A short list of things ePSXe can kiss.

My ass.

I have no idea why recording video with this emulator is so bloody difficult. The built in software video plugin supposedly has a recording feature, but it silently doesn’t work, and there doesn’t seem to be any documentation as to why. Recording with Camtasia is possible only if absolutely no other software […]

June 10th, 2010 | Category: Let's Play, wtf | 10 comments

Picross 3D

I’ve been devoting a little time each day to solving a few puzzles in Picross 3D. It’s a perfectly good puzzle game for DS, similar to the original Picross DS. (Which I understand isn’t the original picross, of course.) The basic rule of picross is that you have a large grid of empty squares, each […]

June 9th, 2010 | Category: Gaming | One comment

Six Weird Things I’ve Heard On The Phone At Work, Provided Without Context

1) “I need help dealing with old people!”

2) “What’s the area code for 1-800 numbers?”

3) “I was at a party, and someone put a microchip in me while I’m drunk, and now it’s making me sick.”

4) “Who do I talk to to complain about the toxic gas the city is pumping up […]

June 8th, 2010 | Category: Journal | Leave a comment

SovanJedi, do not read this post.

Hi Sovan. This post has spoilers for Super Mario Galaxy 2. I remember back in the day where I spoiled the whole “you play as Luigi” thing for you in the original Super Mario Galaxy, and while I still blame the wacky lapse in release dates between my awesome country and your backwards froot loop […]

June 7th, 2010 | Category: Gaming | 4 comments

13 Weeks of Final Fantasy: Craziest Fashion Sense

Week One: Personal Experiences Week Two: Our Heroes Week Three: Best Song Ever Week Four: Gameplay Wallbangers Week Five: The Big Bad Week Six: Ridiculously Broken Attacks Week Seven: Title Logos Week Eight: Chocobos! Week Nine: Battle Music Week Ten: Eye-rollingest Plot Elements

Week Eleven: Craziest Fashion Sense

SPOILER ALERT!! This feature by its very […]

June 6th, 2010 | Category: 13 Weeks of Final Fantasy | 11 comments

Let’s play Super RMN Bros.!

I usually wait until a Let’s Play is finished before I embed it here on the blog, but I’m juggling so many LPs right now that it’s going to be forever before any of them actually are, and I’ve spent so much time yesterday and today working on them that I wasn’t able to write […]

June 5th, 2010 | Category: Let's Play | 3 comments

The Process (LP status update)

In case anyone was wondering if I had a process when I record my Let’s Play videos… well, I do. And it is this:

Plug everything in and capture the video using Camtasia. Load up the raw video and hack it into equal chunks of as close to ten minutes as I can get it. […]

June 4th, 2010 | Category: Let's Play | 3 comments

Left stick = move, right stick = camera

Spending $0.00 on Deadly Premonition was neither a good idea nor a bad idea. It’s just some thing that happened. But now that it’s arrived, I may as well play it, yeah?

The reason to play this game, I’m told, is because the protagonist’s conversations with himself and the voice inside his head are hilarious. […]

June 3rd, 2010 | Category: Gaming | 2 comments

Can we haz new genre nao?

My TV is pretty much an endless cavalcade of The Closer, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, various flavors of CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, Leverage, Burn Notice, etc. etc. etc. I’m about crime drama’d out now, man. Certainly there’s some way we can build and maintain tension without the standard police/criminal pairing? How about a […]

June 2nd, 2010 | Category: Entertainment, Gaming | One comment

Puzzles vs. Phuzzles

Loving puzzle games used to be easy. Even though there are very few commercial games that are actual for-real puzzles (as opposed to blocks-a-falling and/or match-the-colors), that empty space in my heart used to be filled by Flash games. Puzzle games don’t need cutting-edge visuals or novel interfaces… they just need to be a single […]

June 1st, 2010 | Category: Gaming | 6 comments
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