December 2008
19 posts
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the importance of penny arcade
I know that I said I wasn’t going to post again until the new year; and I know I should be spending time with my family, including my girlfriend, (to whom I sadly can’t be with this evening due to schedule complications) but I felt I needed to write a little about Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik of Penny Arcade. I can thank my girlfriend for this renewed interest in the duo’s...
Dec 27th
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This year was good to me. I spent most of it with my beautiful girlfriend, I adopted the best miniature pinscher in the world and named him Pixl, and I dropped out of community college to go to art school. I’m thankful to have another year on this Earth under my belt and I’m thankful to be in a position of moderate wealth (I make $7.15 an hour at Dairy Queen), because I was able to...
Dec 22nd
Dec 19th
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Good Game Get! Dokapon Kingdom
My girlfriend and I started playing Dokapon Kingdom on the Wii for the first time last night. We knew very little about the game and in fact hadn’t even watched videos of the title but a good friend recommended it to us so we knew we wouldn’t be making a bad purchase. The game is essentially set-up like Mario Party, except you create your own character, name that character, and...
Dec 17th
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Good Gift Get! MacBook Power Button Earrings
This post is part of the Good Gift Get! Series. A collection of posts catering to the geek in your life you still need Christmas gift ideas for. Here is something handmade and exclusively for the nerdettes. White MacBook Power Button Earrings! My girlfriend made me savvy to these awesome pieces of Mac jewlery. Totally a great gift if you dudes have a lady who may love her MacBook more than...
Dec 16th
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Space Invaders Extreme Coming to the Playstation...
Yes! One of my favorite games on the DS will be coming to the PSN! I really hope they keep the multiplayer.
Dec 15th
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Dokapon Kingdom
Good friend, Aaron Fitzwater suggested that I pick up a copy of Dokapon Kingdom for the Wii. Luckily enough I was able to get to Amazon on time for their Atlus sale and I bought the game for $14.99 brand new! It should be coming this week, so I’m pretty stoked to play it. Aaron said it’s really great when you play multiplayer, as it’s an RPG board game, and supposedly...
Dec 14th
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More Home
Penny Arcade sums up what Home is all about in three easy to enjoy comic frames, here.
Dec 14th
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home
So I played Home and it was frustrating, disastrous and downright embarrassing for me to endure. I’m not the biggest fan of alternate egos and second life games in the first place, but if one of them is to be exceptionally terrible then it would have to be Playstation Home. Perhaps the reason it took Sony so long to release Home is because they had no direction with the project and have...
Dec 13th
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Dec 10th
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Good Gift Get! The Buddha Machine 2
This post is part of the Good Gift Get! Series. A collection of posts catering to the geek in your life you still need Christmas gift ideas for. Back in 2005 FM3, a Chinese electronic group released an album inside of a cheap plastic box called The Buddha Machine. Basically it’s a collection of 2-3 second sounds that loop to form infinite ambient music. Just recently the group has...
Dec 10th
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playstation home goes live tomorrow
Finally the much awaited and touted Playstation Home will become an open beta tomorrow. Is it just a Second Life clone, or something more? We’ll see. Besides, if Playstation Home sucks really bad tomorrow, we can all just download Lumines Supernova.
Dec 10th
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Good Gift Get! Tuttuki Bako Virtual Finger Game
This post is part of the Good Gift Get! Series. A collection of posts catering to the geek in your life you still need Christmas gift ideas for. The Tuttuki Bako Virtual Finger Game has to be the best gift I’ve featured for the Good Gift Get! Series as it’s totally awesome. Basically, you stick your finger inside of this thing and it replicates your finger and puts it it digitally...
Dec 9th
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freaks & geeks
We started watching Freaks & Geeks last night and the show is just incredibly awesome. It’s terrible that the show was so short-lived. Sadly it’s just another example of a piece of art ahead of it’s time. The authenticity of the show is incredible as well. It’s really hard to believe that a show that looks like it was shot in the 80’s was shot in 1999....
Dec 9th
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The DSTT Is Terrible
I recently traded my EDGE flash cart (which I’ve had no problems out of) for a vintage iMac for my girlfriend and while the trade was totally worth it; I needed a new flash cart so I got on Deal Extreme to look for one and the DS TopToy was cheap and promising. It’s definitely cheap! Essentially the thing is a piece of shit and freezes on startup and is unreliable. I’ve...
Dec 8th
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good music get! kanye west - 808s & heartbreak
It’s said that when Kanye was writing, producing, and rapping for his debut album, The College Dropout, that record companies initially felt that he wasn’t marketable as a rapper because he didn’t portray the “street culture” in his music enough. Interestingly enough, the first song on Kanye’s first album is about selling drugs to get by, even though Kanye has...
Dec 5th
The Square-Enix Tax
The Square-Enix Tax is now a pretty common saying amongst gamers who used to enjoy Square-Enix releases but have since noticed the premium price tag that Square-Enix plays on their games. Especially the typical $10 price hike the place on their DS games. While it’s perfectly legal and up to Square-Enix to determine how much their games cost, it’s important to note that almost...
Dec 4th
tim
From Sexy People.
Dec 2nd
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tingle's ds game
Why was this never released in the states? It’s awesome and it’s already in English!
Dec 1st