"All you need..."

I like the xylophone!

Link: Family Guy - Bag of Weed

A new song!

I don't know how I missed this. Ghosts 1-4 pops out of nowhere and now this! Luckily, I was listening to the radio at work today and the latest Nine Inch Nails single came on. It's pretty catchy and may signal another direction for NIN. I'll leave it at that and let you hear it as well. Download it here. Now, we gotta wait until May 5th!

Old robot, new moves

Evangelion: still boggling minds since 1997.

Make my way back home and learn to fly

Oh, internet. It doesn't seize to amaze me.

There I was, for two weeks searching stores for a Wii. Sold out everywhere. No word on when they would get more. None at Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, Gamestop, ToysRUs, or even Wal-Mart. Not any of these stores in Las Vegas had any in stock! It's crazy that these things are still selling out everywhere.

Since I wasn't about to pay $400.00 or more for it on Craigslist, I thought there has to be someone out there who has done the work for me. I googled "finding a wii" and came up with this result near the top. Okay, so these tips are a start. Hopefully this can lead to somewhere.

So last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday mornings I woke up early to search stores for it with no luck. Then Sunday, the 24th, I decided to take a rest. At 2pm I eventually came across this Amazon forum thread: Wii at Target, Sunday February 24. First, I did not believe it. Perhaps in other cities but so far everywhere I looked has been sold out. Second, I considered that even if they did have Wiis in stock, it was already 2pm, so they would have probably been sold out. Twenty minutes before I had to leave to work I decide to just give it a shot.

I called the nearest Target and the lady on the other end confirmed that they did in fact receive a shipment of Wiis that morning.

"You did?! Do you have any right now?"
"Yeah, we still have a couple more."
"Thanks."

Alright, internets! You paid off! I then raced to Target as the minutes counted down before I had to be at work. A thought crossed my mind as I was driving. What if they sold out by the time I got there? What if they only had like one left?

Relieve, I actually found myself standing in front of a display case with 12 Wiis just sitting there like nothing! It was as if I was the only one that knew they were in stock. I mean, I thought these sold like hotcakes the minute the doors to the store opened.

Ah, well, what matters is that I picked one up along with a copy of Mario Galaxy and then sped off to start my day at work. Thanks again, interwebs. Not only for stupid videos and pirated music but also for being creatively useful and helpful.

Mooninite attacks!

Ah, yes. I remember this from last year. Do you? It was all over the news. It was also getting a lot of laughs all over the interwebs. You can find more info at this Wikipedia article. Some of the devices were actually auctioned off on Ebay. Oh, viral marketing.

The soul still burns

Among the stuff at the 2008 CES, which is taking place less than a mile from where I live, is a playable demo of Soul Calibur IV and the debut of Yoda and Vader as guest fighters in the game. Forget Street Fighter, SC4 is the game to get! Now, since the CES is not open to the public, the demo was only available for those in the industry. But from reports it looks like the game is faster than previous installments and still retains the many gameplay elements that make it great.



One thing I did hear is that Guard Impacts are back. Wait, were they missing from SC3? I'm pretty sure they've never been out of the series. Soul Calibur 3 is the only one I haven't played extensively but I'm positive that Guard Impacts can be performed on it.

From the footage shown, new character Hilde looks to have a pretty cool fighting style. I especially like that spinning move that you can see in the trailer for about three seconds. As for the Star Wars characters... They're really out of place but it'll be fun fighting as/against them. Darth Vader looks really plain compared to someone like Voldo or Siegfried. A very cool idea would be to add pre-mutilated Anakin as a second or special outfit!

A more important question is how Yoda will play. I mean, that freak is small; will you have to use low attacks on him or will he be jumping up all the time to stand/float face to face to the other characters? Ivy could just stomp on him. And will there be any cool Force-chokes or Force-slams or will those just be their fancy throws? And where's Xianghua? Haven't seen her in any of the trailers. And why Star Wars for that matter?

The latest issue of EGM arrived in the mail today sporting Yoshi on the cover promoting the upcoming Smash Bros Brawl. The latest confirmed fighter being the spaceman from Pikmin with his Pikmin. They're really piling in the cameos for this one. And there's no way of knowing who the secret unlockable characters are going to be. Luigi for sure, maybe some stupid Pokemon. Young Link again? They should use the Wind Waker Link. Since Sonic is in the game they'll probably put in Tails or Eggman. Knuckles would be the better addition. Diddy Kong's joined up so they might add some girl monkey. Kinda lame. Ah, lets just hope for the best and see if Nintendo will add some really worthwhile fighters. That ninja from Metal Gear would be cool.

This baby is hilarious.

Yes, I know. Not keeping up with posting consistently. But, then again, my readership probably consists of two, maybe three people at the most. That being the case, there'll probably be no uproar over the lack of frequent postings.

Who am I talking to?

Anyway, Penny Arcade has some old but amusing comics poking fun at Facebook here and here. If you get annoyed by Facebook, you'll like these. Maybe. I'm not promising anything.

Then theres Mario Doom:


I like the subterranean part of the level. This takes me back to the days when Doom first came out. Man, that was a while ago. I want to see someone do this with Mario 3. Racoon Suit!