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Welp, I'm doing most of my blogging on Twitter now. I think I'll still keep this around if I ever get around to doing the 25Rad Game Mechanics. I've got the list made, I've just got to write the damn thing. It's a lot cleaner and easier to make entries on Twitter when it comes to what's up and such. And if I have to deal with MySpace again I think I'll stab my eyes out with a shrimp fork.
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Rightie-O, here's the scoop:
I still need to post the pics of my Weighted Companion Cake from about half a year ago.
I've gotta get to work at 1 AM tomorrow.
Pretty much nothing's changed with my living situation except for one thing:
I've been Red-Ringed. Good thing for that warranty, eh? |
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Blech. Though I'm taking antibiotics, it feels like a have a couple of glue-soaked socks inside my pitiful human skull. Other than that, things are going pretty well.
The main item today is Retro Game Challenge - AKA "When you were eight - The Game." It adds so much to the verisimilitude that Mega Man 9 tried to do (and failed horribly at) - it adds the kid next to you watching you cheering you on or telling you you suck, it adds the Game Magazine back in the day when it wasn't obsolete when it was printed, let alone when it finally came in the mailbox, and it adds the nonsensical plots in Engrish.
Now it's time for a little diversion. One of my favorite genre of films is the parody film - mainly because I can only stomach taking non-interactive entertainment seriously for so long. They've gotten a bad rap these days mainly because of the Wayans Bros. and their horrifically bad parodies (any Scary Movie after the first, which was tolerable, Date Movie, Epic Movie, etc.) However, there are still a few gems coming out in the genre - most notably Hot Fuzz, Be Kind Rewind, and Walk Hard. Walk Hard, in fact, deserves special attention. See, it's a music film parody, which means that they needed to put some songs in there. But here's the weird part - the songs are actually really good! As in, they would get people to buy the damn soundtrack without a movie attached to it.
That's how I feel about Retro Game Challenge. See, the games they throw on there are quite good - they are all eight great NES Famicom games that you've never heard of - despite being made just last year. So...yeah. It is nostalgia on a little plastic disk for all of us who spent their formative years moving a little man around a screen instead of taking hikes or making friends. |
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Welp, as it is now the twilight hours of 2008, it's time for none other than my incredibly prestigious 2008 Game of the Year Awards! Yes, once again it's time for me to shout into the void grace the Internet with which videogames I've played over the last year are noteworthy. So, who will get this awesome honor of Game of the Year? Will it be Rock Band 2? Will it be some other game that won't win it? Who will win? Who will wince? Click this hypertext markup link to find out!
( So what if the Onion says that this is the time of year that everyone tries to be like VH1? )Feelin'::  relaxed |
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Right, a couple of things to discuss this go-round. First off, thanks to everyone that came to my party! I still have to upload pictures of my favorite confection ever...the Weighted Companion Cake.
Secondly, I really do plan to start the whole 25Rad thing soon, but I've been pinned down by an ungodly number of graveyard shifts at work. Man.
Finally, today marks the...um...second time that I've gotten Comcast broadband in the house. Even though it gave me horrific lag when I first set it up, it seems to be better now. Thus, I will once again close this post with the Ode to Cable!
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Hey everyone - just a little note to remind you guys that the twenty-eighth anniversary of my birth is fast approaching - this Sunday, in fact. Should you want to come by my house, cake and perhaps even grief counseling will be provided. No lie!
Nov. 27th, 2008 @ 05:31 pm
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I'm still working on my list of 25Rad Game mechanics, but one keeps popping up over and over again. So, before I start up the list (I'm thinking perhaps it should be a one-a-day thru October project...and speaking of month-long projects, how's that nightly movie thing coming along, Mike?) It's time for a mini-review of Braid.
Ahem...
Braid is not only what games were before, but what games need to be.
Sep. 17th, 2008 @ 06:56 pm
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Since it's some ungodly morning hour and I'm forced to be awake, I thought that I'd grace you all with an LJ entry. First off, the news - JSak now has his own game store?!! Why was I not informed of this earlier?!! Admittedly, it's possible that the sheer amount of awesomeness contained therein would cause my heart to explode, but still! As well, in a "the woods are lovely, dark, and deep" moment, I was in Farmington's Tilt last weekend. Unfortunately, their Para Para machine was down, but DDR was still up and running. You wanna know the weird thing though? I spent the most time with Time Crisis 1. Sure, there was a credit in the machine already, but still... There's just something about the original that the sequels seem to lack. Before I left, though, I spotted a machine in the corner that has achived cult status - Come on Baby! Sigh...now I wish it was 2004 all over again.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.
Second, I had a really weird dream the other night. See, I was dreaming that I was playing through Braid, and I got to the final puzzle - only I was actually in the final puzzle, and the final puzzle was something resembling a volcano. Anyway, I grabbed a sparkly key and opened a door, then died, then rewound time, then tried to jump again, but I couldn't get through the door because it was a sparkly key, so I had to go around, and then I got hung up on another platform and had to rewind time there as well, and all this time a wall of lava was coming up behind me and it was immune to my reversing time, so I had to get this jump and
Then the house lights seemed to come on, and a passage to a study appeared. Going into the study transformed everything from 2D to 3D, as there was a bunch of old bureaus inside loaded with books and chairs that would be impossible to sit in without wearing a smoking jacket. But I only had time to think that I had gotten in because someone else had completed the puzzle - but since I didn't complete the puzzle, did that mean that I would be erased? - when the study started moving, as I was actually in an elevator that happened to have a bunch of expensive furniture in it. Since it was windowed as well, I gazed out upon the city skyline until the bell rang and I got out on the rooftop/penthouse suite.
That's where Tim's mother was putting me/him in a jacket next to the pool and chiding me that we were going to be late for the pizza party. Thus, I got in the elevator, but she stopped and doubled back because she forgot her purse. I followed her inside the penthouse while I went down the elevator and saw her brother yelling at her. He was screaming something incomprehensible while advancing on her, then he put his hands around her neck and gripped. I couldn't do anything, since time was going forward instead of back, except silently scream and cry as my uncle entered the elevator to take me to the pizza party. I stood there yelling while jumpsuited maintenance workers entered the apartment and started singing a jovial song as credits rolled with their own party. I could do nothing but scream and cry and scream and cry YOU BASTARDS MY MOTHER JUST DIED SHE'S ON THE FLOOR AND YOU'RE STEPPING AROUND HER until one of the jumpsuited ones looked at me and said, "It's only a game, you know."
That's when I realized that I was invited to the developer's party which was thrown for everyone that had beated Braid. I was about to ask questions related to logistics and personal expenses when I was given an errand from one of the partygoers who went with me on the elevator. As it opened up to the building supermarket I saw that it was Matt Chapman! Ohmigod ohmigod Matt Chapman! I followed him around the store to the butcher and ohmigod he asked me to buy some meat and of course I did because he was Matt Chapman! Then I followed him into the elevator and he went back to the party with the meat, Matt Chapman! did. Then I realized I should have asked him to do some voices, or indeed, ask him anything about the Homestar Runner people, but that didn't Matt-er because I just bought meat with Matt Chapman!
Then I cornered someone and asked about logistics and how expensive throwing a party in a penthouse apartment must be, and she noted that I was lucky that I happened to beat the game while I was in Honolulu this day, because that's where they were according to the schedule. Apparently they'll be off to Broadway next week, and today is one night only. The party then ended, and I decended the elevator to ground level and exited into Honolulu. All that was on my mind was, "What the hell do I do now?"
I woke up about then. Later, I told Nicole about the weird dream - before going into it, she said that she had a weird dream that night too. After telling her all this, I asked what her dream was about - she noted that it was mostly her killing zombies as Xena. So, yeah.
Finally, insipired by DJ Halcyon's month of movies and the Action Button 25 games that are fairly awesome bits, I've decided to do another project. I considered doing a 25Rad list again on some other list of games, but then I thought - does it really matter? I mean, yeah, there are a lot of cool SNES games out there, but mine's been unused in a box for years now. Perhaps I should take Action Button's stance and just pick the 25 best games out there, damn the year of release. How would Zelda: Link to the Past stack up against everything else the past 16 years would throw at it? But then I got another idea, and I think that it's a pretty good one...
25Rad game mechanics. 25 things about video games (and perhaps even non-video-game mechanics) that I think are pretty cool, possibly ranked. It solves the time problem, as the game mechanics are really what makes older games stand the test of time. Also, it'll probably be less condecending than my previous proposed project, ranking every single game I've ever played (and a hell of a lot less time-consuming, too.)
That's about all on my end. And, yeah, I should probably do the myspace thing more often, but I like the LJ format a lot better (plus, LJ isn't blocked at work. Heh heh.)
Sep. 3rd, 2008 @ 04:34 am
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I now will show those of you that I haven't shown, a picture of my kitten Mew-Ling. (See the user picture.) Oddly enough, I started this blog more than five years ago with a promise to show three megs worth of cat pictures, only deterred by the fact that I had no cat. Ah well, it's not the most I've ever been behind on a project...
Anyway, I'll be spending the next week in AZ, but I'll be back late Friday Night. Cruces folk - we should totally do something next weekend, dig? 'Cause after that, I'm taking me two weeks and jet-setting to Hawaii. It's a rough job, but someone's gotta do it.
Jul. 5th, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
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