Thats right the robots have finally taken over, well, kinda.
Apparently ASIMO the robot that we all laughed mightily at when it fell down the stairs is now leading an orchestra in Detroit.
Yo-Yo Ma says, "Hi nice to meet you wanna make out robot style?"
My first question is really...who cares? Isn't a robot completely devoid of the emotion thats required to take a normal orchestra on a molto bene crescendo. Thats like saying you wrote a computer program to paint art.... course then Im sure some detractors would argue that ANYTHING is art and can be interpreted as such....well to those people I say NO YOU'RE WRONG!
ROBOTS CAN'T MAKE ART even if they are programed to perfectly mimic the greatest artists of history... they're not true artists.
Well, heeding the advice of the omnipotent Colette Bennett, I went ahead and picked up Lost Winds. One of the first titles available on the new WiiWare channel it cost me $10 and about 3 hours of my life.
I have to say I didn't know what to expect after making my purchase. Colette is typically reliable in her assessment of games, but since she is into RPG's and I'm more of an Adventure/FPS fan I didn't know if her flavor of gaming greatness would match up with my own. Needless to say I wasn't disappointed.
*imaginary JUMP*
I had just gotten home from work and was hungry. So I decided to heat up the grill outside and prepare some Brats for cookin by dunking them in a pan of beer (if you haven't tried this then you're doing it wrong).
I went back inside and found my download had finished. Eager to tryout my new game I dove right in and was surprised by my first impressions. The music in this game is very mellow, incorporating wooden flute sounds and smooth synth textures to create a very Zen world to explore.
Lost Winds is basically a side scrolling 2D adventure game with great perspective backgrounds that make it almost feel 3D. The main character is a small boy, with a very large head, who you move by using the control stick on the Nunchuck.
cool looking artwork
However another way to move the little guy around is by harnessing the power of the wind spirit Enril that you discover early on in the game. By pressing and holding the A button you drag in any direction and move things in the environment around. This is really the best and most efficient way to get around.
After finding powerups you find yourself able to drag your character up in the air multiple times and eventually able to coast around and glide through air. The Air spirit can help you by pulling fire off of torches from across the room to burn down doors and more.
After I had been completely immersed in this game for about an hour I realized I was feeling kinda hungry. I thought maybe some chips and salsa would hit the spot. Of course thats when it dawned on me that I had left those damn brats on the grill ages ago.
Those brats had been reduced to crumpled shells of their former selves and were completely inedible. They were on fire. I basically decided to just turn off the gas and leave the brats to melt further into oblivion while I went back for more Lost Winds.
I highly recommend you pickup this game, for 1000 Wii points is a real bargain, just make sure you have snacks close by and not on the grill.
I think we all realize that doing something just because everyone else is doing it is pretty lame and stupid. However when that something is repeated over and over it has a chance to indelibly change the way you think about quasi-lame group movements. In fact if you do it with enough gusto you might just stumble upon a way to surpass all that has come before you and create something truly special.
Unfortunately this post is none of that, it sucks, hard. So I fail horribly and will now stfu and get back in line.
The evening started out steady enough. A couple beers a large pizza and some video games.
everyone in attendance was engulfed by a hurricane of handhelds & nacho cheese
But as the party got going something changed. A feeling in the room was apparent. Ya know how wild animals can sense when a storm is coming? Then, slowly as first, there was a low frequency boom outside, throbbing in the distance. It got louder and faster. Pulsing in the distance always coming closer. Finally it was thunderous and Right Outside. The front door flew open and suddenly everyone inside was partying their asses off.
Well it appears that litereally hundreds of thousands of Chinese are being ruled by communist
overlords. Since Blizzard released "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" in 2005 the
number of "oppressed" working furiously to gather enough supplies for that next raid with
their respective guild has been steadily on the rise. For the first time ever there have been
more than 1 million concurrent users. Its almost enough to make you wonder if living in a
communist society isn't so bad if you've got some chips and a
poop sock handy...
I was at the store yesterday and bought a new kind of cracker that I hadn't seen for sale
before. Instead of falling into one of the traditional cracker categories like your "triskets" or
even "Wheat Thins" it is a new breed all its own and that, my friends, is something to be
refreshed about. There has been far too little inovation in the cracker industry the past few
years. What I can tell you is that this new cracker is something you definately should be
looking into.
incredible! sensational! amazingly...salty...
These are so amazingly tasty that I have decided to write to all of you and tell
you just how much these crunchy snacks have given me true hope for the future of the entire
cracker eatting nation and even world that loves crunching and munching on snacks while
watching television or maybe even playing video games.
Now that you have been enlighten to the breached new frontier of cracker melding madness
that has been wrested from the near brink of undiscovery by culinary contortionists
attempting the impossible you must leave immeadiately and find a box and eat from it until
satisfied.
Internet Phenomenon Rick Astley speaks out about
how his song "Never Gonna Give You Up" has taken the Youtubes by storm, and in doing so
caputured the minds and imaginations of internet users everywhere, or at least all those that
have at one time or another been rickrolled themselves. Its an interesting article and even
has some sound files associated with it that present Astley's perspective as unique and
honest. I think he understands pretty well what going on and is taking it all in stide like the
Rock Star he is.
Click HERE for the
story...................................8^)
