Posts

Mega64 can be pretty hit or miss for me, but this was just hilarious and spot on. “Let’s go listen to some Weezer albums!” They’ve really got my feelings on Sonic down pat.

The Olympic ice hockey gold medal match was a while ago (on Sunday) and it was a super-exciting game, even with its disappointing ending. Despite owning the first seed coming into the competition, Canada was the clear favorite for the match thanks to its greater star power and skill and the added motivation of bringing home the gold on their own turf. Team USA put up a valiant effort with their squad, but just couldn’t get it done. ...

They’ve done it again. Yet another brilliant OK Go video featuring a Rube Goldberg machine. Great stuff.

After yet another long hiatus in this series, we continue where we left off: Dan, his children, and Sancho are en route to the hometown of Dan’s mother, Mada, but have decided to take a few detours along the way to see some of the people Dan hadn’t seen in the eight years he was a statue. At one point Dan went into an inn in Whealbrook and had a nice chat with an old lady. Incidentally, her only line of dialog was to tell me that whenever hard times struck, she was able to get by thanks to being able to watch her daughter grow up. I wanted to laugh at how pointed the comment was, but I found myself struck by how tragic it was that Dan was denied that simple pleasure. Here was Yuji Horii reminding me that family is something worth fighting for, especially considering that Dan had next to no childhood and didn’t get to raise his own children either. ...

This psychology experiment shows a phenomenon known as “Change Blindness”. I’m in shock over the 75% failure rate of people to notice. It’s absurd.

Despite relatively good reviews from most outlets, Heavy Rain is something of a negative topic among bloggers. I’ve seen most come down on it’s mechanics being anti-immersive and some just outright hate the game and the way it is played. I haven’t finished the thing myself yet, but I’m not quite in the hate camp yet. I played Quantic Dream’s last offering, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophesy in the States), so I knew precisely what I was getting and I’m enjoying that so far. It’s not perfect, but what game is? ...

One of my favorite tracks from Contra, “Giving Up the Gun”. Looks like the video for “Holiday” is next. I can’t wait. This video is great. Stick around until at least 2:00 or so for my favorite part.

It’s pretty funny in an intentionally cheesy way.

I was loosely planning to do something special for my 500th post. Something that would have embodied everything that I’ve tried to do with this blog over the past 22 months… Then I looked at my post count and realized I was at 515. I missed it. I like that I missed it too. Life shouldn’t be so carefully planned out. ...

The Gregory Brothers are back with a new Auto-Tune the News. I’m loving the callbacks in this one and I’m still amused by the stupid things congressmen say and try to make analogies with. A turtle fence…really? It’s like they’re just goofing off and it’s some kind of huge joke being played on the American people.