Dead Fantasy II

Haha he used Sion's voice samples.
AMAI!
Anyway, requisite praise and awe.

Persona 4 Trailers

Elizabeth really grew out her ha...wait Elizabeth got replaced?
It's Margaret now?
Triccccccks!

Also, lol commu with your little sister obviously not related by blood.
And I already see the ojousama character (blackhair headband girl)

New Valkyrie Profile game headed to the DS

I have no more excuses.
Need a DS.

RIP Gary Gygax

The influence of DnD on gaming today, not just role-playing games, can not be overstated.

Youtube kills "Sort results by date"

Well, it seems that it is now impossible to sort search results by date uploaded.
Instead, you get a pared down menu of "Today, This Week, This Month, All Time."
That's it.

The fuck are you guys doing!?

Edit: Seems like they brought it back.
Least they're not totally stupid.

Still Alive is Coming to Rock Band!

Jonathan Coulton performs "Still Alive" in Rock Band from Joy Stiq on Vimeo.
For every video spam link I put on here I think, "Hey, it's probably been done all over the internets."
Then I think a little more and realize there's always someone who hasn't seen it yet.

Howl's Moving Castle Papercraft

I never had the patience to finish these things.
Amazing work by this guy though.

Howl's Moving Castle from Ben Millett on Vimeo.

Dragon Shadow Spell RESUME!

So after 9 months of not touching this game I come back.
FES really stole my soul and time.
I'm done with anything Persona for a long long while.

Anyway, DSS is good to be back!
Nice to be playing a tactics game again, I always love these things.

Too angry to sleep

"If you set someone's shit on fire, you don't tell them that it was dirty. You say, 'my bad, I set your shit on fire.'"

Arcana Heart 2

First Arcana Heart 2 footage coming out from AOU 2008.

Card Sagas Wars 3rd Trailer

What mugen was made for.
I'm pretty impressed...also his sprite gallery has an insane amount of original work on existing characters.
Liese, Maria, Celes, Sheena, etc. are all there.

Youtube killed the High Quality Video Star

All reports indicate that youtube has implemented anti bitrate hacking measures that the high quality nuts have been abusing lately.
This means no more uncompressed 200mb Team Fortress 2 videos from yours truly.
Also it means I missed out on my one chance to put up an IaMP tournament that didn't look like pure shit.
Such is life.

Frozen Grand Central

Damn I wish I went down to the city that day.

Mabinogi is a little different so far.

New random closed beta Korean MMO.
Yes roll your eyes at this crap again.
Anyway in short: Fighting is hard.
It is fairly easy for even low level monsters to fuck your shit up with the system.
Requires a lot of timing, skill spam fails massively.
Magic seems pretty low tier though, just figuring out how to deal with melee shit is hard (and good enough once you do)
I sort of wonder how a group mechanic plays out.

At the moment it's closed beta, only one town, not much to do, in fact you can say multiple people (including myself) have "beaten" the beta.
There's nothing left to do but learn to play custom music in the square.
That and egg farming.

We'll see how the full game goes.
Least it isn't monthly fees or what not, that kind of pricing model has long failed for me...I want to be able to stop a game, not be penalized for not playing it, and come back whenever I choose.

Team Fortress 2 Test - Hydro

Abusing the multi uploader plus hack to upload a 200mb 30 minute video.

Testing

Out the new computer.
Holy crap this mouse is sensitive.
And this monitor is HUGE.
I feel humbled.

Upgrade

Two things.
I finally ordered all the parts to my new computer early Saturday morning (like 1AM).
Second, I had to work 7pm to 5am Saturday-Sunday on a server upgrade and then drive home in freezing rain/snow/hail mix.

Cockslapping the Mona Lisa would make an excellent band name.

It's been a while since I've found a bitter shell of twisted humor as great as the Escapist's Zero Punctuation.
Starring a Brit living in Australia so named "Yahtzee" after his parents lost a wager in said game; Zero Punctuation is a collection of rather random rambling video game reviews.
It is also awesome.
Unless you're a prude.
Then you'll probably get offended.

DRILL ON WALES!

Note to countries, do not put polls for new national flags on the internet.
Or if you do, do not let foreigners vote on them.
Otherwise you get some funny designs winning.

NEC 2007

I got 7th out of 32.
Not bad at all, considering when you look at the people above me.
Then again I had a comparitively easy bracket:
Lord Knight -> Arlieth(l) -> Capps Indigo -> KenmastersX -> Chibi -> Choco(l)

I knew brandon would do really well, I just didn't know how well.
It was sort of weird, cause like he was one of the first netplayers I ever truly enjoyed playing and respected, that and he's the only CL I ENJOY playing.
We played zero casuals however, mainly cause I was sort of dead tired every time we had a chance.

I took a match off Arly, and I'm sort of annoyed that I lost, even though he's the best Nero in the USA and the best native player on the West Coast (kijea and nerina are exchange students) and I've never fought Nero.
I know that matchup is stupidly in my favor, 236a and teleports all day.

I know Zar really wanted to MM brandon after the tournament, as did Sp00ky.
They were both out for blood after teams the previous day (which ended up as basically brandino fighting Arlieth's team 10 times or something as Lord Knight kept scrubbing out.)

XAQ seemed pretty sad faced the entire day haha, not sure why.
He eliminated sp00ky but lost to Zar (Standard).

Choco is like the first Satsuki I ever played since version PC came out, I took one round with 5C before he ran a train on me and I got utterly confused.
Should have stuck to the plan (play it safe, ring whore all day.)

I still can't beat sphyra's Hisui, our casuals were like 18-1.
He sent Sp00ky to loser's second round.
He's really formulaic, but so am I, and his formula completely shuts down mine.
Not sure why he stopped blocking XAQ's overheads though (Arc's are slower than Warc's!)

There are quite a lot of people below/equal to me in place who would have ended my run really early too.
Zaeler is STILL FUCKING RANDOM.
Fighting Chibi was ugly, as always.
I always forget how to play when I'm against him.
Hnana was raping me in casuals.
bell was being mean on commentary and calling out my moves before I did them.
"YOUR SHIT IS WEAK!"
Sp00ky is a lot lower than he should be.
Dippy is also a lot lower than he should be, but he fought hnana, and I probably had a worse chance than him against 2aaaa Sion.
Finally, Lord Knight continued his scrubouts by losing to me (orz) and then getting eliminated early. :V
He's good, you can have momentum for 3/4ths of the match with Vakiha, but all it takes is 3 combos to die.

Anyway, pretty damn good for my first Major.
Mad slops to Philly for being an overall hole and people getting their stuff stolen all around me. (Hyperhal lost a ps2, ipod, a NGPC!?, and his clothes, Brandon lost his cell, SK lost his PSP, etc etc the list goes on. Myself, I'm a paranoid bastard because of the clowns I live with, so I made out all right.)
Still, definitely coming back next year to this hole.
This tournament honestly revived, or at least injected a shot into our little scene.