Machienzo's NeoDomain

The sounds of “O Mio Babbino Caro” rang distinctly from the loudspeakers, scatted throughout the building. The once silently working facility was bustling with people wandering and leaving the premises. The music indicated one thing, the day was done. As I got up from my desk and made my way to my bag, looking around the room to see crowding people hoping to leave the area as soon as possible. Some were busily chatting away with friends, while others were frantically grabbing at their bags. I spoke to no one, but merely looked on towards the mass of people silently as I made my way calmly out of the room. Grabbing my things and casually walking down the stairs, a few people pushed past me carelessly. As I walked out from the building and into the daylight, the sun shone intensely upon my eyes, causing me to slightly squint at first glance. Over the course of a few seconds, my eyes ad
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So this video is what I did over the weekend. I'm really proud of it, and wanted to bring it to as large an audience as possible. It is the product of about 12 hours of hard labour, and previous 'draft' which received some feedback. For more information, please read the Project Info section.

The choice of the song "Your Eyes Open" was partly due to the song being just so good that I wanted to make a 'tribute' video with it on impulse. However, certain symbolism can be (possibly) identified within the lyrics that I thought would also relate to the game, which also influenced my decision to use it. As can be seen below in the lyrics excerpt (See Lyrics), phrases such as a 'lonely road' obviously can indicate the emptiness of once filled streets. Other parts such as "Morning Comes and you don't want to know me..." might be considered from the perspective of the enemies of the Lone Wanderer,
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Fallout 3 is a game known to be nothing short of spectacular. It's amazingly open-ended gameplay and almost limitless replayability, plus the vast amount of exploration and combat which the player can partake in, is something of which other leading developers should take note of. Building up further on their reputation, a number of high-quality Downloadable Content Packages have been made available to the public, all of which have been released on-time as promised, and also with the addition of quick amendments of 'some' problems by the Bethesda Development Team. There are now 5 different DLCs for Fallout 3. Operation: Anchorage, which lets the Lone Wanderer experience the amazing battle simulation of the Anchorage Reclamation in Alaska, 2077. The Pitt, where the Lone Wandered travels all the way to Pittsburgh to save a city full of slaves from disease and (of course) slavery. Broken Ste
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*Please note that this applies to those still living with their parents and have 'restricted' access to computers or gaming consoles after certain hours.

I remember the times where I had been aching to play a computer game of sorts for the entire night, but there was always the risk of being caught out and having those special gaming privileges being taken away. Fortunately, I made myself a special 'code' to follow which would seem to keep me out of trouble most times, and now I'm passing that onto you guys. This activity usually applies to hours late at night when everyone should be asleep.

Know what you want to play!
First off, and most important, make sure you know what you want to play and for how long. Don't waste time licking your lips in deciding what to choose, as you're wasting valuable time.

Turn off all the lights!
Darkness is your friend, and can heighten the gaming experience, es
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Seems like my blog gets few comments on it. So now I ask you all, what makes a good blog post. What qualities does it need in order attract a vast audience and encourage loads of comments? Should I stop talking about my day and focus on other things? Should I advertise it more? What? What the hell do I do!?

Today in school, we had the commissioning of our new bishop. A woman. That's fine. I've nothing against women. We also got given out Swine Flu notices (H1N1 Influenza) warning us that if we have, or have been in contact with a person who has been to areas such as Mexico, America, Europe, Africa, Japan etc within the past month, to quarantine ourselves for 7 days or so to see if we have contracted Swine Flu. Oh, I just remembered that I saw this picture in Loungin's Funny Picture thread which I 100% agree with.



Well tonight, I have another late night of Fallout 3 planned. I have to get T
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I'm going to be extremely brief, but at the moment I am at school. They've actually partially blocked Neoseeker, such as viewing game profiles and cheats, but they haven't really done anything else, surprisingly. I can make a blog entry, make a post and still visit my forums. It's great. Although, the entire layout of the site looks extremely basic baecause of all the blocking. For example, the background is white, there are no images at all. Oh well.

At this moment, I am currently in my Business Class with a substitute teacher. It's a good subject, something which I fly through, so I usually mess around in it, like play games. Oooo, well I have to go now. One of the schools hottest teachers has arrived to take over the class. :D
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Alright, another day, another late night with Fallout 3 planned. I've just installed The Pitt and plan on playing it late tonight. I always seem to play till 1, and it's such a shame seeing as I have to wake up at 7 for School. Fortunately enough, I've been blessed with unbelievable amounts of energy. I just never feel tired from 6 - 5 hours of sleep.

So today was a Monday. Glorious Monday. Why do people hate Mondays? I had a debate in Economics, but my team lost. More on that here. I had to talk about how Communism is great. I mean seriously, Rome was right in saying that it was a losing battle. However, I was calm and collective. Maybe a bit too calm, but I still had 'fun' in a sense. Everyone else was stressing out about it that it was quite humorous.

I've also got an English Assignment coming up. Well, actually an Oral Assessment. I've decided (though this is yet to be approved) that
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Oh wow, I just missed two days of blogging. What the hell is going on you might wonder? I'll try not to forget next time. So today so far has been quite interesting. As you may already know, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite has finally had a demo released in America. Unfortunately for myself, I'll have to be waiting a few extra days for it to release to the rest of the world. Damn it, why do American's get things first? Well, at least we Australians don't get bogged down on quality. Here's an example you may find a bit trivial, but think back to Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. Americans got their game on time, and also had the opportunity of ordering the special edition version of it including the Secret theatre and other goodies, only if they pre-ordered it. Now Australia/Europe, had a delay in the release of their game. However, to compensate for this, they got the extra content regardles
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The rain still continues here at the moment. It's been pouring in the past few hours. Funny thing really, it got so flooded to the point where the school actually sent out an email to all parents advising them that if they wish to get their children out early, they may do so. More on that later.

Life and Faith
With L&F first up, today's lesson was meant to be the religious one. Strangely enough, our teacher was absent, so we spent the lesson with a Substitute watching a video about surrogacy and embryos and all that stuff. We had to fill out this sheet asking questions about the video, and I'm am just so surprised I managed to last about 80 minutes through that shit.

Maths
Maths. Maths, Maths, Maths. What can I say really? It's much too easy now. While the entire class was going through questions on their worksheets, I spent the majority of the lesson reading through Fallout Wikia printouts
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So, another day has passed. Well, as fun as it was today, it was raining. I love the rain. Don't know why though. I've come to the decision that it is most likely because we get more shine than shower. I'm sure that those in the UK beg to differ with this lovely rain. However, one of the things that particularly annoyed me today was having to walk to school. My bag got completely soaked, and so did all my books and assignments. Don't you just hate that? All your good work gets ruined in a simply matter of minutes/seconds?

Chemistry
Chemistry was just a usual day. We're doing all this stuff about equations with exo and endothermic reactions.

Business
This is my best and most favourite class. Partly due to the fact that I can get things done twice as fast as the rest of the class and have time left over to play Chinatown Wars on an Emulator. I still haven't been able to beat this one mission t
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