extra healing item, or lack of bullet sponge swamp thingie monsters. Which reminds me. The revelations game had lame bullet sponge enemies which totally ruined that game for me. In Code Veronica X, there are moments where these super enemies just appear and the tension just elevates through the roof. I've actually died alot during these enemy jump scares because I had no idea 'that was about to happen'. I can see also how the game started diverging from the series and becoming far more actiony like the later games 4, 5 & 6. Interesting.

Anyway, this whole thing started because I wanted to do a playthrough of Final Fantasy games, and my PS3 would die while playing FF 8. Without a PS3, it would be hard to do a series play through, without emulating, but I hate messing with emulators on PC. 

D&D
Matt has been running a D&D campaign by e-mail for the last week and it is super fun! It's mostly story driven, but the story is quite entertaining. It's a fun passive interactive experience that I've never really tried before. It's like choose your own adventure book, but you are interacting directly with the author affecting other characters and events.

And thats all for now.