if you haven't realized from the title, today is my birthday and i figured to start it off right, so i went to the late night breakfast/dinner buffet at the dining commons (after midnight obviously) and crafted this.



tatter tots in between delicious peperoni pizza.

here's me enjoying it.


then i figured since it's my birthday, why not have a Sundae, so i did.



then considering i still had the crust left over and no more tater tots to go inside them...



I did make an ice cream sandwich out of pizza crust and a orange-sherbert+bittersweet-mint-topped with chocolate,butterscotch,and caramel sauces.

and it was tasty!

Ok so i'm planning on trying to fix the d-pad on 360's controller this weekend when i get ahold of security bits to open it up. However, I'm not sure about the best way to go about it. I've heard of sanding down parts, adding washers under the pad, installing other d-pads, and some other methods.

I'm curious to see if there's anyone out there that has done such things and if so recommends any one method over any other. I'm looking for the most hassle free way, preferably one without solder as i don't have access to such things.

After a long wait, and teasing from his concert at the ScrewAttack convention, Brentalfloss returns again, bringing his signature stylings to the classic Legend of Zelda Theme. If you have never heard of him (how couldn't you know this guy?!) then he takes game music, and gives lyrics to them. He's really talented and even worked on his own musical. I wasn't able to see it but it goes without much saying that he's worth watching, if only to add another layer of catchiness to your favorite game music.

It's definitely been worth the wait, and i encourage you to check it out, right down yonder post. So without further adeu, let's give it up for brentalfloss!

(edit: Whoops the freshly HD video isn't cropping properly so maybe it would be best to check it out out on youtube as it were. so double click the vid to be taken there then.)

(thanks to megaStryke for the suggestion to re post it fresh)

Ok well i admit it, Before this I had never played a Mega Man game. I was a lone gamer back in grade school, but on the bright side I had no idea what I would be getting into. TechTV's X-Play had, at the time, aired something to do with this game,I forget exactly what it was, but it piqued my interest.



For those who don't know what this game is, they took the original mega-man style game, and applied the card based strategy of the battle network games to it. Needless to say it was one word. HARD! Yes in caps even. The game's 1st level stands out in my mind as one of the most difficult gaming experiences i've ever encountered. Fireman.exe was the worst started boss in history. his attacks were ridiculously cheap, and not to mention if u died there u had to go back through the rest of the level. which felt designed to frustrate and piss off. with cheap spike traps and enemy placement i can't remember the number of rages i went into over it.


Watch as the evil that is Fireman.exe rapes Megaman.exe. This is a typical playthrough I might add.

All that level design i would learn was classic Mega man but that can't forgive the card based items. They made that game into not just a chore but a slavedriver. The random card drops for weapons made it a pain in the ass to use them, because if you used a card up it was gone and it was probably needed for the boss fight( which i'll get to) and once you got into the habit of conserving your cards, you began to dread the boss fight at the end. It was similar to the way Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories used the card based fighting system, except a whole lot less forgiving.



Each boss you managed to make it to was an accomplishment on it's own. Defeating him was another story.
The first boss, Fireman.exe as i mentioned was near impossible, especially for a first boss of a game. His attacks were over the top and fatal with the low health you nearly always ended up going into the fight with. I recall after Fireman.exe, there was either Electman.exe or Iceman.exe, Electman stands out as being more frustrating in the long run, because i wasn't able to get card to help to my advantage.

It is probably forgotten because of the unconventional approach and poor gameplay in comparison to the Battle Network and Zero games which were also fresh around the time of release. This was pre-Mega Man 9, so forgive the lack of mention for more recent entries as comparison. Mega man games are designed to be difficult now i know, and somewhat invite you to become learned in memorizing patterns and trial and error style of playing, while also making you think carefully about your next move on your feet. The battle networks I never played myself, but it was a vast departure from the old formula.This game proved to be a link, bonding the two styles of Mega man games up to that point, as an effort to reinvigorate the side scrolling megaman in 2.5D. Though i gotta say I enjoyed way the game was stylized, made me feel like i was traversing the series of tubes, with Internet Explorer 6,

I never beat the game, but it is worth checking out if you happen to find it somewhere. It's challenging, and an interesting experiment with the Mega Man formula, and it's also Forgotten.

Well for those who don't know who Machete is (shame on you), he was debuted in one of the then "fake" trailers for upcoming movies in the epic Grindhouse. perhaps the most promising of the "fake" films many hoped that it would be expanded into it's own full length masterpiece.

See the original trailer here. note NSFW



and now there's finally some confirmation of the long standing rumour surrounding "Machete." Well at least for me it's news.

As far as I know there's no new trailer for the "real" film yet anyway. Sony Pictures's going to be distributing the film it seems, much like Robert Rodriguez's Mexican films.

it comes out in 2010 and you best not cross him off by not going to see it.

http://gordonandthewhale.com/sony-pictures-picks-up-machete/

http://kotaku.com/5363583/is-gamestop-a-best-buy-for-best-buy

what a crazy idea. take a retailer focused on games and combine with one focused on consumer electronics, multimedia and washing machines. it sounds genius, but highly doubtful.

Kotaku reports that the costs to buy gamestop would be fairly high, and also committing them to physical storefronts for an industry that's pushing toward digital distribution. a very risky choice no?

and this would allow best buy to just eat the already healthy game reselling pie they want a piece of, without having to mess with it in their own stores, which they are supposedly trying out. i have yet to see them myself.

this would benefit the (lack of) customer service desks though, because now they can suck together, and we can focus hate on them a lot better with them being one and the same.

it would possibly make pre-order bonuses (which are annoying enough) more standardized though so that wouldn't be so bad. and anyway it's just speculation right now, so perhaps something might develop from this. unlike the out of left field disneyxmarvel earlier in the summer, which was completely out of the blue. anyway, games are still games regardless of where we buy them so it's just a matter of convenience of location in a way anymore.