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Little Big Planet 2 Beta

2010-10-08T19:28:00.007+01:00

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Yes.. We have access!

Check out my Firstplay and Chris's Commentary.

Love
SackBoy
xx

SackBoy's Christmas Friend

2009-12-26T20:33:00.033Z

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Hello Everybody,

I hope you had a good christmas!

I had a great one, Got lots of great present, mostly BluRays and PS3 games. Lucky I got a new PS3 just before!

My grandma knitted a Sack-Friend She is amazing! She is 85 and she managed to hand knit an amazing SackBoy!

She used as knitting pattern:
http://www.craftycrafty.tv/2009/01/free_pattern_knit_your_own_sac.html

He is a bit 'Special' But I love him all the same!

Hand-Knitted Sackboy

Me and My Friend!

He has only been here a day but he has already chosen his seat.

More SackBoy adventures to follow....

On another note; one of my other SackBoy friends managed to sneak into the nativity without NatashaDoney seeing ;)

I also hid in the Christmas tree for a bit. Naughty Naughty! :D

Please retweet or share if you enjoyed..
SackBoy xx

SackBoy's PS3 Adventure 23-12-2009

2009-12-23T23:05:00.042Z

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Hello People,

SackBoy has asked me to blog about his more recent Adventure 'SackBoy's PS3 Adventure'

Please Retweet if you enjoy it :D

This can be viewed in booklet format here: http://scribd.com/doc/24468906

And on Picassa: http://picasaweb.google.com/cdoney77/SackBoySPS3Adventure23122009#

The weekend before the release of the long awaited water feature for LittleBigPlanet I
was very upset to find my PS3 Would not turn on. ‘SadFace’

I had just played the Star-Trek D-A-C demo, that sadly I did not enjoy, upon exiting
the game my PS3 froze and turned itself off.

Turning it back on again resulted in a green light, a single beep, a flash of yellow then a flashing red light and two more beeps.

After further inspection I was able to confirm that my PS3 had the
‘Yellow Light of Death’ (YLOD) Boo...

I did some more tests, taking out the hard-drive and booting up to see if it was a drive error, along with a PSU test, turn the console off at the back, hold down eject then turn back on. If the fans start up very loud then its not the PSU. Sadly It was not a PSU or hard-drive.

At around 12:30 that night after many house spent on YouTube I finally admitted
defeat. And so our adventure continues..

What To Do?

After some more research it seemed it was possible for me to fix the
PS3, although it was complicated and only a temporary fix.

I decided it was about time I upgraded to a PS3 Slim.

Cdoney77’s wife NatashaDoney went on a proper mission to find one
for me, she is great!

Eventually after many phone calls and miles driven she managed to get
one with a free game, Uncharted 2, a game I have been looking forward
to since my Expo Adventure back in October.

Make sure you back up the data before putting the drive in as the Slim will wipe it
on installation.

I always try and put the HDMI cable in that other slot, What that even
for anyway? Ah there we go!

Ta-Dar. I’m very happy now, The added bonus being I can now have 2 Sack-Friends
round and play LittleBigPlanet 3 player!

I will attempt to get the Fat PS3 going eventually, I will let you know how
it goes...

I hope you enjoyed my PS3 adventure, Please Retweet.

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SackBoy's Expo Adventure 2009

2009-11-02T22:34:00.020Z

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Hello People,

Its been a wile since I posted, I'm sorry about that. Lots has happened, most of it I cannot remember.

There Is one think still fresh in my mind, Me and SackBoy's trip to the EuroGamer Expo 30th October 2009 (My brother an Iain were also there)

SackBoy has put together a lovely Picture-Book and he has asked me to blog about it.

This book can also be viewed over at Scribd.com;
http://www.scribd.com/doc/21995185

Please see below for images.

Enjoy!

This is a Picture-Book of my trip to the Euro Gamer Expo 30th October 2009

Tickets to this event were obtained through my friend Spaff at Media Molecule.

Chris heard about the tickets through twitter and fired off a message to Media Molecule for
me. I don’t know much about computers you see, I am full of stuffing after all.

Spaff emailed us back confirming our tickets and telling us we could get a special goodie
bag if we followed these instructions;
1. When you see us, come up to either me or Tom, our names will be on badges
2. Hand us a LittleBigPlanet / Mm related picture that you have drawn.
a. It can be anything, and of any quality, from a stickman on a post it note, to a full
blown watercolour, good, bad or just plain weird, but you must have the drawing.
3. As you hand it to us, give us a sly wink and say ‘Plagachef’ (pronounced play-gershef)

Exciting!

I hope you enjoy my Picture-Book.

Love
SackBoy xx
OOOohhhh what’s in this box?
Chris drew a SackBoy version of himself and Natasha, I really liked them!
Andy drew KackBoy, He was very colourful.
We parked in Iain’s work car-park and got the train into town.

When the train arrived there were no seats, We had to hang out by the toilet, sadface
Iain very kindly let me sit in his jumper though.
Once we got to London we went on two underground trains, One had yellow bars and
the other had green. I liked the green train the best as I got to sit in the priority seat!
There was a big line when we got there, luckily we were super cool and had press
passes so we got to go straight in.
As soon as we got in we headed to the PSP area to Meet Spaff and Tom along with the
rest of the Media Molecule crew. ‘Plagachef? - Ooooh yes please’
There were lots of lovely drawings people had done. Look what was in the goodie
bag; stickers, badges, sweeties and a code for a costume pack. Chris got a history
pack code, I’m looking forward to dressing up as Mozart!
Once we had our goodies we headed off to play some games, Uncharted 2, Wet and
Left 4 Dead 2. I really enjoyed Uncharted 2, The graphics were amazing!
We then stopped for lunch. I had a coke and some really nice soup, Iain had a super
sticky bun.
After lunch we went looking for more exciting games. Heavy Rain was my favourite
of this session, Again the graphics are amazing, you cannot tell the cut scenes from
the gameplay. Really looking forward to the release of this one!
Next we played Beatles RockBand, MAG and Battlefield Bad Company 2, I was
unimpressed with MAG, I had heard so much about it. Bad Company 2 looks and
plays really well though, can’t wait for it to come out!
The chaps checked out Avatar 3D, they said it was really good but the glasses were a
bit big for me to try on. There was also a triple screen Forza 3 setup running from 3
Xbox’s. This was a really engaging racing experience as the screens filled my vision.
Shame it wasn’t Toca Grid though :P
We also managed to get on Army of Two 40th Day and Assassins Creed II. These were
both great, Looking forward to playing 40th day! I also remembered I have a copy of
the first Assassins Creed I have not played yet.. Will have to get on that!
Once we had played all the games we wanted to on the main floor we went back to
hang out with the Media Molecule guys.

I asked Tom nicely and he let me play around with the water beta.. This is going to be
a really exciting update. I’m looking forward to some swimming chaps!
We then played a bit of LittleBigPlanet PSP, this looked really good, I really want a PS
now! Chris told me he bought his PS3 to play LittleBigPlanet and doesn’t think he
could justify buying a PSP for the same reason, Boo...
It was then time to go home, We stopped off at Burger King and I had an XL Bacon
Double Cheeseburger meal with a Milkshake and a Hamburger on the side... It was a
long day... I’M NOT A PIE!
It was a great day and we played some really good games. but I felt relieved when I
cracked open a beer at home. Look at all the goodies I got!
What a great day, Sorry about some of the photos, It was a very dark venue, I will try and
use the flash more next time. I don’t normally like to use the flash as it makes everything
far too bright but I think in a situation like this there is no choice..

I hope you enjoyed my Picture-Book.

Keep an eye out for the next SackBoy Adventure.

Love SackBoy
xx

I hope You liked it, Feel free to use any of the images (Just please credit @Cdoney77)

Love SackBoy xx

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I love my Mozart Costume, Thanks Media Molecule

p.s. Happy Birthday LittleBigPlanet
Love SackBoy xx

SackBoy's Spain Adventure 2009

2009-10-01T21:57:00.028+01:00

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Sackboy came on holiday to spain with us in August and he kept a journal.

He has asked me to upload it to my blog for all to see.

I also uploaded a Magazine stlye version over at Scribd.com
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20496259/SackBoys-Spain-Adventure-2009-FiNAL

I hope you like it! (Please click for bigger images)

Cdoney77

Love Cdoney77
xx

p.s. Stephen Fry's The Hippopotamus was a very enjoyable book! I will be listening to Rescuing The Spectacled Bear next.

Tenacious Mast Climb

2009-09-30T21:27:00.021+01:00

Well hello again,

Welcome to blog post 2:

Sorry I have not posted sooner, I have managed to find lots of other things to do.

Tonight I was planning on playing 'Battlefield Bad Company' with my Brother-In-Law but the PlayStation decided it would like to do an update before letting me play, A reasonable 269mbs but for some reason its seems to be taking about an hour. I don't have a slow connection, I think its just the PlayStation's way of telling me its time to update my blog.

So here we are.

On the 19th September 2009 I climbed 130ft to the top of the mast of The Tenacious, A tall ship as they call them.

Why did I do this? Well, It goes back to a CYESC (Christian Youth Enterprises Sailing Centre) open evening where they were displaying the new boat they have purchased. This boat is to replace the Gerald Daniel, An old Mine Sweeper as the accommodation for the visitors to the sailing centre.

At this event my father mentioned he was doing a sponsored mast climb to raise money for The boat project along with The Jubilee Sailing Trust. I thought this was a cool idea and not one to be outdone by a 50+ year old man I enthusiastically signed up. I had just one week to raise over £150.

On a side I have recently been thinking about 'missed opportunities' not in a regretful way but more in a 'Its likely I will regret not taking this opportunity' sort of way. So I figured, Why not, Will be fun! something to talk about, Like I say to my friend JudeAludeI 'I like to feel I have accomplished something each weekend'

Anyway. On the following Monday I started hassling people at work, Sent round an email many people ignored so took my 'charity work' to them, Its very hard to say no when asked directly it seems. I managed to raise around £80 the first day, and a decent amount the second. Later in the week I sent round a 'reminder' email followed by some more 'persuasion' and managed to collect A grand total of £177 (And a cup full of coppers I have yet to count out, you know who you are!)

So this is really happening then! I actually have to do this now. I'm actually a little scared now.

When the Saturday came I had to be at my parents house at 9am for a lift into London, this is not cool for a Saturday. The reason for this was that we were dropping my brother off at the airport on the way, he was going to Jersey for a conference, my mother would not stop fussing over him at the airport, do you have this, make sure you don't do this, you know the sort of things.

Once we had pulled my mother back into the car we headed on our way, We arrived at canary wharf at about 12:15pm. and had a VERY rushed tour of Tenacious with my Uncle Bill (A volunteer for Jubilee Sailing Trust) The tour started as soon as we got there, before we even had time to say hello or visit the lavatory, classic Uncle Bill style!

Once this enjoyable but slightly rushed tour was over we got 'Harnessed up' this was uncomfortable and took a particularly long time, then we ate some sarnies.

By about 1-ish it was time to climb, sort briefing about not dropping cameras as they can kill people and some sort of anecdote about dropping something you having to pay £1 for ever piece it breaks into and we were off!

The first section was pretty easy, Although I was expecting to be clipped on in some way, at this point I didn't really feel the need for the overly long harness fitting? Once near the first platform we clipped on for a short time to ensure we get onto the deck safely. Lets hope we are clipped on as we get a little higher.We hung around on this platform with Uncle Bill and a nice girl who told me a similar story about dropping something and having to buy beer for the crew that I didn't really listen to.

We then clipped on for a little bit wile we climbed round and onto the next ladder type thing. I had a little 'moment' on this section, I made the mistake of looking down a little too long, I stopped for a minute to regain my composure, Come on now. lets get on with this, the platform is only up there!

Once on the second platform we waited a little longer, Spoke with a nice lady called Mary for a short time.

At this point we must have been around 110ft up. We were then asked if we were ready to undertake the next stage, This was where my father got a little 'squeaky' Do we clip on he said, to a wire of some sort? NO said the instructor, in a sort of condescending way. Er... OK said my dad.

At this point I decided to not show I was just as worried, So I started up the next section.

This was actually quite scary. Around 120ft up. hanging on a sketchy rope ladder. About thinner than the distance between my wrist and elbow, getting smaller as we climbed higher.

We did get to the top though. My dad managed to tap the top of the mast, And I'm quite proud of the fact I managed to touch the top of the tassel on the mast! In fact afterwards I wished I had climbed right on top of the mast, but to be honest It was quite high enough as it was.

Coming down was much easier than I thought it would be, and quick also.

when we touched the ground we were given a certificate and enjoyed a nice cold beer in the ships mess.

All in all a brilliant day and a brilliant experience!

Anyone who read my last post, The Liar by Stephen Fry was a really good story, I would recommend it. I have now moved onto 'The Hippopotamus' Another story by Stephen Fry. I'm currently on CD5 of 8 and its very enjoyable so far.

p.s. I did manage to play Battlefield in the end, Thats why I am posting this Blog at 01:33am!

Thanks for reading

Cdoney77

Links:
http://www.cye.org.uk/
http://www.twitter.com/CYESC
http://www.jst.org.uk/

New Blog

2009-09-16T19:24:00.016+01:00

Hello There,

This is my new Blog.

I suppose I'd better think of something interesting to Blog about?

Hmm....

Well recently I have been Listening to Oscar Wilde short stories read by Steph Fry. They are brilliant.

Having finished them I have moved onto Stephen Fry's The Liar.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liar-Stephen-Fry/dp/0099457059

I'm currently one chapter in and enjoying The Tea And Toast!