I'm awake!

Don't you just hate it when you wake up from a lovely sleep and all you want is to try and get back to sleep, but your lovely brain just won't shut the hell up?! This exact thing just happened to me. So I was lying here thinking to myself.. what should I do, since I can't sleep? Yep, you guessed it! Real Talk time!

At the moment I'm working evening shifts which means I start work between 3 and 4pm, then finish between 11pm and 12am.. I got home last night at about 12:20 in the AM last night, so we didn't end up getting food till nearly 2am.. because we discovered that what we had in the cupboards for the evening had well, kinda seen better days, if you get me.

While if it were just me, I would have said.. meh and played some game till I fell asleep ... But it isn't just me! There are several other very serious factors that must be taken into account.. like the fact that for some reason I was really REALLY hunger!! And there is my lady to consider, she needed feeding too, as she had been waiting for me to get in so we could eat together, all together now, awww.

So we looked online for places to get food delivered from.. bearing in mind its like 1am on a Monday night... So there are like 2 places open.. a mighty fine kebab shop and Dominos. We end up deciding on the latter and upon visiting their site we find out a couple of things... They are open 24/7. This is a kinda new thing at least in Cambridge... They also have started doing some new fangled thing where they feed a hot dog through the crust..

Holy moly what in the ...

Feed a what dog through the...

A hot dog in the crust of a pizza?!

Whoever thought of that needs to be knighted like yesterday.

So anyway, apart from that glorious discovery, there isn't much else that I wanted to chatter about... Oh, I actually quite enjoyed playing Aliens: Colonial Marines. I guess because I didn't read anything about what it was supposed to be, just put my headphones on and didn't pay much attention to textures and all that and just had a giggle about dying loads!

I found out the other day that another of my friends has been at this blogging lark, so why not check him out! You can find him at http://vikinggamer.wordpress.com or hit up the fancy link to his page over there on the right hand side of this post!

That's me done for the moment, time to try and sleep again!

 Ciao for now!

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Steam Market Place, Mike and Dota 2

Hi again!!

I told you I would be back soon! Not a lot has happened in the past couple of days. Though I did discover a couple of things!

Firstly, I found that a good friend of mine has been secretly(perhaps not so secretly) reviewing games on one of the most fabulous forums available: YouTube! You should check out FairlyAngryMike. Links will be provided at the bottom of this post.

Apart from that, I made one other monumental discovery!! Steam market place.. a place where you can sell items that you get in either Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2, both of which are available on Steam.. Team Fortress 2 is free to play as is Dota 2(if you get invited), otherwise you can pay for "early access" as the game hasn't technically been released as of yet.

Unfortunately it appears that once you have sold something for cash(note moat things on there are up for the insane price of £0.02), you can't withdraw the money from your steam wallet. If I'm wrong, please do feel free to correct me!! Their handy FAQ can be found here

But hey ho! Back to what I was meant to offer some chatter about! I was invited to play Dota 2 by a friend(thanks Andy!), which meant expanding my field of gaming vision quite exponentially by setting up a steam account.. thankfully its quite straight forwards. So I claimed my "beta" key and installed the game, which took much longer than I'm willing to admit - due to the shabby internet connection we are currently forced to accept in this house :sadface.

I went in having no previous experience of actually playing a Moba, I had seen the UI and knew that you pick a hero out of the multitude of available ones.. and that it was equal teams and that as you kill stuff(enemy heros and things called creeps) you get experience and gold which is spent on buying items to upgrade your hero and his or her abilities.

There are a couple of different game modes to try out, the main one I have played is the best for learners to try out really! It's called a Co-op Bot game, which means you will be teamed with other players against a team of AI controlled opponents.

Another mode is simply you and 4 others Vs 5 other players online.. there is a lot of chatter about how abrasive the community can be should you make a schoolboy error, thankfully I haven't witnessed this. The game can be immensely fun, or incredibly annoying depending on how your team plays and communicates!

I would wholeheartedly recommend that you give it a go, if this type of game interests you at all! If you don't have access, tweet me expressing your interest in getting a key @McKnublet!

That's it for now I think, I might do another one later going into a bit more detail about my favourite Dota 2 Heroes since I didn't really go into too much detail about the game itself in this post!

All that's left is to say, follow @FairlyAngryMike on twitter and check out his YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/FairlyAngryMike for game reviews or you can check out his blog in my Blog List on the right hand side of the page!

Ciao for now!

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