promise broken
Me today: DAMMIT.
roomy
Nice.
lbp
Despite all the reading up I’ve done and movies I’ve seen, I wasn’t really prepared for how...charming the game is. I’m already getting hooked and the beta ends in a few days - would really like October 21st to hurry on up.
Please.
want SO BAD
Seriously, this is the coolest thing ever. And might be available for us non-press folks! Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease...
myphone
After several false-starts, I finally stood in line long enough to pick up a new iPhone yesterday. Three hours, in fact. On a Sunday morning. When I left I counted over 40 people still waiting - nuts how this still hasn’t calmed down.
The nice Apple store employee seemed a little happy while he was setting me up - “Ah, thank god,” were his exact words while we were transferring my account from an old iPhone to a new one. “Been crazy?” I asked, trying to make small talk while he was tapping away on his handheld computer. “You wouldn’t believe...” he responded, not looking up. All-in-all it took five minutes once I got into the store, he said it could take up to 30 minutes (or more) when setting up a new account. Yikes.
Anyways, the phone is rad. I don’t get 3G at the house (which has always had spotty reception), but since I’m on WiFi there it doesn’t matter. Everywhere else I tested it’s golden. Love the speed, and the GPS is way more accurate than I expected, especially while moving - starting to believe the 2.1 update might really allow for true turn-by-turn.
The all plastic feel is great, and I love the new curved molding - the phone seems a little smaller and lighter because of it. Noticed the decreased battery life already, but I’m planning on picking one of these up, just in case. Overall, very happy - both with the phone itself and the fact I finally got one.
lifted and floored
Saw The Dark Knight on Sunday, and it’s still in my thoughts.
A lot.
I know it’s easy to hop on the bandwagon and say it’s a great movie, but it really might be one of the better “films” I’ve ever seen. It fucked me up like The Departed did, left me drained in a fulfilled but depressed way. Not just because of Heath Ledger’s incredible take on the Joker, but also because who...or, better yet, “what” won at the end.
This was not a gentle movie in any sense, especially in terms of its brutal performances, many plot twists and overwhelming sound and cinematography - it hit me hard and often. But, in doing so, it moved me.
I really, really wonder how they’re going to follow this up.
breather
Recent Things:
Beat MGS4 last weekend. Such a game for the fans, and since I am one, oh my god - wonderful. I haven’t been this thrilled and moved and shocked by a game in many, many years. It was a perfect ending to a powerful series, and it made me a happy person to have followed it since it’s conception.
Also, the bonus disc is great. I haven’t watched the “external” reflection video yet (which I hear is amazing), but the “internal” one made me laugh. It’s great to see a company as talented as Kojima Studios having surprisingly similar “issues” as we’re having now. Ah, game development.
Downloaded the database, which is surprisingly addictive. Only about 40% through, and I’m already appreciating this series even more.
I still haven’t bought a new iPhone, was more excited
about the software than the hardware, but that’s about to
change. Super love the 2.0 upgrade, and the app
store is amazing. But now I need more speed -
downloading new RSS feeds through NetNewsWire (the over-the-air
syncing is so great - especially how it
auto-updates read-status on other devices when you
get new feeds) or updating the “push” features in
MobileMe is noticeably laggy. Gah.
happy morning
Chrono Trigger has a such happy place with me, it was the first import game I ever bought. Scraped and saved for months, and picked it for the Super Famicom the day it came out, for the low, low price of only 130 bucks. Which - funny enough - wasn’t much of a markup over the actual price. People think games are expensive today? Sheesh. Collecting SuperFami games back in the day slaughtered my wallet.
Anyways, SO looking forward to playing it again on the DS. So, so, so much.
Also, this news made me happy. Yakuza 3! Yay!
While I’m looking forward to Kenzan (wonder what they’re going to call it here?) and I love the setting, the original game was shockingly great (and turned out to be one of my all-time favorite RPGs), so I couldn’t be more thrilled to see the series return to its roots and original feel. Only two more months until Yakuza 2, which I’m sure will hold me over in the meantime...
:)
wow
Fantastic. And wonderful. All the crunch-related stress that’s been building over the past few weeks just melted away while watching...
Hot damn I love Pixar.
very married
Vegas this weekend, on a helicopter over the strip. Rad.
omg please hurry july 11th
Image from Engadget
New iPhone? Very cool. Can’t believe the price. Very
happy with the new features. And the App Store is going to be a nice
place, especially for games.
But I’m almost more excited about MobileMe - .Mac has sucked for a while now
(or, at the very least, has been very stagnate),
and this is the perfect solution. Love the push features, and it finally makes
email on the iPhone not completely ass.
July 11th can’t come fast enough...
one week
I so can’t wait...
monster music
OMG! PixelJunk Monsters is a fantastic
game with an equally fantastic soundtrack, but
last I heard Otograph had no plans on releasing
an OST. But it’s out, like...today! For only 3 bucks! Yay!
hazed
IGN gave Haze a remarkably low score.
I wonder if 4.5 means “slightly below average” or “oh god this game sucks” or “fuck you for being over-hyped and under-delivering.”
I’m sure I’ll pick it up when the price drops and find out for myself. In any case, it’s too bad - I’m a fan of Free Radical and was really hoping for something keen...
things
Yeah, it was crazy. And
amazing. And moving. And overwhelming. In fact, I
really enjoyed watching the movie at the time - the
visuals and music were stunning - but it wasn't until
several hours later that I realized how much I loved
it. Like, you have to spend some time processing
everything you were just assaulted with before being
able to appreciate its greatness.
So, the next day I bought the soundtrack on iTunes
(direct iTunes link), and have been
listening to it like mad.
Oh, while on iTunes I noticed they carried a few
Yoko Kanno CDs as well, so I picked
up this:
CM Yoko (direct iTunes link) is all
commercial music (like, for TV commercials), but
it has super neat (and incredibly varied) stuff.
One of the tracks, though, is crazy good. I really
want to know what kind of advertisement
"Exaelitus" was for...
Also, holy crap, I'm already over 80 hours for this
week. Yay for crunch. Game is going great though!
yeah
It had this a few hours early, and for a few bucks cheaper than anyone else. Also, no joke, over 100 people were lined up. Crazy.
waiting
omg awesome
It's like porn for Marvel fans.
broken date
OMG! Who enjoys small game stores that sell stuff before they're supposed to?
Me! Me!
netless
I think it says a lot about me that two hours without access to fast internet was almost maddening. Also, holy shit the iPhone is slow on Edge.
d-n-a spells dna
This CD is great. Super great. Been listening to I Feel Fantastic like mad. That and Better. Best 5 bucks I've ever spent.
almost found
OMG. Also, wow. SO happy this show is good again. Struggled to get through the second season, but now the addiction's back. :)
neat things
I also got this:
OMG it's huge. Like, Bible huge. Yikes, this is going to take a while to really get into...
And this:
Wow. Much, much, much faster than the previous version. With "previews" on, it doesn't pause to load when quickly skimming pictures. Yay! Looking forward to trying out the other new features as well...
birthday
Been a great day so far, raining (which is rad) and I got a keen present from the lady (which is even radder).
Limited edition print from the last i am 8-bit show.
Ah, she knows me well. :)
in(to) rainbows
I bought In Rainbows a couple of weeks ago on iTunes, but didn't really have the chance to listen until toady. Maybe it was the fact I was on the sick-side (and slightly drugged), or because the new headphones I got in the mail, but I haven't been this addicted to an Radiohead release since Kid A (which is still one of my favorite albums of all time) - and, for someone who hasn't been listening to a lot of non-soundtracks lately, it's a nice change of pace.
wow. not ass.
I like(d) River Tam. Lots. And I like(d) the Terminator franchise. Also lots. Despite both of these facts, however, I had less than zero interest in Sarah Conner Chronicles. Mainly because the chances of a Terminator TV show being bearable - much less good - was about as likely as me getting out of credit card debt in the foreseeable future.
That said, I download the free pilot on iTunes (direct link to show) for the hell of it yesterday, with the thinking that - at the very least - it could amuse me for my lunch hour. Well, it was amusing, so much so that I purchased the second episode as soon as the first was done. My first ever iTunes TV purchase. Which - for someone who has no qualms about acquiring shows by other methods - says quite a lot.
This is the thing: the show was fantastic. Like, It didn't ignore the mythos of Terminator 2, it embraced it. It had good production values, solid (and just cheesy enough) acting, and a really cool time-travel deus ex machina moment that was surprisingly fitting and intelligent, whilst also cutting out the T3 events in a believable way. Overall great fun and one of the better shows I've seen lately, I just hope it can keep up the pace - good TV is getting hard to find these days...