Thoth

It's barely been over 24 hours. Yeah but your video game buddies are showing up, which means I'm toast. Those are supposed to be MY video game buddies. Argh. I know I'd at least finish in the top 80%.

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How... in the blue holy fuck, am I not in this. TAIGASTAR IS IN THIS? And I'm not?

That would be the shit, actually.

So I guess that means... we're both MattYoung'in it. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

I don't think there's a whole lot of interest in TSM Game Nights, as far as I can tell. I'm not going to try and organize any official whatever, going forward, but anyone else wants to do this? Go ahead.

I'm not watching right now due to the West Coast, but if he's doing what he did on Heat, it is totally awesome and cool.

Did anyone watch Heat this week? Charlie Haas is the man, even though WSX already did this. And fuck the announcers that thought that wearing a mask = luchador style.

UHHHHHHHHHHH STARTROPICS AWESOME Wait a minute. How are they going to do the "Submerge the piece of paper" thing for VC? For those that don't know, Startropics had a piece of paper in the game box. Submerging it revealed a code you needed to proceed. This was done to piss off rental outlets and increase consumer sales of the game. So what was there to stop rental outlets from submerging the paper themselves and writing the code on the game itself or the box they rent it on or something? No idea. I was like, 9 then. FYI, the code is 747.

UHHHHHHHHHHH STARTROPICS AWESOME Wait a minute. How are they going to do the "Submerge the piece of paper" thing for VC? For those that don't know, Startropics had a piece of paper in the game box. Submerging it revealed a code you needed to proceed. This was done to piss off rental outlets and increase consumer sales of the game. King of Fighters '94 is antquiated and broken, but has its moments. King of Fighters '96 was the first "modern KoF" in my opinion.

I have dates tonight and tomorrow, but I'll be playing GH3 on Sunday, if anyone still cares at that point. Gamertag is ThothBeyond.

I was playing Gears PC a little while ago. One of my teammates starting shooting me. Of course, Friendly Fire is off. He proceeds to try to shoot me for thirty minutes, no exaggeration.

When's this happening? I'm guessing it's a way to get games onto your DS (unless they mean to play it on the Wii) but then how would you save them to your DS? This is the big question. I remember myself mentioning that they could sell a memory card that plugs into the GBA slot, if they wanted to do direct DS downloads. It's very possible to do this, as the DS Web browser comes with a RAM cartridge that fits into the GBA slot. The big problem is making a cartridge with enough rewritable memory, which is more expensive than the non-rewritable. Of course, they could do what homebrew does: make a cartridge with a slot for an SD card. Hell, Wii already uses SD cards, so asking people to use SD cards for this wouldn't be a huge stretch for Nintendo's customers. Edit: This was all a lie, apparently.

I like Aegis Wing (I'm a mark for 2D side scrolling shooters), but it's pretty damn hard. Then again, I've only flown solo. I'm pretty sure 4 player mode online would be awesome. We really need to play it sometime. And, as you said, it's free, so everyone with Live can get in on it. It is impossible to play the game solo, I swear. Anyway, this weekend will be the first game night of the new year. I think I said previously, I was gonna do Rock Band/Guitar Hero 3. This is open to PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii users. The point is not to get everyone to play the exact same game at the exact same time on the exact same platform. If there are a number of small groups, I think that serves the purpose, too. I'll put up a poll for the next game on Sunday.

2007 was good in that I worked my first full year as a software developer. I can't think of really anything else though, so call it a wash? I made some resolutions for 2008 a few hours before the new year. Find a girlfriend Break my dry spell Move out Some of these have already been taken care of. 2008 looks good.

My nephew is about 4 and a half, and he loves games. Not really good at them, but likes them. The first game I think he actually "got" was the original Mega Man. I didn't want him to play it very long for fear of crushing his soul, though.

My gut says that one of the Club Nintendo rewards was a specially shaped (either NES or SNES) Classic Controller, but I can't find the news of it anywhere. It was also revealed today that the Wii Download channel, in addition to offering DS demos, can offer full DS games.

I see parents willing to buy whatever tripe (Disney games, etc) their kids want. Used to make me sick. On the other hand, some of these kids are 5 and 6... I don't know if they would even know what a good game was.

I put the Wiimote next to me in the chair I'm sitting in. I do agree it is a problem, though.

All NES and TG-16 games work with the Wiimote. Some Genesis games work with it. For SNES and N64 games, you'll need either a gamecube controller or classic controller. A wavebird is pretty much the best overall controller. It works with everything and you'll be able to still use it wirelessly on the Wii (same way on GC, plug the reciever into the gamecube port or ports). For some games, a gamecube controller can feel awkward. For me, most notably Simcity and Contra.

I got the entire Darkstalkers cartoon for $5.

I have it rented. We should play.

The true identity of Bill Fillmaff!!!!!

I had a shit terrible GPA (2.4-2.8 I don't care to look), and I've been working at my dev job for a year. I got in due to recommendations from my old internships and a professor whose class I aced. With 1 year of dev work under my belt, I don't need to show my GPA on my resume, and it's far less relevant now. GPA can matter right out of college, but nothing can compare to some savvy, ingenuity, luck, and poise.

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