Gwen Demulder

You are The Devil

Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession

The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.

Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really “Satan” at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild – or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.

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Monday I picked up Call of Duty 3 for Wii. It took me by surprise, this game is “wow!”. I was somewhat curious to how a fps would feel on the Wii and I must say it is good, in fact I believe it is more precise that playing a fps with keyboard and mouse.

Several actions require special Wii movements. It happens now and then that you have to face off in hand to hand combat with a german soldier this requires you the thrust your remote and nunchuk backwards and forward to counteract the moves of the enemy. Another part that using special Wii moves is planting Bombs where you have to place the charge and pull out the pin. Driving a car requires you to treat the nunchuck and the remote as if they were part of a steering wheel.

The story itself is pretty sweet also, from the very first moment you get thrown in one of the bloodiest battles you can imagine. Everywhere people are dying and you are just running trying to conquer the checkpoints. It is somewhat of an adjustment with the Wii’s unique way of controlling but you quickly addapt.

The biggest thing this game lacks however is multiplayer, there isn’t even a splitscreen multiplayer which is quite the disadvantage compared to the same game on other platforms. But in the end, this has been a very good buy.

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So I was at work this morning I recieved a text message on my mobile saying that my Wii had arrived.

About time

So during lunch break I decided to go and pick up the console, but when I wanted to pay with my card it was refused. Immediatelly panic broke lose, so I rushed to the bank where it turns out my card was replaced with a newer one and had been waiting there for like a month or so (gee, thanks for notifying me…).

With the new card in my pocket I once more rushed to the store (it was near closing time) and made it there on time. I paid and went home with a brand new Nintendo Wii which I didn’t expect to get until next week.

And once I got home I unpacked the Wii and reacted like this !

Nah, just kidding. I ate my meal unpacked the Wii and configured it for my wireless lan at home. After which two updates were instantly downloaded and installed. Finally I had about 25 minutes left for some Wii Sports Tennis.

I only won one set…(hey it’s my first time!)

It’s a shame I had to go back to work, I would have loved to go on gaming. I can only hope that the parents will release the tv from their cluthes later during the evening.

Latelly I’ve found myself playing more games then I’m used to. I presume the shittage weather might have something to do with it. The past two days I spent most free time playing a fun simple game in co-op with my brother. That game ladies and gentlemen is Lego Star Wars II, it is filled with a lot of humor and might even be the best Star Wars game on the market. Lego really scored with this game.

The thing that makes this game so much fun is the fact that you can’t lose, if your lego character gets killed he’ll just reappear. In the Co-op mode you can work together to solve puzzles in the game. Even after completing the story mode of the game you can replay maps in a free mode. This allows you to access previously locked areas. I think I’m going to try to find Lego Star Wars 1 also

Another game that I picked up yesterday is called Goldeneye: Rogue agent. I guess this was an attempt to recreate the succesful goldeneye game from the nintendo 64 for more recent consoles. I can’t make a comparison with the original one because I actually never played/owned it. This is also my first fps for console. It’s odd at first, apparantly you can have different modes for aiming at targets, some requiring more precision then the other. On the PC you’dd have to be very precise with the mouse to take down a target. With a console controller however, this is practically impossible… So thank god for these simplicated modes. The game itself is nice, I wouldn’t call it a hit but it’s got a nice touch of james bond nostalgia in it (even though you only get to see bond for a few moments during the start of the game).

In the game you are a “rogue agent” (Well, we didn’t expect that one now did we?) who’s lost his eye in a confrontation with doctor No, after that event your character became aggresive and uncontrollable. So MI6 decided to take away your 00 status. This caused the agent to cross over and join the ranks of spectre in which goldfinger apparantly now plays a major role. I can’t say much more now since I haven’t progressed that much yet.

I also purchased need for speed underground, I doubt this game needs much explaining. It’s a fun arcade racing game that allows you to tune your car. In my opinion, this and underground 2 are the best games made by EA that involve tuning. For some reason I was very dissapointed when I triend NFS Carbon.

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I realised I hadn’t made a decent picture yet with my latest ship model, so I cooked one up this morning.