Fun game, pretty much posting it here so I don’t forget about it.  If you like music and a unique game mechanic, try it out!

Psychonauts was still a high ranking game as far as reviews were concerned, and if marketed properly, could have sold way better than it did.  Now that Brutal Legend is in the spotlight because of the publisher hunt, plus being advertised with Jack Black’s name attached, it should sell significantly better.  It will also, without a doubt, be an incredible game.

I still have my Gamestop preorder bonus T-Shirt from preordering the game in November 2007.  First 666 people got one!  I was worried I’d own a shirt for a game that never came out, but no worries now.  As odd as this may sound, thank you EA.  You have proven yourself to be a kinder god, as if there had been a gaming Vatican II.

Now, Activision Blizzard, calm yourself down.  Guitar Hero has peaked and too many Call of Duty games will ruin the franchise.  Let the Blizzard side of the company take over for a little bit, to develop and/or publish some real quality games.

Dunkin Donuts

The ad: Rachael Ray drinks a Dunkin Donuts Cool Latte in a brief online ad. She is wearing a black-and-white fringed paisley scarf.
The complaint: Conservative pundit Michelle Malkin likens the scarf to the keffiyeh, a traditional Muslim headdress worn by some Palestinian extremists, calling Ray to task for promoting terrorism.
The verdict: While the paisley scarf was not a keffiyeh, and in fact was chosen by Ray’s stylist, Dunkin Donuts pulls the ad.

Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Some idiot really believes that Rachael Ray, some cooking show whiney bitch-ass mom, is planning on running into a crowd of people strapped to a bomb? Better yet, PROMOTING others to do so?

I swear the world gets stupider every day, and these idiots love attention.

Probably one of the better ideas of the time.  Going blind for me would be the worst thing imaginable.  I’d lose my job, movies, video games.  I’m glad there are people out there doing stuff like this to allow the blind to play games.  I think it’d be great if this succeeded and you could play Rock Band with a blind guitarist or bassist, and hell, vocals too (if they know the song!).

Hope to see more of this eventually.

Can’t get more perfect than this.

For starters, once I am sitting down and working, it is no different than anywhere else.  The ability to work is of no concern and does not change much.  The experience of getting here, going to lunch, and going home are the main concerns of the city.

Before I continue, I’d like to point out that living in the city is completely out of the question.  This is not my lifestyle and I am not one to go out and enjoy the city night life.  Living here is completely out of the question.  I don’t know, I just don’t feel like I fit in the city whatsoever.  It is nice to come into the city once in a while to see some things, but I would not feel comfortable being here every day of my life.  I am a much bigger fan of the suburbs, and calmness.  Not the noise and bustle of the city.  It works for some people, but not for me.  Maybe it’s just because I was raised in the suburbs.  That leads me to the main issue with working in the city: the commute.

I don’t mind trains, I just do not want to have to catch one at 7:30AM to make it to work on time.  Not to say I am not a morning person, I can handle staying up past midnight and then getting up at 7AM every day if I needed to.  I like having a car because I have control of my situation.  If there’s an emergency and I don’t have a car, it would suck.  Plus I can leave whenever I want.  There’s no way I could drive into this city every morning though.  That would be horrible.  So, once I spend an hour and a half commuting to work, I am exhausted, but it is just the beginning of the day.  Now I know why people love coffee here.

Lunch, on the other hand, can be awesome.  There are tons of places within walking distance, which is great for all seasons but winter.  Moving from the office to the car to the place we eat to the car to the office leaves very little time outdoors during good weather.  Getting a chance to stretch your legs and walk off lunch definitely has its advantages.

I am assuming going home will be worse than coming to work.  I did not have to get here at 9AM because they told me to get here at 10, so my commute to work wasn’t loaded with a bunch of people.  Going home could be a stampede for all I know.

I think the commute is the dealbreaker for me.  I just do not want to do it, by car or train.  I’d prefer not to lose those 3+ hours of the free time I have to the ride to work and back, and I am lucky I have been blessed with an education and the ability to choose not to live that way.

Update: Yup, the commute home is definitely worse.  I don’t plan on ever doing that 5 times a week.

This is what hell would look like for me.

The sad thing is, most of the people in North Korea have no idea that games have advanced so much further than what is in this building. To them these could be absolutely incredible. It is almost kind of amazing to think that we are so spoiled and demand so much from games now, meanwhile the less fortunate could very well be thrilled with 8-bit non-classic games.  It just goes to show you how fast technology has advanced in the past two decades.  What we see as “games of our childhood” could very well be the only games some people in third-world countries will experience in their entire lives, and that’s if they are lucky enough to play any games at all.