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Monthly Archives: March 2009

The Future

Honestly, when I was but a young lad, carefree and winning spelling bees every year in grade school from first to eighth grade, I never once imagined that I’d have a robot of my very own to vaccuum the house for me.
Now that I have one, I never thought I’d be wrapping socks around the [...]

So. Little. Time.

Doing a lot of things at once.
Catching up with Battlestar.  Reading about four novels at once.  Playing Rune Factory 2.  Troubleshooting the Roomba.  Trying to get unsick.

Book versus Movie

I caught the Watchmen in IMAX which was great.
I felt like the combination of high definition digital projector, overpowering sound system (used judiciously) and good seating all came together with a very visual movie to push my experience over the top.  Now a lot of people disliked the movie and liked the movie.  It’s one [...]

Whew

Just registered all of the games I had available for the Club Nintendo Datamining Website.
I earned enough to get Platinum Status.  It’s the first year that the club is available in North America, but Japan’s club has gotten some pretty neat swag in the past.  I’m hoping that the trend continues over here.  I’ll find [...]

Movie Night

Is back on.
Tonight was The Girl Who Leapt Through Time followed by Kamikaze Girls.
It was a very J night.

Dungeon Crawling

I’ve got this urge to just play something akin to Diablo II and Titan’s Quest, but neither of those games. Possibly something closer to the Baldur’s Gate games on the PS2.  Good old dungeon crawling and infinite loots.  I mean, I could just pop in Too Human, but I’m looking for sort of a medieval [...]

For Mature Audiences

Played a bit of Madworld for the Wii and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars for the DS.
Both M rated titles, and both on Nintendo platforms.
I played a good bit of Madworld, lumbering my way through a couple of the earlier levels before I really started to “get it.”  It’s really more like a puzzle game [...]