Adam Tensta - My Cool (2007)

For those hip-hop heads out there. Check out Adam Tensta. He's a hip-hop artist from Sweden. I'm digging his album as it's got a hip-hop/dance sound to it. My Cool is the best song on the album and is very catchy.

Monkey Pee!

Any desire I had to own an monkey went right out the window.

Virtua Fighter 5 Impressions

I was looking forward to playing Virtua Fighter 5 back when it was announced that it was coming out on the 360. Now that I have it in my possession, I'm glad I did not purchase this game. I'm finding myself playing the game to try to get some of the achievements, which take a ridiculous amount of time to achieve.

The game itself is beautiful, and mechanically well done. There's plenty of things to keep you entertained (collecting items, fighting in virtual tournaments & arcades, fighting online) but after a while, I just got bored with the game. I guess that's the nature of fighting games. You spend more time waiting for a battle to load than you do in an actual battle.

I'll still want to add this title to my library but at a low price. That's why I liked VF4 so much on the PS2: It was only $20. It's hard to justify paying $50-60 for a fighting game when you don't get as much game play as other similar priced games.

I'll play this game for another day or two to see if I can knock out some achievements before I send it back. In the end, I enjoyed the game but got tired of it after a couple of hours.

Snow in Eureka

It's not that often that it snows where I live because we're just at about sea level but this is what I was greeted with this afternoon.

New Kicks

Here's the new shoes I got today. I'll post my feedback about them after I've worn them a while. So far, I'm liking the cushioning. For those that are wondering, they're the Nike Air Max 180+ II. I may have to hunt down the Nike+ iPod thingy to go with these.

CONAN vs COLBERT (Jan.18)

I hope that Conan and Colbert continue this "feud" as they're 2 of my more favorite comedians.

Portal: A Day in the Life of a Turret

If you haven't played Portal yet, go do it now!

My Mario Fan Game: Super Mario Fusion - Mario Meets Halo

I love it when mashups are done well

XBox Headset Packaging

I think someone needs to take a couple more English courses. It's another case of a really bad translation that has excellent comedic value. Click the image for the full sized image.

Source: TheDailyWTF

Blue Dragon Thoughts

I got Blue Dragon from Gamefly a couple of weeks ago and today I sent it back to them. My intention was to play through the game since I figured I should rent the games I'm not going to play more than once...and RPGs fall in to that category for me. There's a couple of problems with this idea. One, modern RPGs tend to last 40-60 hours and if I were to play them at a moderate pace it would take me a month to beat them. Two, Gamefly had Forza Motorsport 2 on sale for $15, which I bought. The last reason ended my Blue Dragon quest for now.

What I did play of Blue Dragon I liked. The game felt very much like your typical Japanese RPG. The turn-based battles were fine but they usually didn't go much further than pressing a button to repeatedly to beat the monster. I did like the fact that you can select which battles you want to encounter and being able to battle multiple enemies at once is a nice feature. The ability to choose your own battles makes it much easier to progress through the story instead of constantly being interrupted with battles.

The story was okay but I read that the first disc in the game is pretty slow and it picks up in the latter part of the game. I never got past disc one so I can't really judge what the entire story is like. The beginning is a fairly slow burn and you're thrown in to a middle of a crisis and not really knowing what's going on...which is all fine except the fact that you tend to not care too much about the characters. I never got any sort of personal attachment to the 3 main characters and found Shu and Marumaro to be annoying.

I'll eventually play this game again since I enjoy JRPGs and I feel like once I get in to the seconds disc that I'll end up coming away with a good experience.

Holy micro memory, Batman!

12 GB of memory...wow. Of course my phone won't support this much memory but all the more reason to upgrade my phone.

Source: Gizmodo

How To Kill Yourself In A Pool #431

Just imagine the brain power it took to think this brilliant idea up.

Source: Spluch

Cat and ferret: Who will win the fight?

Cats FTW!

Japanese Warning Illustrations: Fun For All!

Gotta love the Japanese for their quirkiness. I can read a lick of their language which makes their illustrations in their manuals just that much better. I had a Japanese version of a Nintendo Gameboy Advance and it's a hoot to go through the safety manual. Hit the jump for Gizmodo's gallery of warning illustrations.

Source: Gizmodo.com