Today is HAMZAKAH! The celebration of the greatest community manager/land shark EVER!

To pay my respect, I have written a Haiku about our Community Manager:

Hamza is land shark
Enjoys drinking and boobies
Role model for all

And to pay even MORE respect to Hamza, I've changed the #2 Most Viewed YTMND of all time to give honor to this great holiday!

http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/



Please join us all in this splendiforous celebration spread across the Destructoid Community!



To see all of our celebratory photos, please visit http://s729.photobucket.com/albums/ww293/HAMZADAY/

And remember kids:

I'm sure there are some people who have long forgotten who the fuck I am, but for those of you who haven't, a hearty "Hello!" to you. After nearly 2 months of travelling from Colorado to New Mexico to Arizona to Southern California and finally to Northern California, I have FINALLY got a place to live comfortably again. Although the entire time I was traveling, I had Travis Touchdown's dialogue from the beginning of No More Heroes going through my head:

"It's gonna be a long, hard road. But who knows? Could kick ass. Could be dangerous. Could totally suck."

I really wish I would have had some reason to put in "...Whadaya say, bro? Join me. Let's see how far we can take this. And for you there, holding the Wii Remote right now, just press the A button. Let the bloodshed begin!" But alas, my journey to where I am now wasn't that cool.

I did had a very slight amount of free time while I was in SoCal and while I would have loved to start getting active on here again, I was busy being a huge loser dressing up over at Anime Los Angeles as everyone's favorite sexually confused Persona 4 character.



Rest assured this time, I'll stick around a bit longer...Until I inevitably move again. I really need to stop doing that, huh?

The ramblings of my obviously grandiose return here aside, let me use the following picture to convey the feelings of most TF2 fans at the moment and segway into something actually game related!



Okay Valve, I get it that you're just getting back to the TF2 udpates after your bout of focusing on L4D, I won't rip on you for that, but from what I recall, you'd said a few weeks ago, that we'd be seeing the Scout update in a few weeks. Now, I'm not a kindergarten addition/subtraction major by any means, but I'd say "A Few Weeks" - "A Few Weeks" = GIVE US THE UPDATE. I'm not really irate about not getting the ENTIRE update, but at least a peek at one of the unlockable weapons would have been nice by now.

Also, I know, I know, they're talking about getting the game balancing out of the way first before the Scout pack. But from the TF2 blog, it seems like they've got nearly everything done. I suppose this isn't the first time Valve has delayed something like this though, so maybe I'm raging a bit too much.

Either way, this update better be worth it. If Scout's new melee is a giant floppy horse dildo, I'll be content with that alone.

I sure have missed you guys.

Love you D-Toid,
-EBNess

So with an anime convention coming up and needing a shirt to butcher for a cosplay of mine, I wandered into a local Goodwill. Upon entering I took notice of some hidden SNES cartridges behind a stack of crappy DVDs in the glass case up front. Having caught my interest, I walked up to the counter and asked the woman working there if I could please see the carts.

That is where jackpot numero uno comes in.



Super Mario Kart and Star Fox were now mine for a meager $5.98 + tax.

But that's not all, the plot thickens moreso as before she could close the case though I noticed some PS1 games under a huge box for Baulder's Gate 2. I politely asked to see those as well and nearly reeled back in shock at what I saw there.



Freaking PE2, Vagrant Story and Silent Hill.

Without hesitation I had told the worker that I'd buy them all. Being paranoid that someone else would get them before I got to the counter, I completely ignored my initial reason for entering the Goodwill and ran to the counter to make my purchase.

Here I am now, a half hour later, showing my haul to you fellow C-bloggers. Probably making a few of you swell with rage at my luck, possibly making a few of you scoff at finding a better haul than I did some other time. I just felt the need to share my incredibly lucky find with the rest of you in hopes that...Well, honestly I just wanted to show off, plain and simple. For those of you who would like to celebrate my great find with me, please see the image below.



Word.

Dear Gamestop.com,

Would you please care to explain to me how to unlock the time portal to 1982 and football minigame in Chrono Trigger DS?



I mean, I knew that Square Enix threw in some new stuff but an entirely new time period and the ability to make Crono help the team in winning the state championship? MADNESS! It's sheer MADNESS!

In all seriousness though, Gamestop, what drugs did you give to the guy writing the description for CTDS? It must have been some really good stuff to come up with that. Next time, you guys may want to have someone actually look up the game on Wikipedia or at the very least ask some guy living in his basement down the street what it's about.

Seriously.

Also, if you guys don't believe me, check out http://www.gamestop.com/ds to see for yourselves.



Edit: Kip and Uncle Rico are unlockable characters after beating Lavos in 1982. I'm an idiot for not recognizing that quote from Napoleon Dynamite at first.

It's been far too long since I've been around these parts and unfortunately I'm only back due to being frustrated as all hell with packing for my move next week and needing some type of release. So obviously I come to my place of zen, D-toid!

Lets get to the main topic though, shall we? Wavedashing. Anyone who was even partially drawn into the world of Melee tournaments and advanced techniques knows all too well what Wavedashing is, but for those of you who don't know I'll give a short explanation.

Wavedashing is an "Advanced Technique" in Melee where the player was able to air dodge diagonally into the ground immediately after jumping, causing their character to slide along the surface of the level. While this may sound like something that would not be of any use at first, the ability to use any attack while sliding made this technique a requirement to learn for competitive play. It allowed for ground to be covered quickly while still being able to launch moves other than your standard running A attacks and up smashes. The technique was always controversial to those who weren't proficient in performing it though, most of them complaining it shouldn't be legal since it was an exploit in the game's physics system.

Complaining aside, Wavedashing was a staple in tournament play. It caused an entirely new character tier list to be made upon its discovery in Melee. So once Brawl came out with it's corrected physics, you can imagine the uproar that the tournament scene was in.

But people adjusted to the change, they got used to Brawl's mechanics and accepted it for the way it was...At least that's what the general consensus was. A gamer who goes by the name Phantom Wings decided that he wanted things to go back to the way they initially were in Melee, so he took it upon himself to hack the ever-living hell out of Brawl. The result?



That's right, Wavedashing in Brawl! Not only that, but the code apparently also disables the tripping mechanic that everyone seems to hate so much AND allows for longer replays. The guy is also apparently working on another hack to impliment L-Cancelling as well, but I won't go into detail about what that is.

If you'd like the check out the code for yourself you can just click on the youtube video above, or if you're too lazy to move your mouse cursor back up there you can click HERE (Just click on "(more info)" in the upper right section).

So the question is now raised, will this code become widely accepted throughout the Brawl tournaments and be the new standard? Or will people pass it off as some dork with way too much time on his hands and just play the game the way it was made? Will the casual VS tournament player wars be sparked once again on GameFAQs or some other board no one really cares about? I for one hope so, as the hatred and anger of people further fuels my home-made arsenal of evil robots.



For now though, I'm off to press F5 every 5 minutes on the Mother 3 Fan Translation blog and cram more of my crap into my 99' Escort in hopes that I won't have to ship anything to Colorado by mail. See you again for good in about a week and a half D-toid~<3

For those of us who eagerly download Castle Crashers upon release yesterday, I'm sure out of the lot there were a quite a few of us that experience the connection bugs. Now I'm not knocking the guys over at The Behemoth, they dished out an amazingly fun game that many people are now enjoying. However I am a bit crushed at the fact that I'm not able to play online for more than a minute or less without getting booted off.

Just to reiterate once more, most connection problems with Castle Crashers seem to be online bugs. So before you try and reconfigure your router (like me) for the 30th time, just hold off for now. To my understanding the issue has been addressed and is being worked on at this moment.

If you head over to http://castlecrashers.com/, you'll notice that you can't even enter the site now due to the web traffic being so high. The following message is displayed at the bottom of the site:

"Website is getting slammed. Working on resoloving the issue. Thanks!"

So for myself and other players forced to play by their lonesome if they have no friends living near them or are too poor to buy more than one controller, lets all sit back, level up, and then maul our teammates with uber-leveled powerhouses in the battle for the princesses when the connections are finally fixed.

Best of luck to The Behemoth team on fixing the issue. Sorry to see your guys' site get so hammered because of this.