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Scary Womanizing Pig Mask loved me. Wherever you've gone, I hope you're in a better place.

Beyamor's avatar fathered mine's love child at PAX East. It's ok though, 'cuz he gave me a picture of a Kirby as child support. Cheap bastard...



I inspired a song. (Thanks, Alphadeus!)


I am an element of Destructoid. (Thanks, Corduroy Turtle!)

10 things that may help you to understand me better.

I used to be the Cblog Recapper for Mondays. It was a good run.



May want to stay out of the old stuff. I didn't know what I was doing when I started here.
Like most other D-toiders I am male, 15 to 30 something, introverted to the point of social ineptitude, and grew up obsessing over whatever videogames I came across-- somewhat to the chagrin of my parents. I have about 9-10 gigs (yes, GIGS) of hard drive space devoted to game music, original soundtracks and remixes alike (Much love for OCRemix ). I've logged many, many hours into World of Warcraft, though I cancelled my account and have been "clean" for nearly a year now. I am a moderately slavering Nintendo fan because-- let's be fair... they were easily the biggest influence in my formative years. Because of this, it is my belief that Smash Bros. Brawl was created specifically for me. The fact that the rest of you may enjoy it is merely coincidence.

I am something of a stickler for both grammar and punctuation, and the use of "LOL" and its truncated ilk sometimes causes me to cringe. Fairly warned be ye, says I.



I work and go to college part time, which is a strain on both my finances and my free time. As such, my gaming collection isn't as up-to-date as I'd like. Somehow, I have managed to obtain a Wii, PS3, and a 360. My favorite console, however, is still the original NES My brother and I bought ourselves 20-odd years ago. I'm almost never more than 50 feet from my DS. I just replaced my computer's innards, and have found that I have more PC games to catch up on than time to do it in. I manage to stay current on most games by visiting friends with other systems, and the ancient art of borrowing. And that's a nice thing about games... if you miss `em you can go back to them years later and they're just the same as they ever were.

I tend to be more of a lurker than a contributor, but if I see something I think is particularly humorous or worthy, I do enjoy sharing.

E-mail: Qalamari {at} gmail {dot} com. Infrequently checked, you're better off sending me a PM on the site.

PSN: Qalamari. Haven't been on there much lately. =/

Steam: Qalamari. Steam sales are craaaazy! Always willing to help with Hat Fortress 2.

Xbox 360: Qalamari. You may be picking up on a theme here by now.

I love to see new Miis. If you add my Wii code, let me know! 5015-7633-5088-2932

Brawl code: 1289-7907-1240. PM me if you add it so I can hit you back.

Mario Kart Wii code: 0731-5535-7924. Same deal.

I had Pokemon codes here once, but I don't think anybody cared.
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Qalamari | 5:00 AM on 05.02.2008 10 comments


Last weekend was my birthday, and one of my friends got me a copy of Professor Layton. That's awesome, but perhaps the best part of the gift is how he wrapped it.


Yes, that's my real name. Keep it in mind in case I ever manage to become some sort of demonic overlord. Or better yet, don't.

Fortunately the gift was wrapped in regular paper, so it wasn't necessary to move two of the matches to form a squashed dog or something to open it. Since then I've been playing the game pretty much whenever I have a spare moment... I hope it's done well enough to justify a sequel.

Aaaand since the Penny Arcade archive is currently offline, I guess I'd better post this for clarification.


Every word of this is absolutely true.



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's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/02/2008 07:11
Clint
Hope you enjoy it! It's truly a great game with a wonderful plot
Qalamari's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/02/2008 07:54
Qalamari
Oh, most definitely. I'm kinda stuck on a puzzle though. If someone could kindly tell me what the hell "GECY NW" translates to in 1337speak I'd appreciate it.
Haxan's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/02/2008 08:17
Haxan
Is that the one with the bites to show a particular direction? Happy belated.
ZombiePlatypus's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/02/2008 08:36
ZombiePlatypus
Great game. There is going to be a sequel, and apparently the two of 'em link somehow...
JohnTheCrow's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/02/2008 09:14
JohnTheCrow
That god damn chocolate puzzle was one of the few that I absolutely could NOT figure out. The answer is "text me". And yes, two sequels are coming!
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/02/2008 10:29
king3vbo
Yay math homework!
Conrad Zimmerman's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/02/2008 12:27
Conrad Zimmerman
Yeah, this is my favorite DS game of late and I'm really hoping we get more of these localized.
Qalamari's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/02/2008 13:44
Qalamari
Ah... Ok, I figured it had something to do with the keyboard, but I didn't catch the meaning of the bites. Thanks guys! Makes me wonder, though... what if someone were using a Dvorak keyboard?

Also, I'm very glad to hear this won't be the final adventure of the good Professor. It's great to see that the DS is widespread enough to provide a home for quirky charming games like this.
's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/04/2008 08:45
Clint
I hate that puzzle so much :P That and the puzzled aliens one. All the others are pretty great though!
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