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Anybody want some snow?

As some of you may know, I live in Austria and winters are always fun around here. We didn't have much snow the past few years but this year it's getting out of control. It's been snowing all day for three days and there's no sign of it stopping any time soon. I didn't have anything better to do, so I took some pictures with my 1337 digital camera aka Nintendo 3DS. Basically, imagine some guy running around in that mess with his 3DS only wearing shorts, a T-shirt and shoes while all neighbours are busy shovelling snow. Too bad nobody saw me, I would have loved to see the looks on their faces. XD

There's about 1 meter (or more) of snow everywhere you look, thankfully not on the streets though. Even with a reasonably cleared street, it's still hell to drive up this hillside I live on. If anything is in your way and you're forced to slow down, you're basically screwed. Same problem if you're driving downwards, since you can cause someone to get stuck just by being on the street too and if one car gets stuck you're automatically stuck too as the street is usually only half as wide during a snowy winter. So yeah, driving a car around here is a lot of fun right now.

Thankfully, this massive amount of snow also has a positive aspect for me. With so much snow (that isn't already rock solid) in our garden, I can go apeshit with my katana on that huge hill of snow you can see in the above picture. XD Last time I did that I lasted about 15 minutes outside, again only wearing shorts, a T-shirt and shoes. Took a while to recover from that though, so I might want to wear some winter clothing this time around.

So, anybody want some of this snow? I'll give you a nice discount. Seriously though, how are things where you guys live? No snow but you want some? Satisfied with how things are? I'd like to know.

Swords, swords and...some other stuff!

So I recently decided that I need one or two hobbies aside from videogames, anime, listening to music etc. and I started by buying this...



I've been practising some swordfighting for a while now but I didn't really have a proper practice weapon so far. Just a juggling knife I've had for years that has surprisingly good handling and durability.



I have a 7yrs old self-made wooden Master Sword replica (though it's not that accurate as I changed it up a bit ) as well but it's too valueable to me to actually train with, though I use it from time to time with a self-made wooden shield (made out of the seat of an old chair lol) just for the fun of it.



If you're wondering why in the world I painted the shield green..err I don't know anymore either. All I know is that painting the Hylian Shield pattern was way above my skill at the time (and likely still is), so I probably ditched the colour blue along with that.

When you have a good look around Ebay, the prices at which you can get decent sharp weapons on there are just totally insane. Not even €10 for a badass-looking sharp Machete? Daamn. I would have ordered one of those as well but I don't need it...yet. It's actually much more of a challenge to find nice and authentic looking unsharpened practice weapons because they seem to be much less common and a bit more expensive as well.



But yeah, I can't wait till this one arrives. If the product description is to be believed, it should perfectly replicate the feel of a real Katana and be ideal for training. It's going to take a while till it's going to arrive though, as it's shipped from the US. I should get it just before Skyward Sword comes out though, so that's gonna be perfect.

By now you probably noticed my obsession with swordfighting and can also imagine why I'm so excited about Skyward Sword. I'll probably perform every sword slash like I mean it and see how I long I can last. At the very least my stamina shouldn't go down as quickly as Link's ...though I won't recover as fast as him once I'm exhausted. xD Is anyone going to do that as well or am I just weird like that? Anyway, just a bit more than 3 weeks till it's finally out and I still haven't given in and read or watched anything about the game since E3 this year, so I'm set!

I already have a good idea of what the other hobby is going to be but I'm not going to say what it is just yet. It too has something to do with a certain franchise I love though, so feel free to take a guess. for the first person (except Azuardo because he would know for sure) who gets it right.

I've been feeling really nostalgic lately and really want to replay some games I grew up with, like Pokémon Firered or Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean. Such a shame that there's barely any time for that with all the new games coming out. I have a ton of games I've yet to play too, so I sadly can't be 'wasting' any time replaying games I know inside out just for nostalgia's sake. I wish I could just stop time for a while and replay all those games I want to experience again. Is anybody else here feeling like that every now and then too?

I recently finished Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and I totally loved it. I really regret that I didn't pick it up any earlier than I did. Just what the hell was wrong with my younger self? Well anyway, I also wrote a reader review for it, which you can check out here if you feel like it.

Oh yeah, quick shout-out to Azuardo who should be coming back later today. Even though you've only been away for a few days, something's missing on C3 when you're not around. Hope you had a good time!

PS: I'm kind of getting sick of the feeling when I see new posts and they're all in the Skyward Sword topic...

It's been a year...

since I joined this awesome site that is known as Cubed3, or C3 for lazy people like me (and you).

I was following some videogame news before I stumbled upon this site but I never actually properly signed up somewhere before. I did join some sites but I never really cared much. I forgot the exact reason for signing up here because my memory tends to be a complete mess at times but there must be something special here that made me stay. Now what in the world could that be?...

That's right, it's you who are reading this right now. This site has a great and friendly, albeit small, community. Since I joined a year ago, I had some really interesting discussions with some of you guys and generally a lot of fun. I'm still wishing that I would have found this site earlier because I saw many people on here talking about how much fun they had playing some games online together. However, that can still change when games such as Mario Kart 7 or hopefully Monster Hunter Tri G are coming around. I'm really, really looking forward to that.

Now, what would a blog like this be without some mentions of fellow, awesome members? Completely boring and pointless. So here you go and enjoy, hopefully, seeing your name in there* for that extra ego boost**.
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Azuardo - I didn't really chat much with you until recent months but I had some great conversations with you via PMs and you've helped/encouraged me to broaden my gaming horizont a bit as well. Thanks a lot for that!

Marzy - I think you were the first person on here who gave me a star and motivated me to keep on posting with more stars throughout the first couple months and further. Like you would always say...Much appreciated.

Mush123 - The fact that you have a Link avatar alone got you a mention here...nah, I'm just kidding. A fellow Zelda fan is always awesome, though you still owe me some SSBB matches, remember?

Phoenixus - You always got some funny lines or pictures/gifs ready to make my day. When are you going to make another sequel of your Random Thoughts Blog?

Kafei2006 - Thanks a lot for getting me into using Backloggery! I like it a lot now!

There are many more great people on here such as Stulaw, L, Mason, jesusraz, jb, Echoes221, Squidboy and Ifrit XXII. There are probably some more members I'd like to mention but, for some unknown reason, can't think of their names right now.

All that said, here's to another awesome year on C3 with many great games for us to play!

What's this? My first blog? Could it be?

Hey there guys! This is my first blog here (or anywhere, actually) but don't expect more in the future because I'm not that good in finding ideas for a blog.

Anyway, as some of you might know I'm from Austria (if you didn't know yet, well..you know it now ) which is that little unimportant country south of Germany. I received my school report last week and I got the best possible grade in English. I expressed it like that because mentioning the grade itself would only confuse the hell out of everyone here because the Austrian grading system apparently doesn't make any sense for pretty much anyone else.

To spice the incoming wall of text (no, not really) up, I'm going to throw some funny pictures in here because we all know that's the reason why people actually read these blogs.



I got the idea for this blog when I asked myself whether my English is really that good or if my English teacher just loves me that much because I'm pretty much the only student in my class who knows some shit. What better way to find out than to simply ask some native English speakers (most of you anyway)!



Truth to be told, I actually totally sucked in English when I was younger. I had absolutely horrendous pronunciation combined with very crappy vocabulary (even for that age) and almost failed a year because of that subject. When a friend got me into MMORPG's when I was 13/14, I had a really hard time because I had no idea what many people were saying. Since I didn't want to stop playing I started looking up every word I didn't know immediately and eventually accumulated a very decent vocabulary. A combination of hearing voice samples of words and chilling out on Teamspeak/Ventrilo slowly fixed my pronunciation as well. Once I started following English gaming websites like 2 years ago, I got even better. Never thought I'd say that but I actually owe all my English skills to my love for gaming.

Make sure you read the small part at the bottom (in the picture, not this).

So, if you have a little of your precious gaming (or whatever the hell you're doing) time to spare, I'd like to know how you guys find my English. If you didn't know my home country, would you think that English is my mother tongue? Are there any things I could improve or mistakes I do over and over again?

If you don't have time or feel like giving me a little feedback, then I hope that you at least got a little laugh out of the pictures I threw in here (you probably just checked the pictures anyway ). Have a nice day and thanks in advance for any replies. 1