September 26, 2008 – 8:14 pm
This week I’ve been obsessed with the Wii’s Virtual Console, where I have purchased a pile of games for the 8-bit Nintendo and the Super Nintendo. The wonderful thing about this is that my wife doesn’t mind me tossing money at the Nintendo — she loves these games as much as I do.
So I’ve rediscovered that fond feeling of being completely pissed off at a stupid game. Oh sure, I get pretty upset with the latest Wii games too, such as Super Mario Galaxy and MX vs ATV, but not like I got upset with 8- and 16-bit games. When I get pissed at these games, I’m brought to the point of doing something very irrational.
Like when I keep mistiming my punch against Bald Bull’s bull charge in Punch Out.
Or dying in World 1-1 in Super Mario 2.
Or being totally overcrowded with alien ships and bullets and fire and bubbles in Gradius III.
These are things that may just cause me to throw one of the end tables into my TV. Or burn the house down.
September 23, 2008 – 10:31 am
The horror movies site horror-movies.ca, which usually sponsors worthwhile contests to enter, is now giving away the DVD release of The Happening (a better title is The Crappening) when it comes out October 7.
I guess that’s the only way people will actually come to own this DVD — if they give it away.
No, I didn’t see the movie. But after the slew of reviews I’ve heard and read (most of which have contained spoilers), I can confidently say that if I were to view this film by that bastard M. Night Shyamalan, I would despise his directorial efforts even worse than I do now. It’s another case of the hype of the film completely misleading people. And the meaning behind the whole film — why everything happens — is completely retarded.
I’m not going to enter the contest for this DVD. Even if someone gave me the disc for free, I wouldn’t ever watch it.
September 21, 2008 – 7:14 am
This is clearly the best choice in most elections in America these days. Especially the Presidential election, which a lot of people seem to be all worked up about.
Like Jello Biafra said, there should be one more choice on every ballot: “None of the Above.” I am sure that would be the most popular choice on our ballots.
So, in order to support this, I’ve taken the picture you see here, cleaned it up, and formatted it as a printable PDF. Print them out — hang them up — mail them out — plaster the country with them.
Download the PDF.
September 19, 2008 – 2:17 pm
Well, we all knew that already. Their music and images have “corporate sellout whore” written all over them. But when this article came across my feed reader, all I could do was laugh and think, “I told you so.”
Here’s what happened: there’s a company out there who goes around telling companies that they can get their brand name worked into the lyrics of pop songs (such as Mariah Carey, Ludacris, Pussycat Dolls, and all those other pop whores) “for the right price.” They accidentally solicited to an anti-advertising agency.
Here’s a quote that sums things up:
“It’s this desperation that advertising has come to because you can’t just tell people about your product anymore, because nobody cares. Advertisers have created this situation where they’ve made themselves obsolete. There’s too much advertising out there, so they try to find new ways to cut through the clutter that they’ve created. And this is one of those ways.” - Steve Lambert, as reported by BoingBoing.net
September 18, 2008 – 2:38 pm
As I looked up news on Les Claypool’s web site, I found out that he has recorded original music for the upcoming Wii game Mushroom Men. As I’m a big Wii fan (and a huge Les Claypool fan, of course), I began to investigate this game by going over to its official web site.
Maybe, just maybe, I’ll spring for this game when it comes out in November. But probably only because I can listen to new music from Les while I play.
And I’ll be damned — as I was writing this, an interview with Les and Ler (Primus) just came through my feed reader. It was done by Boing Boing, and the lady interviewing them — “Xeni” — is annoying as hell. At least Les and Ler are cool.
Beware of the retarded commercial they put in the middle of it. That’s downright annoying too — forcing that advertisement crap on me. I know it helps pay the bills and all, but come on. Boing Boing already has fifty million ads on their site as-is . . . do they really have to shove more in wherever they can?
I’ve been going by this notion lately: if there’s an ad somewhere that really bugs me — not necessarily the content of the ad itself, but even the timing/placement of the ad — I’ll make it a point to not patronize whoever the ad is for. And I’ll also badmouth the company.