"The hard disk's file system is corrupted and will be restored."
So, what really came crashing down quicker than a
weighty ton of bricks a few days back (the Saturday before this past weekend),
was the discovery of my Playstation 3’s system file succumbing to corruption. I
still cannot believe it happened.
Like seriously, after all these years, it has
finally taken its unwanted course upon my gaming life.
It all started with that Auto Update feature that
only Playstation Plus Users (if not mistaken) have the privilege to toggle if
actual members to PS Plus. I use to be a member, but sadly my membership
expired and I chose not to re-subscribe, for reasons of my own. Store has some
nice free games though. Not to further digress, I noticed it cut on, and then
turn off. Okay… odd, for I no longer have PS Plus. But as I went to manually
cut it on, that is when all hell broke loose… on the inside of my inner geek-self,
that is.
I stare blankly at this message of a error and
suggested restoration method, which I could not bypass. Realizing I will lose
everything, content since 2010 plus all my game saves and so forth, I started
anew as forced. Now everything is gone. No Skyrim, no Dragon Age, no Mass
Effect, no Saints Row, no Assassin’s Creed, no Uncharted, no Final Freakin’
Fantasy… see where I am going with this?
Everything is wiped clean, like one big mass nuke of
ultimate digital ethnic cleansing.
If those three words could even serve as a trio of
descriptive representation to the utter technological genocide I just committed…
and could not control. I do not know if this is some sort of punishment act
dropped upon me, or just a common thing that happens to all gamers (okay, I am exaggerating
for dramatic effect). However, I do know one thing, every time I speak of a
game I have or looking forward to playing/replaying (under the mental
impression I have save files… new game pluses, etc.), I am painfully reminded
that nothing exists on my console and I have to literally replay anew, let
alone reinstall, every game touched.
It also hit me like a sniper-praised headshot ‘Duty
Style’ that I ‘accidentally’ traded Dragon Age Origins long ago in the batch of
360 games I ‘murdered’ for profit when deep sixing my Xbox, which earnings went
to PS3 versions of the games I once had for the ‘Box’. Games like The Elder
Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition, Mass Effect Trilogy, and Saints Row (got
Saints IV) and Grand Theft Auto V (which was really just a pre-order pay off
instead like Saints IV) now grace my Ps3 collection.
On the upside, I can just replay, nothing to be sad
about (aside from Skyrim and Mass Effect, all that hard work), but the content
I had like movies, music, and stuff, stuff I failed to back up… my fault… GONE!
Then again, I do have a few copies I did not erase
from the computer, so, there. Not too bad at all… sort of.
Dragon Age III: Inquisition is coming out November
18, next month. Playing Rage’s Wasteland Legends with my nephew, I was
conversing about how Inquisition will pull from the last two Dragon Age
installments and the reason I got the Deluxe Edition for Ps3 and not Ps4, is
because I have both DA: Origins and DA: 2 for the Ps3 instead.
Then I remember that Dragon Age Keep site coming up,
where I can fix events from both games for DA: III. So I am not SOL after all in
that area of ‘muckery’ I call it.
November 18 is going to be a busy series of events
onward for me. Now that I am done with Shadow Genesis: Inception’s second draft,
as it is under critique and review by others, I can take some time to calm the
brain in that spot, game out, enjoy life, and show my face in the public wilds
before getting back to work on that third draft. I know I will be chiseling the
crap out that inevitable draft once the reviews and critique result comes back
to me. I have already written a few notes as it is, while helping a few others
on their own… although I am not so great in critiquing when it comes to all
that grammar stuff, but I am good at reviewing on a intrigued reader’s
perspective. You know, like picking up a book and reading for the first time.
But enough on my ramblings.
Here is a peek at what else I am working on the
side:
MAIN PROJECTS:
- Shadow Khan Project: SG:I 2nd Draft Complete
- SG:I 3rd Draft Pending
- SG:I Book II 2nd Draft Pending
- SG Book III 1st Draft 20%
- Project Chosen One: Graphic Novel Script 10%
- Project Multiverse: Novel Manuscript 15%
MINOR PROJECTS: (Bonus News)
- 15 story ideas (separate book series) noted and in conception
- 2 old story ideas (handwritten manuscripts from the late 90s) salvaged and pending for future revisions (one horror and one dark erotic fantasy)
- Grim (Modern Horror story): 50% handwritten (awaiting revision – new title pending)
- The Devil’s Ring (Dark Erotic Modern Fantasy): 50% handwritten (awaiting revision – new title pending)
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