You hear an incredible array of thoughts regarding caffeine content when you work at or frequent Starbucks for any considerable length of time: "Oh, the Frappuccino is made with double strength coffee so, y'know, it's strong and stuff" to "Espresso is concentrated coffee - one shot's worth, like, fifteen cups of coffee!" to "The darker a coffee is ( Read more... )

With her head on his chest, his twin heartbeat was an organic conga drum, beating out a bossa nova with every breath. Her own breathing had grown heavy, listening to him say the things she had hoped he might someday say. She breathed a sigh of contentment ( Read more... )

He stood, leaning against the box of blue wood, staring out at the endless starry expanse above him. For all of his nine previous lifetimes, he could not recall the last time he had been able to stop running and take in the world around him, to appreciate the intrinsic incandescence of the star-lit midnight sky. "And who could blame me?" he thought ( Read more... )

She watched him at the TARDIS control panel - his gaunt frame hunched over that incredible incandescent array of switches, levers, buttons and dials. He seemed lost in thought ("Again", she thought to herself), possibly pondering which of the controls to operate next or perhaps some inane rambling awaited her if she dared to ask what was on his mi ( Read more... )

So, for the uninitiated, the Mega Man titles are predicated upon the classic Rock-Paper-Scissors mentality - that is, that one Robot Master's weapon is the weakness of another Robot Master, so forth, so on. Depending on the game in question, there's generally eight robot masters and usually one "loop" - that is, one specific order to tackle the ( Read more... )

IGN.com: "Did Nintendo launch the 3DS too early?"

Reggie Fils-Aime: "What I would say is that… we didn't launch it too early, but we did allow too much of a gap from the launch to the time when some of these key products or features were available. We needed to narrow that gap.Let me see if I can break that down ( Read more... )

So, yesterday I went on a far longer than anticipated rant which boiled down to "I bought a PSP instead of a 3DS." And, having re-read it a few times now, I feel like I unintentionally obfuscated a few things ( Read more... )

My memory isn't always as sharp as I'd like it to be, hard as I try to keep it that way, but I'm almost certain that I've been a Nintendo gamer since at least 1988. By my math (which isn't always to be entirely trusted), that means I've been kickin' it with the Big N for about 23 years ( Read more... )

[May 14, 2011, 10:59]
Haven't played much this past week and a half - been busy. Played a little more this morning - did the Train mission. Earned an 'S' Rank, but had to restore from Save point several times to accomplish it ( Read more... )

I'm not gonna sit here and waste your time by feigning surprise and making naive statements such as "Woahgeez, Nintendo is only giving you SMAS which they could've done on Virtual Console, Ha-derpa derp!" or "THE BOOKLET - IT'S NOT THOROUGH ENOUGH". Screw that. I'll offer up what *I* would've done, if money were no issue and I was given total ( Read more... )