Tales From the Camera Phone

I snapped this at about 6:30 this morning from the xth floor of the office building where I work. The idea of standing in an ultra-modern air conditioned office building and looking out over a couple of good ol’ boys fishing away a muggy July morning struck me as incredibly amusing for some reason.

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The LP That Didn’t Happen

The story behind this is as simple as it is tragic. I spent an afternoon recording Super Mario 64 videos using a pretty decent N64 emulator I found and my screen-recording program, Camtasia. Usually when doing a live recording I just go for however long I feel like, then chop the huge video into […]

Super Mario Bros. Crossover

So as I teased yesterday, I’ve been playing quite a bit of this Super Mario Bros. Crossover dealie. Check this out:

Essentially what this evil genius, this Jay Pavlina guy, has done is shoehorned a bunch of old classic Nintendo characters into the original Super Mario Bros. You can play as Mario if you […]

Let’s play Secret of Evermore with SovanJedi!

Welp, another LP in the can. And this one’s a big damn doozie:

Eighty-eight videos.

This behemoth clocks in at about 13-and-a-half hours, which may very well be longer than all of my other video LPs combined. In the time it takes you to watch this entire thing you could, instead, watch the entire […]

Five must-own Rock Band packs.

Last week there were four must-own track packs available in Rock Band: Boston, Rush, Queen and Jimmy Buffet. Now there is a fifth: Credence Clearwater Revival. These five packs together comprise the outer layer wrapped around the core of all your disc songs. If you don’t have them you aren’t really playing Rock Band, as […]

The Massive Final Fantasy Crossword

Remember a couple weeks ago when I said I was done with FF posts for a while? I’ll bet you didn’t know that was a terrible lie.

Anyway I really enjoy making these goofy things, and every time I do at least one or two people say they enjoy solving them, so I guess I’ll […]

“You’re Not Alone” is the worst scene ever.

“You’re Not Alone” refers to a story sequence towards the end of Final Fantasy IX. It is, in my opinion, an atrocious mistake. The only reason this scene exists is to shovel some angst into a game which neither needs it nor is improved by it.

Summary: Zidane (the hero) learns the terrible truth about […]

A time-honored tradition.

Happy Fourth of July!

This being the day of America’s independence, I did what any red-blooded patriot would do: I signed onto AIM, found someone from the UK, and started giving him shit about how Washington kicked his redcoat ass up and down the Potomac. Unfortunately this particular Brit managed to outsmart me, and one-upped […]

“I learned to play this keyboard on Xbox.”

So I never ended up doing an E3 write-up, mainly because I didn’t really follow E3 and nothing really lept out at me… except Rock Band 3, which I already knew was coming.

What I’m getting excited about, though, is RB3’s Pro modes. Pro Keyboard will be supported right out of the box and Peanut […]

“I’ll have my reveeeeeeenge!”

So my half of Mafia Game 4: The Thing has come to a close, and I was on the losing side. The really losing side, as it happens; we didn’t find and kill a single The Thing. Go us!

I’m catching a lot of flak in the post-game for my “do nothing, post stupid pictures” […]