Everything in my life has changed since my last post ( Read more... )

So, it's 9/9/09.  I don't give a damn.  There's nothing special about 9/9/09.  But there was something very special about 9/9/99: the launch of the SEGA Dreamcast.

Hyperbole? I don't think so.  Forget that the Dreamcast was an amazing system.  Forget that it had the greatest launch titles in gaming history.  Forget that it was the SEGA's last stand ( Read more... )

EGM is coming back.

I repeat:

ELECTRONIC GAMING MONTHLY IS COMING BACK.

http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8991643&publicUserId=4549175

This is excellent, excellent news.  I have had to listen to the 1up.com and Rebel FM podcasts, watch Area 5 TV, and check 1up and Gametrailers every day, and it still doesn't equal that one issue of EGM each month.  ( Read more... )

File this under "short enough to be a Twitter":

Best.  Star Trek.  Ever.

I've been fat for almost as long as I can remember.  Except for the five years from when I was born to moving to Austin, I have been fat.  I was fatter by proportion when I was in elementary and middle school, but for the most part, I've looked the same.  I really didn't think anything of it until I started liking girls, really.  I mean, my father ( Read more... )

April 4th, 1984.  Last night to the flicks.  All war flicks.  One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean.  Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him.  first you saw him wallowing along in the water like a porpoise, then you saw him through the ( Read more... )

This is gonna be a long post with a good deal of photos, so I shall put most of this behind a cut.  S'allright?  S'allright.

For me, the music in video games has always been very important.  I love music anyway, and I especially have a great fondness for the soundtrack.  I own a large number of movie soundtracks, game soundtracks, and most of my ( Read more... )

Video Games Live...epic.   A lengthy post will follow, but I are tired now.  For now, watch this:

I'm writing this on the second night of back to back night shifts, both of which were not scheduled until this past Wednesday.  So forgive me if I start to ramble.

Two things I have experienced recently have really stayed with me, and enter into the foreground of my thoughts unbidden.  Namely, they are the Watchmen movie and the finale of ( Read more... )

Sometime around the last part of the year, I picked up one of Robert Heinlein's older books, "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag".  I picked it up because it had been rumored of being turned into a movie, and also because I am eager to devour as much of his writing as I can.  The main story is indeed that of Jonathan Hoag, and is a thriller ( Read more... )