It’s over. It took me longer than i thought because I kept getting side tracked looking for new clothes and hair and cutlasses, but alas, my pirating days in Albion are done.

I liked the game overall. It wasn’t long and never felt boring like some of the Final Fantasy games out there, actually, any jrpg. Best part of the game for me was the combat system and the character styling you get to do. I hate how some games give you badass armor or weapons that look awesome as an item graphic, then you equip it, and it’s the same generic stick you’re going to have all game to fight with. Not the case here. Also, I got to make my character a pirate.. and in my unending thirst to get more & more shit for my character for the lowest price possible, he’s a butt pirate.. named Desperado.

Overall review + a spoiler after the jump.

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Beisty (pronounced bay-stee for the most part) means embarassment in Punjabi. If you’ve been around me or my friends in the last year or two, it’s become a regular in our vocabulary. This weekend, after some happenings that could not.. should not go ignored, I’ve decided to turn this into an award.

You’ve all done it. You know you have.. you know, when you do something so ridiculously stupid, everyone ridicules you for it and it will take years before you’ve lived it down.. this is the situation where you will be eligible for the Beisty Award. Once you receive said award, you will have to carry it around with you until someone else is more beisty than you and if it’s generally agreed upon that he or she is, a passing of the beisty will occur.

After some heaty discussion with a few of you, it’s been decided that there should be a few Beisty Awards floating around, I was thinking about 2 or 3.

I thought I’d open it up for discussion on what these beisty awards should be.. like a general group for each beisty award. Please email me or post a comment here for your suggestion and or category/nomination in the following form “[category name]: [Person to nominate] – [Reason]”

A few examples that I think of are note may be:

1. Group Beisty: Ann – for turning a group dinner for 8 at a restaurant into a subway/safeway sandwhich festival instead.

2. Gift Beisty: Amrik – Leaving the country to visit the Netherlands and buying “gifts” for people, then being found out a month later that the gift came from Ikea. Aka “The Lakerol” incident.

3. Personal Beisty: Janet – Believing that lesbians can get AIDS from dildos because they can squirt things.

Boyz II Men concert was mega. Considering it was a few days ago now, it’s still fresh in my head. Obviously, the group isn’t the exact same as I remembered them back in the day when their songs shot arrows through the hearts of many, but they are magic live. Still, if the missing member Michael didn’t have some disabling sickness, his part in the group would be the only thing that would make them better.

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