Have I mentioned that I occasionally rant about video gaming? Now I can do so with voice!


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Why do we game ( Read more... )

I don't know what's more awesome: having a car that you were dead certain would not pass smog actually pass smog (with crazy low nox numbers too, even) or having that same car as it's pulling out of the smog test place suddenly fart a black oil cloud and pick a Final Fantasy victory song as the next random track on the MP3 player ( Read more... )

Another side effect of so many people taking videos of the earthquake is that they've inadvertently recorded some interesting walkthroughs of their homes. Of particular interest are more modern homes that have a definite western influence, right down to the occasional heavy use of Ikea shelving ( Read more... )

This is awesome and creepy all at the same time.

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The highest I've been in an earthquake was the 6th floor and it made me woozy. I can't imagine how bad it'd be further up.

This was a pretty long quake too, so there are some great vids up on Youtube of what the shaking was like all across Japan. I do this after every earthquake, I have this ( Read more... )

So "Mazda" is taking a look at my transmission issue. Wonder what exactly that means?

UPDATE: Well now not even Mazda knows what's going on. It turns out that the shift cable wasn't broken. Mazda made the dealer shop open up the tranny again then sent someone out to inspect the internals, the internals are perfectly fine, none of the other teflon ( Read more... )

And the 3 is already back in the shop ( Read more... )

Why the hell would you use plastic bits in a #$%^ing gearbox ( Read more... )

Well the 3 is already broken. Like, really broken. They gotta drop the transmission broken ( Read more... )

Yup, I measure my accomplishments in games beaten. Despite all the other goings-on during this year, I still found time to devote to my biggest hobby. At the beginning of 2010, I decided I would actually keep track of all the games I beat, big or small just to see how much progress I actually make. Didn't do too badly, despite things like MMOs and ( Read more... )