Archive of entries posted on May 2007

movies and books

I like Shrek 3. Not as dramatic a climax as the first two, I thought, but very funny and well done. Pirates 3 I think is great. I like the fact that it has a much more complex storyline than most mainstream movies would be brave enough to put in. It was fun and funny and interesting and [...]

Oh, yeah…

…and I was moving furniture and boxes all day today. Fun… not much of a holiday weekend, as I’m going to be painting tomorrow and Monday…

trying Shadowbane

My friend convinced me to try Shadowbane out now that it’s free. And I convinced another friend to download it and try it with me. I always thought the large number of options for characters looked interesting. I’ll write more later about my general thoughts on MMOs.

more laws about videogames

So New York is about to pass a bill hoping to help keep children from being exposed to violence in videogames. It’s probably going to end up in courts on grounds of violating freedom of speech, and that’s as it should be. It’s completely ridiculous for these legislators to be regulating something about which they know [...]

what’s going on?

Everything’s going on, really; I’ve been too busy to write here, and at the same time it seems like I don’t even know what I’ve been doing. Painting a few rooms in the house. Saw Shrek 3, which I liked. More pain and swelling at the bottom right part of my mouth where my wisdom [...]

forgot to mention…

Just noticed that two posts down I said I started reading The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents; I wanted to say that I finished it the next day and as I suspected, it was a very fun read.

Puzzle Quest

I just got Puzzle Quest for PSP because I wanted a new PSP game (I only have two, and I got the PSP on the day it launched…). I wanted either that or Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth, and they didn’t have the latter at Best Buy. Well, PQ is awesome, a blast to play, and mostly responsible for why I [...]

status report

Party A on FFXII (Ashe, Vaan, and Fran) are level 40 and Party B (Basch, Balthier, and Penelo) are 38. They all have every augment on the license board and everybody has all three Quickenings. Two characters have one Esper each (Vaan and Penelo), and I know the locations of two other Espers, though each handed me [...]

prepare to be pissed off

High School Student Suspended for Making Counter-Strike Map

cool interview

I haven’t been writing here much lately because I’m recovering from having all four of my wisdom teeth removed on Friday. Anyway, I’m writing now because I wanted to point out this fascinating interview about localizing Japanese games for America.

The Storm

Sighing, he got up from his desk chair, abandoning what he’d been doing on the computer. It seemed this would have to be dealt with. On his way out the door he smoothly scooped up his long jacket, putting it on as he shut the door behind him. Striding swiftly, purposefully, he set off towards the west, [...]